Premier League referee David Coote has been sacked by the PGMOL.

A video, which stays unverified, showing to point out Coote making derogatory feedback about Liverpool and their former supervisor Jurgen Klopp was broadly circulated on social media final month.

Coote, 42, was initially suspended by the PGMOL (Skilled Sport Match Officers Restricted) and the FA launched its personal investigation.

The PGMOL investigation additionally lined a second video which emerged final month, showing to point out Coote allegedly snorting a white powder, purportedly throughout Euro 2024 the place he was one of many assistant VARs for the match.

European soccer’s governing physique UEFA additionally appointed an ethics investigator to look into the matter.

The PGMOL confirmed the termination of Coote’s employment in a press release on Monday afternoon, saying {that a} thorough investigation concluded he was “in severe breach of the provisions of his employment contract, along with his place deemed untenable”.

The total assertion from the PGMOL learn: “Following the conclusion of an intensive investigation into Coote’s conduct, his employment with PGMOL has been terminated as we speak with rapid impact.

“Coote’s actions have been discovered to be in severe breach of the provisions of his employment contract, along with his place deemed untenable.

“Supporting Coote continues to be vital to us and we stay dedicated to his welfare.

“Coote has a proper to attraction the choice to terminate his employment.”

The FA can be individually investigating an allegation – strenuously denied by Coote – that he mentioned the prospect of giving a Leeds participant a yellow card with a fan previous to a match in an internet dialog. The Solar alleges after Coote booked the participant, he messaged the person again to say: “I hope you backed as mentioned.”

The FA stated it was investigating the allegation as “a matter of urgency”.

Coote refuted the allegations he mentioned giving a yellow card earlier than a match.

Coote stated: “I strongly refute these false and defamatory allegations. No matter points I could have had in my private life, they’ve by no means affected my decision-making on the sphere. I’ve all the time held the integrity of the sport within the highest regard, refereeing matches impartially and to the very best of my capability.”

PGMOL’s investigation didn’t take a look at the allegation regarding the Leeds yellow card.

Timeline: What led to Coote’s dismissal…

Saturday November 9: Coote referees Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa.

Monday November 11: An unverified video of Coote making derogatory feedback about Liverpool and their former supervisor Jurgen Klopp circulates on social media.

Monday November 11: PGMOL suspends Coote and launches an investigation.

Tuesday November 12: FA begins personal investigation into Coote video.

Tuesday November 12: Chief refereeing officer Howard Webb says on Sky Sports activities’ Match Officers Mic’d Up that PGMOL taking the incident “very critically”.

Thursday November 14: PGMOL conscious of recent video showing to point out Coote snorting a white powder whereas reportedly working at Euro 2024.

Wednesday November 27: FA investigating allegations Coote mentioned giving a yellow card earlier than a sport as reported by The Solar. Coote refutes allegations.

Monday December 9: Coote sacked by PGMOL.

What does ‘remaining dedicated to Coote’s welfare’ appear to be?

Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher on Sky Sports activities Information:

“It is [about] ensuring he is OK. After the investigation, his place was untenable. We’ve got a code of conduct that we have now to signal as referees. They comply with lead a life that is exterior of what we have seen during the last 4 weeks.

“For those who see what’s occurred, it should have been as massive a shock for him as everybody else once you keep in mind a few of these movies are 4 or 5 years previous. He agreed it was him, however when it got here out, he should’ve been as shocked as all people.

“Then you definitely see it unfold and you may think about the private trauma he’s going by means of, the turmoil in his head. What they’ve needed to do is ensure that his welfare is as vital as getting the best resolution and the best conclusion to this course of.”

‘PGMOL’s assist for Coote an vital facet of story’

Sky Sports activities Information’ chief reporter Kaveh Solhekol:

“As soon as the video emerged on-line, PGMOL acted very, in a short time as quickly as that they had verified they believed the video was genuine.

“David Coote was suspended, pending an investigation, and three or 4 weeks later, that investigation has been accomplished and PGMOL have confirmed that Coote’s employment contract with them has been terminated with rapid impact. They are saying he was in severe breach of his contract, that his place was now untenable.

“I believe this can be a actually vital facet of this story that, of their assertion, they do say they’ll proceed to assist Coote they usually say they continue to be dedicated to his welfare. He does have the best of attraction as properly.

