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The hilarious moment pitchside reporter is drenched TWICE by sprinkler and carries on his commentary

A hilarious video has emerged of a pitchside correspondent reporting on a Russian Premier League game despite being drenched by a sprinkler. 




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Football news: Former Leeds and Everton striker Jermaine Beckford retires aged 35 

The 35-year-old, who has been at Bury since 2017, started his career at Elland Road where he became one of the club's most prolific goalscorers with 85 goals in 152 matches.




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Sam Skinner ruled out of Scotland's World Cup plans after tests return on hamstring injury

Sam Skinner has been ruled out of Scotland's World Cup plans following a recent injury picked up on international duty. The Exeter Chiefs second row had scans after limping off with a hamstring issue.




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Brian O'Driscoll worried about Ireland's form ahead of World Cup following thrashing by England

Joe Schmidt's Irish team were hammered 57-15 by England at Twickenham last Saturday, in what was a record defeat in that fixture and O'Driscoll is concerned their confidence could suffer.




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Eddie Howe to hand £19m striker Solanke Bournemouth opportunity in Carabao Cup clash

Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe has indicated he will make changes as the Premier League side host Sky Bet League Two club Forest Green in the Carabao Cup second round.




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Moeen Ali hails England star Ben Stokes after Headingley heroics in Ashes third Test 

Moeen Ali believes that 'legend in the making' Ben Stokes is England's greatest ever all-rounder. Moeen has ranked his England colleague above the likes of Sir Ian Botham and Andrew Flintoff.




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Referee confirmed for north London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham

The bitter rivals meet at the Emirates next weekend having suffered defeats to Liverpool and Newcastle respectively last weekend. The last north London derby ended 1-1 at Wembley in March.




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Spanish Grand Prix to continue on the F1 calendar after agreement is struck

The Spanish Grand Prix will continue to be part of the Formula One calendar after an agreement was reached to hold the race in 2020.




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Jimmy Anderson bowls six overs for Lancashire Second XI to prove Ashes fitness

Jimmy Anderson bowled six overs in his opening spell for a Lancashire Second XI as he attempted to prove his fitness for the fourth Ashes Test.




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Burnley news: Sean Dyche to ring changes for Carabao Cup clash against Sunderland

Danny Drinkwater is set to make his Burnley debut in Wednesday's Carabao Cup clash with Sunderland as Sean Dyche plans a raft of changes.




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Ashes news: Jimmy Anderson must prove he will last five days of England's fourth Test

Jimmy Anderson successfully came through an extensive workout in the heat of Chester on Tuesday and looks certain to be named in England's squad for the fourth Test at Old Trafford.




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Stoke accused of failing to pay mandated agent involved in transfer of Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting

Stoke City are facing a legal fight after failing to pay a mandated agent when they signed their former striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting.




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Cricket news: Ben Stokes is now England's heartbeat after Ashes heroics

PAUL FARBRACE: What we saw at Headingley from Ben Stokes was the performance of a cricketer who has matured as a person and now fully understands what he's capable of.




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Champions League play-off review: Red Star Belgrade, Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiacos reach group stages

Old rivals Red Star Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb advanced to the Champions League group stage Tuesday after making it through their playoff second-leg games.




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Neymar Judgement Day: Barcelona travel to France in last-ditch bid to land Brazilian star

PETE JENSON: Members of Barcelona's board have travelled to Paris to try and settle a deal to bring Neymar back to the Nou Camp. The La Liga giants are preparing a final bid for him.




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Europa League draw: What time is the group stage draw today for Manchester United and Arsenal?

Sportsmail provide you with all you need to know for Europa League draw for 2019/20 group stages including date, time and channel plus how the draw works, the pots and latest odds.




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The return of racing: Jockeys wearing masks, deserted stands and 'you can't talk to anyone'

Germany provided the first installment of live post-lockdown sporting action on Thursday by hosting a dozen races in Hanover. Many jockeys wore face masks while others used transparent plastic visors.




