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RFU ditches plan to sell Twickenham and buy 50% share of Wembley

£663m overhaul of current stadium is focus, Guardian can revealMasterplan targets 2027 as preferred date for revamp work The Rugby Football Union has ditched a radical proposal to sell Twickenham and buy a 50% share of Wembley from the Football Association, the Guardian can reveal, instead focusing on £663m plans to overhaul its current stadium.

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Roy Hodgson steps down at ‘special’ Crystal Palace after leaving hospital

Manager ‘doing well’ but 76-year-old leaves role after 200 gamesSteve Parish pays tribute: ‘Roy has the keys to Selhurst Park’ Roy Hodgson has confirmed that he will stand down as manager “given recent circumstances”, with Oliver Glasner expected to be named as his replacement after they face Everton on Monday night. Hodgson, who is understood

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Blaming Bazball for England’s losses ignores excellence of India | Ali Martin

Ultra-positive approach has transformed side but machismo and bloody-mindedness can occasionally become self-defeating In the binary world of the 21st century, nothing in cricket quite matches the catnip qualities of so-called Bazball. England win? Vive la révolution. England lose? See, this is a flawed concept, a naked emperor moonwalking down the street all pleased with

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Kylian Mbappé has outgrown PSG and Ligue 1. His departure was inevitable

Everyone in Paris – from PSG’s owners to France’s president – pandered to Mbappé. Now it’s time to build without him By Luke Entwistle for Get French Football News There has always been an inescapable feeling of transience about Kylian Mbappé’s time at Paris Saint-Germain – a stay that will be defined as much by

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