Mary Earps is best known for keeping the ball out of the net, but the England goalkeeper has completed a hat-trick on Tuesday by becoming the third successive female winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
Earps had been the overwhelming favourite to scoop the annual gong in Salford, as she followed tennis star Emma Raducanu and England team-mate Beth Mead in receiving the accolade.
The award furthered confirmed the growth of women’s football with back-to-back winners,
Manchester United have reportedly made progress on a deal for Sofyan Amrabat following ‘secret talks’ with Fiorentina via intermediaries and an agreement could be reached soon according to the latest speculation in Italy. The Moroccan international midfielder is the next signing in Erik ten Hag’s crosshairs and there is growing confidence a deal can be struck with the Italian side.
Despite interest from Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in the past seven months, Amrabat is now ready to agree to a
Arsenal appear to have failed in their attempts to hijack Lazio’s pursuit of Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder Djibril Sow after the player reportedly agreed to move to Italy. Gunners transfer chief Edu is on the hunt for a new midfielder to help manager Mikel Arteta compete for the Premier League title but may now only have three options to turn to.
Arsenal had been tipped to make a late move for Sow as he was on the verge of putting pen-to-paper
Leandro Trossard’s hopes of playing as an attacking midfielder at Arsenal could be crushed by the end of the summer transfer window. The Gunners are looking to acquire the services of Mohammed Kudus in a deal worth approximately £40million, and he would certainly move to near the top of the pecking order at the Emirates Stadium as a result.
Following his January move from Brighton, Trossard has made a good impression in north London and highlighted why Arsenal were pleased
The decision by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to block their fellow Democrats from passing new federal voting-rights legislation clears the path for years of tightening ballot restrictions in Republican-controlled states. It also marks a resounding triumph for Chief Justice John Roberts in his four-decade quest to roll back the federal government’s role in protecting voter rights.
Roberts as much as anyone set in motion the events that have led to this week’s climactic Senate confrontation over voting legislation.
