data-mm-id=”_qzd3k8x0c”>Emotions are raw in the Bay Area with the Oakland A's playing their final homestand at the Oakland Coliseum, the franchise's home since 1968.Next season, the A's will relocate to Sacramento's Sutter Health Park, a minor-league ballpark that's being upgraded to MLB standards while a new permanent home is being built in Las Vegas.RELATED: Jerry Reinsdorf ripped for White Sox's disastrous season in scathing reportNews of the team's decision to leave Oakland hit A's fans like a ton of bricks last year, after owner John Fisher abruptly ended the team's involvement in Oakland's Howard Terminal waterfront stadium plans and pursued a Vegas move backed by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.The sad end to Oakland's decades-long stadium saga with the A's has left fans jaded by professional sports' endless greed. While local politicians have received their share of the blame, Fisher has bore the brunt of the criticism.The billionaire's most famous critic happens to be the lead singer of an iconic rock band who grew up rooting for the A's. On Friday night, Billie Joe Armstrong, the front man of Green Day, continued to publicly blast Fisher during a hometown stop of "The Saviors Tour" at San Francisco's Oracle Park.While expressing his East Bay pride, Armstrong derided Fisher for abandoning Oakland for Vegas."This is a very special night. Tonight, we are home," Armstrong said amid cheers. "Green Day, we are from the Bay Area. We live the Bay Area. We smell the Bay Area. We are the (oil) refineries. We are that cold bay. We are the mud that lives under there."This is us. We are East Bay. East Bay for life. Forever. Green Day, East Bay, forever," Armstrong declared to more cheers. "We don't take no s— from people like John f—ing Fisher, who sold out the Oakland A's to Las f—ing Vegas. I f—ing hate Las Vegas. It's the worst s—hole in America."LETS GO @billiejoe!!! pic.twitter.com/LqOQBiTCR6— Gabriel Hernandez (@gamer_athletics) September 21, 2024Armstrong's protests don't just come in the form of on-stage rants.During Green Day's tour across North America, Armstrong has spray-painted a "B" over the A's logo at MLB stadiums where the band has played in a sign of solidarity for Oakland's new independent baseball team, the Oakland Ballers, who play in West Oakland's historic Raimondi Park. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Billie Joe (@billiejoearmstrong)After Saturday, the A's have only four games left at the Coliseum. The end of an era probably won't stop Armstrong from ripping the owner who's ditching the club's 57-year history in Oakland.MORE TOP STORIES FROM THE BIG LEADCFB: Everyone on X is paying attention to…Cal?!MLB: How much is Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run ball worth?NFL/FANTASY: Justin Herbert’s status in questionSPORTS MEDIA: Candidates to replace Woj as ESPN’s NBA Insider
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Nottingham Forest have issued another statement speaking out about what they think is only right amid reports they may sue Gary Neville for speaking out about what he thinks is only right.
Forest, who owe their Premier League place in no small part to and laughingly celebrated the fact at the time, are extremely upset that the same VAR system turns out not to have been on their side in perpetuity.
Gary Neville fails to get memo about never saying anything mean about Nottingham Forest
The club were upset that three decisions went against them in their two-goal defeat to Everton, in which they bravely and nobly conceded twice to a team that had scored twice on just one other occasion since the middle of December.
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It came as a surprise to football finance expert Kieran Maguire that Liverpool voted in favour of new Premier League anchoring regulations that could weaken both Man Utd and Man City.
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It is understood that clubs voted on Monday to progress to the final stages of a legal and economic analysis of anchoring – a principle which would potentially limit expenditure on things like player wages, plus agents’ fees and transfer amortisation costs, by capping them as a multiple of the central Premier League revenues going to the bottom club.
The intention of anchoring is to keep the league competitive by preventing the richest clubs dominating, with Man Utd and Man City understood to have voted against it.
Aston Villa are also reported to have voted against, …
Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe doesn t think that Arsenal transfer target Bruno Guimaraes was waving goodbye to fans on Sunday.
The Brazilian has been brilliant for the Magpies since joining in January 2022 from Lyon in a deal worth up to a reported £40m.
Guimaraes has contributed seven goals and eight assists in his 37 Premier League appearances this campaign and his performances for Newcastle have drawn interest from elsewhere.
Speaking in April, transfer expert Fabrizio Romano revealed that Guimaraes does have a £100m release clause in his contract but that it s only valid for a short window.
Romano wrote on X: Bruno Guimarães’ release clause will be valid from the last week of May to the beginning of the last week of June. £100m release cl…
Man Utd captain Bruno Fernandes has voiced his concerns over the future of the club to the Red Devils hierarchy with a summer move to Bayern Munich not impossible , according to a transfer insider.
Speaking in early May, Fernandes made some ambiguous comments about his future at Old Trafford with the Portugal international seeming to suggest that a transfer away from was a possibility.
Fernandes said: Obviously, it doesn’t just depend on me, does it?
A player always has to want to be here, but at the same time, you have to want him to stay. At the moment, I feel there’s that on both sides.
I’m not thinking too much about the future, not least because, obviously, this season hasn’t been at the level I’d hoped for, either individually or col…