CLIVE TYLDESLEY has admitted he “does not know why” he’s being axed by ITV after 28 years with the channel.

The veteran commentator, 69, can be on the mic for Germany’s spherical of 16 conflict with Denmark this night.

Tyldesley, who has been working alongside Ally McCoist at Euro 2024, is then set to depart ITV, after he was instructed that his contract won’t be renewed.

Talking to the Mail, he revealed: “I’ve identified for 5 to 6 weeks.

“The ITV soccer editor phoned me to inform me I’d be going residence after the final 16.

“I requested if there can be another alternatives and he mentioned that ITV wouldn’t offer me one other contract and in order that can be it after 28 years.”

Tyldesley labored as ITV’s lead commentator at 5 World Cups, 5 European Championships, 9 FA Cup finals and 17 Champions League finals.

He was dropped because the channel’s No1 commentator in 2020, changed by Sam Matterface.

The skilled broadcaster continued to work with ITV as their No2, however will now depart.

On his exit, he added: “ITV has been excellent for me and my profession and I’d wish to assume I’ve been good for them.

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“It’s a disgrace it’s coming to an finish but it surely’s a matter of opinion and their opinion is that that is the precise name.

“I don’t know why they assume that. I’ve by no means absolutely understood however I’ve to simply accept it. I nonetheless assume my work is robust sufficient to resonate with young and old.”

Tyldesley believes he’s nonetheless pretty much as good as ever, and has no intention of retiring.

He added: “I believe I’m nonetheless at a stage the place I can commentate in addition to I ever did.

“I’m acutely aware that that gained’t final for ever. For private satisfaction and vainness I don’t need my ranges to slide. If and when that occurs I hope I’ll be first to see it and react accordingly however I believe I can nonetheless do it.

“I don’t wasn’t to make use of the phrase frustration, as a result of I’m not significantly pissed off however this was not my determination.”

Tyldesley continues to be set to commentate on Champions League matches for American broadcaster CBS Sports activities.

Whereas he has additionally launched his new “Soccer Authorities” podcast alongside Martin O’Neill.

Tyldesley may but to return to UK broadcasts.

He has confirmed that he’s open to presents, though nothing has but been confirmed.

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BBC and ITV’s Euro 2024 line up in full

This is how every channel will line-up:

BBC presenters:

Gary Lineker, Alex Scott, Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman

ITV presenters:

Mark Pougatch and Laura Woods 

BBC pundits:

Alan Shearer, Micah Richards, Rio Ferdinand, Ellen White, Frank Lampard, Ashley Williams, Wayne Rooney, Joe Hart, Cesc Fabregas, Thomas Frank, David Moyes, Rachel Corsie and James McFadden

ITV pundits:

Ian Wright, Roy Keane, Gary Neville, Karen Carney, Graeme Souness, Eni Aluko, Ange Postecoglou, Danny Rohl and Christina Unkel

BBC commentators:

Man Mowbray, Robyn Cowen, Vicki Sparks, Steve Wilson, Steve Bower and Jonathan Pearce

ITV commentators:

Sam Matterface, Clive Tyldesley, Seb Hutchinson, Pien Meulensteen and Joe Speight

BBC co-commentators:

Danny Murphy, Martin Keown, Jermaine Jenas and James McFadden

ITV co-commentators:

Lee Dixon, Ally McCoist and Andros Townsend

Canine, BMXers and an entire bloody playground – Camila Cabello is right here to play.

Phrases: Abigail Firth.
Pictures: Patrick Gunning.

Who’d have thought probably the most weird set opener of the weekend would come from Camila Cabello? Stepping out to the polarising lead single from newest drop ‘C,XOXO’ in, erm, a tracksuit and a canine masks, with all of her dancers in the identical garb, it’s instantly a logo of her wackier new period. 

With the album solely dropping yesterday, punters have barely had an opportunity to spin it as soon as, but it surely doesn’t deter Camila from taking part in most of its tracklisting. With a set made up of an empty swimming pool and numerous different playground tools, she takes us again to the Miami she grew up in, the identical place ‘C,XOXO’ is devoted to. 

