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Report: Leeds United 1-2 Southampton

Sky Guess Championship 

Leeds United 1 (Piroe 21’)

Southampton 2 (Armstrong 18’, Smallbone 35’)

Leeds: Meslier (GK), Firpo, Ampadu (C), Kamara (Grey 62’), Piroe, Summerville, Rodon, Georginio (Joseph 62’), Byram (Roberts 78’), Gnonto (Anthony 62’), Gruev (Gelhardt 82’). Subs not used: Darlow (GK), Cresswell, Cooper, Shackleton.

Southampton: McCarthy (GK), Walker-Peters (Bree 83’), Manning (Fraser 45’), Downes (Rothwell 68’), Stephens (C), Aribo, Armstrong (Stewart 83’), Adams (Sulemana 61’), Smallbone, Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek. Subs not used: Lumley (GK), Edozie, Charles, Brooks. 

Referee: Matthew Donohue

Booked: Gnonto, Firpo, Gruev, Piroe (Leeds) Manning, Bednarek, Rothwell (Southampton) 

Venue: Elland Street

Attendance: 36,766

Leeds United misplaced at residence to Southampton on Saturday lunchtime, with all three targets coming within the first half at Elland Street.

When the 2 groups had met earlier within the season at St Mary’s, a match which noticed a battling encounter all through, it went the way in which of the hosts. 

This time round, Daniel Farke’s facet created the early openings, however the guests stood agency from a number of set-play probabilities. 

When the Saints got here ahead themselves, that they had photographs from vary. Will Smallbone was the primary to shoot, earlier than moments later, Taylor Harwood-Bellis dragged an effort huge of the put up. 

When Alex McCarthy was examined between the posts for the away facet, it got here from Junior Firpo. A large free-kick noticed the fullback shoot at purpose, which the ‘keeper tipped over the bar. Straight down the opposite finish, Illan Meslier was then known as into motion, saving nicely from Smallbone. 

Within the 18th minute, Southampton took the lead. Che Adams created room on the left and crossed into the field, the place Adam Armstrong was free to smash residence first time. 

Leeds hit again immediately although and had been on stage phrases straightaway. Having accomplished nicely to initially win the ball excessive up the pitch, Joel Piroe pounced on a mistake from Harwood-Bellis and smashed residence right-footed into the far nook. 

Southampton would then retake the lead 10 minutes earlier than the break. Kyle Walker-Peters broke free down the fitting and pulled the ball again to Smallbone, who turned residence from shut vary. 

Earlier than the whistle was blown for half-time, additional probabilities did come. Willy Gnonto was discovered nicely by Crysencio Summerville, however he struck simply huge. Then Harwood-Bellis met a Ryan Manning ball into the field however may solely discover the highest of the crossbar. 

HALF TIME: Leeds United 1-2 Southampton 

Again out for the second 45 minutes on this last day of the common marketing campaign at Elland Street, the Saints had made a swap with Ryan Fraser approaching for Manning, while Leeds remained with the identical XI which started the sport. 

Across the hour mark and with no change within the scoreline, the Whites made a triple change. Mateo Joseph, Jaidon Anthony and Archie Grey all entered, changing Georginio Rutter, Glen Kamara and Gnonto. 

Leeds noticed loads of possession and did create probabilities, however noticed Southampton defending deep round their field to carry onto the lead that that they had created within the first 45 minutes. 

Each Firpo and Summerville had photographs on the away purpose however every time they had been handled, earlier than Summerville once more had a strike from a free-kick and Anthony fired the observe up huge, as Leeds pushed for a leveller. 

Regardless of the perfect efforts of each groups, there have been no additional targets within the second half, which meant Southampton went away with the three factors at Elland Street. 

Right now’s outcome will now see each groups enter the play-offs. Leeds face Norwich Metropolis away from residence on Sunday twelfth Could, earlier than returning to Elland Street for the house leg on Thursday sixteenth Could. The Saints will tackle West Bromwich Albion, as each groups look to safe a passage to Wembley for the ultimate. 

FULL TIME: Leeds United 1-2 Southampton

Jeff Daniels Goes Big in Netflix’s ‘A Man in Full’: Interview

Again when he was ending “Dumb and Dumber To” in 2014, Jeff Daniels was prepared to go away present enterprise. “I’m carried out,” he instructed Jim Carrey. “You possibly can’t cease man,” Carrey stated. “You possibly can’t, you’re artistic, you’re going to create one thing, you’ve obtained to maintain creating. That’s what we do!”

Nowadays, Carrey’s off in Hawaii portray. And when Daniels just isn’t appearing, he’s writing songs and performs, which he mounts at his Michigan hometown’s Purple Rose Theatre Firm. “It’s what retains me going,” Daniels instructed me on Zoom. “It retains me alive. It’s what I’m imagined to do. It’s helped me between the cellphone requires the appearing jobs. As a result of you may go insane observing that cellphone. They’ll name you after they want you. And so I’ve at all times battled no matter despair or worry may come of by no means working once more by engaged on different issues that don’t require Hollywood to wish me.”

All the time a hard-working actor in motion pictures (“Phrases of Endearment,” “One thing Wild”) and theater (“God of Carnage,” “To Kill a Mockingbird”), Daniels has discovered his groove as an older star who carries each gravitas and hazard. He broke out in his fifties with a push from Aaron Sorkin, who forged him as a word-spewing, womanizing, indignant, Machiavellian community anchor with an moral streak in HBO’s Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning sequence “The Newsroom” (2012-2014).

Daniels hasn’t regarded again. Tv, dwelling of sturdy grownup writing, has proved a strong ally. After “Newsroom,” Daniels earned a second Emmy as a one-armed western villain in Scott Frank’s “Godless” (Netflix). He performed two flawed FBI heroes, John O’Neill on “The Looming Tower” (Hulu) and James Comey in “Comey Rule” (Showtime), in addition to a Pennsylvania chief of police in Dan Futterman’s “American Rust” (Showtime).

A 3rd Emmy may very well be within the offing, as Daniels has outdone himself as megalomaniacal Atlanta actual property mogul Charlie Croker in David E. Kelley’s entertaining six-part Netflix adaptation of “A Man in Full,” Tom Wolfe’s 704-page 1998 bestseller. Cannily up to date, the sequence matches proper into immediately’s loopy local weather.

“It’s related,” stated Daniels. “It certain is. Charlie Croker just isn’t the one one who tries to persuade people who he’s value greater than he actually is. David E. Kelly did job of updating it so we might fall into that relevancy, whether or not it’s Trump or any variety of guys who’ve overextended themselves and assume that each assembly is simply going to be a refinancing assembly after which lunch. After which Invoice Camp goes, ‘You owe us $800 million by Tuesday, we’re calling the observe.’”

That’s within the first intense financial institution convention room confrontation, which was shot the primary week of filming in Atlanta. Camp’s banker retains goading Croker to lose his mood. And delightfully, he does. “Charlie Croker just isn’t the one man’s man on this factor,” Daniels stated. “And that’s what makes Tom Pelphrey as Raymond Peepgrass a lot enjoyable, in between me and Invoice Camp.”

