Football lawmakers Ifab will not expand a trial of sin-bins or introduce blue cards, but it plans to test new rules to improve player behaviour.
On Friday, Fifa president Gianni Infantino ruled out the introduction of blue cards in elite football.
Both ideas have been criticised by Premier League managers.
Ifab said it was improving the guidelines at grassroots level, where sin-bins have been trialled since 2017.
"Any potential wider application will only be considered once the impact of these changes have been reviewed," read an Ifab statement after its annual general meeting on Saturday.
Under the plans which emerged in February, players would be shown blue cards for dissent or tactical fouls and spend 10 minutes off the pitch in the sin-bin.
Instead, on Saturday Ifab announced three trials to improve player behaviour in domestic competitions below the top two divisions - League One and below in England:
Only a team's captain can approach the referee in certain situations.
There will be cooling-off periods to allow the referee to ask teams to go to their own penalty area.
An increase in the time limit for goalkeepers holding the ball from six to eight seconds, or possession will revert to the opposing team.
The dates of the trials have not been decided.
Barnsley won for the third game in a row as they beat 10-man Wycombe 4-2 at Adams Park.
Dale Taylor had put the Chairboys ahead before Sam Cosgrove equalised for the visitors.
Kieran Sadlier restored Wycombe's lead, only for goals from Donovan Pines and Corey O'Keeffe to turn the game in Barnsley's favour.
The hosts then saw David Wheeler sent off seconds after coming on, with Conor Grant thumping in a fourth.
Wycombe struck first when Taylor reacted quickest to a half-cleared cross and placed a first-time strike into Liam Roberts' net.
But the visitors equalised in first-half stoppage time when Cosgrove scored the rebound after Luca Connell's free-kick hit the crossbar.
Wycombe regained the lead just after half-time as Garath McCleary slid the ball back for Sadlier to tap home.
But the lead was brief as Pines bundled in a corner to equalise and the visitors then went ahead when O'Keeffe turned in a deflected cross.
Wheeler was sent off for a heavy tackle on O'Keeffe before substitute Grant slammed the ball home to complete the scoring.
Josh Sargent scored his 11th goal of the season as Norwich City overcame Sunderland to stay firmly in contention for a Championship play-off place.
The USA international beat Anthony Patterson with a shot on the turn in the 81st minute as the Sunderland defence failed to deal with a loose, bouncing ball in the box.
It had looked like the Canaries would be frustrated by their north-east opponents in an often tepid encounter despite Gabriel Sara testing Patterson and then minutes later Abdoullah Ba hitting the bar at the other end.
Managerless Sunderland had won on their three previous league visits to Carrow Road but could not find an equaliser as their own chances of a top-six finish receded.
Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill was the guest of honour at a rally marking 40 years since the year-long strikes.
Mr Scargill was involved in major industrial action to prevent pit closures in Yorkshire and the rest of the UK in the mid-1980s.
He gave a 40-minute speech at Dodworth Miners Welfare near Barnsley at a rally marking 40 years since the strikes.
He told the BBC the lesson for trade unionists was to "fight like we did".
Mr Scargill, 86, worked as a coal miner at Woolley Colliery from the age of 15 and joined the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) when he was 19.
He went on to become an activist and rose to national prominence after the so-called Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972, when he led an initial group of 400 Yorkshire miners on a picket of the Saltley Gate coal depot in Birmingham.
The strike led to a victory against the Conservative government at the time, which agreed to meet the miners' demands for increased pay and better working conditions.
Mr Scargill stepped down as president of the NUM in 2002.
Speaking outside the rally, he said: "It's important to come today to pay tribute to the miners, their families and the women against pit closures who fought so hard during 1984 and 1985.
"The important thing is, people stood together - all over Britain and all over the world we became known for sticking to principles.
"It was an important part of history.
"People took part in an historic dispute - they marched into the pantheon of the trade union movement."
Earlier in the day, hundreds of people gathered by Dodworth mining memorial to reflect on the strike and all those who had lost their lives to the industry.
Bagpipes were played and The Reverend Canon Keith Farrow led the service.
He added: "There are painful stories still being told but there is a sense of people coming to terms with the past.
"I don't see great divisions."
