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Sports Round-Up: Hummel back in the Premier League with Everton

Nathan Walmer
May 28th, 2020


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We tried finding a photo of the last Everton team to win a trophy, but … it’s been a long time (photo: Flickr/Aleksandr Osipov)

Danish clothing brand Hummel will be returning to the Premier League as a sponsor for the first time in 14 years with the football club Everton.

The Toffees have touted the three-year agreement with the sportswear brand as a ‘record deal’, but did not disclose the financial terms of the partnership.

Hummel was last part of the Premier League as a clothing sponsor in the 2006-07 season with Aston Villa.


Superliga and First Division coronavirus tests negative
The mass coronavirus testing of all referees, players and club staff in 3F Superliga and the  First Division have been underway in recent weeks ahead of the restarts of their respective seasons this week following postponements due to the Coronavirus Crisis. Some 693 tests were conducted last week and 1,019 this week – all turning up negative. The Superliga will resume on May 28 with AGF hosting Randers, while the First Division will resume on May 29 when Viborg hosts Skive.

Dolberg player of the year in Nice
French club OGC Nice has named Danish national Kasper Dolberg as its player of the year. The award, which was announced early due to the coronavirus outbreak, went to the player who garnered the most online votes among fans. In OGC Nice’s shortened season, Dolberg netted 11 goals in 23 league matches.

Yussuf Poulsen builds on RB Leipzig record
Danish national Yussuf Poulsen has reached an RB Leipzig milestone as its only player to reach 250 matches in its somewhat brief history. The Leipzig captain wrote on Twitter that he is very proud of the achievement and honoured to play for the club since joining them in 2013 from Lygnby. Though Poulsen scored a goal and Leipzig beat Mainz 5-0 in his 250th game, it was bitter-sweet as he  injured an ankle ligament and will miss at least part of the remainder of the season. In his time there he has scored a total of 63 goals.

Ajax closes in on Danish youth player
Ajax is on the verge of snapping up Danish player Eskild Munk Dall from Silkeborg IF in a deal worth between 3 and 5 million kroner, reports Ekstra Bladet. The 17-year-old signed a three-year extension with Silkeborg last December but has trained with major teams Ajax and Valencia in the past. Dall has not played for Silkeborg’s first team, but has performed well for their under-17 and under-19 squads.

Danmark Rundt boss done
Long-time Danmark Rundt race director Jesper Worre has been dismissed from his post after 23 years in the job. His contract agreement was from 2017-2020 and it has now expired without renewal. Worre was instrumental in planning the 2020 edition of the race, which is Denmark’s biggest annual sporting event, before it was cancelled due to the Coronavirus Crisis – making 2019 his last event as chief organiser.

Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU) hires two assistants
Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU) has hired two former national team players, Thomas Kahlenberg and Thomas Helveg, as assistants for the under-16 and 19 national teams respectively. DBU talent development manager Flemming Berg expressed excitement about the hires, saying they will bring a wealth of experience and “silent knowledge” to the team’s players.


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A survey carried out by Megafon for TV2 has found that 71 percent of parents have handed over children to daycare in spite of them being sick.

Moreover, 21 percent of those surveyed admitted to medicating their kids with paracetamol, such as Panodil, before sending them to school.

The FOLA parents’ organisation is shocked by the findings.

“I think it is absolutely crazy. It simply cannot be that a child goes to school sick and plays with lots of other children. Then we are faced with the fact that they will infect the whole institution,” said FOLA chair Signe Nielsen.

Pill pushers
At the Børnehuset daycare institution in Silkeborg a meeting was called where parents were implored not to bring their sick children to school.

At Børnehuset there are fears that parents prefer to pack their kids off with a pill without informing teachers.

“We occasionally have children who that they have had a pill for breakfast,” said headteacher Susanne Bødker. “You might think that it is a Panodil more than a vitamin pill, if it is a child who has just been sick, for example.”

Parents sick and tired
Parents, when confronted, often cite pressure at work as a reason for not being able to stay at home with their children.

Many declare that they simply cannot take another day off, as they are afraid of being fired.

Allan Randrup Thomsen, a professor of virology at KU, has heavily criticised the parents’ actions, describing the current situation as a “vicious circle”.

“It promotes the spread of viruses, and it adds momentum to a cycle where parents are pressured by high levels of sick-leave. If they then choose to send the children to daycare while they are still recovering, they keep the epidemic going in daycares, and this in turn puts a greater burden on the parents.”