The France international defender has been told by Frank Lampard that he will figure in the Blues’ plans this season after spending 2018-19 at Everton

Kurt Zouma is expecting to remain at Chelsea after being given assurances over his future, but has not closed the door entirely on a move away from Stamford Bridge.

The France international defender spent the 2018-19 campaign away from West London on loan at Everton.

He impressed while at Goodison Park, with Toffees boss Marco Silva expressing a desire to take the 24-year-old back to Merseyside.

Zouma has, however, been informed by new Chelsea boss Frank Lampard that there is a role for him with his parent club.

The Blues coach has said: “I want him here, simple as that. I want him to be happy. If he competes and plays well this season, he plays.”

Zouma has welcomed that show of faith and believes he will be staying put in the current transfer window, but admits he cannot rule anything out.

He told reporters: “I’m happy with what the manager said about me. That means he is seeing the work I’m doing and I’m very pleased with that.

“We had a chat, and he was very good with me. He is a very good manager.

“I enjoyed my time at Everton but I’m a Chelsea player and we’ll see what will happen now in the future. I think it will be here at Chelsea.

“This is a chance for me. I went out on loan last season but I’m a Chelsea player and I want to do well to get my chance and be here.”

On his spell at Everton, which delivered 36 appearances and two goals, Zouma added: “It was a very good season for me. It was very good for my development. After my injury I was ready to play week-in week-out.

“Going there I did that and improved myself technically and tactically in every aspect with the manager there. I am a better player.

Click Here: Tienda Liga Mexicana

“Everything has improved in my game. I still have a lot to learn and to work on but I feel I have done a lot.”

Zouma is, however, aware that he faces fierce competition for places at Chelsea, with the likes of David Luiz, Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen also hoping to secure centre-half berths.

“There is a lot of quality here,” said the Frenchman.

“It depends on the manager. He can only play with two centre-backs. He has to make the choice but he is lucky because he has good players. It will be hard for him to make that choice but that is what we’re here for.”

Zouma is determined to find regular football due to a desire on his part to add to the collection of five senior caps he has earned for his country.

He added: “That is very important for me. It was one of my targets to get into the France team. I had been there before and wanted to come back.

“I managed to do that. Now the target is to play at the Euros – but to be there you have to be playing at your club.

“So I am working very hard – and let’s see what is going to happen.”

A yellow card here and there might not seem like a serious breach of discipline, but players can be punished for an accumulation of cautions

Discipline is a major aspect of football and players are duly punished by referees for any fouls or indiscretions which may occur on the pitch.

A yellow card is issued as a caution, giving a player a second chance to remain on the pitch for the rest of the game, but being shown a red card results in immediate ejection from the field of play.

If a player is cautioned twice in a game with two yellow cards they are then shown an automatic red card.

The idea, naturally, is to avoid picking up cautions and red cards, but over the course of a season they can accumulate and that also results on punishment.

The rules have changed slightly in the Premier League, so, in case you’re still unsure, we’ve broken it down.

Just like in 2018-19, any yellow card picked up by a player in a game will be restricted to the particular competition they were playing in.

So, if Marouane Fellaini is cautioned in a Premier League match for Manchester United, it does not hang over his head in the FA Cup.

Likewise, if Eden Hazard receives a booking for Chelsea in the Carabao Cup, it will not count towards his tally when he is playing in the Premier League.

However, while there is no crossover when it comes to yellow cards, suspensions arising from the presentation of a red card will apply to all competitions.

Click Here: Malaysia Rugby Shop

The punishment for the accumulation of yellow cards in the Premier League varies according to the number of cards and games.

A player who receives five yellow cards before the 19th match-week will be issued with a one-match ban. If a player has accumulated 10 yellow cards by match-week 32 they will be handed a two-match ban.

A total of 15 yellow cards in the duration of the season will result in a three-match ban.

Each ban will be served in the Premier League only.

The length of a suspension for a player shown a red card varies according to the severity of the foul.

For example, a sending off due to a second yellow card will result in a one-match ban, as will a red card received for a professional foul.

Dissent leading to a red card will generally earn a two-match ban, while violent conduct can be punished with a suspension for three games.

Of course, each case is examined based on its own merits and bans may be reduced or extended

Starting from 2019-20, officials will be able to show coaches and managers yellow or red cards, in the same way they do with players.