Mr Scargill said there was a "lesson" for all trade union leaders today.
"Fight like we did, don't give in and fight consistently... not in bits and pieces," he said.
"I've miss two medical appointments because I'm iust not prepared to cross a picket line.
"That's called class consciousness."
Burnley's slim hopes of staying up suffered another setback as Bournemouth won in the Premier League for the first time in 2024.
Justin Kluivert set the Cherries on their way with a powerful finish past James Trafford after poor defending.
Burnley responded strongly with Neto producing an outstanding save to keep out Jacob Bruun Larsen's free-kick while Vitinho headed a good chance over the bar.
Larsen also had a goalbound shot blocked by Adam Smith after Neto denied David Datro Fofana.
Josh Cullen's disallowed goal - ruled out for a foul in the build-up - only added to the sense of frustration inside Turf Moor, before Antoine Semenyo wrapped up the points with a deflected finish in the 88th minute.
Burnley are 11 points from safety with 11 games left.
Bournemouth's fifth away win of the season lifted them one place to 13th before four successive home games.
Los Angeles FC manager Steve Cherundolo says it was an "absolute joke" his team played in heavy snow in their 3-0 Major League Soccer defeat at Real Salt Lake.
The weather caused a two-hour delay - then four minutes after kick-off, play was suspended because of lightning.
When play resumed an hour later, the pitch was covered in snow, which fell heavily throughout the match in Utah.
"It was impossible conditions," said Cherundolo. "I feel terrible for the players that we put them through this."
He added: "It was an absolute joke we had to play today. It was one of the worst professional sporting events I've ever seen in my life.
"The game could have and should have been called [off]. In my opinion, it was an absolute disgrace we had to play today."
Real manager Pablo Mastroeni said: "It's about mentality. You don't prepare by training in it, right? And I think the team that quickly adapts to the circumstances around them and controls the controllables has a better chance in it.
"It wasn't easy for either team, so just a real credit to the players and the mindset to not allow circumstances beyond their control to affect them."
Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 143 Premier League matches when leading at half-time (W123, D20) dating back to 21 September 2014 against Leicester City (5-3 defeat).
After AEW Revolution went off the air, Sting shared some final words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4C2YFp1BBg
The 2024 Revolution was the fifth annual Revolution professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on March 3, 2024, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, marking AEW's first PPV to be held in North Carolina. The event hosted the final match in Sting's nearly 40-year career, and was held at the same venue in which he faced Ric Flair at Clash of the Champions I in March 1988, which was considered to be the match that established Sting as a top wrestler in the industry.
The main event was Sting's retirement match in which he and Darby Allin defeated The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) in a tornado tag team match to retain the AEW World Tag Team Championship, and as a result, Sting retired undefeated in AEW.
The US Supreme Court has struck down efforts by individual states to disqualify Donald Trump from running for president using an anti-insurrection constitutional clause.
The unanimous ruling is specific to Colorado, but it also overrides challenges brought in other states.
Colorado had barred Mr Trump from its Republican primary, arguing he incited the 2021 Capitol riot.
The court ruled that only Congress, rather than the states, has that power.
The top court's decision clears the way for Mr Trump to compete in the Colorado primary scheduled for Tuesday.
Mr Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination and looks likely to face a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden in November's general election.
On Monday, the ex-president immediately claimed victory following the ruling, taking to his Truth Social media platform to claim a "big win for America". The message was quickly followed by a fundraising email sent to supporters of his campaign.
Speaking from his estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida soon after, he said that the decision was "very well crafted" and will "go a long way towards bringing our country together, which it needs".
"You can't take someone out of a race because an opponent would like it that way," Mr Trump added.
Colorado's Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, said that she was disappointed by the ruling and that "Colorado should be able to bar oath-breaking insurrections from our ballot".
Additionally, the watchdog group that brought the case in Colorado, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), said in a statement that while the court "failed to meet the moment", it is "still a win for democracy: Trump will go down in history as an insurrectionist".
Former Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United boss Garry Monk has been named as the new Cambridge United head coach on a contract to the summer of 2026.
The 44-year-old replaces Neil Harris, who quit the U's after just 17 games in charge to take over at Millwall.
