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His shot in the first half created England's opening goal and he almost added to the score when his deflected cross nearly went in.

"The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they'll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they've done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects," he wrote.

He laughed when asked by The Times how often he has fielded questions about his plans in 2028 in recent days, and quickly deflected.

Many critics claim the investment into top-class sport is a move to gain legitimacy and deflect attention from controversy over Saudi Arabia's human rights record, a practice known as 'sportswashing'.

One theory suggests that weak magnetic fields between galaxies deflect the electron-positron pairs, redirecting the resulting gamma rays away from Earth.