Author: David Great

Reading sacked Paul Ince as manager on Tuesday with the club 22nd in the Championship and in danger of relegation to the third tier of English soccer after being docked six points last week. Noel Hunt, manager of the under-21 side, will take over for the remaining five games of the season, the club said in a statement. Former England, Manchester United and Liverpool midfielder Ince was appointed on an interim basis last February when the Royals were also in danger of the drop, and he was then made permanent manager in May. Reading are without a win from their…

TikTok has grown to emerge as a social media cultural phenomenon with increasing popularity, despite the app facing uncertainty over its business operations in other markets. The popularity has seen TikTok sustain gains in metrics such as downloads and in-app purchases. In this line, data acquired by Finbold indicates that TikTok recorded 246.9 million downloads globally in Q1 2023, marking a growth of 19.7% from Q4 2022’s 206.2 million downloads. In 2022, the app was downloaded over 879.2 million times, a growth of more than 22% from 2021’s figure of 718.7 million. In terms of revenue, TikTok earned $497.7 million…

Senator Shehu Sani has kicked against a curvy, near-sexy symbol of justice at the entrance of a courthouse in Nigeria. He said the symbol of the women was not what the symbol of justice should look like and his reaction has since generated many comments. In a post on his Twitter account, he wrote, “This is not the approved symbol of justice. It should be pulled down and replaced with the one we are familiar with,” Shehu Sani tweeted. Reacting to Sani, Asiwaju Olujide said, “This one is to fight for women equality”. Another Twitter user, Lawrence Okoro joked about…

Arsenal and Chelsea are among the clubs interested in a move for Wolfsburg’s 25-year-old Germany right-back Ridle Baku. (Bild – in German) Chelsea hope to keep 23-year-old Portugal forward Joao Felix, who joined on loan from Atletico Madrid in January, for next season. (Fabrizio Romano) Aston Villa are interested in signing England midfielder Kalvin Phillips, 27, from Manchester City.(Football Insider) England defender Ben Chilwell, 26, is set to sign a new four-year contract at Chelsea. (Athletic – subscription) Lionel Messi’s father and agent Jorge has met with Barcelona, but no transfer proposal was offered for the 35-year-old Paris St-Germain and Argentina forward. (Cadena Ser via Mirror) Germany winger Marco Reus, 33, will take a pay cut to sign…

Leicester City have appointed Dean Smith as caretaker manager until the end of the season after parting ways with Brendan Rodgers. Smith, a former Aston Villa and Norwich City coach takes over from Rodgers, who left the club by mutual consent earlier this month with the team second-bottom in the table and facing potential relegation. Craig Shakespeare, who was assistant coach to Smith at Norwich and Villa, will join him at Leicester, the club he guided to the Champions League quarter-finals during his spell in charge of them in 2017. Former England and Chelsea defender John Terry, who was part…

A bank employee armed with a rifle shot dead four colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace on Monday while livestreaming the attack in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, city officials said. The attacker was fatally shot at the scene, the Louisville Metro Police Department said, but it was unclear whether from police gunfire or a self-inflicted wound. The department identified the shooter as Connor Sturgeon, 23, who joined the downtown branch of the Old National Bank as a full-time employee last year. In the latest in a long series of mass shootings in the US, police said they responded…

Wrexham claimed a stunning 3-2 home victory against Notts County on Monday to put themselves within touching distance of a return to the English Football League for the first time since 2008. Notts County and Wrexham both enjoyed slender leads during the action-packed game, before goalkeeper Ben Foster saved a penalty in stoppage time to ensure the hosts held on to claim victory courtesy of Elliot Lee’s 78th-minute winner. The club, owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, are top of the fifth-tier National League with 103 points from 42 matches, while second-placed Notts County have 100 points…

President Joe Biden disclosed on Monday that he intends to run for reelection in 2024 but has yet to make an announcement. “I plan on running … but we’re not prepared to announce it yet,” he said in an interview with NBC’s Today show before the White House Easter Egg Roll. He has said he intends to be the Democratic candidate in 2024 but has not made a formal announcement. Both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have said they will run together. Top White House advisers are set to make final decisions on launching Biden’s re-election campaign, NBC News…

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has warned Nigerians about a recruitment website created to swindle unsuspecting citizens. The anti-graft agency said that it is not recruiting at the moment and urged the public to ignore the fake websites. “The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been drawn to a fake and misleading website, offering some phony information about a purported ongoing Recruitment Exercise by the Commission “The EFCC is not recruiting at the moment,” Wilson Uwujaren, head of media and publicity said in a statement. Adding hat, “Members of the public are enjoined…

Former Leeds manager Jesse Marsch has decided not to take the Leicester City job despite being close to reaching a final agreement. (Telegraph – subscription) AC Milan have added England Under-21 striker Folarin Balogun, who is on loan at Reims from Arsenal, to their list of summer targets, although they expect the Gunners to ask for more than 30m euros (£26.5m) for the 21-year-old. (Calciomercato – in Italian) Chelsea and Liverpool are set to target 26-year-old Italy midfielder Nicolo Barella, with Inter Milan prepared to sell him for £44m. (Calciomercato via Sun) Manchester United have had positive talks with Monaco over the signing of 25-year-old France defender Axel Disasi. (Give Me Sport) Manchester United could…