Micky Mellon, the manager of Oldham Athletic, claims that his “monster of a club” will awaken after earning the Latics’ first promotion in 34 years.
In the epic National League promotion final against Southend at Wembley on Sunday, Mellon’s side won two quickfire goals in extra-time.
The Scots were promoted to the EFL for the third time as manager, matching John Still’s record, and he placed sixth overall in his professional football career.
And the 53-year-old predicted that the entire club would be affected by it.
“To turn things around and get a result from where we were is an incredible achievement,” Mellon told BBC Sport. We had a wonderful time at this.
The club is “monster” Because our family supports us, we were under a lot of pressure; we had to move up.
We can really advance behind the scenes at Oldham as a football club because it changes so much about everything.
“It’s massive, it’s monstrous to get us in [the league],” he said. For the club, everything has changed. “
More than 20 000 travelling Oldham supporters gathered in a record crowd of 52, 115 in the previous promotion, which Mellon said demonstrated the gap between the National League and the EFL is narrower than ever.
He continued, “There are some really big clubs in the National League that have been allowed to stagnate.”
“York ought to have automatically risen.” You can’t win 96 points and not automatically increase. Three up and three down should be used. The EFL would be improved by teams like York and Southend.
“I believe the EFL should give its former members, who are struggling, an olive branch.”
There are teams in League Two that aren’t as ambitious or as big as those in the National League, according to me. It needs to alter, I suppose.
With only two months until the season’s opener, Mellon acknowledged that his team would be behind in terms of preparation for the coming season and anticipates that his players will return to training in as little as four weeks.
He claimed, “We are so many weeks in the hiring process. It’s absurd. In about four weeks, we’ll need to be back training. Although it will be difficult, we will undoubtedly have chosen that route.
We’ll need to sit down and make arrangements, but I’m not too let down by the decision.
We hired a lot of these boys because we thought they would be good if we moved up and that there are plenty of league players there.
Pixie Lott has revealed that she is expecting her second child. The chart-topping performer made the big announcement while performing at Brockwell Park, London’s Mighty Hoopla Festival.
The singer, who already has a two-year-old son Albert, said, “I’m having another baby”! When the 34-year-old dropped the significant news, thousands of fans were gathered close to the stage to watch her performance on the Hayu Arena stage. The singer appeared sensational on stage while sporting a bold red blazer and matching tie and toned legs.
One post read, “Pixie Lott announcing she is pregnant at Hoopla was so mother, was so shock and joy. I’m unable to handle it. A second phrase, “I believe Pixie Lott just announced her pregnancy in the middle of her song at Hoopla,” is similar to Beyoncé’s confirmation of pregnancy at the VMAs.
Pixie Lott recently showed off an oversized t-shirt while performing on stage with her blossoming bump (Pixie Lott/ Instagram).
However, Pixie’s second pregnancy, which she kept secret until she was 31 weeks pregnant, is completely different. She showed off her enormous baby bump on Instagram in June of 2023 while sharing a tender kiss with Oliver while sporting a black bra and leggings.
We are “overjoyed” to learn that we are expecting our first child, and we are looking forward to starting our own families, she said. On the day’s lineup, she joined JADE, Ciara, Mutya Buena, Jamelia, and The Vengaboys.
Pixie, who is married to model Oliver Cheshire, has recently performed at various festivals across the country. The blonde pop singer chose to wear an oversized white t-shirt as she belted out some of her biggest hits at the London Foodies Festival, and her blossoming baby bump proudly stood out.
Fans compared Pixie’s announcement to Beyoncé’s pregnancy announcement at the VMAs (Getty Images for Bauer)).
Pixie and Oliver first met at a Select Model catwalk event in 2010, and they eventually got married in 2022. The couple gave birth to Albert in October of that year.
However, the couple only made the announcement after his christening. The Boy and Girls hitmaker posted the photo on social media as “Albert Charles Cheshire.” We consider you to be the most amazing person of our lives, and you have given us the best of luck.