If, during the chaos of a more chaotic raucous on the touchline and the offending individual cannot be identified for punishment, the senior coach who is in the technical area will be the default recipient of the booking.

The France midfielder was expected to move to Camp Nou after leaving Paris Saint-Germain, but instead chose to join Juventus

Barcelona director of football Eric Abidal admits he does not know why midfielder Adrien Rabiot chose to join Juventus over the Spanish champions.

Rabiot, 24, left Paris Saint-Germain after his contract in the French capital expired and it had been widely reported that he had agreed to move to Barcelona.

But instead of the Catalan giants, the France international chose to join Italian champions Juve, where he may line up in midfield alongside fellow free transfer signing Aaron Ramsey.

“He was on our list [of targets] and it was his choice to join Juventus,” Abidal told Le Parisien.

“I do not know the reasons. It may have been a sporting choice or a financial decision, I don’t know.”

Tall at 6’2” but graceful and measured in his play, Rabiot was a wanted man among Europe’s top clubs after falling out of favour at PSG.

He joined the club as a youngster in 2010, having previously also spent time at Manchester City, and went on to make 150 league appearances in France.

During his time in Paris, Rabiot won five Ligue 1 titles, four Coupes de France, and five Coupes de la Ligue.

However, his last season at the club brought just 20 appearances, including just 14 in the league.

He attracted controversy in March after going to a nightclub after PSG’s Champions League exit at the hands of Manchester United, as well as liking an Instagram post by former United man Patrice Evra celebrating the win. He was promptly suspended by the club.

Click Here: Argentina Rugby Shop

Now with Juventus, he is bedding in at his new side and will be hoping to play some part as they gear up for the new season with the International Champions Cup, and fixtures with Tottenham, Inter and Atletico Madrid.

New manager Maurizio Sarri will be implementing his patented take on the 4-3-3 which served him at Napoli and Chelsea, and Rabiot’s ability on the ball makes him an option for the ‘Sarriball’ system.

The pressure to succeed will be immediate for both player and manager as Juve target a ninth consecutive Serie A title and tangible progress in the Champions League.

The Red Devils beat his Spurs side 2-1 in the International Champions Cup, but Pochettino was left apologising for his players’ aggression

Mauricio Pochettino has apologised to Manchester United over Tottenham’s tough tackles during Thursday’s International Champions Cup game.

Angel Gomes hit a late winner for United after Lucas Moura’s deflected shot cancelled out Anthony Martial’s opener in China.

Eric Bailly hurt his knee trying to block a shot from Son Heung-min and United’s new winger Daniel James seemed to be targeted by Tottenham throughout, with Moussa Sissoko appearing to stamp on the 21-year-old following a first-half challenge by the corner flag.

Click Here: Italy Rugby Shop

And Pochettino acknowledged his side were perhaps overly aggressive in their 2-1 defeat.

“I was a little bit annoyed about some situations, I was not happy,” the Tottenham boss told reporters. “It was a friendly game and in some situations of course when you are tired, when it’s so hot you are not right with the tempo to arrive at the actions, sometimes you arrive late and something can happen.

“I apologise on behalf of our players to Manchester United.”

Pochettino added: “It wasn’t their intention, but sometimes when you are tired you arrive late and some things can happen.

“And I was worried because in this period of preparation it is sometimes you need to be aggressive and you need to play with passion but sometimes the focus is to build your fitness and develop the way you want to play.

“Of course I was worried, Manchester United, Eric Bailly got injured and I am sorry for that but he was alone.

“And always when the players start to build their fitness and start to fight for their place in the team, when something happens in the pre-season it’s always tough and I was a little bit worried, but in the second half the game was a bit more relaxed.”

Man Utd boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer praised James’ honesty and bravery following the victory on Thursday.

James has been a regular starter for the Red Devils in pre-season after completing his move from Swansea earlier this summer. 

The Wales international could make his competitive debut for his new club on August 11 when Solskjaer’s side take on Chelsea on their first Premier League fixture of the season. 

The Scotland international is nearing his 50th appearance for the Red Devils and has his sights set on nailing down a regular starting berth

Manchester United midfielder Scott McTominay backs himself to nail down a spot in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s squad this season, despite rumours of the club looking to sign another midfielder.

The Scotland international has been used as a rotation player by the Red Devils over the last two seasons and has racked up 47 appearances for the club across all competitions, scoring two goals.

