Nick Mohammed continues to tease Ted Lasso fans when it comes to Season 4, with official confirmation of the show’s return seemingly not far off.

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• Sudeikis and Co back on board
• Work ready to begin in earnest
• Cast & crew excited to get going

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  Comic actor Mohammed, who plays the role of Nate Shelley alongside affable American coach Lasso in the hit Apple TV+ show, has become famed for his playful antics on social media – with it impossible for his enthusiasm to be hidden.

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  THE GOSSIP

  Mohammed has dropped regular hints at Ted Lasso returning to the small screen since news of a potential reunion first broke in the autumn of 2024. There were suggestions back then that work could begin early in the New Year, with production boxes continuing to be ticked off.

• DID YOU KNOW?

  Lead character and show writer Jason Sudeikis is said to be on board, amid talk of a "reboot" and taking things in a new direction, and several members of the cast and crew have been quick to air their excitement at linking up with AFC Richmond again.

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• WHAT NICK MOHAMMED SAID

  Mohammed has teased fans in a video explaining why he is having to move a few stand-up dates, with the 44-year-old making sure to have a copy of Lasso’s famous ‘Believe’ sign in his hand. He said: "It is with deep regret that I have had to move some of the dates of my latest live show. I know there will be a lot of speculation as to why have you moved these dates, what is it for?

  "I’ll be honest, it is for some filming that I have not been able to shift for love nor money. I cannot say what that filming is but it will be announced shortly. In the meantime, I would really appreciate if people just didn’t speculate as to what they think it might be. It’s the last thing I want, for people to be going mad."

Tottenham Hotspur were apparently offered the chance to sign a prestigious player over the weekend, as the Lilywhites unfortunately tasted defeat in the North London derby.

Tottenham lose to Arsenal as Postecoglou bemoans set pieces

Ange Postecoglou was forced to defend his set-piece policy yet again after Sunday’s 1-0 defeat at home to bitter rivals Arsenal, with Gunners defender Gabriel Magalhaes nodding in the only goal of the game from a corner.

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Spurs dictated overall play with the majority of possession and chances created at home, as they looked to upset a weakened Arsenal team who were without club captain Martin Odegaard, summer signing Riccardo Calafiori, Spain star Mikel Merino, Declan Rice and Oleksandr Zinchenko.

However, a resolute Arsenal side did their defensive duties and made Tottenham pay for their lack of cutting edge, with Gabriel rising above everyone else to thump a header past Guglielmo Vicario from close range.

It was an avoidable goal from Postecoglou’s perspective, who stuck up for his philosophy on defending dead balls when quizzed by the media.

“I know for some reason people think I don’t care about set-pieces, and it’s a narrative that you can keep going on for ages and ages. I understand that,” said Postecoglou on Arsenal’s winner from a corner.

“Like I said, we work on them all the time, like we do with every other team. You know that they’re a threat. As I said, for the most part we handled them really well today, but we switched off in one and we paid a price. You learn from that and you move on.

“It is what it is. It’s my burden to carry and I’m happy to do that. Like I’ve always said, for me there’s a bigger picture that’s at play here that’s much more important than the finer details of us getting to where we want to.

“For us, the way forward is to, as I said, try and turn the football we’re playing now into something meaningful. We’re a team that’s progressing in many areas. With all that sort of progress, there’s always kind of new challenges and new things that you need to overcome.”

Gabriel’s winner was the 10th time Tottenham have conceded a dead-ball goal under Postecoglou, and that is something the Australian will be very eager to change. Winger Brennan Johnson was also criticised for his display against Arsenal, so it appears there are a few conundrums for Spurs’ head coach ahead of their next matches against Coventry City in the EFL Cup and Brentford this weekend.

Tottenham offered chance to sign Adrien Rabiot just days ago

Over the weekend, Tottenham’s disappointing defeat to Arsenal wasn’t the only thing happening in north London, as it is claimed that former Juventus and PSG midfielder Adrien Rabiot approached the club over a free transfer too.

That is according to The Boot Room, who claim that Rabiot was offered to Spurs via his representatives, before the Frenchman opted to return to his homeland with Roberto De Zerbi’s Marseille.

The 29-year-old, who featured for France at Euro 2024, has finally ended the search for his new club by putting pen to paper on a rumoured £162,000-per-week contract with the Ligue 1 side. Despite many links to the Premier League, Rabiot won’t be making an English move this season, despite his credentials.

“He is a complete player, I have rarely seen someone so strong both physically and technically,” said ex-Juve boss Andrea Pirlo in 2020. “He doesn’t even know the potential for improvement he can have, and we work on the mental side of things to make him understand that he is a champion. He is improving game after game.”

