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PREMIER LEAGUE : MONDAY – 20/01/2025 (PHOTO – CUCURELLA AND CHELSEA CELEBRATE)
THIS WAS AN EXCITING MATCH FROM LAST NIGHT BETWEEN CHELSEA VS WOLVES, WITH CHELSEA’S TOSIN ADARABIOYO SCORING THE FIRST CRACKING GOAL AT 24 MINS., AND THEN IT WAS OVER TO WOLVES’ MATT DOHERTY TO EQUALISE WITH A STUNNER AT 45 +5 MINS., SO BY HALF-TIME IT WAS 1 – 1! MUCH MORE ACTION ENSUED THOUGH, WITH CHELSEA HAVING A TOTAL OF 567 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY, 63% POSSESSION, AND 19 SHOTS WITH 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANOTHER 2 SUPERB GOALS FROM MARC CUCURELLA AT 60 MINS., AND NONO MADUEKE AT 65 MINS., AND WITH WOLVES MAKING A FURTHER 333 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, AND 9 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET (INCLUDING MATT DOHERTY’S) THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 3 – 1 WIN TO CHELSEA!
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA : FRIDAY – 17/01/2025 (PHOTO – OSCAR HOJLUND CELEBRATES)
THERE WERE 12 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, 705 PASSES, WITH AN 89% PASS ACCURACY AND 68% POSSESSION FOR BORUSSIA DORTMUND LAST NIGHT, WITH THEIR OPPONENTS EINTRACHT FRANKFURT HAVING 13 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING TWO CRACKERS FROM HUGO EKITIKE AT 18 MINS., AND OSCAR HOJLUND AT 90 +2 MINS., CULMINATING IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO FRANKFURT IN A DYNAMIC MATCH!
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – 25/10/2023 (INCLUDING MORE HAALAND MAGIC)
WITH THE NEWS THAT ERLING HAALAND HAS SIGNED A MULTI-MILLION POUND, 9.5 YEAR CONTRACT WITH MAN CITY, WE HAVE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING THE SUPERB CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCH BETWEEN MANCHESTER CITY VS YOUNG BOYS, WITH A CRACKING GOAL BY MANUEL AKANJI, AND THEN TWO MAGICAL GOALS BY ERLING HAALAND, HELPING MANCHESTER CITY TO TRIUMPH 3 – 1 OVER YOUNG BOYS AT WANKDORF STADIUM IN BERN. (YES, I REALLY DID SPELL THAT CORRECTLY!) HE’S DEFINITELY WORTH IT!
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : MONDAY – 13/01/2025 (PHOTO – IVANOVIC HEADS THE BALL INTO GOAL FROM THE GROUND!)
CHECK OUT THIS EXCITEMENT FROM LAST NIGHT’S MATCH BETWEEN MILLWALL VS DAGENHAM AND REDBRIDGE, WITH MIHAILO IVANOVIC SCORING THE MOST AMAZING OPENER, AFTER FIRSTLY FLYING THROUGH THE AIR, AND KICKING THE BALL OFF THE TIP OF HIS BOOT, WHICH WAS WELL-SAVED BY ELLIOT JUSTHAM, BUT REBOUNDED BACK OUT THE FIRST TIME, YET AFTER IVANOVIC LANDED, HE SOMEHOW MANAGED TO GET TO THE BALL ON THE GROUND, ONLY TO HEAD IT INTO-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET! IT WAS INCREDIBLE!! DAGENHAM MADE ANOTHER 317 PASSES THROUGHOUT THE MATCH, WITH A 72% PASS ACCURACY, WITH 4 SHOTS AND 1 ON TARGET, BUT IT WAS MILLWALL’S NIGHT, WITH 475 PASSES, WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY, 61% POSSESSION, AND A TOTAL OF 16 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANOTHER SUPERB GOAL FROM CASPER DE NORRE AT 70 MINS., AND A CRACKING DEBUT GOAL F...
SPANISH SUPER CUP FINAL : SUNDAY – 12/01/2025 (PHOTO – LAMINE YAMAL AND BARCELONA CELEBRATE)
WHAT A FEAST FOR THE EYES THIS MATCH WAS YESTERDAY, WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN FOOTBALL SHOWING JUST WHAT THEY WERE MADE OF! THERE WERE FIVE CRACKING GOALS FROM BARCELONA’S LAMINE YAMAL AT 22 MINS., ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI (FROM A PENALTY) AT 36 MINS., RAPHINHA, (SCORING A BRACE) AT 39 & 48 MINS., AND ALEJANDRO BALDE ALSO SCORING AT 45 +10 MINS., AND WITH REAL MADRID’S KYLIAN MBAPPE SCORING A STUNNER AT 5 MINS., AND RODRYGO SCORING A BRILLIANT GOAL AT 60 MINS., THE SPARKLING SPANISH SUPER CUP FINAL ENDED UP IN A 5 – 2 WIN TO BARCELONA!
