Apparently, Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister who helped lead the invasion of Iraq in 2003, will serve as the leader of Gaza under Donald Trump’s 21-point peace plan. Details are available from Soraya Lennie.
Published On 29 Sep 2025
Sally Mash, the 58-year-old singer’s girlfriend, and the couple celebrated while enjoying “unlimited Supersonic cocktails” and catering while enjoying the venue’s recent reopening.
Liam chose to have a quieter evening with his partner Debbie Gwyther, giving rest a top priority over his voice, despite Noel’s 25-year-old daughter Anaissa and Liam Gallagher’s 24-year-old son Gene attending. Instead, Liam and Debbie decided to hold a low-key celebration.
Because he can’t afford to become ill or have his voice harmed, a source told The Sun, “they’re planning an early-ish night.”
However, after the final Wembley Stadium performance on Saturday, Liam, 53, finally joined Noel for the first time in a decade, breaking his booze ban with his brother and their mother Peggie. Noel reportedly enjoyed having him there.
After the singer previously claimed they had a one-night stand after being “hammered on a plane,” Liam avoided a potentially awkward encounter with Lily. In her autobiography, My Thoughts Exactly, Lily, 40, revealed that they were traveling to Japan together in 2009 and teamed up for the mile-high club.
We were struck on the plane, she wrote. “At some point, Liam and I accidentally ended up in the toilet together, not using drugs, but rather something he shouldn’t have.
Then, together, we were lying in a bed. What are you doing now, Liam asked as we arrived in Tokyo in his distinctive nasal twang. Why don’t you return to our hotel?” I asked, “Yeah, okay.
Liam teased fans about the possibility of Knebworth shows during the Wembley show by suggesting more Oasis dates for the year in the Wembley.
He thanked fans for making the reunion tour possible before closing with Champagne Supernova: “I want to thank you so much for keeping the faith and putting this band back on the f**king map. Supernova Champagne. I’ll see you next year.
Noel, who was “devastated” when Chiltern Firehouse burned down last year, also received a personal touch from the occasion. He wanted to throw a party when everything was back up and running, and this was the perfect opportunity, according to a source.
Despite earlier rumors of a low-key Liam, the afterparty ultimately reflected a blend of family fun, celebrity glitz, and Oasis nostalgia, completing a triumphant UK tour on a high note.
After receiving a celebratory tattoo from famous full-back Ellie Kildunne, head coach John Mitchell now has a permanent and personal souvenir of England’s victory in the Rugby World Cup.
In honor of their victory over Canada in the Saturday final, Kildunne fired up a tattoo gun and adorned the inside of 61-year-old Mitchell with the words “2025” and an equals sign.
Hannah Botterman, the prop’s sleeve of her playing shirt, scrawled 2025 below 1994 and 2014, the dates of England’s previous two victories in the Rugby World Cup, on the same sleeve as she did in the dressing room after the final.
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After winning, captain Zoe Aldcroft and scrum-half Natasha Hunt celebrated in front of the empty stands before lifting a self-imposed 13-month alcohol ban.
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The nearby Cabbage Patch pub, which has been renamed the Red Roses Patch throughout the tournament, served as the venue for England’s celebrations before moving on to a private party there.
When England won the trophy for the first time in 2014, former Red Roses with Katy Daley-McLean, Kat Merchant, Claire Allen, and Danielle Waterman, who were all part of the team, led singalongs from the pub stage.
American Ilona Maher, a social media sensation who previously spent three months with the Bristol Bears earlier this year, attended a nearby party and celebrated with Botterman, Sarah Bern, and Abbie Ward, her former Bears team-mates.
At 1:00 a.m., Aldcroft led from the front as part of the team’s final group that came back, along with Botterman, Hunt, Emily Scarratt, and Mackenzie Carson.
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Prior to the start of the new season, Prop Sarah Bern revealed to Rugby Union Weekly that the squad has a tentative itinerary for their trip to Ibiza before they depart from their PWR clubs together.
We would love to host the 32 of us if anyone wants to! she stated.
An emotional Bern resolutely refused to give advice to any young rugby fans who were considering starting after seeing the Red Roses’ success.
She remarked, “Just go ahead and do it.”
“Russell is a great example of how sometimes you don’t feel like you belong in a place,” says I.
If you are tall, short, quick, powerful, strong, or both, you can fit in. You will be a part of rugby no matter what might be keeping you from the rest of the world.
I struggled in traditional classrooms because I was shy and dyslexic. Although I had excellent intelligence, I was unable to pass the exams. I had the confidence and focus I needed to become the person I am today thanks to sports and rugby.
All we want to do is to share that with other people in the world.
