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Evanilson red card overturned on appeal

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After Bournemouth successfully appealed his red card in their 1-1 Premier League draw with Manchester United on Sunday, Evanilson’s suspension was reinstated.

Following a video assistant referee (VAR) review, the striker was initially given a yellow card for a challenge on Noussair Mazraoui.

As he shut down the United defender, Evanilson gave the impression of slipping.

Following a successful claim of wrongful dismissal, an independent regulatory commission removed Evanilson’s three-game ban, according to a statement from the Football Association.

With only four games left, Bournemouth are tenth in the table.

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Khloe Kardashian’s secret to jaw-dropping weight loss as she slams Ozempic claims

Khloé Kardashian has categorically denied assisting her weight loss by taking the diabetes drug Ozempic or claiming to have lost more than two stone in recent years.

Khloé Kardashian has had a dramatic transformation in recent years(Image: Instagram)

After leaving fans blown away by a recent bikini snap, Khloé Kardashian’s secret to losing weight is unknown. The reality TV personality and businesswoman is frequently seen participating in intense workouts on her family show, The Kardashians, and is no stranger to sharing her transformation.

But while the 40-year-old credits her workouts for transforming her life, her divorce from basket ball player Lamar Odom in 2013 sparked a major change for the Good American founder. Each day, she wakes up at 5.30am to get a work out in before getting her children ready for the school run.

Khloé has been surrounded by rumors that she had used weight loss medication and surgery to aid in her transformation despite the extensive documentation surrounding her intense regime. She had previously been accused of helping her with the diabetes drug Ozempic, but she has since furiously denied using it.

Khloé exercises for five days each week. On her fifth day, she chooses a specific cardio or Pilates exercise after four days of exercise with her personal trainer. The 5ft10 star previously stated that she “does circuit training with cardio intervals, so I’m constantly spiking my heart rate up and down.”

Khloé showcased her incredible results on social media
Khloé showcased her incredible results on social media(Image: Instagram)

Khloé has also previously stated in the past that she had spent “a lot” of her life being overweight and feared losing weight after the birth of True, her daughter. She stated on the SHE MD podcast that she spent a lot of her life being overweight. God help me lose weight. Years went by without me. I’ve always been athletic and chubby. I’ve always enjoyed sports. Simply put, I was never in shape.

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“I was 204 [14 stone 5 lbs] when I delivered and I was like ‘How am I going to do this again?’ because it took so many years to do it the first time.” She added that she later lost her pregnancy weight quicker than she had imagined. But it’s not just her work outs that help her.

The reality star and businesswoman works out five days a week
The reality star and businesswoman works out five days a week(Image: Instagram)

Khloé consumes seven meals per day, compared to the average person who consumes three. After trying every diet on the market, she has gradually cut out “every soda.” Dr. Philip Goglia, Khloé’s nutritionist, explained that she drinks a shake made of ice and water and a scoop of protein powder with almond butter each morning.

100g of chicken breast, vegetables, and an iron-based salad are included in her second meal. Celery, tomatoes, and 12 almonds make up her fourth meal. Khloe has 200g of vegetables in her fifth meal, which includes an egg, before choosing fatty fish like sea bass, cod, or salmon.

She has another piece of fruit before going to sleep. However, Khloé occasionally indulges in cheat days, such as pizza and pasta for dinner. Khloé has claimed she had known about it when she was younger and that she had used the diabetes program Ozempic to aid her transformation.

She admits that had she known about medication to aid weight loss in her younger years, she would have tried them
She admits that had she known about medication to aid weight loss in her younger years, she would have tried them(Image: Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

She said, “If they had Ozempic, I probably would have tried it, because I tried any other thing,” when she spoke on The Kardashians. I tried every popular diet, with the exception of the one that actually works, a lifestyle change. Therefore, I really want to promote health rather than just a scale. Simply put, I believe that people should be active.

You should only be healthy and stronger for yourself, according to the statement, “I don’t really care what your size is.” Khloé became “obsessed” with how she looked after her marriage to Lamar ended. She claimed to SHE MD, “My thing is more the food because I’m determined.” Therefore, I had to retrain my mind about what I could and couldn’t eat.

