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PREMIER LEAGUE : BOURNEMOUTH VS WOLVES – 22/02/2025 (PHOTO – CUNHA CELEBRATES)
PREMIER LEAGUE – BOURNEMOUTH VS WOLVES – 22/02/2025 MATHEUS CUNHA’S STUNNING FIRST-HALF GOAL FOR WOLVES WAS AN EYE-OPENER FOR BOURNEMOUTH YESTERDAY, (FOLLOWING SOME SLIGHTLY EARLIER BAD LUCK WHEN ILLIA ZABARNYI WAS RED-CARDED AT 31 MINS. FOR SOME ‘STUDS-OUT’ ARGEY-BARGEY ON RAYAN AIT-NOURI’S SHIN) LEAVING THEM DOWN TO 10 MEN. BOURNEMOUTH HAD 8 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET AND WOLVES HAD 13 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET (INCLUDING CUNHA’S GOAL), AND ALSO HAD 55% POSSESSION, BUT WITH CUNHA’S GOAL REMAINING THE ONLY GOAL OF THE MATCH, IT ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO WOLVES!
PREMIER LEAGUE : ARSENAL VS WEST HAM – 22/02/2025 (PHOTO – JARROD BOWEN HEADS THE BALL IN)
PREMIER LEAGUE : ARSENAL VS WEST HAM – 22/02/2025 ARSENAL HAD 20 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, AND MADE 642 PASSES, WITH AN 89% PASS ACCURACY, BUT WERE UNABLE TO REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST WEST HAM YESTERDAY. THEY WENT DOWN TO 10 MEN AFTER SOME ARGEY-BARGEY BETWEEN MYLES LEWIS-SKELLY AND MOHAMMED KUDUS AFTER HE KNICKED THE BALL FROM HIM, AND WAS TAKEN DOWN, SO LEWIS-SKELLY WAS RED CARDED AT 73 MINS. WEST HAM MADE 309 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 5 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNING HEADER FROM JARROD BOWEN AT 44 MINS. AND WITH NOTHING FURTHER REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO WEST HAM! MIKEL ARTETA SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH “IT’S VERY PAINFUL. FIRST OF ALL, I CONGRATULATE WEST HAM...
PREMIER LEAGUE : LEICESTER CITY VS BRENTFORD – 21/02/2025 (PHOTO – BRENTFORD CELEBRATE)
BRENTFORD HAD A GREAT DAY AT THE OFFICE YESTERDAY, WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF ENERGETIC GOALS FROM YOANNE WISSA AT 17 MINS., BRYAM MBEUMO AT 27 MINS., AND CHRISTIANO NORGAARD AT 43 MINS. (ALL BEFORE THE END OF THE FIRST-HALF! IMAGINE THE LEICESTER CITY DRESSING ROOM AT HALF-TIME😒) IN TOTAL, BRENTFORD HAD 14 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDED ANOTHER CRACKING LATE GOAL FROM A SPRITELY FABIO CARVALHO AT 89 MINS., WHO HAD JUST BEEN SUBBED OFF THE BENCH, AND LEICESTER CITY HAD 6 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A COUPLE OF SUPERB ATTEMPTS FROM JAMIE VARDY, WHICH HE COULDN’T GET PAST AN EXTREMELY COMPETENT MARK FLEKKEN. YOANNE WISSA CELEBRATES SCORING THE FIRST GOAL OF THE MATCH AT 17 MINS. THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 4 – 0 WIN TO BRENTFORD, BUT THERE WAS ‘MUTINY ON THE HO...
IOC RECOMMENDS BOXING FOR LA OLYMPICS 2028 (PHOTO – BRITISH BOXER ANTHONY JOSHUA WON GOLD AT THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS)
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board has announced its recommendation to include boxing in the Olympic Games LA28, pending approval from the IOC Session. This announcement comes ahead of the 144th IOC Session this week, where a new IOC President will be elected. IOC EB recommends boxing for LA28; New IOC President to be elected at 144th Session on Thursday 20 March Additionally, Edgar Grospiron has been welcomed as the new head of the French Alps 2030 Olympic Winter Games, bringing considerable experience and an Olympic champion’s legacy to the role. Meanwhile, updates from Milano Cortina 2026 reveal robust enthusiasm, with 600,000 tickets sold out of 1.5 million, particularly attracting younger audiences.
