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Three people have died after falling while climbing Alaska’s Mount McKinley, according to officials. A fourth climber has been rescued.
The four were part of a seven-person group that had traveled to the United States to ascend Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, North America’s tallest mountain, according to information released by the Latvian Mountaineering Association.
The case was a grim reminder of how common injuriesandaccidents can be on the peak, which rises to 20,310ft (6,190 meters).
The climbers were injured after taking a fall at Denali Pass on Wednesday, the National Park Service said in a statement a day later.
Three of the climbers returned to camp after the accident. But weather conditions on the mountain did not immediately enable the service to respond by helicopter.
On Friday, the park service announced that it had rescued one climber on Thursday afternoon using “a long-line extraction” after “a high-altitude helicopter was unable to land” due to terrain and conditions at the site. The climber was transported to a base camp and then airlifted to a hospital.
In a brief statement, it added that “operations for the three remaining climbers have transitioned from a search and rescue mission to a recovery effort”.
The park service does not release details about fatalities until 72 hours after the next-of-kin have been notified. But the Latvian Mountaineering Association shared a tribute to their friends on its website.
“It is with the deepest sadness that we announce that three of our friends, talented and experienced climbers, have lost their lives on the icy slopes of this mountain: Inese Pučeka, Vija Olte, and Renārs Kunigs-Salaks,” the association said in a statement. “Mārtiņš Bilzēns was also injured in the accident and was evacuated in critical condition and transferred to the care of US medical personnel.”
The climbing season on Mount McKinley typically begins in late April and continues through mid-July. The National Park Service offers extensive guidelines for planning a summit as accidents remain common on the peak.
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Videos show Indonesia’s Mount Merapi spewing a column of ash around 2 kilometres high in West Sumatra’s Tanh Datar District. Authorities have enforced an “exclusion zone” within a 3-kilometre radius around Mount Merapi since an eruption in 2023.
On Sunday, voters in the South American country of Colombia are facing a choice.
Four years ago, they elected the first left-wing president in the country’s modern history, Gustavo Petro. Now, they must decide whether to continue with Petro’s leftist push — or restore the political right to power.
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Fourteen candidates will be on the ballot for the first round of voting in Colombia’s presidential election. The packed field includes contenders from the left, right and centre, who are slated to face off over issues like security and the cost of living.
But Petro will not be among them: Presidents in Colombia are limited to a single four-year term.
The right wing is expected to have the advantage, particularly if the race proceeds to a second round. Petro is struggling with low poll numbers, and voters have expressed frustration with crime and violence, driven in part by the country’s six-decade-long internal conflict.
But leftist candidate Ivan Cepeda has surprised observers, consistently placing at the top of the polls ahead of the first round.
When is the election, who are the candidates, and which issues are top of mind for voters? We look at those questions and more in this brief explainer.
When is the election?
The first round of voting is set to take place on May 31, 2026.
Will there be a second round of voting?
A candidate would need to win more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round to avoid a run-off.
If no single candidate meets that threshold, a run-off will be held between the top two finishers on June 21.
Why is this election important?
In recent years, across Latin America, long-entrenched left-wing governments have met defeat at the ballot box.
Last year alone, right-wing candidates have been elected to replace left-wing presidents in Bolivia, Chile and Honduras.
But Colombia does not have a long history of left-wing presidents. Petro was the first. That makes this race one to watch, according to Gimena Sanchez, a Colombia expert at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), a human rights nonprofit.
“This is the first election to be held after the first-ever leftist administration in Colombia’s 200-year history,” Sanchez explained.
Colombia now stands at a fork in the road. One of the dominant issues in the election is how to resolve the country’s internal conflict, which forced more than 235,619 individuals from their homes in 2025.
Another 87,069 people were caught up in mass displacement events due to the fighting, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Petro has embraced negotiation as a tool to end the conflict, which has seen government forces, criminal networks, left-wing rebels and right-wing paramilitaries all battling one another.
But the political right has advocated a return to the more militarised approach backed by the United States, according to Sanchez.
