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  • Updates on Friday 30 June

  1. Listen: Thursday's T20 Blast commentariespublished at 16:34 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

    Listen to BBC radio commentary from four games in the T20 Blast including Surrey v Sussex Sharks.

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  2. 'Agent Mahrez' on duty with Haaland? Calm down - it's just a bit of funpublished at 15:41 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

    Riyad Mahrez spent the transfer rumour mill into overdrive by replying to a video of himself on holiday with Erling Braut Haaland.

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  3. Wire sign Tigers duo Holmes & Mata'utiapublished at 14:38 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

    Warrington are to sign Castleford's Oliver Holmes and Peter Mata'utia on three-year and two-year deals respectively from 2022.

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  4. Liverpool FC's Anfield expansion plans backedpublished at 14:26 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

    Anfield's capacity will increase by 7,000 to 61,000 following the Anfield Road Stand's expansion.

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  5. Transfer news: Sterling to discuss future after Eurospublished at 13:35 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

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  6. Transfer news: Ramsey set for Premier League return?published at 13:29 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

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  7. Transfer news: Liverpool's Phillips 'a target' for Newcastle and Burnleypublished at 13:13 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

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  8. Transfer news: Sancho 'expects' to join Unitedpublished at 12:52 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

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  9. Football fan banned for yelling racist abuse at gamepublished at 11:55 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

    Sandish Shoker
    BBC News

    A Nottinghamshire man has been handed a three-year football ban after he shouted racial abuse at a Manchester City fan at a match in 2019.

    Chelsea fan Antony Crump, 28, was found guilty of intentional racially aggravated harassment, alarm and distress at Tameside Magistrates' Court on 9 June, after his trial was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

    Crump, of Hereford Close, Worksop, was banned from attending games for three years and fined £1,700.

    Nottinghamshire Police said the offence related to a match at the Etihad stadium between Manchester City and Chelsea on 23 November 2019.

    The force said the incident was reported to a steward but the exchange continued, and the racial slur was repeated again, this time witnessed by another steward and another Manchester City supporter.

    Etihad StadiumImage source, Getty Images

    Supt Suk Verma, strategic lead for hate crime at Nottinghamshire Police, said the force was determined to stamp out racial abuse and treat all reports seriously.

    "No member of society should face such abuse wherever they are, especially when at their place of work - and this applies for anyone, whether they are a professional sports player or otherwise," he said.

    "With fans hopefully continuing to return to stadiums in the coming weeks and months, this conviction is a reminder to anyone who thinks of engaging in such intolerable abuse that we will work robustly to prosecute perpetrators of hate crime and bring them to some justice."

  10. New leads investigated in 1996 bombing casepublished at 11:33 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

    A review of evidence gathered after the IRA bomb in Manchester has produced "limited" leads, police say.

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  11. Premier League clubs report revenue droppublished at 08:18 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

    The coronavirus pandemic resulted in Premier League clubs reporting a fall in revenue for the first time, according to finance company Deloitte.

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  12. Man Utd a 'laughing stock', Glazer toldpublished at 19:02 British Summer Time 14 June 2021

    Manchester United co-chairman Joel Glazer was told the club had become "a laughing stock" when he attended a fans' forum meeting for the first time.

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  13. Burnley in talks with Inter's Youngpublished at 18:56 British Summer Time 14 June 2021

    Burnley are in talks with Inter Milan defender Ashley Young about a return to the Premier League.

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  14. Adrian extends Liverpool contractpublished at 17:58 British Summer Time 14 June 2021

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  15. 'Very little need for strategy' after arena bombpublished at 17:27 British Summer Time 14 June 2021

    An ambulance boss tells an inquiry strategic thinking was not needed after the Manchester Arena bomb.

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