Monk began his managerial career with Swansea City and his former clubs also include Middlesbrough and Birmingham.
"The stability in the ownership and their thought process resonated with me," he told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"I have had opportunities to go back in (to management) but the thing I was really conscious about was trying to find an opportunity with a bit of stability in the ownership, that has a plan in their mind of where they want to go, but a realistic plan as well.
"That's very difficult to find in the landscape of football now. That's part of the reason why it's been quite a while but this came along and married up to what I was thinking and what I was looking for."
Monk has been out of football management since he was sacked by Wednesday in November 2020 after 14 months at Hillsborough.
He said he was "fed up" that the "rug was pulled from under my feet" at previous clubs, but at Cambridge, although an improvement in results is needed, he did not get the feeling that "the goalposts will be moved".
The former defender added: "Having the knowledge behind you of some sort of stability and clear thinking gives you the confidence to go in there and know you can do your job well."
Cambridge are 19th in the League One table, just four points above the relegation places, and Monk's first match at the helm will be at home to Northampton Town on Saturday.
Majority owner Paul Barry said: "He is a coach of high pedigree, has managed at the top level and impressed us all with his leadership skills, clarity of thinking and his analysis of Cambridge United - both the squad and the club.
"Although he has had opportunities to get back into the game over recent times, he has been waiting for the right one. Like us, he sees this as a project and we are pleased he has decided to join us on the journey ahead."
Cambridge have lost their last four games - the last three to top-six teams with Barry Corr in interim charge.
Corr will remain at the club along with fellow coach Kevin Betsy - a former team-mate of Monk's at Barnsley - as part of Monk's backroom team.
"We do, of course, all recognise that there is the immediate challenge of securing our League One future after what has been a difficult period for everyone at the club, following Neil Harris' unexpected and sudden departure," added Barry.
"In many ways the season starts now. We have 11 games to go. We know what we need to do and we know that it will require a collective team effort with everyone playing their part in helping us get over the line - players, staff and fans."
Monk made 270 appearances for Swansea over 11 years, becoming player-manager in February 2014, initially on an interim basis.
He was sacked in December 2015 but was appointed by Leeds the following summer, only to resign after a single season following a takeover by Andrea Radrizzani.
He lasted only six months at Middlesbrough before moving on to Birmingham and then Wednesday, who were next to bottom of the Championship when he was sacked.
Former sub-postmaster Jo Hamilton says she feels "survivor's guilt" after settling with the government over the Horizon IT scandal for an undisclosed sum.
Ms Hamilton said the settlement would pay off her mortgage and debts, but she got less than she had hoped for.
She said she and her husband accepted the offer as they were "exhausted".
Her story was one of the central strands in the ITV dramatisation which put a fresh spotlight on the scandal.
The mother-of-two was prosecuted for a shortfall of £36,000 at her Post Office in South Warnborough, Hampshire in 2006 and was persuaded to plead guilty to a charge of false accounting.
She took up cleaning jobs, had to mortgage her house twice, borrowed money from friends, and received donations from the local community to pay back the funds.
Her conviction was overturned in 2021 when it was discovered that more than 700 sub-postmasters and postmistresses had been prosecuted because of a faulty accounting system.
Ms Hamilton - who was played by Monica Dolan in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office - said she had "mixed feelings" at accepting the compensation offer.
"I almost feel like I've got survivor's guilt, because many of my colleagues that I've fought alongside in court, they haven't been settled," she said.
But she said her was husband was getting older and she didn't want him to go into his eighties still waiting for money.
"While I didn't want to walk away, we were just tired. We had debt around our ears and a large mortgage, all of which has gone now. I think it was the right thing to do."
Ms Hamilton got 80% of what she wanted, she said.
She added the feeling when her debt disappeared was "just incredible".
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep's four-year ban for doping has been reduced to nine months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The decision means Romanian former world number one Halep, 32, can return to tennis as soon as possible.
In response to the ruling, Halep hit out at "scandalous accusations".
While her case was partially upheld, Cas ruled Halep "on the balance of probabilities" had not taken roxadustat intentionally.
Halep, who won the 2018 French Open and Wimbledon in 2019, always maintained her innocence after being charged with two separate doping offences.