“The leading candidates fall into two camps: continuity with the leftist government of Petro and an approach to security that focuses on negotiations with armed groups, and right-wing candidates who very much want to go back to a hardline security model that Colombia had in the past,” Sanchez said.
“You have polar opposite visions for the country.”
Who is the main candidate on the left?
Senator Ivan Cepeda has emerged as the primary candidate of the political left, running as the head of the governing coalition, known as Historic Pact.
Cepeda has largely pledged continuity with Petro’s platform, including social and economic policies meant to reduce inequality.
He has also embraced Petro’s “Total Peace” approach, which aims to resolve the country’s internal fighting by negotiating with armed groups and criminal networks, as opposed to solely relying on military force.
Confronting state-backed violence has become a hallmark of Cepeda’s life and career.
His father, who was also a senator, is believed to have been assassinated by a government-backed paramilitary. For years, Cepeda was also embroiled in a legal battle for accusing former President Alvaro Uribe of connections to right-wing paramilitaries.
Presidential candidate Ivan Cepeda speaks to supporters during his final campaign rally in Barranquilla, Colombia, on May 24 [Vanessa Romero/AFP]
Who are the main candidates on the right?
While Cepeda has become the standard-bearer for the left, the political right has had to contend with a more fractured field of candidates.
Running on the far right is Abelardo de la Espriella, a lawyer for the Defenders of the Homeland Party who has generated comparisons with Salvadoran President Salvador Bukele and Argentina’s Javier Milei.
Like those leaders, de la Espriella has offered a hardline vision for his country’s security. If elected, he says he would end negotiations with armed groups, bomb rebel camps, and resume the aerial fumigation of coca crops, which produce the raw material for cocaine.
Senator Paloma Valencia, a candidate with the Democratic Centre Party, is running as a more moderate alternative to de la Espriella. She too has promised a stricter approach to crime. Her platform involves expanding the police and armed forces, while cutting taxes and promoting pro-business policies in the economic realm.
Their election-season competition has become a source of acrimony for Valencia and de la Espriella, who have accused each other of paving the way for a leftist election victory.
“There is a more familiar, establishment right, represented by Valencia, and a far right in the form of de la Espriella, who pitches himself as an outsider,” said Sanchez.
Valencia, for her part, has criticised de la Espriella as two-faced, defending criminals in his legal practice but advocating for tighter security on the campaign trail.
De la Espriella, meanwhile, has dismissed Valencia as a member of the country’s political establishment and chided her in a social media post, stating that the presidential election is “not for little games”.
Paloma Valencia of the Democratic Centre Party speaks to supporters during her final campaign rally in Bogota on May 24 [Raul Arboleda/AFP]
What are the polls saying?
Polls generally show Cepeda ahead of his rivals, with de la Espriella in second place and Valencia in third.
A May 24 poll from the National Consulting Centre (CNC) and the publication Cambio suggested that Cepeda had drawn 33.4 percent of voter support, the most of any candidate.
But de la Espriella was on the upswing with 30.9 percent. Valencia, meanwhile, trailed with 12.6 percent.
The same surveys, however, suggest that Cepeda would struggle to win a run-off against either of the two right-wing candidates, with de la Espriella eking out about three points in a head-to-head contest, and Valencia coming within a percentage point of victory.
Undecided voters could play a key role in deciding the outcome, though. An analysis cited by the Spanish paper El Pais estimates that undecided voters could account for as much as 28 percent of the electorate.
Presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, of the Defensores de la Patria party, speaks behind bulletproof glass during his closing campaign rally in Medellin, Colombia, on May 24, 2026 [Jaime Saldarriaga/AFP]
Which issues are front and centre?
Concerns over crime, security and economic issues like unemployment and affordability have dominated the election.
In a poll from the firm Invamer, the highest proportion of voters — 37 percent — identified security as the top issue facing the country.
Basic needs and unemployment ranked second and third, with 17 percent and 16 percent, respectively. Eleven percent of voters, meanwhile, named corruption as a leading concern.
The threat of violence has lingered over the presidential campaign over the past year.
