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‘I was rude, but I was rude to an idiot’: Spurs boss Mourinho cracks up internet after being yellow-carded in Southampton defeat There was no sense of festive goodwill from Jose Mourinho after he was yellow-carded in Tottenham’s loss at Southampton for appearing to read the tactics being jotted down by a member of the opposition coaching staff. Tottenham suffered a 1-0 defeat on the south coast as the in-form Danny Ings scored a sublime first-half goal, flicking the ball over Toby Alderweireld before firing past Paulo Gazzaniga in the Spurs goal. AFP A largely listless Spurs suffered t...

Can hitting the reset button save the Cleveland Browns from cementing their status as the NFL's most doomed franchise? The Cleveland Browns entered the 2019 season as the most hyped team in the NFL. Ten losses later, they have fired their head coach, their GM and are mired by rumors of internal strife. How did it go so far off the rails in Ohio? Long before the first snap of the current NFL season, some oddsmakers cherry-picked the perennially underachieving Browns as the fifth favorites to win Super Bowl LIV in February. This lofty assessment was borne on the back of signs of life in the second half of last season, mostly authored by NFL draft first pick Baker Mayfield.  The pick was considered a dangerous one but John Dorsey, the General Manager w...

It’s the wrong guy! Two Ukrainian channels air oligarch Poroshenko’s NYE address instead of president Zelensky’s The political struggle in Ukraine never goes on holiday. The viewers of two local channels couldn't tell if it was 2019 all over again when they saw former president Petro Poroshenko delivering the traditional New Year address. Puzzled viewers of Ukraine's 5 Kanal and Pryamiy channel discovered that the two seemingly preferred Poroshenko to the actual President Volodymyr Zelensky on the New Year's Eve. The man was given airtime right before midnight, when the whole country gathered in front of their TVs with champagne-filled glasses. //www.youtube.com/embed/-8F3mPc43p4 But was it an epic fail...

Is the shale boom running on fumes? Shale drilling does not produce as much oil and gas as the industry promised, raising questions about the productivity, profitability and, ultimately, the longevity of the fracking boom. The Wall Street Journal published a damning investigation into the productivity of thousands of shale wells, finding that as time has passed, oil and gas production from shale wells has proved to be more disappointing than previously thought. The report adds more evidence to the conclusion that the WSJ came to nearly a year ago, which raised serious questions about problems endemic to shale drilling. Read more Is this the beginning of a US shale crisis? After an initial burst of production...

Iraqi protesters withdraw from US Embassy in Baghdad, some defy orders (VIDEOS) Paramilitary leaders have ordered their supporters to leave the heavily fortified US Embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, as American troops reinforced the besieged facility. However, some protesters stayed put. Live footage from RT’s video agency Ruptly showed protesters with Hezbollah flags withdrawing en masse in their vehicles. It was not immediately clear from the video how many have remained at the scene of clashes, where tear gas and stun grenades were reportedly fired again on Wednesday. //www.youtube.com/embed/sJeLP0bntL4 Hordes of protesters descended on Baghdad’s American embassy – located inside the heavily fortifi...

Starting the New Year with a BANG: Brighton star Alireza Jahanbakhsh scores incredible overhead kick against Chelsea (VIDEO) Brighton winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh started 2020 in style as the Iranian scored a stunning overhead kick equalizer for his team in the Premier League encounter with Chelsea. Jahanbakhsh, 26, came on as a second-half substitute with his team 1-0 down after Chelsea skipper Cesar Azpilicueta’s opener early in the game, but salvaged a point with an acrobatic strike six minutes from time. The ball was headed to the Iranian 10 yards out after a Brighton corner, with Jahanbakhsh facing away from goal but launching himself upwards and making the cleanest of contact to send the ball past Kepa and into the corner of the net. ...

'An absolute joke': More VAR controversy as Jack Grealish goal ruled out for offside because of teammate's HEEL It didn't take long for the first VAR controversy of 2020 after a Jack Grealish strike was ruled out for Aston Villa in their early kick-off at Burnley after replays appeared to show that forward Wesley was millimeteres offside. After a period of consultation with the video referee referee Michael Oliver ruled out the Villa skipper's early goal, prompting football fans to once again voice their discontent with what they see as the overly-officious nature of the video technology which was intended to remove, not insert, doubt into the game. Also on rt.com ‘RIP football’: Fans fume at VAR as Liverpool beat...