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Birmingham start League One campaign against Reading

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Birmingham City will start their first season in England’s third tier for 29 years with a home match against Reading, while Wrexham will host Wycombe Wanderers on the Welsh club’s return to League One.

Huddersfield Town and Rotherham United, the two sides relegated from the Championship with Birmingham, will travel to Peterborough United and Exeter City respectively to kick off their campaigns at 17:30 BST on Saturday, 10 August.

League Two title winners Stockport County will host Cambridge United on the opening day, while Mansfield Town, who went up automatically alongside the Hatters and Wrexham, will head to Barnsley for the first game of the new League One season on Friday, 9 August.

Crawley Town, who beat Crewe Alexandra in the League Two play off final to seal promotion in May, will face Blackpool in one of the 11 third-tier games kicking off at 17:30 BST on the first Saturday.

Matches across the three English Football League divisions will be staggered that day, with Championship games kicking off earlier, at 12:30 BST, and League Two games taking the traditional 15:00 BST slot.

All of the opening round of fixtures in all three divisions will be broadcast live on Sky Sports as part of their new £935m five-year deal with the EFL.

The first midweek league fixtures of the campaign follow seven weeks later on Tuesday, 1 October.

First round of fixtures in full

Barnsley v Mansfield Town (Friday, 9 August 20:00 BST)

Birmingham City v Reading

Bristol Rovers v Northampton Town

Burton Albion v Lincoln City

Crawley Town v Blackpool

Exeter City v Rotherham United

Leyton Orient v Bolton Wanderers

Peterborough United v Huddersfield Town

Stevenage v Shrewsbury Town

Stockport County v Cambridge United

Wigan Athletic v Charlton Athletic

Wrexham v Wycombe Wanderers

Next stop, League One for Hollywood Wrexham

Flag with the faces of Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds on it at Wrexham

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For Wrexham, it will be their first season in League One for 19 years, while fellow promoted clubs Mansfield and Stockport also end long absences – 21 and 15 years respectively – from the division.

While it took 15 years for Wrexham to get out of the National League, the Hollywood-backed Welsh club bounded through League Two at their first attempt to win promotion as runners-up to Stockport last season.

Wrexham’s back-to-back promotions from non-league football has been chronicled in a popular television docuseries, which has been commissioned for a fourth season, as owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney continue their quest to get the club to the Championship.

Their match against Birmingham, a club which NFL legend Tom Brady has a minority share in, drew huge attention even before fixtures were released, with it being reported that the EFL turned down a request to move to the game to the United States.

Blues will host Wrexham on Saturday, 14 September, with the reverse fixture on Saturday, 25 January.

Relegated sides Birmingham and Huddersfield are two of seven League One teams that have played in the Premier League in the past 17 years.

Bolton are again among that group of highly-fancied former top-flight clubs trying to now get back to the Championship. They narrowly missed out on automatic promotion before then being beaten in the play-off final by Oxford.

The Trotters travel to Leyton Orient first up next season.

Wigan and Reading, two clubs that dropped out of the Premier League together 11 years ago and have since grappled with financial problems, will start their campaigns against Charlton Athletic and Birmingham respectively.

Wigan started last season on minus eight points because of their financial woes and finished mid-table, while the Royals’ first season in the third tier for 21 years was a turbulent one as they were deducted six points for their financial problems, while owner Dai Yongge began efforts to sell the club.

One takeover bid at Reading collapsed earlier in the summer, forcing the club to move on to talk to potential new suitors in early June.

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Katie Price takes drastic measure after acid attack sparked fears for her security

Safety is on Katie Price’s priority list as the former glamour model attended one of her live shows closely followed by a new security team.

The 46-year-old recently embarked on a UK tour with her podcast, The Katie Price Show, which she hosts with her younger sister Sophie. “Pricey” has been performing up and down the country for the past month with her most recent performance taking place in Bristol.

In pictures seen by The Sun, security guards scoured the car park at St George’s Bristol while Katie, sporting a white crop top and jogging bottoms, was watched closely by her new minders as she stepped into a waiting vehicle after wrapping up her show on Tuesday, May 28. The move follows a harrowing event for the I’m A Celebrity star as she revealed she’d been the target of another vicious attack when an individual poured acid on her Range Rover.






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Katie Price was recently spotted attending one of her live shows with a team of security guards
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Speaking on her podcast, Katie said: “So, my house is in the middle of nowhere, and I’ve had nothing but bad luck in that house. It doesn’t matter what it is, it’s bad luck. I can’t wait to get out of it, like I’ve said on this show.”

She added: “Now, what’s really scary is, a few months ago, people vandalised my gates, saying you f*****g whore, you s**g, and all of that. I’ve had lots of incidents, and now my car was parked by my front door and there’s other cars parked there. Someone has thrown acid all over my pink Range Rover.”

“So I thought, ‘acid is serious’ and for someone to actually go and buy that quantity, to then think they can go a hundred metres up my driveway in the middle of nowhere and pour that on my car when we’re all in bed asleep and I didn’t hear anything.”

Determined to get to the bottom of things, Katie then announced she’d contacted the police who had promptly urged her to leave her Mucky Mansion – and she needed no further insistence.

After being declared bankrupt for a second time in March, 2024, Katie was due to leave her Horsham, West Sussex, home, where she had been living since 2014, on Wednesday, May 29, and the mum-of-five left a day early as she moved into her new home with Married At First partner JJ Slater.

