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Former Tottenham Hotspur star Dele Alli has shared a Naruto inspired fitness update video on Instagram ahead of the new season.

The video showcases Naruto-themed edits and concludes with Alli achieving the Sage of Six Paths mode. The caption includes a quote from Naruto Uzumaki: “In The World, No One Is Perfect. But Along The Way, You’ll Become Something Great.”

The final line of the video, which translates to Dele saying he’s still got a lot left in him, showcases his eagerness to get back to fitness and play again.

Interestingly, the video also features Zoro, likely referencing the meme of Zoro getting lost. Check out the post below.

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Dele Alli became a free agent earlier this summer after his Everton contract ended. Despite this, he has continued training with the club and participated in private sessions in recent weeks.

Kim Kardashian is on her best soccer mom behavior.

The reality star took her seven-year-old son Saint, who is a big soccer fan, on the trip of his dreams – a U.K. soccer tour. Kardashian captured some special moments from their Thursday outing, in which they attended a soccer game where England’s Arsenal F.C. played Portugal’s Sporting Lisbon in London.

Not only did the mom of four take her son on the special trip, she also took all of his best friends along with them.

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In a series of sweet Instagram Stories, shared to Kardashian’s account on Thursday, Saint and his friends are seen watching the game with nothing but pure joy and excitement as they each sport red and white Arsenal jerseys. For the game, Saint wore Arsenal Women’s Katie McCabe’s no.

Model Cindy Kimberly arched her back and stunned in a bikini. Pic credit: @wolfiecindy/Instagram

Cindy Kimberly aka Wolfie Cindy lounged under the sun in a blue and white bikini ahead of the three-day Labor Day weekend.

The latest share comes after a segment with Cindy in Sports Illustrated made the rounds on social media.

The clip featured the model in Rihanna’s native Barbados as she soaked up the sun and showed viewers a good time.

Behind Cindy in the far distance were mountains and blue skies decorated with thin white clouds.

In the closer distance were a gated-off pool area, lounge chairs, and umbrellas for patrons to enjoy the pool.

The Sports Illustrated 2022 rookie rested on her elbows and threw back her head in a photo shared on her Instagram Story. She pointed one foot and bent one knee in the tiny ensemble. She tagged her manager, Ramon Jordan,...

London, Feb 1 (Ians) A day after Frank Lampard took over as Premier League side Everton’s manager, the club completed the signing of midfielder Dele Alli from Tottenham Hotspur on a two-and-a-half-year contract until the end of June 2024. Alli moved on a free transfer to Everton in what was one of the biggest moves […]...

By Kartikeya Bhattacharyya New Delhi, Feb 1 (Ians) English midfielder Dele Alli moved on a free transfer to Everton in what was one of the biggest moves of the deadline day of a thoroughly action-packed winter transfer window. The window shut down at 11 pm GMT for Premier League teams though it is still open […]...

Creative Artists Agency has promoted four trainees, with Ishaani Saha and Olivia Su elevated to Agent, and Derek McKenna and Lin Yao upped to Executive.

The LA-based Saha will work within CAA’s Commercial Endorsements department. There, she will look to create opportunities for clients across on-camera and print, personal appearances, voice-over, and social media-driven campaigns, both domestically and internationally. The London-based Su will serve on CAA Sports’ International Talent team, led by Roman Di Somma, helping to create marketing and endorsement opportunities for clients including Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Rosberg, Son Heung-Min, Dele Alli, Jose Mourinho, James Maddison, Raphael Varane, and Scotty James, among others.

McKenna’s new role as an Executive in Hockey will see him based in Los Angeles, focusing on player marketing, management and social media analytics, while architecting entrepreneurial opportunities for CAA Sports’ NHL clients. Yao will now work as an Executive in CAA Sports’ Property Sales group,...

New Delhi, Nov 24 (Ians) English footballer Dele Alli, who plays as a midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur and the England national team, recently stunned everyone by pulling off an "outrageous catch" while playing cricket with his Premier League teammates.

Alli took to Twitter on Monday and shared a video of him playing cricket with his teammates. In the video, after the batsman hit the ball, Alli deflected the ball by his foot before taking the catch.

The fielders, including Gareth Bale, can be seen awestruck looking at Alli's effort. The 24-year-old was later seen looking into the camera and posing.

The official Twitter handle of the International Cricket Council (Icc) also took note of the stunning fielding effort and tweeted the video with a caption: "An outrageous catch by England footballer Dele Alli while playing cricket with his Tottenham Hotspur team-mates."

