Having a run in the first team at such a young age does not mean that future progress will not be without potential setbacks.

Myles Lewis-Skelly broke into the Gunners team last season at the age of 18, and played and scored for England.

But this season, he has only started once in the Premier League – although he is a regular in the Champions League.

Arsenal winger Ethan Nwaneri is the only player to make his Premier League debut at a younger age than Dowman (15 years and 181 days – 54 days younger than his team-mate).

Last season, aged 17, he scored nine times in 37 appearances for the Gunners, but he joined Marseille on loan in January after struggling for game time this term.

Ward says Dowman’s family “have to get used to is the milestones of disappointment”.

“It’s important for the parents to handle it properly, to realise this could end at some point because of injury,” she said.

“There might be a point where he doesn’t get as much game time so he has to play for the under-21s or 23s. It’s how you then cope with that.

“To be fair to Arteta, when he played Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly, it was a necessity because they had injuries. That experience helped Arteta because you have to be a really brave manager to play a kid.

“For Arsenal it’s about managing the ups and downs, because it’s not a straight line. Hopefully that won’t be the best thing to happen to him as a player, but for plenty of players that has been the best thing in their career.”

Many of the players in the youngest 10 Premier League goalscorers ever went on to have hugely successful careers including James Milner, Wayne Rooney, Cesc Fabregas and Michael Owen.

But James Vaughan, the previous record holder before Dowman, spent the majority of his career in the EFL and retired aged 32 at League Two Tranmere.

“I don’t think it’s possible to stay fearless,” Vaughan told Sky Sports in 2021., external “As you become a first-team player regularly there’s people’s wages, jobs and careers on the line.

“You know you’re responsible for part of that, and you have to take that responsibility on. But as a kid you don’t have that so you can just go out and play and enjoy your football.”

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England to launch Six Nations investigation

England will launch a review into their dismal Six Nations campaign in the coming days after finishing the tournament with one win to their name.

The wooden spoon went to Wales for the third successive year despite their superb win over Italy on Super Saturday, but Steve Tandy’s side have come away from the championship with plenty to be positive about.

Having been billed as tournament whipping boys and fallen to heavy defeats to England and France, Wales got better week-on-week with impressive performances against Scotland and Ireland preceding their victory in the final round.

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For Steve Borthwick’s side, however, the picture looks quite different. Having been billed as potential Grand Slam winners before the tournament started following a run of 11 successive victories, their opening win over Wales was followed by a series of brutal defeats.

After losing the Calcutta Cup to Scotland, Borthwick’s men were on the receiving end of a record Irish away win at Twickenham and a first-ever defeat to Italy, before being edged 48-46 by France in a thrilling encounter in Paris on Saturday evening.

Their solitary victory meant England recorded their worst-ever return from a Six Nations campaign, finishing fifth in the table.

There was much improvement in the English performance against France, but the hugely disappointing campaign has seen pundits and fans call for Borthwick to be sacked, with many questions to be asked as bosses unpick what happened.

A group of senior rugby figures from inside and outside the RFU will now collect feedback from coaches and players about what went wrong over the coming days and weeks. While such a review is standard practice, the results will be eagerly awaited with next year’s Rugby World Cup on the horizon.

Wales duo star in cup mauling

Wales internationals Tommy Reffell and Gabriel Hamer-Webb helped Leicester Tigers to the PREM Rugby Cup title as they mauled a second-string Exeter Chiefs side 66-14 in the final.

A rain-soaked encounter at Welford Road saw Leicester dominate from start to finish, with a blistering first-half performance seeing them score four tries inside the first 30 minutes, with Will Wand scoring a brace and Archie van der Flier and Billy Searle also both crossing.

A further score from Searle gave the Tigers a commanding 35-0 lead, before Ross Vintcent pulled one back for the Chiefs on the stroke of half-time.

But Leicester picked up where they left off after the break, with prop Van der Flier scoring his second three minutes after the restart, before the referee awarded a penalty try to the Tigers after Exeter brought a maul down illegally on the line.