Tournament’s leading run-scorer credits ignoring criticism for her upturn in form

Vishal Dikshit11-Aug-2021India and Northern Superchargers batter Jemimah Rodrigues says she handled criticism by “ignoring it” as she overcame a few “tough months” in international cricket this year to emerge as the Hundred’s leading scorer after nearly 80% of the tournament’s league matches had been played.Rodrigues started the tournament with a scintillating and unbeaten 92 off 43 balls, studded with 17 fours and a six, to script a dramatic come-from-behind win for her team, and followed it with two more half-centuries – 60 off 41 and 57 off 44 – to accumulate 241 runs in five innings, averaging 60.25 and striking at 154.48.This purple patch came after Rodrigues had been dropped from India’s T20I side in England following her single-digit scores in the two ODIs she played before that.”For me the best way to handle criticism is to ignore it, not even go online or read stuff because it’s difficult when you are doing your best and working hard, nobody knows what you’ve gone through, the tears, the heartbreaks, the sweat you’ve put out to be where you are,” Rodrigues said while commentating on on Tuesday. “And someone sitting miles away posting stuff on social media…it’s tough, and the way I handled this time to stay away from it as far as possible so I can focus on my game and be in the right head space.”Rodrigues, 20, had been one of the most promising Indian talents after making her international debut in 2018 but found herself in a rut in 2021 when cricket finally resumed for India after a year-long hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the ODIs against South Africa at home, she managed scores of 1, 9 and 0 before scoring 30 and 16 in the T20Is. In England a few months later, she played only the second and third ODIs and laboured to 8 off 15 and 4 off 21 before being benched for the T20I series. She was part of the Test squad too but missed out on a debut even as five of her team-mates were handed their maiden Test caps in Bristol.Jemimah Rodrigues is the leading run-scorer in the Hundred•Getty Images

Coming into the Hundred, she was averaging only 9.71 across seven international innings this year with a tally of 68 runs and an unimpressive strike rate of 61.26.”It’s been a rollercoaster ride for me, I’ve had ups and downs,” Rodrigues said of coping with the pressures of being an India player. “That’s what cricket is all about, it teaches you so much, changes you personally not just as a player, as a human being.”I’m still learning how to find that balance because it’s not easy. The last few months were pretty tough but it’s good to be back and somewhere it’s important to find that balance in cricket.”Rodrigues further said the one-year gap she got after the 2020 T20 World Cup final against Australia also helped her “get back to basics”.”It was very difficult [to not play for so long] and sometimes it was annoying because we’re so used to living off our suitcases, travelling, going around the world and playing cricket,” she said. “The first two months were good because we needed a break and got a lot of time to spend with our family but after that my family was also fed up asking, ‘when is Jemimah going (laughs)?’ OK, they didn’t say that.”We couldn’t wait [to play]. And after that we watched a few matches, like the England and Australia women’s teams were playing and we were like, ‘when will we get to play?’ because there were a lot of [Covid-19] cases in India so it was very tough for us to practice, to get a ground. I used to practice in my building in a small lane, with a plastic ball so that the cars wouldn’t break. So it was tough times and it taught me a lot and helped me get back to my basics.”Jemimah Rodrigues used the time she had off during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic to ‘get back to basics’•Getty Images

With the men’s IPL set to resume in the UAE next month, Rodrigues also hoped for the return of the Women’s T20 Challenge too, which is usually played around the playoffs stage.”It’s high time we start the women’s IPL (Women’s T20 Challenge),” she said. “We all are very excited for it and the BCCI is doing a lot to get it started. Hopefully this time it starts soon because it’s only going to boost women’s cricket in India, and you never know you’ll get the likes of Shafali Verma and Richa Ghosh, all these players coming out. Like Shafali made her [India] debut after playing the Women’s T20 challenge. So hopefully we’ll have the Women’s T20 Challenge soon.”India have finished runners-up twice in the last three women’s global tournaments – the 2020 T20 World Cup and the 2017 ODI World Cup – and Rodrigues said it was the 50-over tournament in 2017 that made a “drastic change in women’s cricket in India”.”Things have changed a lot. After the 2017 World Cup, I personally saw a drastic change in women’s cricket in India. I used to go to a ground and there were 200 boys and I was the only girl. But now when I go there, there’s a special net only for girls right where I practice. That’s one of the most pleasing sights for me, that young girls taking up sport and parents coming up and telling ‘ (I want my daughter to play for India).’ Things have changed a lot.”

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+ Ao L!, Chay elogia diretoria do Botafogo e destaca trabalho de Enderson: ‘Tem todos os méritos’

Um meio-campista para ser, ao mesmo tempo, a opção direta ao camisa 14 e também atuar em uma linha mais recuada do setor é um dos alvos do clube de General Severiano no mercado da bola.

