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Alberto Mastromatteo is one of football’s biggest nutrition gurus who helped Karim Benzema play the best football of his life in his thirties… Now Real Madrid star Jude Bellingham – and England – is reaping the benefits of working with the chef

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When Karim Benzema started playing the best football of his life in his thirties – winning the Ballon d’Or at the age of 34 – he attributed part of his success to putting top chef Alberto Mastromatteo in charge of his diet. Now Mastromatteo, through his company Summumm, is advising Jude Bellingham as the England … Read more

The charismatic manager who almost brought football home

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Terry Venables will forever be remembered as the manager who oversaw the summer that brought football home. The charismatic boss, who has died aged 80, enjoyed a colorful and controversial career, the undoubted highlight of which was bringing England within a penalty shoot-out of reaching the European Championship final on home soil in 1996 . … Read more

City, cricket, crowds, clubs and Colts

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There were 92,453 people at the Cricket World Cup final between India and Australia on Sunday. It was a huge crowd, but 560 short of the highest attendance in cricket history. Where was that match played? In the same stadium a week earlier Melbourne Pasadena Wembley Manchester City will play Liverpool in the Premier League … Read more

Lan Yao wins bronze while English men narrowly miss out on medals at the European Championships

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England’s open team narrowly missed out on medals at last week’s European Team Championships in Budva, Montenegro, but there was new success for 22-year-old Lan Yao, a rising star in women’s football. Lan Yao’s unbeaten 5.5/8 on the English women’s second board earned her the bronze medal, as well as her first international masters standard … Read more

test your knowledge of street art and stadium murals

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How Reading went from the model club to the brink of collapse

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Reading fans protest Dai Yongge’s ownership – Leila Coker/Shutterstock Reading, anchored at the foot of League One, a fanbase in revolt and mired in financial difficulties, is another cautionary tale of owners reaching for the stars but flying too close to the sun. Dai Yongge’s Premier League dream has gone badly wrong and just when … Read more

Why England isn’t number 1 yet

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England are among the favorites to win the European Championship – Getty Images/Rob Newell With the qualifying groups for Euro 2024 now complete, Telegraph Sport ranks the 21 teams that secured a place in the final from worst to best. Three more countries will be added through the play-offs. 21) Romania They finished unbeaten and … Read more

Will Greenwood watches the 2003 Rugby World Cup final for the first time twenty years later

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Will Greenwood’s memories of the biggest day of his career were swept away by the tumult of the occasion until he relived it One of the best days of my life, and I’ve never quite looked back at the match. I probably never will. Looking back, I have no memories of what happened on the … Read more