Over 30,000 tickets have now been sold for Chelsea vs Barcelona! 🙌

Don’t miss your chance to be at our UEFA Women’s Champions League semi-final! Get your tickets for Saturday! 👊

If you need some pre game listening

Jacqui Oatley John Percy Steve Madeley feature on the latest Wolves Weekly “PressPack” talking recent form, incredible fans & why aren’t more people talking about Kilman for England

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Enjoyed joining the Wolves 🐺🟠podcast with Mikey Burrows Steve Madeley and John Percy talking #wwfc form, VAR and Kilman for England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wol…

Very much enjoyed reading and judging the entries to the The Football Writers' Association Vikki Orvice award category. Congrats to all those shortlisted 👏🏼 👏🏼

🗣 “I do think there is an overreliance on VAR now…I honestly think we should give more responsibility back to the referees”

Conor Coady, Leicester City defender

🗣 “It should hit you in the belly. If I’m having to stand at the screen and look at three or four replays in slow motion, it’s not clear and obvious. You can find a foul in every challenge”

Peter Walton, former Premier League referee

An issue raised by Jacqui Oatley is that we have so much debate about incidents without hearing an explanation from the referee until it is too late. By the time anyone has seen Ref Watch on Sky on a Monday, or Webb appearing on Mic’d Up, the storm is already raging

Time to end VAR toxicity – our experts’ guide to improving it

Tired of the furore around the technology? Our panel of Conor Coady, Peter Walton, Richard Scudamore and Jacqui Oatley offer a measured, constructive approach to the issue

🗣️ 'The scrutiny now is insane, it is instant. The referee is already the bad guy before he has blown the final whistle'

Jacqui Oatley joins Times Sport to discuss the issues of VAR, and how to improve it

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Maiden has just become the first all-female crew to WIN an around the world race. In 1989 we were the first all-female crew to race around the world and these awesome women have just taken it to the next level. SO PROUD of them I could burst!! The Maiden Factor #GirlPower

The anger and uproar surrounding VAR and its use continues to flood social media, the airwaves and beyond. So what can be done to resolve the issue? We’ve tried to have a constructive debate about its future. Thanks to Matt Dickinson of Times Sport for hosting 👇🏼 The Times and The Sunday Times

🔥 from Tim Spiers this morning on Pep's moaning about City's schedule
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The malign character of a one-footed, massively overpriced embarrassment captured in a single image. They need to clean the stables at Old Trafford.

West Ham men 0-3 down within 20 mins at Palace in the Premier League, just after West Ham women had gone 0-3 down inside 24 mins at Man City in the WSL. 😱 #WHUFC

6 mins added time. Arsenal trying to run the clock down. #wwfc

This is an insane situation. What’s even more incredible is how stellar a reporter Laura Coates is. Masterclass. Also get this woman a play by play job stat.

A pleasure to chat to the guys on the Off The Ball 🇮🇪 breakfast show/podcast, about the five most incredible sporting performances I’ve witnessed in person.
Clue: ⚽️⛳️ ⚽️ 🎯 ⚽️

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So excited to be heading back out to the US 🇺🇸 to commentate on the National Women’s Soccer League 🎙️⚽️. Loved it last season. Delighted to be back with the brilliant CBS Sports team, on-site 🏟️ around the country for the @CBS channel #NWSL

The role of Chair of the new Independent Regulator for men’s professional football (which is what it should be called as the women’s game is excluded and language is important) is being advertised. See details here if you fancy applying. …for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8097/

Canada 🇨🇦 3-4 USA 🇺🇸 women ⚽️ at the 2012 Olympics was probably the wildest game I’ve ever been to. And it opened up a lot of eyes… BBC Sport