“There are some extra allegations which have appeared in The Solar and there’s one which UEFA are investigating; they suspended Coote as properly. That is an incident which is alleged to have occurred through the Euros this summer season in Germany. Photos appeared in The Solar, which appeared to point out Coote allegedly sniffing a white substance.

“There was additionally a narrative in The Solar, which alleged Coote had mentioned with a supporter giving a yellow card to a crew earlier than he took cost of a sport between Leeds and West Brom in 2019, which is one thing the FA are wanting into.

“For his half, Coote launched a press release after these allegations first got here out and stated these allegations are false and defamatory.

“We must wait and see if there’s a response from him or his representatives, however I believe PGMOL make it very clear of their assertion that they’ve taken this decisive motion, they consider his place is untenable, he’s in breach of his contract, however they’re involved about his welfare and he does have the best of attraction.”

Lionel Messi was named winner of the Landon Donovan MVP Award for the 2024 MLS season Friday, beating out the Columbus Crew’s Cucho Hernández, the Portland Timbers’ Evander, Christian Benteke from D.C. United and his Inter Miami teammate Luis Suárez.

Messi, 37, received due to his 20 targets and 16 appearances in simply 19 matches.

He joins Carlos Vela in 2019 (LAFC, 34 targets, 15 assists) and Sebastian Giovinco in 2015 (Toronto FC, 22 targets, 16 assists) as the one gamers in league historical past with at the least 20 targets and 15 assists in a single season.

The MVP award is set by a ballot that features gamers, membership technical employees and chosen members of the media. Messi obtained 38.43% of the votes averaged in comparison with second-place finisher Benteke (33.70%).

This was his first full season with the membership, having joined in July 2023.

MLS commissioner Don Garber made the announcement Friday alongside Inter Miami Academy college students and Messi’s three sons in a video.

“Actually, it’s an honor for me to obtain this award from all of you,” Messi stated to the Academy gamers. “It is a supply of delight to observe you all practice. I am very pleased to be right here daily. I am very pleased to be on this metropolis, on this Membership that’s rising. It is a pleasure to see you develop day-to-day. I invite you to maintain preventing and striving on your desires.”

The Miami captain received the award regardless of enjoying in solely 55% of aggressive matches of the 34-game common season. He missed 62 days between June 1 and Sept. 14 with an ankle harm sustained throughout Argentina’s win over Colombia within the Copa América closing.

Throughout this time, the Herons performed properly, profitable eight of 9 video games with out him.

The award considers a participant’s contributions and affect on the pitch at a minimal of 1,000 minutes performed within the common season, which is the league requirement for an MVP nomination.

Per FotMob, Messi averaged a couple of purpose each 90 minutes, which led the league. In 1,485 minutes, Messi averaged 2.18 purpose contributions per match, which is a league file, in accordance with MLS.

The MLS MVP trophy is one more entry on the absurdly lengthy record of profession honors for Messi. He is an eight-time Ballon d’Or winner, eight-time FIFA participant of the yr winner, a seven-time LaLiga MVP, previous UEFA participant of the yr, previous Champions League participant of the season, World Cup golden ball winner, Membership World Cup golden ball winner, and the record goes on from there.

“Until you are residing on this planet of world soccer, it is exhausting to think about the general enchantment and the large reputation and stardom that Leo Messi has,” Garber stated. “I imply, he’s Michael Jackson assembly Taylor Swift — and he is enjoying in our league.”

His numbers and affect on the pitch helped Inter Miami win the Supporters’ Defend and set the single-season factors file this season with 74 factors. Regardless of its robust common season — incomes the No. 1 seed for the postseason — Inter Miami misplaced to Atlanta United within the first spherical of the playoffs, ending their 2024 marketing campaign in a disappointing method.

In November, Gerardo “Tata” Martino, who had taken the teaching function in June of 2023, resigned for private causes. Miami named Javier Mascherano — a former Barcelona and Argentina teammate and good friend of Messi — to switch Martino.

The MLS Cup closing is on Saturday in Carson, California, the place the LA Galaxy host the New York Pink Bulls. The Galaxy look to win a file sixth Cup, whereas the Pink Bulls search their first.

Data from The Related Press was used on this report.

Taylor Swift’s Eras tour has been confirmed as probably the most commercially profitable tour of all time, raking in additional than twice as a lot income because the earlier record-holder.

