Without being recognized, Sir Chris Hoy or Sir Andy Murray could not enter the city center. Even without his Olympic medals clanking around his neck, Duncan Scott might get a good few second glances.
However, Jack Carlin did it quite simply and unintentionally wander through Scotland’s largest city earlier this week.
Only two of Carlin’s Scottish compatriots have won more Olympic medals since his silver and bronze medals in Paris last summer. Hoy and Scott are the only other two. Even though he can surpass Carlin with two golds, even Murray falls short of his four-game total.
Not that the ebullient cyclist’s low profile even bothers him at all.
When I’m eating a sausage roll while walking down the road, he says, “the last thing I want to be stopped.”
When the Commonwealth Games take place in Glasgow next summer, the city’s residents might care a little more.
Carlin, who was a fan of the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in 2014, will play a key role in the reimagined event.
The 28-year-old has a wrong to right, as if playing a home game wasn’t enough motivation, given that he now lives just up the street in the city’s east end.
Carlin has reached the top of the podium 19 times in international competition, but he has never done so.
His Commonwealth winning streak includes silver, bronze, and keirin silver from three years ago, while his broken ankle 12 weeks away from Paris hampered his chances at the previous Olympics.
His focus is on the summer of next, after spending several months in Australia and south-east Asia.
I would never have believed him if someone said to 17-year-old Jack, sitting in the Glasgow 2014 spectators, “Listen, you’d be talking about a home Commonwealth Games, 12 years later, with four Olympic medals around your neck,” he says.
“It’s undoubtedly an exciting time for both Scottish and Glaswegian.”
Taylor Swift has 11 studio albums, but a former friend claims to have unreleased tracks that show how her talent sparkled from a young age.
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Taylor Swift ’s music has dominated the charts for almost two decades – but her love life and her public feuds have at times threatened to obscure her huge talent. Now, a new Channel 4 documentary reveals how Taylor’s songwriting prowess and ability to connect with her audience has always been her superpower, enabling her to clap back at her critics with lyrical precision.
When Taylor was just 13 years old, she and her friend Robert Ellis Orrall worked together to create a demo that included three tracks called Invisible, Just South of Knowing Why, and Need You Now.
Robert recalls their studio sessions, reiterating that Taylor had Taylor directed the session right away. In the first two days of our relationship, we recorded three songs, two of which are included on Taylor Swift’s debut album. Her father said, “Here’s another 15 that she wrote,” after we’d written a few songs.
Robert reveals that he has sixteen more Taylor-written songs that have never been heard by the general public while holding up a CD for the camera.
On the show, which features interviews with many of Taylor’s early collaborators, he declares, “I have tons of these from way back.” 16 of our songs are copyrighted in 2003, the same year we began writing. You have never heard of any of those.
Robert credits Taylor with having all the original ideas, claiming that she was a powerhouse even in her early years, when she co-wrote the book. Robert was able to identify her as a huge star when he first met her while he was working with her. On her debut album, Place in This World, Robert was one of the co-writers, and he was confident that it would appeal to listeners. Millions of kids could relate to that, according to Robert. She “had a plan,” she said, “and she wasn’t going to change it.” She would not be halted. Right and center, she was being told “no” by people, but she was not doing that.
Taylor was encouraged to sing at The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville because he had a regular slot there thanks to Robert’s assistance in getting her discovered. Scott Borchetta spotted her at that time, and he gave her her a signed Big Machine Records label.
Taylor talks about her big break in the documentary’s audio. She claims, “I’m looking out and seeing all these faces, and one guy has his eyes closed and I kept noticing him, and he said, “Hi, I’m Scott Borchetta. The good news is that I want to start my own record labels and that I want to have one of my first artists, he says.
The pair worked together for 12 years and released six albums. Then in 2016 Taylor’s ongoing feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian blew up and threatened her career. Kanye’s song Famous contained sexual lyrics about Taylor which she publicly took issue with. Then, Kim released clips of a video of a phone call appearing to show Taylor approving the lyrics. The backlash from this was not kind and when Kim called her a snake, #TaylorSwift IsASnake went viral.
