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David Moyes will be handed the opportunity to rebuild Sunderland next season, even if they are relegated to the Championship. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

The Joshing, the Slap-Joke, the Fallout: The Great Moyes Debate has Begun

by Marina Hyde | Apr 7, 2017 | Sports

Couldn’t this whole silly misunderstanding with David Moyes be cleared up if all the male reporters he’d threatened joshingly to slap came forward to contextualise the experience? I mean, honestly. HONESTLY. How are we possibly to make a judgment about the incident’s...

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Fifa’s president Gianni Infantino has said the governing body’s executive committee will make a final decision on proposed World Cup reform in January. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Gianni Infantino and Fifa seem to have a New Plan: to Kill the World Cup

by Marina Hyde | Oct 27, 2016 | Sports

Some movies are so bad they kill more than themselves. Sometimes, they kill a series. As George Clooney wryly (and rightly) observed after Batman & Robin: “I think we might have killed the franchise.” Occasionally, a movie is such a disaster it kills an entire...