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      Manchester United’s ‘Wembley of the North’ stadium plan hits the buffers

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 19:00

    • Talks deadlocked over asking price of rail terminal site

    • Freightliner’s £400m demand could delay £4.2bn build

    Manchester United’s plans to build a 100,000-seat stadium next to Old Trafford are facing delays due to a standoff over the price of land needed to begin work on the construction of the proposed ground Sir Jim Ratcliffe has called “the Wembley of the North”. The club want land used as a rail freight terminal to complete the Old Trafford Regeneration Project, which they claim will bring £7.3bn a year to the UK economy.

    United have held talks with Freightliner, the haulage company that owns and operates the terminal, about buying the land, but negotiations are deadlocked due to a disagreement over the price.

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      After 17 years at the top, a tough job is taking a toll on Pep Guardiola | Jonathan Wilson

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 19:00 • 1 minute

    Manchester City manager may still relish a title chase but, as the declines of Mourinho and Wenger prove, nothing lasts for ever

    Perhaps the most revealing aspect of the interview Pep Guardiola gave to GQ was how tired he sounded. The headlines that he was contemplating a 15-year break from the game didn’t entirely reflect what he said – “I don’t know how long I’ll stop for: a year, two years, three years, five, 10, 15, I don’t know. But I will leave after this spell with City because I need to stop and focus on myself, on my body” – but his weariness was clear.

    To an extent it is not a surprise. Jürgen Klopp was exhausted (and self-aware) enough after almost 15 seasons at Dortmund and Liverpool (plus seven at Mainz) to quit last summer . There were times last season, particularly in that four-month spell either side of Christmas when City’s form dipped alarmingly , that Guardiola seemed shattered. By his own admission, his decision last November to sign a contract extension to summer 2027 was motivated in part by guilt at the downturn. “The problems we had in the last month, I felt now was not the right time to leave,” he said. The problems got much worse.

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      Charley Hull surges into Women’s Open contention as leader Yamashita wobbles

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 18:40

    • Hull within three shots of Miyu Yamashita

    • ‘I like hunting someone down. It’s more fun that way.’

    There are few things more exciting in golf than a marauding Charley Hull. Not only did we witness precisely that here on Saturday, but Hull sent an errant shot whizzing past the head of Minjee Lee for added theatrical effect.

    Hull had been battling to make the AIG Women’s Open cut for much of Friday afternoon. She started her third round 11 shots adrift of Miyu Yamashita. Within nine holes, Hull was five under par and on the charge. Birdies at the 12th and 13th meant she was four behind Yamashita. Hull did bogey the 14th, meaning a 66, but Yamashita’s failure to build on her 36-hole position suddenly makes this a highly intriguing scene.

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      Murder inquiry begins after teenager stabbed in ‘targeted attack’ in Bury

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 17:32

    Nineteen-year-old stabbed several times in a car park and Greater Manchester police are appealing for information

    Detectives have launched a murder investigation after a teenager died in Greater Manchester in a “targeted attack”, police have said.

    The 19-year-old sustained several stab wounds and died later from his injuries.

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      ‘I’m absolutely useless’: Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari should replace him after qualifying 12th

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 17:23

    • Disconsolate Hamilton reacts to struggle in Hungary

    • ‘The team have no problem … it’s me every time’

    Lewis Hamilton berated his performance in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday as “useless” and emphasised it with an entirely uncharacteristic act of self-flagellation, saying Ferrari needed to replace him. Hamilton was knocked out in 12th , while his Ferrari teammate, Charles Leclerc, went on to take pole position for Sunday’s race, the first the Scuderia has claimed this year.

    Hamilton did not have an issue with his car on his final run in Q2 in Budapest nor was he impeded, he was simply not quick enough to go through, more than two-tenths down on Leclerc and took himself to task for his shortcoming. “It’s me every time. I’m useless, absolutely useless,” he said. “The team have no problem. You’ve seen the car’s on pole. So we probably need to change driver.”

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      Bargain buy Two Tribes strikes again in Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 17:06

    • Sprint-race winner landed big Ascot prize six days ago

    • Owner revels in success of ‘four-grand foal’

    A £30,000 yearling that turned out to be a Classic winner hooked Phil Cunningham into the racing game 20 years ago. A similarly shrewd purchase gave the owner one of his best days at the track on the final day of Glorious Goodwood.

    Two Tribes, one of three runners in Cunningham’s colours in the Stewards’ Cup, picked up the £75,000 first prize in a valuable handicap at Ascot last week and added £125,000 for this feature race with an emphatic two-and-a-quarter length defeat of Strike Red.

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      Tour de France Femmes: Ferrand-Prévot closes on home glory after dazzling win

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 16:48

    • French rider breaks away on the Col de la Madeleine

    • Ferrand-Prévot: ‘It’s really been a team effort all week’

    Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, the Olympic mountain bike gold medallist at Paris 2024, took a commanding overall lead in the Tour de France Femmes after a spectacular lone victory at the summit of the Col de la Madeleine.

    With one stage remaining in the nine-day race, the 33-year-old from Reims is on the verge of ending French cycling’s 40 years wait by ending the long wait for a successor to Bernard Hinault’s 1985 win in the men’s Tour de France.

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      Marlie Packer’s red card sours England’s 97-7 World Cup warmup rout of Spain

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 16:40

    • Red Roses run in 15 tries on their way to victory

    • Captain ‘very sorry’ after dismissal for reckless clearout

    England’s vice-captain Marlie Packer was “absolutely gutted” after being sent off in the crushing Women’s Rugby World Cup warmup victory over Spain, in which Helena Rowland scored a hat-trick.

    The veteran back-rower started as captain at Welford Road, with the full-time captain Zoe Aldcroft on the bench, and scored the second of England’s 15 tries early on. But she was sent off for a flying second-half clearout on Spain’s full-back Clàudia Peña on 61 minutes.

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      ‘She should answer for what she did’: trial of ex-Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina begins

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 16:39

    At least 1,400 people died protesting against the rule of the deposed prime minister, who now faces multiple charges

    Rakib Hossain was just 11 years old when, standing innocently on the streets of Dhaka in July last year, he was killed by a bullet to the head – fired allegedly by the police.

    Hossain was one of more than 1,400 men, women and children killed in Bangladesh’s so-called July revolution, when hundreds of thousands across the country rose up in protest against the country’s leader, Sheikh Hasina.

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