In Vietnam, where thousands of residents were still being evacuated as a result of Typhoon Bualoi’s earlier landfall, several people have died or are missing.
Published On 29 Sep 2025
Australia goalkeeper Mathew Ryan travelled more than 100,000 miles last season – and veteran Luka Modric played more games than anyone else in the world, according to a new Fifpro report into players’ welfare.
It also found players at the Fifa Club World Cup – which took place in June and July – did not get a safe amount of off-season or pre-season days.
Football players are caught in a “perfect storm of how not to treat a human”, says the international players’ union.
Fifpro has launched its fifth annual report on the issue, looking at how much players played and travelled in 2024-25.
Alex Phillips, the secretary general, said: “Last year, the Ballon d’Or winner [Rodri] got injured and missed nearly a season.
“This season, the Ballon d’Or winner [Ousmane Dembele] is out again with a muscle injury.
“How long will this keep happening until even the club owners realise it’s bad for business?
“We’re looking at the player health issue but even the people owning clubs and leagues are starting to take note and realise the system isn’t working for anyone.”
The research paper looked into seven sections, including risks to players’ health because of calendar congestion and long international travel, the short spell in between seasons, the heat – and how young footballers are playing more than ever.
Among its findings were that Modric, who turned 40 this summer, played more games than any other player in 2024-25, including friendlies – 76 for Real Madrid and Croatia.
Europe-based Ryan had to travel 169,000km (105,000 miles) in the season for Australia duty.
And Lamine Yamal has played 130 games by the age of 18, which is far more than most of his peers ever managed.
The study found the Club World Cup dramatically added to some players’ workload too.
Darren Burgess, a high-performance consultant for Fifpro, said: “It’s a perfect storm of how not to treat a human – a large number of games and less than the recommended off-season days to go into a large number of games.
“The cycle goes on.”
Including internationals and friendly matches, 10 players featured 69 times or more last season – with Modric, now at AC Milan, leading the way with 76.
“It must be noted that all 10 players on the list played at the 2025 Fifa Club World Cup and by far surpassed the recommended maximum limit of 55 match appearances per season,” said the Fifpro report.
Four of the top 10 were Paris St-Germain players, with the top two both Real Madrid players – Modric and Federico Valverde.
It also found that Uruguay’s Valverde made the most ‘back-to-back’ appearances – which it counts as matches within five days or 120 hours – 58.
Bayern Munich and South Korea defender Kim Min-jae had a run of 20 games in 73 days.
Fifpro say it “dramatically increased his risk of injury” – and indeed it emerged he suffered an Achilles injury in October, before being sidelined in May.
The players with the most matchday squad appearances were youngsters – Tottenham’s Archie Gray and Real’s Arda Guler.
Gray, now 19, was at least a substitute on 80 different occasions in 2024-25 for Tottenham and England Under-21s, including friendlies. He played in 63 of them.
Nottingham Forest and New Zealand striker Chris Wood, speaking on a Fifpro video call about the issue, says one or two seasons of 60-odd games is one thing.
“When you are heading into year three, four or five of 60 games, that is when you could see problems arise,” he said.
It is an issue his Forest head coach, Ange Postecoglou, also has strong feelings on.
Speaking about the topic to journalists before the Sunderland game, he said: “It’s not just the volume of games – players just don’t get a break any more.
Former Brighton keeper Ryan travelled more than any other player in the world – with a distance of more than 100,000 miles – with more than 217 hours spent travelling (the equivalent of nine days of the year).
The Australian started last season in Italy with Roma, before moving to French side Lens in January. Ryan moved to Spain to join Levante this summer.
Just behind him on the list was New Zealand’s Marko Stamenic, who was on loan at Olympiacos from Forest – and now plays for Swansea.
And third was another New Zealander Ben Waine, who was on loan at Mansfield Town from Plymouth Argyle.
The 24-year-old, who is now at Port Vale, travelled 157,000km (97,000 miles).
Cameroon goalkeeper Andre Onana, who was at Manchester United, had 33 different international cross-border trips, crossing 69 time zones.
He travelled 67,000km for Cameroon and 60,000km with United including the Europa League and pre-season tours.
The report also highlights the case of Chelsea and Ecuador midfielder Moises Caicedo.
In the space of 14 days in October, the report noted, “he played a total of 360 minutes across two continents and three countries, with an average recovery time of 110.8 hours, while flying more than half the length of the equator”.
“Sometimes you can be on a plane three hours after finishing a game with Forest for 30 hours of travel,” Wood added.
Top European club and national team players have about three weeks between seasons, says the report.
It compared this to several other sports leagues.
Basketball’s NBA has between 14 and 23 weeks off depending on whether teams reached the play-offs.