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : MAN CITY VS SALFORD CITY – SATURDAY (11/01/2025) (PHOTO – DIVIN MUBAMA AND JAMES MCATEE CELEBRATE)
WELL, WHAT A NIGHT FOR MAN CITY IT WAS LAST NIGHT AGAINST SALFORD CITY! JEREMY DOKU GOT THE BALL ROLLING WITH A CRACKER, AT JUST 8 MINS., (THE FIRST PART OF A BRILLIANT BRACE), WITH DIVIN MUBAMA (WHO WAS MAKING HIS DEBUT) FOLLOWING ON WITH A BEAUTY AT 20 MINS., NICO O’REILLY SCORING ANOTHER BEAUT AT 43 MINS., JACK GREALISH, SCORING A STUNNER FROM A PENALTY AT 49 MINS. FOLLOWING SOME ARGEY-BARGEY, (WHILST ALSO MAKING A GOOD ASSIST, WHICH PEP MADE SURE TO POINT OUT AFTERWARDS), AND WITH JAMES MCATEE FINISHING WITH A HAT-TRICK AT 62 MINS., 72 MINS., AND 81 MINS. (AND JEREMY DOKU COMPLETING THE SECOND PART OF HIS BRACE INBETWEENTIMES AT 69 MINS.) THIS EXCITING MATCH CULMINATED IN AN 8 – 0 TRIUMPH TO MAN CITY! SALFORD CITY FOUGHT BACK THOUGH SHOWING OFF THEIR SKILLS WITH TWO EXCELLE...
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: WEDNESDAY – 23/10/2024 (PHOTO – SENSATIONAL ACROBATICS FROM ERLING HAALAND)
WE HAVE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING ALL THE ACTION FROM THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FROM WEDNESDAY 23/10/2024, INCLUDING THIS ONE BETWEEN MAN CITY VS SPARTA PRAGUE – SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE! WHAT A NIGHT FOR MAN CITY ON 23/10/2024. PROVING JUST HOW WELL THEY PERFORM IN THEIR OWN PERSONAL PLAYGROUND – THE ETIHAD STADIUM! PHIL FODEN GOT THE PARTY STARTED WITH A SUPERB GOAL AT JUST 3 MINS. INTO THE MATCH, WHICH HAD THE STADIUM IN RAPTURES! (WITH MANY SHOTS ENSUING, INCLUDING A TOTAL OF 22 SHOTS WITH 10 ON TARGET FOR MAN CITY., AND 5 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET FOR SPARTA THROUGHOUT THE MATCH), AND IN THE 58TH MINUTE, ERLING “THE HELICOPTER” HAALAND, (WHO HAD BEEN HOVERING AROUND THE GOAL AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT MOMENT, WITH A LEVITATION OF SUCH HEIGHT AND LIMBS IN PERFECT SYMMETRY, THA...
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : SATURDAY – 11/01/2025 (PHOTO – TOSIN ADARABIOYO CELEBRATES)
WE HAVE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING THE EXCITING FA CUP ACTION FROM YESTERDAY! ENJOY! FA CUP THIRD ROUND : CHELSEA VS MORECAMBE 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BRISTOL CITY VS WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : LEICESTER CITY VS QUEENS PARK RANGERS 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BOURNEMOUTH VS WEST BROMWICH ALBION 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BRENTFORD VS PLYMOUTH ARGYLE 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BIRMINGHAM CITY VS LINCOLN CITY 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : MIDDLESBROUGH VS BLACKBURN ROVERS 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : EXETER CITY VS OXFORD UNITED 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS LUTON TOWN 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : NORWICH CITY VS BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : COVENTRY CITY VS SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 11/01/20...