Chico, do Juventude, e Matheus Vargas, do Fortaleza, são dois nomes no radar. O primeiro passou por uma sondagem e é analisado. O segundo chegou a ter negociações em andamento, mas recebeu uma proposta de renovação e deve ficar no Leão do Pici.

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Uma ‘opção caseira’ passa por Juninho, um dos destaques da equipe sub-20 na temporada. O meio-campista fará a pré-temporada com o time profissional e é justamente um jogador que atua na faixa mais avançada do meio.

Achar alguém para ser uma opção direta para Chay, um jogador que precisou passar por um procedimento para aliviar as dores no joelho, aparece como uma das prioridades justamente para dar mais opções a Enderson Moreira.

سقط فريق آرسنال في فخ الهزيمة أمام جاره اللندني وست هام يونايتد بهدف دون رد، في إطار منافسات الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.

وواجه آرسنال نظيره وست هام يونايتد، ضمن منافسات الجولة السادسة والعشرين من الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز، على ملعب “الإمارات”.

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في الشوط الأول وعند الدقيقة 44، أحرز جارود بوين الهدف الأول لصالح وست هام من ضربة رأسية، سكنت شباك ديفيد رايا وذلك بعدما تلقى تمريرة عرضية من وان بيساكا.

في الشوط الثاني، أتيحت عدة فرص للاعبي آرسنال، من أجل تعديل نتيجة المباراة عن طريق كل من تروسارد ومارتن أوديجارد.

ولم يستطع لاعبو الجانرز، تشكيل أي خطورة على مرمى وست هام، طوال الشوط الثاني وحتى نهاية اللقاء إلا في مرات قليلة للغاية.

وبحلول الدقيقة 73، تحصل البديل لويس سكيلي على البطاقة الحمراء وذلك عقب إرتكابه مخالفة ضد محمد قدوس في وسط الملعب.

بذلك فشل آرسنال في تحقيق الفوز والنقاط الثلاث، ليوسع فارق النقاط مع ليفربول المتصدر إلى 8 نقاط قبل أن يخوض الريدز مواجهة الغد ضد مانشستر سيتي ومن الممكن أن يصل الفارق إلى 11 نقطة.

جدير بالذكر أن ليفربول قد خاض مباراة إضافية عن آرسنال، بملاقاة أستون فيلا في لقاء مبكر عن منافسات الجولة التاسعة والعشرين الذي انتهى بالتعادل الإيجابي بهدفين لكل فريق.

وبهذه النتيجة، تجمد رصيد آرسنال عند النقطة 53 في المركز الثاني في ترتيب الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز، بينما ارتفع رصيد وست هام يونايتد إلى النقطة 30 في المركز السادس عشر. أهداف مباراة آرسنال ووست هام اليوم في الدوري الإنجليزي 

Bangladesh beat Australia in a series for the first time in their history, and then put the exclamation point on it with a 4-1 scoreline. The star of the show in the final game in Dhaka that ended with a 60-run defeat for the visitors was allrounder Shakib Al Hasan, who bagged 4 for 9. After the match, he said Bangladesh were boosted by their 2-1 win against Zimbabwe last month, and were also motivated by the fact that teams like Australia don’t play them regularly.”There is always a motivation when you play the bigger teams – normally those which don’t visit our country that often,” Shakib said in an interaction with the media on Monday. “Also, we had a really good series in Zimbabwe and so everyone was pretty motivated to do well in this series as well. We had never won a series against Australia, and so this was our chance. Hence, we wanted to deliver well as a unit, which is what happened.”With his performance, Shakib also became just the second bowler to the landmark of a hundred wickets in T20Is, joining Lasith Malinga on the list. He now sits at 102 wickets – only five away from the Sri Lankan quick – at an average of 20.83 and an economy of just 6.80.”Any such achievement obviously feels good,” Shakib said. “This kind of personal achievement inspires you to do well for your side… I am really happy, and I feel I will be able to contribute for many more days and would be striving for that.”Much of Bangladesh’s four wins was down to their performances with the ball, with the hosts defending scores of 123, 128 and 132, besides limiting Australia to 121 in the second T20I and making them work hard to chase down 106 in the fourth game. Such low totals on pitches that aided turn – and where a change of pace and cutters were always effective – even led Dan Christian to say that conditions “don’t get more difficult”.Shakib too said batting was always a challenge, and added that performances in such conditions should not be judged too harshly.”We could have perhaps scored 10 or 15 more runs in every match, since we were in situations where doing it was possible,” he said. “But the wickets were so difficult [to bat on] that it was always tough for a new batsman [to play]. So it would be unfair to judge someone on the basis of just one series because the conditions were really tough for the batsmen.”