As reported on @TheAthleticFC on Saturday, Club World Cup for 2029 doesn’t currently exist. No club agreement for participation, no host country, no review of 2025 taken place, no payment of $250m solidarity. Therefore a bargaining chip in current wars.
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🚨🚨FA Statement on Mudryk:
The FA can confirm that the anti-doping disciplinary proceedings against Mykhailo Mudryk were resolved with the agreement of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on 30 July 2026. In the context of that agreement, Mr Mudryk has accepted his commission of Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) and accepted a period of ineligibility.
On 22 October 2024, Mr Mudryk was subject to an out-of-competition doping control, which revealed the presence of a low concentration of meldonium, a prohibited substance. The FA notified Mr Mudryk of that finding on 4 December 2024 and imposed a provisional suspension. On 23 May 2025, The FA charged Mr Mudryk with ADRVs in breach of Regulations 3 and 4 of its 2024 Anti-Doping Regulations.
On 7 to 9 January 2026, a hearing took place before an independent Regulatory Commission. The Regulatory Commission found that Mr Mudryk had committed the charged ADRVs and imposed a four-year period of ineligibility. Subsequently, Mr Mudryk filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Since then, changes have been made to WADA Technical Document (TD2027MRL) which, while not retroactive, mean that if Mr Mudryk's sample was collected today, the concentration of meldonium in the sample would not have been reported and no ADRVs would have resulted.
Further to that development and to other circumstances of the case, The FA and Mr Mudryk have now - with the agreement of WADA - resolved the appeal proceedings in accordance with Article 10.8.2 of the World Anti-Doping Code and Regulation 90 of the 2024 Anti-Doping Regulations. As a part of the agreement, Mr Mudryk accepted that he had committed the ADRVs charged and acceded to a period of ineligibility equal to the time served at the date of the agreement.
Mr Mudryk is no longer ineligible and may return to competition with immediate effect.
Burnham’s had a hell of a lot to say about a hell of a lot of things since taking office. So I’m wondering if has anything to say about this nonsense? Any chance of a TikTok vid?
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea reach verbal agreement with Aston Villa to sign Morgan Rogers. Bid of £117m accepted by #AVFC & being finalised. 6+1y contract, medical Monday. #AFC interested but 23yo attacker wanted #CFC; Xabi Alonso instrumental @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/81YbZw7ELc
The underlying implication of this article is that Burnham intends to keep Shabana Mahmood as his Home Secretary: another Labour Together grandee, long-time associate of Morgan McSweeney, who has launched a brutal campaign against some of the most vulnerable people in society while attacking basic civil liberties and the right to protest.
For many people she typifies the opportunism and cruelty of the Starmer project. For years she's pitched herself as a pro-Palestinian activist and a defender of asylum seekers. Only a few months ago I revealed that her now much-edited personal website used to have an entire section about her work advocating for asylum seekers and pushing for a more liberal asylum regime to allow easier family reunification.
Now, with a whiff of power, she oversees the proscription of Pal Action, is pushing the mad State Threats Bill and brings in the most draconian asylum system this country has seen, to the dismay of people like Lord Alf Dubs.
If Burnham keeps Mahmood, he will either be spending his time trying to restrain her authoritarian agenda, or facilitating it. Either way, it would do little to assuage left fears that Burnhamisn will be Starmerism-with-feeling.
Sie drangen in den deutschen 🇩🇪 Standort des israelischen 🇮🇱 Waffenherstellers Elbit Systems ein und zerstörten die Technik vor Ort. Elbit Systems Rüstungsgüter wurden beim Genozid in Gaza genutzt. Dafür stehen fünf Aktivisten, Ulm5 genannt, nun vor Gericht. Der Saal jubelt.
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly