Son Heung-min channels his inner Ange-Anger to traumatise Trippier

Son Heung-min gave Kieran Trippier a torrid afternoon. Photograph: Clive Howes/ProSports/Shutterstock

Tottenham’s talisman broke the game open against an exhausted Newcastle side from an orthodox left-wing position

 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Son Heung-min was the last player off the pitch at half-time at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, not because he was busy pumping the badge on his chest, working the crowd or berating the referee behind his hand, but because he was exhausted, forced to spend 30 seconds or so bent double in the Newcastle penalty area with his hands on his knees.

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African writer ruined by row with Graham Greene finally gets chance to shine

Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem in France in November 1968. Photograph: Yves Le Roux/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

Fifty years after being accused of plagiarism, book is reissued in a bid to rehabilitate gifted Malian author Yambo Ouologuem

Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

In 1968 the books pages of the French newspaper Le Monde excitedly praised an uncompromising new novel, Bound to Violence, going on to salute its author as one of “the rare intellectuals of international stature presented to the world by Black Africa”.

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