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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 England boss Gareth Southgate is keeping a close eye on teenage talent Kobbie Mainoo having been impressed by his “fabulous” breakthrough at Manchester United.The 18-year-old academy graduate joined the Red Devils aged nine and has long been tipped for stardom, going onto make his first-team bow in January 2023.Mainoo has now made 14 appearances in all competitions for United and would have played more had he not sustained an injury during their US tour in the summer.The…

Officers saw missing 5-year-old in Sept 2019’: Police chief on Harmony Montgomery caseThe latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USProsecutors in Adam Montgomery’s trial over the murder of his five-year-old daughter revealed disturbing details about the way he abused the little girl’s corpse. Mr Montgomery’s trial is under way in New Hampshire, more than four years after Harmony was last seen alive in late 2019.Authorities failed to search for the missing child – who was known to protective services – for more than…

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 German football can resemble a monopoly. The records are dominated by one club. Bayern Munich have won the Bundesliga and the DFB Pokal most times. For good measure, they have taken the most points ever in a top-flight season, registered the most wins, suffered the fewest defeats, scored the most goals and conceded the least.Name a record, from the obvious to the obscure, and the chances are that Bayern possess it, including their run of 11 successive…

A wayward kangaroo on the loose was spotted casually hopping around an apartment complex in Florida on Thursday, 8 February.Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office was alerted to the rogue ‘roo after it was seen in the pool area of the residential building.Footage shot from a helicopter shows the animal running around the complex.The police department also released audio of a female resident of the complex calling in to report it.“I actually see a kangaroo. It’s kind of a large kangaroo,” an unidentified woman says. “We got him closed in the pool gate area.”The animal was captured and reunited with its owner…

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 One of the men behind behind the acclaimed Sunderland ‘Til I Die documentary series has admitted he may have to rethink a decision to call time on it if the club make it to the Champions League.The third and final season of the Netflix show, which charts the Black Cats’ bid to fight their way out of Sky Bet League One at the fourth attempt, is due to hit screens next Wednesday and provide viewers with the…

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 emailsA man who used an axe and knife to seize more than a dozen hostages on a Swiss train has been killed, police said.Swiss police say a 32-year-old Iranian asylum-seeker was killed and no passengers were injured.The man took the hostages early Thursday evening and police, alerted by passengers, sealed off the area while the train was stopped in the town of Essert-sous-Champvert, police in the French-speaking Vaud region said Friday. The man, speaking Farsi…

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 Former members of Boyzone and Westlife are in talks to become the newest celebrity investors in British football, at non-League Chorley.The national league side announced that Boyzone are “part of ongoing discussions that could potentially see them becoming the face of the football club”.Ronan Keating, Shane Lynch and Keith Duffy as well as former Westlife member Brian McFadden will be in attendance for the club’s FA Trophy match against Solihull on Saturday, the chief operating officer 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 emailsBarclays has agreed to buy the retail banking arm of Tesco Bank, including acquiring its approximately 2,800 staff, it has announced.It will pay around £600m for Tesco Bank’s customer deposits and loans, as well as the ability to offer Tesco-branded credit cards and loans.Barclays said the takeover is a “further demonstration of the investment we continue to make in our UK consumer business”.Chief executive C.S. Venkatakrishnan added: “We are looking forward to working closely with…

Vladimir Putin claimed that jailed American journalist Evan Gershkovich had been caught “red-handed” with classified information that he had obtained from one of his sources in a clandestine manner.In a conversation with right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, the Russian president denied that the Wall Street Journal reporter was innocent of the espionage charges for which he remains imprisoned.The newspaper and other US news outlets strongly deny any wrongdoing by Mr Gershkovich.They say his activities fell strictly under the umbrella of legitimate journalism.“He was caught red-handed when he was receiving this information,” Putin told Mr Carlson. Source link

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 Erik Ten Hag is confident Manchester United’s encouraging run will not be derailed by Lisandro Martinez’s knee injury.The Argentinian defender was forced off in the second half of last weekend’s victory over West Ham and faces two months on the sidelines after suffering ligament damage in his right knee.It was only Martinez’s fourth game back following a lengthy spell out because of a recurrence of a foot issue, with United winning three of those matches and drawing…