Following the tour’s remaining date in Vancouver on Sunday, the singer’s firm Taylor Swift Touring confirmed the ultimate income tally to the New York Occasions: $2,077,618,725 (£1.62bn). That is the primary official disclosure of the tour’s income figures.

That eclipses the earlier document for a accomplished tour, particularly Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Highway which accrued $939m. Swift additionally managed to generate her astonishing income with significantly fewer exhibits: 149 to Elton John’s 330.

Coldplay’s ongoing Music of the Spheres tour has in the meantime handed the $1bn mark, and with concert events booked into mid-2025, might rival Swift’s tally in the event that they proceed so as to add further dates.

Eras was a important in addition to industrial success, with a minimum of 4 five-star Guardian evaluations because it made its manner all over the world. Swift carried out songs from all of her albums in concert events of greater than three and a half hours, and between legs of the tour, managed to additionally discover time to write down and document her new studio album The Tortured Poets Division, which grew to become a characteristic of the later tour dates after its launch in April.

Tickets averaged out at a value of $204 every throughout everything of the tour, a comparatively excessive worth level that’s testomony to how invested – in each sense – Swift’s fanbase is.

The demand was so nice for tickets after they went on sale in November 2022 that Ticketmaster’s system collapsed as 3.5bn ticket requests had been made, precipitating a US Senate listening to over its mum or dad firm Reside Nation’s place within the ticketing market, with senators alleging a monopoly.

London’s Wembley Stadium was the venue that hosted probably the most followers general, with 753,112 attending throughout eight dates. The very best single live performance attendance was 96,006, for considered one of her three dates at Melbourne Cricket Floor.

The $2bn-plus determine doesn’t consider the appreciable income generated by merchandise gross sales, with huge pop-up retailers erected exterior venues to promote hoodies, friendship bracelets and extra.

A live performance movie launched in October 2023 generated $261m in field workplace income: a document for a live performance movie, eclipsing the $99m generated by Justin Bieber’s By no means Say By no means in 2011. The Eras tour movie was later made accessible to stream on Disney+, with nameless sources reported by Selection claiming the deal was value $75m.

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Taylor Swift’s Eras tour made $2.1bn in gross sales, making it the highest-earning live performance run in historical past and capping off two years of economic and cultural domination for the pop star.

The determine covers 10mn tickets offered throughout 149 exhibits, stated an individual accustomed to the matter. Swift accomplished the tour with a closing efficiency on Sunday evening in Vancouver, Canada.

The $2.1bn sum is double that of another live performance tour in historical past. It surpassed Elton John’s five-year farewell tour that grossed $939mn from greater than 300 exhibits, and Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres that has offered greater than $1bn throughout some 170 dates.

The large gross sales determine doesn’t embrace cash made by resellers on the secondary market, the place seats fetched hundreds of {dollars} above their face worth, or for merchandise offered on the live shows.

Swift just lately revealed a ebook of images from the Eras tour that shortly eclipsed most main releases from skilled publishers. The Eras tie-in ebook, which is on the market solely by means of the retailer Goal, offered 814,000 copies within the first weekend of its launch — almost as many as Barack Obama’s 2020 memoir.

Swift, whose music is distributed by Common Music, has throughout the span of the Eras tour achieved a stage of cultural and musical domination akin to the craze surrounding The Beatles a half century in the past.

When tickets first went on sale in November 2022, overwhelming demand crashed TicketMaster’s web site, triggering a public outcry that has resulted in a US Division of Justice lawsuit towards the ticketing big. The tour boosted native economies because it travelled first throughout the US after which the remainder of the world.

Swift final yr made up 1.8 per cent of all US recorded music gross sales, accounting for one in each 78 US audio streams, based on information group Luminate.

The singer, who obtained her begin writing songs after faculty as a youngster in Nashville, broke into tears throughout a latest present in Toronto as she mirrored on the tour’s imminent finish after 18 months.

“My band, my crew, all my fellow performers, now we have put a lot of our lives into this,” she stated.

Argentine celebrity wins award as league’s high participant in his first full season with Inter Miami; Messi led Inter Miami to historic common season, together with MLS single-season factors report and Supporters’ Protect

Nationwide Constructing Society is within the strategy of offering eligible prospects a £100 bonus cost in 2024 as a part of its Fairer Share Cost initiative. The constructing society says it should share its earnings with members who both have a present account, use one in every of Nationwide’s financial savings merchandise or borrow by way of a mortgage.