Will Haydon-Wood dotted down for Exeter shortly before the hour mark, but Leicester hit back immediately through newly-capped Wales star Hamer-Webb, with the wing squeezing over in the corner.

While they were already cruising to the title, Leicester refused to relent and Tarek Haffar scored before James O’Connor strolled over for a 10th try of the afternoon for the Tigers.

By the end, Exeter, who also lost in last year’s final, were waiting for the final whistle to sound, with Leicester winning the trophy for the first time.

Wainwright: Brighter times ahead for Wales

By Phil Blanche, Press Association

Aaron Wainwright believes brighter times lie ahead for Wales after their Six Nations drought was ended by a closing victory over Italy.

Wales won 31-17 in Cardiff on Saturday to end a 15-game losing streak in the tournament that stretched back to March 2023.

It was only Wales’ third win in 28 Tests – the other two were against Japan – and acts as a huge boost ahead of the inaugural Nations Championship this summer.

Wales kick off that campaign against Fiji at Cardiff City Stadium on July 4 before travelling to Argentina and South Africa on successive weekends.

“We started the campaign against England, and the first 20 minutes we were incredibly poor with our discipline and the accuracy wasn’t there,” said Leicester-bound back-rower Wainwright, who shrugged off a pre-game injury scare to score two tries and be named player of the match.

“How we’ve grown throughout the tournament could really set us up for when we come into the next campaign.

“Steve is really big on his care and connection and making sure we’re all aligned with what we want to achieve when we’re not in camp. So if we get that right over the next couple of months coming into summer tours we can really hit the ground running.”

Wales were cast as Six Nations whipping boys after conceding 102 points in disastrous opening defeats to England and France. But huge strides were made in narrow losses to Scotland and Ireland before a stunning opening 47 minutes against Italy, in which Wales stormed into a 31-0 lead, set up that elusive victory.

Wainwright said: “Given the circumstances of where we are as a country, in terms of our past results and performances, it’s great to get the win and end the campaign on a high.

“But if we are being realistic about it we probably should have had more wins from the campaign. Going forward hopefully this is a bit of momentum that we need to kick on and haul ourselves to those standards that we set here.”

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With crude oil prices incredibly volatile as the war in Iran continues, some countries are already warning they may run out of oil.

Pakistan and Bangladesh are both introducing emergency measures as petrol and diesel reserves come under pressure. Both countries are already closing down public buildings to reduce energy use and putting restrictions on fuel use. In Bangladesh the military are guarding oil depots and there are queues building up at petrol stations in Vietnam, Pakistan and the Philippines as prices escalate.

The case for diversifying energy supplies and having more power plants in your home country potentially means being less vulnerable to what happens in conflicts in other parts of the world. And that argument might well push a change in energy strategy for countries that are struggling with supplies right now.

China is already the world’s leading green‑tech manufacturing hub in solar panels, windmills and electric vehicles, and produces more than 70% of the world’s clean tech. So Beijing is in an ideal position to benefit from any growth in the green economy.

As Washington walks away from its climate commitments and continues to act unilaterally on the world stage, Beijing has an opportunity to step in and also enhance its reputation with other nations.

China can do this by continuing to export affordable green technologies, and finance low‑carbon projects. Over time, it could even share its expertise with nations abroad. The goodwill that these initiatives generate could help enhance its reputation and alliances with other countries.

Yet China’s leadership in green technology brings its own challenges. Strong state backing has fuelled rapid expansion in sectors such as solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries, creating significant overcapacity and even losses.

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And many Chinese manufacturers now depend on overseas sales to stay afloat, which has led to accusations of unfair competition and market flooding. China needs to address these issues, otherwise it risks turning a potential soft-power asset into a source of friction even as the US cedes its role as a global climate leader.

Greenhouse gas emissions

To be an international green economic leader, China may also need to continue to work on its own environmental practises. China remains the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and was once called the “air pollution capital of the world”.

From 2014 however, China has made strides in reducing air pollution.

There are some indications that China’s carbon dioxide emission have been falling since 2024, and its large-scale tree planting and forest reparation program has reduced sandstorms and land degradation across the country.

