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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been fined £20,000 for wearing a yellow ribbon on the touchline during the FA Cup defeat at Wigan. On Monday, the Spaniard accepted the Football Association charge for “wearing a political message”, a breach of kit and advertising regulations. In November, Guardiola said he wore the ribbon to support imprisoned politicians in his native Catalonia. He ...

JAMIE CARRAGHER has been axed from a TV punditry gig as a result of his spit shame. The Liverpool legend was due to assess Manchester United’s Champions League clash against Sevilla on Tuesday for TV3 Sport. But bosses at the Danish channel have pulled Carragher from their line-up after he was filmed appearing to spit at a United fan and ...

A Ugandan MP has left people horrified after saying men need to “discipline” and “beat” their wives. Twinamasiko Onesimus, who represents Bugangaizi East constituency was speaking to Ugandan television channel NTV when he made the shocking statement. “As a man, you need to discipline your wife,” he told the channel. “You need to touch her a bit, you tackle her, ...

US President Donald Trump is to meet video games company representatives on Thursday to discuss violent content. The meeting comes in the wake of last month’s shooting at a school in Florida in which 17 people died. The president has in the past expressed the view that violent games were “shaping young people’s thoughts”. But the games industry has defended ...

Kenyan president on the occasion of 2018 International Women’s Day celebrations, disclosed a ‘summary’ of how he met Margaret Kenyatta, the First Lady. According to Uhuru, it involved a day out swimming, his father was involved and heeding the old man’s advice was also crucial. He also stressed the importance of women in building a strong nation. His tweet read: ...

A soldier has been killed by suspected separatists in Cameroon, the local French portal Journal du Cameroon, has reported. The report said the incident occured around 19-20h local time, when a curfew was deemed to be in force. The report said one Private Abdalah was killed on Wednesday during an attack on an outpost he was guarding in the town ...

The UK is to pay for a new wing in one of Nigeria’s largest prisons to help expedite the transfer of offenders from British jails. Up to £700,000 will be spent on a 112-bed annex in Kiri Kiri prison in the country’s largest city Lagos. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it would enable eligible Nigerian inmates serving time in the ...

ROMELU LUKAKU thinks Jose Mourinho sees him as ‘his sergeant on the pitch’. Lukaku joined Manchester United for £75m from Everton in the summer. The Belgium ace has repaid Mourinho’s faith with 24 goals so far this term. Lukaku has missed just one Premier League game all season and has been an ever-present in the Champions League. His goal against ...

MANCHESTER UNITED are a bigger club than Liverpool. That is according to former England manager Steve McClaren. The Premier League giants are set to clash this weekend in a match which will go a long way in determining the battle for the top four. Liverpool travel to United on the back of their Champions League progression, while Jose Mourinho’s men ...

THIS is the moment Manchester United ace Anthony Martial announced himself to the Premier League. Martial was a surprise deadline day arrival to Manchester United back in September 2015 and it didn’t take long for the Frenchman to make a name for himself at Old Trafford. United paid a whopping £36million for the then 19-year-old forward, the highest fee paid ...