The £4.25bn takeover of Chelsea football club has been completed after Roman Abramovich agreed to the UK government’s terms for the sale, ending a tumultuous period that raised fears over the club’s existence. Nadine Dorrie, the sports and culture minister, said the UK government issued a licence on...
photo: Creative Commons / @cfcunofficial https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Paris St Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi demanded more respect for his club and Ligue 1 after criticism from LaLiga. Al-Khelaifi hinted at the disrespect following Kylian Mbappe’s decision to snub Real Madrid and stay in Paris on a three-year deal. LaLiga president Javier Tebas hit out at PSG...
photo: AP / Dave Thompson
photo: Creative Commons / Cecilia Heinen / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
photo: Creative Commons / KA Sports Photos
China’s Ding is the new favourite for next month’s Candidates after Alireza Firouzja, 18, failed in Bucharest, and the 29-year-old will play the world No 1 at least once during the Chessable Masters A head to head between the world champion and the leading pretender to the throne can be a game to...
photo: AP / Frank Augstein
The NBA has made a “quiet” return to state-run TV in China for this year’s playoffs after being off-air there for roughly three years. That’s according a new ESPN story by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, who also report that NBA owners collectively have over $10 billion in asset exposure to...
photo: Creative Commons / Kenneth Lu
Move comes in response to significant increase in disorder at games, much of which, police say, is driven by class A drugs Football fans convicted of selling or taking class A drugs such as cocaine at matches could face five-year bans, the government has announced, in a bid to tackle rising violence...
photo: Creative Commons / Marco Verch
photo: Creative Commons / Erik Drost
photo: Creative Commons / Ivan PC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