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Since the mid-1990s, China’s armed forces have rapidly modernised into a highly capable force. And its economy has been ranked as the world’s second largest since 2010. Yet, China’s willingness to use its growing trade and military influence to achieve its objectives has alarmed western governments and its regional neighbours.

China’s current strength lies in its hard power, which is the ability to get what it wants through economic and military might. But therein lies the problem. For a country that insists its rise is “peaceful”, this sort of aggression sends mixed signals. If China wishes other countries to see its ascent as benign and not threatening, it will need to rely less on coercion and more on attraction (soft power) to raise its image and limit the push back it receives, and enhancing its green image could be part of that.

But beyond its iconic panda diplomacy, which is the practice of sending giant pandas on long‑term loan to foreign zoos, China’s other notable soft-power tools have produced mixed results. Confucius Institutes, focusing on educational partnerships with foreign institutions, have faced political backlash in some countries, while China’s flagship economic initiative, the Belt and Road, has attracted both praise and criticism.

How Beijing responds to the growing oil crisis and its ability to grow green economic partnerships may give an indication of how it wants the rest of the world to see it in the future.

The 98th Annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 15 from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood with Conan O’Brien set to host the annual show

The biggest night in film is finally here, and the movies and stars that have been the talk of awards season are all set to face off at the most prestigious event of the year, The Academy Awards.

Some of the biggest names of the year will assemble at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on Sunday, March 15, where some will end the night with new hardware to add to their accolades for their work.

Going into Oscars night, some seem poised to have sure wins after dominating the entire season thus far, while others are new surprise contenders that could actually upend entire races after other unexpected wins. So who will win big? Here are our predictions for the night’s wins…

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Best Picture

Nominees: Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Train Dreams

Will win: One Battle After Another: The movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn and more, has by and large been the favorite throughout awards season, picking up trophies at nearly every major precursor award show. Its director, Paul Thomas Anderson, is also favored to win as best director, and the Academy rarely splits the win between director and film, giving it an edge.

Could win: Sinners: After winning the Actor Award for best ensemble, which can also serve as a precursor to a win, Sinners could pull a surprise upset at the last minute and usurp the moment that has been built for One Battle After Another all season. While the other film still has the edge, it isn’t impossible for Sinners to win, even if Anderson takes home Best Director. The Academy has split the awards 25 times in the past, most recently in 2021.

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Actor in a Leading Role

Nominees: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme; Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another; Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon; Michael B. Jordan, Sinners; Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Will Win: Toss-up between Timothée Chalamet and Michael B. Jordan, with a slight edge to Chalamet

Why it’s a toss-up: Chalamet has picked up at least two big awards in the lead-up to the Oscars, scoring both Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice wins for his role, but Michael B. Jordan pulled an unexpected upset at the Actor Awards, which has seriously increased the probability he could win the Oscar as well. The edge could still trend slightly towards Chalamet, however, due to his consistent presence at awards shows and propensity for nominations each year. Marty Supreme marks his third Best Actor nomination after Call Me By Your Name and A Complete Unknown–and the Academy does have a tendency to try and reward oft-nominated stars at some point. Jordan, meanwhile, is a first-time nominee.

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Actor in a Supporting Role

Nominees: Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another; Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein; Delroy Lindo, Sinners; Sean Penn, One Battle After Another; Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Will Win: Sean Penn: Penn is well-poised to take home his third Oscar in a row when it comes to his most recent nominations, after taking home Lead Actor trophies for both Mystic River and Milk. Now, in his first nomination in nearly 20 years, he is poised as the favorite to win for his role as Steven J. Lockjaw.

Actress in a Leading Role

Nominees: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet; Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue; Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value; Emma Stone, Bugonia

Will win: Jessie Buckley. The phrase “it’s just an honor to be nominated” has rung true at every other awards show this season, as those who have gone up against Buckley have yet to stand a chance at winning. The only other one to take home a trophy was Byrne at the Golden Globes–but she and Buckley were in separate categories.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Nominees: Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value; Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value; Amy Madigan, Weapons; Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners; Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Will Win: Amy Madigan: Amy Madigan appears poised to win after her Critics Choice and Actor Award wins, and is an overall favorite, though she could have a surprise upset.

