Feels like retrograde step to even consider scrapping VAR imo, just need more consistent/improved operators.

Latest development (via David Ornstein’s scoop) completely at odds with where FIFA see tech heading.

Details below ⬇️ The Athletic | Football
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Premier League clubs to vote on proposal to scrap VAR from next season. Resolution formally submitted by Wolves to abolish system + will be on agenda at June 6 AGM. Any rule change needs 2/3s majority (14 of 20 members) to pass The Athletic | Football nytimes.com/athletic/54950…

🎧 DFB from The Athletic | Football

Featuring Charlie Eccleshare Danny Kelly & James Maw on #THFC ’s moral maze pre #MCFC tonight with #AFC watching

Jacob Tanswell on the Duran Duran comeback at #AVFC

& James Pearce on #LFC ’s late crumble.

…all in 8 mins. 💨
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Big games today, this most contentious. Berkane (Mor) in CAF Confed Cup Final 1st leg v Zamalek after 2 semi legs v Algeria’s USM Alger were awarded their way despite wearing shirt with controversial map inc disputed Western Sahara

Story ⬇️ The Athletic | Football
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Everton and 777. What now?

⁦Matt Slater⁩ explains the scenarios (spoiler - the first one’s not looking likely):

🔵 777 deal goes through
➡️ New buyer emerges
❗️ Administration
💷 Main creditors take control
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Weekend Preview The Athletic | Football

8-1-1er for this penultimate PL weekend.

Are we going to get any TWISTS or TURNS at the top or bottom?

Join Tim Spiers Jon Mackenzie & myself to look ahead to it all.

Enjoy & thanks for listening. 🎧🫡

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Exclusive

A top Premier League figure has won a High Court anonymity order as he fights allegations he sexually abused a teenage girl.

The man is being sued by a woman who says she was 15 when the offences allegedly took place in the 1990s.

Daniel Taylor

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Daily Football Briefing The Athletic | Football

Short, sharp burst of #UCL insight from the experts…

Seb Stafford-Bloor on B Dortmund & Bayern

Peter Rutzler on PSG

Guillermo Rai on R Madrid

Enjoy & thanks for listening.

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🔹 Sacking Eustace with team sixth
🔹 Rooney's infamous 15 games in charge
🔹 Six managers & recruitment issues
🔹 Optimism over U.S. owners

How Tom Brady's #BCFC dropped into League One

📝 Rob Tanner Adam Leventhal Matt Slater

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CAF let RS Berkane (Mor) wear shirt with map encompassing disputed Western Sahara territory. It angered USM Alger (from bordering Algeria) & customs confiscated kits. 2xSFs cancelled but RS thro, CAS decision has huge implications.

Read ⬇️ The Athletic | Football
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🎧 Weekend Preview The Athletic | Football

1-5-3-1 bank holiday set-up pulled apart with Tim Spiers Jordan Campbell & Andy Jones - from the battles at the top to the bottom & some tetchy Ange chat thrown in too.

Thanks for listening. 🫡

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This is the story of a controversial football shirt design that has torn apart a tournament.

It involves:

■ Border disputes
■ Kit being seized
■ Players sleeping in airports
■ Matches being cancelled
■ Dispute going to CAS

📝 Adam Leventhal

New: CAS confirm they’ve appointed panel to look into RS Berkane kit controversy (included disputed Western Sahara territory in Morocco map on shirts). Move authorised by CAF angered bordering Algeria & opponents USM Alger.

Full story ⬇️ The Athletic | Football
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New: Morocco’s RS Berkane v Algeria’s USM Alger

Story of map on shirt that put football at centre of political tensions over disputed region.

CAF’s decision to authorise map & put RSB in final means an appeal to CAS for key call.

Read ⬇️ The Athletic | Football
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Daily Football Briefing The Athletic | Football

Seb Stafford-Bloor & Peter Rutzler on #BVBPSG

JPH on #CFCW & Hayes woe

Simon Johnson on #CFCTHFC

James Horncastle on #RomaBayer

…in 11 mins. Have a good day.

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Daily Football Briefing The Athletic | Football

Dermot Corrigan on R Madrid

Mark Carey on B Munich

Peter Rutzler on PSG

Seb Stafford-Bloor on B Dortmund

+ #MUFC ’s boardroom reshuffle, Webb’s #NFFC rethink, #ITFC touch PL & WSL title race

All in 12 mins. Enjoy.

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Just allowing Ben White to pin Vicario to his line and toy with him on corners is so obvious to everyone watching, how is no-one either on the pitch (inc the gk) or analysing it for Spurs not deploying someone to stop it happening?

Sam Wilson is a non-league footballer who was convicted of rape in 2015.

His past was an open secret yet he still had an active post-jail playing and managerial career.

How did that happen? And did his use of three names since 2012 play a part?

Report by Simon Hughes

🎧 Weekend Preview The Athletic | Football

7-3er this week with #THFC #AFC the big one on Sunday.

Discuss title race, basement scrap & much more with Tim Spiers Charlie Eccleshare & Jay Harris

Enjoy & thanks for support. 🫡

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Stuart Attwell is at the centre of a storm after Nottingham Forest’s trip to Everton.

But this doesn’t compare to the ‘ghost goal’ he gave earlier in his career.

This is the story of that moment and how it helped change football forever.

⬇️ Adam Leventhal