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Paul Seixas dans les bras de Nicolas Prodhomme  après sa victoire sur le Tour de Lombardie hier. À l’image de Nicolas Prodhomme, coéquipiers et membres du staff étaient admiratifs d’un Paul Seixas qui a tenu à partager son succès avec eux. "On se disait : « C’est bizarre, il aurait pu être champion d’Europe. »  Mais il vaut mieux gagner le Lombardie. Surtout de cette manière"    - ALEX BAUDIN (EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST),        COÉQUIPIER DE SEIXAS EN ÉQUIPE DE FRANCE  ”J’en parle comme si j’avais gagné (rires)"    -   ANTOINE L’HÔTE,  COÉQUIPIER  DE SEIXAS       CHEZ DECATHLON-CMA CGM 11 Oct 2026 - L'Équipe YOHANN HAUTBOIS et PIERRE MENJOT CÔME (ITA) – Au contraste de la violence de la course et des ombres qui ont découpé Côme, en fin d’après-midi, ont succédé une lumière cuivrée et une ambiance indolente le long du lac où les dernières élégantes étiraient un peu la journée avant que les bateaux ne le...

Daniel Chesterton/ Offside/Offside via Getty Images Jubilation:  The PIF-led takeover five years ago was met with joy and relief by many Newcastle United fans. Fans danced in the streets after PIF took over from Mike Ashley, but the future at St James’ Park looks as uncertain as ever, writes Greg Lea 11 Oct 2026 - THE OBSERVER / Sport Greg Lea They flocked in their thousands to St James’ Park, that hallowed cathedral on the hill, a sea of black and white. Some wore thawbs and shemaghs, traditional Saudi dress; others waved the Gulf state’s flag. Truer to local form, still others were shirtless, answering the rallying cry on social media – #cans – with gusto. It was 7 October 2021 and Newcastle United fans had something to celebrate. Their club was in the relegation zone but it did not matter. Not right now. Newcastle had been bought by a consortium dominated by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), ending Mike Ashley’s miserable 14-year tenure. (Sports Direct signs were soon...

Ceci n’est pas defeat. The significance of today’s result remains to be seen – but for a different reason than in past seasons, writes Rory Smith 11 Oct 2026 - THE OBSERVER / Sport Rory Smith Manchester City’s fans will know, so far as it is possible to know, what is coming. They have, after all, been amply forewarned. Their club might continue to perform its defiance, to insist on its innocence, to protest long and loud and with the slightly odd support of the prime minister that the legal process is not yet over, that it will – eventually – be exonerated, vindicated, avenged.Mark Leach/Offside/ Getty Images Banana drama: City fan groups are encouraging supporters to brandish the inflatable fruit as they did in the 1980s, as a reminder of the club’s history. The fans, though, will be well aware that the wholly informal court of public opinion works much more swiftly and much less subtly than that. A verdict, conclusive and indissoluble, was reached two weeks ago. A sentence has alread...

Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/GettyPoint taken:  Liverpool fans welcome City to Anfield in 2019. League football is back, but the Sunday narcotic of watching two of England’s best teams go head-to-head won’t cut it this week. There’ s no chance ‘sham City’ verdict will be put aside to focus on the game at Anfield ‘The real business isn’t the game.  It’s the mass awakening to an illusion,  unfairly won trophies’ 11 Oct 2026 The Observer - Sport The English Sunday has evolved over a century from religious observance, enforced rest, closed shops and Sunday roasts to mass consumerism and huge leisure gatherings. Central to what it is now is not Songs of Praise  (*) but the sensory onslaught of the Premier League’s biggest games. On any normal weekend Liverpool vs Manchester City would be the fountainhead of fun, via a TV subscription or screens in pubs: a vastly commercial but also communal happening. Reaction would ping around the digisphere. Afterwards the league table woul...

Dans la montée de San Fermo della Battaglia, Paul Seixas, seul,  bouche ouverte au milieu des tifosi en folie,  fonce vers l’exploit : enlever le Tour de Lombardie, à 20 ans. SEIXASSIONNEL ! À l’attaque à 19 km de l’arrivée, Paul Seixas s’est offert à Côme, en Italie, son premier Monument à 20 ans. Il est devenu le plus jeune vainqueur de l’épreuve créée en 1905. Historique. Paul Seixas a remporté la plus grande victoire de sa carrière, hier, au Tour de Lombardie, où il a démantelé la concurrence pour boucler une saison remarquable, à tout juste 20 ans. 11 Oct 2026 - L'Équipe DE NOTRE ENVOYÉSPÉCIAL ALEXANDRE ROOS CÔME (ITA) – On s’est tout de même demandé ce qu’il faisait quand, à un peu plus de 19 km de l’arrivée, dans le mur du Civiglio, il a pris la tête du groupe, alors que quasiment tous les favoris s’y trouvaient encore, sans attaquer de manière visible, sans se mettre en danseuse. La folie était-elle en train de l’emporter, car derrière lui le paquet était encore épais,...