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      Major change to rules in youth football matches announced after two year trial

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      HEADING is being outlawed from youth football matches in England, it was announced yesterday.It will be banned for the next three seasons under a new rule for all leagues, clubs and affiliated school matches, the Football Association says.The change will cover all under-seven to under-nine matches in 2024-25, before expanding to include under-ten level from 2025-26 and under-11s the following season.Deliberately heading the ball will result in the opposition being awarded an indirect free-kick.The indirect free-kick will be taken at the point where the ball was deliberately headed. If the ball was deliberately headed in the penalty area, the game will restart from the nearest sideline.READ MORE FOOTBALL NEWSIt follows a two-season International Football Association Board trial.Ex-professional footballers are more than three times as likely to be diagnosed with dementia than the general population.The FA said about 16,000 teams and 107,000 players participated in the Ifab trial, launched in 2022.The ruling body said: “Our aim is to create more opportunities for players with the ball at their feet.”Most read in FootballIn 2021 it was recommended professional footballers in England should be limited to 10 “higher force headers” a week in training.Akanda FC player Herman Tsinga dies after collapsing on the pitch following a header More

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      Eddie Hearn touts Liam Dillon vs Reece Bellotti as ‘British old-school classic’ ahead of NXTGEN’s seven-year anniversary

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      NEARLY seven years ago, Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing made a decision that would change the futures of prospects for years to come.For years, the promotion had performed a juggling act balancing showcasing their prospects’ respective rises up the ranks on big shows and filling cards with pay-per-view worthy fights.
      Matchroom Boxing began their NXTGEN shows back in March 2017Credit: MATCHROOM BOXING
      The likes of Jordan Gill have graduated from the series and become household namesCredit: SPORRTSFILE
      2020 Olympic gold medallist Galal Yafai has also featured on the NXTGen SeriesCredit: RICHARD PELHAM
      Matchroom Boxing supremo Eddie Hearn is thrilled with NXTGEN’s successCredit: SPORTSFILE
      Aware of the importance of doing justice to their up-and-comers and preparing them for bigger showcases to come, Matchroom created their wildly-popular NXTGEN series.
      The series has been a rip-roaring success, helping make the likes of Felix Cash, Jordan Gill and Galal Yafai – to name just a few – go from previous unknowns to household names.
      And to say NXTGEN is one of Hearn’s proudest achievements during his time at the Matchroom helm would be a major understatement.
      Hearn told SunSport: “It’s been great because a lot of the younger generation don’t get the opportunity to fight deep on the card.
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      “You’ve got guys that are headlining and co-main eventing.
      “The pressure of being in the press conference this week as the main event or a TV fight, a lot of guys that you bring through fight at five o’clock, six o’clock and you want to try to get them on the main card.
      “This is the opportunity to showcase them and build their profiles because you can’t be hiding that talent.
      “You have to show everybody how exciting and how good that next generation of talent is and eventually bring them on to the main shows at the big arenas.”
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      Reece Bellotti tops the bill of the latest NXTGEN show against Liam Dillon nearly seven years to the day since headlining the series’ first cardCredit: MATCHROOM BOXING
      NXTGEN’s maiden event was headlined by then-featherweight Reece Bellotti, who fittingly tops the bill of this weekend’s card at The Indigo at the O2 Arena just a few weeks shy of the seventh anniversary of his clash with Dai Davies.
      The British and Commonwealth Super Featherweight titles will be spoils for Bellotti this time around, provided he can get past undefeated Chingford clubber Liam Dillon.
      Eddie Hearn told Anthony Joshua some distressing news at Francis Ngannou press conference
      The match-up is, in the eyes of many, a throwback to domestic dust-ups of yesteryear
      “It’s old school, an old school classic this Saturday,” Hearn said of the clash of 130lbs tussle.
      “You’ve got a young guy in Liam Dillon against one of our favourites in Reece Bellotti – who has been up, been down, a very popular kid from Watford as well.
      “He’s won commonwealth titles. And it’s just one of those really good British old-school classics.
      “They won’t take a step back, both guys throw hundreds and hundreds of punches.
      “Both guys have got good chins, both guys can crack a bit.”
      Hearn has likened the tasty domestic super-featherweight clash to an ‘old-school’ British classicCredit: MATCHROOM BOXING
      This weekend’s main event isn’t the only fight veteran promoter Hearn is looking forward to.
      The 44-year-old said: “The undercard has also got some of our best young talent on it.
      “Cameron Vuong in a step up, Shannon Ryan – who looks like a future world champion.
      “Craig Richards back in action as well – and John Hedges as well.”
      Matchroom have an extremely exciting stable of prospects on their books, including the likes of Jordan Flynn, Hopey Price and the previously aforementioned Vuong.
      And with the continued benefits the NXTGEN platform provides, Hearn believes it’s only a matter of time before we see them competing in big and more meaningful fights.
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      He said: “These NXTGEN cards are about showcasing the future of the sport.
      “Some of these guys are going to fight for world championships in big arenas and this is a platform to bring them through.” More