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Government ministers 'working on saving British Grand Prix' in its 70th anniversary year

Ministers are determined not to see the British Grand Prix postponed or cancelled in its 70th anniversary year and so plans are reportedly being drawn up to 'televise without spectators' there.




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Drugs and rent boy shame ex-MP Keith Vaz returns to play role in the Labour leadership battle

The 63-year-old attended today's meeting of the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), which is due to decide on the rules and format of the battle to replace Jeremy Corbyn.




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Labour leadership outsider Clive Lewis calls for referendum on Royal Family in Meghan and Harry row

The left-winger, who is trailing sixth and last in the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn, made the suggestion in a campaign speech in London.




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Rebecca Long Bailey takes swipe at Jeremy Corbyn's inner circle over handling of election campaign

The shadow business secretary hit out at a scatter-gun approach that saw people and resources wasted on seats that were unwinnable, at the expense of marginal seats lost to the Conservatives.




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Could top union shun Rebecca Long-Bailey? Unite's Len McCluskey said to be impressed by Lisa Nandy

Wigan MP Ms Nandy, who narrowly came third behind Ms Long-Bailey in the first round of the leadership campaign, is said to have impressed Mr McCluskey in a face-to-face meeting.




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Corbyn allies swipe at 'metropolitan' Sir Keir Starmer and Remain-backing Labour members

Two of Jeremy Corbyn's top allies have urged northern working class voters to join Labour and prevent southern Remainers from deciding the party's leadership contest.




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Keir Starmer 'should pass the mic and let a woman be Labour leader'

Jess Phillips acknowledged it was 'very difficult' for people to stand back from the contest, but warned it would be 'embarrassing' if Labour elected another man to its top job.




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Lisa Nandy and Piers Morgan in furious row over Meghan Markle racism debate

Lisa Nandy and Piers Morgan had a blazing row over the press coverage of Meghan Markle this morning as the Labour leadership candidate said the ITV presenter had never faced 'prejudice'.




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Rebecca Long-Bailey allies demand Sir Keir Starmer pull out of leadership race

Allies of Rebecca Long-Bailey have demanded Sir Keir Starmer pull out of the Labour leadership race to make way for a woman to take over from Jeremy Corbyn.




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Tony Blair hits back at Lisa Nandy for accusing New Labour of continuing the 'Thatcherite consensus'

The Wigan MP used a media interview this morning to claim the 'consensus that Thatcher built lasted all the way through the New Labour years' under Mr Blair and then Gordon Brown.




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'I would rather we were getting rid of Tory MPs': Lisa Nandy bashes Long-Bailey deselection call

The Wigan MP said the beleaguered party should be focusing on getting rid of Tory MPs rather than their own following Jeremy Corbyn's humiliating defeat to Boris Johnson in December's election.




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John Bercow's wife Sally personally lobbied Jeremy Corbyn to offer her husband a peerage 

Mrs Bercow, a Labour supporter, privately urged Mr Corbyn to send her husband to the Lords because the Tories would refuse, Commons sources said.




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Lord Janner's son demands Jeremy Corbyn withdraws the offer of a peerage to Tom Watson

Daniel Janner, whose father Greville was caught up in the false claims, has told Mr Corbyn that honouring the ex-Labour deputy leader would be 'wrong and inappropriate'.




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Labour could be FINISHED if it chooses the 'wrong' leader, warns Lord Mandelson

Former Cabinet minister Lord Mandelson swiped that left-winger Jeremy Corbyn had helped deliver a 'stonking' majority for the Tories last month.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Corbyn must hand over the reins at PMQs as performances go from bad to worse

ANDREW PIERCE: As he plods painfully through his six questions, there is an embarrassed silence on the Labour benches. Some Labour MPs say there is a way out.




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Boris Johnson accuses Jeremy Corbyn of 'grotesque failure' to understand UK's climate change efforts

Boris Johnson today accused Jeremy Corbyn of a 'grotesque failure' to understand UK efforts to tackle climate change as the PM shrugged off criticism from a sacked ex-minister.




