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LEWIS HAMILTON WINS THE SILVERSTONE GRAND PRIX 2024
WHAT AN AFTERNOON IT WAS ON SUNDAY 7TH JULY 2024 AT THE BRITISH GRAND PRIX, WITH THE EXPERTISE OF THE DRIVERS ESPECIALLY APPARENT WHILST NAVIGATING THE INCLEMENT WEATHER AT SILVERSTONE! LEWIS HAMILTON STORMED TO VICTORY IN 1:22.27.059, WITH MAX VERSTAPPEN SECOND (+1.465), AND LANDO NORRIS THIRD (+7.547) LEWIS WAS EMOTIONAL AFTER THE RACE, REVEALING THAT HE HAD FELT LOW AT TIMES, NOT HAVING REACHED THE TOP OF THE PODIUM FOR A WHILE. (WHO KNEW?) BUT HE LOOKED EXTREMELY HAPPY TO HAVE WON AT SILVERSTONE, SEEMINGLY SPURRED ON BY THE SUPPORT FROM THE LOYAL HOME CROWD PUTTING SOME ‘WIND BENEATH HIS WINGS.’ “IT’S THE MOST EMOTIONAL WIN I’VE EVER EXPERIENCED” SAID LEWIS HAMILTON EMOTIONAL SCENES AS LEWIS HAMILTON CELEBRATES WITH MERCEDES AFTER THE RACE HIGHLIGHTS...
CHAMPIONSHIP : OXFORD UNITED VS LEEDS UNITED – 18/04/2025 (PHOTO – MANOR SOLOMAN AND LEEDS CELEBRATE)
LEEDS UNITED PLAYED “WITH STEEL AND RESILIENCE AGAINST A REALLY GOOD OXFORD SIDE” DANIEL FARKE SAID AFTER THE MATCH BETWEEN OXFORD UNITED VS LEEDS UNITED YESTERDAY. INDEED, OXFORD MADE 290 PASSES, WITH A 64% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 9 SHOTS WITH 2 ON TARGET. LEEDS UNITED MADE 597 PASSES WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 11 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUPENDOUS FIRST-HALF GOAL FROM MANOR SOLOMON AT 33 MINS! AND AS THIS GOAL REMAINED THE ONLY GOAL OF THE MATCH, IT ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO LEEDS UNITED, WHO NOW RETURN TO THE TOP OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP! CHAMPIONSHIP : OXFORD UNITED VS LEEDS UNITED – 18/04/2025 DANIEL FARKE SAID AFTER THE MATCH “THIS GAME WAS SO, SO DIFFICULT SO I’M REALLY HAPPY AS WE PLAYED AGAINST A REALLY GOOD OXFORD SIDE. WE HAD L...
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : REAL MADRID VS ARSENAL – 16/04/2025
WHAT AN EVENTFUL NIGHT IT WAS IN THE MATCH BETWEEN REAL MADRID VS ARSENAL YESTERDAY! THE POOR REF FRANCOIS LETEXIER SEEMED A LITTLE FLUMMOXED AT TIMES WITH HIS OFFICIATING, WITH THE RESULT OF ONE DECISION BEING TO DECIDE TO OVERRULE HIMSELF! HE MADE THE DECISION TO PUNISH DECLAN RICE FOR A PULL ON MBAPPE’S SHIRT, BUT AFTER AROUND 5 MINS., HE EVENTUALLY CONSULTED VAR OVER HIS DECISION, (WHICH OBVIOUSLY STOPPED THE MOMENTUM OF THE GAME) AND CHANGED HIS MIND! THERE WAS MORE ARGEY-BARGEY BETWEEN ALABA AND SAKA, WITH ALABA BEING AWARDED A YELLOW (WHICH SOME THOUGHT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RED) FOR A PARTICULARLY CLUMSY COMING-TOGETHER WITH SAKA, BUT THAT WOULD HAVE SEEN REAL MADRID DOWN TO 10 MEN. (WHO WOULD WANT TO BE IN HIS POSITION AT THAT MOMENT?😒) BUT HEY, HO, IT WAS A RIVETING MA...