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      Jake Humphrey reveals why he left BT Sport and opens up on awful bullying he ‘would not wish on worst enemy’

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      JAKE HUMPHREY has revealed he quit BT Sport for his family – as he launched an attack on social media abuse and recalled childhood bullying he “would not wish on my worst enemy”.The presenter says he “struggles with the modern world” and gets a stomach-wrenching feeling when he drops his kids off at school – due to the “nasty” treatment he received in the same setting.
      Jake Humphrey is glad to have stepped back from TV presentingCredit: Getty
      The broadcaster says his school dealt badly with his bullyingCredit: Getty
      The former Champions League broadcaster, 45, is now more focused on his High Performance podcast and also wrote How to Change Your Life.
      And he explained how he was “not always that comfortable” as a TV frontman, partly as “the lads-y banter thing is not for me”.
      The ex-BBC Formula One presenter admitted being ill at ease dealing with “firm opinions” on BT Sport, rather than more subtle debate.
      Humphrey told The Telegraph:  “I often felt I was doing High Performance all week, and empathy and understanding and leaning into people. Then, on Saturday, I was having conversations about sacking managers and dropping players, criticising decisions made by referees.
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      “I’d been dreaming for a long time, but not brave enough to take a leap.”
      He is also aghast at how toxic life online can be, having spoken out against “chauvinistic and nasty bullying” received by presenter Karen Carney.
      Humphrey said of trolling: “I think you would be a sociopath or something if it didn’t get through the armour sometimes.
      “I’ve always thought that if you just let this stuff go you are as complicit as anybody.
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      “The only place that reaction happens is on Twitter. No one has ever stopped me in the street and said it… I just feel exactly like I felt when I got bullied at school.”
      The former children’s game show presenter then relived some of the abuse he got at secondary school.
      He said: “When we drop the kids off, I still get the feeling in the pit of my stomach when I see them walking off with the bag over their shoulder.
      “It still triggers me to this day… God, the feeling of having to do that day after day after day, knowing what awaited. 
      “There were these two buses in the school car park and I’d go and sit in there on my own and just have my lunch.”
      Humphrey also believes his school’s handling of the matter only made him feel worse.
      He added: “At that age, particularly at that time, people didn’t really know how to deal with it. 
      “I was asked to stand up in assembly and the teacher said, ‘Can people stop bullying this guy?’ That just brings more heat.” More

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      I was kicked out of school at 16 for swearing at a teacher – now I make £45,000 a MONTH and I’m a boxing champion