He netted his first ever goal in United colours during a 2-1 defeat to Wolves in April 2019, with his second coming in the penultimate game of the season against Huddersfield.

And despite the club’s rumoured interest in Newcastle midfielder Sean Longstaff, the 22-year-old believes he has what it takes to become a regular starter.

“Regardless of what other signings come in or who plays where, you have to back yourself to be a Man United player,” he said.

“That’s one thing that I’ve done over the last two years, I’ve always backed myself.

“I’ve tried to train hard and I’ve always wanted to do extra things to try and give me that one per cent difference.”

“It’s my ambition to be a regular No. 6, No. 8, a box-to-box player — that’s my main ambition.

“That’s always been my goal. It’s important that I really go for that now.

Click Here: South Africa Rugby Shop

“Obviously there is an opportunity there and you’ve got to take it with both hands.

“Last year I had some decent performances and it’s important that I carry on from that.”

The Red Devils endured a largely disappointing campaign last season, finishing sixth in the Premier League and failing to pick up any silverware as they were dumped out of the Carabao Cup, FA Cup and Champions League.

Their placement means there will be no Champions League football at Old Trafford this season, but McTominay says that everyone at the club is desperate to return to their glory days.

“That’s the desire from kitchen ladies at Carrington, to the kit men, to the physios to the players and all of the staff and the manager,” he added.

“That’s the sole aim of the football club, to get it back to where we want to be.

“That’s the top of the league and it’s important we get there.”

A select few stations show matches from the English top tier in the United Kingdom – we bring you everything you need to know

With teams such as Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal involved, the Premier League is one of the most popular and exciting divisions to watch in football.

Some of the best players on the planet are on display each week, including Mohamed Salah, Kevin De Bruyne and Paul Pogba, so viewers are spoiled for choice when it comes to deciding which games to tune in to on television.

Indeed, top class talent is littered across teams in the division and it’s not just the traditional top six who serve up entertaining games.

Goal brings you everything you need to know about which TV channels are showing Premier League games in the United Kingdom and where you can stream matches live online.

Premier League 2019-20 football on UK TV

In the UK, Sky Sports and BT Sport are the main television broadcasters for Premier League matches.

Sky Sports show the most games, with rights to 128 fixtures, while BT Sport show less than half that number, broadcasting 52 league encounters.

Click Here: United Kingdom Rugby Shop

For those watching matches on Sky, games are broadcast on their various channels, including Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Sports Main Event and Sky One.

On BT Sport, Premier League matches are chiefly shown on BT Sport 1, but channel changes can occur.

Premier League 2019-20 football live online streams

In the UK, Premier League matches can be streamed online via three channels: Sky Go, the BT Sport Player and, from 2019-20 on, Amazon Prime Video.

Sky Go and the BT Sport Player are the online facilities available to those who subscribe to BT Sport or Sky Sports.

In order to avail of Amazon Prime Video’s Premier League coverage, one must subscribe at a cost of £7.99 a month or £79 a year. A 30-day free trial is available.

Amazon’s coverage is limited to 20 games, which, in 2019-20, will be those that take place in December 2019.

Click here to find out more about Amazon Prime Video’s Premier League coverage.

Watch Premier League 2019-20 football highlights

The most popular Premier League highlights show in the UK is the BBC’s Match of the Day programme, which usually airs every Saturday evening after that day’s games.

Hosted by Gary Lineker and featuring insight from a host of ex professionals, Match of the Day is an institution of British sporting life, having first aired back in 1964.

It can be watched on TV via BBC One or online using the BBC iPlayer.

Highlights and analysis shows are also broadcast on Sky Sports and BT Sport, while Amazon Prime Video will offer subscribers the chance to watch highlights each week.

Not all eyewear is created equal. Much like everything else in fashion,
there is an entire spectrum of low to high, basic to couture, affordable to
luxury, factory-made to crafted by hand. Acetate remains the most popular
frame for glasses, spanning the affordable market for as little as 25 euros
for a no frills pair from Dutch e-commerce startup Charlie Temple, to
luxury options, such as a tortoise shell acetate and gold inlaid pair from
luxury brand Cartier, priced at around 900 pounds.

Five years ago the eyewear market was turned upside down with a new breed
of start-ups challenging the big luxury players with low-cost, high-quality
alternatives, migrating the prescription and optical market to online, and
re-writing the sales book on value and service. It spelled the end of an
era of stuffy opticians, overpriced prescription glasses, and boring
retail.

