Ex-UK coach jailed for 30 yrs for child abuse
Arsenal, Emirates extend deal
LONDON, Feb 19, (Agencies): Ex-football coach Barry Bennell has been jailed for 30 years on 50 counts of child sexual abuse by a judge who called him the “devil incarnate,” the BBC reported on Monday.
The 64-year-old Bennell, once a scout for Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra, abused 11 boys aged eight to 15 between 1979 and 1990 on an “industrial scale”, Liverpool Crown Court had heard.
“To those boys you appeared as a god ... in reality you were the devil incarnate,” Judge Clement Goldstone said. “You stole their childhoods and their innocence.”
Bennell
Arsenal have signed a five-year extension to their shirt sponsorship deal with Emirates airline, the Premier League club announced on Monday.
The club said it was their “largest shirt sponsorship deal ever” and will run through to the end of 2023-24 season, extending their partnership with Emirates to at least 18 years.
At least 19 people were arrested in Spain on Monday in an operation into alleged match-fixing in the country’s lower leagues, police sources said.
Arrests were made across the country, including in Barcelona, the sources said. The operation into alleged fraud and corruption is being led by a court in Zafra in the west of Spain.
La Liga strugglers Las Palmas on Monday confirmed that Spanish international attacking midfielder Jonathan Viera is leaving the club to join Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super League.
Las Palmas did not reveal the transfer fee for the 28-year-old Gran Canaria native, although club president Miguel Angel Ramirez admitted that they could not match the money on offer in China.
Belgian Paul Put on Monday quit as Kenya’s national football coach just two months after taking up the position.
Football Kenya Federation (FKF) said 61-year-old Put, who took charge of the Harambee Stars in November and led the team to win the CECAFA Challenge Cup the following month, had resigned for personal reasons.
Former England women’s captain Casey Stoney is to join Phil Neville’s coaching staff on the national team after announcing her retirement on Monday.
The Football Association (FA) said she would work with Neville for the annual SheBelieves tournament in the United States next month and qualifiers for the 2019 World Cup in France.
Thousands of Palestinian football fans took photographs with the World Cup trophy Monday as it tours the globe ahead of this summer’s tournament in Russia.
More than 10,000 people queued to see the trophy during three days it was displayed near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, organisers said.
It is the second time the World Cup has been displayed in the Palestinian territories and comes as part of a wider tour of the trophy ahead of the World Cup.
The cup left Monday afternoon for Jordan before it goes to Dubai later in the week. It visited Israel last week.