JUST REMEMBERING SOME OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE ACTION FROM APRIL, INCLUDING DIOGA JOTA’S STUNNING GOAL FOR LIVERPOOL! PREMIER LEAGUE : LIVERPOOL VS EVERTON – 02/04/2025 PREMIER LEAGUE : MANCHESTER CITY VS LEICESTER CITY – 02/04/2025 PREMIER LEAGUE : SOUTHAMPTON VS CRYSTAL PALACE – 02/04/2025 PREMIER LEAGUE : NEWCASTLE UNITED VS BRENTFORD – 02/04/2025 PREMIER LEAGUE : BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION VS ASTON VILLA – 02/04/2025 PREMIER LEAGUE : BOURNEMOUTH VS IPSWICH TOWN – 02/04/2025
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...
AS THE EURO’S KICK OFF IN SWITZERLAND THIS EVENING WITH MATCHES BETWEEN ICELAND VS FINLAND AT 17.00 AND SWITZERLAND VS NORWAY AT 20.00, AND WE WAIT EXCITEDLY FOR THE LIONESSES TO PLAY THEIR FIRST GAME AGAINST FRANCE ON SATURDAY IN ZURICH AT 20.00, (PLUS ALSO WALES WILL PLAY NETHERLANDS AT 17.00) LET’S TAKE A LOOK BACK AT THE STORY OF THEIR EMOTIONAL JOURNEY TO WEMBLEY IN 2022 WHICH WE THOROUGHLY ENJOYED FOLLOWING, AND WHICH BROUGHT US ALL SUCH JOY…! ENGLAND TRIUMPH IN THE WOMEN’S EUROS 2022 FINALS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ENGLAND VS GERMANY MATCH ON 31ST JULY 2022
ERLING HAALAND SIGNED A 9.5 YEAR CONTRACT WITH MANCHESTER CITY, A LITTLE WHILE BACK, LET’S GO BEHIND THE SCENES AGAIN WITH MANCHESTER CITY AS THEY PREPARED FOR THE MATCH WHICH MADE HISTORY FOR THEM BY BECOMING PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS FOR FOUR YEARS IN A ROW…! BY AMANDA WATERS
IF IT WAS TREATS YOU WERE LOOKING FOR IN THE FORM OF INDIVIDUAL FOOTBALLING SKILLS, THEN THE LIONESSES OFFERED A SMORGASBORD LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST JAMAICA! FIRSTLY ELLA TOONE SCORED A CRACKER AT 10 MINS., (WHICH WAS TO BE THE FIRST GOAL OF A BRILLIANT BRACE, NETTING THE SECOND AT THE END OF THE FIRST-HALF IN STOPPAGE TIME AT 45 +4 MINS.), THEN IT WAS LUCY BRONZE’S TURN TO SCORE A SPECTACULAR GOAL AT 32 MINS., WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY A REGULAR ‘GOALATHON’. FROM THE LIONESSES, WHICH LEFT LITTLE TIME FOR THE JAMAICAN LADIES TO COME UP FOR AIR! GEORGIA STANWAY FOLLOWED LUCY BRONZE’S GOAL WITH A BEAUT AT 59 MINS., AND ON THEY CAME, WITH ALESSIA RUSSO SCORING ANOTHER CLASS GOAL AT 71 MINS., AND AGGIE BEAVER-JONES’ SPECTACULAR GOAL AT 85 MINS., AND THEN IT ...
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...
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
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
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 (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!
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...
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...