PREMIER LEAGUE : SUNDAY – LIVERPOOL VS WOLVES – 16/02/2025 – (PHOTO – LUIS DIAZ AND MO SALAH CELEBRATE)
THERE WERE 10 SHOTS FOR LIVERPOOL WITH 3 ON TARGET YESTERDAY (16/02/2025), INCLUDING TWO CRACKERS FROM LUIS DIAZ AT 15 MINS., AND MO SALAH FROM A PENALTY AT 37 MINS MO SALAH CELEBRATES (AFTER SOME ARGEY-BARGEY BETWEEN JOTA AND AGBADOU.) WOLVES HAD 16 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM MATTHEUS CUNHA AT 67 MINS. (AND, INTERESTINGLY, 51% POSSESSION.) IT WAS ACTION GALORE THROUGHOUT – WITH LIVERPOOL MAKING 443 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY, AND WOLVES, 458 PASSES, WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY, BUT EVEN THOUGH WOLVES PLAYED SUPERBLY IN THE SECOND-HALF, THEY WERE UNABLE TO EQUALISE MEANING THAT LIVERPOOL RESTORE THEIR SEVEN-POINT LEAD AT THE TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE WITH A 2 – 1 WIN! ARNE SLOT SPEAKS AFTER THE GAME “YOU CAN NEVER BREATHE IN THIS COMPETITI...
Another Chance To Look At Lewis Hamilton’s Superb Triumph At The Portuguese Grand Prix 2021 Making It His 67th Career Victory…!
On a windy day in Portugal at the Portimao Grand Prix, Valtteri Bottas led at the beginning, followed by Lewis Hamilton, and then Max Verstappen. But shortly afterwards, it must have become apparent once again to Lewis Hamilton just how much of a ‘force to be reckoned with’ Red Bull’s Max Verstappen had become when he overtook him after a safety-car restart, following Kimi Raikkonen sustaining damage to his car… KIMI RAIKKONEN SUSTAINED DAMAGE TO HIS CAR (BELOW) and, also to Max, the realisation of just how much it would take to beat such a great and experienced Champion such as Lewis, when Lewis overtook both himself on Lap 14… LEWIS OVERTAKES MAX VERSTAPPEN (BELOW) and Valtteri a little later on, and thus… LEWIS CHASES DOWN VALTTERI BOTTAS BEFORE OVERT...
PREMIER LEAGUE – 04/05/2024 (PHOTO – “THE MONEY SHOT” – ERLING HAALAND’S BICYCLE-KICK)
LET’S HAVE ANOTHER LOOK AT ERLING HAALAND’S MAGICAL MOMENTS IN THE MANCHESTER CITY VS WOLVES MATCH FROM 4TH MAY 2024, WHERE HE NOT ONLY SCORED FOUR FANTASTIC GOALS AT 12 MINS., (FROM A PENALTY), 35 MINS., 45 +3 MINS., (FROM A PENALTY), AND 54 MINS., BUT ALSO PERFORMED SOME OF HIS AMAZING ACROBATICS WITH HIS BICYCLE-KICK AND EXTREMELY HIGH JUMPS, (ALMOST AS THOUGH HE WAS ON A TRAMPOLINE), AND WHEN HE WAS SUBSTITUTED LATE INTO THE MATCH (MUCH TO HIS DISMAY), ALVAREZ CAME ON AND SCORED YET ANOTHER GOAL ALMOST STRAIGHT AWAY AT 85 MINS., AND WITH WOLVES’ HWANG HEE-CHAN SCORING AT 54 MINS., THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 5 – 1 WIN TO MAN CITY! OBVIOUSLY, MAN CITY WERE ALWAYS GOING TO BE TOUGH OPPONENTS, BUT CREDIT SHOULD ALSO BE GIVEN TO WOLVES FOR THEIR GREAT DEFENDING, AND MA...
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!
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 : LIVERPOOL VS ACCRINGTON STANLEY – SATURDAY 11/01/2025 (PHOTO – FEDERICO CHIESA CELEBRATES)
“WE KNOW THE SIZE OF THE TASK, WE COULD HAVE THE BEST FACILITIES EVER – BUT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT PLAYING LIVERPOOL” SAID JOHN DOOLAN A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, WHO IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE “PEOPLE” WORTHY OF SALUTATIONS! IN GAMES LIKE THIS, IT IS THE ENORMOUS GENEROSITY OF SPIRIT BETWEEN MANAGERS, PLAYERS (AND FANS) ALIKE, WHICH REMIND US JUST WHY THEY CALL THIS “THE BEAUTIFUL GAME.” IT IS FAIR TO SAY THAT LIVERPOOL “PUT IN A GOOD SHIFT”, WITH STUPENDOUS GOALS FROM DIOGO JOTA AT 29 MINS., TRENT ALEXANDER-ARNOLD AT 45 MINS., JAYDEN DANNS AT 76 MINS., AND FEDERICO CHIESA AT 90 MINS., (HIS FIRST GOAL FOR LIVERPOOL), BUT ACCRINGTON STANLEY TRIED THEIR VERY BEST, PUTTING UP A STUBBORN DEFENCE IN THE FIRST-HALF, AND SOME EXCITING “NEAR...