You don’t even want half of the garbage or junk because I’m in a good body-wise manner, which I like. I do sort of eat what I want. Or, for that matter, pizza is my weakness.

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22 Kids And Counting’s Chloe Radford welcomes new baby and shares sweet name

Chloe Radford, the star of 22 Kids and Counting, declared to fans that her “heart is so full.” The TV personality, who already has a daughter with the name Mila, revealed that the newborn’s father is named Bodhi Reign on her social media account.

“Bodhi Reign”, the 29-year-old wrote. “28th April 2025.6lb 6oz of pure perfection. Here’s to a four-person family life! My heart is so full. The reality star received congratulations from members of her family in a hurried fashion in the comments section, where Katie Radford wrote, “Congratulations again, so proud of you all.”

The Radford Family page stated, “You did amazing Chloe, he’s just perfect Mila is going to be the best big sister she was so excited to meet him, and I’m so proud of you well doneee, congratulations to you both mila is going to be the most amazing big sister.”

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Bodhi, Chloe’s second child, was welcomed on Instagram.

On April 28, she told supporters in the post, “I think it’s baby time,” and she was walking towards the hospital entrance. Before revealing photos of the newborn baby, she also shared a video of their pregnancy journey.

Bodhi, the mother of the sweet child, was peacefully lying on a white baby onesie that read “born in 2025” at the end of the clip.

Chloe Radford, the daughter of Sue and Noel Radford, recently updated fans about her “scary” pregnancy by revealing how nerve-wracking it was. The actress, who lives with her famous family and appears on Channel 5’s 22 Kids and Counting, has two children with Jacob Wallace, who is also a security guard.

Chloe Radford and boyfriend
Jacob Wallace, a security guard, and her daughter, Jacob, are parents.

Chloe assured fans that her baby was “absolutely fine” on TikTok this week, updating her 100, 000 followers on her condition, but revealed that she had been having high blood pressure and had booked an appointment for an induction date as a result.

She said, “Hey, guys, update on where we’re at with pregnancy and everything like that,” while sat in her bedroom and sporting an oversized t-shirt. I went to the day assessment unit today and they were monitoring my blood pressure once more and I was on the monitor as well. Baby boy is absolutely fine there; he’s very happy there.

Chloe Radford
Chloe’s family e-mailed her in a hurry (Instagram) to say congratulations.

She continued, “My blood pressure is high because they do it four times in an hour, and it was okay the first two times and then it was high again,” explaining that she didn’t understand why. I have no idea why because I was just sitting there relaxing, which is why.

I also had my blood taken, and I believe that’s just pre-eclampsia testing. I’ll have the results in about a day. They’ve increased my blood pressure to three tablets per day because my blood pressure is still high for some reason.

The announcement that we have an induction date is exciting news. It’s incredibly exciting, but it’s also incredibly terrifying and nerve-wracking. That’s exciting because I know we haven’t seen him in a while and have to wait until we do. That is obviously only if he doesn’t arrive earlier, which, to be honest, won’t be.

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Planning lodged for new Cricket Ireland stadium

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Planning and digital renders for a new stadium and high performance centre for Cricket Ireland in Dublin have been lodged by Ireland – Sport.

The high performance center of the sport would be located in a two-story pavilion with a seating capacity of 4, 240 and a floodlit stadium, among other things.

A suggestion for an additional 7, 760 non-permanent seats, which would increase the capacity for specific events to 12, 000, has also been made.

The Irish government granted funding for the construction of a new stadium in August, and the project is scheduled to be finished in 2028.

The development of a new stadium, according to Cricket Ireland’s CEO Warren Deutrom, will allow Ireland to “host the world’s top teams on an annual basis,” including hosting the 2030 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup with England and Scotland.

Officials from Cricket Ireland’s nations’ visits to the Hagley Oval in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Hampshire’s Utilita Bowl in Southampton are said to have taken inspiration from the design of the new facility.

The stadium will be based at the Ireland – Sport campus in Blanchardstown, which is in the north west outskirts of Dublin.

The football team’s headquarters are already located on the campus, along with Aquatics Ireland, the high performance facility for Irish rugby, and the Irish Olympic and Special Olympics complex.

For international matches, Ireland’s senior men’s and women’s teams play on the grounds of Malahide, Clontarf, Stormont, and Bready.