Daniels instructed Camp and Pelphrey, “Guys, you bought to go together with me. I’m out on a limb right here. I’m going large. Don’t maintain again,” he stated. “And so they didn’t. They went proper in with me. The trick is to go that large, that bigger than life, and nonetheless be plausible. You don’t wish to be winking on the digicam, going ‘I’m actually simply goofing round right here’. You wish to painting this man and it’s an exaggeration, fiction, and a TV present, however you need it to be believable. And I’m going again to guys like Peter Sellers and Jack Lemmon. These guys might go means up there like that, however they nonetheless held on to the believability.”

‘A Man in Full’MARK HILL/NETFLIX

Daniels stored anticipating administrators Regina King or Tom Schlamme to tug on the reins. “I’d do takes and await Regina to return across the nook and go, ‘OK, actually terrific. Let’s simply flip it down just a bit bit.’ She by no means did that. And I’d be in a decent shut up with the digicam operator in full Charlie Croker and ‘reduce.’ There’d be a pause, and I’d go, ‘did I break the lens? Is there a crack within the lens?’”

King made it doable. “She had my again,” stated Daniels. “I gave her the accent over the cellphone and he or she goes, ‘Sure, sure, sure, sure. Nice.’ She’s received an Oscar, for God’s sake. When she’s sitting again at Video Village watching me go large, she is aware of what I’m doing. She’s in my head as an actor. And as a director, What can she use? What’s she not going to make use of? All that. I felt that she and Tommy and David had been capable of see what I used to be doing. And if I wanted to tone it down, then then they’d have are available in and instructed me to try this. However they didn’t. They stored saying, ‘Let’s transfer the digicam.’ And I known as my agent. I stated, ‘Effectively, that is both nice, otherwise you’re going to say what the hell had been you considering?’ One or the opposite.”

What’s provides? At this stage of his profession, Daniels figures he may as nicely go for it. “I maintain making an attempt to fail,” he stated. “I maintain risking failure. It’s not what they educate you in star faculty: ‘much less is extra.’”

Whereas Daniels didn’t learn Wolfe’s ebook again within the day, he used it as a bible on set. “Seemingly everybody in Atlanta has learn it,” he stated. “I used to be enjoying golf with this man. And he goes, ‘I do know who he based mostly it on. I’m excellent associates with so and so.’ These guys within the late ’90s actually existed.” And so they nonetheless exist immediately. “Yeah, realizing perhaps that you simply aren’t what you thought you had been, or what everybody thinks you might be, or what you need everybody to imagine that you’re. The Georgia Tech soccer star was many years in the past.”

Primarily, Daniels needed to set up a reputable Georgia accent, “after which flip up the quantity on it,” he stated, “as a result of identical to Charlie, that accent must be bigger than life. And that was enjoyable. And Wolfe writes that when Charlie will get nervous or annoyed or no matter, like he does with Invoice Camp, he goes full on Baker County. And Baker County is the place you may barely perceive what they’re saying, the accent is so thick. In order that was nice enjoyable, as a result of now you’re mainly talking in vowels and simply eliminating consonants.”

Comedy ensues when Croker insists on getting the fanciest doable hydraulic knee alternative. “We actually needed to clock that all through,” stated Daniels. “Tommy Schlamme had his knee changed. So he was very detailed about how a lot the limp ought to be, whether or not it was plausible, find out how to use that cane, which helped so much, as a result of I didn’t must do any analysis. I simply needed to go, ‘Tommy, how’s the knee?’”

When Croker first emerges from surgical procedure in a morphine haze together with his knee making whirring noises, Daniels might barely get by the scene. “I stored breaking,” he stated. “And I can hear Tommy and everyone over in video village cracking up. As a result of Charlie is bigger than life. and but the morphine has put this blanket over him. And all he can get out of the fascination with a remote-controlled knee is “oh, god.” That killed me.”

In one other memorable sequence, an actual property mogul Croker is making an attempt to woo for cash is horrified as Croker makes him and his PETA spouse watch a stallion mount a mare. (This was carried out for actual.) “It was not straightforward to observe for some individuals,” stated Daniels. “However the horse wranglers, the girl who had the mare on the head, she stated, ‘OK, we’re making a child. That’s all we’re doing immediately.’ It was like, that is what they do. It was a Monday for them.”

One in all Daniels nice abilities as an actor is his skill to seek out some decency even in such flawed characters as Croker. You are feeling for this man as he faces down the bankers and tries to maneuver his means again on high. “There’s some goodness in him and as an actor, that’s what you search for,” stated Daniels. “You search for the great within the villain and somewhat weak point within the hero. They’re human beings. You’re not enjoying cartoons or cardboard cutouts of a hero or a villain, you’re enjoying human beings. He nonetheless is who he’s after which seeks revenge on the finish, however at the least you get a way that there’s some hope in there. That’s the enjoyable.”

Of all the good administrators Daniels has labored with, he prefers short-takes Clint Eastwood (“Blood Work”) to the long-takes James Brooks (“Phrases of Endearment”) or Gary Ross (“Pleasantville). With Eastwood, “I obtained the one take,” he stated, “and he goes, ‘OK.’ And that was it! Man, did we transfer! You’d get there at seven within the morning and lunch after which wrap. It was half days. And it was nice.”

For now Daniels is concerned in his 33-year-old theater firm. He’s written 22 performs. And a few of them, like comedy “Diva Royale,” are real hits. He will get to place one in all his performs within the fall slot, one in all 4 a 12 months. “We introduced ‘Diva Royale’ again as a result of audiences stored calling us for it,” he stated. “Three Midwestern housewives go to New York Metropolis to see Celine Dion. And every thing that may go flawed when vacationers go to New York goes flawed. They’re going to the live performance. It’s at a spot known as the Diva Royale: growth! pink lights, music. It’s a drag present. It’s Celine Dion in drag for these three small city housewives, whose minds are blown. We opened it final October. It ran for 5 months.”

What has Daniels discovered from his theater firm? “Audiences immediately want comedy,” he stated. “They should chuckle. Whether or not it’s Trump, whether or not it’s COVID, whether or not it’s this shitstorm of an election we’re going to have in November. Persons are scared. They’re being instructed to be scared. I write about them. I write performs that they will relate to.”

This fall’s Daniels comedy relies on a police blotter headline: “Workplace Christmas occasion, Grinch in combat with Rudolf. Police known as.” I stated, ‘That’s a comedy.’ There are theaters closing everywhere in the nation. And now we have discovered somewhat magic. The important thing to it’s, you’re promoting humorous. That’s all you’re promoting. And you may say one thing with comedy. In ‘Diva Royale’ they find yourself with a drag present, proper? So drag queens are imagined to be one thing that we’re afraid of. And by the top of the play, the three housewives aren’t. And that’s what we do. I’ve at all times liked doing comedy in a means that wasn’t simply screwing round.”

“A Man in Full” is streaming now on Netflix.

Worcestershire County Cricket Club Announces the Heartbreaking Passing of Josh Baker

Worcestershire County Cricket Membership is heartbroken to announce the premature passing of Josh Baker, who was aged solely 20 years outdated.

Josh turned skilled with the Membership in 2021 and shortly grew to become a preferred determine inside the squad. Greater than his abilities as a spin bowler, it was his vibrant spirit and infectious enthusiasm that endeared him to everybody he met. His heat, kindness, and professionalism had been exceptional, making him a real credit score to his household and a beloved member of our group.