The cost comes as many households proceed to face rising prices amid the continued value of dwelling disaster. In a current replace, Nationwide revealed the date folks ought to count on to receives a commission. However who’s is eligible for this sum of cash and when will they get their cash?

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A suspect has been named in connection to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outdoors his Manhattan lodge early final Wednesday.

Luigi Mangione, 26, was noticed consuming a meal inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Monday morning and a witness reported him to police. That created a whirlwind of investigation that culminated with him being charged with homicide in New York and gun counts in Pennsylvania.

He’s at the moment being held in a Pennsylvania jail with out bond.

Thompson was shot lifeless on December 4 outdoors a lodge in Manhattan. That launched an enormous manhunt for the suspect who eluded police for practically per week.

Here’s what we find out about Mangione, the person police mentioned dedicated the crime:

Tip from the general public led police to Pennsylvania

On Monday, police responded to a tip from a McDonald’s worker in Altoona, Pennsylvania, who mentioned they noticed a person who seemed just like the individual of curiosity from the case.

Mangione was consuming within the McDonald’s when he was acknowledged by the worker, police mentioned.

Officers arrived on the restaurant and started questioning Mangione.

Police “requested the male if he had been to New York not too long ago and the male grew to become quiet and began to shake,” based on a later felony grievance filed towards the 26-year-old.

“We didn’t suppose twice about it,” Altoona police officer Tyler Frye mentioned of encountering Mangione. “We knew that was our man.”

The officers arrested Mangione after he offered a pretend ID automobile and a police search revealed he was in possession of a ghost gun that matches the weapon believed to have been used within the assassination-style killing, officers mentioned at a press convention on Monday.

Mangione additionally had a supresser for the gun and several other pretend ID playing cards, together with a New Jersey ID that the NYPD believes was utilized by the gunman.

“He was initially cooperative. He’s not now,” Lt. Colonel George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police mentioned throughout a press convention on Monday. “He has been arraigned and transported and shall be securely housed pending the submitting of further expenses in New York.”

These expenses had been filed Monday evening.

Expenses in Pennsylvania and New York

After his arrest, Mangione was charged and arraigned on 5 Pennsylvania offenses together with forgery, falsely figuring out himself and carrying a gun and not using a license.

He made a short look on Monday in a Blair County, Pennsylvania, courtroom, the place he was knowledgeable of the fees towards him and mentioned he understood.

He has not made an official plea relating to the fees, officers mentioned Monday.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro spoke on Monday after Mangione’s arrest. He ripped the individuals who celebrated the gunman within the Manhattan taking pictures.

“He’s no hero,” Shapiro mentioned.

“Brian Thompson was a father to 2. He was a husband. And he was a buddy to many,” Shapiro mentioned. “And sure he was the CEO of a medical insurance firm. In America, we don’t kill folks in chilly blood to resolve coverage variations or specific a viewpoint.”

Late Monday, he was charged with homicide and different gun expenses in New York, based on the New York Put up.

Individual of curiosity was not on anybody’s radar

Joseph Kenny, NYPD’s chief of detectives, mentioned that police didn’t have Mangione’s identify previous to Monday.

He was born and raised in Maryland, and he lived in Honolulu, Hawaii till not too long ago. He additionally has ties to San Francisco.

Kenny added that police consider Mangione was allegedly performing alone.

Three-page ‘manifesto’ found

Police mentioned they discovered a three-page manifesto in Mangione’s possession when he was arrested which suggests he has “an ailing will in direction of company America,” Kenny advised the press convention.

The handwritten doc “speaks to each his motivation and mindset,” Tisch mentioned.

It reportedly mentioned “these parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, nevertheless it needed to be performed,” based on CNN, who cited a police official who has seen the doc.

It’s at the moment within the custody of the Altoona police.

Valedictorian at non-public all-boys college and Ivy League educated

Mangione attended the Gilman Faculty in Baltimore, a personal all-boys college, the place he was valedictorian in 2016, The New York Occasions first reported.

Tuition on the college is $37,690 per yr.

Mangione gave a speech the place he described his class as “arising with new concepts and difficult the world round it.”

The college’s head, Henry P.A. Smyth, mentioned in a press release: “That is deeply distressing information on prime of an already terrible state of affairs. Our hearts exit to everybody affected.”

Based on his obvious LinkedIn profile, Mangione has a bachelor’s and grasp’s diploma from the College of Pennsylvania.

