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Leicester have sacked supervisor Willie Kirk after an investigation into an alleged relationship with a participant. The Guardian revealed on 8 March that Kirk had been suspended whereas the membership carried out an investigation into an alleged relationship with considered one of his squad members. Fast Information How do I join sport breaking information alerts? Present Obtain the Guardian app from the iOS App Retailer on iPhone or the Google Play retailer on Android by looking for ‘The Guardian’. If you have already got the Guardian app, be sure to’re on the latest model. Within the Guardian app, faucet the Menu button on the backside proper, then go to Settings (the gear icon), then Notifications. Activate sport notifications. Thanks to your suggestions. The supervisor was then absent from the workforce’s 2-0 defeat of Liverpool, which earned the a spot within the FA Cup semi-finals, the place they’ll play Tottenham, with the assistant supervisor, Jennifer Foster, and first-team coach, Stephen Kirby, taking cost. They’ve since misplaced the 2 leagues they’ve performed, in opposition to Tottenham and Brighton. The 45-year-old Kirk joined Leicester as director of soccer in July 2022 and have become supervisor after the departure…

Nigeria defender Ashleigh Plumptre has change into one probably the most excessive profile ladies’s gamers to hitch a Saudia Arabian aspect after signing for Al-Ittihad. The 25-year-old joins the Saudi Girls’s Premier League workforce following three years with WSL aspect Leicester Metropolis. With many overtly homosexual gamers in ladies’s soccer and very restrictive rights for girls and homosexuality being unlawful in Saudi Arabia, the transfer and the nation’s rising curiosity in ladies’s soccer is controversial. Plumptre has been recruited by the previous technical director of Championship aspect Lewes, Kelly Lindsey, who’s now head supervisor of the Saudi Arabian aspect. Lindsey is a former US worldwide who has beforehand been head coach of the Afghanistan ladies’s nationwide workforce and Morocco ladies’s nationwide workforce. Her assistant, Myles Smith, spent six years working in West Ham Girls’s arrange and 9 months as a scout for Manchester United Girls and the workforce’s goalkeeping coach, Dan Smith, joined from newly promoted Bristol Metropolis. Plumptre posted on X (previously Twitter) that she was “grateful to have signed for Al-Ittihad.” She added: “I’m excited to begin this journey alongside some unimaginable human beings. My journey of moving into extra of myself continues…