Ashley Giles, Worcestershire’s Chief Government Officer, shared his profound unhappiness, stating, “The information of Josh’s passing has left us all devastated.

“Josh was rather more than a teammate; he was an integral a part of our cricket household.

“We are going to all miss him terribly. All our love and prayers exit to Josh’s household and mates.”

Throughout this profoundly troublesome time, the Membership is devoted to supporting Josh’s household, mates, and colleagues. We’re united in our grief and dedicated to honouring his reminiscence in a way befitting the exceptional particular person he was.

Plans to pay tribute to Josh shall be made in session along with his household and can stay personal presently. The Membership, together with Josh’s household, requests the respect of privateness as we mourn this immense loss. No additional feedback shall be offered throughout this delicate interval.

Josh Baker death: Worcestershire have lost “brilliant guy and fantastic cricketer”, says former coach

Worcestershire have misplaced “an excellent man and a incredible cricketer” with the demise of Josh Baker, says his former coach Shaftab Khalid.

West Mercia Police will not be investigating the demise of the 20-year-old spinner on Thursday having deemed there aren’t any suspicious circumstances.

Khalid labored with the left-armer as he got here via the youth ranks with Worcestershire.

England’s white-ball captain Jos Buttler and England girls’s coach Jon Lewis supplied their condolences on Friday.

The senior coroner for Worcestershire has confirmed that he has acquired a referral reporting Baker’s demise.

“At this second no additional info is offered till additional investigations have taken place,” he added.

Baker’s demise was introduced only a day after he took three wickets in a county second XI fixture towards Somerset on Wednesday.

“It was devastating, having labored with him since he was 16,” Khalid informed BBC Sport.

“Worcestershire misplaced not only a very gifted cricketer but additionally an incredible and great human being. He was such a pleasant, humble and candy particular person.”

Born in Redditch, Baker made his first-class debut in 2021 and represented England Underneath-19s earlier than signing a three-year contract along with his dwelling county final yr.

He performed 47 video games in all codecs, taking 70 wickets, together with two County Championship appearances this season, the final towards Durham in April.

Khalid, a former Worcestershire off-spinner, added: “He was very younger when he obtained his skilled contract however was making an attempt to assist his mates, to information them – in a approach like a giant brother – to assist them get an expert contract.

“Being such a younger child, he was the guts and soul of the dressing room. He obtained alongside very properly with all of the coaches. He was a Worcestershire boy so taking part in for his county after which the England Underneath-19s, the dream was coming true.

“He was an all-format cricketer and had a large future, however sadly you by no means know what is going on to occur in life. It is a huge lesson for everybody. He will probably be really missed.”

The membership has invited anybody who needs to recollect Baker to go to its New Highway floor as we speak and signal a e-book of condolence.

Lewis’ assistant coach Alex Gidman was Worcestershire head coach when Baker earned his first professional contract.

“It is actually stunning,” stated Lewis. “I spoke to Alex and he was fairly reduce up about it.

“Cricket is an extremely small world and it is actually unhappy. It will likely be a giant battle for Josh’s household, but additionally for the gamers at Worcestershire and all of the workers there and we want all of them the most effective.”

Buttler added on Instagram: “Extremely unhappy information, ideas and prayers with all Josh’s household, mates and all at Worcs.”

Cicada Maps 2024: Where Two Broods Are Emerging

This spring, two broods of cicadas will emerge within the Midwest and the Southeast, of their first twin look since 1803.

A cicada lays eggs in an apple twig.

“Bugs: Their Methods and Technique of Dwelling,” by Robert E. Snodgrass, 1930, through the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Brood XIII, the Northern Illinois Brood, hatched and burrowed into the bottom 17 years in the past, in 2007.

Brood XIX, the Nice Southern Brood, hatched in 2011 and has spent 13 years underground, sipping sap from tree roots.

The entomologist Charles L. Marlatt printed an in depth map of Brood XIX, the most important of the 13-year cicada broods, in 1907.

Historic map of cicada emergence.

He additionally mapped the anticipated emergence of Brood XIII in 1922.

Historic map of cicada emergence.

This spring the 2 broods will floor collectively, and are anticipated to cowl the same vary.

Trendy map of cicada emergence.

As much as a trillion cicadas will rise from the warming floor to molt, sing, mate, lay eggs and die.

A Identify and a Quantity

Charles L. Marlatt proposed utilizing Roman numerals to establish the regional teams of 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas, starting with Brood I in 1893.

A brood can embody as much as three or 4 cicada species, all rising on the similar time and singing totally different songs. Lengthy cicada lifespans of 13 or 17 years spent underground have spawned many theories, and will have developed to scale back the chance of various broods surfacing on the similar time.

Massive broods would possibly sprawl throughout a dozen or extra states, whereas a small brood would possibly solely span just a few counties. Brood VII is the smallest, restricted to a small a part of New York State and prone to disappearing.

Not less than two named broods are thought to have vanished: Brood XXI was final seen in 1870, and Brood XI in 1954.

Not For the reason that Louisiana Buy

Brood XIII and Brood XIX will emerge collectively this yr, for the primary time in additional than two centuries. However solely in small patches of Illinois are they prone to come out of the bottom in the identical place.

In 1786 and 1790, the 2 broods burrowed into Native lands, divided by the Mississippi River into nominally Spanish territory and the brand new nation of the US.

An historic map of the US from 1783.

Brood XIII entered the bottom in 1786, and Brood XIX in 1790. (Anticipated 2024 ranges are overlaid on the map.)

An historic map of the US from 1783.

As the bottom was warming in April 1803, France bought the rights to the territory of Louisiana, which it acquired from Spain in 1800, to the US for $15 million.

An historic map of the US from 1801.

That spring, Brood XIII and Brood XIX emerged collectively right into a newly enlarged United States.

An historic map of the US from 1803.

Their descendants — 13 and 17 generations later — at the moment are poised to return, and won’t sing collectively once more till 2245.

An historic map of the US from 1868.

A ‘Nice Visitation’

After an emergence of Brood X cicadas in 1919, the naturalist Harry A. Allard wrote:

Though the incessant live shows of the periodical cicadas persisting from morning till evening grew to become virtually disquieting at instances, I felt a optimistic unhappiness once I realized that the nice visitation was over, and there was silence on the earth once more, and all have been lifeless that had so just lately lived and crammed the world with noise and motion.

It was virtually a painful silence, and I couldn’t however really feel that I had lived to witness one of many nice occasions of existence, akin to the incidence of a notable eclipse or the invasion of a nice comet.

Then once more the occasion marked a particular interval in my life, and I couldn’t however marvel how modified can be my environment, my experiences, my angle towards life, ought to I reside to see them happen once more seventeen years later.

The transformation of a cicada nymph (1), into an grownup (10).

“The Periodical Cicada,” by Charles L. Marlatt, 1907, through the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Roma 0-2 Bayer Leverkusen: Europa League semi-final, first leg – as it happened | Europa League

That is 47 games unbeaten for Leverkusen, but perhaps more importantly, that is also a place in the Europa League final – unless Roma can stage something absolutely spectacular over in Germany.

