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Meanwhile, London City Lionesses cut ties with Jocelyn Prêcheur despite being sixth in the table. Prêcheur had been in charge of the club since the summer of 2024 and led them to the Championship title last term.
Eder Maestre took over as the club’s new head coach on New Year’s Day. Upon his arrival, he said: “I am delighted to join London City Lionesses. I love English football and representing this club is a real honour. In my opinion this project is now the best project in women’s football. The ambitions are very aligned with my values and I’m very excited.”
Karl Darlow gets the nod in goal for Leeds today but there is still no place for Illan Meslier in the matchday squad – he’s not been involved on the bench since November.
Leeds’ first-choice keeper, Lucas Perri, came under fire in midweek for his performance against Newcastle, particularly for his failure to keep out Harvey Barnes’s late winner. Daniel Farke didn’t exactly rush to Perri’s defence at full time:
I can’t lie, I can’t say how he was man of the match and there were unbelievable saves. Of course, you need also sometimes in a crucial moment a proper save from your goalkeeper. Of course, today it was definitely a situation where you should save the ball. I can’t lie and pretend any other, that it would be a different scenario because otherwise you wouldn’t believe me any more. I name it how I see it and at this moment, certainly I can’t protect him from the criticism that he should have saved it.
In first TV interview since he was sacked as UK ambassador to US, Mandelson says association with Epstein was ‘terrible mistake’ but adds: ‘I was not culpable’
Laura Kuenssberg asks Peter Mandelson if he liked Donald Trump when he was the UK ambassador.
Mandelson says he did like Trump, listing of numerous reasons why, but said he did not like all of his “language”.
I like him, yes, I liked his humour, his graciousness…
I liked his directness. You knew exactly what he was thinking and where you stood and what he wanted. And how he was proposing to engage, with you. Did I like in all his language? No, I didn’t, did I? Did he make me gasp?
What’s going to happen is there’s going to be, another discussion, a lot of consultation and a lot of negotiation.
At the end of the day, we are all going to have to wake up to the reality that the Arctic needs securing against China and Russia.
The Labour peer admitted to Laura Kuenssberg that his friendship with Epstein was ‘a terrible mistake’ but appeared to suggest he disagreed with his sacking as ambassador to the US
Oil is American president’s motivation but his concept of economic success feels as outdated as his music tastes
The word “loot” entered the English language from Hindi in the late 18th century, as the rapacious East India Company plundered its way across the subcontinent.
It was a trading company, not a state – but it had the imprimatur of the English crown and its own large private army, mingling commerce and military force and opening the way for British imperial dominance of India.
Frances and Ceri Menai-Davis, who lost their son Hugh to cancer, say gap in financial help is ‘devastating’
Parents of critically ill children are being “crushed” by a lack of statutory financial support when they need to take time off work, the parents of a six-year-old boy who died of cancer have said.
Hugh Menai-Davis was diagnosed with a rare form of the disease when he fell ill suddenly in October 2020. The boy, then aged five, had been happy and healthy before he developed severe stomach pains.
Three hundred Kurds detained and further 400 evacuated following clashes in Aleppo
Syrian government forces have detained 300 Kurds and evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters after clashes in Aleppo, the interior ministry has said, as US and allied forces carried out separate “large-scale” strikes against Islamic State targets.
An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that about 360 Kurdish fighters and 60 wounded had been bussed to the Kurds’ de facto autonomous zone in the north-east from the Sheikh Maqsoud district, the last area of Aleppo to fall to the army.