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MANCHESTER UNITED fans have hit out at Marcus Rashford with a banner following the star’s admission that he is ready to leave the club.
Red Devils supporters displayed a message for their wantaway ace in the away end during their Carabao Cup quarter-final clash with Tottenham – a game which Rashford had been left out of.
The fans held out a banner that read: “Excuses. Ta ra, Marcus”, hinting that they are happy for Rashford to leave the club.
The banner was a nod to an old message of protest to former boss Sir Alex Ferguson back in 1989.
A fan held up a banner three years into Fergie’s stint at Man Utd that read “Three years if excuses and it’s still crap… ta ra Fergie”.
Of course Ferguson didn’t leave until 2013, going on 13 league titles, five FA Cups, five League Cups and two Champions Leagues.
For Rashford, an exit seems far more likely. The 27-year-old publicly declared he is “ready for a new challenge” after being left of Ruben Amorim‘s squad for the Manchester derby.
He told journalist Henry Winter: “For me, personally, I think I’m ready for a new challenge and the next steps.”
Adding: “When I leave it’s going to be ‘no hard feelings’. You’re not going to have any negative comments from me about Manchester United. That’s me as a person.
“If I know that a situation is already bad I’m not going to make it worse.
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“I’ve seen how other players have left in the past and I don’t want to be that person.
“When I leave, I’ll make a statement, and it will be from me.”
Boss Amorim insisted that he wasn’t “sending a message” with his selection for the 2-1 win over Man City.
But has since claimed that he would have liked Rashford to speak to him first before declaring his desire to wave goodbye to his eight-year stint as a Man Utd player.
Speaking this week Amorim said: “If this was me, probably I would speak with the manager.”
Any exit from Old Trafford for Rashford would likely be a costly one with the star currently tied down to a £325,000-a-week deal until 2028.
Premier League rivals Arsenal and Chelsea have both been touted as potential suitors, while rumours continue to swirl about Paris Saint-Germain reigniting their former interest in the forward.
Other reports have claimed that Saudi Arabian sides could offer Rashford an escape route from the Theatre of Dreams.
CHOCOLATE fans have travelled across the world and queued for hours as it arrives in the UK – following a viral craze that drew millions.
Lindt’s “Dubai Style” flavour garnered over 90 million views on TikTok and has led to 10-hour queues to get a taste of it.
The bar, which was released in the UK yesterday in limited supply, features a crunchy pistachio mixture topped with crunchy Kadayif pastry.
The Swiss chocolatier has brought a twist on the flavour that has previously gone viral on TikTok.
The first recipe for Dubai chocolate was created back in 2021 by Sarah Hamouda of FIX Dessert Chocolatier.
But the popularity of the chocolate flavour has only recently taken off after going viral on platforms including TikTok thanks to influencers like Maria Vehera.
Videos showing people biting into the bizarre-looking treat drew mass amounts of attention, and now Lidnt is taking advantage of it.
Stefan Bruderer, Master Chocolatier at Lindt & Sprüngli said: ” We’re always tapped into consumer trends.
“After we saw how well the Dubai chocolate craze went down on social media, we knew we had to get involved and put our very own twist on it.”
UK chocoholics will have to visit one of the select stores this new bar has popped up in.
It won’t come cheap either – a 145g bar costs £10 in-store.
Newfoodspotteruk on Instagram explained to followers they travelled over an hour and a half to Cheshire Oaks to get one of the Lindt chocolate bars saying: “It was worth it”.
The treats have already been making waves in different parts of the world.
It’s already hit stores in the United States, Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
In November, hundreds of shoppers queued up in the rain for hours in the western German city of Aachen to get their hands on the bar – with only 100 on offer.
The most dedicated chocoholics said they travelled over 4,000 miles to get their hands on the sweet treat.
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Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
Speaking to the Independent after leaving the Lindt store in Aachen with the bar in hand, Zi Cheng Lai, 23, from Malaysia, said: ‘It’s a hype, a trend on social media, with people waiting in long lines.