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Can Roma get back into this?

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The positive to cling to for Roma is that this tie could conceivably be over already. Alonso’s side are mesmerisingly good.

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“I’m not surprised that the visitors are finding loads of real estate in Rome,” emails Peter Oh. “After all, it’s a Bayer’s market.”

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Calamity for Karsdorp!

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Let’s go.

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De Rossi makes six changes to the team that drew 2-2 at Napoli at the weekend. Karsdorp, Smalling, Ndicka, Paredes, Lukaku and El Shaarawy all come in to the starting lineup. The injury-troubled Smalling returns from his latest enforced absence, while there was also some doubt Lukaku as he’d also been sidelined by a knock. But here he is.

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And I make it five changes for Alonso and Leverkusen: Kovar, Stanisic, Xhaka, Hincapie and Wirtz are added – the German side also drew 2-2 in the league at the weekend, against Stuttgart.

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Roma (4-3-3): Svilar; Karsdorp, Mancini, Smalling, Spinazzola; Cristante, Paredes, Pellegrini; Dybala, Lukaku, El Shaarawy. Substitutes: Rui Patricio, N’Dicka, Abraham, Llorente, Azmoun, Sanches, Aouar, Baldanzi, Bove, Zalewski, Boer, Angelino.

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Bayer Leverkusen (3-4-2-1): Kovar, Stanisic, Tah, Tapsoba; Frimpong, Andrich, Xhaka, Hincapie; Wirtz, Grimaldo; Adli. Substitutes: Hradecky, Kossounou, Hofmann, Iglesias, Arthur, Schick, Tella, Boniface, Hlozek, Palacios, Puerta, Lomb.

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Referee: Francois Letexier (France)

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In an alternative reality this is an all-Premier League matchup between Brighton and West Ham, and the more parochial fans among you may have wished it to be so, if only for the old Uefa coefficient. But it is difficult to imagine a more enticing Europa League encounter than the one we’ve got tonight.

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Under the tutelage of Xabi Alonso the recently-crowned Bundesliga champions, Bayer Leverkusen, are playing some absolutely lovely stuff. They are on a 46-match unbeaten run that narrowly survived a second-leg examination by the Hammers in London in the quarter-final two weeks ago.

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Meanwhile post-José Mourinho Roma have been reinvigorated by the thrusting figure of Daniele de Rossi, who took over in January. Born in the Italian capital, he spent 18 years playing for the Giallorossi, making 459 appearances. The 2006 World Cup winner has overseen an uptick in results that has put them in contention for next season’s Champions League. “We should fear everything about them,” De Rossi says of Alonso’s outfit, but behind closed doors, he will be assuring his players they can end Leverkusen’s remarkable undefeated run.

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Kick-off: 8pm BST

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Right here’s the match report:

Thanks for studying tonight and thanks for emailing in. Particularly you, Peter Oh. Bye for now.

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That was one other chic efficiency from Bayer Leverkusen. Xabi Alonso has constructed an endlessly environment friendly aspect who appear to outclass their opponents virtually by stealth. They usually don’t appear to do something flash, however have a useful knack of maintaining possession, passing the ball round their opponents, and staying stable on the again. They will hit you rapidly on the break or move the ball by way of you – and so they usually punish opposition errors ruthlessly. If there’s a criticism tonight it’s that they need to have in all probability have gained 3-0 or 4-0.

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A fast hit from Reuters earlier than our correct match report arrives:

Objectives by Florian Wirtz and Robert Andrich gave Bayer Leverkusen a 2-0 benefit over AS Roma within the first leg of their Europa League semi-final on Thursday. The newly-crowned Bundesliga champions and German Cup finalists took the lead by way of Wirtz earlier than the half-hour mark when the midfielder scored with a easy low end, capitalising on Roma’s defensive error.

Andrich doubled the benefit within the 73rd minute, leaving Roma goalkeeper Mile Svilar with no probability when he fired an unstoppable shot from exterior the field and beneath the bar. The second leg will probably be performed in Leverkusen subsequent Thursday and the winner of the tie will face Olympique de Marseille or Atalanta within the remaining on Might 22 at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium.

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Jacob Steinberg

Listed here are two phrases that can ship a shiver down the backbone of each Chelsea fan: pure revenue. In a world dominated by issues across the Premier League’s monetary laws, they can not assist however fret about their homegrown abilities being offered off to guard the underside line.

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Right here’s Ben Fisher’s report from Villa Park and the Europa Convention League:

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“As a lot because it pains me to say it, having fallen in love with Roma throughout the heyday of Daniele de Rossi and Francesco Totti, this tie might be over,” emails Kári Tulinius. “I’ve watched quite a lot of Leverkusen this season, and so they simply don’t do collapses.”

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Jeremie Frimpong has a chat with TNT Sports activities: “We knew it was going to be laborious coming right here,” says the difficult and spectacular winger. “Roma’s an excellent crew. We stayed targeted and we’re glad. I believe each recreation once we play we wish to win. We wished to get the targets right here. And that’s what we did as we speak.”

“You’re quick, aren’t you?” observes Matt Smith.

“Yeah, yeah.” Frimpong laughs. “Genetics, genetics, you already know.”

On the second leg: “They’ve to come back to our home, and to come back to our home is troublesome. We will’t look ahead to the second leg.

“I believe motivation is simple [after wining the league]. We’re nonetheless in tournaments. It’s simple to get motivated. All people thinks we’ve achieved it [the Bundesliga] so we’re going to relax, however there’s extra trophies on the market.

“I believe, subsequent week, we will play even higher.”

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Smalling was definitely at fault for the primary objective. It was a speculative lengthy ball that bounced excessive round midway. Smalling did not cope with it, permitting the far shorter Adli to out leap him. Smalling’s response was noticeable when the ball ended up at the back of the web too. He was distraught.

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They simply replayed Andrich’s objective. Svilar was actually rooted to the spot. Open-mouthed in marvel. Crushed all finally ends up. What a beautiful hit.

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Aston Villa 2-4 Olympiakos was the way it completed within the Convention League semi-final:

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Right here is David Hytner’s report from Chelsea 2-0 Tottenham:

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Marseille 1-1 Atalanta is a remaining rating from the opposite semi-final first leg.

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Roma had 53% possession, and 7 makes an attempt to Leverkusen’s 12. Roma had three on course, the German aspect 4. Roma accomplished 439 of 530 passes to 351 of 430 for Leverkusen.

These stats are usually not as sobering for Roma as you would possibly suppose, given the one-sided nature of the sport.

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Full time! Roma 0-2 Bayer Leverkusen

That’s 47 video games unbeaten for Leverkusen, however maybe extra importantly, that can be a spot within the Europa League remaining – until Roma can stage one thing completely spectacular over in Germany.

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90 min + 3: Oh. My. Days.

A hopeful cross from the left causes panic for Leverkusen – very uncommon panic – when Kovar involves punch however doesn’t make it. The ball finally ends up floating again throughout the open objective the place Tammy Abraham is ready. He snatches at his header from about three yards and sends it up and over the crossbar. What a miss! What an opportunity to take one thing for Roma!

