Gary Neville has hit back at Oasis star Noel Gallagher for talking about Manchester when he lives in London as their feud continued.

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• Gallagher mocks Neville after Man City title win
• Ex-Man Utd claps back at ex-Oasis guitarist
• United take on City in FA Cup final at Wembley

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  Following City's historic fourth-straight Premier League title last weekend, musician Gallagher poked fun at United legend Neville.

  He said: "Gary Neville, at this moment in time, I wonder how he's feeling. We deserve it! We're the best team in the country."

  Now, the Salford City co-owner has hit back at the guitarist.

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• WHAT GARY NEVILLE SAID TO NOEL GALLAGHER

  He told : "He's been a big part of Manchester's history but he lives in London. Do you know what I mean, Noel? Don't talk about Man… you live in London. You live in Knightsbridge, or wherever it is. Hampstead, wherever he lives, you know what I mean. You can't start talking about Manchester – 25 years he's not been here. He comes once a year for that trophy parade! I saw him on Sunday, actually."

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  Feuds aside, City are streets ahead of their bitter rivals United these days. They won the treble last season and could win the double this term, whereas Erik ten Hag's men came eighth in the table and the Dutchman is facing the sack. Therefore, there is a lot on the line on Saturday when the two teams meet in the FA Cup final.

All the action and analyses from the England v Bangladesh game

Liam Brickhill08-Jun-2019

There are times when cricket is defined by tumbling stumps, frenzied tension and the arcs of Eoin Morgan’s sixes. And there are those days when maiden overs, skilful leaves and the patience of saints are more than enough. These three sessions at York were notable for the latter and they offered almost perfect satisfaction to the spectators sitting under the wonderful white poplars on the far side of the ground, even as most of them yearned for the fall of visiting wickets. They will not forget this day at Clifton Park and neither will Rob Yates, a 19-year-old Warwickshire batsman who fell one short of a maiden fifty after over three hours in which his every stroke proclaimed a determination not to yield.Yet just as the evening crowd were ready to applaud the first major achievement of Yates’ career, his moment was stolen by a cricketer 16 years his senior whose value to Yorkshire appears to increase with every match he plays. In the morning session Steve Patterson’s 60 had helped his side post 259, which most thought a competitive score on a pitch offering bounce and carry. Yet deep in the evening session it seemed that Yates and Dom Sibley’s 101-run stand for the second Warwickshire wicket would erode that advantage much as water wears down stone. But Patterson is also a patient man.Yorkshire’s captain brought himself back for his third spell of the day at the City End. In his fourth over he bowled Sibley off the inside edge for 60 when the opener played an ungainly defensive shot outside the off stump. Six overs later the left-handed Yates pushed at a ball slanted across him and was caught at slip by Tom Kohler-Cadmore. Adam Hose survived his first ball before immediately playing around an in-ducker and falling leg before. By the close Matt Lamb had perished in the slips off David Willey, thus completing the loss of four wickets for 27 runs in ten overs. The day ended with Warwickshire on 192 for 5, the new ball due early in the morning and both sides hoping tomorrow’s weather forecast is wide of the mark.Yet if our cricket ended with Yorkshire’s cricketers suddenly buoyed by the fall of wickets, its heart had been dominated by the stand between Sibley and Yates, two young batsmen in a top order suddenly devoid of seniority. Indeed, many familiar figures at Edgbaston – Jonathan Trott, Keith Barker, Boyd Rankin – are suddenly absent and a Bears top order lacking Ian Bell is like a plate of eggs royale without salmon. The old solidities, the old pedigree are missing and in this context the batting of Yates and Sibley assumes fresh significance.Their partnership blunted Yorkshire’s attack and it even quietened the 380 corporate hospitality guests, although almost nothing could silence the stentorian auctioneer during the intervals, when he boomed out like Brian Blessed addressing the partially hearing.Sibley’s innings was replete with the defiance Edgbaston supporters have come to expect. The opener’s nine championship innings before today had yielded 426 runs including two centuries and his powerful flourishes though the leg side were also par for his course. Yates’ effort, by contrast, turned fresh earth. The 19-year-old had managed only 90 runs in seven visits prior to this match and his innings today offered encouragement even as it ended in disappointment. Yet Yates still needed the luck that fortifies any young cricketer. Most notably this came in the form of the straightforward chance dropped by Adam Lyth off Patterson when he had only a single to his name.Thus reprieved he went on to cut Willey over the slips and cover-drive Jordan Thompson for fours, but the quality of Yates’ batting consisted more in the good balls he defended or simply let go. To watch his mid-afternoon duel with James Logan, Yorkshire’s 21-year-old left-arm spinner, was to see two young cricketers at important stages of their development. And you may be assured most of the crowd realised it.For if the cricket at Clifton Park might be dismissed as slow in this 17-sixes-a-pop era, it prompted no discontent among the thousands on the ground for whom such contests are custom-built delight. They had enjoyed the morning’s play, too, when for nearly 90 minutes Patterson and Logan had batted with the prudence of Yorkshiremen squirrelling a few quid away in their building society accounts. Regular accretion was preferable to risky punts.This was no boisterous, end-of-term thrash but a considered alliance between batsmen who trusted each other during their 48-run stand for the ninth wicket. Only three boundaries had been struck, none of them in front of the wicket before Patterson lost his off stump when trying to cut Oliver Hannon-Dalby. He had made 60, which was only his fourth first-class fifty, but he had batted like a skipper who knew the value of his runs and a bowler who would have to defend the total he was compiling. And deep in the evening Patterson was doing precisely that.

