Tag: Wycombe Wanderers F.C

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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Gareth Ainsworth has been appointed as the new Director of QPR

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Queens Park Rangers have appointed Gareth Ainsworth as their new manager on a three-and-a-half-year deal. Ainsworth, 49, played for QPR between 2003-2010 and made 152 appearances for the West London club over that time. He also assumed caretaker responsibility twice in 2008 and 2009. “It’s all a little fictional,” Ainsworth told QPR’s website. “It was a whirlwind two days and leaving Wycombe Wanderers was very difficult because of the connection there. “But this QPR and when I talked about something special that forced me away from Wycombe, that was very…

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