Given its reputation as either as a “festival of camp” or a complete turkey, some will have wondered whether BBC News programmes should have given so much coverage this week. It’s very rare to combine high viewing figures and a very low audience appreciation score. In recent decades, it has had a reputation in Britain as “the show you love to hate”.īBC audience research always pointed to this paradox. I suspect Eurovision will do more lasting good to Liverpool than it would have done to runner-up Glasgow – a city which has faced similar challenges to Liverpool but which has played host to much more significant events than Eurovision in recent years such as the Commonwealth Games and COP 26.īut this has been a strange Eurovision Song Contest. Hopefully Eurovision fans and delegates will return home and recommend Liverpool to their friends. Sadly, like many post industrial cities, Liverpool can still suffer from out-of-date stereotyping.Īnd too much of its positive reputation inside and outside the UK can still rely on memories of The Beatles – 53 years after they split up. The showcasing of Merseyside to the rest of Europe provides a great opportunity too. The boost to the local economy this week – hotels, bars, restaurants – will have been significant. The Eurovision Song Contest has generated heaps of positive publicity for the city. Real Madrid are hopeful Eduardo Camavinga will be available for the Champions League semi-final second leg against Manchester City despite limping off against Getafe on Saturday with an apparent knee injury.It’s been one of the biggest weeks in Liverpool for years. Paul Pogba's Juventus injury hell continued on Sunday when he was forced off in tears after 24 minutes in his first start of the season against Cremonese. Mauricio Pochettino's arrival at Chelsea appears unlikely to change Mason Mount's mind on staying, with relations between his representatives and the club reportedly at an all-time low. MMA star Mauro Chaulet has been shot dead by military police in Porto Alegre, Brazil, local media has reported.īorussia Dortmund and England midfielder Jude Bellingham has reportedly turned down a move to Manchester City.Ījax's trip to Groningen on Sunday was abandoned after multiple smoke bombs were thrown onto the pitch. Toulouse and Nantes both dropped players - Zakaria Aboukhlal and Mostafa Mohamed respectively - after they refused to participate in Ligue 1's campaign against homophobia at the weekend. Leeds United are waiting to find out whether they will be charged over one of their supporters confronting Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe in his technical area at Elland Road during Saturday's 2-2 draw. Joan Laporta has again vowed to bring Lionel Messi back to Barcelona next season even though he is likely to need to get £180m in salary off the books to make it happen. Union Berlin are braced for summer offers for their star forward Sheraldo Becker amid interest from Premier League clubs including West Ham, Fulham and Burnley. Thiago Silva's wife has quashed reports the Brazilian could leave Chelsea this summer.īurnley boss Vincent Kompany will hold talks with Wout Weghorst when he returns to the Clarets in the summer. Image: The deadline for the submitting of Manchester United takeover bids passed on April 28 Notts County are bracing themselves for big-money offers for striker Macaulay Langstaff despite securing their own return to the EFL on Saturday via the National League play-offs. Southampton's relegation from the Premier League could have come at the perfect time for Chelsea, with incoming boss Mauricio Pochettino potentially reuniting with the player he once described as a "role model" when they worked together a decade ago. Manchester United co-owner Avram Glazer was typically tight-lipped when asked by reporters over the status of the club's potential takeover after attending the Women's FA Cup final on Sunday. Gilberto Silva has urged Mikel Arteta to consider whether Oleksandr Zinchenko is the player he needs in his Arsenal midfield rather than a new signing. Roy Keane has questioned Manchester United's reported interest in goalkeeper Jordan Pickford as Erik ten Hag looks to recruit a new goalkeeper.
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Gary Neville says Mauricio Pochettino won't take any nonsense at Chelsea and will make 'massive improvements' straight away at Stamford Bridgeīrighton head coach Roberto De Zerbi has admitted Moises Caicedo and Alexis Mac Allister could leave the club this summer but insists Kaoru Mitoma is going nowhere.
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