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90 min + 2: Pellegrini belts a cross over from the Roma proper. Leverkusen cope with it simply. Kossounou comes off the bench for the German champions. Grimaldo goes off.

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90 min: We can have 4 minutes of added time. Can De Rossi’s Roma seize a lifeline?

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90 min: Villa are dropping 4-2. Consider the coefficient, lads!

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88 min: Frimpong is instantly withdrawn for Palacios.

I wouldn’t fancy sporting Leverkusen colors within the Everlasting Metropolis tonight, I need to say.

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87 min: Frimpong makes extra inroads into the Roma defence from the Leverkusen proper wing, wriggling away from a deal with or two with the ball seemingly glued to his toes. “He’s like a little bit electrical eel!” says our commentator, Ian Darke. Which is honest.

Jeremie Frimpong has been wonderful for the Bundesliga champions this night. {Photograph}: Marco Iacobucci/IPA Sport/ipa-agency.web/Shutterstock
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85 min: A fast VAR examine for a attainable handball by Tah. Nothing doing for Roma.

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84 min: Big probability for the hosts! Pellegrini strokes a decisive low move into the penalty space for Azmoun, simply off the bench. He’s on the sting of the six-yard field with a transparent sight of objective however fully mishits his shot – in equity as a result of Hincapie, the Leverkusen defender, is available to place him off.

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83 min: Chelsea 2-0 Spurs FT

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82 min: Azmoun and Baldanzi on for Roma. Lukaku and Paredes off.

For Leverkusen, Tella and Hofmann on, for Adli and Wirtz.

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80 min: Spinazzola, Cristante, Xhaka and Andrich have all been booked. Spinazzola and Xhaka for the pushing and shoving after the objective. Unsure what sparked that, possibly some over-zealous celebrating.

It’s bookings galore following the second Leverkusen objective. {Photograph}: Ciro De Luca/Reuters
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So, the objective: Leverkusen maintain one other masterclass in enjoying the ball out from the again. The defenders change a number of tidy passes earlier than Xhaka is launched in house in a central place round midway. Grimaldo is in flip launched by a wonderful looking move by Xhaka, and chases the ball down the suitable channel.

He turns again, recycling possession with a chipped move again for Frimpong, who feeds Stanisic, who performs it again to Andrich simply exterior the field. With the Roma defence out of form, Andrich has time to set himself and stroke a fairly fantastic looping, curling shot that rockets throughout and over the goalkeeper and into the highest nook. Wow. Svilar can solely watch it sail over his head and into the net- he barely even strikes. What a objective, each the buildup and the end.

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There’s a huge dust-up involving a great deal of gamers after a superb objective by Andrich.

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Purpose! 73 min: Roma 0-2 Leverkusen (Andrich)

That’s particular!

Robert Andrich scores a merely sensational objective for Leverkusen. What successful. {Photograph}: Alberto Lingria/Reuters
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71 min: On co-commentary Robbie Savage says Roma appear to lack a little bit of power, which is true, however I reckon that’s simply down the health and talent ranges of Leverkusen, to not point out their positional self-discipline.

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70 min: Frimpong has a sight of objective from an angle however doesn’t get his head over the ball and it rockets over the bar and into the stand.

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68 min: The minutes tick away and Roma proceed to wrestle to exert any sort of stress on the visiting defence. There are some involved and annoyed faces in pink shirts. It’s disheartening for them that Leverkusen are comfortably maintaining them at arm’s size, like a boxer simply ready to ship the knockout blow.

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66 min: The Leverkusen followers are pictured partying up within the stands. It’s wanting like 47 unbeaten for them …

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63 min: Tapsoba tees up Grimaldo for a shot that flies large.

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62 min: The previous Manchester Metropolis defender Angelino comes on, with Karsdorp going off for Roma. An disagreeable night time for Karsdorp nevertheless it’s hardly as if his mistake will probably be decisive if the tie continues like this. Leverkusen will ease into the ultimate until Roma can by some means flip this tide.

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60 min: One other nook for Roma. Lukaku is pictured in close-up wanting a bit fed up. Which isn’t stunning: he’s hardly bought into this recreation in any respect, though it’s not for lack of effort. Roma have constructed nothing by way of a possession-based recreation that Lukaku must thrive, by taking the ball to toes and trying to flip within the penalty space.

Romelu Lukaku has minimize a lonely determine up entrance for Roma this night. {Photograph}: Alfredo Falcone/AP
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56 min: Once more the Roma urgent isn’t nice: Andrich has time to assemble the ball about 30 yards out, flip, and dimension up one other shot from distance that swerves nicely large. Not the very best effort, however definitely not good defensively from Roma, both.

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55 min: Probability for Roma! Dybala swings in a nook. Cristante flicks it downwards on the close to put up: He’s searching for objective, I reckon, however he doesn’t get sufficient on it and the ball bounces up past the far put up and out for a objective kick. Somebody may have gotten on the tip of that. Each Dybala and Cristante make their frustration clear.

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54 min: Maybe fortified by some half time refreshments, the group are maintaining a really first rate degree of noise as they cheer Roma on. However the residence crew have hardly ever threatened. They’re being starved of possession whereas their errors are being punished, most notably when Karsdorp’s scuffed again move led to the objective.

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53 min: Wirtz spreads the play to Adli on the Leverkusen left. Stanisic is lurking within the center and Adli, having superior right into a gaping gap down that flank, tries to chop the ball again to him – however Roma can intercept and clear.

Gianluca Mancini collides with Amine Adli. Ouch. {Photograph}: Tullio Puglia/UEFA/Getty Photos
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51 min: Leverkusen win a nook that Hincapie tries to nod goalwards. It’s an excellent probability – he’s in house and just some yards from objective – however he can’t recover from the ball after a clumsy bounce.

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48 min: Roma stroke the ball round in midfield and attempt to get one thing going. However they’re principally being pressured again, or no less than sideways, by Leverkusen’s positional self-discipline.

Ultimately, Spinazzola bends a quite hopeful low cross over from the Roma left that evades everybody. Karsdorp is speeding on to it on the far put up and has an opportunity to hit a shot albeit from a decent angle. Regardless of, he fully misses his kick anyway.

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47 min: No adjustments for both aspect on the break. The official attendance is 64,073.

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Second half kick-off!

Can Roma get again into this?

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Taha Hashim has Villa 1-2 Olympiacos:

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Simon Burnton has Chelsea 1-0 Tottenham right here:

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Half-time: Roma 0-1 Leverkusen

The optimistic to cling to for Roma is that this tie may conceivably be over already. Alonso’s aspect are mesmerisingly good.

“I’m not shocked that the guests are discovering a great deal of actual property in Rome,” emails Peter Oh. “In any case, it’s a Bayer’s market.”

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45 min: A contact of late stress for Roma. El Shaarawy creates an opportunity for a cross and Tapsoba is pressured to go the ball out for a nook. Nothing comes from the set-piece although and out of the blue Roma are dealing with a fluid, quick Leverkusen counter led by Wirtz. It’s very, very practically 2-0 however Roma escape after a little bit of penalty-area pinball. Leverkusen are simply too rattling good.

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42 min: And there’s a probability for Roma, in any case! Lukaku takes it to toes together with his again to objective on the sting of the penalty space however quite than collect it he performs an excellent first-time move for Pellegrini, teeing his teammate up for a shot. Pellegrini bends a strong right-footed effort that curls simply large and sends Kovar’s water bottle flying.