Could Win: Wunmi Mosaku. If anyone pulls an upset, it is Mosaku, who won the BAFTA.

Directing

Nominees: Chloe Zhao, Hamnet; Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme; Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another; Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value; Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Will Win: Paul Thomas Anderson. Like Jessie Buckley, Anderson has dominated the director’s category and wins all awards season. While upsets aren’t impossible, it seems unlikely to happen here.

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Nominees: Bugonia, Will Tracy; Frankenstein, Guillermo Del Toro; Hamnet, Chloe Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell; One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson; Train Dreams, Clint Bentley and Greg Kewdar

Will Win: Paul Thomas Anderson. Like his domination as a director, Anderson has swept all prior Adapted Screenplay categories. He is the one to beat.

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Nominees: Blue Moon, Robert Kaplow; It Was Just An Accident, Jafar Panahi; Marty Supreme, Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie; Sentimental Value, Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier; Sinners, Ryan Coogler

Will Win: Ryan Coogler. While Paul Thomas Anderson has dominated the adapted screenplay category, Coogler has had the same success in the original screenplay category, making him the one to beat here

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Animated Feature Film: Arco, Elio, KPop Demon Hunters, Little Amelie or The Character of Rain, Zooptopia 2

Animated Short Film: Butterfly, Forevergreen, The Girl Who Cried Pearls, Retirement Plan, The Three Sisters

Casting: Nina Gold, Hamnet; Jennifer Venditti, Marty Supreme; Cassandra Kululkundis, One Battle After Another; Gabriel Domingues, The Secret Agent; Francine Maisler, Sinners

Cinematography: Dan Laustsen, Frankenstein; Darius Khondji, Marty Supreme; Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another; Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners; Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams

Costume Design: Deborah L. Scott, Avatar: Fire and Ash; Kate Hawley, Frankenstein; Malgosia Turzanska, Hamnet; Miyako Bellizzi, Marty Supreme; Ruth E. Carter, Sinners

Documentary Feature Film: The Alabama Solution, Come See Me in the Good Light, Cutting Through Rocks, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, The Perfect Neighbor

Documentary Short Film: All the Empty Rooms, Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, Children No More: “Were and Are Gone,” The Devil is Busy, Perfectly a Strangeness

Film Editing: Stephen Mirrione, F1; Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme; Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another; Olivier Bugge Coutte, Sentimental Value; Michael P. Shawver, Sinners

International Feature Film: The Secret Agent, Brazil; It Was Just an Accident, France; Sentimental Value, Norway; Sirat, Spain; The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia

Live Action Short Film: Butcher’s Stain, A Friend of Dorothy, Jane Austen’s Period Drama, The Singers, Two People Exchanging Saliva

Makeup and Hairstyling: Frankenstein, Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey; Kokuho, Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu; Sinners, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry; The Mashing Machine, Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein; The Ugly Stepsister, Thomas Foldberg and Anne Catherine Sauerberg

Music (Original Score): Jerskin Fendrix, Bugonia; Anexandre Desplat, Frankenstein; Max Richter, Hamnet; Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another; Ludwig Goransson, Sinners

Music (Original Song): Dear Me, Diane Warren: Relentless; Golden, KPop Demon Hunters; I Lied To You, Sinners; Sweet Dreams of Joy, Viva Verdi!; Train Dreams, Train Dreams

Production Design: Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sinners

Sound: F1, Frankenstein, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Sirat

Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire and Ash, F1, Jurassic World: Rebirth, The Lost Bus, Sinners

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Liverpool played host to Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Sunday afternoon, and Igor Tudor was spotted on live TV making quite the gaffe after making his way down the tunnel prior to kick-off

Igor Tudor seemingly mistook Allan Dixon for Arne Slot ahead of Tottenham Hotspur’s away trip to Liverpool on Sunday afternoon. The Croatian headed into the fixture with mounting pressure on his back, having failed to win any of his four matches since taking up an interim managerial role last month.