She is pleased to learn that Pixie recently revealed that she was getting ready to work and was working on more music. That’s not all, though. I adore music documentaries because they are so fascinating. She said, “I love when you can actually see the behind-the-scenes stuff,” so I think that would be really fun to do it.
ten years after Pixie released her self-titled record, Encino was released last year, making this her fifth studio album. And it seems as though she has kept her promise to release music for a while.
The Mama Do singer, who previously appeared in the Mirror, said: “I’m so happy to be back with an album and music as my main focus.” Pixie is now in full control and acknowledges that, given this background, she is not working at her own pace and is operating at her own speed.
Although it may seem as though Pixie’s debut single Mama Do was an overnight hit, the singer had been quietly working since the age of 14 after initially working for L. A. Reid’s record label before moving over to Mercury Records in the UK. She wrote songs for Selena Gomez and Alexandra Burke here. She exclaimed, “I was ready to go years before [the first release],” adding, “I was very impatient, hungry, and ready to go.” It burned really slowly when it finally came out, before moving really quickly.
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Paris Saint-Germain received the UEFA Champions League trophy on Saturday, allowing their Qatari owners to bask in the glory of an emphatic triumph after almost 15 years of massive investment, frequent disappointment, and occasional humiliation.
Previous seasons’ biggest prize for PSG included Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, and they did not succeed in winning it with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.
After shifting the focus away from acquiring glamorous athletes and allowing a brilliant coach, Luis Enrique, to work with a hungry, young team, they have accomplished it.
PSG have been the best team in Europe since 2025, but their 5-0 victory over Inter Milan in Munich, the biggest victory in the competition’s history, set them on a winning note.
The lengthy wait was ultimately worthwhile for the Gulf owners who purchased an ailing club in 2011 with the help of Qatar Sports Investments (QSI).
When Messi’s Argentina defeated Mbappe’s France on a spectacular night in Qatar in the world cup final in 2022, Qatar’s team won the match, and now Qatari-owned PSG has won the most stunning Champions League title.
This set of file photos, which were created on December 16, 2022, shows Argentina’s #10 Lionel Messi and France’s #10 Kylian Mbappe (L) in Al-Rayyan, west of Doha, on December 3, 2022. (Photo by Franck FIFE and Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP)
They lost three of their first five games of the tournament this year, which is easy to forget now.
“We started off poorly. Everyone questioned and criticized us. “Many people didn’t believe in our project,” said PSG President Nasser al-Khelaifi to Canal Plus.
“Win once more is the goal now.” We have been working hard for 14 years, but we are creating something for the future.
Khelaifi, who is close to Qatar’s ruler and holds several important positions in the game, including chairman of the European Club Association, was beaming as he presented the trophy.
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On June 1, 2025, PSG’s Qatari president, Nasser al-Khelaifi, attends a press conference at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris following PSG’s victory in their 2025 UEFA Champions League final football game against Inter Milan in Munich. (Photo by LOU BENOIST/AFP)
After Marseille in 1993, there is only the second French club to have won it. Given that this exciting youngster should now be together for a long time, it won’t take longer than 30 years for PSG to win another Champions League title.
Their starting lineup on Saturday was under 25 years old, and Marquinhos, who is 31 years old, has been a part of their team since 2013.
The Brazilian told M6 that despite suffering, “I have grown with this team.”
“I have sympathy for all the players who came here but were unable to win.”
For QSI to arrive, it took 14 years, eight coaches, and more than $2 billion ($2.27 billion) in transfer fees.
In the previous 12 campaigns, PSG reached the final, which was lost to Bayern Munich in Lisbon in 2020.
In addition to the semi-final defeats against Barcelona in 2017, Manchester United in 2019 and Real Madrid in 2022, there have also been humiliating collapses.
According to Luis Enrique, who was appointed in 2023, “I said when I came in that the only thing that was missing was the Champions League.”
The next objective is the Club World Cup,
On March 7, 2025, at the White House in Washington, DC, President Donald Trump and President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Gianni Infantino unveil the 2025 Club World Cup trophy at an executive order signing ceremony in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/AFP via Getty Images)
It is another success for a club with mega-rich Gulf owners, following Manchester City’s victory over Inter two years ago.
