Football Daily | Bellinghams do battle and subs stay indoors as Club World Cup warms up

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Following the second weekend of Copa Gianni, Fifa were eager to flag up a number of fraternal firsts. In scoring for Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid, Jude and Jobe Bellingham became the first brothers in history to score in the same tournament – “We’re 1-1 now,” honked Jude after his goal – while Francesco Pio Esposito became the first player to replace his brother when he came on for his Inter debut in place of elder sibling Sebastiano in the win over Urawa Red Diamonds. Meanwhile in Atlanta, the United Arab Emirates vice president and Manchester City chief suit, Sheikh Mansour, emerged with family bragging rights after his club’s reserve team trampled Al Ain, who are presided over by his older brother Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, into the dirt.Coleen is a princess and her parents are queen and king, and Wayne is a warrior. They get together, they split up, she’s broken-hearted and he goes on a quest to find the ring and re-propose to her. The theatre says they’ve never done anything like this before” – Helen Serafinowicz, the writer behind TV hit series Motherland, has announced her next project: ‘The Legend of Rooney’s Ring’, a Game-of-Thrones inspired summer pantomime about Wayne and Coleen Rooney, loosely based on a rumour that the couple once had a big argument in the car which ended with Coleen hurling an engagement ring out of the car, which led to Liverpool locals taking to the streets with metal detectors. Not the theatre we expected, but the theatre we need.Thanks for the link in Friday’s Football Daily to your article on Eintracht Frankfurt’s hot transfer target, Hugo Ekitike (Still Want More, full email edition). Ever since I watched Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch as a kid I’ve been on the lookout for palindromes. Any chance that Ekitike will eschew the bigger European clubs and sign for Ipswich? Or Bolton?” – R Reisman.Quite how do you propose Milos Kerkez gets straight from the M40 to the M6 on his way from Bournemouth up to Liverpool (Friday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition)? The M42 would be the logical manner, though if it’s particularly busy northbound near Birmingham airport, he could head west to the M5 and then north past West Bromwich” – Matt Hard.If Marcus Rashford’s Mr 15% really can get him a transfer from the debacle formerly known as Manchester United to Barcelona, we should give him the Ballon D’or (the Mr 15% that is, not Rashford, obviously). No one, not even the great Lamine Yamal, will have put in a better performance this year. And, an extra nod to the agent for subtlety, getting him to do a timely interview with a Spanish YouTuber for no reason in particular” – Noble Francis. Continue reading...

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