‘TWENTYSOMETHINGS’ sees her take a quick second of sincerity to say she doesn’t know what the fuck she’s doing (hopefully she’s conscious she’s taking part in the Different Stage and it’s fairly a giant deal), whereas ‘DADE COUNTY DREAMING’ has her on the again of a BMX, and on ‘JUNE GLOOM’, she spins on a roundabout.

Whereas this album is devoted to Miami, most of Camila’s profession centered on her heritage, her Cuban roots. That’s not forgotten right this moment both as ‘Havana’ kicks in mid means via the set, Camila nodding to what a scorcher it’s out. 

Though most likely a 3rd of the tracks carried out right this moment have important options, there’s no dilly dallying about and ready for it to be over. As a substitute, the blanks are crammed in with dance breaks and stunts aplenty from a trio of BMX riders.

Loads of ‘C,XOXO’s rollout has seen Camila be accused of ripping off different artists and forcing a swap up, however seeing the document carried out reside reveals her true intent. It’s her most playful document but, and on stage she’s having probably the most enjoyable with it.

MINNEAPOLIS — For many gymnasts, a slip off the stability beam, a foot exterior the road on the ground train and too many steps after touchdown a vault might be sufficient to spoil an opportunity at victory.

However that is Simone Biles we’re speaking about.

For Biles, at 27 already essentially the most embellished gymnast in historical past, a considerably shaky evening on the U.S. Olympic Crew Trials was nonetheless sufficient to complete forward of her opponents by greater than 5.5 factors — and formally safe a spot on the workforce that can compete at this summer time’s video games in Paris.

And the gang did not thoughts the slip-ups. After her ground routine, her closing occasion of the evening, Biles walked off the rostrum to a standing ovation from the 16,000 individuals packed into the stands of the Goal Middle in downtown Minneapolis.

Olympic gold is the subsequent capstone that awaits Biles’s exceptional return to dominance after a two-year hiatus from competitors. In 2021, she was compelled to withdraw from a number of occasions in Tokyo after experiencing the “twisties,” a psychological phenomenon during which a gymnast loses their capability to manage their physique in mid-air. The 2-year break, she has mentioned, was essential to are likely to her psychological well being.

“I by no means pictured going to a different Olympic Video games after Tokyo, simply due to the circumstances. I by no means thought I’d return within the fitness center once more, be twisting, be happy,” Biles mentioned Sunday after the competitors.

Biles will enter the Olympics in Paris as a favourite to win gold medals within the particular person all-around, vault and ground train.

In Paris, she can be joined by the Tokyo Video games all-around gold medalist Suni Lee, the St. Paul native who shone Sunday evening in entrance of the pleasant hometown crowd.

Two different Olympic veterans, Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey, will return for his or her second Video games. Rounding out the workforce is newcomer Hezly Rivera, who turned 16 in June. Two alternates, Joscelyn Roberson and Leanne Wong, can even journey with the workforce.

The ladies’s workforce had gained gold within the workforce all-around in 2012 and 2016. However in Tokyo, they got here in second place after Biles withdrew from the occasion.

That silver medal end has caught with them, the opponents mentioned Sunday. All 4 of these returning to the Olympics used the phrase “redemption” as they talked about their targets for Paris.

“I really feel like all of us have extra to present. Our Tokyo performances weren’t the perfect,” Biles mentioned. “We weren’t below the perfect circumstances, both, however I really feel like we’ve got a whole lot of weight on our shoulders to go on the market and show we’re higher athletes.”

Accidents had loomed over the ladies’s trials

A spate of accidents forward of and on the primary day of competitors had solid a pall over the ladies’s trials. First got here an Achilles damage to Skye Blakely throughout pre-competition coaching on Wednesday; Blakely’s second-place end on the U.S. Gymnastics Championships had lifted her inventory for a potential Olympic nod.

