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 Middlesbrough have appointed their former captain Jonathan Woodgate as head coach on a three-year deal, the Championship (second-tier) club said on Friday. Woodgate previously served on Boro's coaching staff under former manager Tony Pulis, who left last month after failing to secure promotion to the Premier League. "Middlesbrough Football Club are delighted to confirm that Jonathan Woodgate will head up a new-look senior coaching team," Boro said in a statement. "Our former captain will be joined by... current Republic of...

Champions Manchester City will kick off their 2019-20 Premier League season with an away trip to West Ham United while Liverpool get the ball rolling with a Friday evening home clash against promoted Norwich City. The fixtures, released at 0800 GMT on Thursday, also included a meaty first-weekend clash with Manchester United hosting Chelsea, who finished third last season. Tottenham Hotspur, who completed the top-four last season, are at home to Aston Villa, who returned to the top flight via...

The top flight club Brighton and Hove Albion fired the three groundsmen last week, after 'losing all trust and confidence' in them.

Anthony Joshua (22-1, 21 KOs) lost more than just a boxing match on June 1st at Madison Square Garden. Joshua’s stunning setback to Andy Ruiz Jr (33-1, 22 KOs) left the Briton’s reputation in tatters. The former heavyweight champ will start the undesirable process of rebuilding his stature in the sport with a rematch against Ruiz, likely in November or December 2019. While the specifics, such as date, location and purse split, still have to be ironed out, the contract...

Sunderland supporter Kieran Anthony Mark Richardson, 22, said he would shoot and bomb Portsmouth fans ahead of a match last month

A video has emerged of Tommy Robinson punching a man ahead of England’s game against Holland in Portugal last night. The far right activist – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – was filmed hitting a fellow England fan ahead of the match. After flooring one person shouts of "go on Tommy lad” can be heard coming from his crowd of supporters. A voice, thought to be Robinson’s, can also be heard confronting the victim’s friend, saying: "F*** about again, you'll get...

Since ancient times, men have observed flying birds with envy: there is no other feeling that can provoke that same sense of freedom. For that reason -and thanks to invaluable efforts, human beings have managed to develop an endless number of inventions in order to be able to fly. Some of them worked, some of them had catastrophic consequences, but at the end, we made it. Paragliding is the closest to flying like a bird that any human can be,...

The Arsenal thugs fled the pub in Guildford, Surrey, when one of the victims called police who are appealing for witnesses to come forward

Former Arsenal footballer Mathieu Flamini joined the protest aimed at protecting the ocean from plastic pollution and highlighting the climate crisis.