Mohamed Salah is not expected to be in Liverpool’s squad to face Inter Milan, despite taking part in training on Monday.
In an explosive interview at the weekend the 33-year-old forward said he felt like he had been “thrown under the bus” by the Reds amid the side’s struggles this season, and that his relationship with head coach Arne Slot had broken down.
Salah was an unused substitute in Saturday’s 3-3 draw at Leeds United – the third straight game the Egypt international has started on the bench.
Monday’s training took place before Liverpool face Inter Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday, and Salah was involved while the session was open to the media.
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Salah’s comments came after the Reds let a 2-0 lead slip in the draw at Leeds, with the Egypt international an unused substitute for the game.
The previous two games had seen Salah come on as a substitute in a 1-1 home draw at Sunderland, while he was left on the bench in a 2-0 win at West Ham.
His last start was in a 4-1 defeat by PSV Eindhoven at Anfield in a Champions League group game and his last goal came in a 2-0 win at Aston Villa on Saturday, 1 November.
Salah has scored five goals in 18 appearances in the Premier League and Champions League this season.
Overall, he has 250 goals in 420 Liverpool appearances and his 29 top-flight goals in the 2024-25 campaign helped the Anfield side win the Premier League title last season.
Salah, who joined Liverpool from Roma in 2017, signed a new two-year contract with the club in April.
BBC Sport pundit and former England striker Wayne Rooney believes Salah is “destroying his legacy” at the club and that Slot should not involve the player against Inter or in a home match against Brighton on Saturday.
The game against the Seagulls comes before Salah is scheduled to join up with Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations.
“In my head, I’m going to enjoy that game because I don’t know what is going to happen now,” said Salah.
Tim Westwood has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges – including rape and sexual assault.
At Southwark Crown Court on Monday, Westwood denied four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault. He pleaded not guilty to all charges against him.
The former broadcaster, who also appeared on Capital Xtra, wore a maroon shirt and black trousers for the hearing. He spoke only to confirm his name and enter his pleas. Westwood was granted bail with a condition not to contact the complainants. A provisional trial date for January 25, 2027, was set by the court.
Westwood spoke only to confirm his name and enter his not guilty pleas ( PA)
Westwood, who lives in Westminster, is accused of offences against seven different women, some of whom were aged 17 at the time. He was charged in October this year with four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault.
The alleged incidents are believed to have taken place between 1993 and 2016. Westwood denies all allegations made against him. He previously said: “It’s all false allegations.”
Police previously said that Westwood had allegedly indecently assaulted a 17-year-old girl in Fulham, west London, in 1983. He also faces allegations of indecently assaulting a woman in her 20s in the Vauxhall area of London in 1986.
He will face trial in January, 2027 ( Getty Images)
He was also accused of raping and indecently assaulting a woman, aged between 17 and 18, between 1995 and 1996 in London. He’s also accused of raping and indecently assaulting a woman between the ages of 17 and 18 between 2000 and 2001, also in London.
Westwood was also accused of sexually assaulting another woman, aged in her 20s, in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010. He also faces an allegation of assaulting a woman, believed to be in her 20s, in the Finchley area of London in 2016.
Andy Furphy, Detective Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police, said: “It takes courage to come forward and report allegations of this nature.
“The women who have done so have put their trust in us and we continue to provide them with all available support. Our investigation remains open and we’d encourage anyone who has been impacted by this case or anyone with information to come forward and speak with us.”
Westwood stepped down from his programme on Capital Xtra in April 2022. He also left Radio 1 and Radio 1 Xtra in 2013 – almost two decades after he joined the BBC.
He also presented the MTV UK programme, Pimp My Ride UK, which aired for three seasons between 2005 and 2007.
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LIV Golf chief executive Scott O’Neil is optimistic the tour will secure official world golf ranking points for players in 2026.
The breakaway tour, which launched in 2022, has been locked out of the OWGR because of its 54-hole, no-cut, closed-field model, but they believe gaining ranking points would be transformative.
