Rik Sharma

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Bellingham claims Liga leaders Real Madrid Clasico win over Barca Jude Bellingham's goal helped Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1 to win a tense Clasico and move five points clear of their bitter rivals at the top of La Liga on Sunday.Champions Barcelona won all four t...

Yesterday’s Clasico report sg.news.yahoo.com/bellingham-c...

Revived Rashford soaring for Barca ahead of Clasico bow www.straitstimes.com/sport/footba...

Mbappe's Real Madrid aiming to end Barca Clasico dominance www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Siempre Positivo: A Barcelona podcast: E523: Barça go top of LaLiga as Lamine Yamal returns Send us a textBarcelona warmed up for Wednesday's visit from Paris Saint-Germain with a 2-1 win over Real Sociedad which took them top of LaLiga.Sam and Rik discuss a debut for Dro, the return...

Monday = pod day.

Barcelona go top as Lamine returns.

Get it while it's hot:

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The Drobut

Vuelta chaos shows selling sport as a tool for peace can create its own battlefield | Jonathan Liew Once teams promote a country, are owned by states or have to reflect government policy, sport becomes a playground for power

wrote a column about the vuelta protests, the india v pakistan stand-off, and how the sporting battlefield has increasingly come to resemble the real thing

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Half a million people signing up to a party that doesn’t even have a name let alone any policies yet but is just saying “we think things could be less shit” should be a clear signal to Starmer that the trajectory he’s taken Labour on isn’t going down well at all

Try to imagine any other context where a news presenter describes credible reports that soldiers have been shooting huge numbers of teenagers and children *for sport*, for fun, and a politician gives this reaction.

Unfolding in real time in our connected world with next to no consequences.

AFP statement saying their journalists face death by starvation

read this carefully—the AFP was founded in 1944. they’ve just issued a statement saying that for the first time in history, their journalists face death by starvation #Gaza

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

😂😂

They love an unattributed quote these days. And then usually it’s by Andros Townsend on Dazn

Nine-man PSG beat Bayern to reach Club World Cup semis Paris Saint-Germain reached the Club World Cup semi-finals as Desire Doue and Ousmane Dembele goals earned the nine-man European champions a 2-0 win over Bayern Munich in a gripping battle on Saturday...

PSG 2-0 Bayern, a great match sports.yahoo.com/article/nine...

PSG 'dead' unless they keep improving: Luis Enrique Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique said Friday his team will keep adapting and improving to pursue future success and if they failed to do so they would be "dead".

Lucho says PSG are "dead" if they don't keep changing www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Vincent Kompany sees Bayern Munich's meeting with PSG as 'a perfect storm' | Flashscore.com Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany said his team's Club World Cup quarter-final clash with Paris Saint-Germain on Saturday will be an enthralling encounter because of their similar "extreme" styles o...

Kompany on PSG-Bayern being the 'perfect storm', and backing Luis Enrique when others did not www.flashscore.com/news/soccer-...

From attendances to NBA-style walkouts: Club World Cup talking points The opening week of the first 32-team FIFA Club World Cup in the United States has been played under a political shadow, while South American sides impress and some games struggle to attract fans.Euro...

Politics, weather, walkouts... some CWC talking points with @andpscott.bsky.social sports.yahoo.com/article/atte...

Messi's 'winning spirit' surprising: Inter Miami's Mascherano Inter Miami coach Javier Mascherano admitted he is surprised at Lionel Messi's desire to win after the MLS side shocked Porto at the Club World Cup on Thursday.

Mascherano was still enjoying it too www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Messi strikes as Inter Miami stun Porto at Club World Cup A Lionel Messi trademark free-kick earned Inter Miami a shock 2-1 comeback win against Porto in the Club World Cup on Thursday."(Messi) is a leader, he's the player he is, he's the greatest player in ...

It was nice to see Messi play (perhaps) once more, retaining the old magic sports.yahoo.com/article/mess...

Dortmund stars hide from sun at Club World Cup 'sauna' Borussia Dortmund substitutes cowered from the sun in the team's Club World Cup win over Mamelodi Sundowns on Saturday, in conditions coach Niko Kovac described as like "a sauna".

Dortmund stars hide from sun at Club World Cup 'sauna' www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Echeverri practised free-kicks, the others didn't: Man City's Guardiola Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola praised teenage attacking midfielder Claudio Echeverri's dedication on the training ground after he netted a fine free-kick in the Club World Cup win over Al Ain on...

Echeverri practised free-kicks, the others didn't: Man City's Guardiola sports.yahoo.com/article/eche...

'Throwing The Book Away' With No Preparation For Next Season: Bayern's Kompany Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany said his team will go into the new Bundesliga season with "almost no preparation" because of their participation at the Club World Cup, but also highlighted some po...

'Throwing The Book Away' With No Preparation For Next Season: Bayern's Kompany www.barrons.com/news/throwin...

Been quite inconsistent at posting here but here's a few CWC pieces from the last week or so...

“To give up is to abandon sport for ever to the dictators and the sales people, to say, yeah, this just belongs to you now.”

Caldentey's Arsenal hoping to break Barca Champions League hegemony Powered by former Barcelona star Mariona Caldentey, Arsenal must upset the odds against the all-conquering Catalan giants on Saturday to prevent them winning a fourth women's Champions League title in...

Mariona and Arsenal aiming to break Barca's UWCL hegemony www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20...

Spurs edge Man Utd to win Europa League and end trophy drought Brennan Johnson's scrambled goal ended a 17-year Tottenham trophy drought with a battling 1-0 win over Manchester United in the Europa League final on Wednesday.

Tottenham end their drought www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20...

16th vs 17th for a golden ticket uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/europa-...?

How Flick's Barca wrestled La Liga back from Real Madrid Barcelona clinched the Spanish title on Thursday for the 28th time in the club's history, but only the second occasion in the last six years.

How Flick’s Barça wrestled La Liga back from Real Madrid www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Teenager Yamal the jewel in dominant Barca's Liga crown At just 17 years old Lamine Yamal now has two La Liga titles to his name -- the same as Cristiano Ronaldo managed in nine years at Real Madrid.Real Madrid's La Liga and Champions League double left Ba...

Lamine Yamal the jewel in Barca’s title crown uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/teenage...