She faced two charges: one for testing positive for roxadustat and another for irregularities in her athlete biological passport (ABP).
Halep, who was originally banned until October 2026, feared her career would be over if the original decision was upheld.
"My faith in the process was tested by the scandalous accusations that were levelled against me, and by the seemingly unlimited resources that were aligned against me," Halep said.
"I cannot wait to return to the tour."
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), which is responsible for testing within the sport and brought the investigation, said it "respected" the decision.
Key takeaways from Super Tuesday results
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68472310
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWYOtrvWv6I
England's hopes of salvaging a final victory from their tour of India are already in grave danger after an awful batting collapse on day one of the fifth Test in Dharamsala.
The tourists were spun out for 218, losing their last eight wickets for 81 runs and at one stage a calamitous 5-8 in 37 deliveries.
Opener Zak Crawley made an attractive 79, surviving the exaggerated movement found by the India new-ball bowlers in the mountain air after England won the toss.
Crawley's dismissal, bowled by a sharp turner from the magical Kuldeep Yadav, preceded the real carnage. Jonny Bairstow, playing his 100th Test, Joe Root and Ben Stokes were all dismissed in the space of 13 balls for no addition to the score.
On a good batting surface, albeit one offering turn, all 10 England wickets fell to spin. Left-armer Kuldeep bewitched England for 5-72, while Ravichandran Ashwin marked his own 100th Test with 4-51.
Any suggestion of a swift England fightback with the ball was snuffed out by an opening stand of 104 between Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma.
Jaiswal was stumped off Shoaib Bashir for 57, but Rohit remained on 52 not out, guiding his team to 135-1, only 83 behind.t out, guiding his team to 135-1, only 83 behind.
Sign in if you want to comment
News, Facts & Trivia Archive 1912
Page 13094 of 13153
13095 | 13096 | 13097 | 13098 | 13099
posted on 2/3/24
Football lawmakers Ifab will not expand a trial of sin-bins or introduce blue cards, but it plans to test new rules to improve player behaviour.
On Friday, Fifa president Gianni Infantino ruled out the introduction of blue cards in elite football.
Both ideas have been criticised by Premier League managers.
Ifab said it was improving the guidelines at grassroots level, where sin-bins have been trialled since 2017.
"Any potential wider application will only be considered once the impact of these changes have been reviewed," read an Ifab statement after its annual general meeting on Saturday.
Under the plans which emerged in February, players would be shown blue cards for dissent or tactical fouls and spend 10 minutes off the pitch in the sin-bin.
Instead, on Saturday Ifab announced three trials to improve player behaviour in domestic competitions below the top two divisions - League One and below in England:
Only a team's captain can approach the referee in certain situations.
There will be cooling-off periods to allow the referee to ask teams to go to their own penalty area.
An increase in the time limit for goalkeepers holding the ball from six to eight seconds, or possession will revert to the opposing team.
posted on 2/3/24
The dates of the trials have not been decided.
posted on 2/3/24
Barnsley won for the third game in a row as they beat 10-man Wycombe 4-2 at Adams Park.
Dale Taylor had put the Chairboys ahead before Sam Cosgrove equalised for the visitors.
Kieran Sadlier restored Wycombe's lead, only for goals from Donovan Pines and Corey O'Keeffe to turn the game in Barnsley's favour.
The hosts then saw David Wheeler sent off seconds after coming on, with Conor Grant thumping in a fourth.
Wycombe struck first when Taylor reacted quickest to a half-cleared cross and placed a first-time strike into Liam Roberts' net.
But the visitors equalised in first-half stoppage time when Cosgrove scored the rebound after Luca Connell's free-kick hit the crossbar.
Wycombe regained the lead just after half-time as Garath McCleary slid the ball back for Sadlier to tap home.
But the lead was brief as Pines bundled in a corner to equalise and the visitors then went ahead when O'Keeffe turned in a deflected cross.
Wheeler was sent off for a heavy tackle on O'Keeffe before substitute Grant slammed the ball home to complete the scoring.
posted on 2/3/24
Josh Sargent scored his 11th goal of the season as Norwich City overcame Sunderland to stay firmly in contention for a Championship play-off place.