It would automatically enable more LIV players to qualify for majors and remove one of the biggest remaining barriers between the league and the established golf ecosystem.
O’Neil has described ongoing talks with OWGR as encouraging.
“We are working very closely with [chairman] Trevor Immelman and the board of OWGR,” O’Neil, who replaced Greg Norman as LIV chief executive at the start of 2025, told BBC Sport NI.
“It’s likely that will have an impact at some point. We are having conversations with Trevor, who is doing an extraordinary and difficult job towards a solution that we hope to have in place by next season.
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The headline change which is set to help facilitate the rankings shift is the move from 54 to the more traditional 72-hole tournaments.
Whether this a concession or a calculated step toward legitimacy on its own terms remains to be seen, but O’Neil says the decision is also driven by commercial reality.
There are sponsors and broadcast partners who want more television air-time, while he believes the extra day of play will also create space for the concerts, DJs and fan experiences that have become a significant part of LIV events.
“Whatever we have to do to get more people invested in this great game, we’ll do it,” added O’Neil.
Despite the format change, the LIV name – which is 54 in Roman numerals – will remain.
“LIV is a brand,” O’Neil added, pointing out that the Roman numeral 54 originally symbolised a round of golf featuring a birdie on every one of the 18 holes, as much as the total number of holes in a tournament or players in the field.
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O’Neil, who has more than 25 years experience managing global sports and entertainment brands, laid out a vision for LIV Golf that is in equal parts defiant and conciliatory.
His immediate priority is the league’s growth and global expansion, not reuniting men’s professional golf.
There is pragmatic openness to working with the rest of the sport, but seemingly without any desperation to force the full merger which was agreed by the PGA Tour, LIV and DP World Tour in 2023.
Negotiations are still ongoing two and a half years later despite an intervention by US President Donald Trump, but O’Neil argues that different leagues with different aims can co-exist and occasionally collaborate.
“The PGA Tour is a US-focused tour and they do an incredible job. I would say we’re a global tour,” said ONeil, who previously worked in the NBA & NHL.
“It’s very akin to Formula One and Indy Car. Indy Car is a wonder. I went to the Indianapolis 500 and it’s an incredible experience and event.
On the explosive question of reunification with the PGA Tour, O’Neil’s tone is measured but unambiguous. He says conversations with newly-appointed PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp have only been preliminary and both have been focused on getting their own organisations in place.
“Yes I think we will need to create more playing experiences and opportunities with the PGA Tour,” continued O’Neil.
“I think there’s real opportunity, but I am focused on LIV Golf and taking the sport around the world. I think that we are all smart enough to figure out that we can also create bigger platforms to have some fun and grow this game together.
“I would say that if I were here for three years, I’d be thinking very differently. I think today what I’m looking at is a business with a strong foundation and incredible momentum and happy players, happy caddies and happy families of players.
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Five-time major winner and PGA Tour player Rory McIlroy last month criticised LIV Golf’s “irrational spending” on huge player contracts saying that it makes a merger very difficult, and that LIV would have to keep spending to maintain its position.
O’Neil does not want to be drawn into a war of words with LIV’s most outspoken critic.
“Rory has had an extraordinary career and is an extraordinary player,” said O’Neil.
“I’ve met him a couple of times, but I don’t know him so don’t really want to comment. All I will say is I am working every day to create the greatest sports league in the world.
“We have players who are committed and our players commit to a different level of travel.”
When pushed on whether there would be further significant spending on player contracts O’Neil said: “I only have an 11-month view. I wasn’t here when they had to do what they had to do to set LIV up, I wasn’t here when some of the madness in the ecosystem was happening.
“I only know from the first day of January when I showed up, I have hired a business team that I would argue is second to none in terms of commercial acumen. So I like what we do and how we do it.
