As we anticipate tonight’s 10 p.m. kickoff, let’s delve into a heartfelt story featuring ex-England striker Alan Shearer.

Shearer recently made a memorable gesture to his local community by surprising Newcastle Panthers Football Club with brand new training kits. Remarkably, the Panthers are the sole LGBTQIA+ inclusive football club in the North-East.

Moreover, the Panthers had already benefited this year from a grassroots grant via the Cash4Clubs program, a £500,000 initiative by Flutter that supported 250 community clubs across the UK and Ireland. The club received a special video message from Shearer himself, who unveiled their new training attire funded by Flutter.

In the message, Shearer enthusiastically stated, ‘Newcastle Panthers FC, I’m thrilled to announce you as one of the 250 grassroots sports clubs awarded a Cash4Clubs grant this year.’

He further explained, ‘This initiative is part of Flutter’s £500,000 commitment to grassroots sports. The grant celebrates your remarkable efforts in unifying individuals, promoting active lifestyles among adults, and fostering the growth of community football.’

‘I’m gutted I can’t be there in person.  But I’m delighted to tell you that, in addition to your grant, Flutter have bought you a new kit – and they’ve donated the sponsorship of it to The Alan Shearer Foundation – meaning you’ll play with that logo on your strip, raising awareness of the work we do in helping profoundly disabled children and adults in our area.  I hope you’ll wear it with Pride.’

Top class from Shearer and from Flutter because it’s tournaments like the World Cup that inspire the next generation to want to get out and play and giving them a helping hand en route to doing so is key to developing the next batch of stars.

Newcastle Panthers Football Club, the only LGBTQIA+ friendly football team in the North-East, were recipients of a grassroots grant from the Cash4Clubs programme – a £500,000 scheme funded by Flutter which supported 250 community clubs across the UK and Ireland this year.

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A familiar face from the world of 1980s and 1990s cinema was recently seen enjoying a leisurely walk under the sunny skies of Los Angeles.

The actor, who was already well into middle age by the time he made his mark in Hollywood, gained fame with his menacing portrayal of a crime lord in the classic film, RoboCop.

Over the years, he showcased his talent in enduring films such as Dead Poets Society and A Time to Kill, and even starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in Rambo III.

However, one of his most cherished roles was on the sitcom That ’70s Show, where he shared the screen with a youthful cast that included Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis.

Spotted in Southern California this week at 83, he still exuded vitality and energy, although he used a cane to support his step.

Can you guess who he is?

He is none other than Kurtwood Smith, who remains beloved by fans as the formidably gruff patriarch Red Forman on That ’70s Show.

With Debra Jo Rupp as his wife Kitty, Smith formed part of an iconic TV couple throughout the sitcom’s run from 1998 to 2006.

Their family included their children Eric (Topher Grace) and Laurie (first Lisa Robin Kelly, then Christina Moore) and their adopted son Hyde (Danny Masterson).

Kurtwood Larson Smith was born in Wisconsin in July 1943, less than two years before his father was killed in the Second World War.

Although he grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs, he summered in Wisconsin on his grandparents’ farm, which ‘was a great way to grow up,’ he reflected.

His interest in showbiz was ignited in college, when he grew sick of his studies and alighted on the idea: ‘You know what? Maybe I should try an acting class.’

Once he played a scene, he thought: ‘Oh, I like this. I know what I’m doing here. I feel comfortable with this,’ he shared with Smashing Interviews.

Smith began his career on the stage in the San Francisco Bay Area, both in repertory and at a Shakespeare festival he regarded as ‘my real training ground.’

One summer in the 1970s, he acted in three plays with a young theater student he already ‘knew was going places’ called Robin Williams.

In 1987, Smith achieved his big break in Hollywood with the role of the ruthless mob boss Clarence Boddicker in Paul Verhoeven’s classic sci-fi picture RoboCop.

Boddicker commits the grisly murder of policeman Alex Murphy (Peter Weller), who is subsequently reconstructed into a cyborg and launched back into the world of law enforcement to apprehend the villainous gang.

A couple of years ago, Smith revealed that during the movie’s famous riot scene, his jacket actually caught alight in real life and had to be hurriedly torn off him, for which he earned an extra $400 in stunt pay, on The Rich Eisen Show. 

In 1988 he played a US Embassy field operative who helps Sylvester Stallone’s title character in Rambo III, which placed its lead in the Soviet-Afghan War.

One year later he featured as the father of Robert Sean Leonard’s lead character Neil in the boarding school drama Dead Poets Society.

The authoritarian parenting of Smith’s character drives his son to seek a mentor in the shape of the kindly English teacher played by none other than Robin Williams.

