Thanks for reading today. Time to wrap up here, but I’ll leave you with some required reading in the run-up to an excellent-sounding weekend. Have a good one!
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Unexpected Sebastian Coe content: Lord Coe, the World Athletics president, apparently has time to chair a taskforce to look into a new stadium for Manchester United.
Coe said: “Throughout my career in sport, I have seen the potential for stadiums to become focal points for strong communities and catalysts for social and economic development.
“That was certainly true of the venues we built in east London for the 2012 Olympics, and we are overdue a project of similar scale and ambition in the north of England. I am honoured to have this opportunity to share my experience in support of this tremendously exciting project.”
I swear to God it feels like 10 minutes ago that he pulled out of the 800m final at the Commonwealth Games.
Jamie Jackson reports …
