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The PGMOL have "strongly refuted" claims from former Premier League referee Mike Dean after he confessed to failing to alert Anthony Taylor to Cristian Romero's hair pull on Marc Cucurella last season. Dean claimed on William Hill’s Up Front with Simon Jordan podcast that he didn't refer referee Taylor to the VAR monitor during Chelsea's dramatic 2-2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge in order to protect his "mate" from receiving further "grief". Argentine defender Romero wrestled Cucurella down by the hair moments before Harry Kane scored a dramatic stoppage-time equaliser for Spurs. But despite television pictures clearly showing what had happened, Taylor, who did not see the incident, was not advised by Dean to head over to the VAR monitor, with the now-retired referee not wanting to subject Taylor to further scrutiny because the game had already been feisty enough. “I missed the stupid hair pull at Chelsea versus Tottenham wh...

Russia claims it has won control of Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut after a grinding nine-month conflict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died KYIV, Ukraine -- Although Russia claim s it has won control of Ukraine's eastern city of Bakhmut, after a grinding nine-month co NFL ict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died, top Ukrainian Military leaders say the battle is not over. Ukrainian officials acknowledge they now control only a small part of Bakhmut. But, Ukraine says, their fighters' presence has played a key role in their strategy of exhausting the Russian military. And they say their current positions in the areas surrounding Bakhmut will let them strike back inside the 400-year-old city. “Despite the fact that we now control a small part of Bakhmut, the importance of its defense does not lose its relevance,” said Col.-Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of ground forces for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “This gives us the opportunity to enter t...