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41 min: Now Andrich, the Leverkusen central midfielder, cracks a strong shot from 25 yards. Svilar saves however unconvincingly: That was a candy strike that was transferring within the air. Roma haven’t had a sniff of objective since that Lukaku header towards the bar, and that feels a very long time in the past now.

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40 min: Marseille 1-1 Atalanta is a modern rating within the different semi.

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38 min: Wirtz is bossing this, usually dropping into the opening behind the forwards in Scholes-esque trend. He takes the ball about 30 yards out however nobody closes him down. He tees up the ball for a shot and bangs a looping effort that flies large of Svilar’s objective. This match is passing Roma by.

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36 min: There’s a flare-up in midfield involving Karsdorp and Adli. I believe it was Roma’s ball however Adli grabbed it and Karsdorp gave his opponent a shove. Sadly for Roma that’s the one approach they’re able to get near their opponents in the mean time.

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34 min: Roma are being battered now. From out on the left wing, Grimaldo squares with surgical precision for Frimpong, who swivels and hits a left-footed shot first time from about 10 yards. It squirts simply large.

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31 min: Extra liquid soccer from Leverkusen: Frimpong sprints into house down their proper wing and cuts again for Wirtz, whose highly effective first-time sidefooted effort is saved by Svilar. The Roma defence had been at sixes and sevens there. It appears easy from Leverkusen, and that’s one of many issues that makes it so spectacular.

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Roma are beneath stress after Smalling fails to cope with a bouncing lengthy ball round midway, and the far smaller Adli outjumps him. The Dutch defender, Karsdorp, then tries to play a backpass with the skin of his proper boot, searching for the keeper from out close to the touchline.

However he underhits it horribly and straight into the trail of Grimaldo. It’s instantly a three-on-one, though that’s three Leverkusen gamers v Svilar in objective. The Spaniard strolls into the penalty space and squares for Wirtz, who rolls a end calmly into the far nook of the web. What a horrible error by Karsdorp. He hangs his head in disgrace.

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Purpose! 28 min: Roma 0-1 Leverkusen (Wirtz)

Calamity for Karsdorp!

Roma have gifted Leverkusen the opening objective as Florian Wirtz places the away aspect forward. {Photograph}: Ciro De Luca/Reuters
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26 min: Roma have a free-kick, which is central however an excellent 35 yards out, and Dybala tries a shot. It flies over the objective and by no means appears prone to hassle the scorers.

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23 min: After being fed by a wonderful ball by Xhaka, Wirtz slides a pleasant Toni Kroos-style move for Frimpong by way of on the Leverkusen proper that tears the house defence open … Frimpong is in, one on-one, however directs his shot simply large of Svilar’s objective because the keeper rushes out to fulfill him and slim the angle!

To make use of a well-worn co-commentator’s phrase: He’ll be upset with that.

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Local election results in full: Who has declared victory in council and mayoral ballots?

The Conservatives have seen their worst set of leads to 40 years after hundreds of thousands of voters forged their ballots on Thursday to decide on their most well-liked selection of councils and mayors.

Of the 107 councils that held elections on Thursday, 106 have declared their full outcomes with the Conservatives shedding greater than 400 councillors, because the celebration misplaced management of 10 councils.

Labour took the mayoral election race by a storm, as Sadiq Khan secured a historic third time period by successful the capital’s majority.

Observe our native elections weblog for dwell updates

Listed here are the outcomes thus far in full:

Mayoral elections:

London: Labour- Maintain

Salford: Labour- Maintain

West Yorkshire: Labour- Maintain

Larger Manchester: Labour- Maintain

South Yorkshire: Labour- Maintain

Liverpool Metropolis: Labour- Maintain

Native Elections:

London and the South East

Adur: Labour – Achieve

Basildon: No total management – Conservative loss

Basingstoke and Deane: No total majority – No change

Brentwood: No total management – No change

Broxbourne: Conservative – Maintain

Cambridge: Labour – Maintain

Citadel Level: Individuals’s Impartial Get together – Achieve

Cherwell: No total majority – No change

Colchester: No total majority – No change

Crawley: Labour – Maintain

Eastleigh: Lib Dem – Maintain

Elmbridge: No total majority – No change

Fareham: Conservative – Maintain

Gosport: Lib Dem – Maintain

Harlow: Conservative – Maintain

Hart: No total majority – No change

Hastings: No total management – No change

Ipswich: Labour – Maintain

Maidstone: No total majority – No change

Milton Keynes: Labour – Achieve

Mole Valley: Lib Dems – Maintain

Oxford: No total majority – No change

Peterborough: No total majority – No change

Portsmouth: No total majority – No change

Studying: Labour – Maintain

Reigate & Banstead: No total majority – No change

Rochford: No total majority – No change

Rushmoor: Labour – Achieve

Runnymede: No total majority – No change

Southampton: Labour – Maintain

Southend-on-Sea: No total majority – No change

St Albans: Lib Dem – Maintain

Stevenage: Labour: – Maintain

Tandridge: No total majority – No change

Three Rivers: Lib Dem – Maintain

Thurrock: Labour – Achieve

Tunbridge Wells: Lib Dem – Achieve

Winchester: Lib Dem – Maintain

Watford: Lib Dem – Maintain

Woking: Lib Dem – Maintain

Welwyn Hatfield: No total majority – No change

West Oxfordshire: No total majority – No change

Wokingham: No total majority – No change

South West

Dorset: Lib Dems – Achieve

Exeter: Labour – Maintain

Plymouth: Labour – Maintain

Swindon: Labour – Maintain

Working: Lib Dems – Maintain

East Midlands

East Midlands Mayor: Labour- N/A (first election)

Lincoln: Labour – Maintain

Nuneaton and Bedworth: Labour – Achieve

East of England

Norwich: No total majority – No change

North Hertfordshire District Council: No total management – No change

West Midlands

Bristol: No total majority – No change

Coventry: Labour – Maintain

Cheltenham: Lib Dems – Maintain

Dudley: No total majority – Conservative loss

Gloucester: No total management – Conservative loss

Redditch: Labour – Achieve

Rugby: No total majority – No change

Sandwell: Labour – No change

Solihull: Conservative – Achieve

Tamworth: Labour – Achieve

Walsall: Conservative – Maintain

Wolverhampton: Labour – Maintain

Worcester: No total majority – No change

Yorkshire and the Humber

Barnsley: Labour – Maintain

Bradford: Labour – Maintain

Calderdale: Labour – Maintain

Hull: Lib Dem – Maintain

Kirklees: No total management – Labour loss

Leeds: Labour – Maintain

North East Lincolnshire: No total majority – Conservative loss

Rotherham: Labour – Maintain

Sheffield: No total majority – No change

Wakefield: Labour – Maintain

York & North Yorkshire mayor: Labour – N/A (first election)

North East

Gateshead: Labour – Maintain

Hartlepool: Labour – Achieve

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Labour – Maintain

North East mayor: Labour – N/A brand new (first election)

South Tyneside: Labour – Maintain

Sunderland: Labour – Maintain

Tees Valley Mayor: Conservative, Ben Houchen – Maintain

Trafford: Labour – Maintain

North West

Blackburn with Darwen: Labour – Maintain

Bolton: No total majority – No change

Bury: Labour – No change

Chorley: Labour – Maintain

Hyndburn: Labour – Achieve

Knowsley: Labour – Maintain

Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner: Labour – Achieve

Manchester: Labour – Maintain

Oldham: No total majority – Labour loss

Preston: Labour – Maintain

Rochdale: Labour – Maintain

Rossendale: Labour – Maintain

Sefton: Labour – Maintain

Stockport: No total majority – No change

Tameside: Labour – Maintain

West Lancashire: Labour – Maintain

Wigan: Labour – Maintain

Worthing: Labour – Maintain

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are officially divorced and single

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are formally divorced and single.

