Lucas Paqueta is a top-class signing for West Ham. Arguably best midfielder in French league last season. Another great piece of business from Jean-Michel Aulas, too, selling for nearly four times the amount paid. Credit should also go to Leonardo for bringing him to AC Milan.

Igor Tudor's doing some very good stuff at Marseille.

Another top-quality performance from Folarin Balogun for Reims against PSG tonight, outstanding movement.

PSG have won only two of their past five league games and both of those were against struggling teams at home. PSG needed an injury-time penalty from K. Mbappé to beat Strasbourg 2-1 and they beat Angers 2-0, who are rock-bottom and have lost 12 consecutive league games.

Pas Si Grand, Pas Savoir Gagner

🎙 Live exceptionnel jeudi 25 mai à 18h ! Avec Reynald Pedros, ancien coach de l'Olympique Lyonnais et Sam Ammor, spécialiste foot féminin !

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Hard to beat 40,000 + Ireland fans singing "The Fields of Athenry" - twice - in the second half to inspire their team against South Africa. The second rendition impressively loud. Fantastic support at Stade de France. Fantastic supporters of their team.

Pas Si Grand

Too many cooks spoil the broth. True. That's why there was only one Cook. Imperious career.

Anche le mafie stanno imparando a sfruttare le potenzialità della tecnologia. #NicolaGratteri e #AntonioNicaso illustrano questa metamorfosi all'interno della ‘ndrangheta, nel nuovo libro “Il grifone”. In libreria.

Léonard Aggoune, legend for a night.

The threat of hooligan violence is a real worry at Euro 2024. The federal police is primed for its largest deployment since it was founded in 1951. But will it be enough? With Jerome Pugmire for The Associated Press. #hooligans #violence #euro2024 apnews.com/article/euro-2…

Controversial topic ahead of #euro2024 violence among rival groups of football fans. Jerome Pugmire apnews.com/article/euro-2…

Thanks for reading. Some more details in this story with Jerome Pugmire apnews.com/article/nba-dr…

Uzbekistan fan drumming at Parc des Princes is outstanding

Already three forbidden chants by PSG fans about Marseille. Seems they are keeping them very short so as to not be too obvious, yet to keep doing them anyway.

There were forbidden chants from some PSG fans about Marseille at least seven times in the first half. Perhaps league rules to stop the match don't apply for this one. odd.

Gavaskar. Tendulkar. Kohli, and now Suryavanshi. Wow. A talent well beyond words.

He deserves not to be forgotten. apnews.com/article/paris-…