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Exclusive: Files reveal €117m in loans for Vitesse Arnhem originated with then owner of Chelsea, despite repeated denialsRoman Abramovich secretly funded the takeover of a Dutch top division football club and bankrolled it for years during the period t…
Committed football supporters disavow ‘idiots’ threatening to disrupt the competitionEngland football fans have vowed to travel to Germany in large numbers for Euro 2024 and show that “idiots” wanting to provoke trouble in the host country are a minori…
Presenters back to cover FA Cup quarter-final after row that nearly cost BBC director general and chairman their jobsGary Lineker returned to presenting Match of the Day on Saturday evening after a row that threatened to topple the BBC chairman and dir…
Presenter will host live FA Cup match on Saturday evening in first appearance since suspensionGary Lineker is to return to TV screens for the first time since his BBC suspension, joking about having had a “quiet” week.The broadcaster, 62, was taken off…
Match of the Day host decries Stoke-on-Trent North MP’s claim he called constituents ‘racist bigots’Gary Lineker has described accusations that he called northern voters “racist bigots” as “outrageous and dangerously provocative”.The recently reinstate…
Shadow minister accuses government of ‘deliberate strategy of undermining BBC’ as calls mount for corporation’s chair to quitThe suspension of Gary Lineker from his BBC presenting duties has echoes of “Putin’s Russia”, MPs have heard, as calls for the …
First such ban issued under legislation brought in last yearAntonio Neill given three-year ban for Instagram messageA man who racially abused Brentford’s Ivan Toney on social media has become the first person to be banned from every English stadium und…
A tweet by Gary Lineker led to his suspension by the BBC and set off a weekend of chaos in its schedules. Now with a truce agreed, Archie Bland reports on whether it can holdViewers of the BBC’s most popular football programme, Match of the Day, tuned …
Corporation’s reinstatement of Match of the Day presenter described as a ‘capitulation’The BBC’s leadership was facing renewed pressure on Monday after the corporation U-turned to bring Gary Lineker back to Match of the Day, cancelling the presenter’s …
Keir Starmer describes Sharp’s position as ‘increasingly untenable’ as Rishi Sunak offers lukewarm defence of BBC chairUK politics live – latest news updatesThe BBC chair, Richard Sharp, is under increasing pressure to quit after the corporation apolog…