“We want to try it out here and be part of it.”
In Stuttgart, Germany, Leon Faehnle told AFP: “I waited 10 hours. I’ve been here since midnight just to taste this chocolate.”
People are also issuing shout-outs to Dubai residents to help them source a bar.
One person wrote: “Whoever is travelling back from Dubai to London could you get me a fix dessert chocolatier chocolate bar cause I’m dying to try it.”
Another said: “I need to go to Dubai and try Fix Dessert chocolates immediately.”
And a third wrote: “I’m gonna buy that fix dessert knafeh flavored chocolate bar once I get back to Dubai.”
Dubai-style chocolate was created in 2021 by British-Egyptian entrepreneur Sarah Hamouda.
The Dubai-based businesswoman founded Fix Dessert Chocolate as a response to her pregnancy cravings and love of dessert, with “Fix” standing for “freaking incredible experience”.
“To be honest, not at any point did I think this was going to become global,” Sarah told CNN.
“It’s insane what’s been happening,” she added.
DOMESTIC abuse will spike over the Christmas period with victims urged to seek help.
Half of all cases dealt with by the Crown Prosecution Service over Christmas are domestic abuse related, shocking new figures show.
Data shared with The Sun from their out of hours service shows that 3,577 out of 6,446 cases were related to crimes such as coercive control in December 2023.
That is an increase from 3,095 in 2022 and 2,963 in 2021.
Prosecutors believe that financial pressures, social gatherings, and alcohol abuse all contributed to the rise in incidents in December.
Kate Brown, National Lead for Domestic Abuse for the CPS, which decides whether or not a suspect can be charged, urges anyone in danger to still call the police even on Christmas Day.
She told The Sun: “We don’t stop for Christmas, we’re there to help people.
“People should not be hesitant about coming forward and thinking that during the Christmas period nobody’s around to help them.
“We’re here to actually make sure people are charged efficiently, quickly, remanded into custody.
“It is sad and distressing to know that as a lot of people are preparing themselves for fun and a good time at Christmas, we’ve got victims who will be approaching the Christmas period worried and anxious that there may be an escalation of domestic abuse during this period.
“Domestic abuse is very rarely a one-off event, it’s probably a culmination.
“We know that there are lots of misconceptions about domestic abuse, that only happens to certain types of women and it does predominantly happen to women, but it can happen to anybody. And these are our daughters, our aunts, our mothers, our grandmothers.
“All of us need to be alive to the potential for an increase in domestic abuse during this time and be there to support the people that we love.
“As a member of society, we should be worried that 50 per cent of the cases that are charged over the Christmas period involve some form of domestic abuse. That’s a reflection on us as a society.”
The Labour government has made it a key pledge to half violence against women and girls in the next decade.
Earlier this year Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced that domestic abuse specialists will be embedded in every 999 centre to ensure victims get the best possible response when reporting serious crimes.
Tracey Easton, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS Direct, the out-of-hours team, said that they are prepared to see the number of cases referred to them for domestic abuse incidents rise in the next week.
She said: “Domestic violence referrals of incidents tend to spike over the Christmas period.
There may be various reasons for it.
“People are more sociable and get together over that period but it is a pattern that we’re seeing against the general domestic abuse pattern.
“We operate overnight, every night between 5pm and 9am and every weekend we work and Christmas Day and Boxing Day and every other bank holiday and we are fully staffed and fully available to make serious charging decisions for the police.”
Women's Aid has this advice for victims and their families
If you are a victim of domestic abuse, SupportLine is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm to 8pm on 01708 765200. The charity’s email support service is open weekdays and weekends during the crisis – messageinfo@supportline.org.uk.
Women’s Aid provides a live chat service – available weekdays from 8am-6pm and weekends 10am-6pm.
You can also call the freephone 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247.