The dissolution of the couple’s marriage was finalized Friday by a Los Angeles County choose, practically two years after the 2 had been married.

The judgment comes hours after the 42-year-old pop celebrity and the 30-year-old mannequin and actor knowledgeable the court docket that that they had reached a divorce settlement, and every week after Spears reached a court docket settlement together with her father over lingering points in her conservatorship.

The couple filed court docket papers Thursday and Friday saying that they had reached an settlement on dividing their property. Few particulars had been made public, however neither Spears nor Asghari will get future spousal assist. Asghari had stated in his preliminary petition that he would search monetary assist. Any future disputes would should be settled in non-public arbitration.

Spears and Asghari separated in July, and he filed for divorce in August. That they had been courting for about seven years.

The 2 had no kids collectively, so no custody settlement was vital. Spears wrote in her memoir printed final yr that she and Asghari had a miscarriage early in a being pregnant a couple of month earlier than they married.

Emails searching for particulars or remark from attorneys for each Spears and Asghari weren’t instantly returned.

Their marriage at her dwelling in June 2022 in entrance of company together with Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and Madonna was seen as a triumphant milestone in her newly reclaimed life after she was freed a couple of months earlier from the court docket conservatorship that managed her life and cash for greater than 13 years.

However they’d break up simply over a yr later.

Final Friday, Spears and her father, Jamie Spears, reached a settlement on the lingering points from that authorized association, avoiding what might have been a protracted, ugly and revealing trial that was scheduled to begin later this month.

Spears has stated little publicly of the break up.

In an Instagram submit quickly after the divorce submitting, she stated, “I’m not right here to clarify why as a result of its truthfully no one’s enterprise !!! However, I couldn’t take the ache anymore truthfully !!!”

In her memoir, “ The Girl in Me,” launched two months after Asghari filed for divorce, Spears speaks solely briefly and positively of Asghari. She describes him holding her hand whereas she addressed a choose remotely throughout a key listening to that helped finish her conservatorship.

Just like the overwhelming majority of those that file for divorce in California, Asghari cited irreconcilable variations as the explanation for the break up.

It was the third marriage for Spears. She has two teenage sons with earlier husband Kevin Federline, to whom she was married from 2004 to 2007, a time when intense media scrutiny led to emotional problem for her.

Spears was married for lower than three days in 2004 to childhood pal Jason Alexander, who tried to crash her wedding ceremony to Asghari and was later convicted of misdemeanor trespassing and battery.

Spears met and commenced courting Asghari, a mannequin and actor, when he appeared in her video for the tune “Slumber Occasion” in 2016.

She cited her need to marry him as among the many causes she needed an finish to the constraining conservatorship, which she stated was stopping it. The 2 introduced their engagement in September of 2021.

Because the conservatorship ended, Spears has put out music, together with a collaboration with Elton John in 2022. However she has not carried out stay in years, and she or he stated she has no intention of performing or making a brand new album.

Key points as local election results show major Tory losses | Local elections 2024

  • 1. Labour wins mayoralty overlaying PM’s constituency

    Labour’s David Skaith has received the primary York and North Yorkshire mayoral race, an space that features Rishi Sunak’s constituency of Richmond. Skaith received with 35.1% of the vote – beating the Tory candidate, Keane Duncan, by nearly 15,000 votes. Duncan got here second with 27.3% of the vote. Reform UK didn’t put up a candidate. Keir Starmer stated the end result was a “historic victory” for Labour in “the center of Tory territory”.

  • 2. Tory Ben Houchen re-elected as Tees Valley mayor

    Ben Houchen has received the Tees Valley mayoral election, providing the Conservatives a uncommon shiny spot in an in any other case gloomy election. Houchen, the incumbent, received 81,930 votes (53.6%) in opposition to 63,141 (41.3%) for Labour’s Chris McEwan and seven,679 (5%) for the Liberal Democrats’ Simon Thorley. The turnout was 30%. Labour secured a swing of 16.5 proportion factors from the 2021 vote, and the celebration identified this was higher than the 12-point change it will want to comb the Tees Valley constituencies in a basic election.

  • 3. Labour’s Claire Ward turns into first East Midlands mayor

    Claire Ward has been elected the primary mayor of the East Midlands, beating the Conservative Ben Bradley by greater than 50,000 votes. The previous Watford MP had 181,040 votes (40.27%), with Bradley, who’s MP for Mansfield and chief of Nottinghamshire county council, on 129,332. A Labour supply described the area as “the beating coronary heart of the overall election battleground”, suggesting the celebration’s win there is without doubt one of the greatest indicators but it could possibly be on monitor for nationwide victory.

  • 4. Labour’s McGuinness beats Driscoll for North East mayoralty

    Labour’s Kim McGuinness has received the NorthEast mayoralty, defeating the previously of Labour-turned-independent Jamie Driscoll. McGuinness received 185,051 votes (41.3%) to Driscoll’s 126,652 (28.2%). Driscoll resigned from Labour after being blocked from standing for the put up after he appeared on stage with the veteran leftwing film-maker Ken Loach.

  • 5. Labour has received the Blackpool South byelection with a 26-point swing

    The “pink wall” seat was retaken by Labour after the third largest ever Tory-to-Labour swing. Nearly as ominously for the Conservatives, they managed to beat Reform UK by solely 117 votes. Keir Starmer described this as a “seismic win” and a “really historic end result”. The byelection was triggered after Scott Benton stood down in March over a lobbying scandal.

  • 6. The Conservative celebration is on track to lose as much as 500 council seats

    The Conservatives have already shed greater than 450 council seats on an evening of heavy losses for the celebration. The political scientist Prof Sir John Curtice stated the celebration was “mainly shedding half the seats they’re attempting to defend”. If that continued, he added, they might find yourself shedding about 500 seats. Chatting with BBC Radio 4’s At the moment programme, he stated the celebration gave the impression to be on track for “one of many worst, if not the worst, Conservative efficiency in native authorities elections for the final 40 years”.