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      A MAN who was kicked out of school at 16 for swearing at a teacher claims he now makes £45,000 a month and is a boxing champion.Teshi Cheema, 22, from Leeds, was raised by his grandparents in nearby Micklefield after his mum died unexpectedly.
      Teshi Cheema is a Thai boxing champion
      The entrepreneur said he was a disruptive and abusive towards his teachers at school.
      He told LeedsLive: “I was always cracking jokes, being immature, being a nuisance, trying to p*** off of my teachers.
      “Literally doing anything I could to not do any work, I would not do work.”
      Matters came to a head when Teshi, then 16, was put in isolation by his head of year.
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      Teshi said: “I just didn’t agree with it and I started swearing at him.
      “We got quite close to each other and it nearly was an altercation and teachers did come out.
      “That was just the last straw and I got suspended.”
      Teshi’s record of bad behaviour stopped him from attending the local sixth form, and he left school with a string of rock-bottom grades.
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      His life only turned around when he took up Thai boxing at university after watching fights on YouTube.
      Teshi’s grandad Dilip drove him to training four days a week, patiently waiting in his car during the sessions.
      Dilip never missed a fight – and was in the crowd for the recent title fight in Leeds where Teshi won the British Thai Boxing Belt.
      Teshi has turned professional and manages 16 properties through his business House of Cheema – claiming he rakes in £45,000 a month.
      He now makes more in a month than he did in a year at his previous job as a Morrisons worker.
      The entrepreneur said he sometimes bumps into his old teachers – and is proud to tell them how he has turned his life around. More

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      Footie-mad lad, 6, stuns classmates at his school’s Halloween disco — by dressing as Man City’s Jack Grealish

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      A FOOTIE-mad six-year-old trumped classmates when he arrived at his school’s Halloween disco — dressed as Manchester City’s Jack Grealish.Nairn Rodgers put on the club’s kit and scraped his hair back in a band like his midfield hero before drawing on stubble.
      Nairn Rodgers stunned his classmates when he went as his footy idol for a Halloween school disco
      Jack Grealish is Nairn’s favourite playerCredit: Avalon.red
      His fancy dress inspiration came three days after Nairn fulfilled his dream of watching Grealish, 28, play and he got to tour City’s Etihad Stadium.
      Parents Jordan Rodgers, 26, and Michaela Goodwin drove him 200 miles for last Saturday’s 2-1 win over Brighton to celebrate his upcoming seventh birthday.
      Michaela, 23, said: “Jack Grealish is his favourite player and we’re proud of him and how much he suited the costume and actually looked like Grealish.
      “Other kids went as scary pumpkins, witches, Encanto, but no other footballers. Unfortunately, they don’t do prizes for best dressed any more.”
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      Nairn, who goes to Machanhill Primary in Larkhall, near Glasgow, plays football for his local team.
      Michaela added: “He’s only six but football is his everything.
      “He wants to be a footballer. It’s all he ever does and has done from when he could kick a ball.
      “His room is filled with Manchester City posters, football cards, scarves, and he has two strips.”
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      Nairn now has fans of his own.
      After Michaela posted snaps of his Jack outfit on Facebook, Tracy Robson wrote: “Looks like him so much.”
      Amy Crawford said: “I’m howling. Why, he’s like a proper wee man.”
      Man City fan Nairn fulfilled his dream of visiting the Etihad and watching Jack play More

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      Jude Bellingham’s incredible dream to play for BARCELONA leaked… hours before Real Madrid star plays in El Clasico

