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New Arsenal guvnor Unai Emery continues to stamp his mark on the Gunners, this time with the much-anticipated signing of perhaps the fastest centre back in the Bundesliga. The Greek defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos has made his mark at Borussia Dortmund with crunching sweeps, spectacular slide tackles and incredible speed for a solid centre back. Aged 30 he is at the peak of his powers and much needed boost for Arsenal’s defence tested to the max last season by the Premier...

Ccountdown to the historic Yankees vs Red Sox series has begun with the two baseball giants set to meet on June 29-30, 2019 at London Stadium. The game will mark Major League Baseball’s first ever played in Europe and will be showcased in front of an estimated capacity of 55,000 in the East End. It means the UK now follows other international venues that have hosted regular season Major League games, including Mexico, Japan, Puerto Rico and Australia. Commissioner Manfred said: “Major League...

Kai Ward, 48, Bognor Regis got the extreme haircut to celebrate England's leading goal-scorer spearheading England's World Cup efforts in Russia.

Ivor Broadis is 95 and still watches ever game

With England and Belgium already qualified ahead of tonight's 'dead rubber' clash in Kaliningrad attention has turned to the virtues of second place in the group, which on paper maps an easier route to the World Cup final. As Robbie Savage pointed out on Twitter "surely coming 2nd is far better" for England, allowing them to swerve Colombia, France and Portugal among other potential opponents. It would pave the way to an England vs Brazil final that, according to Goldman Sachs forecasts, is...

Nobody bats an eyelid any more when various aquarium and zoo animals develop psychic abilities enabling them to predict World Cup scores. This year The Three Lions Pub in Bristol even has a regular dressed as an octopus predicting scores. But as it’s 2018, things have got a lot more sophisticated. A German team of machine learning researchers simulated 100,000 match eventualities to predict Germany to win the World Cup. But with Germany bowing out at the group stage of...

David Batty, 58, and Michael Burns, 52, were involved in "inappropriate singing" while in a Russian bar in the city of Volgograd where England played its opening game against Tunisia.

The trendy trainers put more stress on bones, muscles and joints rather than less, say scientists.

One fifth of all bets placed with Betway on England to win the 2018 World Cup have been staked since the final whistle of England v Panama on Sunday. The bookmaker has been experiencing a patriotic betting frenzy since Three Lions’ 6-1 demolition of Panama yesterday lunchtime, reporting 20 per cent of all bets placed on England to win the World Cup have been in the last 24 hours. England are now just 9/1 with Betway to go all the way...