Taylor’s mother Andrea was the subject of a video that shows how the fallout affected the young star. She is portrayed as saying, “I’ve been doing this for 15 years, I’m tired of it,” in the video. At this point, it seems like it’s more than just music; on average, I’m like “OK,” but occasionally I’m like “it just gets loud.” Taylor retreated from the public eye, but she soon made a comeback, this time with the snake motif, which was prominent on her Reputation album from 2017 and subsequent tour.
In 2020, the full video of the Kanye call was released, proving Taylor had not fully approved the lyrics. Also in 2017, Taylor’s life away from music made headlines once more when she won a sexual assault civil case against DJ David Mueller.
She stated at the time, “I acknowledge the privilege that I enjoy in life, in society, and in being able to bear the high cost of defending myself in a trial like this.” I want to assist those whose voices should also be heard. I’ll be making donations to a number of organizations that support sexual assault victims’ self-defense in the near future.
In 2019, fans were again supportive of Taylor when she spoke out in fury after she parted ways with Scott Borchetta and he sold her back catalogue to Scooter Brau n. Taylor asked fans to weigh in on her behalf.
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However, Channel 4 ’s new documentary sees her first manager Rick Barker slam her behaviour. He says, “No one stole her music, no one made her sign a bad record deal.” This year, Taylor, now 35, announced her engagement to American football star Travis Kelce. And even her former manager Rick is wishing her well. He tells the film crew, “I hope what comes next for Taylor is that she has found her person and that she gets to experience the things that most people get to experience and that some people give the girl a break.”
Matt Graveling, BBC Sport correspondent and Daniel Austin, BBC Sport senior journalist
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Premier League games are a regular fixture for some football fans. They also purchase season tickets for away games and travel throughout the nation with their team.
For some, attending a top-tier game in England is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity they can reclaim and take extended breaks from their daily lives for.
James from South Korea paid £900 for a ticket purchased from an unlicensed resale website last weekend to travel 5, 500 miles to Brighton to watch his beloved Tottenham play for the first time. He was denied entry to the stadium when he attempted to.
When James attempted to scan the ticket, it had already deactivated. He was given the instructions to go to the ticket office, where Brighton staff informed him that his ticket had been fraudulently purchased.
He appeared to be upset outside the stadium, saying, “I’m disappointed, I didn’t understand this rule.”
“I was told to try to get the ticket refunded,” I was told.
More than a hundred more people like James also had their tickets canceled in the same way.
Reselling is prohibited in the UK, but many websites still have locations abroad.
According to the BBC investigation, resellers frequently rack up hundreds of tickets using fake identities and fake identities to sell them for higher prices, leaving customers with extortionate prices or completely out of pocket after purchasing ineffective tickets.
According to Tom Greatrex, president of the Football Supporters’ Association, “long-term supporters are finding it impossible to get tickets because they are made available through secondary agencies.”
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Brighton claim they are attempting to stop ticket sales at exorbitant prices through unlicensed websites. They are using new technologies.
Joseph Sells was on duty for the Tottenham fixture this season to try and solve the issue. This year, they hired him into a new staff position as tickets investigation officer.
According to Sells, “We’ve discovered hundreds of unauthorised resale tickets] today, and by moving at the black market rate, we’ve prevented about £100,000 of transactions that would have been touts,” according to Sells.
“We’re making significant investments to stop the issue from the beginning using the most recent technology,” he said.
A family brought six tickets, totaling £6, 000, to watch the Manchester City game a fortnight ago.
“That’s very upsetting, of course. If you want to attend a game, you can purchase directly from the club. It’s a sad story, but we’re repeating it.
Later, Brighton later reported to the BBC that 285 touted tickets had been revoked and that 12 individual season ticket holders had their tickets for upcoming matches also been identified as touts.
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The Premier League is already enacting new regulations for digital ticketing, including those that, according to them, will make it harder to sell tickets.
Sells claims that while he shares resources with other clubs, Brighton’s software searches for suspicious transactions and searches resale sites for tickets with seat numbers.
He claims that we are essentially teaching a model how to spot bad behavior before it enters the club. Each transaction is given a risk score.
Let’s say someone in Estonia uses a United Arab Emirates prepaid card to make purchases. This will flag the system.
