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Leeds United v Manchester City: Premier League – live

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Here come the teams! Leeds wear white, just as The Don decreed all those years ago. Manchester City in second-choice black, as per their Puma contract. A rare old atmosphere at Elland Road, as there always is, the home fans Marching On Together. We’ll be off in a couple of minutes!

Sky have also just flashed up an intriguing stat that we may as well nick bears repeating. As mentioned in the preamble, during half time of the corresponding fixture in Manchester last November, Daniel Farke switched things around, changing to a back three, and nearly pulled off a great comeback …

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© Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images

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Hollywood power lawyer emerges as central figure in bombshell dispute between professional gambler, Paramount chief Jeff Shell

With clients like these, who needs enemies? Hollywood power lawyer Patty Glaser has emerged as a key figure at the center of a wild dispute involving Paramount Skydance president Jeff Shell and professional gambler RJ Cipriani. Page Six Hollywood previously told you that Glaser represents Shell, but that she also has represented Cipriani, and is the one who connected the two men...

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Horrifying claims teacher working at elite LA County for a decade took intimate pictures of multiple girls

A teacher at a prestigious Los Angeles County private school is behind bars after being charged with molesting multiple female students and possessing child pornography. Travis Takeshi Shojinaga, 39, is being held on $1 million bail over horrifying claims he secreted took intimate photos of at least four students, but there could be many more,...

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UCLA appeals arbitration decision in Rose Bowl lawsuit

Having committed to playing at the Rose Bowl next season, UCLA’s long-term football fate remains in the hands of a court. Attorneys representing the school are appealing an LA Superior Court judge’s decision to deny arbitration in the Rose Bowl’s breach-of-contract case against UCLA. Those same attorneys have also filed a motion to pause the...

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Pakistan crash out of T20 World Cup despite victory against Sri Lanka

  • Pakistan 212-8, Sri Lanka 207-6. Pakistan win by five runs

  • New Zealand into semi-finals on net run-rate

Pakistan went out of the T20 World Cup despite a five-run victory against Sri Lanka in the Group Two Super 8s match in Pallekele on Saturday.

Their inferior net run rate meant Pakistan had to win convincingly in order to pip New Zealand and join group winners England in the semi-finals.

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© Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP

© Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP

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European football: Lamine Yamal claims first hat-trick as Barça go four points clear

  • Barcelona teenager floors Villarreal in 4-1 home victory

  • Bremen end 13-game winless run against Heidenheim

Lamine Yamal scored the first hat-trick of his career as Barcelona beat visitors Villarreal 4-1 on Saturday to move four points clear of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga. Barcelona have 64 points while second-placed Real are on 60 points before they host Getafe on Monday. Villarreal remain a distant third on 51.

Lamine Yamal put the hosts ahead in the 28th minute after Fermin Lopez robbed Pape Gueye and slipped a pass down the right for the 18-year-old to finish low inside the left post. He doubled the lead nine minutes later with a dazzling solo run, controlling a long ball on the right wing before cutting inside past Sergi Cardona and Alberto Moleiro to curl an unstoppable shot into the top corner.

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© Photograph: Manaure Quintero/AFP/Getty Images

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Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history

The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another act of Middle Eastern regime change

It was another date which will live in infamy. But whereas President Franklin Roosevelt declared war in sombre tones to a joint session of Congress, Donald Trump did it his way.

The US president wore a white cap “USA” cap, dark jacket and white shirt open at the collar. He stood at a blue lectern bearing the US presidential seal and a black microphone, with the Stars and Stripes behind him, presumably at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. He released a video on his own social media network, Truth Social, at 2.30am on Saturday – a time when most Americans are asleep but Trump is often found rage tweeting into the night.

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© Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

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Barry and Pickford stun Newcastle to extend Everton’s fine away form

As rain fell, incessantly, on Tyneside, Eddie Howe wandered around the pitch alone, his face taut and in an apparent daze.

The final whistle had just gone and Newcastle manager’s knew any lingering hopes of a top-six finish were surely blown with it.

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© Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

© Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

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Damsgaard denies epic Burnley fightback as Brentford edge chaotic seven-goal thriller

Burnley’s spirited fightback counted for nothing as Mikkel Damsgaard struck in injury time to earn Brentford a dramatic 4-3 victory at Turf Moor.

The Brentford manager, Keith Andrew, looked to celebrate his new long-term deal with a comfortable win amid a mutinous atmosphere when first-half goals from Damsgaard, Igor Thiago and Kevin Schade put the visitors three up.

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© Photograph: Sean Chandler/SPP/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Sean Chandler/SPP/Shutterstock

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Braga keeps Hearts on title track against Aberdeen with Ferguson watching on

Sir Alex Ferguson watched on as Hearts defeated Aberdeen 1-0 to move seven points clear of Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premiership.

Ferguson, the last manager to win the title with a team that was not Celtic or Rangers when his Aberdeen side were back-to-back champions from 1983-85, was at Tynecastle as a guest of the Hearts coach, Derek McInnes, and he saw Cláudio Braga score what proved to be the only goal of the game just before the half-hour mark.

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© Photograph: Steve Welsh/PA

© Photograph: Steve Welsh/PA

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