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The Shrewsbury Town events team will be kicking out the football kit in favour of black tie for a Gala Ball at The Croud Meadow on Friday, July 5.

Money raised from the event will benefit local children and their families who need the services of Hope House children’s hospice, near Oswestry.

Held in the club’s Sovereign Suite, and featuring four-piece band Let’s Dance, organisers are rolling out the red carpet and focusing on a fabulous evening which will appeal to anyone, whether they prefer blue and amber strip or ball gown and tiara.

The team at Shrewsbury Town regularly put on special events for other businesses. However, this is the first time in some years that they’ve hosted their own gala ball.

The ball was the idea of hospitality manager Max Senatore.

He said: “Once the…

Mini football tournament dedicated to the 101st anniversary of
the birth of National Leader of Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev is
being held between the main departments and departments of the
Defense Ministry under the plan approved by the First Deputy
Minister of Defense – Chief of the General Staff of the Azerbaijan
Army, Azernews reports, citing the Ministry of
Defense.

Servicemen compete in A and B groups of 10 teams. Serviceman of
the Azerbaijan Army, Nail Naghiyev and a referee of the Association
of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA) manage the games, held
in conditions of intense competition and friendship.

According to the regulations, the 1st and 2nd place teams in
each group will advance to the semi-finals after the group stage.
The winners…

Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker has removed a social media post that called for Israel to be banned from international football.

The former England star, now one of the highest profile presenters on the BBC, retweeted a post by The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on X, formerly Twitter.

In the post, PACBI called for “international public and official pressure on international sporting bodies” – including football’s governing body FIFA and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) – to suspend Israel’s membership and ban it from international tournaments and games.

The group, affiliated with the wider Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), called for the boycott “until Israel ends its grave violations…

A video shared on Facebook claims to show the crowd at an annual college football match between different US military academies chanting “fuck Joe Biden”.

The Facebook post with the video, which has also been shared multiple times on X (formerly Twitter) states that the “entire stadium” was chanting the explicit slogan against the current US President.

However, the audio on the footage of the Army-Navy match on 9 December has been digitally altered. Spectators in this stadium were not filmed chanting “fuck Joe Biden”.

The original clip which was posted on X on 9 December 2023 by a reporter for the New England Sports Network shows the crowd jumping and singing along to “Tsunami”, an electronic dance music track by Dvbbs and Borgeous. 

The 2013 track has…

World’s Third largest sporting event to boost Irish football and Irish economy

Proposed that Dublin Arena host six games including Round of 16 and Quarter-Final

Irish football to benefit from €6.2m Legacy Fund

Tournament to act as a catalyst for future facility investment

UEFA EURO 2028 Ireland & UK to inspire a future generation of young players

The Football Association of Ireland welcomes today’s decision by UEFA to award the UEFA EURO 2028 tournament to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.

FAI President Gerry McAnaney, Chief Executive Office Jonathan Hill, Chief Operations Officer David Courell and Ireland Football Youth Ambassador Ade Solanke were in Nyon, Switzerland, when UEFA’s ExCo awarded the 2028 European Championship finals to the joint…