As things stand, Spurs sit 16th in the Premier League standings on 29 points alongside a 17th-place Nottingham Forest and an 18th West Ham – safe only via goal difference. And with just eight matches remaining in 2025/26, the plausibility of the 47-year-old helping the club avoid their first-ever relegation to the Championship seems to be dwindling by the day.

However, it was Tudor’s actions ahead of kick-off against Liverpool that caught the attention of fans worldwide, as he looked to have approached Dixon from behind thinking he was about to share a traditional pre-match handshake with Slot . After making his way out of the tunnel, Tudor tapped Dixon – who is Spurs’ player liaison officer – before putting his arm around him and briefly exchanging words.

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And one eagle-eyed social media user was quick to share a clip of the interaction online, writing: “Igor Tudor confused Alan Dixon for Arne Slot,” with a string of laughing emojis. The replies section of the post were also filled with sarcastic comments about Tudor’s struggles with Spurs, as well as what Dixon was doing on the touchline.

One person wrote: “Just like he confuses himself he’s a manager,” while another added: “Alan Dixon works for Spurs lol. He’s literally a colleague.”

A third said: “Why is Alan Dixon standing on the sideline like he is some sort of coach though?” while a fourth joked: “He was complimenting him on buying the same coat I think?”

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The alleged assault took place outside of the Zabka grocery store on Deane Road, Rumworth, at 7.45pm.

A GMP Bolton spokesperson said: “We are appealing for information for an assault which took place outside of Zabka on Deane Road, Bolton on the 14th March 2026 at approximately 19:45.

“If you have any information, please contact 101 or utilise LiveChat at ‘Contact us’, Greater Manchester Police, quoting log 2782 of the 14th March 2026.”

According to Greater Manchester Police, officers were called to the scene after men were seen fighting in the area.

Around 10 other people were seen to be watching the fight.

One of the men is reported to have punched another man in the face.

Officers are currently investigating the incident, and are appealing for members of the public to come forward with information.

It all started with a set-piece, as so many Premier League games seem to these days, but by the end Manchester United’s 3-1 win over Aston Villa had become an advert for the benefits of good old fashioned wingers and number nines.

Much has been made of the role of set-pieces in the league as several sides have struggled to reliably create goals from open play, but in the end United took a giant leap towards next season’s Champions League in a more familiar manner, with Matheus Cunha the star as he and Benjamin Sesko sealed the result.

In the end, a 3-1 win for Michael Carrick’s side takes them three points clear of the Villans in the battle for the top five, but while it’s a win that puts United in an enviable position, it was a scoreline that flattered the hosts.

It was a performance that was not as convincing as the result suggests. In the end it followed a similar blueprint for Carrick’s United, but this time around the tried-and-tested method raised a different conclusion.

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Recent United games have been defined by Benjamin Sesko cameos, with the Slovenian striker coming off the bench to score against Fulham, West Ham and Everton. That was the case again this afternoon, and while the 22-year-old didn’t net a winner this time, it was a cameo that might have convinced Carrick to take a different route forward for the rest of the season.

The interim United boss once again chose Bryan Mbeumo to start as a lone striker at Old Trafford – as he had for six of his previous eight matches in charge – while Sesko settled for a place on the bench, the plan seemingly to bring him on around the 70th minute as has worked to great effect previously.

However, once again United laboured in the absence of a recognised striker in the starting line-up, the hosts struggling to create clear-cut chances despite a few threatening crosses.

While it might not have been the case in other games, this time round it was a display that clearly underlined the need for a recognised striker on the pitch, Diogo Dalot wasting a golden chance from close range while Mbeumo toiled in attack. The Cameroon international did not possess enough of a box presence, and failed to take the chance of a near-post run across the defender to get onto the end of a superb Dalot cross.

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When the opener did come it was via a familiar route, Casemiro glancing in a header from a corner. Old Trafford was buoyed but Villa soon hit back, Ross Barkley finishing well and taking United back to square one.

