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Ireland assistant boss John O’Shea keeps in contact with Liam Delap as Ireland monitor potential allegiance switch

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Ireland assistant boss John O’Shea keeps in contact with Liam Delap as Ireland monitor potential allegiance switch

JOHN O’SHEA has kept in contact with Liam Delap about a possible switch to Ireland.

Delap’s father Rory won eight caps for Ireland. He qualified through his Donegal father and mother from Leitrim.

Liam Delap of Ipswich Town is son of former Ireland star Rory

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Liam Delap of Ipswich Town is son of former Ireland star Rory
Ireland assistant head coach John O'Shea has been in contact with the England ace

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Ireland assistant head coach John O’Shea has been in contact with the England ace

Delap – who joined Ipswich Town from Manchester City this summer – – has played for England up to Under-21 level.

Lining out for them last month, having turned 21 in February, ties him to the Three Lions but it is believed FIFA may raise the bar to 22 years of age which could open the door again for him to change allegiance.

And Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrímsson has left it to assistant O’Shea – who played alongside Rory for the Boys In Green – to keep the lines of communication open.

Hallgrímsson said: I just know his qualities. In the end it’s always up to the player himself.

“He knows that we are interested. He knows that. We talked about it before the last camp.

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“John has been in contact with him before. He has more connections to the player than me so no reason to have three, four guys doing the same.”

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Karen Bardsley column: Is England’s number one shirt in Hannah Hampton’s hands?

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Keating, who only turned 20 in the summer, exceeded expectation with City last season, and performed well above expected levels, in terms of the shots she saved.

That earned her an England call-up at the end of 2023, but she has been rotated with Ayaka Yamashita this season, and has not started a WSL game.

Moorhouse is much older at 29 and has not had a straightforward path into the England set-up – she was only called up for the first time in the summer, and is yet to win a full cap, but the way she is playing at the moment is what justifies her place.

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Equally, you could argue Sophie Baggaley deserves to be in the squad based on how well she’s playing for Brighton, but Moorhouse’s selection is a reminder to everyone that just because someone is not playing in the WSL, it doesn’t mean they are not capable players.

Moorhouse left the WSL in 2020 to move to Bordeaux in France and, since 2022, has been with Orlando Pride in the United States.

Her story is an example of how all players need to find coaches and environments where they feel comfortable, understood and allowed to do what they are good at. It’s also a reminder that no one’s path is every straightforward or easy and that you have to be determined and resilient to make it to the top.

If you put all of that together, that’s how you see the best of any player and, in the past and present, it applies to Hampton and Earps too.

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Karen Bardsley was speaking to BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.



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Sakshi Malik reveals Brij Bhushan Singh’s attempts to molest her, in autobiography- The Week

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Olympic bronze medal-winning former wrestler Sakshi Malik has revealed in her autobiography, Witness, that ex-Wrestling Federation of India chief and former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh tried to molest her.

The incident took place during the 2012 Asian Junior Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where Malik, then 19, won her first gold medal in the 63kg category, she wrote in the book, excerpts of which were carried in a Times of India report.

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Post her win, she was taken to Singh’s room to speak to her parents on the phone.

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“[Brij Bhushan Sharan] Singh connected me to my parents. It seemed harmless. When I spoke to them telling them about my match and my medal, I remember thinking that perhaps nothing unsavoury might happen after all,” Malik wrote in her autobiography.

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“But right after I ended the call, he tried to molest me while I was seated on his bed. I pushed him off and started to cry.”

Malik further wrote that Singh stepped back after that, probably after he realised that she would not give in. “He started saying that he had put his arms around me ‘papa jaise’ (as a father would).

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“But I knew that was not what it was. I ran out of his room all the way back to mine, weeping.”

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Malik, along with Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, were at the forefront of the protest against Singh, alleging he had sexually harassed women wrestlers during his tenure as the WFI chief. The case is being heard in a Delhi court.

Malik also revealed that she was molested in her childhood by a tuition teacher but she could not tell her family. “… I thought it was my fault. My tuition teacher from my school days used to harass me. He would call me over to his place for classes at odd times and sometimes tried to touch me. I was scared to go for my tuition classes but I could never tell my mom.”

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Oxford boss forced to have medical attention post-match with players ‘shocked and upset’ after he was rushed home

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OXFORD UNITED manager Des Buckingham was given medical attention last night following the club’s draw at home to Derby.

Nathaniel Mendez-Laing’s equaliser cancelled out Tottenham loanee Dane Scarlett‘s 12th minute opener – but the game was overshadowed by concerns for the home side’s manager.

