🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: The match between Rayo Vallecano and Athletic Bilbao has been permanently abandoned. 🇪🇸❌🤯
Rayo Vallecano supporters threw paper aeroplanes and rubber balls onto the pitch during the match in protest against their club president. 😤
Arsenal have named six English outfield players in a Premier League starting lineup for the first time since February 1999.
Ben White 🏴
Ezri Konsa 🏴
Myles Lewis-Skelly 🏴
Declan Rice 🏴
Bukayo Saka 🏴
Noni Madueke 🏴
Imagine eight different clubs winning the Premier League in just 10 years.
That’s exactly the kind of title diversity English football saw in the 1960s.
No other decade in English top flight history has matched it.
#fullstats
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Lamine Yamal & Erling Haaland are officially the most valuable players in world football, according to Transfermarket’s latest update 💵😮💨
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No shirt swap. Not even a photo with Messi 📸❌
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