As a Football Governance Bill that will see an independent regulator oversee professional football in the uk has been introduced to parliament for the first time. The legislation would grant powers to a body free from control of government and football authorities to oversee clubs in englands top five mens tiers and ensure long term Financial Stability of the mens professional game. It would in turn help Football Clubs avoid falling under financial mismanagement, like bury football club. The International Olympic committee have confirmed athletes from russia and belarus will not be a part of the parade during the Opening Ceremony at paris 202a. Qualified athletes from those countries will compete under a neutralflag, following russias invasion of ukraine in 2022. Meanwhile, the ioc have also called the russian organised Friendship Games a cynical attempt to politicise sport, describing the event as a purely politically motivated sports event. The inaugural summer Friendship Games are r
For euro 2024 was stopped short by spain, the hosts winning 2 0 on a controversial night. Needing just a point to secure qualification, scotland took a 1 0 lead in the second half only for the goal to be ruled out. Steve clarkes side had nothing to show for weathering the worst of the spain storm as jane dougall reports from seville. So it wasnt to be tonight for scotland but that goal that wasnt will probably be talked about fora while to come. About for a while to come. The first half, spain dominated, putting chance after chance towards scotland, which they defended with their lives. And then scott mctominay s perfectly placed freekick which delighted the crowd was ruled out. There was a debate as to whether it was a foul or off side. Mctominay was furious at the decision. Scotlands heads then went down and spain quickly took advantage and they took their chance, morata scoring in the 72nd minute. Just after that, adams could have got them the point. He was through on goal but he ju
Hello and thanks for joining us on sportday. We start in seville as scotlands bid to become the first side to qualify for euro 2024 was stopped short by spain, the hosts winning 2 0 on a controversial night. Needing just a point to secure qualification, scotland took a 1 0 lead in the second half only for the goal to be ruled out. Steve clarkes side had nothing to show for weathering the worst of the spain storm as jane dougall reports from seville. So it wasnt to be for scotland. The first half, spain dominated, a chance towards scotland which are defended with their lives and then the perfectly placed freekick which dilated the crowd was ruled out. There was a debate as to whether it was a fellow or off side. Furious at the decision, scotlands head went down and spain took advantage and they took the chance, morata scoring. Just after that, they could have been a point but the scots could not finish. After that, mistakes started to creep. Aaron hickey gave away possession and spain p
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The weather will be transitioning to something colder over the next 2a hours and right now a Weather Front is approaching south Western Parts of the uk and heavy rain will be sweeping across much of wales and england overnight, but wales will get maybe 50 to 60 centimetres in the hills and plenty elsewhere across england. It will not be too cold tonight, far from across england. It will not be too cold tonight, farfrom it, so 15 in london and ii in birmingham. But in the north it will be a little bit fresher. Tomorrow is that transition day. This is the front and north of it we have colder, autumnal air. To the south we have very gusty, mild south westerly winds up to 50 miles an hour, so luckily gale force winds. The weather is looking really messy, so check your local forecast. We have a band of rain here and to the site there is some sunshine. As we go through saturday into sunday we go through saturday into sunday we develop that north westerly wind with colder air sweeping in from