"We wouldn't advise trying that with a real cricket ball though,...

Network: Fox.

Episodes: Five (one hour).

Seasons: One.

TV show dates: May 25, 2018 — June 8, 2018.

Series status: Has not been cancelled.

Performers include: Dele Alli, Davinson Sanchez, Marco Asensio, Paulo Dybala, Gabriel Jesus, Ousmane Dembele, Adrien Rabiot, Leon Goretzka, Corentin Tolisso, Hirving Lozano, and Marquinhos.

TV show description:

A docu-series from filmmakers including Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, Kevin Klauber, Chris Perkel, Leo Pearlman, Jane Preston, Alastair Uhlig, Lovinsa Kavuma, Bart van den Aardweg, Mirko Dreiling, Marco Schillaci, Gilles Rof, Joan Lloret and Sofia Geveyler, the Phenoms TV show covers up-and-coming soccer players.

The athletes are vying to represent their respective home countries, in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Phenoms chronicles their journey and gives fans access to...

CAA Sports, a division of entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency, has acquired Base Soccer Agency, a move that further expands its global representation of sports talent. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Established in 1997 by Leon Angel, Base is a full-service football agency, representing and dealing with more than 300 international football players, coaches, and world-leading managers, both on and off the pitch, including Premier League stars Kyle Walker, Fred, Danny Rose, James Maddison, Davinson Sanchez, Aaron Lennon, Ashley Young, and Nathaniel and Trevoh Chalobah. Base is also a leading agency in women’s football and represents four players on England’s World Cup squad, including Fran Kirby and Georgia Stanway.

Led by Angel and player agent Frank Trimboli, Base has 60 employees headquartered in London, and is supported by consultant offices throughout Europe, South America, Australia, Asia, and North America.

“Leon and Frank are world class agents and business executives,...

(Updated With Viewership Numbers) On a scorching Saturday that saw England advance further in the World Cup than the home of the beautiful game has since 1990 and Croatia take down a dynamo, Russia was on seemingly everyone’s lips and the object of their eyes yesterday – and we don’t mean Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation of Donald Trump and the adjoining array of Congressional committees.

Going all the way to an obviously dramatic 3-4 penalty shootout with the 2018 tournament hosts, Ivan Rakitic, Domagoj Vida and the rest of the Croatian national team put the brakes on Vladimir Putin and Russia’s eventual aim of a World Cup final perch. They also helped Fox hit new ratings and viewership highs for its coverage of this year’s World Cup.

Actually, breaking the 2018 record established by Croatia’s July 1 victory in penalties over Denmark, the Russian loss to the Luka Modric...

The World Cup is getting increasingly closer to coming home after England beat Sweden to reach the semi-final.

The game drew an 80% share of television viewers on BBC One on Saturday afternoon, similar to England’s penalty shoot-out win over Colombia in the quarter final. However, total TV viewers were down on the last round as the game averaged 15.8m, reaching a peak of 19.9m during the last few minutes. This compared to an average of 16.6m and a peak of 24.4m for the Colombia match.

This number would not have captured the millions of Brits watching the game, which saw Harry Maguire and Dele Alli score in a relatively comfortable win, in pubs or in public spaces. Given the scenes in the streets of Britain’s major cities and towns, it was clear that there was a huge communal viewing for this match.

Some 3.8M people also live-streamed the match online,...

YouTube Red's first unscripted original series in the UK will be led by a comedian, a bunch of superstar footballers, and a handful of popular YouTubers. It's called Training Days, and it will be hosted by English funnyman Jack Whitehall.

In Training Days, Whitehall and his athletic guests will undertake a series of activities that have nothing to do with sports. He will join Colombian striker Radamel Falcao, for example, to shoot a perfume ad, and he will visit a haunted house alongside Tottenham Hotspurs standout Dele Alli.

It won't just be all-world soccer players, however, who will hang with Whitehall on his upcoming show. YouTube stars who are expected to appear on the program include Joe Sugg, Manny, Joe Wicks, and The F2 Freestylers. Ahead of the release of Training Days, Whitehall has already started collaborating with those creators. In a video on his channel, he played a game...

In the mid 90s foreign players flocked to the English Premier League like Brits to sunny Benidorm. With them they brought style, skill, flair, character, and extravagant simulation; aka diving.

