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West Ham's Brazilian star Lucas Paqueta has now been charged with breaking betting rules and the whole investigation began after wagers were placed from an island bearing his name 6,000 miles away. Four specific yellow cards have been identified for suspicious betting patterns and his prospective £80million move to Man City has been derailed. Last year, Mail Sport's Matt Hughes, Sami Mokbel and Kieran Gill delved into the case, the connection with the exotic Brazilian island and the suspicious betting activity that triggered integrity monitoring systems. Here, you can read their special report on Paqueta Island and the extraordinary turn of events.

MATT HUGHES: The Premier League has suspended Nottingham Forest four points for breaching Profit and Sustainability legislation. Forest, who released a strongly worded statement in response to their points deduction, hasn't been given a positive reception. The penalty, they said, had 'harmed their reputation and faith in the Premier League,' and that their fiscal laws would'destroy mobility in the football pyramid.' After an independent commission found Forest to have exceeded the league's permitted limits by around £34.5 million between 2020 and 2023, they will follow Everton as the second club to have been fined this year for breaches to the Premier League's financial laws.

Mail Sport has been shortlisted a staggering 21 times at the annual Oscars, with a touching tribute to Mike Dickson. Dickson died while reporting the Australian Open for the Daily Mail after 33 years of reporting as a tennis and cricket reporter. Mike has been nominated for the SJA's best writer award as well as racing reporter Dominic King. Mail Sport has also been featured on the Sports Content Organisation, Sports Newspaper of the Year, and Digital Publisher.

For his £1.4 billion bid for 25% of the club to be accepted by the Glazer family, Sir Jim Ratcliffe needs just a simple majority at his Manchester United board meeting on Thursday. Then the tough work gets off to a good start, and it really gets going. The petrochemicals billionaire and lifelong United fan who wants to take over Old Trafford's football operations team inherits one of the game's most popular in-trays.

The prodigious young stars of virtually every sport have a definite path to the top. A conveyor belt is provided by Scouting, skills development, and elite academy programs for the big leagues. However, MMA is young, approaching their 30th birthday this year, and every fighter with a belt tied around their waist will have their own origin tale. Gifted fighters will break through the cracks, and of course those from countries with poor MMA infrastructure have one hand tied behind them from the start. The void in the system sparked an idea - the MMA Fight Academy.

For this year's coveted SJA British Sports Journalism Awards, Sportsmail has received 15 nominations. Overall, the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, and MailPlus have all received the most votes for The Times and Sunday Times, the Sunday Times, and MailPlus have all had 13 nominations. The Daily Mail has been selected for Newspaper of the Year after another year of sports coverage.

MIKE KEEGAN SPORTS AGENDA: With every passing display, the BBC's decision to withdraw the classified football scores from Sports Report's 5 p.m. becomes more bizarre. Despite the outrage unleashed when Sports Agenda revealed that they had abandoned a national institution, the bosses remained silent for a second week. According to the broadcaster, a reduced showtime of 30 minutes, as a result of them securing the commentary rights to the 5.30pm kick-off, meant they did not have time to determine the 'five-seven minutes' it takes to read the scores. On Sunday morning, BBC Radio 4 blasted Auntie's blunder openly and humourously. Mark Pougatch (pictured), the program's founder, found out spoof findings, beginning with 'Knutsford 0 Nuts Decision 2', the program's traditional tones.