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      JUDE BELLINGHAM had the one dream you keep secret before your El Clasico debut.That’s if a school ‘snitch’ is to be believed!
      Judging by his expression in training as Real Madrid prepare for El Clasico against Barcelona, perhaps Jude Bellingham knows his ‘guilty secret’ is outCredit: EPA
      Bellingham’s head was in the clouds if this display board is true
      The new £115m Real star has amazing stats in his first LaLiga campaignCredit: Reuters
      Revealing that Bellingham loved Adam Sandler movies might be considered embarrassing enough.
      But the kid who claims he was a Year 10 colleague of Real Madrid’s new hero also insisted England’s hottest talent wanted to play for BARCELONA.
      Bellingham lines up at Real’s fiercest rivals on Saturday after 11 goals in 12 games since his £115million arrival from Borussia Dortmund.
      The midfielder was signed more for his all-round gifts than his strike rate.
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      So the 20-year-old has made a staggering start to his career in Spain by anyone’s standards.
      But – according to a TikTok post from a ‘school-mate’ – Bellingham had OPPOSITE plans for his life in LaLiga when he was aged about 10.
      Photos uploaded to the social media site include a display board disclosing the kids’ fantasies for the future.
      And a scrapbook is notable for a photo apparently of the ex-Birmingham ace, captioned: “Point of view: You went to primary school with Jude Bellingham.”
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      The young Brummie is outed as an admirer of Sandler – who by then had featured in The Wedding Guy and The Waterboy but has more recently had top roles in Hustle and Uncut Gems.
      Bellingham is said to have listed talking too much as a bad habit – ironic as he seems so mature, relaxed and natural in interviews.
      And then came the killer confession under a section headed: “When I grow up I want to be…”
      In the top right the purported answer from Bellingham is: “A professional footballer for Barcelona and England.”
      If true, it was certainly a dream of two halves.
      He’s already won 27 caps after becoming the Three Lions’ third-youngest player ever – aged 17 years and 136 days against the Republic of Ireland in November 2020 aged 17.
      But playing for Barca at any stage would be a sensational development after he joined ‘El Clasico enemies’ Real in June this year. More

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      England’s Lionesses squeeze back into school uniforms in photoshoot for BBC Children In Need

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      ENGLAND’S Lionesses squeeze into some old kit for BBC Children In Need.Footie stars Demi Stokes, 31, Leah Williamson, 26, and Chloe Kelly, 25, recreated their school days in clothes like their old uniforms.
      Leah Williamson in her school uniform for Children In Need
      Chloe Kelly in her school uniform for Children In Need
      The trio also wore Pudsey Bear lapel pins to mark the TV fundraiser, which is held next month.
      Earlier this month England’s Lionesses were understood to be seeking around £100,000 each in bonuses had they won the World Cup Down Under.
      After losing 1-0 to Spain in the final, they were willing to accept half that amount.
      According to the Mail, players were set for “crunch talks” with FA chiefs.
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      They claim that players are “aware” of their possible actions and could choose to press on with the “nuclear option” of ceasing all commercial work for the FA.
      It’s even claimed that they could refuse to play until a resolution is reached, although this option has “not yet been directly suggested”.
      England’s pay from the FA is currently negotiated before or after each tournament – although players want more “clarity” moving forward.
      This cash pot comes from prize money and commercial revenue received by the FA for the players’ performances.
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      Prior to the women’s World Cup, the FA imposed commercial restrictions on their own players.
      This was because chiefs were concerned that individual player deals could upset their own.
      Demi Stokes in her school uniform for Children In Need More

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      Millions to cheer on celebs and footie stars today at fundraising match Game4Ukraine

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      MILLIONS will today cheer on celebs and footie stars in a Ukraine fundraising match — with the biggest roar at a school blitzed by Russia.Teachers and pupils will tune in to watch the Game4Ukraine — which hopes to raise £1.3million to rebuild the school
      Alex Zinchenko, right, and former Ukrainian international Andriy Shevchenko will take part in Game4UkraineCredit: AFP
      The players pose with President Zelensky as they revealed plans for the fundraiserCredit: AFP
      Shevchenko and Zinchenko survey the damage in Mykhailo-KotsiubynskCredit: AFP
      The televised match at Chelsea FC is the idea of Ukraine footie legend Andriy Shevchenko and Arsenal’s Ukrainian ace Oleksandr Zinchenko.
      Among those playing will be Gianfranco Zola, Robert Pires, X Factor star James Arthur and comic Russell Howard.
      The Mykhailo-Kotsiubynsky school’s head Mykola Shpak, said: “We cannot thank people enough.”
      The terrified youngsters cowered in a basement as the missile slammed into their science block, wiping out three entire classrooms and badly damaging scores more.
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      The kids then endured a month of hell as Putin’s troops occupied their remote village near Chernihiv, abducting and murdering locals and smashing down doors to steal food.
      Former Gunners boss Arsene Wenger and Chelsea’s women coach Emma Hayes will manage the two sides who will play in Ukraine colours as the Yellow Team and the Blue team. More