Where once low-cost eyewear carried the stigma of being and appearing
equally cheap, a surge of new brands introduced novel ways of retailing
affordable glasses with a high desirability factor. In the US companies
like Warby Parker and Privé Revaux Eyewear debuted designer spectacles
starting from as little as 29 dollars for a pair of frames. In Europe,
companies like acetate revolutionised the contemporary eyewear market
as purveyors of fashionable glasses for 98 pounds. Their visually appealing
campaigns are cleverly aimed at millenials, embracing codes of
individuality and inclusivity, striking a chord with a generation known for
its thriftiness. The era of owning an eyewear wardrobe was launched.

Click Here: New Zealand Rugby Shop

Price focus

, a French startup founded in 2011, goes as far to offer
spectacles and prescriptions for an uber low price of 14,98 euros. The
company has adopted an aggressive marketing campaign, using slogans such as
“Stop getting f*cked by the optical industry” and calling buyers of luxury
glasses “stupid” for paying higher prices.

Do you get what you pay for?

Whilst acetate frames may be generally inexpensive to produce, not all
cellulose acetate is created equal, either. The higher the quality, the
better the gloss and transparency. But pricing tiers are not solely based
on materials used and it is difficult to quantify the price of exceptional
design.

Whereas companies like Polette are keen to advertise the affordability
aspect of their products, the design factor and level of detail in their
collections cannot necessarily be compared to high-end players whose
products are founded on craft and innovation. There is a discernible
difference at product level between a pair of glasses cheap to produce,
minimally designed with affordable materials, and those at the higher end
of the spectrum, where detail, innovation and pricier materials come into
play. Comparing an inexpensive cotton t-shirt by H&M to a t-shirt made by
Louis Vuitton should have obvious qualitative differences. We’re all agreed
that not all cotton t-shirts are equal.

Yes, the eyewear market has been disrupted with new direct to consumer
brands, many of whom are rightly calling for more transparent pricing and
eradicating over-priced prescription models. Yet calling potential
customers ’stupid’ for choosing to buy a luxury brand is both offensive and
unwarranted. In the quest for exclusivity, not all shoppers are in the
market for low-cost.

Photo by FashionUnited

Spartak have the option to sign the former Bayer Leverkusen, Chelsea and Wolfsburg player permanently next year

Germany forward Andre Schurrle has joined Spartak Moscow on a season-long loan deal, his parent club Borussia Dortmund have announced.

Bundesliga giants Dortmund confirmed the agreement on Wednesday, meaning the 28-year-old will spend his second successive season away from the club.

Schurrle made 24 Premier League appearances for Fulham last season, scoring six goals.

Spartak have the option to sign the former Bayer Leverkusen, Chelsea and Wolfsburg player permanently next year, with the fee reportedly set at €6million .

Schurrle broke through at Mainz before his form with Leverkusen alerted the attention of Chelsea.

Jose Mourinho made Schurrle the first signing of his second stint at the club for a reported fee of £18m in 2013.

The attacker made 44 Premier League appearances for Chelsea before returning to Germany with Wolfsburg in 2015, though things have not really worked out since a subsequent move to Dortmund a year later.

He has played in 33 Bundesliga matches for Dortmund, scoring three goals.

Schurrle’s arrival will boost a Spartak side sitting 10th in the Russian Premier League after three matches.

The Muskovites will be hopeful he can make a greater contribution than the one he made last season at Cravan Cottage, where the German was unable to prevent the Cottagers sliding out of the Premier League after a dismal campaign.

Schurrle scored twice in the World Cup semi-final of 2014 as Germany crushed the hosts Brazil 7-1, notching his team’s last two goals as they landed one of the great World Cup shocks.

Click Here: liz claiborne perfume

The Leicester man will become the world’s most expensive defender once his £80m transfer is completed with the United boss confident it is nearly done

Harry Maguire’s move to Manchester United is likely to be completed “very soon” according to manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

The 26-year-old is set to become the world’s most expensive defender as he moves from Leicester, with an £80 million ($97m) fee agreed between the clubs.

He is thought to have been offered a six-year deal at Old Trafford, as Solskjaer looks to fix United’s long-term defensive shortcomings.