Two political staffers with de la Espriella’s campaign were killed by gunmen on motorbikes earlier this month. And in June 2025, presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot while leaving a campaign rally. The 39-year-old died two months later from his injuries.
Political violence is a serious concern in Colombia, and all of the frontrunners in the race travel with heavy security.
When you ask any college football fan worth their salt which season was the craziest one they can remember, most of them will answer “2007” without hesitation.
And who could blame them? After all, it was a year that featured one of the most shocking upsets in college football history, with Appalachian State stunning Michigan in the Big House, and that was just the appetizer.
In all, 62 ranked teams lost to lower ranked or completely unranked squads in 2007, and teams ranked No. 2 in one of the three major polls lost seven times in the final nine weeks of the season.
But for a year that featured such unpredictable chaos, it sure ended predictably, with two powerhouses from the SEC and Big Ten battling it out for a national championship in New Orleans.
But what if I told you we almost had another, completely zany ending that would have represented the perfect bow on top of an already out-of-this-world season of college football, culminating in a first-time national champion being crowned?
The West Virginia Mountaineers logo is displayed on a helmet during the Guaranteed Rate Bowl college football game against the Minnesota Golden Gophers at Chase Field in Phoenix, Ariz., on Dec. 28, 2021.(Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire)
Though the Mountaineers don’t have a national championship banner to their name, they came shockingly close in ’07 and will always be remembered as one of the biggest “what if” stories in the sport’s history.
To understand just how good this West Virginia team was, we have to look at the program as a whole in the mid-to-late 2000s.
Head coach Rich Rodriguez spent his first few seasons in Morgantown implementing his culture and, perhaps more importantly, his spread-option offense.
By the end of his fourth season in 2004, the Mountaineers had captured a pair of Big East co-championships and were looking to be the team to fill the power vacuum left by Miami after they packed their bags and headed to the ACC prior to the start of the season.
Then 2005 happened, and it put everyone in both the Big East and the country on notice.
The Mountaineers went 11-1 that season and shocked SEC champion Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, doing so with a dazzling offensive display led by lightning bug dual-threat quarterback Pat White.
The following year, West Virginia won 11 games again, finishing in the top ten of the final AP Poll for the second season in a row.
A West Virginia Mountaineers player holds up his helmet before the team takes the field against the University of Pittsburgh Panthers during the 2011 Backyard Brawl on Nov. 25, 2011, at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, W.Va.(Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
All of that is why, heading into 2007, the Mountaineers were considered serious threats to win a national championship, carrying a top-five ranking into the first game of the season.
Even after an early road loss to a ranked South Florida (one of the teams who fell victim to the dreaded “curse of number two” after climbing to the penultimate spot in the BCS rankings halfway through the season), West Virginia had a legitimate shot to play for a title amid all the chaos around the country.
This team was a laser light show on offense, once again being orchestrated by Pat White, who was the perfect conductor in Rodriguez’s spread system. Joining him in the backfield were sensational running backs Steve Slaton and Noel Devine, as well as bruising fullback Owen Schmitt.
Together, this four-headed monster gave the Mountaineers one of the most feared rushing units in the nation, and the offensive statistics back those claims up.
West Virginia was scoring nearly 40 points per game in 2007, good for ninth-best in the country, and was top five in yards per play as well as boasting the best yards per play average in America (6.2 yards per rush).
All told, when this offense was clicking, no one could stop them.
They were bludgeoning teams all throughout the year and showed no signs of slowing down as the end of the season was drawing near.
So, what happened?
Heading into the final week of the season, the Mountaineers were ranked second in the BCS polls (uh oh), and were even No. 1 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. All West Virginia had to do was dispatch their lowly rivals, the Pittsburgh Panthers, in The Backyard Brawl and they were guaranteed a spot in the title game.
Pitt was having an abhorrent season, sitting at 4-7 and playing for nothing but pride after being eliminated from bowl game consideration the week prior.
Vegas didn’t think much of the matchup, either, as they made the Panthers a 28-point road underdog.
Easy money, right?
Well, remember what I said about “the curse of number two?”