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Does she deserve a peerage? The claims that could cost Karie Murphy the ermine, writes ANDREW PIERCE

Four men and two women, will today sit in judgment in an anonymous office in the Whitehall edifice that houses the Treasury on the most contentious set of peerage nominations for a generation.




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Labour hopeful Lisa Nandy backs abolishing the monarchy

Labour leadership challenger Lisa Nandy has said she would vote to abolish the monarchy at a referendum while rival Rebecca Long-Bailey refused to name a former party leader she admired.




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Lisa Nandy says she WOULD serve in shadow cabinet led by Sir Keir Starmer or Rebecca-Long Bailey

Lisa Nandy today declared she would be willing to serve in a shadow cabinet led by either of her Labour leadership rivals if she fails to pull off a shock upset.




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Blogger, 15, wants 'right and wrong way' to use social media taught in schools

Beauty blogger Nikki Lilly, 15, from London, appeared on Loose Women today where she said pupils should be taught the 'correct' way to use social media in schools.




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Angela Rayner claims Jeremy Corbyn 'didn't command respect'

Angela Rayner has launched a savage attack on Jeremy Corbyn as she suggested he had failed as Labour leader because he 'didn't command respect'.




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Lisa Nandy blasts Sir Keir Starmer over Labour's 'disastrous' Brexit policy

Lisa Nandy tonight blasted Sir Keir Starmer and labelled his Brexit policy a 'disaster' as she tried to salvage her Labour leadership campaign.




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Guess which one Labour's suspended! GUY ADAMS compares Trevor Phillips' and Jeremy Corbyn's records

GUY ADAMS: Trevor Phillips has fought racism all his life, while the party under Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of anti-Semitism and is being investigated by the EHRC.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Leftie Richard Burgon's secret life as a Tony Blair fan 

ANDREW PIERCE: In an interview with student newspaper Varsity in 2002, when he was chairman of the Labour group at Cambridge University, he backed the UK joining the euro.




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Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers claims Bill Gates and George Soros are behind coronavirus

The 72-year-old branded Gates and Soros 'control freaks' as he blamed them for Covid-19, which has so far killed 36 people in the UK, with the total number of cases now at 1,543.




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'It's not enough': Government blasted over lack of coronavirus tests for NHS staff and the public

Jeremy Corbyn and senior medical leaders tore into Boris Johnson's response as a senior ministers said they were now doing 8,000 tests a day and production would double within the next fortnight.




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Jeremy Corbyn is accused of 'narcissism' after boasting the coronavirus pandemic

The outgoing Labour leader told the BBC he had been vindicated by the governments spending plans to tackle the havoc wreaked on the UK economy by the coronavirus outbreak.




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Sir Keir Starmer makes Labour leadership rival Lisa Nandy his shadow foreign secretary

Sir Keir Starmer has made leadership rival Lisa Nandy his shadow foreign secretary as the new Labour leader announced a series of senior appointments to his top team.




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Ed Miliband RETURNS to Labour's top team as new leader Keir Starmer unveils new-look shadow cabinet

Mr Miliband has been brought back as shadow business secretary as Sir Keir announced a second wave of changes after replacing Jeremy Corbyn.




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HARRY COLE: Why did Jeremy Corbyn and his wife defy coronavirus rules? 

HARRY COLE Ever one to defy common sense, Jeremy Corbyn, 71 next month, not only shunned all lockdown etiquette to turn up in Westminster but brought with him his third wife.




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Coronavirus UK: Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers protests lockdown and touts chloroquine as a 'cure'

Jeremy Corbyn's brother, Piers, has spearheaded an anti-lockdown protest where he claimed drug companies were 'suppressing information' on a cure for coronavirus 'because they want to impose a vaccine.'




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Invoke NATO alliance to airlift PPE and testing supplies for coronavirus response, says Labour

Ministers should call on the NATO military alliance to use its resources to airlift PPE during the coronavirus outbreak, shadow defence secretary John Healey has said.




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Julie Bishop says there are surprising similarities between Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd 

The former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party was speaking at a business leaders forum hosted by the Queensland University of Technology on Tuesday when she compared the two former leaders.