“Hopefully the last little details will be in place,” Solskjaer said in a press conference. “So hopefully we can announce something very soon.”

United are set for an intriguing start to their Premier League season, as they host Chelsea on August 11.

Victor Lindelof and Marcos Rojo started in the centre of defence in the pre-season penalty shoot-out win over AC Milan on Saturday, and fans will be hoping Maguire goes straight into the starting XI against the Blues.

“Let’s get the last details over the line,” Solskjaer added. “But yeah, he’s played a few games over the summer so we’ll have to assess him if and when.”

He is set to be an integral part of a new-look United back line, with Aaron Wan-Bissaka starting on the right and Luke Shaw and Lindelof likely to be the other preferred starters.

Swedish international Lindelof scored an own goal in Saturday’s game, but Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard found the net at the right end to earn a 2-2 draw.

New signing Daniel James bagged the winning spot-kick, and will be hoping he has done enough in pre-season to make the team against Chelsea. His winner ensured that United finished their pre-season campaign undefeated.

Paul Pogba wasn’t present for the game against Milan as he had a slight knock but Solskjaer added that he fully believes the midfielder wants to be at United, amid heavy interest from Real Madrid.

The transfer window will have closed before United get their season underway, and Solskjaer will doubtless be happy to focus entirely on matters on the pitch.

Fixtures with Wolves, Crystal Palace, Southampton and Leicester follow the Chelsea game, before their Europa League campaign gets underway in mid-September.

Click Here: jean paul gaultier perfume

Sustainability in the fashion industry is having a moment. Headlines are
calling for transparency, a growing demand for circular and ethical fashion
is gaining traction and there is momentum, even if they are baby steps,
towards a cleaner industry and greener planet.

Sustainability as a subject matter is at last getting the attention it
deserves. But if a collective conversation is happening from within the
industry itself, the brutal reality of factory workers is a far cry from
the words spoken by brands’ sustainability officers, who’s companies
continue to produce garments in factories where human and worker’s rights
are but a tacit agreement rarely enforced.

A report released this month on workers rights in Bangladesh revealed the
government and apparel factory owners are retaliating against workers who
are campaigning for a higher minimum wage, which was raised to 95 dollars a
month in December 2018, from an hourly wage of approximately 0.45 cents and
22 dollars per week.

Factory workers who make clothes for H&M and Mango subjected to
criminal charges

Since campaigning for higher wages last year, many workers have been
arrested and subjected to baseless criminal charges, “brought at the behest
of factories that supply brands like H&M, Mango, and Next. Factories
producing for these and other brands have fired as many as 11,600 workers
without legal justification, most of whom are unable to find other jobs due
to systematic blacklisting. Some factories have even hired thugs to
physically assault employees.”

The report, which was published by the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC),
eerily notes freedom of expression and association have become increasingly
stifled by Bangladesh’s Government in recent years. The Government, led by
the Awami League, has most notably used the Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) Act to arrest scores of civil society actors for
criticising governmental and political leaders, among others, in online
newspapers, on Facebook, and on other social media sites.

The response by government security forces was characterised by
indiscriminate use of physical force, in contravention of workers’ rights
of speech, assembly, and association as well as arrests of, and criminal
charges against, 65 workers were driven by demonstrably baseless complaints
from managers of 30 factories, producing for a long list of well-known
brands and retailers. The report iterates some workers were charged based
on alleged acts that took place miles away from their actual workplaces and
in which the workers cannot possibly have taken part.

Despite a focus on factory safety in Bangladesh following the Rana Plaza
disaster, workers rights have a long way to go. Factory owners were never
held meaningfully accountable for their role in the unlawful repression of
peaceful protest and assembly. Western brands and retailers continued to
pour business into Bangladesh; exports to the US, for example, have grown
19 percent in the last year.

How can brands remedy the harm done to workers?

The WRC asks all brands sourcing from Bangladesh to require all of their
suppliers to withdraw any criminal complaints they have filed in relation
to the recent protests (as well as any remaining criminal complaints
against workers; reinstate and provide back wages to all workers terminated
or forced to resign in the wake of the protests; and commit to a
nondiscriminatory hiring process, designed to end the blacklisting of
workers based in their involvement in the protests.

Based in Washington, USA, the WRC conducts independent, in-depth
investigations, issues public reports on factories producing for major
brands; and aids workers at these factories in their efforts to end labor
abuses and defend their workplace rights.