The inexplicable voodoo of 2007 reared its ugly head once again on a cold, December night in Morgantown as the Mountaineers were held to just 183 yards of total offense, turning the ball over five times and even missing two chip-shot field goals in the process.
By the time the dust had settled, the now-infamous scoreline of 13-9 flashed on the JumboTron, and West Virginia had effectively played themselves out of title contention.
What makes this pill even harder to swallow for Mountaineer fans is that their team would go on to absolutely demolish a top-five Oklahoma Sooners squad in the Fiesta Bowl the following month, further fueling the “what if” storyline.
West Virginia football head coach Rich Rodriguez is in action during the second quarter of a game against Texas Tech at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, W. Va., on Nov. 29, 2025.(Brien Aho/Getty Images)
After the season, Rodriguez left what he had built in the Mountain State for the greener pastures of Ann Arbor.
It didn’t work out for the offensive innovator, though, as he was never able to replicate the success he found while coaching the Mountaineers.
As for West Virginia, they haven’t gotten this close to a title since.
This story has somewhat of a happy ending, though, as both West Virginia and Rich Rodriguez may have realized they needed each other more than they were previously ready to admit, and were reunited in 2025.
The 2007 season will always be one of the wackiest in the long and storied history of college football, but for one fanbase, it represents an agonizingly close call with destiny.
The pre-playoff days of college football were brutal and unforgiving, and no one knows that better than fans of the West Virginia Mountaineers in 2007.
My hope is that they are remembered not as a footnote in the history of the sport, but as a potential budding dynasty that never was; cut down in its prime during one of the most exciting eras of college football.
It’s stories like these that made the sport so special back then.
“The View” co-host Joy Behar addressed her upcoming extended break from the daytime talk show, clarifying on Friday that it should not be called a “hiatus.”
Joy Behar initially announced on Tuesday, during the show’s “Behind the Table” podcast, that she would be taking some time off from her hosting duties. The show’s producer, Brian Teta, said during the podcast, “This is your last podcast for a little bit, because next week you’re not going to be here.”
Behar addressed the rumors on Friday about her upcoming break and cleared the air as she plugged her upcoming play.
Joy Behar clarified that her upcoming break from the show will not be a hiatus, but a two-week trip for her upcoming show in London.(Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)
“Okay, so there’s been a lot of media attention on me lately because I’m taking off the next two weeks. They’re calling it a hiatus. It’s not a hiatus,” she said. “I’m working. I have a planned trip overseas next week to work on my play, ‘My First Ex-Husband,’ in London.”
As the audience cheered, she encouraged viewers to check out the official website for her play “to find out where else you can see that play and others.”
“I’ve written a bunch of plays,” she said, noting she will be doing another one in the Hamptons at the end of summer called “Bonkers in the Boroughs.”
Joy Behar’s upcoming show will reportedly be an “adaptation of true stories” about romance.(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)
“I love that they’re calling it a hiatus,” co-host Sara Haines said. “That’s a break, people, when you stop working.”
“Are you going to miss me?” Behar asked her co-hosts.
“We are going to miss you,” multiple co-hosts replied, and Haines suggested that Behar could still text them the jokes she would like to contribute from afar.
According to the website, her play “My First Ex-Husband” is “a bold and heartfelt adaptation of true stories by the legendary Joy Behar, comedienne and co-host of ‘The View.’ With razor-sharp wit and no filters, it explores the messy, hilarious truths of love, sex, and relationships.”
The website added that, “A rotating cast of stars from theatre, television and film join the show, brings their unique personalities to tell these tales that may be eerily familiar.”
The NBA had its wishes granted. I suppose, to a lesser extent, we all did as well. There haven’t been many great series outside of the first round of the NBA playoffs, but we did at least get a great one between the Spurs and the Thunder, who now have Game 7 to determine their fate.
The San Antonio Spurs aren’t supposed to be doing this. There is no lack of talent, but teams are supposed to struggle before they succeed. The Bulls failed multiple times before climbing to the top and never looking back. The Heat with LeBron dropped the first championship attempt. That doesn’t mean if San Antonio wins this game, the team will win a championship, but even pushing the defending champs to the brink is impressive.
