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BAGANBAZAR GRAPHSource-attributed newsSPORTS deskGloucester 36-36 Bordeaux BèglesWill Trenholm makes vital impact off bench for hostsThe new Champions Cup season is only just under way but the defending champions Bordeaux are already having to battle for everything. The French side, chasing a third consecutive crown, were forced to weather a furious effort from a revitalised Gloucester in an outstanding contest and ultimately had to settle for a draw to complete a highly eventful visit to England.Four visiting players, including Louis Bielle-Biarrey, were held up for four hours on arrival by UK Border Control for failing to have a valid electronic travel authorisation (ETA), but stopping their star winger on the field tends to be slightly harder. The French international, in his familiar red scrum cap, darted over for two sharp tries but could not quite prevent the Cherry and Whites from claiming a share of the spoils. Continue reading...
BAGANBAZAR GRAPHSource-attributed newsSPORTS deskJavier Tebas accuses Madrid of ‘propaganda techniques’Club want ‘immediate resignation’ for ‘constant attacks’Real Madrid have again demanded the resignation of the president of La Liga after he compared the club’s efforts to discredit referees with the propaganda techniques of Nazi Germany.Javier Tebas lashed out at Madrid on Friday on social media with a long post that criticised how its club television channel says referees hurt its chances of winning. The channel regularly runs reels of what it considers gross errors by match officials who are set to work upcoming games for the 15-time European champions. Continue reading...
BAGANBAZAR GRAPHSource-attributed newsSPORTS deskSign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!There are only two things certain in life – death and taxes Reece James knack and Watford managerial news – and Football Daily’s bingo card lit up with both on Friday. But while Chelsea’s statement on their crocked right-back having successful knee surgery was a cut-and-paste job from the last time James was injured, the quotes by Watford manager Alessio Dionisi were much more exciting, mainly because it contained an actual apology to Elton John and the remarkable news that the club’s trigger-happy owners have not already sent the Italian the same way as an apple in Michael Owen’s house.Shall we just hand over the Bigger Cup to PSG now to ease the calendar congestion?” – Krishna Moorthy.Reading that ‘European football leaders are increasingly confident they will find a candidate to stand against Infantino next year’, I can’t be the only well informed reader to think that a certain intergalactic bin wearing member of the nobility would make a terrific candidate. Can the Big Website ‘Higher Ups’ have a word?!” – Chris Reid.Looking at the Benfica v Celtic game I was immediately drawn to the presence of two Durans. Have there been any other instances of any other bands being present in a game? Possibly in the Human League? I am hoping a Serie A game with a Scritti and a Politti … a French game with Depeche and Mode. You get the general idea” – Mike Turney. Continue reading...