And while Mbeumo continued to struggle in a lone striker role – often too isolated against Mings and Konsa – United finally got joy from the left wing, Matheus Cunha making a perfect run before curling a brilliant finish into the far corner for 2-1.

It was a goal that underlined Cunha’s status as the club’s most exciting and effective winger, the Brazilian providing a threat with a clever run inside the full-back and once again proving a difference-maker, as he did against Palace.

Carrick reacted to retaking the lead by making his favourite substitution. Sesko replaced Mbeumo in the 75th minute and the Stretford End sang the Cameroonian’s name as he made his way to the bench. But while he came off to a standing ovation, it didn’t take long for his replacement to illustrate exactly why he should be the one starting every game.

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Within six minutes of his introduction Sesko was once again on the scoresheet, the youngster firing in to effectively kill the game in the 81st minute. Cunha provided the width before taking the ball down brilliantly to get into the box. While his cross wasn’t a great one, Sesko then pounced on the loose ball, turning it in via a fortunate deflection. It was precisely the natural striker instinct that Mbeumo had failed to show throughout his cameo.

While it was a fortunate third for the hosts it was one that featured the exact type of wing play and striking nous that has been lacking earlier on. It sealed the three points but while everything seems rosy at United, obvious improvements can be made.

Mbeumo’s striker experiment has not failed as such – in fact, it worked to great effect in the wins over Manchester City and Arsenal – but it is something that should be reserved for very specific circumstances.

Carrick has Sesko to thank for grabbing at least 10 points with pivotal goals and another important goal for the 22-year-old proves that he is ready for a starting berth. Surely Carrick can now see that making him a regular starter is the blueprint for the next step in his interim revolution.

Lauren James returned to haunt her former club, Manchester United, again as she spearheaded Chelsea to victory in the Women’s League Cup final.

James, who left United to join Chelsea in 2021, opened the scoring in the 19th minute before Aggie Beever-Jones netted the decisive strike in the second half.

James, who signed a new contract to keep her at Chelsea until 2030, has missed much of this season through injury but has been slowly returning to form.

She was pivotal in England’s victory over Iceland last weekend and she was at the heart of everything Chelsea did in this final.

James put her hand to her ear after opening the scoring in front of United’s fans, who booed her for much of the game. A mistake at the back from United allowed the forward to score the game’s first goal – and her sixth against her former side in her last seven games.

Dominique Janssen mis-hit a back-pass to Phallon Tullis-Joyce and James stole possession before the forward sent a cool finish past the United goalkeeper.

United twice went close to equalising before half-time. Elisabeth Terland sent a shot against the crossbar before Ellen Wangerheim fired wide from close-range.

Chelsea were without a number of players because of injuries while Ellie Carpenter and Sam Kerr are participating in the Asia Cup for Australia. It meant head coach Sonia Bompastor was forced to start a makeshift back-four, with Kadeisha Buchanan making her first start since returning from an ACL injury. Buchanan could only play 62 minutes before making way for Nathalie Bjorn, who had not played since December 2.

But Bjorn lasted just five minutes before being forced off with a calf injury, as the defender headed down the tunnel in tears. With three of Chelsea’s back four playing out of position, United should have been the team pressing for a goal. But Chelsea found a second goal in the 77th minute, as Beever-Jones poked home a cross from Johanna Rytting Kaneryd.

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week, who was killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, was a Hezbollah commander, Israel’s military claimed Sunday.

Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in Lebanon along with three other of the attacker’s relatives on March 5 — a week before authorities allege Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his car into a major synagogue outside Detroit and killed himself after security fired at him.

The FBI’s Detroit office, which is investigating the attack, declined to comment on the claims by Israel’s military about Ibrahim Ghazali.

“Out of respect for the ongoing investigation, we will continue to refrain from commenting on its substance,” FBI spokesman Jordan Hall said in an email Sunday.

The AP was not immediately able to verify the claim that Ibrahim Ghazali was a militant.

The Israeli military alleges Ibrahim Ghazali was a Hezbollah commander who managed weapons for a unit that fired rockets at Israel.