PSG’s victory was always going to be in vain. The third-richest club in Deloitte’s Football Money League was made possible by their revenue of just over 800 million euros last year.
Real and City were only behind them, and they were ahead of the aristocratic leaders United, Bayern, and Barcelona.
Nearly twice Inter’s total revenues were nearly doubled by PSG’s most recently reported annual wage bill.
The difference is that they are now spending the money wiser on the likes of Saturday’s two-goal hero Desire Doue, Joao Neves, and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia compared to previous years.
The club, which also won all three of France’s championships this year, recently signed new contracts with Luis Enrique and Luis Campos.
PSG will now be able to claim more than 100 million euros as compensation for winning the Champions League, along with the highly lucrative FIFA Club World Cup in the USA, where they will compete for more glory and riches.
The Qatar-owned PSG’s quest for dominance will continue throughout Europe.
Luis Enrique, whose side takes on Atletico Madrid in Los Angeles in two weeks, described it as “an incredible competition.”
“We want to compete and try to bring home the fifth trophy of the year.”
After spending 30 years together, Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish, who were both living together for 30 years, opened up about being caught in the middle of their union and relationship.
Miley Cyrus has discussed her evolving relationship with parents Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus(Image: Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Miley Cyrus has explained why she left her parents’ challenging relationship, which Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus, for good. The 32-year-old singer and actress has stated that she now understands her parents’ lives and actions differently.
After two years of marriage, Miley claims she experienced some of the pain her mother experienced as Tish and Billy Ray struggled in their marriage. In 2020, she divorced her husband, Australian actor Liam Hemsworth, 35. Billy Ray, the achy Breaky Heart singer, and Tish, the manager, tied the knot in 1993.
However, Miley believes the music industry may have contributed to the romance’s demise. The marriage ended in 2023. Miley’s family allegedly became distant from her father after the marriage ended, according to records.
After years of separation, the Flowers singer now feels like she can examine her father’s actions in a new light because he has since reconnected with her after years of separation. The actress revealed in a recent interview how her thoughts are evolving.
She told the New York Times, “I respect my parents as individuals rather than as parents because my mom really loved my dad her entire life, and I think it’s really difficult to be married to someone in the music industry and not to be a part of it.”
Miley’s relationship with her dad was strained amid his divorce(Image: Getty Images for DCP)
Miley continued to explain how her mother’s sympathy for her caused her to “take on” some of her feelings. She said, “I owned a lot of my mom’s pain because it hurt her more than it hurt me as an adult, and I took on some of her pain.”
The actress from Hannah Montana continued to say she is happy to see her father moving on as well as that she has a strong bond with her mother’s new husband, Dominic Purcell. In April, Billy Ray made headlines when he revealed that he had started dating Elizabeth Hurley.
Miley also explained that she isn’t fazed by the fact that her family drama can lead to headlines. She said: “The thing I like about the new way that the world works is that everything is so fast. In the ’90s, when something happened in a tabloid, remember how it would happen for a year? Now it’s just gone.”
She explained she has “gotten so used to it that I’m like, ‘ If this is the symptom — that sometimes we deal with these embarrassing or difficult public opinions — then that’s something I’m willing to take to have the life that we have. ‘”
Billy Ray and Tish divorced after 30 years in 2023 and went on to find new love, with Tish marrying Dominic that same year. While Billy Ray is said to be happy with British acting icon Elizabeth, he did endure a difficult relationship in the intervening years.
He was married to Australian singer Johanna Rose Hodges, who performs under the name Firerose. The pair tied the knot in October 2023 after a year of dating, and had also reportedly known each other for 10 years.
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Firerose had worked on the set of Hannah Montana, with Billy Ray meeting her through the fact that his daughter was the star of the show. But the marriage collapsed last year, and they filed for divorce in May 2024. The divorce was finalised in August last year.
The ongoing major renovation of two water treatment plants has caused the disruption of the supply of water in Abuja city and some satellite towns, according to Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike.
Wike made this known in a statement released on Sunday in Abuja by Lere Olayinka, his senior special assistant for public relations and social media.
He claimed that among the four facilities that produce and deliver water to FCT residents are those that are responsible for their care.
