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Supporters of English football clubs will continue to be at the mercy of rogue owners putting their own interest before that of the club until a football regulator is in place, a leading sports journalism academic has said in response to the news that Manchester United owners, the Glazer family, are preparing to sell the English club after 17 years in charge.

Lance Corporal Carnell Brown (28) from Walsall, serves in 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment (1Yorks) as a personnel administrator and was honoured at a glittering gala dinner event held amidst the grandeur of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst’s Old College Dining Room. 

In front of an audience of the Army’s top performing athletes, team players, coaches and sports staff Carnell stepped forward to receive the Sportsman of the Year Award presented to him by Commandant Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Major General Zac Stenning OBE for his extraordinary contribution and commitment to boxing. 

Laureus legends last week led a 100-strong group of fundraisers over the Laureus Challenge 2022 presented by Sierra Space finish line after a four-day, 100-km trek through the mountains, deserts and valleys of the UAE.

When the dust settled and the blistered feet were soaked, Annabelle Bond, Nawal El Moutawakel, Chris Hoy, Steve Waugh and Bryan Habana could take comfort in another number: as more than $290,000 and counting was raised for charities including Laureus Sport for Good.

UK Athletics (UKA) has confirmed that Birmingham will host a new Performance Innovation Centre from summer 2023, after agreeing a partnership with the City Council for the facility to be situated on the redeveloped Alexander Stadium campus, helping cement the site’s Commonwealth Games legacy.

Heritage Le Telfair Golf & Wellness Resort, located in Bel Ombre, Mauritius, has been recognised as the Indian Ocean’s Best Golf Hotel at the 9th edition of the industry-leading World Golf Awards.

The accolade coincides with Heritage Golf Club’s recent announcement of its second course, La Réserve Golf Links, due to open in December 2023.

The Qatar FIFA World Cup is finally up and running with the Gulf nation opening its door with this tournament set to go down as one of the most talked about and controversial World Cups in history.

The build-up to the first tournament to be held in a Muslim country in the Middle East has been overshadowed by a number of controversies, but all 32 competing nations have been told to "focus on the football", but players have been urged to use their influence to speak up about the issues in the country.

Oxfordshire developer David Wilson Homes has donated a set of mini footballs to a nursery in Grove to inspire children to kick off the World Cup in style.

The nursery at Millbrook Primary School – which is located close to the housebuilder’s upcoming development at Monks Farm – received 25 of the footballs ahead of one of the world’s most eagerly-awaited sporting events, set to begin in Qatar.

Not many Black players have represented Athletic Bilbao - or have many Basques played for an African national team, but former Spain international Inaki Williams is bucking the trend as he stands on the verge of a World Cup debut with Ghana. The forward won his sole senior cap for the country of his birth in 2016 but with none since, a trip to the West African country earlier this year prompted a family-inspired change of allegiance.

With 100 days to go until the Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final, world 1500m champion Jake Wightman has confirmed he will race at the Utilita Arena on Saturday 25 February 2023.

Wightman has enjoyed a landmark 2022 track season as he added European 800m silver and Commonwealth 1500m bronze to his ever-growing collection, following his triumph in Eugene where he superbly beat the Olympic champion, the Norwegian, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, to the gold medal.

In the aftermath of Manchester United's thrilling 2-1 injury-time victory at Fulham, Erik ten Hag allowed himself to reflect on the developments at Old Trafford since he became manager in the summer.

"We are now united," he said. "We have togetherness, in the dressing room, with the staff, the directors, the whole club, and the fans.

Officials from the Ivory Coast government signed a formal hosting agreement for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations with the Confederation of African Football (Caf), with the signing being significant as it all but ensures that the next finals, which will actually take place in 2024, will be held in the West African nation.

European Athletics have announced that Birmingham will host the European Athletics Championships in 2026 following a successful bid process with UK Athletics (UKA). Working in partnership with Birmingham City Council and UK Sport, UKA had high hopes of hosting Europe’s most prestigious European athletics competition, seven years on from staging the hugely successful European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 2019.

Former Spain and Real Madrid captain, and one of the most highly regarded and decorated football players in history, unveiled the exclusive Fernando Hierro Gold and Silver coin range at the stunning Palacio Cibeles alongside a host of his ex-teammates including the likes of Luis Figo, Raul, Predrag Mijatovic and Iker Casillas.

Frenchman Aymard Vernay has clinched the inaugural eSkootr Championship after a day of dramatic racing at the Paul Ricard Circuit in France. He finished third in the final race to claim the top prize in the world’s first electric scooter racing series. The 28-year-old held his nerve to beat Italian Sara Cabrini in the Riders’ title battle by just four points.

Keely Hodgkinson is set to return to the scene of her brilliant British Indoor 800m record next year when she lines up in the Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final at the Utilita Arena on Saturday 25 February.

The 20-year-old World, Olympic and Commonwealth 800m silver medallist, European Champion and British record holder both indoors and outdoors, smashed the British Indoor 800m record at the 2022 event clocking 1:57.20, the fastest time indoors for 20 years.

Spanish rider Marc Luna has taken a brilliant victory in the penultimate round of the eSkootr Championship (eSC) in Marseille and now heads the points table going into tomorrow’s season finale showdown.

The Murphy Scooters ace came through a series of exciting heats to win the 10-lap final at the Paul Ricard Circuit in southern France earlier this afternoon. He holds a slender one-point advantage over Frenchman Aymard Vernay (Racing Citizens) with former points leader Anish Shetty (Carlin) a further two points behind in third.