A Lebanese official, who requested anonymity because he could not publicly discuss details of the airstrike, has confirmed Ibrahim Ghazali’s death, telling the AP that Ghazali’s children, Ali and Fatima, and brother, Kassim, were also killed in the strike that hit their home just after sunset.

Authorities have said that Ayman Ghazali, 41, carried out the synagogue attack after learning that four of his family members were killed in the Israeli strike.

Israel has stepped up attacks on the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon as the war with Iran has spread violence across the Middle East.

On Thursday, Ayman Ghazali waited in his car outside Temple Israel, near Detroit, for about two hours with a rifle, commercial grade fireworks and jugs of liquid believed to be gasoline, before crashing into the building full of dozens of children, according to authorities.

He started firing his gun through the windshield, exchanging fire with an armed security guard. Ghazali fatally shot himself after he got stuck in his vehicle and the engine caught fire, said Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit field office. No staffers or children inside the synagogue were hurt, likely due to beefed up security in recent months.

The FBI, which is leading the investigation, described the attack on one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues as an act of violence targeting the Jewish community, but said that they didn’t have enough evidence yet to call it an act of terror.

Ghazali came to the U.S. in 2011 on an immediate relative visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen and was granted U.S. citizenship in 2016, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

He lived in a single-story brick home in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights about 38 miles (61 kilometers) south of the synagogue.

The attack on the Michigan synagogue took place on the same day as a former Army National Guard member who served years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State opened fire on a classroom at Old Dominion University in Virginia, killing one person and wounding two others.

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Mroue reported from Beirut.

SPECIAL REPORT: The developer behind Farnworth Green said that the issues risk ‘squandering this once in a generation opportunity to make the centre of town fantastic’

A new housing development hailed as the catalyst of a town’s regeneration is being ‘terrorised’ by gangs of youths, residents say.

Farnworth Green, a long-campaigned for redevelopment of the 1970s market precinct in the town centre, was completed in late 2024, following two years of construction. The 97 flats and town-houses built are fully let to residential tenants.

However, a Manchester Evening News investigation has found some residents are set to leave the development when their initial tenancy agreement ends.

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They say they are not going because of the build quality of the apartments, its location or rent levels, but purely due to feeling unsafe due to persistent anti-social behaviour from young people, often wearing balaclavas, gathering in the area and misbehaving.

Residents have told of break-ins, attempted muggings and stones thrown at them, along with racial and sexual abuse directed at them in public areas.

One tenant said some were considering taking matters into their own hands and ‘it’s only a matter of time until one of us gets arrested’.

A recent incident saw the communal square between the two blocks vandalised, with a tree, plants and shrubs torn out and launched through open flat windows and onto balconies.

Tim Heatley, the co-founder of Farnworth Green’s developer, Capital & Centric said the issues threaten to ‘squander this once in a generation opportunity’ to regenerate the town.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said a new team of officers was operating in the town centre and pledged to address the behaviour of the youths.

They encouraged those affected to report incidents so that resources could be diverted to the area.

Matt Jones, 26, has lived at Farnworth Green since July 2025. He said that due to the issues he and his partner would be moving out when their year long tenancy agreement ends.

“Like many of the other residents, we’ve felt consistently terrorised by the anti-social behaviour here,” he said.

“Many of us are scared to leave our homes after 5pm because they all hang around outside the building and have broken in numerous times.”

In January Matt was the victim of an attempted phone robbery while on the public square at Farnworth Green.

He said: “I was walking towards Asda down Brackley Street and as I turned past the Coffee House two lads on bikes wearing balaclavas were approaching me from behind. “The first one rammed into my back, trying to knock me down, luckily he didn’t, and the second one went to swipe my phone out of my pocket.”

On March 5, the town centre police team held a public meeting at Farnworth Green with tenants, other town centre residents and business owners.

One man shared his frustration with officers: “It’s eventually going to get to the point where one of us is going to get arrested,” he said.

“People are moving out, how much time do you need?”