Smith recalled Williams as a ‘very sweet and wonderful guy’ whose genuine temperament was much more similar to that of his gentle Dead Poets Society character than the manic comic persona he adopted as Mork on Happy Days.

‘If it was you and a couple of people, he was very sweet and down-to-earth, but he’d bring in three, four, five people and bang! He’s on,’ Smith remembered.

His career as a top-flight character actor continued through the 1990s with such films as the John Grisham adaptation A Time to Kill, a legal drama about racism starring Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L Jackson and Kevin Spacey. 

Smith played the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, amid a cast that included both Donald and Kiefer Sutherland as well as a then-unknown Octavia Spencer as a nurse.

In 1998 he began playing his best-remembered role of Red on That ’70s Show – the father of the Wisconsin family whose garage plays host to the group of friends played by such names as Wilmer Valderrama, Laura Prepon, Kutcher and Kunis.

Red was particularly adored by fans for his propensity to issue various rephrased versions of a threat to put his foot in someone’s rear end.

Another one of his frequently quoted bon mots was one to Eric: ‘Son, you don’t have bad luck. The reason bad things happen to you is because you’re a dumba**.’

Although the show ended in 2006, Smith retained a warm bond with a number of his castmates with – at one point – controversial results.

In 2023, after Danny Masterson was convicted of raping two women, Smith joined a claque of his That ’70s Show co-stars including Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Debra Jo Rupp in pleading unsuccessfully for mercy from the judge.

Apart from That ’70s Show and its short-lived Netflix spin-off That ’90s Show, Smith’s TV career has included guest shots on such shows as The X-Files, various Star Trek programs, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Everybody Loves Raymond, Malcolm in the Middle, 24, Robot Chicken, Suits, Rick and Morty and The Simpsons.

From 2017 through 2020 he also held a recurring role on The Ranch, a Netflix sitcom that reunited Kutcher and Masterson as brothers.

Ukraine’s escalating efforts to target President Vladimir Putin’s oil industry are making significant ripples across Russia. The country, known as one of the largest global energy powerhouses, now faces a dilemma with reduced diesel exports and a need to import fuel. This has resulted in fuel shortages that stretch from Crimea, currently under Russian occupation, to inner cities across the nation.

Within Russia, the impact is increasingly tangible. Former opposition politician and commentator Maxim Katz noted that many Russians are now confronting the direct effects of the ongoing conflict, possibly for the first time. These shortages could become a particularly sensitive issue as the nation heads towards State Duma elections slated for September.

“This marks the first instance where Russians are experiencing the tangible effects of the war in their everyday lives—not just through rising fuel costs, but through its scarcity,” Katz mentioned in an interview conducted over Zoom from Israel, where he currently resides in exile. “The inability to purchase fuel is a significant issue for Russia,” he emphasized.

Katz further explained that while elections in Russia may not be genuinely free or competitive, they still play a crucial role for Putin. They serve to demonstrate public support to regional governors, business leaders, and other influential figures within the elite.

“If everybody sees in September that he has 20% support or 10% support, then questions begin about why he should appoint governors or control the system,” Katz said. “That is something he does not want to deal with.”

The fuel crisis, Katz argued, threatens Putin’s effort to portray himself as fully in control and to keep the cost of the war away from ordinary Russians.

“Putin tried to convince everybody that Moscow would continue to live its regular life and nobody would see the war,” Katz said. “It was his war, not the war of ordinary Russians. But when the war comes home, this is a completely different story, and it changes the equation.”

Katz also pointed to the striking reversal of Russia — historically one of the world’s largest exporters of oil and refined products — seeking fuel supplies from abroad. Reuters reported that Moscow had approached Kazakhstan about importing approximately 50,000 metric tons of gasoline after refinery outages reduced Russian gasoline output by roughly 25% from a year earlier.

The campaign reached a new milestone this week when Ukrainian drones struck the Omsk refinery, Russia’s largest, roughly 1,700 miles from Ukrainian-held territory. The facility temporarily halted processing after the attack, according to Reuters. Days later, another strike shut Russia’s Saratov refinery for the third time this year.

The expanding crisis raises a central question for Ukraine and its allies: Can attacks on the infrastructure that powers Russia’s military and economy alter President Vladimir Putin’s calculations — or will the Kremlin continue shielding its war effort while shifting the burden onto ordinary Russians?

“They have to buy fuel from Kazakhstan now,” Katz said. “Russia is one of the biggest exporters of oil and oil products and always has been. This is crazy.”

Still, Katz cautioned that the Kremlin would likely continue prioritizing military supplies even as civilian shortages worsened.

“He will find the fuel for the tanks. That is not the issue,” Katz said. “The issue is his grip on Russia.”

Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, former commander of U.S. European Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said the effects are already becoming significant.

