The Football Connect

🚨🚨| NEW: The Premier League will downgrade hair pulling from a red card offence to a 𝐘𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃 from the 2026-27 season. 📋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Red cards will still apply for deliberate, forceful hair pulling. []

From 2018 to 2021, Tani Oluwaseyi was playing college football at St. John's University.

Now, he has made his World Cup DEBUT for Canada. Fantastic progression.

Oluwaseyi was born in Nigeria but moved to Canada at the age of 10! 🇳🇬🇨🇦❤️

🚨 Liverpool and Arsenal have been put on alert after PSG reportedly 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗢𝗢𝗥 to a potential sale of Bradley Barcola this summer.

Contract talks between the French winger and PSG have stalled, with the club now willing to listen to offers despite Luis Enrique's desire to keep him.

Both Premier League clubs are monitoring the situation closely as they look to strengthen their attacking options ahead of the new season. ()

🚨🎖️| Premier League clubs are being really AGGRESSIVE for Bradley Barcola — Arsenal are calling, Liverpool also keen and many more. Movements are HAPPENING.

Akliouche is ONE of the names to replace Barcola, should it be certain that he’ll leave PSG.

🚨 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪: USA will play their World Cup opening match at the SoFi stadium, the most EXPENSIVE stadium in the world!

Total costs of the building of the stadium was $5.5 billion with a capacity of 70,240 seats which can expand to 100,000 seats for major events.

The stadium is build in a way to protect it from potential earthquakes.

To avoid interrupting the flight pattern of planes approaching the nearby Los Angeles International Airport, a massive, 2.2 million-pound Samsung video board is build from the roof directly over the field.

🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Bosnia & Herzegovina starting XI for their World Cup match vs Canada! 🇧🇦💫

🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Canada starting XI for their World Cup match vs Bosnia and Herzegovina! 🇨🇦💫

🚨 FIFA statement on Thomas Partey left out of Canada.

“FIFA can confirm that player Thomas Partey will be unable to travel from Ghana's Team Base Camp in Boston, USA, to Canada for their first match against Panama on Wednesday, 17 June, as his visa application has been refused by the Canadian government.

"FIFA is not involved in the immigration processes of host countries, including the adjudication of visas. As with previous FIFA events, the host government ultimately determines who receives a visa and is admitted into the country."

🚨| BREAKING: Thomas Partey has been 𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐃𝐀 and will miss Ghana's World Cup opener against Panama.

Ghana face Panama at BMO Field in Toronto on Wednesday, June 17.

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Crystal Palace star Brennan Johnson has started dating OF actress Lily Phillips, who set a world record last December by sleeping with 101 men in 24 hours...

Imagine the shame of going home to your parents and having to tell them your partner used to play for Tottenham... 🤣