The USA international beat Anthony Patterson with a shot on the turn in the 81st minute as the Sunderland defence failed to deal with a loose, bouncing ball in the box.
It had looked like the Canaries would be frustrated by their north-east opponents in an often tepid encounter despite Gabriel Sara testing Patterson and then minutes later Abdoullah Ba hitting the bar at the other end.
Managerless Sunderland had won on their three previous league visits to Carrow Road but could not find an equaliser as their own chances of a top-six finish receded.
posted on 2/3/24
Former miners' leader Arthur Scargill was the guest of honour at a rally marking 40 years since the year-long strikes.
Mr Scargill was involved in major industrial action to prevent pit closures in Yorkshire and the rest of the UK in the mid-1980s.
He gave a 40-minute speech at Dodworth Miners Welfare near Barnsley at a rally marking 40 years since the strikes.
He told the BBC the lesson for trade unionists was to "fight like we did".
posted on 2/3/24
Mr Scargill, 86, worked as a coal miner at Woolley Colliery from the age of 15 and joined the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) when he was 19.
He went on to become an activist and rose to national prominence after the so-called Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972, when he led an initial group of 400 Yorkshire miners on a picket of the Saltley Gate coal depot in Birmingham.
The strike led to a victory against the Conservative government at the time, which agreed to meet the miners' demands for increased pay and better working conditions.
Mr Scargill stepped down as president of the NUM in 2002.
Speaking outside the rally, he said: "It's important to come today to pay tribute to the miners, their families and the women against pit closures who fought so hard during 1984 and 1985.
"The important thing is, people stood together - all over Britain and all over the world we became known for sticking to principles.
"It was an important part of history.
"People took part in an historic dispute - they marched into the pantheon of the trade union movement."
Earlier in the day, hundreds of people gathered by Dodworth mining memorial to reflect on the strike and all those who had lost their lives to the industry.
Bagpipes were played and The Reverend Canon Keith Farrow led the service.
posted on 2/3/24
He added: "There are painful stories still being told but there is a sense of people coming to terms with the past.
"I don't see great divisions."
Mr Scargill said there was a "lesson" for all trade union leaders today.
"Fight like we did, don't give in and fight consistently... not in bits and pieces," he said.
"I've miss two medical appointments because I'm iust not prepared to cross a picket line.
"That's called class consciousness."
posted on 3/3/24
Burnley's slim hopes of staying up suffered another setback as Bournemouth won in the Premier League for the first time in 2024.
Justin Kluivert set the Cherries on their way with a powerful finish past James Trafford after poor defending.
Burnley responded strongly with Neto producing an outstanding save to keep out Jacob Bruun Larsen's free-kick while Vitinho headed a good chance over the bar.
Larsen also had a goalbound shot blocked by Adam Smith after Neto denied David Datro Fofana.
Josh Cullen's disallowed goal - ruled out for a foul in the build-up - only added to the sense of frustration inside Turf Moor, before Antoine Semenyo wrapped up the points with a deflected finish in the 88th minute.
Burnley are 11 points from safety with 11 games left.
Bournemouth's fifth away win of the season lifted them one place to 13th before four successive home games.
posted on 3/3/24
Los Angeles FC manager Steve Cherundolo says it was an "absolute joke" his team played in heavy snow in their 3-0 Major League Soccer defeat at Real Salt Lake.
The weather caused a two-hour delay - then four minutes after kick-off, play was suspended because of lightning.
When play resumed an hour later, the pitch was covered in snow, which fell heavily throughout the match in Utah.
"It was impossible conditions," said Cherundolo. "I feel terrible for the players that we put them through this."
He added: "It was an absolute joke we had to play today. It was one of the worst professional sporting events I've ever seen in my life.
"The game could have and should have been called [off]. In my opinion, it was an absolute disgrace we had to play today."
Real manager Pablo Mastroeni said: "It's about mentality. You don't prepare by training in it, right? And I think the team that quickly adapts to the circumstances around them and controls the controllables has a better chance in it.
