🤦‍♂️ "It's a ridiculous decision!" ❌ "He didn't lash out, it wasn't violent!" Danny Murphy slams decision to send off Max Dowman in Arsenal's historic cup exit

That challenge is an absolute disgrace. Anyone who had ability as a kid always had to deal with a grown man “letting you know he was there”. There is nothing noble or admirable about this, what kind of “hard man” tries to cut a 16 year old in two?

La reacción de #LADAZONETA al Balón de Oro de HARRY KANE 😮😮😮😮😮 #Ballondor

It is already apparent that all the people who said that pedestrianising Oxford St would be unpopular and disastrous are going to look like right silly cunts. They should all be busy deleting their pathetic timelines right now.

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After eight years behind the mic, Ed Cowan has played his final innings as co-host of the ABC Cricket Podcast, before stepping up to the Cricket Australia board. To send Teddy off in style, Corbin and the team asked listeners to send in personal messages, then played them for him as a surprise during his last episode with us. Here’s how he reacted after hearing your messages. Thanks Teddy, and go well, mate. Hear your messages to Ed, plus the rest of his final ABC Cricket Podcast episode: ab.co/4sz8dxa

From the “runt of the litter” to the king of world football. What a journey. What a story. What an example of professionalism and drive to kids around the world. Wonderful that John McDermott is at the ceremony tonight. #BallonDor @HKane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽️

Ebere Eze is genuinely one of us 😭❤️

General Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière KCB KBE DSO MC & Bar DL On 6 October 1990, a soldier who had joined the British Army as a private thirty-eight years earlier landed in Riyadh to take command of every British serviceman in the Middle East. Lieutenant-General Sir Peter de la Billière inherited a force that was still building, and would become Britain's largest deployment since the Second World War, and with it the task of making British arms count inside an American-led coalition under General Norman Schwarzkopf. It completed one of the most improbable rises in the modern Army. Born in Plymouth on 29 April 1934, he had lost his father, a naval surgeon, when HMS Fiji was sunk by German bombers off Crete in May 1941; he enlisted in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry as a private in 1952, was commissioned into the Durham Light Infantry in 1955, and joined the Special Air Service the following year. What followed was three decades of undeclared wars: Malaya, where he was mentioned in despatches; Oman in 1959, where he led a troop in the assault on the Jebel Akhdar and won the Military Cross; the Radfan and Borneo from 1964 to 1966, which brought the Bar to the MC; and Dhofar in the early 1970s, for which he was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order. He commanded 22 SAS from 1972 to 1974, and from 1979 to 1983 he commanded the SAS Group, the officer in overall command in May 1980 when the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy at Princes Gate. The Gulf command tested everything those small wars had taught him. As Commander British Forces Middle East he was Schwarzkopf's British counterpart, and he forged the close working relationship with the American commander on which the British contribution depended. He deployed his old regiment deep into western Iraq in patrols hunting the Scud launchers that were threatening Israel and the coalition, and when the ground offensive began on 24 February 1991 his forces formed part of the coalition's great "left hook" through the Iraqi desert. The 1st Armoured Division under Major General Rupert Smith passed through the minefield breach cut by the Americans and, in a hundred hours of fighting, covered 170 miles and took the surrender of thousands of Iraqi troops, in the largest British armoured operation since the Second World War. Kuwait was liberated and the ceasefire came on 28 February; 47 British servicemen had been killed. De la Billière's war had been the headquarters' war, the briefings and the coalition politics, and he had played it as a soldier who had spent his career on the other side of such rooms, in the deserts where the plans met the enemy. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, promoted to full general, and made a special adviser to the Ministry of Defence on Middle East affairs before retiring in June 1992 after forty years in uniform. In 1992 he published Storm Command, his personal account of the Gulf War, and in 1994 Looking for Trouble, his autobiography; both were bestsellers, though his willingness to write about special forces drew sharp criticism from within the regiment he had once commanded. His documented contribution is the arc itself: a private soldier who won gallantry medals across three decades of the Empire's last small wars, and who rose to command Britain's last victorious large-scale conventional campaign, becoming the public face of a war that was fought by a coalition, won in a hundred hours, and ended with its objectives intact. Few careers have spanned the full distance between the troop commander on the Jebel Akhdar and the general who sat beside Schwarzkopf in Riyadh, and that distance is the measure of him.

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20 years ago, Mick Lewis led the Aussies' attack against South Africa. This is how he handled going for 0-113 from his 10 overs 🫣😎 #TheFrontBar 📺

The best first touch in football belongs to… 👀 🪄

🗣️ “That is a shot of an emperor.” Four year ago today - an amazing night at the MCG!