The minister claimed that the two functioning treatment plants’ water supply would be rationed for two weeks as a result of the ongoing plant rehabilitation.
Because two of the water treatment plants are still operational, what is happening is a partial but not complete shut down of the entire FCT water supply.
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SCC Nigeria Ltd. is “working 24/7 to make sure the rehabilitation is finished on time.” Therefore, residents are advised to store enough water to meet their needs during this time because the supply will be rationed, he said.
The minister assured residents that the FCT would have better water supply when the rehabilitation was finished, assuring them.
However, he claimed that residents would be temporarily able to drink water from the two newly renovated buildings while Sallah celebrations were taking place.
The FCT Water Board has four 30- 000 m3/hour water treatment plants that are divided into Phases 1, 2, 3, and 4. A contract was awarded to Messrs SCC Nigeria Ltd. as a result of the inefficiency of the plants, which are currently producing below their installed capacity.
Phases 1 and 2 have advanced in the rehabilitation works, with the replacement and reinstallation of the electro-mechanical equipment, which is the main force behind the treatment plants.
The two interconnected plants were completely shut down because of this. Phases 3 and 4 of the water treatment plants are operational but won’t support, meet, or meet the population’s needs, he claimed.
Wike claimed that the Water Board alternated between lines 1 and 2 of the distribution network to create a rationing schedule.
Love Island star Georgia Steel has been slammed on her latest social media post after sharing her ‘risky’ outfit for bestie Dani Dyers countryside wedding to Jarrod Bowen
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Former Love Island star Georgia Steel has been slammed online by fans after she attended Dani Dyer’s wedding in a ‘white’ lace dress. Dani tied the knot with West Ham United footballer Jarrod Bowen in an intimate wedding in the picturesque English countryside at the weekend, surrounded by her close friends and family.
Just before attending the wedding as a guest, Georgia took to TikTok where she shared a video showing off her wedding attire. The influencer is seen walking away from the camera, ensuring a full-length view, before spinning around and showing all angles of the dress.
The lacey midi dress featured a cutout feature on her chest and frilly fringe detailed around the top. Georgia, who first met Dani on Love Island, paired the look with white heels and a white clutch bag. While fans agreed the dress was beautiful, there was a dispute over the colour and whether it was wedding-appropriate.
Georgia has been criticised for her choice of dress for the wedding(Image: TIKTOK)
The dress, which can be bought online for £206, had followers claiming that it was a ‘risky’ and ‘too bridal’ for a wedding due to its light colour and lace trim. One follower commented: “Why would you wear a dress that’s too close to white to a wedding? ”
While another added: “Stunning on you! It’s a shame that it’s such a pale yellow it looks cream. maybe it’s brighter off camera but it’s a risky colour for a wedding IMO”.
Other fans jumped to Georgia’s defence and said: “All the colourblind people in the comments, it’s YELLOW”, while another added: “Let the girl wear her YELLOW dress in peace”.
Georgia hugged Dani as she embraced the special day(Image: INSTAGRAM)
While Georgia looked the epitome of a spring/summer wedding guest, embracing this year’s ‘butter yellow’ trend, bride Dani, of course, stole the show in a beautiful Suzanne Neville dress. The wedding dress was simple and elegant with off-the-shoulder sleeves. Striker Jarrod also cut a smart figure in a classic three-piece black suit.
The newlyweds confirmed they’ve officially tied the knot with a sweet Instagram post. Sharing a loved-up snap of their ceremony, Dani simply wrote: “The Bowen’s.”
Dani and Jarrod tied the knot on Saturday
On her Instagram, Dani said, “The most perfect, special day,” alongside a video of herself getting married. A purpose-built glass marquee had been erected in the Buckinghamshire countryside for the event, although the ceremony itself took place outside to make the most of the sunny weather.
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After the couple cut a giant white cake, a band could be seen in the background poised to begin, so everyone could get the party started with some dancing.
The couple walked the aisle than a year after Jarrod popped the question to Dani. After seeking Dani’s dad’s permission, Jarrod got down on one knee during to boat trip in Ibiza. The proposal came a year after the couple welcomed twins into their family, Summer and Star, who are now two.
