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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
SPANISH SUPER CUP SEMI-FINAL : THURSDAY – 09/01/2025 (PHOTO – JUDE BELLINGHAM CELEBRATES)
REAL MADRID CERTAINLY HAD A GREAT DAY AT THE OFFICE IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST MALLORCA YESTERDAY, WITH A TOTAL OF 28 SHOTS, WITH 11 ON TARGET, INCLUDING TWO SUPERB GOALS FROM JUDE BELLINGHAM AT 63 MINS., AND RODRIGO AT 90 +5 MINS., WITH MALLORCA HAVING 8 SHOTS, BUT WITH AN UNFORTUNATE OWN GOAL FROM MALLORCA’S MARTIN VALJENT IN EXTRA TIME (AT 90 +2 MINS.) THIS ENTHRALLING MATCH ENDED IN A 3 – 0 WIN TO REAL MADRID! SPANISH SUPER CUP SEMI-FINAL : REAL MADRID VS REAL MALLORCA 09/01/2025 WORDS BY AMANDA WATERS
SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP : THURSDAY – 09/01/2025
IT WAS DUNDEE’S OLUWASEUN ADEWUMI WHO GOT THE PARTY STARTED WITH A STUNNER AT JUST 6 MINS. INTO THE MATCH BETWEEN DUNDEE VS RANGERS LAST NIGHT, WITH MUCH EXCITEMENT TO FOLLOW, INCLUDING 12 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, AND 195 PASSES, WITH A 62% PASS ACCURACY FOR DUNDEE, AND 13 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, (INCLUDING A CRACKING GOAL FROM VACLAV CERNY AT 34 MINS) PLUS 639 PASSES WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY (AND 77% POSSESSION) FOR RANGERS! SO LOT’S OF ACTION, BUT NO FURTHER GOALS, MEANING THAT THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 1 – 1 DRAW! SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP : DUNDEE VS RANGERS 09/01/2025 WORDS BY AMANDA WATERS
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...
CARABAO CUP SEMI-FINAL : WEDNESDAY – 08/01/2025 (PHOTO – LUCAS BERGVALL CELEBRATES)
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR HAD A GOOD NIGHT LAST NIGHT WITH THEIR ALL-STAR YOUNG CAST, IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST LIVERPOOL, (APART FROM THE FACT THAT RODRIGO BENTANCUR SUSTAINED AN INJURY EARLY IN THE MATCH, WHEN DIVING LOW FOR THE BALL, AND WORRYINGLY NEEDED TO BE STRETCHERED-OFF). TOTTENHAM’S WELL-ORGANISED TEAM CREATED 9 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, (INCLUDING SOME GREAT EFFORTS BY SON, PEDRO PORRO AND DOMINIC SOLANKE WHICH WEREN’T TO BE), AND MADE 377 PASSES THROUGHOUT THE MATCH WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, WITH LIVERPOOL CREATING 14 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET, (INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM TRENT ALEXANDER-ARNOLD WHICH WAS CLEARED BY RAGU DRAGUSIN), AND MADE 565 PASSES, WITH A PASS ACCURACY OF 86% (WITH 61% POSSESSION.) LUCAS BERGVALL BECAME THE STAR OF THE SHOW IN THE 86TH MINUTE, WHICH GAVE ARNE S...
CARABAO CUP SEMI-FINAL : TUESDAY – 07/01/2025 (PHOTO – ALEXANDER ISAK CELEBRATES)
WELL, WELL, WELL, WHAT A GAME FOR NEWCASTLE LAST NIGHT IN THEIR 2 – 0 WIN AGAINST ARSENAL! THIS MEANS THAT A 70 YEAR END TO A DROUGHT IN SILVERWARE COULD BE IN SIGHT FOR THE MAGPIES! IT WAS THE SEVENTH WIN IN A ROW FOR NEWCASTLE WITH ALEXANDER ISAK AND ANTHONY GORDON SEEMINGLY IN TOTAL SYNC WITH EACH OTHER, WITH ISAK RUNNING RIOT IN THE FIRST HALF, SCORING A BEAUTY AT 37 MINS. (HIS 10TH GOAL IN HIS LAST 9 GAMES) AND THEN, HAVING ANOTHER GO, DANCING THROUGH SEVERAL PAIRS OF ARSENAL LEGS IN THE 51ST MINUTE AND FIRING A BRILLIANT SHOT WHICH WAS WELL-SAVED BY ARSENAL’S DAVID RAYA, BUT THEN REBOUNDED RIGHT INTO A WAITING ANTHONY GORDON’S VICINITY, WHO FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH A BRILLIANT GOAL! IN TOTAL NEWCASTLE HAD 7 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, AND ARSENAL HAD 23 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON T...