“Without question, Ukraine’s campaign against Russia’s oil and energy infrastructure is having a real and growing impact on the Russian homeland,” Breedlove told News Media. “The reported reductions in fuel production are significant — close to a third by some estimates.”

“These strikes are beginning to seriously impact not just the economy but the Kremlin’s ability to sustain its war effort and military operations,” he added. “When Ukraine is able to hit large, high-value energy targets deep inside Russian territory, that changes the equation.”

“Russia cannot effectively defend every refinery and energy facility across their enormous territory, and that is the core problem for Moscow,” Breedlove said. “Every asset they deploy to defend their infrastructure are assets not deployed to the frontlines.”

Moscow has already taken emergency measures. Russia banned diesel exports through the end of July as drone attacks forced unplanned refinery shutdowns and reduced domestic supplies. Seaborne exports of diesel and gasoline fell 39% in June compared with May and 46% from the previous year, according to Reuters.

Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, said American intelligence has played an important role in helping Kyiv penetrate Russia’s extensive air-defense network.

“You always have to give credit to the United States,” Korniychuk told News Media. “U.S. intelligence is helping Ukrainian missiles and drones avoid Russian anti-missile defense.”

The Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials, said in a 2025 report that “The U.S. will provide Ukraine with intelligence for long-range missile strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure.” Reuters, citing the Financial Times, also reported that “U.S. intelligence has helped Kyiv strike important Russian energy assets, including oil refineries, far beyond the front line, the newspaper said, citing unnamed Ukrainian and U.S. officials familiar with the campaign.”

News Media reached out to the State Department and the White House to confirm the reports and the Ukrainian ambassador’s claims.

Korniychuk said the strikes are creating serious pressure inside the Russian system, even if they have not yet persuaded Putin to change course.

“The majority of the Russian leadership understands that this is a crucial problem, but Putin personally does not,” he said. “The distance between him and the rest of the Russian leadership is growing tremendously. Even people he has trusted for many years understand that this is going nowhere, but that will not necessarily bring Putin to the same conclusion.”

Retired Lt. Gen. Richard Newton, former U.S. Air Force assistant vice chief of staff, argued that the broader strategic picture is shifting in Ukraine’s favor.

“Throughout the conflict, the vast majority of the Russian homeland has been a sanctuary,” Newton said. “However, over the last several months, Ukrainian drone attacks have reached deep inside Russia — up to 1,500 miles recently.”

Newton said the pressure was arriving as Western support strengthened.

“That is a credit to President Zelenskyy, his military leadership and Ukraine’s defense industrial base,” he said. “And it comes at the right time, with Europe now providing military capabilities and financial resources — and now, with renewed public support from President Trump.”

Yet the strategy has limits. Russia continues to generate billions in energy revenue beyond the reach of Ukrainian drones.

Urgewald, a Germany-based nonprofit environmental and human-rights organization analysis of Kpler cargo data found that the European Union received 114 of the 118 cargoes shipped from Russia’s Yamal LNG project between January and May 2026 — about 97% of the project’s exports. The shipments totaled 8.37 million metric tons and had an estimated value of roughly $5.7 billion.

“Current trends show EU payments for Russian Yamal LNG are on course to reach almost $7 billion in the first half of 2026 alone,” Alexander Kirk, a sanctions campaigner at Urgewald, told News Media. “These dollars support Russia’s war economy and help sustain Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine, including the drone and missile warfare terrorizing Ukrainian cities.”

The figures capture the dual reality confronting Kyiv: Ukraine can damage refineries, disrupt domestic fuel supplies and force Moscow to divert resources, while Russia continues earning substantial revenue from global energy markets.

Amb. Korniychuk said Zelenskyy had given the military 40 days to substantially change the situation.

Katz cautioned that there was no way to predict whether Putin’s system was approaching collapse, but said authoritarian regimes can appear stable until they unravel with extraordinary speed.

He compared that uncertainty to the final months of the Soviet Union.

“Nobody before the August Putsch could even think that in three months from now there would be no Soviet Union,” Katz said. “Systems like this — this is one of their common things — collapse quick.”

For now, Ukraine’s strikes have not halted Russian military operations or forced Putin to negotiate. But they have reached deep into Russia, strained its fuel system and undermined the Kremlin’s effort to keep the war distant from its population.

The question being asked by analystsis no longer whether Ukraine can hit Russia’s economic engine, but how much sustained pressure that engine — and Putin’s political system — can withstand.

In the wake of the haunting third season of The Terror: Devil in Silver, fans might be thrilled to know that whispers of a new chapter in the beloved horror anthology series are already circulating.

David W. Zucker, the show’s producer, has unveiled that the groundwork for Season 4 has begun, with Scott Free Productions securing the rights to another book they are eager to bring to the screen.