"It wasn't easy for either team, so just a real credit to the players and the mindset to not allow circumstances beyond their control to affect them."
posted on 3/3/24
Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 143 Premier League matches when leading at half-time (W123, D20) dating back to 21 September 2014 against Leicester City (5-3 defeat).
posted on 4/3/24
After AEW Revolution went off the air, Sting shared some final words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4C2YFp1BBg
posted on 4/3/24
The 2024 Revolution was the fifth annual Revolution professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on March 3, 2024, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, marking AEW's first PPV to be held in North Carolina. The event hosted the final match in Sting's nearly 40-year career, and was held at the same venue in which he faced Ric Flair at Clash of the Champions I in March 1988, which was considered to be the match that established Sting as a top wrestler in the industry.
posted on 4/3/24
The main event was Sting's retirement match in which he and Darby Allin defeated The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) in a tornado tag team match to retain the AEW World Tag Team Championship, and as a result, Sting retired undefeated in AEW.
posted on 4/3/24
posted on 4/3/24
The US Supreme Court has struck down efforts by individual states to disqualify Donald Trump from running for president using an anti-insurrection constitutional clause.
The unanimous ruling is specific to Colorado, but it also overrides challenges brought in other states.
Colorado had barred Mr Trump from its Republican primary, arguing he incited the 2021 Capitol riot.
The court ruled that only Congress, rather than the states, has that power.
The top court's decision clears the way for Mr Trump to compete in the Colorado primary scheduled for Tuesday.
Mr Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination and looks likely to face a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden in November's general election.
On Monday, the ex-president immediately claimed victory following the ruling, taking to his Truth Social media platform to claim a "big win for America". The message was quickly followed by a fundraising email sent to supporters of his campaign.
Speaking from his estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida soon after, he said that the decision was "very well crafted" and will "go a long way towards bringing our country together, which it needs".
"You can't take someone out of a race because an opponent would like it that way," Mr Trump added.
Colorado's Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, said that she was disappointed by the ruling and that "Colorado should be able to bar oath-breaking insurrections from our ballot".
Additionally, the watchdog group that brought the case in Colorado, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), said in a statement that while the court "failed to meet the moment", it is "still a win for democracy: Trump will go down in history as an insurrectionist".
posted on 4/3/24
Former Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United boss Garry Monk has been named as the new Cambridge United head coach on a contract to the summer of 2026.
The 44-year-old replaces Neil Harris, who quit the U's after just 17 games in charge to take over at Millwall.
Monk began his managerial career with Swansea City and his former clubs also include Middlesbrough and Birmingham.
"The stability in the ownership and their thought process resonated with me," he told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"I have had opportunities to go back in (to management) but the thing I was really conscious about was trying to find an opportunity with a bit of stability in the ownership, that has a plan in their mind of where they want to go, but a realistic plan as well.
"That's very difficult to find in the landscape of football now. That's part of the reason why it's been quite a while but this came along and married up to what I was thinking and what I was looking for."
posted on 4/3/24
Monk has been out of football management since he was sacked by Wednesday in November 2020 after 14 months at Hillsborough.
He said he was "fed up" that the "rug was pulled from under my feet" at previous clubs, but at Cambridge, although an improvement in results is needed, he did not get the feeling that "the goalposts will be moved".
The former defender added: "Having the knowledge behind you of some sort of stability and clear thinking gives you the confidence to go in there and know you can do your job well."
posted on 4/3/24
Cambridge are 19th in the League One table, just four points above the relegation places, and Monk's first match at the helm will be at home to Northampton Town on Saturday.
Majority owner Paul Barry said: "He is a coach of high pedigree, has managed at the top level and impressed us all with his leadership skills, clarity of thinking and his analysis of Cambridge United - both the squad and the club.
"Although he has had opportunities to get back into the game over recent times, he has been waiting for the right one. Like us, he sees this as a project and we are pleased he has decided to join us on the journey ahead."
Cambridge have lost their last four games - the last three to top-six teams with Barry Corr in interim charge.
posted on 4/3/24
Corr will remain at the club along with fellow coach Kevin Betsy - a former team-mate of Monk's at Barnsley - as part of Monk's backroom team.
"We do, of course, all recognise that there is the immediate challenge of securing our League One future after what has been a difficult period for everyone at the club, following Neil Harris' unexpected and sudden departure," added Barry.
"In many ways the season starts now. We have 11 games to go. We know what we need to do and we know that it will require a collective team effort with everyone playing their part in helping us get over the line - players, staff and fans."