LIV Golf chief executive Scott O’Neil is optimistic the tour will secure official world golf ranking points for players in 2026.
The breakaway tour, which launched in 2022, has been locked out of the OWGR because of its 54-hole, no-cut, closed-field model, but they believe gaining ranking points would be transformative.
It would automatically enable more LIV players to qualify for majors and remove one of the biggest remaining barriers between the league and the established golf ecosystem.
O’Neil has described ongoing talks with OWGR as encouraging.
“We are working very closely with [chairman] Trevor Immelman and the board of OWGR,” O’Neil, who replaced Greg Norman as LIV chief executive at the start of 2025, told BBC Sport NI.
“It’s likely that will have an impact at some point. We are having conversations with Trevor, who is doing an extraordinary and difficult job towards a solution that we hope to have in place by next season.
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18 November
The headline change which is set to help facilitate the rankings shift is the move from 54 to the more traditional 72-hole tournaments.
Whether this a concession or a calculated step toward legitimacy on its own terms remains to be seen, but O’Neil says the decision is also driven by commercial reality.
There are sponsors and broadcast partners who want more television air-time, while he believes the extra day of play will also create space for the concerts, DJs and fan experiences that have become a significant part of LIV events.
“Whatever we have to do to get more people invested in this great game, we’ll do it,” added O’Neil.
Despite the format change, the LIV name – which is 54 in Roman numerals – will remain.
“LIV is a brand,” O’Neil added, pointing out that the Roman numeral 54 originally symbolised a round of golf featuring a birdie on every one of the 18 holes, as much as the total number of holes in a tournament or players in the field.
Getty Images
O’Neil, who has more than 25 years experience managing global sports and entertainment brands, laid out a vision for LIV Golf that is in equal parts defiant and conciliatory.
His immediate priority is the league’s growth and global expansion, not reuniting men’s professional golf.
There is pragmatic openness to working with the rest of the sport, but seemingly without any desperation to force the full merger which was agreed by the PGA Tour, LIV and DP World Tour in 2023.
Negotiations are still ongoing two and a half years later despite an intervention by US President Donald Trump, but O’Neil argues that different leagues with different aims can co-exist and occasionally collaborate.
“The PGA Tour is a US-focused tour and they do an incredible job. I would say we’re a global tour,” said ONeil, who previously worked in the NBA & NHL.
“It’s very akin to Formula One and Indy Car. Indy Car is a wonder. I went to the Indianapolis 500 and it’s an incredible experience and event.
On the explosive question of reunification with the PGA Tour, O’Neil’s tone is measured but unambiguous. He says conversations with newly-appointed PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp have only been preliminary and both have been focused on getting their own organisations in place.
“Yes I think we will need to create more playing experiences and opportunities with the PGA Tour,” continued O’Neil.
“I think there’s real opportunity, but I am focused on LIV Golf and taking the sport around the world. I think that we are all smart enough to figure out that we can also create bigger platforms to have some fun and grow this game together.
“I would say that if I were here for three years, I’d be thinking very differently. I think today what I’m looking at is a business with a strong foundation and incredible momentum and happy players, happy caddies and happy families of players.
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Five-time major winner and PGA Tour player Rory McIlroy last month criticised LIV Golf’s “irrational spending” on huge player contracts saying that it makes a merger very difficult, and that LIV would have to keep spending to maintain its position.
O’Neil does not want to be drawn into a war of words with LIV’s most outspoken critic.
“Rory has had an extraordinary career and is an extraordinary player,” said O’Neil.
“I’ve met him a couple of times, but I don’t know him so don’t really want to comment. All I will say is I am working every day to create the greatest sports league in the world.
“We have players who are committed and our players commit to a different level of travel.”
When pushed on whether there would be further significant spending on player contracts O’Neil said: “I only have an 11-month view. I wasn’t here when they had to do what they had to do to set LIV up, I wasn’t here when some of the madness in the ecosystem was happening.