Spinner can answer a glaring need on loan at Yorkshire as Essex trail by 372 runs

David Hopps04-Jun-2019Dom Bess’ short professional career has not been short of incident. As a teenager, he was a Somerset debutant thrown spectacularly into a Championship challenge which only failed on the last day of the season. At 20, he became the first hunch of the national selector, Ed Smith, when he was given a Test debut last season against Pakistan only to be stood down after two Tests.He now finds himself on a month’s loan at Yorkshire where his effervescent manner and all-round talent can again create a good impression. Just to confirm, however, that life for Bess is rarely straightforward, his chances of registering a second first-class hundred departed against Essex when he ran out of partners on 91.Bess, though, might still have a role to play with the ball, answering Yorkshire’s glaring need, if only briefly, for a Championship spinner of quality in the third game of an envisaged four-game loan spell. They will imagine that the heavy rain on the second afternoon, which restricted play to 36.3 overs, will leave enough unsettled weather around for their seamers to prosper on the third day when Essex resume on 18 for 1, so setting up Bess to play a central role in the later stages.Somerset’s coaching team of Andy Hurry and Jason Kerr deserve considerable credit for sanctioning Bess’ loan spell at a potential Championship rival, recognising that his career development, at 21, should be the priority. As the spin-bowling understudy to the excellent Jack Leach, his opportunities are limited, especially when the ECB takes a dim view of the sort of sharply turning pitches on which they almost pipped Middlesex to the title in 2016. He has 89 first-class wickets at a touch under 30 and needs to add to them.England will be grateful, too, because understudies to Moeen Ali, whose form remains unpredictable, are not exactly jostling for attention. Bess’ positive attitude sits well with England. In his days as the head of ECB’s development programme, Hurry would have been anxious for Bess to be playing regular county cricket and it is admirable that those values have survived more pressing responsibilities at Somerset.Yorkshire would be foolish not to hope that Bess’ involvement might be more long lasting. As an Exeter lad, his loyalties to the south-west are strong, but it will have its limits. Few seriously imagine that Adil Rashid will suddenly discover a renewed fondness for Championship cricket and, Rashid apart, Yorkshire have long struggled to produce spinners of quality. Headingley, too, for all its maverick ways when the clouds roll over, now regularly produces surfaces on which spin can play a part.Bess has shown a liking for this Essex attack. His only other first-class century came for the MCC against the champion county in 2018, following their title win the previous September. At 289 for 6 overnight, Bess’ share was only 30, but he played tidily against some lacklustre Essex bowling, shrewdly picking off 15 boundaries when the opportunities presented themselves. “I think everybody was expecting it to rain,” said Anthony McGrath, Essex’s coach.Bess said: “I never felt in. It was still doing a bit, and I nicked a couple. You have to ride your luck sometimes. I’d have loved to have got my first hundred in the Championship, but it was just nice to be in there facing a lot of balls and just playing cricket. There is certainly a lot there for our bowlers. I think we’re in a great position.”Jonny Tattersall offered sound support as they extended their seventh-wicket stand to 90, but Tattersall was caught at the wicket, attempting an improvised guide against Ravi Bopara, Jamie Porter removed Steve Patterson and Ben Coad with the new ball as Essex finally perked up and last man Duanne Olivier lasted only four balls as he edged Sam Cook to second slip.Yorkshire had time to take one wicket before rain ended play at 2.15pm when Sir Alastair Cook fell for two at first slip – pushing at a full-length ball from Ben Coad that left him and gave a 25th catch of the season for Tom Kohler-Cadmore. Pomp and ceremony might have been the order of the day in London as Donald Trump continued his State visit, but there was no grace and favour for Sir Alastair in the county that knows only too well that Geoffrey Boycott has never been knighted.Neither Labour nor Tory Governments have quite dared take the plunge when it comes to ennobling Boycott. Perhaps they should put it to a referendum. It would be something to divide the country again once Brexit is settled.