PREMIER LEAGUE : MONDAY – 06/01/2025 (PHOTO – MORGAN GIBBS-WHITE CELEBRATES)
THERE WAS A BIT OF FUN OVER AT THE WOLVES VS NOTTINGHAM FOREST MATCH LAST NIGHT, WHEN MORGAN GIBBS-WHITE (WHO USED TO PLAY FOR WOLVES) SCORED A STUNNING OPENER FOR NOTTINGHAM FOREST AFTER JUST 7 MINS. INTO THE MATCH! CUE A DEFIANT CELEBRATION WHERE GIBBS-WHITE PUT HIS FINGERS IN HIS EARS TO DROWN OUT THE JEERS FROM THE CROWD, (WHO JEERED ALL THROUGH THE MATCH EVERY TIME HE TOUCHED THE BALL!) AND WITH WOLVES HAVING 13 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, WITH 61% POSSESSION, AND FOREST HAVING 11 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, THERE WAS MUCH CONTINUING DRAMA! WOLVES PLAYED WELL, BUT WERE UNABLE TO EQUALISE, AND IN THE 44TH MINUTE, FOREST’S CHRIS WOOD SCORED A BLINDER, AND WITH HIS TEAM-MATE TAIWO AWONIYI SCORING A LATE STUNNER IN EXTRA TIME AT 90 +4 MINS., THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 3 – 0 W...
ITALIAN SUPER CUP FINAL : MONDAY – 06/01/2025 (PHOTO – AC MILAN CELEBRATE)
EX-CHELSEA STAR TAMMY ABRAHAM MUST BE FEELING PROUD OF HIMSELF THIS MORNING AFTER SCORING THE WINNING GOAL IN EXTRA TIME, MEANING THAT AC MILAN BEAT THEIR STAUNCH RIVALS, INTER MILAN, IN THE ITALIAN SUPER CUP FINAL 3 – 2 IN RIYADH! PREVIOUS GOALS FROM THE OPPOSING INTER MILAN SIDE CAME WITH CRACKERS FROM LAUTARO MARTINEZ AT 45 +1 MINS., AND MEHDI TAREMI AT 47 MINS., WITH AC MILAN’S THEO HERNANDEZ THEN FOLLOWING ON WITH A STUNNER AT 52 MINS., AND TEAM-MATE CHRISTIAN PULISIC SCORING A BEAUT AT 80 MINS! AND THEN TO TOP OFF ALL OF THIS EXCITEMENT, CAME TAMMY ABRAHAM’S FANTASTIC GOAL AT 90 +3 MINS, LEAVING AC MILAN WITH A FIRM GRIP ON THE ITALIAN SUPER CUP TROPHY, AMIDST AN ABUNDANCE OF AC MILAN TEAM PRIDE AND JOY! (PICTURED) ITALIAN SUPER CUP FINAL : INTER MILAN VS AC MILAN 0...
ITALIAN SERIE A : SUNDAY – 05/01/2025
WE HAVE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING MORE EXCITING ACTION FROM THE ITALIAN SERIE A FROM LAST NIGHT INCLUDING THE MATCHES BETWEEN MONZA VS CAGLIARI, LECCE VS GENOA AND TORINO VS PARMA – ENJOY! SERIE A : MONZA VS CAGLIARI 05/01/2025 SERIE A : LECCE VS GENOA 05/01/2025 SERIE A : TORINO VS PARMA 05/01/2025