The model “teachs how to spot more anomalies daily” claims the model.
Fans at Brighton are given a letter outlining the incident and ending with the phrase “To obtain a refund you should contract your card issuers who will assist you as a victim of fraud in reclaiming monies you have paid to the seller.”
Fans whose tickets are blocked on entry can also purchase any remaining seats in the stadium, either from season ticket holders who are unable to attend or from those in the hospitality section.
In a remote area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, at least 24 people were killed in explosions, including children, which sparked inquiries into the incident.
A local police official claimed that fighters and civilians were killed when bomb-making material allegedly stored at a Pakistan Taliban compound, known as the TTP, detonated in the Tirah Valley region early on Monday.
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However, a large number of local opposition figures and other authorities accuse the Pakistani military of conducting nighttime airstrikes as part of a “counterterror operation” to expel fighters from mountainous regions bordering Afghanistan.
The Pakistani government or the armed forces have not yet released an official statement.
According to Zafar Khan, a local police officer, at least 10 civilians, including children and women, were killed in addition to at least 14 fighters, two of whom were TTP commanders, according to The Associated Press news agency.
In Khyber, Bajaur, and other areas of the northwest, security forces are conducting operations against the Pakistani Taliban. Since its inception in 2007, the outlawed group has been staging an armed uprising against Pakistan’s government. Although the organizations share common ideological roots, they are distinct from the Taliban, which has been in place in Afghanistan.
An attack on unarmed civilians
Iqbal Afridi, a member of the opposition’s National Assembly whose district includes Tirah, which is close to Afghanistan’s border, claimed that Pakistani airstrikes caused the explosions.
Lawmaker Sohail Khan Afridi also attributed the attack to the military while speaking at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Assembly on Monday afternoon.
He claimed that the security forces’ assault was nothing more than an attack on unarmed civilians.
Both politicians are members of Imran Khan’s provincial government, which is led by former prime minister Imran Khan.
According to Babar Saleem Swati, the speaker of the provincial assembly, “civilites were killed and homes were destroyed as a result of jet aircraft bombardment,” which will have a negative impact on the country’s future.
According to Swati, “when the blood of our own people is made so cheap and bombs are dropped on them, everyone starts to burn,” and federal and provincial governments should launch a fair investigation and pay compensation to the families who have been affected.
Independent monitor, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, expressed its shock at learning that the attack claimed the lives of children and civilians.
Relive the 2014 Women’s Rugby World Cup final, when England defeated Canada to put an end to a run of three final defeats in a row.
On BBC One, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC Sport website and app, watch England v. Canada play in the women’s rugby world cup final on Saturday, September 27 at 15:00 BST.
The clock is running for five minutes. The ball is at the goalkeeper’s feet. He hits it long rather than pass it to a defender. A flick-on is given to the big striker. On goal, a forward chases it down and makes it happen.
It resembles vintage football.
No, this is not Chelsea versus Manchester United in the Premier League on September 20, 2025.
It seems like we have already been there, especially now that modern coaches are putting more emphasis on set pieces and “going long,” and they have abandoned a possession-based game.
Bolton Wanderers was led by Sam Allardyce from the second tier to Europe before taking over a number of other clubs, including Newcastle, Blackburn, and West Ham, with a style of football that is once again a fixture in the Premier League.
Allardyce tells BBC Sport, “We faced a lot of criticism at the time.” However, many people, especially at the larger clubs, or even the press, were not overly positive about our performance because we were ahead of the game.
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Take a high vantage point as part of the game.
Head coach Luis Enrique was not present during the first half of Paris St-Germain’s attempt to defend the Champions League with a victory over Atalanta last week.
He didn’t get suspended; instead, he opted to sit in the stands and watch the game.
The Spaniard claimed, “I’ve been watching rugby coaches analyze matches from above for a long time.” I’m always open to anything that can enhance our performance, he says.
Rewind 25 years and Allardyce was one of the few coaches who preferred the stands over the touchline.
He claims, “You have the bigger, better overview.” You lack emotional ties.
Allardyce saw the value in his assistants, the sports scientist, the physio, and the fitness coach in his interaction with the bench, as well as his walkie-talkie.