A Fb profile matching the identify of the individual of curiosity affords a glimpse into their life, with photographs of buddies on the seaside in Mexico, exploring the California coast, and going to soccer matches.

Mangione hails from a outstanding Baltimore-area household, the Baltimore Banner experiences.

His late grandfather was Nicholas Mangione Sr., an actual property developer with pursuits in nation golf equipment, nursing houses, and a radio station, whereas his late grandmother Mary was a patron of the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, Better Baltimore Medical Middle, the outdated Baltimore Opera Firm and the Walters Artwork Museum.

Maryland state delegate Nino Mangione is a cousin of the arrested man, the Banner experiences.

Individual of curiosity gave Unabomber’s manifesto 4 stars on Goodreads

Mangione seems to have left a optimistic evaluation for the Unabomber’s manifesto on-line earlier this yr, and praised the killer as a “political revolutionary.”

An account beneath that identify on guide evaluation web site Goodreads, that additionally matches photographs of the suspect on different social media platforms, gave Ted Kaczynski’s guide a four-star evaluation in January.

“Clearly written by a arithmetic prodigy. Reads like a sequence of lemmas on the query of twenty first century high quality of life,” the evaluation reads.

“It’s simple to shortly and inconsiderate write this off because the manifesto of a lunatic, with a purpose to keep away from going through among the uncomfortable issues it identifies. But it surely’s merely unattainable to disregard how prescient a lot of his predictions about trendy society turned out,” the evaluation continues.

“He was a violent particular person — rightfully imprisoned — who maimed harmless folks. Whereas these actions are usually characterised as these of a loopy luddite, nonetheless, they’re extra precisely seen as these of an excessive political revolutionary,” the evaluation by an account beneath Mangione’s identify continues.

Lots of of hours of footage combed by

Investigators combed by lots of of hours of video from a number of sources to search out the essential screenshot that linked them to the individual of curiosity, Kenny advised the press convention.

NYPD shortly issued surveillance photographs of the suspect unmasked and smiling the day after Thompson was fatally shot.

It emerged that the clear surveillence photographs of the individual of curiosity the place he’s smiling got here from a “flirtatious” second with a feminine worker on the hostel the place he was believed to be staying.

“They had been having a flirtatious second and he pulls it down and he provides an enormous smile and that one casual second between two human beings stays at this second essentially the most important clue up to now on this complete case,” former NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller advised CBS Information final week.

Over the weekend police launched a brand new picture of the individual of curiosity at the back of a taxi carrying a face masks.

The phrase “they do not make ’em like they used to” has by no means confirmed extra correct than with respect to legendary nonagenarian actor and comic Dick Van Dyke.The “Mary Poppins” star, who turns 99 subsequent week, seems in a model new longform music video for the Coldplay track “All My Love,” debuting Friday. Van Dyke is in high kind within the mission – dancing barefoot, singing alongside Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, and even performing some bodily comedy.Filmed at Van Dyke’s Malibu, California dwelling, the video is interspersed with previous pictures and props from the beloved entertainer’s seven-decade profession, together with publicity stills alongside Mary Tyler Moore for “The Dick Van Dyke Present” and certainly one of his 4 Primetime Emmy statuettes.At one level, Van Dyke remarks that his favourite lyrics in “All My Love” – off of Coldplay’s tenth studio album “Moon Music” – are “Till I die, let me maintain you should you cry.” In an interview, he shares, “I am acutely conscious that I may go any day now, however I do not know why, it does not concern me, I am not afraid of it. I’ve that feeling, completely towards something mental, that I will be alright.”Van Dyke is then seen on the dance ground alongside his spouse, make-up artist Arlene Silver, as they have interaction in choreography whereas carrying matching bowler hats earlier than the remainder of his “massive household” be part of them for picture-taking and camaraderie.The funnyman additionally shows that he nonetheless has his sharp humorousness, when the interviewer asks him to shut his eyes and take into consideration all of the those who have meant one thing to him over the course of his life. After a beat together with his eyes closed, Van Dyke says, “I am too previous for this, I will move out and fall asleep” as he play-acts nodding off in his chair.Elsewhere, the “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” actor holds a bunch of crimson balloons and pretends, fairly convincingly for a second, to drift away.”I believe I am a type of fortunate individuals who received to do for a dwelling what I’d have executed anyway,” Van Dyke remarks within the clip, as scenes from his display profession play. “If you assume how fortunate I’m – I received to do what I do, play and act foolish.”A shorter model of the music video will probably be launched on Friday, December 13, to mark the event of Van Dyke’s 99th birthday.