Monk made 270 appearances for Swansea over 11 years, becoming player-manager in February 2014, initially on an interim basis.
He was sacked in December 2015 but was appointed by Leeds the following summer, only to resign after a single season following a takeover by Andrea Radrizzani.
He lasted only six months at Middlesbrough before moving on to Birmingham and then Wednesday, who were next to bottom of the Championship when he was sacked.
posted on 5/3/24
Former sub-postmaster Jo Hamilton says she feels "survivor's guilt" after settling with the government over the Horizon IT scandal for an undisclosed sum.
Ms Hamilton said the settlement would pay off her mortgage and debts, but she got less than she had hoped for.
She said she and her husband accepted the offer as they were "exhausted".
Her story was one of the central strands in the ITV dramatisation which put a fresh spotlight on the scandal.
The mother-of-two was prosecuted for a shortfall of £36,000 at her Post Office in South Warnborough, Hampshire in 2006 and was persuaded to plead guilty to a charge of false accounting.
She took up cleaning jobs, had to mortgage her house twice, borrowed money from friends, and received donations from the local community to pay back the funds.
Her conviction was overturned in 2021 when it was discovered that more than 700 sub-postmasters and postmistresses had been prosecuted because of a faulty accounting system.
posted on 5/3/24
Ms Hamilton - who was played by Monica Dolan in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office - said she had "mixed feelings" at accepting the compensation offer.
"I almost feel like I've got survivor's guilt, because many of my colleagues that I've fought alongside in court, they haven't been settled," she said.
But she said her was husband was getting older and she didn't want him to go into his eighties still waiting for money.
"While I didn't want to walk away, we were just tired. We had debt around our ears and a large mortgage, all of which has gone now. I think it was the right thing to do."
Ms Hamilton got 80% of what she wanted, she said.
She added the feeling when her debt disappeared was "just incredible".
posted on 5/3/24
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep's four-year ban for doping has been reduced to nine months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The decision means Romanian former world number one Halep, 32, can return to tennis as soon as possible.
In response to the ruling, Halep hit out at "scandalous accusations".
While her case was partially upheld, Cas ruled Halep "on the balance of probabilities" had not taken roxadustat intentionally.
Halep, who won the 2018 French Open and Wimbledon in 2019, always maintained her innocence after being charged with two separate doping offences.
She faced two charges: one for testing positive for roxadustat and another for irregularities in her athlete biological passport (ABP).
Halep, who was originally banned until October 2026, feared her career would be over if the original decision was upheld.
"My faith in the process was tested by the scandalous accusations that were levelled against me, and by the seemingly unlimited resources that were aligned against me," Halep said.
"I cannot wait to return to the tour."
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), which is responsible for testing within the sport and brought the investigation, said it "respected" the decision.
posted on 6/3/24
Key takeaways from Super Tuesday results
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68472310
posted on 6/3/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWYOtrvWv6I
posted on 7/3/24
England's hopes of salvaging a final victory from their tour of India are already in grave danger after an awful batting collapse on day one of the fifth Test in Dharamsala.
The tourists were spun out for 218, losing their last eight wickets for 81 runs and at one stage a calamitous 5-8 in 37 deliveries.
Opener Zak Crawley made an attractive 79, surviving the exaggerated movement found by the India new-ball bowlers in the mountain air after England won the toss.
Crawley's dismissal, bowled by a sharp turner from the magical Kuldeep Yadav, preceded the real carnage. Jonny Bairstow, playing his 100th Test, Joe Root and Ben Stokes were all dismissed in the space of 13 balls for no addition to the score.
On a good batting surface, albeit one offering turn, all 10 England wickets fell to spin. Left-armer Kuldeep bewitched England for 5-72, while Ravichandran Ashwin marked his own 100th Test with 4-51.
Any suggestion of a swift England fightback with the ball was snuffed out by an opening stand of 104 between Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma.
Jaiswal was stumped off Shoaib Bashir for 57, but Rohit remained on 52 not out, guiding his team to 135-1, only 83 behind.t out, guiding his team to 135-1, only 83 behind.
Page 13094 of 13153
13095 | 13096 | 13097 | 13098 | 13099