Arsenal announced they would become the first Premier League club to welcome fans in for a competitive fixture since March following the coronavirus pandemic, on this day in 2020.
The north London club confirmed 2,000 spectators were to be allowed in for their Europa League match against Rapid Vienna the following week.
The Gunners learned Emirates Stadium was to be in tier two of the Government’s new regionalised approach to tackling the coronavirus pandemic, and were able to welcome fans in for the clash with the Austrian side.
A club statement read: “It’s been almost nine long months since we had fans in attendance at Emirates Stadium and our matches have simply not been the same without you.
It s been a long nine long months without our fans.
Monday Night Football in Week 3 features a battle between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys. Both of these teams are 1-1 to start the season and will look to make an early-season statement as the team to beat in the NFC East.
NFL betting lines opened with the Cowboys as 3.5-point home favorites with the Over/Under at 51.5. Here are our best free Monday Night Football picks and predictions for the Eagles vs. Cowboys on September 27, with kickoff at 8:15 p.m. ET.
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The AFC Championship is here and if there were ever a playoff game to hit multiple touchdown props, it’s this one between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Kansas City Chiefs. With a total of 54.5 and a 65-point meeting just a month ago, this is going to be a shootout.
We bring you our favorite Bengals vs. Chiefs touchdown props and our best value-based longshot that may or may not be a backup tight end.
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With two more games left in the Divisional Round , I’ve added another three-pack of props to my card and think you should consider them before rounding out your own set of wagers.
On Sunday, I’m backing a pair of rushing Overs in the late game while hitting the Under on a Buffalo receiver who will struggle to replicate last week’s performance.
Check out my NFL prop picks ahead of Sunday’s action
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Week 6 odds for the NFL feature an NFC North battle between the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears. Both teams are off to an ugly 1-4 start to the season but Chicago just pulled off its first win after hammering Washington by 20 points.
Meanwhile, Minnesota is coming off a defeat against Kansas City, but the team’s biggest loss was seeing superstar receiver Justin Jefferson go down with a hamstring injury.
NFL odds have the Vikes as 3-point road favorites with the Over/Under at 44. Here are my best free NFL picks for the Vikings vs. Bears on October 15.
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Justin Jefferson is the reigning NFL Offensive Player of the Year and is a huge part of Minnesot…
Week 18 is a minefield with all the teams resting players and usage unknown, but that’s a perfect time to hit some plus-money milestone NFL prop picks. When variance is high, get on the long NFL odds, that’s what I always say.
I’m finishing up the regular season with a WR3 that’s getting more routes thanks to an increase in 11-personnel, hitting a safe-floor tight end for 50-plus yards, and betting on a gunslinger indoors.
These are my best milestone NFL picks for Sunday’s games.
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This week’s NFC East clash between the New York Giants and Washington Commanders has seen money pour in on the Over, driving the total up to 43.5 from the opening number of 41.5.
I’m going against that line movement with my favorite Week 2 total bets because I can’t see many points being put on the board in a quarterback duel between Daniel Jones and rookie Jayden Daniels. Read on to find out what my other two favorite NFL picks are in the Over/Under markets this Sunday.
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The Premier League is facing the possibility of having to delay its Project Restart after a pair of crucial meetings with players and managers provoked a series of robust exchanges and diverging views.
A planned resumption of play on 12 June is now looking less likely, and kick-off a week later is now a possibility after issues over protocols for a safe return to play and concerns over the need for more training came to the fore.
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Players had not previously had a chance to share their views on restart plans and at a two-hour meeting between 20 club captains, Premier League officials and the deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan van Tam,…
An extra place had been laid for a mystery guest, but no one guessed the identity of the man who would take the additional seat at the dinner table. It was a warm late summer evening in Jerusalem in 2019 when Roman Abramovich joined Emma Hayes and her Chelsea players for a memorable few hours. “It was a great surprise, the players were giggling like teenagers,” Hayes would later say.
“We sat around at dinner talking about Middle Eastern history and the love of working for a club that supports its women’s football team in the way Chelsea have. We spent time talking about how proud he is of us and what we do.”
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Until very recently Hayes…
Billy Sharp has entered the sunset phase of his career. The phase where he admires the setting sun from his home near the beach, that is. The phase where he drives along Sunset Boulevard.
This is not, he stresses, the time when he fades away, light dimming as he sinks silently out of view. Even though Sharp is 37 and he is, as far as English football is concerned, almost beyond the horizon.
Amid a clutch of loan spells and permanent moves to Scunthorpe, Doncaster, Southampton and Leeds, Sheffield-born Sharp is indelibly associated with Sheffield United, where he scored 129 goals in 377 appearances across three spells before his release in the summer after a year in which he scored only three goals and was mostly use…