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA : FRIDAY – 10/01/2025 (PHOTO – PATRIK SCHICK CELEBRATES)
CHECK OUT THIS FIVE-GOAL-THRILLER FROM LAST NIGHT BETWEEN BORUSSIA DORTMUND VS BAYER LEVERKUSEN! WITH THE NEWS THAT FOUR OF BORUSSIA DORTMUND’S REGULAR BACK FOUR WERE OUT DUE TO ILLNESS, AND NEEDING TO BE REPLACED BY LESS EXPERIENCED PLAYERS, IT CERTAINLY SEEMED TO PUT A ‘SPRING-IN-THE-STEP’ OF THE LEVERKUSEN SQUAD, WITH THEIR FIRST GOAL COMING IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS FROM NATHAN TELLA TO GET THE PARTY STARTED! THIS WAS FOLLOWED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS BY ANOTHER GOAL FROM AN ON-FORM PATRIK SCHICK (THE FIRST GOAL OF WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE A BRACE), AND THEN IT WAS OVER TO BORUSSIA DORTMUND’S JAMIE GITTENS TO SCORE A BEAUT AT 12 MINS! (SO, WITH 3 GOALS IN THE FIRST 15 MINS. THE CROWD WERE ALREADY EXTREMELY LIVELY AND HAPPILY ENTERTAINED!) AND THEN IT WAS LEVERKUSEN’S...
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : FRIDAY – 10/01/2025 (PHOTO – MORGAN ROGERS SCORES FOR ASTON VILLA)
EVERYONE THOUGHT THAT NEW-MANAGER-ON-THE-BLOCK GRAHAM POTTER HAD PULLED OFF SOME KIND OF TECHNICAL WIZADRY AFTER LUCAS PAQUETA SCORED AN ABSOLUTE BLINDER AT ONLY 9 MINS. INTO THE MATCH BETWEEN ASTON VILLA VS WEST HAM LAST NIGHT, WITH A TOTAL OF 11 SHOTS WITH 2 ON TARGET, (INCLUDING PAQUETA’S), 326 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY. AND ASTON VILLA HAD A TOTAL OF 16 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING AN AMAZING GOAL FROM ONANA AT 71 MINS., WHO FOUND HIMSELF IN EXACTLY THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME FOLLOWING SOME COMPLICATED PLAY, AND EASILY ABLE TO JUST CHIP THE BALL OVER THE LINE AND THROUGH SEVERAL PAIRS OF WEST HAM LEGS. ALTHOUGH THE CORNER ITSELF WAS DEEMED TO BE CONTROVERSIAL, IT DOESN’T TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM THE BRILLIANCE OF HIS GOAL. (SEE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE C...
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE U.S. PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER ON 9TH JANUARY 2025
THE STATE FUNERAL OF THE LATE U.S. PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER ON 9TH JANUARY 2025 WAS ATTENDED BY ALL FIVE LIVING US PRESIDENTS (PAST AND PRESENT), AND PRESIDENT CARTER’S FAMILY, FRIENDS AND IMPORTANT DIGNITARIES. JAMES EARL CARTER JR. (OCTOBER 1 1924 – DECEMBER 29, 2024) WAS AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN AND HUMANITARIAN WHO SERVED AS THE 39TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM 1977 TO 1981, AND WAS ALSO THE 76TH GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA FROM 1971 – 1975. WHEN HE WAS SWORN IN HE SAID “THE TIME FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS OVER”, WHICH WAS A COMMENT WHICH SHOCKED PEOPLE AT THE TIME, WITH MANY ‘SEGREGATIONISTS’ (YES, THAT REALLY DID HAPPEN) FEELING AS THOUGH THEY HAD BEEN BETRAYED BY HIM. BUT HE DIDN’T CARE. YOU WILL HEAR IN SOME OF THE WONDERFUL EULOGIES FR...
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : THURSDAY – 09/01/2025 (PHOTO – BETO SCORES FOR EVERTON)
IF ANYONE WAS WONDERING HOW THE SACKING OF THEIR BOSS SEAN DYCHE WOULD AFFECT EVERTON LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST PETERBOROUGH – THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE, IT DIDN’T! AS IF TO PROVE WHAT A GOOD JOB SEAN DYCHE HAD DONE, THE EVERTON BOYS SCORED TWO CRACKERS, WITH ONE FROM BETO AT 42 MINS., AND ANOTHER FROM A PENALTY IN EXTRA TIME FROM ILIMAN NDIAYE AT 90 +8 MINS, MEANING THAT THE GAME ENDED IN AN EXCITING 2 – 0 WIN TO EVERTON! SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE OF LAST NIGHT’S EXCITING FA CUP ACTION! FA CUP THIRD ROUND : EVERTON VS PETERBOROUGH UNITED 09/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : FULHAM VS WATFORD 09/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : SHEFFIELD UNITED VS CARDIFF CITY 09/01/2025 BY AMANDA WATERS
