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UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 : THE LIONESSES TRIUMPH 4 – 0 AGAINST THE NETHERLANDS – 09/07/2025 (PHOTO – LAUREN JAMES SCORES FOR ENGLAND)
THE LIONESSES SPRANG INTO ACTION IN SWITZERLAND ON 09/07/2025 AGAINST THE NETHERLANDS IN SPECTACULAR STYLE, WITH 4 STUNNING GOALS FROM LAUREN JAMES AT 22 MINS., AND 60 MINS. RESPECTIVELY, GEORGIA STANWAY (JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME IN EXTRA TIME AT 45 +2 MINS) AND A STUNNING FINISHER FROM ELLA TOONE AT 67 MINS! THE LIONESSES MADE 391 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY IN TOTAL (AND HAD 53% POSSESSION), WITH 17 SHOTS AND 6 ON TARGET, (INCLUDING ALL THE AFOREMENTIONED CRACKERS!) THE NETHERLANDS MADE 368 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 4 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET, BUT WITH NOTHING REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, THE LIONESSES TRIUMPHED 4 – 0! MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LIONESSES!
UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 : SATURDAY – 12/07/2025 (PHOTO – STINA BLACKSTENIUS CELEBRATES)
GERMANY’S JULIE BRAND SCORED THE OPENER IN LAST NIGHT’S MATCH AGAINST SWEDEN AT 7 MINS. JUST CASUALLY ROLLING THE BALL INTO THE BOTTOM CORNER, WHICH MUST HAVE BEEN A BIT OF A ‘HEADS-UP’ FOR THE SWEDISH LADIES AS THE SITUATION DIDN’T REMAIN 1 – 0 FOR LONG! IN FACT, IT WAS ONLY 5 MINS. LATER WHEN STINA BLACKSTENIUS EQUALISED, TAKING THE BALL AND RUNNING WITH IT, AND, QUITE LITERALLY, NEVER HANDING IT BACK AGAIN! NEXT, IT WAS 18 YEAR-OLD SMILLA HILMA HOLMBERG’S TURN (WHO HAS ONLY JUST GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL) TO NET A STUNNER, AND THEN, FOLLOWING SOME ARGEY-BARGEY, WHEN CARLOTTA WAMSER WAS SENT OFF FOR HANDBALL, PUSHING AWAY A BLACKSTENIUS STRIKE ON THE LINE AFTER BERGER HAD LEFT HER GOAL OPEN, GERMANY WERE DOWN TO 10 PLAYERS, WHICH LEFT SWEDEN LIN...
UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 : BELGIUM WOMEN VS ITALY WOMEN – 03/07/2025 (PHOTO – ARIANNA CARUSSO SCORES FOR ITALY)
BELGIUM MADE 381 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 10 SHOTS WITH 2 ON TARGET IN YESTERDAY’S MATCH AGAINST ITALY, BUT NOTHING REACHED-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM! ITALY MADE 337 PASSES WITH A 79% PASS ACCURACY AND HAD 17 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM ARIANNA CARUSO AT 44 MINS! AND WITH NO FURTHER GOALS, THE MATCH ENDED IN AN EXCITING 1 – 0 WIN FOR ITALY! BY AMANDA WATERS
UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 – 02/07/2025 (PHOTO – FINLAND’S KATARINA KOSOLA CELEBRATES WITH HER TEAM-MATES)
ICELAND MADE 308 PASSES, WITH A 68% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 13 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, BUT WITH AN OVERLY-PHYSICAL HILDUR ANTONSDOTTIR FIRSTLY RECEIVING A YELLOW FOR ARGEY-BARGEY AND THEN A RED FOR A CLUMSY TACKLE, IT LEFT ICELAND DOWN TO 10 LADIES! FINLAND MADE 405 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 56% POSSESSION) AND 16 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM KATARINA KOSOLA JUST 12 MINS. AFTER ANTONSDOTTIR’S RED AT 70 MINS., MEANING THAT FINLAND WON THE MATCH 1 – 0. THE FINLAND HEAD COACH MARKO SALORANTA SAID AFTERWARDS “IT’S BEEN 16 YEARS SINCE FINLAND LAST WON AT A MAJOR TOURNAMENT, WHEN THE WOMEN’S EURO WAS PLAYED IN FINLAND IN 2009. SINCE THEN, WE’VE HAD NO VICTORIES AT THE 2013 AND 2022 TOURNAMENTS. I’M VERY SATISFIED TO START...
FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP : MANCHESTER CITY VS AL HILAL – 30/06/2025 (PHOTO – ERLING HAALAND)
YIKES! MANCHESTER CITY ARE OUT OF THE FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP 2025, AFTER A 4 – 3 EXTRA-TIME DEFEAT TO AL-HILAL IN AMERICA! MAN CITY MADE 827 PASSES, WITH A 92% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 69% POSSESSION) AND HAD 30 SHOTS WITH 14 ON-TARGET, INCLUDING 3 SUCCESSFUL STUNNERS FROM BERNARDO SILVA AT 9 MINS., ERLING HAALAND AT 55 MINS., AND PHIL FODEN IN EXTRA-TIME AT 104 MINS! AL-HILAL MADE 374 PASSES, WITH AN 83% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 17 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A SUPERB BRACE FROM MARCOS LEANDRO AT 46 MINS. AND 112 MINS., ANOTHER GREAT GOAL FROM MALCOM AT 52 MINS., AND A CRACKER FROM KALIDOU KOULIBALY AT 94 MINS. THIS MEANS THAT THIS EXCITING MATCH CULMINATED IN A 4 – 3 WIN TO AL HILAL AND THEIR PROGRESSION TO THE QUARTER-FINALS WHERE THEY WILL NEXT PLAY FLUMINENSE ON FRIDAY 4TH JU...