“I only know from the first day of January when I showed up, I have hired a business team that I would argue is second to none in terms of commercial acumen. So I like what we do and how we do it.
Angry Ginge opens up to the Mirror in his first chat after the Jungle as he reveals how he was on the verge of quitting twice on the ITV show
King of the Jungle Angry Ginge has told how he nearly quit the show after just TWO hours. The star opened up to the Mirror just hours after being crowned the winner of I’m A Celebrity. In his first chat he revealed how:
He considered walking almost immediately over the food, and later “debated” quitting a second time after his tears in the Bush Telegraph. He also says he kept going to make his mum proud, who told him: “I was already proud of you…you didn’t need to go on the show to do that..” And he’s amazed at his new heartthrob status, saying: “Maybe me in jungle attire is sexy.”
We can also reveal how being on the show has actually cost him more than £100,000 in lost brand deals in the build up to Christmas. A source said: “His fee for doing the show was nothing compared to the money he could have earned on the outside. But he just wanted to make his mum proud.”
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Opening up about nearly quitting the ITV show, he said it happened on Day One. He said: “I was debating on the very first day, and I’d only been in there for a couple of hours. It was late when I’d got in, and I was expecting a steak but it was one steak between four of us, and that was a shock. That was the eye opener. I think, forget the snakes around the head.
“And then it was just getting later and later, and our other camp mates hadn’t joined us yet, and I was just sat there thinking, ‘this is going to be tough. It’s going to be really tough.’ He said that things improved slowly but by the time he got to Day 10, he was struggling again.
He admits: “Jack Osbourne warned me day 10 would always be the hardest and I don’t know what it was, but I just woke up emotional that day. I just said to him: “I just don’t feel that good today.’” Viewers later watched him break down in the Bush Telegraph as he missed home. And he reveals that he later took himself off by himself. I came out the Bush Telegraph, and then I went and sat by the pond by myself there,” he says.
Once again he considered quitting. He said: “I asked myself ‘Do I want to go the extra two weeks. I was debating it, but then I just powered through it.’” He says that the thought of making his mum Michelle proud – as well as his humble beginnings – powered him on during the dark times.
He says: “I will never forget where I came from, and I think because I started literally from the bottom and watched everyone around me from my mates to their parents, my mum, everyone had to graft their way to get wherever it was.” His mum Michelle brought up Ginge, whose real name is Morgan, up with his sister Tasha on a council estate in Eccles, Salford.
Money was tight and she had to work several jobs to keep them afloat. Even so, when Ginge was 18, Michelle was forced to sell the family home and move somewhere cheaper. He moved in with his Nana round the corner to ease the pressure. He says his aim from the outset was to make his mum proud
“She told me I’d done that…but then she also said,’I was already proud of you…you didn’t need to go on the show to do that..” Asked what it means to make his mum happy, he says it meant everything.
He says: “I want her to know how well she did raising us, and how much I do appreciate everything that she did. From literally being a single parent since I was probably one……and working all of the jobs that she had. Just to know that anything I can do would make her proud, is just the best feeling.”
He added it brought him great joy being able to say bring her Down Under to watch him triumph. “I remember her saying years ago, one of her main aims was to go with Australia, and I managed to get her a free holiday there, so I’ve done all right,” he says. Now he has his sights on treating her even more now he is King of the Jungle.
He said: “Christmas is obviously around the corner, so I need to get something big. But yes I’ve got a few things up my sleeve, but I don’t reveal in case she finds out.” He also says seeing his mum and sister Tasha in their surprise camp visit also helped give him the motivation to continue. “It made me so happy. I had their photo, and letter, but to actually see them was that extra bit of fuel I needed to get through the next few days,” he says.
Ginge also reflected on his friendship with Aitch – and joked about their rivalry. “He often refers to himself as the king of Manchester, but I think he’s been overthrown,” he laughs. But he said having his friend in the jungle was a huge help mentally. Every night, knowing I’m sleeping next to my mate from Manchester, who I’ve known for ages and it hurts me to say, am a fan of his music. It’s like a comfort blanket, just to know I’ve got him there.”
