Aaron Ramsdale has returned to Sheffield United after joining from Bournemouth on a four-year deal.
The England Under-21 goalkeeper began his career with the Blades before leaving to join Bournemouth in 2017 and Chris Wilder’s side are believed to have spent £18.5m to secure his return.
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The 22-year-old, who was voted Bournemouth supporters’ player of the year last season, is set to replace Dean Henderson at Bramall Lane after the on-loan Manchester United goalkeeper confirmed he would not be returning. Ramsdale was thought to be keen to stay in the Premier League following Bournemouth’s relegation and is delighted to be back.
A French government report into the problems at the Champions League final has highlighted “multiple failures” in the management of the crowd in Paris.
The 30-page report, handed to the prime minister’s office on Friday, focused on systemic failures and “the presence of malevolent individuals” in the vicinity of the stadium. Large numbers of Liverpool fans have reported being attacked and having possessions stolen outside the Stade de France.
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The report read: “The dysfunction was the result of, despite careful preparation, multiple failures in the guiding and the management of the crowd, in the insufficient communicati…
Sean Dyche has said Everton have done “everything we can” to comply with Premier League financial rules during his 12 months in charge but are being hit with sporting penalties for no sporting advantage.
Everton are at risk of being deducted points twice in the same season after being charged on Monday with another breach of Premier League profit and sustainability rules (PSR) for the year ending June 2023.
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Dyche’s team are already working under a 10-point deduction issued in November: the club are in the process of appealing against that sanction. The latest breach covers a period when Everton, under Frank Lampard, bought Amadou On…
The Brooklyn Nets re-signed guard/forward Trendon Watford for the 2024-25 season on Tuesday. Terms were not disclosed, but ESPN reported that Watford agreed to the Nets' $2.7 million qualifying offer. Watford, 23, averaged 6.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 13.6 minutes in 63 games (two starts) in his first season with Brooklyn in 2023-24. He owns career averages of 7.3 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 173 games (24 starts) with the Portland Trail Blazers (2021-23) and Nets. –Field Level Media …
Spoiler culture—the capital-D Discourse surrounding how much of the plot you should know before heading into a piece of media—reached its apotheosis with the releases of Avengers: Endgame and the Game of Thrones episode “The Long Night.” The furor around spoilers is such that it is entirely believable that a man loudly discussing the plot of Endgame in public would be assaulted. People treat being spoiled or unspoiled as some sort of determining factor for appreciation of a piece of art. There are separate camps for fans who like to know everything and fans that want an experience that involves knowing nothing, and entirely separate spheres of media to cater to both. Any contamination of one camp from the other will somehow “ruin” the experience in a way that destroys any p…
Some people are fans of the New England Patriots. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New England Patriots. This 2019 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews here.Your team: Orchids of Asia. Real change of pace for someone in this organization to have THEIR dick grabbed! Your 2018 record: 11-5. A Super Bowl victory that was about as entertaining as watching a feather-haired old man get a handjob. All five of the Patriots regular-season losses came to non-playoff teams in a year where the Saints, Rams, and Chiefs all seemed poised to topple them and establish potential dynasties of their own. But this is the NFL, and the NFL abhors excitement much in the way Robert Kraft apparently abhors getting laid for free.And so the Pats escaped…
The NCAA finally wrapped up its investigation into the Ole Miss recruiting scandal, and the resulting punishment is pretty harsh: a two-year postseason ban, scholarship reductions, and a handful of show-causes for various assistants and administrators. The NCAA’s conclusion is essentially that Ole Miss assistant coaches and boosters were running wild and committing recruiting violations left and right. From the NCAA’s release: Members of the football coaching staff knowingly committed recruiting violations and arranged for impermissible booster contact and involvement. Specifically, the assistant athletics director acted unethically when he arranged for boosters to provide prospects between $13,000 and $15,600 in cash payments, including $10,000 to one prospect, as well as lodging,…
This is the most exciting four minutes plus you'll spend all year (besides that one time you had sex). The folks at World Wide Interweb have put together what they believe are the 50 best plays of the year in sports. There's a good mix of the spectacular, the important, and the iconic, and though it's generally American-centric, there's no glaring omission. But if you don't see a highlight you think should be on the list, share it in the comments. …
Election Day is tomorrow. If you are one of those hopeless morons who think it's some sort of thought crime to mention politics in the same breath as sports, well, this is not the post for you. For the rest of you, here are some recent Deadspin stories relevant to the election.
Nate Silver's Braying Idiot Detractors Show That Being Ignorant About Politics Is Like Being Ignorant About Sports "In retrospect, we should've seen it coming. It was only a matter of time before the war on expertise spilled over into the cells of Nate Silver's spreadsheets. In fact, in some ways it had already. Turns out that nothing could have prepared Silver better for the slings and arrows of a surly and willfully obtuse pundit class than working on the fringes of sportswriting over…
The NFL has shipped off its report about Brett Favre's penis to Roger Goodell (more later), but, for now, let's look back on how this all began: with the 2008 Jets preview Jenn wrote for us, and which I'd completely forgotten about. The piece comically foreshadows things to come. Not intentionally, of course, but this was most likely written about the time when Brett started to develop a little crush on Jenn. It was turned in late because Jenn was required to run this preview past her bosses at the Jets before it was published. Observe some of her emails from early September in 2008: Hey AJ, Just wanted you to know I have finished the preview article on the Jets..but I am waiting on clearance from them before I can send it to you, and they are taking their sweet time..…