VIEW SOME OF THE SPECTACULAR HIGHLIGHTS FROM DAY 1 OF WIMBLEDON!
WIMBLEDON DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS – 30/06/2025 CHECK OUT THIS SUPERB MATCH FROM THE FIRST ROUND OF WIMBLEDON 2025 ON NO 1 COURT BETWEEN 22 YEAR OLD EMMA RADACANU AND 17 YEAR OLD MIMI XU! AND ANOTHER FANTASTIC MATCH BETWEEN KATIE BOULTER AND PAULA BADOSA
ANOTHER LOOK BACK AT WHEN KATE VISITED WIMBLEDON & THE ROYAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
WITH ANTICIPATION BUILDING FOR A SUPERB WIMBLEDON 2025 IN VERY HOT WEATHER THIS YEAR, IT HASN’T ALWAYS BEEN SUCH A SUNNY AFFAIR! AND ON ONE OCCASION WHEN EVERYONE THOUGHT THAT BAD WEATHER MIGHT RAIN ON WIMBLEDON’S PARADE, CATHERINE TURNED UP, WEARING MINT GREEN AND WHITE, BRINGING HER OPTIMISM AND SUNNY SMILES WITH HER, AND SPIRITS IMMEDIATELY PERKED UP. HERE IS A RECAP OF ONE OF CATHERINE’S HAPPY DAYS AT WIMBLEDON. THE ROYAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCESS KATE AND ROGER FEDERER
TED KRAVITZ MEETS F1 MOVIE STAR BRAD PITT
BRAD PITT (AKA SONNY HAYES IN THE F1 WORLD) SPEAKS TO TED KRAVITZ TO DISCUSS HIS NEW FILM…! HOW ‘SONNY HAYES’ TRAINED FOR THE F1 FILM….!
LANDO NORRIS HAS WON THE AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
LANDO NORRIS HAS WON THE AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2025 (ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER PRACTISE RACES & QUALIFYING THIS WEEKEND!) WATCH ALL THE HIGHLIGHTS HERE – AND STAY TUNED FOR MORE, AS THIS WAS CERTAINLY AN EVENTFUL RACE!! PODIUM WINNERS POST-RACE INTERVIEWS EXCITEMENT ON THE AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX PODIUM AND CONGRATULATIONS ALL ROUND!
EUROPEAN UNDER 21 FINALS: ENGLAND U21’s vs GERMANY U21’s – 27/06/2025 (PHOTO – ENGLAND LIFT THE TROPHY)
WHAT A MAGNIFICENT, AND WELL-ORGANISED PERFORMANCE FROM THE YOUNG LIONS LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST GERMANY! FIRSTLY, HARVEY ELLIOTT NETTED THE MOST SUPERB GOAL IN UNDER 5 MINUTES, WHICH SENT A WAVE OF EXCITEMENT AROUND THE TEHELNE POLE STADIUM TO ALL THE ENGLAND FANS, AND THOSE WATCHING AT HOME, WITH ALL REALISING THAT THIS WAS TO BE YET ANOTHER CLASS ACT FROM THE YOUNG LIONS! AND THEN, IT WAS OVER TO OMARI HUTCHINSON TO SCORE AT 24 MINS., AFTER A CHEEKY PASS FROM JAMES MCATEE (WHERE THEY LOOKED ALMOST ‘IN SYNC’) – CUE HIS SUPERB ACROBATIC CELEBRATION OF A CARTWHEEL AND BACKFLIP, WHICH FANS ADORED! THIS NOW MEANT THAT ENGLAND HAD SCORED 2 GOALS IN UNDER 25 MINS! AND THEN, JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME, (IN STOPPAGE TIME AT 45 +1 MINS.,) GERMANY’S NELSON WIEPER MANAGE...
EUROPEAN UNDER-21 SEMI-FINAL: ENGLAND U21’s vs NETHERLANDS U21’s – 25/06/2025 (PHOTO – HARVEY ELLIOTT CELEBRATES)
WHAT AN EXCITING, AND ENERGETIC MATCH IT WAS BETWEEN THE ENGLAND U21’s AND THE NETHERLANDS U21’s ON THE 25TH JUNE 2025, IN THE SEARING HEAT OF BRATISLAVA, WITH ENGLAND MAKING 405 PASSES, WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAVING 12 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A BRILLIANT BRACE FROM HARVEY ELLIOTT AT 62 MINS., AND 85 MINS., RESPECTIVELY! THE NETHERLANDS MADE 448 PASSES, WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 6 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM NOAH OHIO AT 72 MINS. – WITH 1 YELLOW-CARD-A-PIECE! MEANING THAT THE YOUNG LIONS WON THE MATCH 2 – 1, AND ARE NOW THROUGH TO THE FINALS WHERE THEY WILL FACE GERMANY ON SATURDAY 28TH JUNE, HOPING TO BECOME THE FIRST NATION SINCE SPAIN TO WIN BACK-TO-BACK EUROPEAN U21 CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES! WELL DONE YOUNG LIONS!! UN...
LANDO NORRIS CLAIMS POLE IN QUALIFYING AT THE AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
LANDO NORRIS HAS CLAIMED POLE IN QUALIFYING AT THE AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2025 – WATCH HOW HE DID IT HERE…!