Mr Mangione was taken into custody at a McDonald’s after a buyer knowledgeable an worker, who tipped off authorities.

On the time, he was in possession of a 3D-printed black pistol, a 3D-printed silencer and a loaded journal with six rounds of 9mm ammunition.

Police mentioned he was carrying a number of IDs, together with one along with his actual id and one other that was pretend.

These IDs included a US passport and a fraudulent New Jersey ID that was used to examine into the New York Metropolis hostel, the place the suspect was seen earlier than the capturing.

When he was advised he can be arrested if he had lied about his title, he admitted he was Luigi Mangione.

He “grew to become quiet and began to shake” when requested if he had lately been to New York, in accordance with the felony criticism filed in Pennsylvania.

Police say he was additionally discovered with three pages of handwritten paperwork during which he appeared to specific “ailing will in direction of company America”.

The doc additionally mentioned “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologise for any strife and trauma, but it surely needed to be finished”, a senior legislation enforcement official advised the New York Instances.

West Ham United welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to London Stadium this night in an important match on the backside finish of the desk.

Their respective managers, Julen Lopetegui and Gary O’Neil, will each be determined for a victory that might ease the strain. Each side have conceded a complete of eight targets of their final two Premier League matches.

Wolves have conceded 36 league targets this season, greater than every other facet within the division. West Ham have let in 71 targets throughout this calendar yr, one other division-high.

This is every little thing you want to know concerning the match.

The place are each groups?

West Ham are at the moment 14th on 15 factors, having misplaced their final two matches.

Wolves, who’ve additionally suffered successive losses, are nineteenth with simply 9 factors.

West Ham v Wolves: Final six PL conferences

20 Nov 2021: Wolves 1-0 West Ham
27 Feb 2022: West Ham 1-0 Wolves
01 Oct 2022: West Ham 2-0 Wolves
14 Jan 2023: Wolves 1-0 West Ham
17 Dec 2023: West Ham 3-0 Wolves
06 Apr 2024: Wolves 1-2 West Ham

Kind information

What the managers have mentioned

Julen Lopetegui (West Ham)

On assist from the followers: “The followers have given me greater than I’ve given them. My message to them is that we’ll change this. We want them. Their assist and vitality is all the time one step ahead for all of the gamers.

“We aren’t comfortable, we all know we’d like extra factors. We’ve to be extra constant and take key factors. I believe now we have to enhance on this scenario with out shedding our means and consciousness of attacking play.”

Gary O’Neil (Wolves)

On his need to maintain going: “I do not take into consideration me personally, criticism is an element and parcel of his job and I can solely hold going till issues change. The final two outcomes have allow us to down from the momentum we created. There’s a lot within the final two video games that the group must tackle and be taught from in a short time.

“They positively have the braveness. We demand higher from them, however the lads must discover a solution to take care of the issues within the second. We have to discover a solution to hold this membership within the Premier League.”

Group information

West Ham: Michail Antonio has undergone surgical procedure on a lower-limb fracture, following a street visitors accident on Saturday. French defender Jean-Clair Todibo is a doubt after lacking the defeat at Leicester Metropolis on account of a thigh drawback. 

Wolves: Boubacar Traore is dominated out till Christmas. Yerson Mosquera, Enso Gonzalez, and Sasa Kalajdzic are all long-term absentees. 

Match officers 

Referee: John Brooks. Assistants: Simon Bennett, Dan Robathan. Fourth official: Tim Robinson. VAR: Andy Madley. Assistant VAR: Steve Meredith.

Key info 

O’Neil changed Lopetegui as Wolves boss – the Spaniard managed the Midlands membership from November 2022 to August 2023.

West Ham have gained their final 4 Premier League dwelling matches in opposition to Wolves, conserving a clear sheet every time.

West Ham have gained their final six Premier League dwelling matches performed on a Monday, netting two targets every time. The final time they misplaced at dwelling on a Monday was in December 2019, once they have been defeated 3-1 by Arsenal.

Wolves have gained 4 of their final six Premier League matches in London.

Wolves gained their first 4 Premier League fixtures in opposition to West Ham following their return to the Premier League in 2018, however have since misplaced six of their final eight in opposition to the Hammers (W2 D0 L6).