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While Arsenal had a longer turnaround, three of England’s other Champions League teams had a Premier League game three days later like City.

Newcastle, like Manchester City, were also in Champions League action on Thursday night – at home to Barcelona.

And they faced a Premier League trip to Bournemouth on Sunday in an earlier fixture than City, at 14:00.

Liverpool had an even shorter turnaround.

They hosted Atletico Madrid on Wednesday – and then faced Everton in the Merseyside derby at 12:30 on Saturday – 62.5 hours after full-time.

Chelsea were away to Bayern Munich on Wednesday and visited Manchester United on Saturday.

Tottenham had four days in between games, hosting Villarreal on Tuesday and then Brighton on Saturday.

The Champions League teams are all in Carabao Cup third-round action this week.

Five of the six teams have their tie three days after their league game, with Tottenham getting an extra day.

And between seasons, Chelsea had less preparation time than Manchester City having won the Club World Cup – with City going out two weeks earlier in the last 16.

Tech giant fined for third time in a week after being hit with multimillion-dollar penalties in US and France.

The European Union has imposed a penalty of 2.95 billion euros ($3.45bn) on Google for favouring its own advertising services, marking the fourth time the tech giant has been fined in its decade-long fight with the bloc’s competition regulators.

The European Commission accused Google of distorting competition in the 27-nation bloc after investigating a complaint from the European Publishers Council, moving to rein in the tech firm despite threats of retaliation from United States President Donald Trump.

EU competition chief Teresa Ribera had originally planned to hand out the fine on Monday, but delayed her move after meeting opposition from EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic over concerns about the potential impact on US promises to lower tariffs on European cars under a trade deal agreed in July.

The Commission said Google favoured its own online display technology services to the detriment of rivals and online publishers and that it has abused its market power from 2014 until today.

“Google abused its dominant position in adtech, harming publishers, advertisers, and consumers. This behaviour is illegal under EU antitrust rules,” Ribera said on Friday.

Regulators had been probing Google over adtech since 2021 and in 2023 recommended the company sell part of its ad services to ensure fair competition.

Google, a subsidiary of US tech giant Alphabet, criticised the EU decision and said it would challenge it in court.

Lee-Anne Mulholland, the firm’s global head of regulatory affairs, said it required “changes that will hurt thousands of European businesses by making it harder for them to make money”.

“There’s nothing anticompetitive in providing services for ad buyers and sellers, and there are more alternatives to our services than ever before,” she added.

Ribera said Google had to come forward with a “serious remedy to address its conflicts of interest”, warning that failure to do so would invite “strong remedies”.

The company has 60 days to inform the Commission how it plans to comply with this order.

The fine was the third imposed on the giant in a week. A US federal jury on Wednesday ordered Google to pay about $425m for gathering information from smartphone app use, even when people opted for privacy settings.

The same day, France’s data protection authority fined the search giant 325 million euros ($378m) for failing to respect the law on internet cookies.

Destination X fans have been left fuming over the BBC show’s latest episode, as contestant Josh was given an ‘unfair advantage’ which puts fan favourite Nick at risk

It was another tense night in Destination X tonight, as the BBC show aired its fifth episode of the series. Fans were left on a massive cliffhanger by host Rob Brydon, after the episode left them fuming.

The huge twist saw Josh was given the chance to sabotage someone and move their X 250km away from the point they chose. Josh opted to choose record breaking athlete Nick – who has shown his ability and strength throughout the course of the show.

Usually, fans will see who goes at the end of each episode, but they’ll have to wait a little while longer this week. It comes after Destination X fans ‘work out winner’ after spotting ‘clue’ in episode four.

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The good thing for fans is that they won’t have to wait too much longer to see who goes, with the next episode airing tomorrow night on BBC One.

Fans are now worried that Nick may be kicked out after being sabotaged, as they took to X, formerly known as Twitter to discuss.

“Well, josh is going to sabotage nick isn’t he? #destinationx,” guessed one before he had even chosen. Another, who thought the advantage was unfair, said: “Whoever gets their X moved should get to come back in the final and move a remaining player’s X”.

“Moving the X is so unfair. Nick will be gone,” a third wrote, as another agreed: “This is such an unfair power this isn’t Big Brother it should be a case where players can basically eliminate others.”

“#destinationX Moving someone’s marker is s**t. I’m going off this programme now,” said another, while one penned: “Josh sabotaging Nick… are we surprised…”

At the end of the episodes, whichever contestant guesses the furthest from the correct locale is kicked off the bus, and their journey comes to a sad end.

Therefore, with Nick’s X being moved so far away from the position he chose, will his journey come to an end?

It’s not the first episode that fans have had a complaint to make about the show. Last week, fans all took to X to complain that they were ‘getting annoyed’ with the show and the sheer lack of knowledge that the contestants seemed to possess. One viewer took to X to say: “Getting annoyed with #DestinationX – the lack of knowledge is appalling!”

Another said: “I assume it’s deliberate in this show that they picked contestants who know absolutely nothing about European languages or Geography, but it’s still very frustrating to watch.”

How will the cliff hanger unfold in tomorrow’s episode?

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