‘I don’t think we need to go after Mushfiqur, he was trying hard to get him out’ – Mashrafe

Mohammad Isam at The Oval05-Jun-2019Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza defended Mushfiqur Rahim after he hit the stumps with his elbow when trying to run out Kane Williamson. The incident took place in the 12th over of the New Zealand innings when the Ross Taylor – Williamson partnership was at an embryonic stage.As the two batsmen got involved in a mix-up, Tamim Iqbal threw the ball from mid-on with Williamson still well short of the crease and almost given up. But Mushfiqur took the ball in front of the stumps, with his feet behind, and tried to break the stumps. Straight away Tamim and Shakib reacted in a way that suggested they knew what had happened, while the rest of the stadium were cheering the big wicket.Williamson and Taylor went on to add 105 runs for the third wicket, that set New Zealand in the right path.Mushfiqur Rahim’s error hands Kane Williamson a lifeline•Getty Images

Mashrafe, who was also following the ball closely during that incident, said that he wouldn’t blame Mushfiqur for the mistake and expects him to bounce back from it quickly. He said that with the catches he had taken off Taylor and Colin de Grandhomme, Mushfiqur had already started to make amends.”I don’t think we need to go after Mushfiqur,” Mashrafe said. “He was also trying hard to get him out. That throw was straight, but as a keeper it was hard to know if it was straight or not. Suddenly the stumps hit his elbow, but it happens. Mushfiqur is a professional player. He knows how to handle all of this. It is not as if this was the first mistake in Mushfiqur’s life. Every player makes mistakes.WATCH – Highlights of Mushfiqur’s error on Hotstar (India only)”For example, in the last match Soumya dropped a catch, but he has caught many difficult ones before that. I think that it can happen with Mushfiqur, and that it may happen again is a normal thing. We are not here to blame anyone, we are here to give our best. Even after that, the catches that Mushfiqur took off Ross Taylor and Grandhomme, those could have been turning points.”I don’t think there is a need to create pressure for anyone and neither do I think that he needs to think about this. If everything goes well in the next match, you will see that everything is fine again.”Mashrafe said that falling 30 runs short of their desired total was a bigger problem on the day. He said that Mushfiqur himself getting run out after a mix-up with Shakib, after they had added exactly 50 runs for the third wicket, was also a crucial point in the game.”If you don’t score big, you have to take all those chances. It happens in cricket. No one wants to make mistakes. I think the bigger mistakes was when we batted. If we managed to score 30 more runs, it could have been a different game.”That run out [of Mushfiqur while batting] was the turning point. They both got set in that moment. Again, Shakib and Mithun had their partnership broken when they were putting it together. If any of those two partnerships had gone into eighties or a hundred, things would have been different,” he said.

Aaron Ramsdale was in attendance at Wembley wearing a hilarious Hagrid costume as he watched Leeds and Southampton in the Championship play-off final.

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Southampton beat Leeds in final Ramsdale in crowd at Wembley Arsenal keeper donned hilarious disguise WHAT HAPPENED?

The Arsenal goalkeeper appeared at Wembley in the funny 'Hagrid costume' as Southampton edged out Leeds United 1-0 to gain promotion to the Premier League, just a season after being relegated to the second tier of English football.

The Gunners star sported the iconic thick beard and the fuzzy wig of the legendary character from Harry Potter as he sat among the fans to watch the game.

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The England international has been linked with a move away from the Emirates Stadium in the summer amid interest from Newcastle United. Since the arrival of David Raya at the club last season, Ramsdale saw his game time drastically reduced, prompting him to leave the club ahead of the 2024/25 campaign.

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The 26-year-old has been named in Gareth Southgate's preliminary 33-man Three Lions squad for the Euro 2024. He will hope to make the final 26-man team and travel to Germany for the flagship continental competition next month.

