“This list includes players who have transferred their affiliation to a new MA [member association] in order to be eligible to participate for their representative teams in international football.”

Whether Hirst is added to the Scotland squad for the Greece games remains to be seen with Clarke having suggested that that might require someone else to pick up a knock, although it would appear inevitable that someone will drop out.

The Scots play Greece in a two-legged Nations League play-off in Piraeus on Thursday 20th March and at Hampden Park the following Sunday.

Town keeper Cieran Slicker was named in the squad, the second time the 22-year-old has been included at senior level having skippered the U21s.

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Sergio Conceicao is in dire need of three points tomorrow, following three consecutive defeats for AC Milan, but the situation hasn’t been made easier by his entourage. According to a report, complaints have purposely been leaked to the media. 

Milan’s season has been a circus so far, parting ways with Paulo Fonseca and making hefty investments in January, only to find themselves in 9th place. While Conceicao hasn’t been brilliant, there are a lot of factors in play for the decline.

As reported by Corriere della Sera, the atmosphere at Milanello is currently very tense, fueled by detailed complaints that Conceicao’s entourage leaked to the media. “A long and detailed j’accuse spread by people close to the coach,” the report states.

Lack of support from the club and Cardinale: First and foremost, the manager feels that he hasn’t received enough support from the management, even though Geoffrey Moncada was present at Milanello yesterday. He finds it disrespectful, furthermore, that he hasn’t even had a conversation with Gerry Cardinale once.

Confusing chain of command: Conceicao feels disorientated as he doesn’t understand how the Rossoneri’s chain of command works and who is responsible for managing the first team. Therefore, often finding himself alone in the role of the iron sergeant, he would like a director by his side.

State of the players: Conceicao believes he took over a team in subpar condition from a physical point of view, with legs weighed down by a poor pre-season preparation.

Late signings: Finally, the manager also wasn’t happy with the delayed arrival of most signings during the January window, leaving him with little time to get to know them before some very important games.

While Conceicao himself quickly denied that those are his thoughts, it’s safe to say that this was the last thing he and Milan needed now.

Lewis Hamilton will be “aware” of how Charles Leclerc wrestled the Ferrari team away from Sebastian Vettel when he joined the Scuderia in 2019, according to Johnny Herbert.

The three-time grand prix winner expects there to be some “internal politics” within the Italian team over the season ahead, Hamilton’s first since moving from Mercedes, where he won six of his seven F1 drivers’ championships.

With Leclerc alongside the British driver, Ferrari is widely considered to have the strongest driver line up on the 2025 grid.

Herbert highlighted how having two quick drivers can act as a “slap in the face”, something he believes will benefit the Maranello-based team.

The 60-year-old contended that having both Hamilton and Leclerc at the peak of their powers can motivate the pair and spur them on to beat one another.

“I think it goes both ways,” he told CasinoApps. “If you have a quick driver behind you, it actually gives you a slap in the face because you know that your team-mate is going to be very much on top of his game and he’s going to be pushing you and when he pushes you. That makes you push that little bit more.

“Sometimes that actually benefits the team because they will be getting the best out of each other. I think it’s a positive thing having Charles [Leclerc] on board. There’s going to be some internal politics.”

Hamilton will be in pursuit of his record-breaking eighth F1 drivers’ championship when the season gets underway, whilst Ferrari is hunting a first constructors’ title since 2008.

However, the 40-year-old maintains the latter is the priority whilst the former may prove more difficult to come by, given the ability of Leclerc.

Herbert pointed to how the Monegasque driver usurped Vettel upon joining Ferrari. It paved the way for the German to leave at the end of the following season, with that decision made in advance of the 2020 campaign getting underway.

“We’ve always got to remember when Charles came into Ferrari with Sebastian Vettel, he took the team away from Sebastian,” said Herbert.

“Lewis [Hamilton] is going to be aware of that. At the end of the day, motivation is the most powerful thing.”

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Entering the 2025 season, Alabama shortstop Justin Lebron was expected to be one of the SEC’s best players and someone to watch on the national scene. Given that he made the All-SEC First Team as a freshman in 2024, those expectations were not off base.

Describing his start as living up to the hype may not quite do justice to the run the sophomore has been on since the campaign actually began.

The No. 23 Crimson Tide is 13-0 after defeating Jacksonville State on Tuesday evening. Lebron, who has eight home runs thus far, batted in four runs during the contest. He leads the entire nation in RBIs, with 32. He had five in Sunday’s game against North Dakota State.

For a two-hole hitter to produce runs at that kind of clip is remarkable. It also speaks to the proficiency of hitters around him in the lineup to get on base (which they can; No. 9 hitter Richie Bonomolo Jr. had an OBP of .593 after last weekend).

Those with an itch for arithmetic, Lebron is on pace to have approximately 138 RBIs to his name by the end of the regular season. One hundred and thirty-eight. For one player.

It is astronomically unlikely that Lebron reaches that number. Last season’s leader, Morehead State’s Roman Kuntz, had 100. The all-time record is 143 (Pete Incaviglia of Oklahoma State, 1985). Incaviglia did that in 75 games.

Lebron’s current 75-game pace for runs batted in would shatter that record; it’s 185, rounding from 184.615. His present mark, looking deeper, shows his completeness as an offensive player. He doesn’t just mash the baseball. He gets aboard. One of his RBIs on Tuesday was a bases-loaded walk. Another was from a triple.

As a defensive shortstop, his glove is one of the best in the country too. In head coach Rob Vaughn’s pack offense, though, Lebron has shown out as one of college baseball’s best offensive players.