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama shoots against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first half of Game 6 in the Western Conference finals NBA playoffs in San Antonio on May 28, 2026.(David J. Phillip/AP)
To further this point, let’s look at the roster and the coach. Head coach Mitch Johnson never coached a team before this. Sure, Greg Popovich is still “around” and tutored him. The oldest guy getting key minutes on the roster is 33 years old (Harrison Barnes). Victor Wembanyama is 22 years old and in his third season. De’Aaron Fox is 28, Keldon Johnson is 26, Devin Vassell is 25, Julian Champagnie is 24, Stephon Castle is 21 and Dylan Harper is 20. That is a ton of young talent — and talent that has all worked out.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have been here before. The Indiana Pacers, a team I would consider worse than this Spurs team, took them to seven games last year. This year, they walked through the first two rounds of the playoffs, and now they are struggling against this physical, hungry and talented Spurs team. The Thunder, however, are one of the few teams that match up well and have an equally young core. They also have the championship belt currently, and until it is taken away from them, you have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama moves against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second half of Game 5 in the Western Conference finals NBA playoffs in Oklahoma City on May 26, 2026.(Gerald Leong/AP)
Their team has exactly two people on the roster older than 30, Alex Caruso and Kenrich Williams. Caruso has made a major impact this season, and even Williams has been beneficial in stretches. The rest of the core for the Thunder is 27 or younger. I should note that Isaiah Hartenstein is 28 years old. Their ages have little to do with a Game 7, but my guess is this is not the last time we will see these two teams playing in a high-stakes scenario.
Age doesn’t matter much, but experience does. I know that the Spurs are well coached. They have a freak of nature on their roster, and they have some really great players. They are going to be a problem for the rest of the league for as long as they can keep the group together. Wembanyama is not just possibly, but I’d say likely, to become the best player in basketball history.
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander shoots as San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama defends during the third quarter of game two in the Western Conference finals at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City on May 20, 2026.(Brett Rojo/Imagn Images)
That could take a giant leap forward if he wins this game tonight. Unfortunately for him, I don’t see that happening tonight. I like the Spurs and what they have together, but there are very few teams that leapfrog like this. They need to learn to win. The Thunder are at home, and they’ve been here before. The Spurs are on the road, have a lot of guys going through this the first time, and ultimately need an all-time performance from Wembanyama to get the win. Give me the Thunder -3.5.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. are officially parting ways with their Los Angeles home.
The longtime celebrity couple has placed their family home in Brentwood on the market for $10.5 million, in partnership with listing agent, Cindy Ambuehl of Christie’s International Real Estate Southern California.
Originally built in 2006, the home features 7,318-square-feet of living space, including five bedrooms and six bathrooms, as well as common areas including a chef’s kitchen with a breakfast nook, dining room and living room with seamless indoor/outdoor living.
In addition, the home features a dedicated office space, as well as a bonus room which the famous couple utilizes as a playroom for their two children.
The celebrity couple are selling their home in Brentwood for $10.5 million.(Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Knott’s Scary Farm; Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
Outside, guests will find picturesque landscaping, a resort-style swimming pool, and an outdoor kitchen and multiple lounge areas.
Gellar and Prinze Jr. first met on set while filming the 1997 movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer” but didn’t start dating until 2000. After one year of dating, the couple announced their engagement in April 2001.
The home features 7,318-square-feet of living space.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
The home also features a dedicated home office with a fireplace.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
The couple tied the knot in 2002 and celebrated 23 years of marriage in September 2025. She recently spilled her secret to a successful marriage.
“One bedroom, two bathrooms,” Gellar told People magazine in March 2026. “You don’t have to be so fancy that there’s two bathrooms in your bedroom! There just has to be another bathroom available.
The dining room features enough space to fit a table big enough for ten diners.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
The spacious living room features a fireplace, television, access to the backyard and a breakfast nook in the corner.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
During a recent interview with People in March, Gellar discussed her decision to step away from acting for almost 10 years, noting she felt she was “so defined by my work and my career” that she needed to step back.