Then, on Friday, Shilese Jones, one other favourite to make the Paris squad, tweaked her knee as she warmed up on the vault. Minutes later, a 3rd gymnast, Kayla DiCello, was compelled to depart the competitors in a wheelchair after hurting her Achilles on the vault.

The back-to-back accidents Friday rattled the remaining opponents. Lee, who was in line to vault instantly after DiCello, needed to wipe tears earlier than stepping onto the rostrum.

“I needed to meet with my therapist yesterday and attempt to get my thoughts proper, as a result of it was simply so devastating to see a few my buddies get taken out of this large competitors,” Lee mentioned Sunday. “My coronary heart is with them.”

The U.S. males’s gymnastics workforce head to Paris hoping to win first workforce medal since 2008

The boys’s workforce was introduced Saturday evening. The 5 opponents, led by Olympic veteran Brody Malone and newcomer (and social media star) Fred Richard, head to Paris with the aim of successful the primary U.S. workforce medal in gymnastics since 2008.

“We should not even be aiming for only a medal. We needs to be aiming for gold, and we’ll land on one thing,” Richard mentioned Saturday.

Richard, 20, scored the best complete on the U.S. workforce trials, whereas Malone, 24, completed in second place. They are going to be joined in Paris by Asher Hong, Paul Juda and Stephen Nedoroscik, together with alternates Shane Wiskus and Khoi Younger.

A secondary aim for the workforce — in addition to a return to the workforce medal podium — is solely to boost the profile of males’s gymnastics, a sport that has lengthy been overshadowed by its ladies’s counterpart.

“If we go into Paris and get a workforce medal like we have been coaching for, then it may set much more gas on that fireplace,” Hong mentioned Saturday.

Jessie Ware introduced Romy out throughout her Glastonbury 2024 efficiency to debut their forthcoming monitor ‘Elevate You Up’. Test it out beneath.

• READ MORE: Glastonbury 2024 liveblog: all of Saturday’s motion because it occurs

Whereas acting on the West Holts stage tonight (June 29), Ware launched Romy to the gang saying it was a “large honour” to welcome the XX singer to the stage. “I’ve seen her and her band develop up and I’ve seen her smash it,” Ware stated. “I’m so proud to name her my pal and we now have been ready to make a tune collectively.” The duo then carried out their euphoric new monitor ‘Elevate You Up’.

Constructed round an uplifting, dance piano, the monitor consists of the lyrics “I’m gonna raise you up inside this sense / I’m gonna offer you one thing to imagine in.”

The journey to West Holts has been lengthy for Ware, who’s attended the pageant as each a punter and a backing singer previous to performing beneath her personal identify. “I’ve sung the place you might be proper there,” she instructed followers watching her headline slot. “I’ve sung to Janelle Monáe, FKA Twigs. Who else? Disclosure, Bryan Ferry and now we’re right here.”

“Thanks a lot. it means the world to me that you just’ve determined to spend your night with us,” she instructed followers.

“I’ve been enjoying this pageant for some time, I’m very fortunate. I got here and watched all my buddies be in actually cool indie bands and I’d be there within the crowd lifting them up once they’d crowd surf,” she stated. “I used to be so excited, sneaking backstage to satisfy Beth Ditto and being a punter and getting actually within the thick of it.”

Ware first carried out at Glastonbury as a backing singer, together with her pal Jack Peñate. “I used to be like ‘that is so cool’,” she instructed the gang whereas reminiscing her earliest gigs at Worthy Farm. “I’ve slowly gone spherical to the totally different levels and now we’re right here at West Holts and it feels nice.”

Ware’s efficiency re-imagined the West Holts Stage as a nightclub referred to as ‘Membership Pearl’, with the singer asking the gang to name her “Mom of Pearl” at some point of her set. Her efficiency additionally included an emotional cowl of Cher‘s ‘Imagine’, throughout which she left the stage to hitch the gang on the ground.

Elsewhere in her joyful headline slot, Ware led the gang in a choreographed dance routine to her 2023 monitor ‘Stunning Individuals’.

It’s Romy’s second shock look this weekend, with the singer becoming a member of Charli XCX’s DJ set on Friday night time (June 28).

