Sports Editor, @BBCNews. Journalist, proud husband & dad. Honorary Fellow @UniNorthants. RTS 2018 Specialist News Reporter of the Year nominee. Personal account
The verdict British Cycling had dreaded. Ex-Team Sky chief doc found guilty of ordering banned drug to dope mystery rider. But who was the cheat? And who else knew? My @BBCNews at 10 report on the suspicion that hangs over GB’s tainted ‘medal-factory’
BREAKING: Crewe Alexandra chairman John Bowler quits following Sheldon Report & apologises to players abused by club’ ex youth coach Barry Bennell. Statement below
Chelsea “disgusted” after Reece James is racially abused on Instagram in 4th such incident involving Premier League players this week. The social media platform has admitted there is “more to do”
“They’re very worrying allegations” Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden on this week’s @BBCPanorama - that revealed a suspected crime boss is still working at the top of world boxing. “I’m sure the boxing authorities will want to take these allegations seriously” he says.
Breaking: A @BBCPanorama team has been threatened following a programme about a suspected crime boss's influence in world boxing. Police in N Ireland have warned about an unspecified threat from unnamed criminal elements in relation to the film
PM rejects calls for boycott of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics over China's treatment of Uighurs. I can reveal Lib Dems leader @EdwardJDavey has sent a letter (below) to the BOA & BPA asking them to boycott if persecution doesn’t stop, over “genocide” fears
Almost 3 weeks since @BBCPanorama Princess Latifa allegations about Sheikh Mohammed & a year since UK horse racing’s biggest investor was found to have abducted his daughters & threatened his wife in the High Court, the BHA finally expresses its “concern”
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A homecoming like no other. ICYMI my @BBCNews at 10 report on Liverpool FC's victory parade as the 6-time European champions return home to a sea of red, with more than 3/4 of a million people lining the streets.
BREAKING: VAR has been voted through by Premier League clubs and will be introduced for the start of next season
Spurs say 550 non-playing staff will take 20% pay cut for next 2 months & use govt’s furlough job retention scheme in attempt to "protect jobs". Net worth of Spurs owner Joe Lewis: £4.3billion Pay of chair Daniel Levy: £7m Average players’ pay: £76k/week
BREAKING: I understand Jose Mourinho has just been told by Chelsea he has been sacked as manager
Here’s a copy of the PFA annual accounts which reveal chief executive’s Gordon Taylor’s £2,290,276 salary. Meanwhile £100,000 spent by the footballers’ union on research into head injury & concussion...
England & Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson arrested on suspicion of sex with 15-year-old schoolgirl
The Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool's Champions League match against Atletico Madrid in March “caused increased suffering and death", according to the scientist leading the UK's largest Covid-19 tracking project.
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