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Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Salford co-owner Gary Neville has accused the Premier League of negligence towards the rest of English football and branded the failure to agree a new funding deal for the EFL as an “absolute disgrace”.Monday’s shareholders’ meeting in London ended without an offer being made as top flight clubs feel the priority is to thrash out a new financial system to replace the current profitability and sustainability rules (PSR).A six-year deal granting the EFL 14.75 per cent of…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsHaiti is spiralling further into chaos after armed gang members freed thousands of prisoners, burned government buildings, and forced the prime minister out of the country.Dozens of people are dead and roughly 15,000 have been forced to flee their homes due to gang raids, according to the Associated Press, with many now facing dwindling supplies of food and water.The violence escalated on 29 February when Haiti’s powerful criminal gangs, which already controlled large parts of…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Manchester City defender Kyle Walker praised referee Michael Oliver for not “crumbling” in a fierce Anfield atmosphere and giving a last-minute penalty to Liverpool.Jeremy Doku’s chest-high challenge to clear the ball in the 1-1 draw saw him catch Reds midfielder Alexis Mac Allister, but Oliver saw nothing amiss and VAR ruled it was a normal collision.Jurgen Klopp said it was “a penalty for all football people on the planet”.However, Walker hailed Oliver’s character and experience in withstanding…

Trump says 2024 election will be ‘single most important day in history of our country’ Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump’s attorneys want the judge overseeing his criminal case in New York to take the trial off the calendar until the US Supreme Court decides whether the former president can claim “immunity” from prosecution in a separate case.The nation’s highest court will hear Mr Trump’s arguments on his “immunity” defence on 25 April, the final day for oral arguments in this year’s…

(Getty Images)Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Two of the Premier League’s most underperforming teams clash on Monday Night Football, with Chelsea playing hosts to Newcastle United in a match of 11th versus 10th in the top flight – despite huge sums spent by both clubs.Between the likes of Christopher Nkunku and Alexander Isak, Enzo Fernandez and Bruno Guimaraes, both the Blues and the Magpies have made massive transfer outlays over the last 24 months or so but have not managed to translate…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailWatch live as Joe Biden speaks in New Hampshire on Monday 11 March.Earlier today, the president released his $7.3tn budget proposal that proposes vastly increasing security provisions at the US-Mexico border and raising taxes on the wealthy.But the proposal faces steep opposition from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.The president’s budget proposal is almost never fully implemented even under a trifecta given that Congress – specifically the House of Representatives – controls spending.The proposal proposes restoring the expanded child…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Midfielder Rodri insists Manchester City will embrace the challenge of having to win at least nine of their remaining 10 matches to lift a record-breaking fourth successive Premier League.The 1-1 draw at Anfield left Pep Guardiola’s side in third place, albeit only a point behind Arsenal who top the table on goal difference from Liverpool.City face Arsenal next at home at the end of the month, followed by potentially-tricky tests against Aston Villa and Tottenham – also…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailPresident Joe Biden released his $7.3tn budget proposal that proposes vastly increasing security provisions at the US-Mexico border and raising taxes on the wealthy on Monday. But the proposal faces steep opposition from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The president’s budget proposal is almost never fully implemented even under a trifecta given that Congress–specifically the House of Representatives–controls spending. The proposal proposes restoring the expanded child tax credit that Mr Biden signed as part of the American Rescue…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Big numbers surround Manchester United. They did long before Friday’s announcement of a task force to assess whether to rebuild or redevelop Old Trafford. It might cost the club some £1bn, though the overall project will prove still more expensive, with talk of local-council investment in infrastructure, public-private partnerships and other funds.None of which should concern Erik ten Hag. The big numbers, the ones he tries to shrug off or to argue are a product of the…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailNew Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, his wife Nadine Menendez and two other co-defendants named in a corruption case pleaded not guilty to an additional obstruction of justice charge brought against them by federal prosecutors in an arraignment on Monday.For the second time in less than a year, Mr Menendez, 70, entered the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse in New York City to face an arraignment on charges that accuse him, his wife and two New Jersey businessmen, Wael…