Katie broke the news while removal trucks swarmed her property as she captioned a picture of her Mucky Mansion: “Due to (an) acid attack on my car at my house, I’ve now been advised by authorities not to stay at Mucky Mansion anymore.”

Despite her financial woes, OK! Magazine reported on Friday, May 31, that Katie will be forking out a staggering £4,995 per month in rent for her new home.

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GB win team pursuit golden double in Canada

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Great Britain won men’s and women’s team pursuit gold as the final round of the 2024 Track Nations Cup got under way in Milton, Canada.

Katie Archibald, Jessica Roberts, Josie Knight and Anna Morris defeated Italy by more than six seconds despite trailing for much of the women’s race.

Ethan Hayter, Dan Bigham, Ethan Vernon and Ollie Wood then sealed the men’s gold by catching Belgium.

GB’s Jack Carlin, Ed Lowe and Hamish Turnbull won team sprint silver.

The British trio were beaten to the line by 0.85 seconds by the Netherlands line-up that won gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and last year’s World Championships.

There was also an earlier bronze for Mark Stewart in the elimination race, with Canada’s Dylan Bibic taking gold in front of his home crowd.

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Cher drops major Glastonbury hint as she’s tipped for famous Legends slot

During a conversation with Rylan Clark, legendary singer Cher “confirmed” her eligibility for Glastonbury 2024.

On Sunday afternoon of the four-day festival, the singer was speaking to Rylan on Radio 2, and she has already been linked to the coveted “legends” slot. The 77-year-old icon said she would be more than happy to attend the event while speaking to the BBC radio presenter on Scott Mills’ show.

There are so many rumors that Glastonbury hasn’t finished it yet, Rylan remarked. Will Cher ever play that Legends slot at Glastonbury? Cher then retorted, “I’d like to!”

Rylan questioned in shock, “Really?” Cher affirmed once more, “Yes!” Right, Cher, shake my hand,” Ryan continued. I’ll travel to Worthy Farm on my own. There is a lot on that farm, so don’t worry about what I have to get through; I’ll get you that Legends slot. She responded, “Yeah,” when he asked if she was “in.”

Cher stated that she would “like to” play Glasto (Andy Heathcote/BBC Studios).

Christma, Cher’s twenty-seventh studio album, is the first time in ten years that she has released original music. Her debut Christmas album is also marked by it.

At the weekend Strictly final, the seasoned performer gave a glittery performance. Her miming, however, did not impress all of her fans, who branded it as “disappearing.” Ellie Leach, a Corrie star, danced her way to the top spot in Saturday’s final to win the coveted Glitterball trophy. Hitmaker Cher performed the holiday song DJ Play a Christmas Song to commemorate the event. Cher wore a black jumpsuit and blazer, and her blonde hair was styled in soft curls.

Viewers were “put off” by the performance after accusing her of lip-syncing, despite the extravagant show, which featured dancers and confetti taking over the stage.

One disgruntled viewer yelled, “Cher out of breath miming ffs,” while the other added that it wasn’t the conclusion we were hoping for when writing on X.

What the hell is Cher doing, another person remarked. Lip-syncing is so obvious! I believe I could perform better! The fourth person added, “Cher miming once more, but I must say I love the song.”

She still had supporters, though, with praise for her performance from others. One person remarked, “I can’t stop singing this song to myself inside.” “Absolute banger” “Cher’s Christmas number 1 looms,” was added. We can’t let our venerable Queen down, promo on strictly and the Royal Variety.

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Britain’s Klugman, 14, wins prestigious Orange Bowl

At the age of 14, Hannah Klugman of Great Britain took home the prestigious Orange Bowl junior championships.

Klugman advanced to the quarter-finals in Shrewsbury after becoming the youngest player to qualify for an ITF World Tour event worth $100,000 (£80,000).

Coco Gauff, the current US Open champion, held the record.

Future Grand Slam champions Chris Evert, Caroline Wozniacki, Bianca Andreescu, and Gauff, who won the Orange Bowl in 2018 at the age of 14, are among its previous winners.

Klugman remarked, “It’s an amazing feeling.” I competed in the finals of the 14s last year. I was devastated that I didn’t win, and it’s amazing that under-18s were able to win.

This is only a small step on the journey, but it’s still nice.

Man Utd work on Sancho swap deal – Saturday’s gossip

Former Wolves boss Julen Lopetegui is open to replacing under-pressure Steve Cooper as Nottingham Forest manager having recently rejected a lucrative offer from Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad. (Talksport)external-link

Barcelona want £12.8m (15m euros) from Bayern Munich for France defender Clement Lenglet, with the 28-year-old interested in a move to Germany if Aston Villa are willing to cut short his loan deal given his lack of game time for the West Midlands club. (Sport – in Spanish)external-link

West Ham are open to offers for Maxwel Cornet, 27, with the club ready to cut their losses on the Ivory Coast winger 15 months into his five-year contract. (Talksport)external-link

AC Milan and Napoli face competition from several Premier League clubs for the signature of Monza’s Italian goalkeeper Michele di Gregorio, 26. (Tuttomercatoweb – in Italian)external-link

Manchester United are set to battle Manchester City for the signature of Lille’s French defender Leny Yoro, 18. (Mirror)external-link

Newcastle United sporting director Dan Ashworth is a target for Manchester United to head up their new footballing department under Sir Jim Ratcliffe. (90min)external-link