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From Rooney to relegation – why Plymouth are on brink of drop

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So after two seasons in the Championship, Plymouth Argyle are all but certain to be heading back to League One.

Despite a flurry of positive results in recent weeks, the Pilgrims will return to the third tier unless they can thrash title-chasing Leeds United by as many as 13 goals on the final day of the season and hope Luton Town and Hull City lose.

But while this season has not been successful, it has been full of stories.

Rooney optimism quickly evaporates

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“I actually sold it to her that this is the Monaco of England,” joked Rooney when asked how he persuaded his wife Coleen that taking the Plymouth job was the right move for his career.

It was a light-hearted moment from the most high-profile head coach the Pilgrims had ever appointed.

As a former England captain, and ex-record goalscorer for the Three Lions, Rooney had done it all as a player with Manchester United, but the jury was very much out on his coaching abilities.

A spell at Derby County had seen the club relegated to League One, although huge financial problems at the club absolved Rooney of much blame, before an uneventful spell with Major League Soccer side DC United in the United States.

Then came a torrid time at Birmingham City in 2023.

Rooney was brought in by the club’s new American owners to play attacking football, but his spell saw Blues drop from the Championship play-off places to the relegation zone after just two wins in 15 games in charge.

“I kept a pretty open mind. I raised an eyebrow and I said to myself ‘I hope it works’,” said BBC Sport journalist Drew Savage, who commentates on Argyle matches for BBC Radio Devon.

“I’d been trying to interest my colleagues at BBC Sport at a national level in Plymouth Argyle for all my career and they very rarely listened.

“In those six months when Rooney was manager, I had more conversations in the office around Argyle and my colleagues who do sport for BBC Breakfast and BBC News were far more open to mentioning Plymouth than ever before.

“So I totally get what he brought to the table in terms of exposure, of just putting us on on the map.

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Rooney’s first test was a trip to Sheffield Wednesday – a club Argyle had pipped to the League One title just 15 months earlier and who had, like Plymouth, avoided relegation the previous May.

He opted for an attacking line-up, but it quickly, and spectacularly, backfired as they lost 4-0.

Plymouth had just one half-hearted attempt on target and saw Wednesday have 31 efforts at goal, 11 of which were on target, in the morale-sapping loss.

“Pre-season had been decent, it kind of came out of nowhere,” said Savage.

“We maybe hadn’t played strong enough sides but I certainly wasn’t expecting a 4-0 defeat.

“It was a problem that would become perpetual – in far too many games teams could just play through the middle of us.

“Something that did become a pattern was Rooney blamed the players. He also later admitted maybe he’d played too many of the new signings.

Things improved a bit as they won three and drew two more of their next eight league games, but then the slump kicked in.

Rooney would win just one of his next 14 games as the Pilgrims tumbled to the foot of the table.

By the time he mutually agreed to part ways with Argyle on 31 December, he had seen his side fail to score in 11 of his 23 league games in charge and concede three or more goals in eight of those matches.

Among the horror shows Argyle fans will want to forget were the 6-1 loss at Norwich, where Rooney said Plymouth’s under-18s team could have defended better, a 3-0 loss at Leeds, where his side did not have an attempt at goal, and a 5-0 drubbing at then bottom-of-the-table Cardiff City having gone down to 10 men.

“When Rooney came he tried to play a certain style,” explained former Argyle defender Brian McGlinchey, who works as a summariser for BBC Radio Devon.

“It was a lot of attacking play through the lines, and sometimes I felt that maybe some of the players didn’t have the ability to play that type of style and a lot of teams had worked Argyle out.

Rooney out, Muslic in, Liverpool beaten

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Having appointed a head coach everyone had heard of, Argyle went completely the other way and got someone in that nobody had a clue about.

Step forward Miron Muslic.

The Bosnia-born Austrian may not have had the profile of Rooney, but he did at least have successful managerial experience having guided Belgian side Cercle Bruges to a Europa Conference League place.

His reign began slowly with a 1-1 draw with Oxford United and a 1-0 home loss to Queens Park Rangers before his side were outclassed 5-0 at home by Burnley, the Clarets scoring four times in the final 15 minutes of a five-goal first half.

But then came the resurgence.