Benin’s President Patrice Talon has claimed that the situation is “completely under control” in the Western African nation after the government thwarted an attempted coup on Sunday.
Calm returned on Monday to Cotonou, Benin’s administrative centre, after sporadic gunshots were heard across the city throughout Sunday, but a heavy presence of soldiers remained on the streets.
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Early on Sunday, soldiers calling themselves the Military Committee for Refoundation declared on state television they had toppled Talon, who has been in power since 2016, prompting a swift response from loyal army forces, joined by air attacks and troop deployments from neighbouring Nigeria.
Talon first took office in 2016 and was re-elected in 2021.
Several West African nations have faced coups in recent years, including Benin’s northern neighbours, Niger and Burkina Faso, as well as Mali, Chad, Guinea and, most recently, Guinea-Bissau, where soldiers seized power last month after disputed election results.
Here is how the failed coup attempt unfolded:
Who was behind the coup attempt?
A group of soldiers stormed the national television on Sunday morning, claiming to have seized power.
Eight soldiers appeared in a broadcast announcing the removal of President Talon, dissolution of the government and suspension of all state institutions.
The soldiers said Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri had been appointed president of the military committee.
In their televised statement, the coup plotters mentioned the deteriorating security situation in northern Benin “coupled with the disregard and neglect of our fallen brothers-in-arms”.
How was the coup foiled?
In the afternoon, Interior Minister Alassane Seidou said in a statement that Benin’s armed forces had foiled the attempted coup.
“A small group of soldiers launched a mutiny with the aim of destabilising the country and its institutions,” said Seidou.
“Faced with this situation, the Beninese Armed Forces and their leadership maintained control of the situation and foiled the attempt,” he added.
A vendor looks at newspapers displayed on a stall in Cotonou, on December 8, 2025 [AFP]
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu confirmed deploying fighter jets and ground troops to Benin to help foil the coup attempt. His office said Nigeria’s military intervened after Talon’s government issued two requests for help, including for “immediate Nigerian air support”.
Tinubu praised Nigeria’s armed forces for standing “as a defender and protector of constitutional order in the Republic of Benin on the invitation of the government”.
Later that evening, Talon came on state television to confirm Seidou’s announcement, promising to punish those responsible.
“I would like to assure you that the situation is completely under control and therefore invite you to calmly go about your activities starting this very evening,” the president said.
The rapid mobilisation of forces loyal to the government “allowed us to thwart these adventurers”, Talon said in his remarks.
“This treachery will not go unpunished,” he added.
Were there any arrests made?
A government spokesperson, Wilfried Leandre Houngbedji, said 14 people had been arrested in connection with the coup attempt, without providing any details.
It remains unclear if Lieutenant Colonel Tigri, the coup leader, had been apprehended.
Were there any casualties?
President Talon, in his address, expressed his condolences “to the victims of this senseless adventure, as well as to those still being held by fleeing mutineers”.
“I assure them that we will do everything in our power to find them safe and sound,” he added.
He did not provide any further details.
What was the reaction to the coup?
African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, in a statement, “strongly and unequivocally condemns the military coup attempt” in Benin, stressing that any form of military interference in political processes is “a grave violation of the fundamental principles and values” of the AU.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in a statement also said it strongly condemned the attempted military coup and would support efforts by the government to restore order.
ECOWAS said it has ordered the deployment of a regional troop comprising personnel from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Ghana to support Benin’s army to “preserve constitutional order and the territorial integrity of the Republic of Benin”.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attempted coup, saying it would “further threaten the stability of the region”.
What you need to know about Benin
Benin has a diverse population of approximately 14 million.
Despite a history of coups following its independence from France in 1960, the tiny country has enjoyed uninterrupted democratic rule in the past two decades.