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE : MANCHESTER UNITED VS LYON – 17/04/2025 (PHOTO – HARRY MAGUIRE CELEBRATES)
WHAT A MATCH THIS WAS LAST NIGHT BETWEEN MANCHESTER UNITED VS LYON – A NINE-GOAL-THRILLER NO LESS! IT WAS ALL-GO FROM START TO FINISH, WITH MAN U’S MANUEL UGARTE GETTING THE BALL ROLLING AT 10 MINS. WITH A CRACKER, AND THEN IT WAS OVER TO TEAM-MATE DIOGO DALOT TO NET ANOTHER CRACKER JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME AT 45 +1 MINS. – WITH LOT’S OF ACTION ENSUING BEFORE MUCH LATE DRAMA! WITH MAN U MAKING 484 PASSES THROUGHOUT, WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAVING 21 SHOTS WITH 8 ON TARGET, AND LYON MAKING 690 PASSES, WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, AND 21 SHOTS, WITH 9 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM CORENTIN TOLISSO AT 71 MINS., AND THEN, CRACKERS FROM TEAM-MATES NICOLAS TAGLIAFICO AT 77 MINS. AND RAYAN CHERKI AT 104 MINS., AND THEN IT WAS BACK OVER TO MAN U’S BRUNO FERNAN...
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE : EINTRACHT FRANKFURT VS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR – 17/04/2025 (PHOTO – DOMINIC SOLANKE CELEBRATES)
FRANKFURT MADE 532 PASSES WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 14 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET IN LAST NIGHT’S MATCH BETWEEN EINTRACHT FRANKFURT VS TOTTENHAM, BUT, UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM, NO SUCCESS IN REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET. TOTTENHAM MADE 362 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 12 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET. IT WAS A FEISTY AFFAIR, WITH 3 YELLOW-CARDS-A-PIECE, INCLUDING 1 YELLOW CARD FOR FRANKFURT’S GOALKEEPER KAUA SANTOS, WHO MISTIMED HIS JUMP AND CRASHED INTO JAMES MADDISON AT FULL-SPEED (WHO STAYED DOWN ON THE GROUND FOR QUITE SOME TIME LOOKING BADLY INJURED.) JAMES WAS SUBBED-OFF FOR DEJAN KULUSEVSKI SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. AFTER THE COLLISION, A PENALTY WAS AWARDED TO TOTTENHAM, WHICH DOMINIC SOLANKE NETTED IN SPECTACULAR FASHION AT 43 MINS! AND WITH SOLANKE’S GOAL R...
UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE : THURSDAY – 17/04/2025 (PHOTO – BODO/GLIMT CELEBRATE)
WE HAVE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING MORE EXCITING ACTION FROM THE UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE FROM YESTERDAY! ENJOY! UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE : LAZIO VS BODO/GLIMT – 17/04/2025 UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE : ATHLETIC BILBAO VS RANGERS – 17/04/2025
UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE : THURSDAY – 17/04/2025 (PHOTO – MOISE KEAN CELEBRATES)
WE HAVE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING MORE EXCITING ACTION FROM THE UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE FROM YESTERDAY! ENJOY! UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE : FIORENTINA VS NK CELJE – 17/04/2025 UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE : SK RAPID WIEN VS DJURGARDENS IF – 17/04/2025 UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE : JAGIELLONIA BIALYSTOK VS REAL BETIS – 17/04/2025
UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE : CHELSEA VS LEGIA WARSAW – 17/04/2025 (PHOTO – STEVE KAPUADI CELEBRATES)
IT WAS A CAPTIVATING MATCH BETWEEN CHELSEA VS LEGIA WARSAW YESTERDAY, WITH LEGIA WARSAW’S COLOURFUL SUPPORTERS THOROUGHLY ENJOYING THE AMBIENCE! CHELSEA MADE A WHOPPING 785 PASSES, WITH A 92% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 16 SHOTS WITH 8 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM CUCURELLA AT 33 MINS! AND LEGIA WARSAW MADE 328 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 13 SHOTS WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A GREAT GOAL FROM TOMAS PEKHART FROM A PENALTY AT 10 MINS., (CUE LEGIA’S MANY HAPPY FANS TAKING THEIR SHIRTS OFF IN JOY) AND ANOTHER FROM STEVE KAPUADI AT 53 MINS. (AT WHICH POINT, LEGIA’S ELATED SUPPORTERS LIT FLARES AND SANG IN CELEBRATION!) THE MATCH CULMINATED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO LEGIA, (4 – 2 ON AGGREGATE.) MEANING CHELSEA WILL NOW PROGRESS TO THE UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGU...