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“Just to be there that day was an amazing thing I’ll remember for ever,” said Savage of the famous Sunday in February when Argyle knocked Liverpool out of the FA Cup.

Plymouth had already beaten Premier League side Brentford in the third round under perennial caretaker manager Kevin Nancekivell and injured captain Joe Edwards.

But under Muslic they put in arguably the most memorable performance of this season’s competition beating a Liverpool side who were clear at the top of the Premier League, in the last 16 of the Champions League and Carabao Cup finalists, 1-0 for one of Home Park’s most famous days.

“Any Liverpool team on paper should pretty much beat any Plymouth Argyle team on paper,” Savage said of the win against the Reds, who had rested several of their star players.

“But the Home Park crowd has played such a role in so many of the results we have had, and they tend to be results against teams we’re not expecting to beat.”

The crucial point of the season came in the first half of March.

It started well – having beaten Liverpool, Argyle got a third top-flight side in the FA Cup and came away from their fifth round tie against reigning Premier League champions Manchester City with a creditable 3-1 defeat.

But then it all went wrong.

They had a run of four ‘winnable’ games but lost to relegation rivals Hull City and Derby County, and were beaten 3-0 by Sheffield Wednesday – although a first away league win of the season at Portsmouth in the middle of the run salvaged some survival hopes.

But while good wins over Norwich City and Sheffield United further increased fans’ optimism, Argyle never got out of the drop zone.

“The new manager came in and realised that he had to go a lot more resilient, defensive, harder to beat,” explained McGlinchey, who saw Argyle move to three central defenders and a more compact and direct style of play

“They’ve got there to a certain degree, they’ve become a bit more dogged, nowhere near as on the front foot as much.

Why did it all go wrong?

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It is simplistic to say that Argyle were poor at both ends of the field – but the statistics do not lie.

They have conceded more goals than any other side in the Championship, while a recent flurry of eight goals in the past four games has seen them become the highest-scoring side in the bottom third of the table – but it was too little too late.

The lack of another striker was key – with Muhamed Tijani out for most of the season with hamstring issues, and Ryan Hardie’s patchy injury record over the Christmas and New Year period, goals were hard to come by.

“I still maintain that Argyle have not replaced Niall Ennis,” Savage said.

“In the League One-winning season, when the goals from Hardie dried up towards the end, Ennis was in the side and scoring goals.

“Argyle have failed to land anybody else who’s capable of consistently shouldering that burden.

“Tijani got injured and we’ve taken a while to work out exactly how to get the best out of Mustapha Bundu.

“But if we’d signed a striker, capable of scoring goals in the January window then we would probably be in a better position than we are now.”

Argyle head coach Muslic feels his side simply ran out of time to change course.

Having won four of their past six games they gave themselves a chance until Luton’s late heroics over Coventry on Saturday left them effectively down.

“We are empty. We are heartbroken, but we will get up again,” Muslic said.

“It was a massive, massive challenge and I think we took this challenge with courage, with enthusiasm, with positivity, with a completely different structure, different set up and we simply ran out of games.

Better placed to bounce straight back?

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Despite being back in League One, Argyle are probably in a stronger position financially then when they were promoted.

They have benefitted from two years of the Championship’s bigger television deal and have invested in infrastructure, such as a new training ground and improvements at Home Park.

Owner Simon Hallett has said he is close to selling a stake in the club to new investors, which could further bolster their coffers.

Last month, he said he was confident the budget available to Argyle if they were to go down would be “considerably in excess” of the one in their 101-point title-winning season in 2022-23.

“Our success off the pitch has enabled us to diversify and grow revenues to record levels,” he said.

“Should we be relegated, returns on our investments position us well to remain financially strong in League One with the ability to fund a highly competitive first-team squad.”

But who will play for the club is another matter.

Argyle twice broke their transfer record in January to sign Ghanaian forward Michael Baidoo and Ukraine defender Maksym Talovierov.

While Talovierov has been a hit at centre-back, Baidoo has struggled, failing to score or provide an assist and rarely featuring in the past few months.

Both have international aspirations which might be difficult playing in League One, while the likes of forward Hardie, wing-back Bali Mumba and goalkeeper Conor Hazard could all attract interest from other Championship sides over the summer.

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