“Anything I wanted to show the players I could actually show them directly rather than just talking in the dressing room.”
He states, “I did Blackburn in the stand, Newcastle in the stand, and Bolton in the stand.”
Why, then, did he stop acting?
What is the manager doing in the stand and not yell at the players when I visited West Ham in 2011?
“Why are you doing that?” asked the directors,” not just the fans.
The pressures on his seating arrangements were severe from the outside.
I ultimately gave up on it. I occasionally returned to it, but never as frequently as I did at those three clubs.
You need to give your home fans the right environment to see that you’re doing what you should, even though I didn’t think it was.
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Play #2: Send it far to the powerful man.
A big man was liked by his system, and so did Mark Viduka, Andy Carroll, and Christian Benteke-Allardyce, too.
They played a crucial role in a football tactic that placed an emphasis on the first pass going forward.
Some notable summer signings include those made by Manchester United, Newcastle signed Thierno Barry, and Newcastle signed Ben Sesko (6’5″), while Erling Haaland (6’5″) has continued to excel at Manchester City since joining in 2022.
The choreography of expertly woven passes from the back seems to have lost its relevance as a result.
Allardyce says it’s great to see forwards playing as the frontman for a change.
“For the past three or four years, they have been sat in the middle and said, “When am I going to get a kick?” “
Frontmen will no longer be as bored as they have been in four years. The frontman will understand that because he enjoys being forced to either hold the game up or down the channel.
Are we seeing the end of what Allardyce refers to as a “pandemic” of playing out from the back as Manchester United and Manchester City discard goalkeepers brought in as much as their ability with their hands as their feet?
He claims that “it’s changing once more.” The negative statistics are that giving the ball away in your own half more frequently results in goals for the opposition when they are defending themselves and scoring.
Play #3: Make the most of set pieces
Allardyce led Sunderland to Premier League safety in 2015 after taking over the club that was 19th in October and without wins in eight games.
Although having a striker like Jermain Defoe who scored 15 goals for the Black Cats was undoubtedly helpful, set-pieces were unlikely to be their weapon.
“Corners and free kicks are very important,” said one journalist. Use long throws, of course. You don’t use a player if they don’t feel comfortable. However, Allardyce cautions against doing so.
No team scored more goals than Sunderland in dead-ball situations during the same season, with the exception of penalties. By two points, they managed to avoid being dropped.
According to Allardyce, “in my time, our players’ overall goals would be trying to be greater than the average Premier League stats were.”
We had to be better than the rest of the bottom eight, if not in open play but with set-pieces, to score more.
More than any other Premier League campaign this year, set-pieces have been the cause of 27.7% of non-penalty goals so far this season than any other campaign.
The Premier League team’s most potent scorer in this area over the past two seasons, set-piece coach Nicolas Jover, was even honored with a fan-painted mural close to Emirates Stadium.
Allardyce considers the Frenchman and his fellow dead-ball trainers to be cutting-edge.
The 70-year-old continues, “There are more and more set-play coaches than ever before.”
“Arsenal have done very well on that,” they said. Because everyone had to work hard to stop them against that particular corner, they have slightly changed this year.
However, how can you make the most of a corner?
Who puts the ball in the box is what makes it beautiful. Nearly all of Arsenal’s players “put the ball in the right places,” says Allardyce.
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Have a hint of surprise in Play #4
Allardyce never shied away from challenging himself, and his advice to any aspiring coach who is hesitant to test their own tactical innovation is simple: be different.
He claims that the practice of “you can only play this way,” which has been around for a while, has spooked coaches, especially young coaches.
Because of the criticism, not just from the fans, but also from some journalists, coaches are hesitant to use a great tool.
So could teams switching things up, using long throws, or simply throwing the ball straight out of the kickoff, another rugby-inspired tactic, be the new normal?
Everyone else on the pitch is aware of what’s coming after a few weeks. You begin the coaching process in that direction, Allardyce says.
“The surprise factor is enormous, particularly in the first fifteen minutes. When coaches haven’t yet developed our system, I’ve seen them jump and dance on the touchline.
We used that tactic for a number of results before going back to where we felt most at ease.