Des Buckingham felt dizzy on the touchline and was taken home after doctors gave him medical attention

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Des Buckingham felt dizzy on the touchline and was taken home after doctors gave him medical attentionCredit: Rex

Buckingham’s assistant Craig Short said after the game: “He was feeling dizzy in the last half an hour and kept walking from pitch side to the dugout.

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“He spent some time holding onto the rails by the dugout talking to the club doctor and told me he could just about shake hands at the end.”

He added: “The doctor is treating him now and we feel it is probably best that he gets off home as quickly as possible.

“The players were all a bit shocked and upset when we told them.”

Oxford made it five consecutive draws in the Championship with Tuesday night’s stalemate.

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Buckingham guided The U’s to promotion from League One last season, toppling Bolton Wanderers in the play-off final at Wembley.

They have started the Championship season in impressive form, currently sitting in 10th and in a six-game unbeaten run.

Fellow promoted side Derby County sit just behind them in 12th, while last year’s League One title winners Portsmouth are footing up the table with just one win from their opening 11 games, losing 2-0 at Cardiff in a relegation six-pointer.

Elsewhere in the Championship, Leeds pulled level with table-toppers Sunderland by beating Watford at Elland Road.

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Every other game in the second tier finished with honours even on Tuesday night – Preston drawing with Norwich, Sheffield Wednesday being held to a goalless draw by Swansea, and QPR vs Coventry also finishing level.

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‘The manager is always right’ – when John Hartson stood up to Martin O’Neill

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The game finished 2-1 and Hartson explained the post-match scene in the dressing room.

“After the game, all the lads are delighted,” he continued. “We’ve got into a Scottish Cup final. Really tough game. It was windy, the pitch wasn’t great.

“I’m just sitting there like a spoiled kid, still disappointed with coming off you know? It’s all, ‘well done, lads, great finish and all’. We’re in a final, in something to look forward to at the end of May.

“Martin has gone, ‘John’, the room’s just gone silent. ‘What’s the matter with you’? And I said, ‘look’, I said, ‘why did you bring me off’? He said, ‘look son, every now and again’, he said, ‘you’ve got to run around a little bit. And in the 72nd minute, John, you just weren’t moving. So I brought you off.”

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O’Neill’s assistant John Robertson was in close proximity.

“Martin’s come towards me and I’ve stood up,” Hartson recalled. “There was never, ever going to be a reaction from me, a physical reaction. He said to John not to sort of hold him back, Martin says that, but from my point of view, nothing was going to happen.

“I stood up just to, like almost, you know, overpower him. There was a sense of, because of that, the whole night became subdued. I spoiled the night. Typical, being completely like a spoiled brat.

“And managers I always feel now, even though I played for loads of managers, I always feel the manager is always right. Whatever decision the manager makes. Looking back, I think he was right.”

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The UFC 308 media day will feature the entire main card from Saturday’s UFC event at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

In the main event, UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria will put his belt on the line against former UFC champion Max Holloway. Khamzat Chimaev will make his long-awaited return against Robert Whittaker in the co-main event.

Check out the tentative schedule below for UFC 308 media day:

4:15 a.m. ET: Armen Petrosyan

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4:30 a.m.: Khamzat Chimaev

4:45 a.m.: Max Holloway

5:30 a.m.: Magomed Ankalaev

5:45 a.m.: Aleksandar Rakic

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6 a.m.: Dan Ige

6:15 a.m.: Robert Whittaker

6:30 a.m.: Ilia Topuria

7 a.m.: Lerone Murphy

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7:30 a.m.: Shara Magomedov

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Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican-born Dodgers ace who inspired ‘Fernandomania,’ has died at age 63

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Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican-born phenom for the Los Angeles Dodgers who inspired “Fernandomania” while winning the NL Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year in 1981, has died. He was 63.

The team said he died Tuesday night at a Los Angeles hospital, but did not provide the cause or other details.

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His death comes as the Dodgers prepare to open the World Series on Friday night at home against the New York Yankees.

Valenzuela had left his color commentator job on the Dodgers’ Spanish-language television broadcast in September without explanation. He was reported to have been hospitalized earlier this month. His job kept him as a regular at Dodger Stadium, where he held court in the press box dining room before games and remained popular with fans who sought him out for photos and autographs.

Valenzuela was one of the most dominant players of his era and a wildly popular figure in the 1980s, although he was never elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. However, he is part of Cooperstown, which features several artifacts including a signed ball from his no-hitter in 1990.

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