In the first Premier League season (1992/93) there were only 11 foreign players named in the starting line-ups for the first set of fixtures. Since then over 2,000 foreign players have graced the Premier League. So it’s no coincidence that the amount of simulation has increased as the years have gone on. I mean Jurgen Klinsmann would openly celebrate by showing the world he was a cheater when he scored a goal. It’s sadly now just become part of the beautiful game. You could even go as far as saying that the creators of Football Manager 2018 should put ‘diving ability’ as an attribute on player’s profiles.

I know that it’s not only foreign imports who try to con the referee with their acrobatics, of course some British players fall into that category too. But watching back matches from the 70s and 80s, such as the Chelsea vs Leeds Fa Cup final in 1970 and the Liverpool vs Everton matches in the 80s, its clear that diving wasn’t a problem within the game. In fact most challenges in those era’s would now warrant an 8 match ban. Back then the game was known as a contact sport, so when tackles flew in, players accepted that it was part of the game. Players gave as good as they got. It was as important to have a player in your team who didn’t mind getting stuck in, as much as a goal scorer. Maybe that’s part of the problem. As the years have rolled by football has slowly become a non-contact sport. So as soon as players feel contact, however little, they will go down. To the point that certain players go down when their not even touched. You can’t get more non contact than that.

So next season the Fa have decided to clamp down on diving once and for all. The good old Fa. If I know the Fa like I think I do, then I’m sure they’ll make this aspect of the game even more of a problem. Which in the end will just highlight the fact it’s impossible to stamp diving out of the game. The fact they said and I quote, ‘we are trying to prevent “Robert Snodgrass situations”’, proves my point. Do they understand that “a Robert Snodgrass situation” already has a term, it’s called ‘simulation’. Are we meant to use that term now? Are pundit’s supposed to say, “oh he’ s done a Robert Snodgrass.” The Fa are apparently “formulating a process” that they hope will reverse the trend of more simulation in the English game. Oh great. I can’t wait to see what mess they make of this.

I have to agree with Sam Allardyce, the idea of a retrospective ban is ‘utter rubbish’. He goes on to make a valid point about what happens if the referees make a wrong decision, and how are the Fa supposed to reverse those mistakes. It’s impossible to fix by just saying that they will be handing out a two game retrospective ban for those who try to cheat their way to a positive result. The problem is that 99% of football players will try to win at all costs, even if it involves trying to con the referee into making the wrong decision.

Jurgen Klinsmann played up to his reputation as a diver when celebrating a goal.

It happens at all levels, be it in the Premier League or on a Saturday playing for Chalfont St Peter against Uxbridge in the Evo-stik League Southern Division One Central. Let’s take Victor Moses in the Fa Cup final. If the referee had been tricked into thinking he had been fouled, and Chelsea went on to score the penalty to win the game, do you think Antonio Conte would have cared if his player had cheated his way to victory? I mean I’m glad the referee wasn’t conned by Moses’ attempts to win a penalty as I don’t think it’s right. But that’s not to say I don’t think it’s wrong to try and attempt to do it. He was sent off, and that was the price he had to pay to attempt to win his team a penalty.

Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino described Dele Alli as “a little bit naughty” after winning a penalty against Swansea. But he doesn’t care. His team won, and the three points are all that matters. I guarantee managers prefer 3 points in whatever manner. The prospect of losing a player for two games with this new banning system out weighs playing fairly, and drawing the game.

The retrospective ban will not stamp out diving in football. There’s too much at stake during those 90 minutes. You’re telling me you wouldn’t want your player to dive to win a penalty if it meant you would win the league, or finish in the top four, or even avoid relegation? Some of these dives would make the club tens of millions of pounds. And I’ll tell you something that you probably already know, but if a player had the opportunity to go down to win a penalty and decided not to as it was deemed as simulation, the manager and players would definitely voice their opinion on the matter after the game. They would not be giving that player a pat on the back, and saying well done for playing fairly. I’ve been in changing rooms after football matches where managers have lost it at players who chose to stay on their feet, when actually they could have gone down and won a penalty. Players are somewhat told to cheat, in order to win the game at all costs.

But here’s the main problem with the new retrospective diving bans . ‘Only incidents that result in a player winning a penalty or lead to an opponent being sent off – through either a direct red card or two yellow cards – will be punished.’ Are you kidding me? So unless the dive results in a penalty or a red card, there will be no retrospective action? So let me throw out a couple of scenarios that mean it’s deemed acceptable to cheat and get away with it.