Jessie Ware’s Glastonbury 2024 setlist was:

‘That! Feels Good!’
‘Shake The Bottle’
‘Ooh La La’
‘Pearls’
‘Start Once more’
‘Good day Love’
’Say You Love Me’
‘Elevate You Up’ with Romy
‘Freak Me Now’
‘What’s Your Pleasure?’
‘Additional time’
‘Adore You’
‘Mirage (Don’t Cease)’
‘Highlight’
‘Save a Kiss’
‘Stunning Individuals’
‘Imagine’ – Cher cowl
‘Free Your self’
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Chris Martin shouldn’t be solely headlining Glastonbury with Coldplay, he is additionally a proud dad. The singer songwriter, 47, is the daddy of two now-grown children with ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow.

The previous couple are proud dad and mom to Apple, 20, and Moses, 18. Chris and Gwyneth’s eldest just lately graduated from highschool, whereas Moses is at the moment nonetheless in school. 

In keeping with his ex-wife, Chris Martin brings a “candy child-like spirit” to his parenting. 

She informed Folks: “He has an actual sweetness, and so he brings that to the way in which that he dad and mom them… he is type of gone loads, he’s on the highway loads, however brings – it’s nearly like he comes and sprinkles fairy mud.”

This is all the things it’s essential know concerning the couple’s two children…

“Once we had been first pregnant, her daddy mentioned at some point, if it is a lady I believe her title must be Apple”, she defined to Oprah. 

She added: “It simply sounded so candy and it conjures such a beautiful image for me, you understand apples are so candy and so they’re healthful and it is biblical and I simply thought it sounded so pretty.”

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Chris is actually a doting father or mother to Apple, and in 2020 he shared how he embarrassed her at her first job in a clothes retailer.

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“I simply went to see her. And I believed I higher purchase one thing, so I took a T-shirt from the rack and I lined up within the queue. She was on the check-out and there have been two check-outs,” he defined, however she wasn’t finest happy to see him – mouthing for him to “get out”.

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“I felt horrible so I moved to the opposite line, simply holding my T-shirt, actually fearful of my daughter. I paid for the T-shirt and I purchased her some fudge as a result of she loves the sweet fudge. So I mentioned to the woman, ‘Are you able to simply give this to my daughter?’ And as I used to be leaving, she shouted, ‘I like you, Dad!'”

These days, Apple just lately graduated from Vanderbilt College – however like her dad, she’s musically inclined. She co-wrote the track “Let Someone Go” on Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres album.

Moses Martin

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Chris and Gwyneth then welcomed their second little one, Moses Bruce Paltrow Martin, on April 8, 2006 at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.

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In 2024, Moses graduated from highschool – rendering Gwyneth an empty nester, of which she mentioned: “On the one hand, unimaginable unhappiness. A deep sense of impending grief. However, that is precisely what must be occurring.

“Your children are purported to be, you understand, younger adults who can obtain and cope and make connections and be resilient. That is precisely what you need. And meaning they depart the home.”

Dan Weston, the Membership’s Senior Information Analyst, has left Kent Cricket to permit him to pursue additional alternatives elsewhere.

Weston joined Kent Cricket in 2022, bringing his expertise in recruitment help and participant evaluation to the Membership.

Kent’s Director of Cricket, Simon Prepare dinner, mentioned: “Dan has been a precious member of the Membership’s management workforce within the skilled cricket division.

“He’s made vital contributions to participant recruitment methods, supporting us in figuring out high-potential younger expertise. As somebody who enjoys the analytical aspect of the sport, I’ve loved working with him.

“On behalf of everybody on the Membership, we want Dan all the most effective together with his future endeavours.”

On leaving Kent Cricket, Weston mentioned: “Having grown up in Tunbridge Wells, it’s been an honour to work with my house county and I’ll take with me some fond reminiscences from my time on the Membership.

“I’d like to increase my honest because of captains Daniel Bell-Drummond and Sam Billings for his or her help. I’m additionally grateful to the Membership’s Chair, Simon Philip, for his help all through my time at Kent.

