NEW: #NUFC victorious in initial stage of court proceedings against Sports Direct.

Mike Ashley’s retailer fails to secure injunction ordering club to supply them with next season’s Adidas kit.

Panel unanimous.

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Brilliant boss, even better human ❤️

Thank you for everything, Alex Kay-Jelski.

Some news: I am now a Senior Editor at The Athletic, overseeing all things tennis coverage. With the fuzzy yellow balls hitting the dirt, here's what to look out for this clay season — Nadal or no Nadal theathletic.com/5402539/2024/0…

🚑 Summer tour left players feeling 'done in'
🚑 51% more days lost to injuries than PL av.
🚑 'Preventable' injuries mid-range
🚑 How players feel
🚑 Howe's record and view
🚑 Staff and facility changes

George Caulkin & Chris Waugh go inside Newcastle's injury nightmare

The demise of Ajax has been slow and insidious, but it accelerated this week with the CEO suspended and the team humiliated 6-0.

The problems go way beyond a painful De Klassieker defeat to Feyenoord — the club is engulfed in uncertainty.

⬇️ Jacob Whitehead

Ajax’s decline in recent seasons had been slow and insidious.

Then, came this week - a reforming CEO suspended, politics bursting to the fore, and a 6-0 loss to their greatest rivals.

One member of club staff? “Right now, this is a club on fire.”

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⚫ Scored before name printed on shirt ⚽
⚪ Rapid, direct💨
⚫ Ameobi watches on 👀
⚪ 3am Ramadan meals 🍴
⚫ Will he play at #NUFC next season? 🤔

Yankuba Minteh is getting fans excited on loan at Feyenoord. This is his unique story, via Jacob Whitehead:
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Sunday was the best day of Yankuba Minteh’s life. I was there.

It has been a long journey from the back streets of Bakoteh - could the boy who wanted to be Messi be #NUFC ’s next right-winger?

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Ajax’s decline in recent seasons had been slow and insidious.

Then, came this week - a reforming CEO suspended, politics bursting to the fore, and a 6-0 loss to their greatest rivals.

One member of club staff? “Right now, this is a club on fire.”

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Saka discourse already shows how refereeing impossible.

Two entrenched camps (never a penalty/clear penalty), no objective reality to truly provide an answer.

(Good decision for me but…) the referee cannot win.

Court proceedings between #NUFC and Sports Direct reveal that the release date for the club's first Adidas kit in 14 years is slated to be June 7.

🔲 Brilliant Bruno 🇧🇷
🔳 Howe's rage 😡
🔲 VAR nonsense 📺
🔳 Euro dream alive 🇪🇺
🔲 Jacob Whitehead in 🇳🇱 for Yankuba Minteh to check #NUFC readiness ⁉️
🔳 Celeb spotting & crap superheroes 🌭🧑

Free-to-listen Pod on the Tyne w/ George Caulkin Taylor Payne:
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🚨 EXCL: Everton given 2-point deduction for breach of PL PSR rules. Penalty for 3yr cycle to 22-23. Follows 6-point deduction for previous cycle. #EFC drop 1 spot to 16th, 2 points above relegation zone. 7 days to notify if intend to appeal The Athletic | Football theathletic.com/5379096/2024/0…

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Liverpool dominating Man Utd? Not close to the closest derby embarrassment today.

On-the-whistle from De Kuip with Nnamdi Onyeagwara:

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Feyenoord 6-0 Ajax.

25 minutes left to play.