In a conversation with ScreenRant, Zucker was questioned about whether the recent season marked the conclusion of a trilogy. His response hinted that the creative minds behind the series are already planning the next step.

“We just closed the deal on the book we’re gonna develop next,” Zucker confirmed.

While this is not an official renewal from AMC, and numerous challenges remain before a fourth season is confirmed, Zucker’s update reveals that early preparations are in motion. Enthusiasts of the show should stay tuned for more developments as this potential new season progresses.

Fans also shouldn’t expect the process to move overnight. The series has never operated on a traditional television schedule, with seven years separating Seasons 2 and 3 after development was slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the dual Hollywood strikes in 2023.

The anthology first debuted on AMC in 2018 with an adaptation of Dan Simmons’ novel The Terror. That season followed two British Royal Navy ships that became trapped in Arctic ice while searching for the Northwest Passage, only to find themselves hunted by a terrifying supernatural force.

Season 2, The Terror: Infamy, shifted the setting to a Japanese American internment camp during World War II, where an evil spirit preyed on those imprisoned there. The latest installment, The Terror: Devil in Silver, adapted Victor LaValle’s novel of the same name and brought the franchise into the present day with a psychological horror story set inside a psychiatric hospital hiding dark secrets.

Despite the lengthy hiatus between installments, the anthology hasn’t lost its critical edge. Devil in Silver currently holds a 95% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, continuing the series’ reputation as one of television’s strongest horror anthologies.

Exactly how many people tuned in, however, remains a mystery. AMC hasn’t released viewership numbers for the latest season, which premiered on AMC+ and Shudder rather than airing on AMC’s linear network. Depending on how a potential fourth season comes together—and who ultimately signs on creatively—it isn’t out of the question that the anthology could return to a more traditional release strategy.

For now, though, fans have reason to be optimistic. While an official renewal hasn’t arrived, Scott Free Productions is already searching for The Terror‘s next nightmare.

A tragic accident claimed the lives of an Oklahoma father and son as their plane went down on their return journey from a St. Louis Cardinals game, due to adverse weather conditions.

Jimmy Don Lewis, 48, and his 22-year-old son, Brayden Ty Lewis, were discovered deceased amidst the debris of their Beechcraft Baron 55 by emergency teams Friday morning.

Reports indicate that the aircraft likely crashed just before 11 p.m. on Thursday night near Waterloo, Illinois, according to information from KSDK.

Despite the late-night crash, rescue operations weren’t initiated until around 2:30 p.m. the following day, prompted by reports of a potential plane crash, as confirmed by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department.

Authorities, collaborating with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), worked diligently to pinpoint the search area and track the last known position of the aircraft.

Aerial search efforts were thwarted due to bad weather, not allowing crews to ‘safely conduct’ operations. 

‘The Illinois State Police aircraft responded and conducted an aerial search utilizing thermal imaging technology; however, the weather conditions and cloud cover prevented crews from locating the aircraft,’ the sheriff’s department said. 

Around 6am, the Waterloo Fire Command activated a drone search. Two hours later, the aircraft was located in a tree line near a rural field and the two men were confirmed to have died. 

Police believe the pair ran into bad weather on their way home to West Siloam Springs, near the Oklahoma-Arkansas border, after the Cardinals game. 

Flight data suggested the pair had tried to turn the aircraft in a possible ‘attempt to avoid the storm, before entering what appeared to be a descending spiral,’ the sheriff’s department said. 

‘Radar contact was subsequently lost.’ 

The crash remains under investigation by the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board. 

The Lewis family appeared to be an all-American family who loved to travel and recently welcomed a grandbaby. 

Lewis’ fit wife, Jill, posted photos from several of the family’s trips, including a romantic European trip with her husband, where the pair visited Rome and Venice, Italy, among other cities, in May 2024. 

The family, who lives in a $1 million home, also loved to take ski trips together to Winter Park in Colorado. 

Brayden, who went by Ty, recently took a trip to Spain, France, and Italy with his girlfriend Payton, as well as a boys’ trip to Mexico. 

Brayden’s social media showed the young man loved football, having played in high school, and enjoyed bull riding as a child. 

He also enjoyed riding his motorcycle and working out, his social media showed. 

His sister, Kelsey, who welcomed a new baby a few months ago, posted her grief on Facebook, alongside a photo of herself, her father, brother, and husband in the private plane together from an unknown date. 

‘Dad insisted on taking a picture he said: “Take a picture of all of us have to have them for memories,” and anyone who knows dad, he didn’t like pictures of himself, and I already know Ty was thinking: “Really a picture without my hat?” 

‘I love you both.’ 

Payton also posted a tribute on Instagram, writing ‘I will always love you. Till we meet again, my love.’  

The Daily Mail has reached out to friends and family for comment.