“Shortly earlier than the beginning of this season’s Vitality Blast marketing campaign, the Membership and I mutually agreed to go our separate methods to ensure that me to pursue additional alternatives elsewhere. I want the Membership all the most effective for the longer term.”

An unmissable night of cricket is coming to Canterbury this Summer season, and tickets are promoting quick to see England’s heroes tackle the White Ferns of New Zealand in Canterbury, simply an hour’s journey from the capital.

It is just the second time that Canterbury has hosted a Ladies’s Worldwide T20 match in its lengthy historical past, and shall be one other increase for the continued development of ladies’s cricket in Kent.

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England Ladies vs. New Zealand at The Spitfire Floor in July will not be included in 2024 Memberships or Six Pack ticket bundles. Members, Six Pack & Six Pack Plus holders ought to buy tickets from the Membership web site.

How you can watch Euro 2024 on TV

The BBC and ITV/STV are sharing broadcast rights for the European Championship in the UK.

The BBC confirmed England’s opening win in opposition to Serbia and broadcast their draw with Denmark after ITV banked on Gareth Southgate’s males reaching no less than the semi-finals.

ITV picked England’s ultimate Group C recreation in opposition to Slovenia, plus the last-16 fixture in opposition to Slovakia and any semi-final.

The BBC will present the England quarter-final, with each channels – as at all times – sharing the ultimate.

Fixtures, outcomes, teams and brackets

Euro 2024 fixtures and outcomes could be discovered through our Euro 2024 hub.

What number of subs are allowed at Euro 2024?

As was the case for Euro 2020, all sides could make 5 substitutes per match, with every workforce allowed a most of three stoppages to make their adjustments through the recreation (excluding half-time and different match delays). 

An replace on the final event is that managers could make a sixth change if a knockout match goes to extra-time. 

Euro 2024 tickets

Followers can apply for tickets for any workforce through the Uefa Euro 2024 ticket portal. 

Who’re the favourites to win Euro 2024?

• England: 7/2
• Spain: 4/1
• Germany: 9/2
• France: 13/2
• Portugal: 15/2
• Netherlands: 11/1
• Austria: 18/1
• Switzerland: 14/1
• Belgium: 33/1

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England’s hopes appeared misplaced as they went into the closing moments in opposition to Slovakia, with even their very own followers lowered to subdued silence by the dearth of high quality and inspiration that they had been pressured to witness.

Southgate and his gamers may have recognized what awaited them had Slovakia closed out a win that might absolutely have left the supervisor on the finish of his reign and England nowhere to go aside from to make a bitterly disappointing retreat from Germany.

Bellingham, whose personal poor performances and manner have come beneath scrutiny after England’s attracts in opposition to Denmark and Slovenia in Group C, then illustrated why is considered a brand new younger celebrity of the sport with an audacious, acrobatic piece of individuality.

Kane completed off the job with a trademark poacher’s end and the supporters who had been bracing themselves to activate gamers and supervisor had been then celebrating probably the most unlikely – loads would say undeserved – triumph.

England and Southgate will hope Bellingham’s purpose will show to be a tournament-turning second and eventually ignite a marketing campaign which had not acquired off the bottom – and infrequently confirmed any indicators of doing so right here.

And, to deliver England again to actuality, it was not an encounter that would depart a powerful Switzerland with any terrors as they put together for the quarter-final.

Amid some stiff competitors, England’s first 45 minutes had been their worst of Euro 2024 as they had been horribly weak on the again, chaotic in all areas of the pitch and missing menace up entrance.

The introduction of Chelsea’s Cole Palmer enlivened England, as soon as once more elevating questions on Southgate’s determination to not begin him after his spectacular cameo in opposition to Slovenia and to solely make one change as he introduced in Kobbie Mainoo for Conor Gallagher.

England and Southgate may have loads to ponder as soon as the celebrations and the mud settles on this hair-raising escape from humiliation – as a result of that’s precisely what it was.