🔋🚨 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪: The ball for the 2026 World Cup needs to be plugged in and charged before kick off.
• The balls have a sensor that tracks its precise location every time that it's touched.
• For the 2022 World Cup, the sensor hanged in wires inside the ball, but now it's part of one of the balls panels.
• The data is paired with 12 cameras around the stadiums to track the precise location of the ball and every player 50 times every second.
• This data is transmitted live to VAR, and will be used to determine goal line technology and offsides.
• The sensor is extremely lightweight, unnoticeable for the players, and the battery lasts for up to 6 hours.
If this manager were available, the Howe Out folks would be dying to bring him in…
- Spent 4 1/2 years at last club
- Qualified for the CL twice - 1st time in 20 years
- First ever knockout stages of CL for club
- Two cup finals - First in 25 years
- Ended 56-year trophy drought
- 4th highest in league points since taking over
- Club went numerous windows without improving the team
- 49% win percentage
- Finished 11th, 4th (highest in 20 years), 7th, and 5th
- Took over club in relegation place and helped them become the first club in history to avoid relegation after not winning any of their first 14 games (previous manager’s run)
- Finished 14th and was sacked
But this is Eddie Howe’s time at Newcastle, so they desperately want him sacked.
#NUFC
New Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games.
According to people familiar with the plans, who asked to remain anonymous in order to protect relationships, a return ticket purchased via NJ Transit, New Jersey’s transportation provider, is currently modelled for more than a seven-fold increase from its usual prices during the World Cup this summer.
The 18-mile rail journey, which includes a stop at Secaucus station, ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket — the same pricing for the FIFA Club World Cup final last summer.
The new special event pricing, however, is due to come into effect for the World Cup and is currently due to be over $100.
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One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday.
These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Tino Livramento is facing 6-8 weeks out after injuring his knee ligaments against Arsenal on Sunday.
⚫️ The Newcastle full-back had further scans yesterday, with #NUFC seeking a second opinion on the impact injury with William Saliba. Injury was not sustained on landing.
⚪️ The good news is Livramento hasn’t ruptured his ACL again, but he’s expected to be out for a 6-8 week rehab period — meaning he’s set to miss around 10 matches.
✍🏼 Story with @AdrianJKajumba
Nick Woltemade has already been to Dood, a Persian restaurant on the Quayside frequented by Newcastle United players, and photographed shopping in Tesco. He has humbly stopped for selfies galore, usually sporting a baseball cap.
Even before he scored, a new chant — “Wol-te-ma-de, ole, ole, ole” — was chorusing around St James’ Park.
Inside the club he is described as “distinctive", “different”, “unique" — “he breaks the mould” for a 6ft 6in striker.
Woltemade’s team-mates have been taken by his demeanour, which is not to take himself too seriously and Eddie Howe has found an individual who is comfortable in himself — desensitised to the fascination with his unusual characteristics — and who he felt could handle the scrutiny of the £65m price tag.
@ChrisDHWaugh tells the story behind Woltemade's flying start at Newcastle United.
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🇧🇷Bruno Guimaraes in the NUFC programme👇
"There's a lot of outside noise around this fixture, but it's the noise our fans create tonight that's going to make the difference.
"For me, representing Newcastle United and our supporters makes me as proud as it did on my first day."
❤️ Eddie Howe on his late mother, Anne Howe.
🗣️ “My mum had five children. I was the fourth. Very humble upbringing. She struggled financially to support us all. Single parent. She had to do three, four, five jobs. She was always working somewhere.
🗣️ “You talk about my getting up early in the morning, but maybe that’s where I get it from. She had to get up in those days at 4am to do the papers for the local newsagent. She’d come back, take us to school, then do a cleaning job, then work in a leather shop, selling leather goods, in the afternoon, then pick us up from school and look after us in the evening and goodness knows what else. So I used to see that sometimes when I was off school. I guess it must have rubbed off.”
💔 “She passed away suddenly when I was 31; just after I took over at Burnley [his second job before returning to manage Bournemouth in 2012 for eight years]. So she saw that I had started my management career. And, you know, there’s something really weird about that.
👴🏼 “My grandad was another big person in my life. He and my mum were the two big role models for me. And they both said to me when I was young, ‘You are going to be a better manager than you are a player.’ And I’d be like, ‘I don’t want to be a manager. I just love playing the game.’ But they both said it separately, not together. ‘You are going to do really, really well as a manager.”
Touching words from a brilliant big interview with @matthewsyed at The Times.
🏆 Howe got emotional in his post-match press conference after the cup final when reflecting on his mother’s support over the years.
You’ve made them all extremely proud, Eddie 🖤🤍
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Since we signed Sandro Tonali....
Chelsea have spent c. £680M. gross on transfer fees.
Man City have spent c. £480m.
Spurs have spent c. £390m.
Man Utd have spent c. £380m.
Liverpool have spent c. £345m.
Arsenal have spent c. £290m.
Why PSR stinks:
❌ Manchester United are around £1b in debt
❌ They have lost over £300m in the last 3 years
❌ They have an outstanding transfer debt of around £300m
▪️Manchester United five-year net spend is £-590.25m
🔹21/22: £-91.93m
🔹22/23: £-182.05m
🔹23/24: £-119.33m
🔹24/25: £-117.79m
🔹25/26: £-62.5m + Mbeumo soon
PSR allows Manchester United to just buy their way out of trouble ❌
A win that generations of Geordies have been waiting for.
To celebrate, we are giving you the chance to win a signed @nufc shirt. ✍️
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Winner will be announced this Friday (21st).