Aussie rules’ Australian Football League and baseball’s MLB both had a minimum of 14 weeks too.
High-performance expert Burgess, who has worked for Arsenal and Liverpool, said it shows “how far football has to come compared to other sports”.
“The priority [in those other sports] has been placed on player performance and well-being.
“It illustrates it can happen if you get the right people at the table. You can get to a better point.”
The Fifpro report said players should have a 28-day off-season, and another 28-day pre-season.
It says none of the teams in the Club World Cup met those targets – including winners Chelsea, who had just finished their domestic season met those.
Austrian club Salzburg resumed training eight days after their exit to prepare for Champions League qualifiers.
Tunisian side Esperance had 10 days off and Benfica had 14 days before they started training for their domestic super cups.
Treble winners and beaten Club World Cup finalists Paris St-Germain had 22 days off but then only seven days of a pre-season.
Lamine Yamal played 130 times for Barcelona and Spain before turning 18 in July.
Fifpro highlights that other players who played for both teams had much fewer appearances at that age – including legend Andres Iniesta (40), one-time wonderkid Ansu Fati (45) and current team-mates Pedri (49) and Gavi (60).
Lamine Yamal is a bit of an exception because he is already such a talent – finishing second in the 2025 Ballon d’Or.
But there is a pattern.
None of the seven winners of the Golden Boy (award for best player aged under 21) from 2010 to 2016 had played 2,000 minutes before turning 18.
But seven of the next eight did. And the past four years produced the four highest figures – led by Lamine Yamal’s 8,158 minutes.
Burgess called the issue “alarming”.
“Players until the age of 24 and 25 are still growing and maturing,” he said.
“To expose them to excessive load is to expose them to a greater injury risk.
Forest striker Wood says the threat of striking is “a potential thing” but “we don’t ever want to get to that point”.
Fifpro has been campaigning for a less demanding football calendar for many years, while watching player workload rise.
But the body does not feel it is all doom and gloom.
Director Alexander Bielefeld said: “When we started with this five years ago there was a lot of pushback and people saying it was a non-issue.
“If we look at the media landscape and discourse now I don’t think anyone disputes this is an issue. On that scale we’ve moved.
“We’re not at the stage where people want to give up part of their competitions or see players miss the competitions. We haven’t been able to implement these safeguards.
“There are legal cases ongoing and a significant shift in the discourse. We need urgent action but we’re in a very different space to two or three years ago.”
Postecoglou also says more and more games can cut fans’ enjoyment of the game.
“I just don’t think there’s a same sense of excitement if we keep creating tournaments or games,” he said.
The Summer of 2025 has belonged to Oasis in the UK and Ireland – it is hard to overstate the impact and outpouring of emotion from their 19 shows.
We’ve just had the final weekend of gigs in London at Wembley Stadium coming after Noel and Liam Gallagher went and conquered America too. And David Beckham has just called Oasis the “The Greatest” on instagram after going to Sunday night’s show. He’s not wrong.
I attended Sunday’s performance as well, which was a wonderful evening with Liam’s vocals singing beautifully despite his decision to skip the party and focus on the audience’s reaction.
Bonehead, Andy Bell, and Gem Archer are among the musicians who are cheering their way onto the stage, and Joey Waronker, a new drummer, is on the rise.
Noel is definitely a more relaxed and jokey performer now that the comeback tour has begun in Cardiff on July 4. He has already spoken of his nerves.
The band sound tight, loud, and in top form song after song, and being relaxed is no bad thing. No one is phoning it in or taking anything for granted.
Little by little, rumors about tour dates in 2026 have been spreading. Everyone is persuaded that the band’s August 1996 shows will be held at Manchester City’s Etihad stadium and Knebworth.
What people in the band’s vicinity have consistently told me that Liam (and in some cases Noel) will need rest after this tour. When they finish their tour, which includes dates in Australia, Japan, South Korea, and South America in October and November, some people have told me that they will take 18 months off.
I have no doubt that the original plan for this tour was to take a lengthy break.
With the band’s unprecedented response and five-star reviews, it would be difficult to say “no” to more shows this Summer. Noel chose to change the subject rather than answer a question about Knebworth when he called into TalkSport and was quizzed.
Liam said, “See you next year,” to fans over the weekend at Wembley. Lam was aware of his actions.
Noel and Liam are still having fun there, perhaps more than they had anticipated. Why wouldn’t they continue to play together?
So my money would be on the young men taking a nice break after this tour, which they could do for up to six months, and then playing more. They can wait to see how this tour’s final months turn out, so there is no need to make an announcement in a rush.
But whatever they do, wherever they book and what they want to play, will sell out.