Notts skipper Steven Mullaney makes defiant 74, Stuart Broad strikes early to dismiss Alastair Cook

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Recent form was the perfect pointer to how the opening day unfolded in Nottinghamshire’s County Championship match against Essex at Trent Bridge.Winless – and bottom of the table – Notts were bundled out for only 213 in 69.1 overs against a side that are playing with the momentum that sped them to the Division One title in 2017.Essex, second in the standings, will expect to secure a substantial first-innings advantage and reached the close on 72 for the loss of Alastair Cook, a deficit of only 141.The Essex attack shared the wickets around during the first two sessions, with Peter Siddle, Jamie Porter and Aaron Beard picking up three wickets apiece.Without a red-ball victory in more than 12 months – since beating Essex at Chelmsford last June – Notts shuffled their top order around, with captain Steven Mullaney making 74 after restoring himself to the top of the order after winning the toss.Ben Duckett’s season has been feast or famine so far and the left-hander was dismissed in the third over of the day for only eight. He stroked a couple of elegant cover drives before pushing firmly at a Porter delivery and deflected the ball into the waiting hands of Cook at first slip.Mullaney greeted the introduction of Simon Harmer by launching the spinner over deep midwicket for six and two overs later he gave the same treatment to a short-pitched ball from the returning Porter.Nick Browne got a hand to a firm Mullaney slash at backward point but the right-hander offered little else in the way of encouragement as he advanced to a 73-ball 50 with his sixth four.Aaron Beard, who took 3 for 62, ended a second-wicket partnership of 58 when Ben Slater, on 14, edged behind. The seamer followed that wicket with two more during the early stages of the afternoon, although both came from a touch of good fortune. Within the space of four overs he changed the complexion of the day when getting both Chris Nash and Mullaney caught down the leg-side.Nash went aggressively at a poorly-directed delivery and helped it through to Adam Wheater. His skipper also went to a ‘strangle’ to herald a collapse which saw Notts slip from 126 for 2 to 168 for 8.Joe Clarke hadn’t reached 30 in any of his previous eight innings and his barren streak continued when he was pinned lbw by Siddle for 15.Porter, who claimed 3 for 49, picked up two lbw decisions, removing debutant Ravi Ashwin for five and Luke Fletcher for a single.In between, Harmer had struck for the first time, bowling Tom Moores with a full-pitched delivery, for a duck.Siddle, who took 3 for 38, finished off the innings with the wickets of Samit Patel, who played nicely for 39, and Jake Ball for one, caught tickling to leg.Stuart Broad remained undefeated on 19 but gave his team-mates an early boost with the ball, by removing Cook cheaply. Cook’s knock produced only two runs before he snicked behind and had to walk off past the joyous celebrations from his former England team-mate.Browne and Tom Westley consolidated, adding 62 together, the highest stand of the contest so far.

Wrexham chief Humphrey Ker has used a bizarre “plastic nipples” story to explain why Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are different to other owners.

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• Takeover completed in 2021
• Enjoyed back-to-back promotions
• Have the right people in place

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  A couple of Hollywood superstars arrived at SToK Racecourse in February 2021 when completing a stunning takeover. They have overseen a trip to Wembley, back-to-back promotions and numerous marquee transfer deals since then.

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  Reynolds and McElhenney are invested emotionally and financially in the Red Dragons, but are prepared to accept that they know little about running a professional football club. With that in mind, egos have been put to one side as the right people are found to fill certain roles.

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  That is not always the case when takeovers are completed, with executive director Ker telling : “One of the things that Rob and Ryan have been really clever about, really sensible about, is putting people who know what they are doing in place and letting them get on with it. Ultimately, when it comes to transfers, when it comes to tactics, when it comes to anything that is happening on the football side of things, that is left entirely to Phil Parkinson and Steve Parkin and all the people that know what they are doing and are qualified in that respect. We brought Shaun Harvey and Fleur Robinson in, people who had 50 years cumulative experience of working in football. We have been advised by Les Reed, who was the FA technical director. We were like ‘you know what you’re doing, please tell us what to do’. I think there is often that temptation when people buy football clubs like ‘well, I made millions of pounds making plastic nipples for baby bottles and therefore my understanding of plastic nipples is definitely going to stretch for me’. Without naming names, because we might want to loan some of their players, there are clubs where you see that happening.”

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  Wrexham are in the process of piecing together transfer plans for the summer of 2024, with Reynolds and McElhenney making more funds available. The intention is to ensure that the Red Dragons – who continue to star in their own documentary series – will be fiercely competitive in League One next season.