  • 7. Sunak ‘fully centered on the job’

    In his first touch upon the outcomes, Sunak stated: “It’s disappointing to lose good hardworking Conservative councillors,” including: “I’m centered fully on the job at hand. That’s delivering for individuals throughout the nation.” Richard Holden, the Conservative celebration chair, stated that though the outcomes had not been nice for the Tories, there was no likelihood of Sunak being changed. Chatting with Occasions Radio, he stated: “The prime minister goes to go on and lead the Conservative celebration into the overall election, there’s little doubt about that.” Requested for his response to the outcomes thus far, Holden stated: “Not a terrific set of outcomes however coming off, I feel it will be truthful to say, a really excessive watermark in 2021.” Andrea Jenkyns, certainly one of two Tory MPs who’ve publicly stated Sunak must be changed, has accepted {that a} confidence vote in him is now unlikely. A ConservativeHome ballot discovered that 63% of Tory members didn’t assume Sunak ought to resign.

  • 8. Greens dominate Bristol

    The Inexperienced celebration fell narrowly wanting an general majority in Bristol, however the celebration is celebrating a thumping victory over Labour, taking 34 of the 70 seats and leaving Starmer’s celebration trailing a distant second with 21, after shedding two. Social gathering officers stated they believed they have been on monitor to complete with greater than 800 members on greater than 170 councils, and so they have councillors for the primary time in Newcastle, Sefton, Redditch and Bolton. The Lib Dems received eight seats in Bristol after gaining three and the Conservatives received seven after shedding seven.

  • 9. Labour has gained management of eight councils

    The Labour celebration has gained greater than 160 councillors, and brought Rushmoor and Redditch from the Conservatives. It has additionally taken Norwich, Hartlepool and Thurrock, all from no general management. The Conservatives have misplaced management of 10 councils. The total outcomes can be found right here.

  • 10. Labour has misplaced management of Oldham council

    Features by independents meant Labour misplaced its small majority on Oldham council, in an space with a big Muslim inhabitants. Arooj Shah, the Labour chief of Oldham council, rejected options that Starmer’s response to the Israel-Gaza warfare was responsible. Shah stated there had been “divisive, poisonous politics” in Oldham for the final 5 years and issues within the city have been in the end linked to Tory austerity.

  • 11. The Liberal Democrats have gained seats and two councils

    The Lib Dems have reached 500 seats, forward of the Tories who’ve at the least 460. The celebration retained management of Winchester after successful eight of the primary 10 seats to declare. Daisy Cooper, the celebration’s deputy chief, stated: “The Liberal Democrats are on the up with gaining councillors throughout the nation, from Hampshire to Stockport. The Liberal Democrats’ successful streak continues and we’re able to beat Conservative MPs and at last get this chaotic authorities out of workplace.” Liberal Democrats gained general management of Tunbridge Wells because the Conservatives misplaced 4 seats of their former stronghold. Sir Ed Davey campaigned within the space and his celebration now has 22 of the 39 seats, with Conservatives on seven, and Labour and independents 5 every. The Liberal Democrats took Dorset from the Conservatives after gaining 15 seats. The celebration now has 42 of the 82 seats on the council, with Conservatives on 30 after shedding 13. There are 4 independents, 4 Greens and two Labour councillors. Dorset is the primary Lib Dem council acquire from the Conservatives on this election.

  • 12. Labour has didn’t take management of Harlow

    Harlow, a bellwether seat within the basic election, had been focused by the celebration within the native election with visits by Starmer and Angela Rayner, the deputy Labour chief, on Wednesday. Starmer stated Labour wanted to win “in locations like Harlow”. The Tories went into the native elections with 21 of the seats on the council, and Labour holding the opposite 12. The Tories now have 17 seats and Labour 16.

  • 13. Electoral Fee says ‘no main issues’ with voter ID

    Not like Boris Johnson, the overwhelming majority of voters turned as much as vote with the required picture ID. Vijay Rangarajan, the chief govt of the Electoral Fee, claimed the brand new requirement didn’t create “any main issues”. He stated: “A couple of individuals turned up with out it. They went house and received it, very like Mr Johnson did. An terrible lot of individuals had introduced it. We expect the campaigns that we and plenty of others have executed to lift consciousness had labored.”

    • My goodwill didn’t extend to Aston Villa

    Not like final season the place I needed West Ham United to do effectively within the Europa Convention (they finally went on and gained it), my goodwill didn’t prolong to Aston Villa on this season’s competitors.

    Aston Villa had been effectively and actually stuffed at residence within the first leg of their semi-final towards Olympiakos.

    It completed 4-2 to the Greek aspect and has left the Villans with what seems their very own Mount Olympus to climb.

    Though Aston Villa have had an excellent season within the Premier League and look set to qualify for subsequent seasons Champions League courtesy of ending 4th, Unai Emery shall be feeling extraordinarily dissatisfied if his aspect do get knocked out of the Europa Convention.

    Emery is a serial continental winner that has lifted the Europa League 4 occasions.

    He gained it three years on the trot between 2013 and 2016 with Sevilla, earlier than guiding Villarreal to their first ever main trophy in 2021.

    No marvel Unai Emery was seemingly first selection for Newcastle United’s new house owners after our takeover in 2021.

    Newcastle have accomplished the double over Aston Villa this season with an combination rating of 8-2.

    We might effectively substitute Aston Villa in subsequent season’s Convention simply as they’re set to exchange us within the subsequent Champions League.

    After the luck that Eddie Howe and his Toon aspect have had throughout this marketing campaign, qualifying for any European competitors shall be some achievement.

    It’s pointless reiterating why I and numerous Newcastle followers don’t like Aston Villa, suffice to say that they bloody effectively don’t like us both, as they’ve regularly proved.

    I need to admit that I had a bit of chuckle at their remaining consequence towards Olympiakos as I had a nightcap.

    Some folks, together with a few of our personal supporters, assume that Newcastle overachieved final season in ending 4th.

    I’m not one in every of them.

    I assumed we had been bloody large all through the marketing campaign and our place within the Champions League was completely deserved.

    The identical applies to Villa now. They’ve some good gamers and are privileged to have Emery on the helm.

    Newcastle United and Aston Villa are the 2 essential threats to the dominance of the Septic Six, extra so us, and so they all realize it.

    So I’ll end off by asking you all this query.

    What number of of those cartel golf equipment can be higher off with an Eddie Howe or an Unai Emery working the present, in comparison with a few of their very own underachieving gaffers?

    Only a fast reminder…

    There shall be a fundraiser held at Chirton Social Membership in North Shields on Could ninth that may function former Nineteen Seventies Newcastle United stars Irving Nattrass, Paul Cannell and Jimmy ‘Jinky’ Smith.

    Irving and Paul each reside in North Shields and I do know the organisers (extra data beneath from them) are particularly delighted to have gotten Jinky on board, as talk-ins and public talking have by no means beforehand been the good man’s cuppa.

    Tickets will be purchased upfront on-line HERE or HERE, alternatively in individual at Chirton Membership or the Rose Inn, Wallsend, or stroll up on the night time

    North Shields Supporters Membership 

    ‘The Impartial North Shields Supporters Membership (INSSA) are delighted to carry this occasion with three iconic Nineteen Seventies Toon stars hosted by glorious native comic and high Newcastle fan, Gavin Webster.

    After North Shields Soccer Membership cited ‘an unattainable monetary scenario’ earlier than Christmas, followers have banded collectively and fashioned a fundraising organisation able to step into the breach and take care of any eventuality that the shut season might pose.

    You’ll be able to assist out this well-known non-league grassroots soccer membership by buying tickets (or making a donation) on-line HERE or HERE.’