CHARLES LECLERC WINS THE MONACO GRAND PRIX 2024 (PHOTO – PRINCE ALBERT & CHARLES LECLERC CELEBRATE WITH PODIUM)
“A WEEKEND I’LL REMEMBER FOREVER” SAID CHARLES LECLERC AFTER HE STORMED TO VICTORY AT THE MONACO GRAND PRIX IN 2:23:15:554, WITH OSCAR PIASTRI COMING SECOND (+7.152s), CARLOS SAINZ THIRD, (7.585s), LANDO NORRIS FOURTH (+8.650s), GEORGE RUSSELL FIFTH (+13.309s), MAX VERSTAPPEN SIXTH (+13.853s), AND LEWIS HAMILTON SEVENTH, (+14.908s) CHARLES LECLERC CERTAINLY HAD A GOOD TIME ON THE PODIUM AFTERWARDS…! EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONACO GRAND PRIX 2024 THE MOMENT CHARLES LECLERC WINS THE MONACO GRAND PRIX 2024 MARTIN BRUNDLE’S MONACO GRID-WALK
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : INTER MILAN VS BAYERN MUNICH – 16/04/2025 (PHOTO – LAUTARO MARTINEZ CELEBRATES)
BAYERN MADE 542 PASSES, WITH AN 86% PASS ACCURACY, (WITH 63% POSSESSION) AND HAD 20 SHOTS WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING STUNNERS FROM HARRY KANE AT 52 MINS., AND ERIC DIER AT 76 MINS., IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST INTER MILAN LAST NIGHT. WITH INTER MAKING 334 PASSES, WITH A 73% PASS ACCURACY, HAVING 15 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM LAUTARO MARTINEZ AT 58 MINS., AND A SUPERB GOAL FROM BENJAMIN PAVARD AT 61 MINS., (THEREBY EQUALISING AGAINST HIS OLD CLUB) AND SENDING INTER THROUGH TO THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINALS AS THE MATCH CULMINATED IN A 2 – 2 DRAW, WITH INTER MILAN WINNING 4 – 3 ON AGGREGATE! UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : INTER MILAN VS BAYERN MUNICH – 16/04/2025
MAN CITY – PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS – FOUR YEARS IN A ROW….
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…! STAY TUNED FOR YESTERDAY’S PREMIER LEAGUE ACTION…! BY AMANDA WATERS
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : ASTON VILLA VS PSG – 15/04/2025 (PHOTO – JOHN MCGINN SCORES FOR ASTON VILLA)
ASTON VILLA HAD A WHOPPING 17 SHOTS LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST PSG, WITH 9 ON TARGET, IN AN AMAZING COMEBACK, INCLUDING THREE STUNNERS FROM YOURI TIELEMANS AT 34 MINS., JOHN MCGINN AT 55 MINS., AND EZRI KONSA AT 57 MINS. PSG HAD 14 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING TWO CRACKERS FROM ACHRAF HAKIMI AT 11 MINS., AND NUNO MENDES AT 27 MINS., BUT WITH NO FURTHER GOALS, THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 3 – 2 WIN TO ASTON VILLA! (BUT HEARTBREAK, AS THEY WILL NOW HAVE TO EXITE THE COMPETITION AS PSG WON 4 – 5 ON AGGREGATE.) “I’M PROUD OF MY TEAM” SAID UNAI EMERY AFTER THE MATCH
