Richard Sharp @HashTagSharpie

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Anyone interested in a private flight for 5 to Dallas with us for Englands opener against Croatia? Looking for 3 more. DM me. Leaving 10pm tonight, few beers, watch the game & head home Saturday eve. Preferably someone with a private jet & tickets, otherwise we can't go.

15 June 1993. Motor racing champion James Hunt died (aged 45) in his sleep of a heart attack at his home in Wimbledon. He was the 1976 F1 World Champion. After retiring from motor racing, he became a BBC motor sport commentator. He’s still greatly missed.

I must confess to being a bit emotional this morning at the news of a knighthood for Kevin Sinfield. I’ve always called him ‘Sir Kev’ and it’s hard to think of a man more deserving. He showed us all what it is to be a friend. What it means to step up when people need you and he did it all for his mate ❤️ After he carried Rob across the line in the Leeds marathon someone sent me this poem anonymously and I kept it on my phone. They called it ‘Arise Sir Kev’… When shadows gathered, and hearts would break Kev knew it was time to take… One step, another, through wind and rain, Carrying hope, despite the pain. He never stopped, mile after mile, Driven by loyalty, strength… a smile. For Rob, his friend, he aim was true Showing us all, what friendship can do. Not measured in trophies, applause, or fame… But turning up, again and again. And in every mile he chose to run, He showed us how friendship is truly done.

Yes United will be saving £9m from the severance compensation owed to Amorim. This is because of the duty to mitigate in football. When United dismissed Amorim, they owed him and his staff compensation for the rest of their contracts. Most people assume that figure is fixed, that a sacked manager simply collects what he was promised in full. Well that’s true but in practice, the law does not work that way. Now, according to the FIFA RSTP, the injured party is owed compensation, broadly the residual value of the contract that was cut short. But that party must take reasonable steps to reduce his own losses. He cannot sit idle and bank the entire payout while doing nothing. He is expected to find new employment, and whatever he earns from that new role over the overlapping period is deducted from what his former club owes. So the moment Amorim agreed terms with AC Milan, the maths shifted. Every pound Milan pays him across the overlapping period is a pound United no longer has to. That is exactly why the saving lands around the £8 to £9 million mark. So in practice, if United owed Amorim 18m at the point of dismissal for example, and Amorim signed a 9m contract with Milan, the 9m Amorim is earning from Milan would be deducted from the 18m United has to pay him. Do you get it? This is why clubs quietly want their sacked managers to land somewhere new quickly. It is not goodwill. It is accounting. A dismissed coach who stays unemployed is the most expensive kind. While Article 17 sits within the RSTP and applies most directly to players, the same mitigation logic governs coaching disputes, whether through the Football Tribunal, the relevant annexe of the regulations, or ordinary employment law principles. My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano

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🚨 Manchester United are set to save over £8/9m in compensation for Rúben Amorim and his staff. Follows agreement done between Amorim and AC Milan, as revealed earlier today ❤️🖤 🎥➕ youtu.be/n4eHOmNjqG8

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When Bobby Robson finished his last chemotherapy session in 2007, Dr Ruth Plummer pulled him to one side at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. Bobby thought it was going to be about his health. Instead, Ruth wanted to talk to him about something else. Her department was too old. There was a new Early Cancer Trials Unit being planned at the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, three times bigger than what they already had, with a proper laboratory, modern equipment and room for clinical trials. But there was one problem. They did not have the money to kit it out. So Ruth asked Bobby if he knew anybody who might help. Bobby went home and spoke to his wife Elsie. The next day, they started making calls. Very quickly, what had started as a quiet conversation with Ruth had turned into a committee. Then the idea came up. Use Bobby’s name. He was not comfortable with that at first. He did not want a charity built around himself. But the others told him it would open doors, and once Bobby agreed to it, there was no going halfway. The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was born. At the first meeting with the hospital, Don Robson got straight to the point. How much money was needed to get started? £500,000. And Ruth needed it by the summer of 2008 because she wanted the facility running by October. That was when Bobby knew what he had walked into. “There could be no slowing down, no pulling out, no getting halfway down the road and turning back.” The original plan had been simple enough. Bobby would lend his name, act as a figurehead, and stay in the background. It did not work out like that. He went to the meetings. He did the interviews. He kept going even when he was not well. Sometimes he would pull Ruth to one side and ask her: “What have you bloody well got me into?” But he never missed a single meeting. The launch was held at the Copthorne Hotel. By then, Bobby was fully in it. “If I’m committed to something, then I’m committed.” And then the money started coming in. Within seven weeks, the first target had already been reached. £560,000. Then people started turning up at Bobby and Elsie’s house. The first donation came from a woman carrying an envelope full of cash. Her husband had recently died, and his final request had been that people at his funeral gave money to Bobby’s charity instead of buying flowers. She handed over £271.74. “What can you say to that?” Then there was Johnny Bliss, a local singer with pancreatic cancer. His doctors had told him he had months to live, but he still held a concert, sold CDs and raised around £10,000 for the Foundation. Bobby met him at the Copthorne. Johnny brought his family with him, and made the men wear their best suits and ties. Bobby could see he was not well. “I could have cried.” And for all the football he had lived through, all the countries, all the clubs, all the games, this became his last big job. “It’s not about beating Portsmouth any more.” “It’s about beating death.” As of today the Sir Bobby Robson foundation has raised over £27 million. #football

A spine tingling rendition of Flower of Scotland being belted out by The Tartan Army, before their first World Cup Finals game in 28 years. A moment that many have waited a lifetime for. 🥹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

One of Reading Festival's most memorable collaborations arrived in 1994 when Primal Scream were joined by Dave Gahan and Mick Jones for "Loaded". First released as a single in 1990 and later associated with Screamadelica, the song helped redefine the possibilities of British rock and dance music.

The day Zlatan became a fucking legend💪

Ok, tô começando a ficar assustado com essa lista que o cara postou ontem e já tá CRAVANDO 2 JOGOS. Impossível.

A joyful compilation of dogs showing pure happiness and excitement

12 June 1981. The Specials released their classic No 1 single, Ghost Town in the UK, in the midst of the worst economic recession since the early 1930s.

Watching football highlights without seeing the result in the video title or thumbnail will be an issue during the World Cup. ▶️ I've built a website to try and solve this issue. It isn't perfect yet and just a fun project! Any feedback appreciated. ⚽️ spoilerfreefootball.lovable.app

BREAKING: UEFA have announced Somali referee Omar Artan will take charge of the 2026 Super Cup Final between Aston Villa and PSG in Salzburg.

In the dead of night the Scots arrived at the Airbnb across the street. Decked out and playing the pipes at 6:30 am. So it begins…

NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: Why nobody goes to Five Guys anymore Five Guys grew into a burger powerhouse, generating more than $1.3 billion in revenue. It was named America’s best burger by Zagat, and even the President of the United States was known to stop by for lunch. At its peak, the chain seemed unstoppable. But today, sales are down more than 10% from their peak. Stores are closing, and the brand has become the target of endless jokes online, mostly centered around one thing: the price. It’s easy to blame inflation and the post-pandemic economy for Five Guys’ struggles. But the real story is more complicated than that. This is the rise and fall of Five Guys.