With first-match nerves out of the way, fast bowler is ready to help his side overcome loss to Pakistan

ESPNcricinfo staff05-Jun-2019With first-match nerves out of the way, Mark Wood is ready to play his part in England’s World Cup bounce-back effort starting with Saturday’s match against Bangladesh.Wood does not expect to necessarily keep his place in the team, despite taking two important wickets during England’s 14-run defeat at the hands of Pakistan on Monday. Nor does he think the hosts and tournament favourites will attempt to re-invent the wheel in response to their loss.Wood claimed 2 for 53 – including the wickets of Pakistan’s top scorer, Mohammad Hafeez, for and dangerous batsman Asif Ali for just 14 – in a less-familiar middle-overs role, bowling in tandem with Moeen Ali after Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer had led the pace attack. Woakes shone with three wickets and a staggering four catches, Moeen also claimed three wickets while Archer conceded 79 runs in his wicket-less 10-over spell. That’s not to say Wood escaped any tournament debut jitters, quite the contrary.”I cannot say for the others, but I was nervous,” Wood said. “First World Cup match. I was playing a slightly different role. I wanted to do well.”Liam Plunkett has taken a million wickets in the middle overs and I was thinking the first thing I have to do is get a wicket. And I didn’t get a wicket until the [43rd], and I was thinking, ‘he’s still the main man!’ Yes, I was nervous, but good nerves.”It was nice to have a couple of extra fielders out for a change. I’m used to bowling up top but this was a slightly different role. I felt Mo andmyself did really well as a partnership. He was keeping it tight as well which meant I could attack a little more … so a nice time to come on and show my value in a different role.”Wahab Riaz and Mark Wood pat each other after the game•Getty ImagesEngland will manage their fast bowlers’ workloads carefully, particularly for Wood and Woakes, who have had long-term injury issues, which means none of them are guaranteed a place against Bangladesh.”We’ll pick whichever team best suits the conditions,” Wood said. “I’m pleased personally that it has gone well. But for the next game, Cardiff is aplace with big square boundaries and Liam Plunkett has bowled well there in the past so he would probably come back in. It’s just who foror which bowler might be left out.”Avoiding the cliché of turning a loss into a positive, Wood gave the impression England were following Joe Root’s advice and not hitting the panic button based on one defeat, which ultimately came down to poor fielding.”It’s never nice to lose so, yes, there are lessons learned but we’ve been learning lessons for four years. This isn’t like a thing like we say we need to change the wheel,” Wood said. “We weren’t good enough in one area – the field – and that will be addressed before the next game. But I still think we’re in a pretty good place.”Maybe we will put it down as one of those days when we were beaten by a better team and we need to improve one aspect of our game … we needed 11 Chris Woakeses in every position and we would have been all right. Now we train really hard and do a lot on our fielding.”Whether it was the occasion, there were a lot of Pakistan fans, whether we got wound up by their batters, them smacking it, whether we just got tooheated in the moment, I don’t know. But it was unlike us, normally we are a really good fielding side.”And Wood backed his team to come back stronger against a Bangladesh team buoyed by their opening win against South Africa.”We have a huge target on our back because we are the favourites for the tournament, the home side, everyone wants to beat us,” he said. “Whatwe have done well over the years is bounce back well and I think we need that going into the next match regardless of what it was – Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, whoever. We need to bounce back with a bit of authority and say that we’re here to win it and put on a real show.”

Declan Rice has explained how Adam Wharton has impressed his England team-mates in training amid a message to fellow midfielder Kobbie Mainoo.

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• Rice, Wharton & Mainoo in England squad
• Arsenal man impressed by Wharton
• Bright future ahead with him & Mainoo

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  Wharton, 20, was playing in the Championship with Blackburn Rovers at the start of this season and Mainoo, 19, was yet to make his breakthrough at Manchester United. Now the former has starred for Crystal Palace and the latter has been a key player for the Red Devils – which led to both getting selected for England's final 26-man Euro 2024 squad. Arsenal star Rice, 25, feels with these two in the Three Lions' midfield, the team's future is bright.

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  Rice told reporters: “I think we saw in the last camp against Belgium and Brazil what Kobbie could do. Obviously the last six months, all season really, what he’s done at Manchester United and he clearly deserves his place in the squad. Adam played his first half of the season in the Championship, came to Crystal Palace and has been outstanding. I think in training he’s impressed a lot of players – he is so composed and calm on the ball. He’s got a beautiful left foot, just a really down to earth boy, wants to learn. I think he’s one of those that doesn’t get fazed by big things. So they are two great additions and the future’s looking bright in midfield.”

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  England are aiming to win their first silverware since the 1966 World Cup and this squad may be their best chance to end that barren run. With young talent such as Wharton, Mainoo, and Rice, the Three Lions are primed to have a successful tournament in Germany this summer.

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  Rice, Wharton, and Mainoo could feature in England's final warm-up game against Iceland on Friday night but it remains to be seen who will be in Gareth Southgate's starting XI for their Euro 2024 opener against Serbia on June 16.