
Carolina Ascent W · Midfielder · #14 · USA · 28 yrs
Coventry City have announced several ticketing changes before the 2026-27 season in the Premier League. Chairman Doug King has confirmed season ticket prices will increase, but they have "tried to pitch it appropriately" whilst remaining "competitive." Supporters can renew their season ticket on Monday, 15 June, but there will be no additional ones made available.

DR Congo coach Sebastien Desabre said Thursday he hopes his side can deliver a strong World Cup showing after arriving in the US following an imposed quarantine period linked to the Ebola outbreak. The team, making their first appearance at the tournament since 1974, have relocated preparations abroad but aim to bring some emotional relief to supporters back home.
Newcastle United's new home shirt has certainly got supporters talking. The club have said that the kit "reimagines our classic look with a bold, disrupted stripe pattern". Fan Paxx, who has followed Newcastle since 1967, even went as far as to call it the worst shirt the club had ever had.

Genie Godula is pleased to welcome Simon Chadwick, Professor of AfroEurasian Sport and Specialist of 21st century global sport. On the eve of the FIFA World Cup, Chadwick offers a sobering assessment of the political realities surrounding the world's biggest sporting event amid the convergence of hard-line immigration policies, conflict, diplomatic tensions, security concerns, and civil unrest. From the exclusion of a Somali referee to uncertainty surrounding Iranian football staff and supporters, Chadwick suggests that sport and geopolitics have become inseparable.

After being denied entry to the US, Somali referee Omar Artan was given a hero’s welcome upon his return to Somalia. Large numbers of supporters and Somali government officials received him enthusiastically at the airport in the capital, Mogadishu.

Artan deemed a threat to national security by US officials‘I promise you that I will attend the next one’The World Cup referee from Somalia who was denied entry to the US arrived on Wednesday in his country’s capital, Mogadishu, where he was received by a crowd of supporters and officials.Omar Artan was due to be the first referee from Somalia to officiate at a World Cup after making Fifa’s final list for the tournament. He is one of Africa’s top referees and was named the continent’s best male referee in 2025. Continue reading...