1. A player dives just outside the box, the referee deems it to be a foul and awards a free kick in the 92nd minute. That teams set piece taker then executes a perfect free kick and scores. The team then win the game from the resulting free kick they won through cheating.

The Fa will not be handing out a retrospective ban.

2. A player dives, the referee deems it to be a foul, and books the opposing defender. In the second half the player on a booking has to make an important tackle that he times wrong, and is shown another yellow card resulting in the team having to play with ten men.

The Fa will not be handing out a retrospective ban for the player who dived for the first yellow card incident.

Already its a mess! Sadly there is only one way to try and stop simulation. It seems Allardyce must have read my last article. I know he’s a big fan. He says, “bring technology in, let us look at it on the day and then bring a sin bin in so we can put him in that for 10 minutes and then put him back on.” He’s right. The retrospective ban will be confusing and hard to implement, as the smallest touch can prove they haven’t dived but it still wasn’t enough contact to go down. It’s impossible to call most simulation attempts 100% correctly. The only retrospective bans they can give is if there is no contact at all, but that is still tough to clamp down on because of the speed of the game. If a player believes a challenge is coming they may try to prevent the foul and possible injury by jumping out of the tackle. In the act of avoiding the tackle they may lose their balance, but it doesn’t mean they have attempted to dive. It’s clear when a player dives, and referees are there to spot these moments.

Victor Moses was sent off after receiving a second yellow card for diving in the 2017 Fa Cup Final.

Ultimately bringing in retrospective banning won’t mean it will stamp diving out of the game. Because this new law won’t actually effect the game in real time. A team that loses because of an opposing player diving don’t care if that player is then banned for the next two games as it doesn’t change the most important thing. The result. And what if that team are then playing their rivals in the next game and are unable to play there best player? That means the team who lost the game through an opposing player diving gets punished again. Not only that. If a player gets sent off due to an opposing player diving, that team still has to play a Premier League game with ten men for a period of the match. They are then punished for an opposing player cheating. After the final whistle is blown that team won’t care about retrospective action. The game has finished and the result stands.

The retrospective ban will not work fairly, and that’s the whole point of trying to solve diving within the game. Like me and Big Sam said, the only way is to find a solution is by using video technology during the actual game. That would definitely make players think twice about attempting to fool the referee into making a wrong decision. The idea of a sin bin could also work, like in Rugby. If a player is shown to have dived without any contact, the referee would place that player into a 10 minute sin bin. Players and fans will soon become fed up of playing with 10 men for long periods of the game. Chelsea fans quickly grew tired of Didier Drogba‘s embarrassing attempts to throw himself to the ground, and began to boo him when he kept trying to win cheap free kicks through simulation. It wasn’t long that he realised his own fans were against him. Of course he still went down far too easily at some points but at least the fans tried their best to change his ways. Maybe it’s up to certain players own fans to make them aware of their unacceptable antics.

Burnley manager Sean Dyche believes diving will be eradicated in six months if the bans are introduced, but I really can’t see that happening. It’s like how the Fa tried to cut out the verbal abuse referees receive from players, and look how that turned out. But what I can’t seem to get my head around is why haven’t the Fa been giving retrospective bans in the first place. I thought retrospective bans were given when referees had missed something off the ball, or had got something wrong. Then they would look back at the incident and decisions were corrected. So players diving surely falls under that category. They’ve been doing it for off the ball incidents so why have they not tried to implement this sooner. At the end of the day diving is cheating. so why let it go on for so long?

I do believe players should be punished for diving and trying to influence the result through cheating, but unfortunately it won’t stop players attempting it. Without doubt, clubs would take 3 points over a two game ban all day long. Isn’t that the reason why top Premier League clubs have such big expensive squads?...

Money in the world of football has become a big talking point within the game. Be it transfer fees, ticket prices, imaging and TV rights, or even the odd FIFA related bribing scandal, the financial element of the game will now always be questioned. With figures nearly exceeding £100,000,000 for a single player it’s beginning to feel that clubs can demand stupid money for any player within their squad. You only have to look at players like Dwight Gayle, Jake Livermore, and Robert Snodgrass who are being bought for £10 million plus. I mean, Crystal Palace bought Jeffery Schlupp for £12 million! Am I missing something here? It’s like money doesn’t have any value within the game anymore.

Of course, there are some transfers that warrant clubs splashing out large amounts of money to get their man. Players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Luis Suarez, and Neymar to name a few.