“I had my second child. I was on ‘The Crazy Ones.’ Robin [Williams] passed away,” she told People in an interview cover story. “And then I just … I think my world shifted. It was this moment of, ‘Holy s—, things change in a moment.’ For the first time I wanted a break, and I had never wanted a break before.”
The kitchen has a large center eat-in island and all-white cabinets.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
A second sitting room features a fireplace and a piano.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
Gellar got her big break in acting at 16 years old on “All My Children” and later became a household name starring in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Cruel Intentions,” “Scooby-Doo” and its sequel.
After starring in “The Crazy Ones” with Williams in 2014, she largely stepped away from major TV and film projects, noting, “I’m so glad that I did, because it’s time I can never get back with my kids.”
Also included in the house is a bonus room which is being used as a gym.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
The home includes another spare room, which is currently being used as a game room.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
Her big return to the acting world was in the 2022 Netflix movie, “Do Revenge.” She followed that up with roles in “Wolf Pack,” “Dexter: Original Sin” and “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.”
Fans got excited when she announced a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot in February 2025, with Academy Award-winning director, Chloé Zhao, directing the first episode.
The primary bedroom features a private balcony overlooking the backyard and a fireplace.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
The backyard features a large swimming pool and a grassy area.(Cristiano Cruzio / Cruzio Studios)
The reboot, titled “Buffy: New Sunnydale,” was going to see Gellar reprise her role as Buffy, but would follow the story of a new slayer, but the actress announced in March 2026 that Hulu had shelved the reboot.
“We had an executive on our show who was not only not a fan of the original, but was proud to constantly remind us that he had never seen the entirety of the series and how it wasn’t for him,” Gellar told People in March.
“That’s very hard when you’re taking a property that is as beloved as ‘Buffy,’ not just to the world, but to me and Chloé. So that tells you the uphill battle that we had been fighting since day one, when your executive is literally proud to tell you that he didn’t watch it.”
Gellar got her big break playing the titular character in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”(Getty Images)
Raheem Sterling has been made to feel “disposable” after a decade at the top of football, a source close to the former England star has said, after his arrest on suspicion of driving “whilst unfit through drugs”.
The source said the former Man City and Chelsea winger, who is now playing for Feyenoord in the Netherlands, had been suffering from “immeasurable” psychological strain after an “extremely tough couple of years”.
It came after the 31-year-old was arrested on Thursday morning by Hampshire constabulary while driving a Lamborghini on the southbound carriageway of the M3 motorway.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the force said: “Just before 9am on Thursday (28 May), we received reports that a Lamborghini was in collision with barriers on the M3 southbound, close to the Minley Interchange.
“No other vehicles were involved and no injuries were reported.
“The driver, a 31-year-old man from Berkshire, has been arrested on suspicion of driving a vehicle whilst unfit through drugs, driving dangerously, possession of a class C drug and failing to provide a specimen.
“He has been bailed while our inquiries continue.”
Sterling has faced racist abuse throughout his career and has accused the media of helping to “fuel racism” through negative, unfairly critical coverage of black footballers compared with white players. The winger departed Chelsea by mutual consent in January after a performance that was widely deemed as disappointing. Sterling had 18 months left on a deal worth £325,000 a week.
PA Media approached Sterling’s representatives for comment. A source confirmed the arrest and said: “[This] brings into the spotlight modern treatment of players who are no longer ‘fit for purpose’ – disposable.
“How a prolific English international who has steered the England squad to significant heights over the last decade has been made to feel worthless – forgotten about.
“The psychological strain that has put on him is immeasurable. Isolated. The second he touches a ball, being told he’s a flop and he’s finished. Mocked. Heckled.
“He moved to the Netherlands to escape and rediscover his love for the game but the negativity followed. It’s been an extremely tough couple of years for him and this incident encompasses that.”
The source said they also wanted to emphasise Sterling had been arrested “under suspicion”, adding there is no “proof of anything in his system”.
Sterling, of Berkshire, has been bailed while inquiries continue.
