Tag: Barnsley

DAZN is in a race to get the EFL TV rights, and it could cancel the 3 p.m. blackout

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DAZN is bidding to become the league’s broadcast partner from 2024-25 in a radical proposal that would end the Saturday 3pm blackout for UK viewers. The international broadcast platform wants to secure the rights to show all matches across Championship, League One, League Two, including matches that were not traditionally available to local audiences on Saturday afternoons. This would require the FA to scrap the current broadcast model which only allows 138 matches per season to be shown live, thus putting pressure on the Football Association to get rid of…

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Alfie Mawson: “The surgeon told me my career was over at the age of 18”

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When the truth came out, Alfie Mawson didn’t want her covered in sugar. After a career blighted by a meniscus problem in his right knee, he just wanted the facts, and telling them straight. And so he did his surgery. He said, “I could show your knee to 100 other knee surgeons, and they’d all say the same thing: You need to retire,” Mawson recalls. Just like that, Mawson’s career ended, at the age of 29. His final game for Wycombe Wanderers was against Ipswich Town in League One a…

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Dean Holden’s journey to Charlton: Tragedy, unemployment and meeting fans in the pub

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December 21, 2022, 11.15 pm. New Charlton Athletic manager Dean Holden, 43, walks alone into The Royal Oak public house on Charlton Lane, a minute’s walk from The Valley. The Addicks have just knocked Brighton out of the Carabao Cup on penalties, but Holden, on a contract until the summer, won’t take charge of the team until the morning. He wants to survey the mood of the fans of the club which he’s now hoping to stabilise after a turbulent season. “I wanted to go into the pub straight after…

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