Daily Archives: November 9, 2025

Man City 3 Liverpool 0: Was disallowing Van Dijk header ‘wrong’ as Slot says? What made Doku so dangerous?

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“Jeremy Doku was the star as Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-0 at the Etihad, but the win did not come without controversy. Erling Haaland opened the scoring at the end of a great team move, shortly after having a penalty saved, Nico Gonzalez added a deflected second and Doku capped a brilliant individual display with the third. However, Virgil van Dijk had a headed ‘goal’ that would have made it 1-1 late in the first half ruled out when Andy Robertson was controversially adjudged to have been in an offside position and a VAR review did not overturn the initial on-pitch decision. …”
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Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout

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“Illegal streaming of football is on the rise in the UK and most fans want the Saturday 3pm blackout lifted, a new podcast released by The Athletic has revealed. The Underground World of Illegal Streaming — a special episode of The Athletic FC podcast that looks at the culture, crime and crisis associated with illegal streaming — outlines that almost five million people in the UK consumed pirated sports coverage over the past six months. As part of the audio documentary, The Athletic commissioned market research company YouGov Sport to poll the consumption of illegal streams, the devices people use and whether they are concerned about the risk of cybercrime and data theft. We would also like to hear specifically from subscribers to The Athletic on this topic, so have included a survey form at the bottom of this article. …”
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A left-wing German football club’s anthem and an ‘uncomfortable’ Nazi connection

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“Since February 2025, part of St. Pauli’s matchday routine has been missing. Das Herz von St. Pauli, a popular fan song, had been played at the Millerntor Stadium for two decades. But no more. Earlier this year, an investigation by the club’s museum revealed that the song’s writer, composer and singer had all been entangled with the Nazi party and the propaganda of Joseph Goebbels. The playing of Das Herz von St. Pauli — the Heart of St. Pauli — was suspended in February, and has not been heard since. For Germany’s foremost left-wing club, it has been a difficult, fractious and sensitive period. That is not unusual. The Germans have a word — Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung — which means ‘coping with the past’, and 80 years after the Second World War ended, the issue of who did what during it and how willingly remains alive, as does the conversation about how those people — and their work — should be judged. …”
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Long throws and the striker with no shots on target: A statistical Premier League postcard, 100 games in

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“There are few neater points of the Premier League season than when the 20 clubs are all 10 games in — 100 matches, 200 results, infinite opinions. At that point in 2025-26, there have been 22 penalties, 268 goals, 801 shots on target, 86,473 passes and one 15-year-old. Far too much to explain in its entirety, but plenty of information to boil down into a statistical vignette of the campaign so far. So let’s do precisely that. …”
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894 days later: Barcelona finally return to the Camp Nou (sort of)

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“There is an unwritten rule among the Barcelona staff members who work closely with Joan Laporta: ‘You can only go to the president when there’s good news to give.’ That has been pretty difficult to follow during the Camp Nou rebuild — a process that started with the partial demolition of the reigning Spanish champions’ iconic stadium in June 2023 and is now already a year behind schedule. But today (Friday), Laporta and Barca finally did have some good news to celebrate, as a partly-refurbished Camp Nou at least partially reopened in the first public event there since construction work began more than two years ago. …”
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