Around 30 minutes in, the meeting was briefly interrupted after young people on bikes were spotted at the windows of the Rivington suite, apparently filming those inside with phones. A police officer and a PCSO immediately went outside to speak to them.

One woman told the meeting: “It’s been 12 months of pretty much the same kids. “The other day we had an incident of criminal damage, they snapped a tree, flipped a bench over pulled a loads of plants out and chucked them through people’s open window and balconies.

“It’s the groups hanging around the area, it is anti-social – shouting, racial abuse, verbal abuse and throwing stones at people.”

Another woman, said: “As residents we feel very threatened. When you see a big group of boys, whether they do things or not it threatening.

“As a person of colour I’ve been targeted with racial slurs and had stones thrown at me while walking. “We need to feel safe in out own flats, we have a right to that.

“At the moment it’s so threatening to even walk from our flats to Asda, which is a very short distance.”

Recent messages on a residents’ group reveal that other tenants intend to move out because of the issues.

One said: “We have called the police three times regarding this, nothing has been done. “The night we moved into our apartment one of them shot a firework right next to our puppy, absolutely terrified her, since then she’s been petrified of fireworks and bangs. “Unfortunately, we’ll be moving out in May.”

Another, said: “I’ve been basically moved out for months – the kids are constant and the police are doing nothing. “I don’t feel safe and my car isn’t safe either.

“I hate that people in this development are becoming victims to these degenerate kids and I hate that I’ve wasted so much money on a place that is unsafe to live in.”

GMP have encouraged tenants encountering issues around the complex to report it to them. Farnworth community Sgt Emily Fogg said every incident from Farnworth Green would be reviewed and reports were never ‘lost in the system’.

She added data would be used to divert police resources to where they are needed.

She said: “I know the data we have for this area does not reflect what’s actually happening here at all. “The reports we get are absolutely less than what you’re experiencing.

“If we get the repeat addresses where trouble is happening, repeat offenders, repeat victims, having that data from all the different lines of communication – then something has got to be done about it.

“Without that data it’s really difficult for us to campaign to senior leadership who have control of where resources are deployed. “That’s why engagement and reporting is important even if you you not get a cop coming to you.”

She also stressed the importance of CCTV and phone video evidence of issues to identify offenders.

Farnworth town centre PCSO Dougie Tamuno said the police and community would have a fresh start in Farnworth.

He said “We need to move forward and learn, because now we’ve got new team. “If we know the names of the individuals, we can put that to the faces.

“A lot of them a all ballied up but we will try and identify them.”

The police and community meeting explored sanctions and consequences if culprits are identified.

The discussion explored the work of the youth ASB pathway and the tools available to the police, including referrals, exclusion orders, warnings and bail conditions as the criminal element is progressed.

Attendees also heard about possible tenancy warnings to parents of culprits and working with schools and youth clubs.

Practical solutions were also discussed around investments in the town centre CCTV system and high street lighting and modernising communication channels between town centre businesses.

Ollo, the management company who run Farnworth Green, said they were ‘doing everything we can’ to work with the police on the issues.

Ollo said employing private security guards at the complex could ‘create a cat and mouse situation’ as they do not have the powers of police.

A spokesman, added: “We are becoming increasingly frustrated about the ongoing issues with local youths, anti-social behaviour, criminal damage to our green, intimidation and verbal abuse.

“We need to push for a police presence and not have the attitude ‘there’s nothing we can do’. “Report every incident to the police – it takes five minutes to report an incident online.

“If it’s not reported, it doesn’t exist in official records and the police need accurate data to understand the scale and severity of what’s happening.”

Tim Heatley is the co-founder of Capital & Centric, the developers behind Farnworth Green. He said: “We share the frustration at this. “It’s upsetting to hear these comments from tenants.

“We are aware of these issues and are deeply frustrated. “This development for Farnworth is a once in a generation investment.

“The physical space we’ve created and the management team we’ve put in there are great, that’s the positive side.

“But I’m worried that of we don’t get this next bit right, the policing side of it, we’re going to squander this once in a generation opportunity to make the centre of Farnworth fantastic.”