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Football – Premiere League Highlights From 18th & 19th February 2023 (Photo Marcus Rashford Celebrates)
Another Look Back At The Premiere League Highlights From The 18th & 19th February 2023, Where Marcus Rashford Scored His 100th Goal For Manchester United! What An Exciting Weekend Of Football It Was…! MANCHESTER UNITED VS LEICESTER – 19/02/2023 TOTTENHAM VS WEST HAM – 19/02/2023 NEWCASTLE VS LIVERPOOL – 18/02/2023 BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION VS FULHAM – 18/02/2023 BRENTFORD VS CRYSTAL PALACE – 18/02/2023 ARSENAL VS ASTON VILLA – 18/02/2023 CHELSEA VS SOUTHAMPTON – 18/02/23 EVERTON VS LEEDS UNITED – 18/02/2023 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS VS BOURNEMOUTH – 18/02/2023 NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS MANCHESTER CITY – 18/02/2023
A LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE OF FOOTBALLING LEGEND DENIS LAW
AS THE FUNERAL OF DENIS LAW TAKES PLACE TODAY (11/02/2025), LET’S TAKE A LOOK BACK AT HIS EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND FOOTBALLING SKILLS….! “DENIS LAW COULD DANCE ON EGGSHELLS” – BILL SHANKLY….. WITH THE TERRIBLY SAD NEWS THAT MUCH-LOVED FOOTBALLING LEGEND DENIS LAW PASSED AWAY ON 17th JANUARY 2025, WE WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM…. DENIS LAW WAS A SCOTTISH FOOTBALLER WHO BEGAN AT HUDDERSFIELD TOWN IN 1956. AFTER FOUR YEARS THERE, HE WAS SIGNED BY MANCHESTER CITY FOR AN ESTIMATED £55,000 (WHICH, AT THE TIME, SET A NEW BRITISH RECORD!) HE WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO TORINO FOR £110,000, WHICH AGAIN, SET A NEW RECORD TRANSFER FEE INVOLVING A BRITISH PLAYER! HE PLAYED WELL THERE, BUT FOUND IT HARD TO SETTLE IN ITALY, AND WAS TRANSFERRED BACK TO MANCHESTER UN...
PREMIER LEAGUE : SUNDAY – CHELSEA VS MANCHESTER CITY – 18/08/2024
WITH MUCH TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT RAHEEM STERLING WAS LEFT OUT OF CHELSEA’S SQUAD WHILST PLAYING AGAINST MANCHESTER CITY ON 18/08/2024 (INCLUDING FROM HIS OWN CAMP WHO SAY THEY WOULD LIKE “FURTHER CLARITY” ABOUT HIS FUTURE IN THE CLUB) IT DIDN’T DAMPEN THE FACT THAT CHELSEA WERE PLAYING MANCHESTER CITY IN THE NEW SEASON OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE ON A GLORIOUSLY SUNNY AFTERNOON! CHELSEA HAD 10 SHOTS, WITH 3 SHOTS ON TARGET, AND MAN CITY 11 SHOTS, WITH 5 SHOTS ON TARGET, INCLUDING 2 STUNNING GOALS, FROM ERLING HAALAND AT 18 MINS., AND MATEO KOVACIC AT 84 MINS., MEANING THAT THIS SUPERB GAME CULMINATED IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO MANCHESTER CITY, WITH A FANTASTIC START TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON! BY AMANDA WATERS
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA : FRIDAY – 24/01/2025 (PHOTO – STEVEN SKRZYBSKI CELEBRATES)
THIS WAS AN INTERESTING ALL-ACTION MATCH LAST NIGHT FROM THE GERMAN BUNDESLIGA BETWEEN WOLFSBURG VS HOLSTEIN KIEL, WHERE THERE WERE 22 SHOTS FOR WOLFSBURG, WITH 71% POSSESSION, AND 5 GOALS ON TARGET, INCLUDING 2 CRACKERS FROM PATRICK WIMMER AT 50 MINS., AND JONAS WIND AT 53 MINS., AND WITH HOLSTEIN KIEL HAVING 5 SHOTS, WITH 2 GOALS ON TARGET FROM DAVID ZEC AT 13 MINS., AND STEVEN SKRZYBSKI AT 80 MINS., THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 2 DRAW!
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...
PREMIER LEAGUE : MONDAY – 20/01/2025 (PHOTO – CUCURELLA AND CHELSEA CELEBRATE)
THIS WAS AN EXCITING MATCH FROM LAST NIGHT BETWEEN CHELSEA VS WOLVES, WITH CHELSEA’S TOSIN ADARABIOYO SCORING THE FIRST CRACKING GOAL AT 24 MINS., AND THEN IT WAS OVER TO WOLVES’ MATT DOHERTY TO EQUALISE WITH A STUNNER AT 45 +5 MINS., SO BY HALF-TIME IT WAS 1 – 1! MUCH MORE ACTION ENSUED THOUGH, WITH CHELSEA HAVING A TOTAL OF 567 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY, 63% POSSESSION, AND 19 SHOTS WITH 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANOTHER 2 SUPERB GOALS FROM MARC CUCURELLA AT 60 MINS., AND NONO MADUEKE AT 65 MINS., AND WITH WOLVES MAKING A FURTHER 333 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, AND 9 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET (INCLUDING MATT DOHERTY’S) THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 3 – 1 WIN TO CHELSEA!
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA : FRIDAY – 17/01/2025 (PHOTO – OSCAR HOJLUND CELEBRATES)
THERE WERE 12 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, 705 PASSES, WITH AN 89% PASS ACCURACY AND 68% POSSESSION FOR BORUSSIA DORTMUND LAST NIGHT, WITH THEIR OPPONENTS EINTRACHT FRANKFURT HAVING 13 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING TWO CRACKERS FROM HUGO EKITIKE AT 18 MINS., AND OSCAR HOJLUND AT 90 +2 MINS., CULMINATING IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO FRANKFURT IN A DYNAMIC MATCH!
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!
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : MONDAY – 13/01/2025 (PHOTO – IVANOVIC HEADS THE BALL INTO GOAL FROM THE GROUND!)
CHECK OUT THIS EXCITEMENT FROM LAST NIGHT’S MATCH BETWEEN MILLWALL VS DAGENHAM AND REDBRIDGE, WITH MIHAILO IVANOVIC SCORING THE MOST AMAZING OPENER, AFTER FIRSTLY FLYING THROUGH THE AIR, AND KICKING THE BALL OFF THE TIP OF HIS BOOT, WHICH WAS WELL-SAVED BY ELLIOT JUSTHAM, BUT REBOUNDED BACK OUT THE FIRST TIME, YET AFTER IVANOVIC LANDED, HE SOMEHOW MANAGED TO GET TO THE BALL ON THE GROUND, ONLY TO HEAD IT INTO-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET! IT WAS INCREDIBLE!! DAGENHAM MADE ANOTHER 317 PASSES THROUGHOUT THE MATCH, WITH A 72% PASS ACCURACY, WITH 4 SHOTS AND 1 ON TARGET, BUT IT WAS MILLWALL’S NIGHT, WITH 475 PASSES, WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY, 61% POSSESSION, AND A TOTAL OF 16 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANOTHER SUPERB GOAL FROM CASPER DE NORRE AT 70 MINS., AND A CRACKING DEBUT GOAL F...
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...
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : SATURDAY – 11/01/2025 (PHOTO – TOSIN ADARABIOYO CELEBRATES)
WE HAVE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING THE EXCITING FA CUP ACTION FROM YESTERDAY! ENJOY! FA CUP THIRD ROUND : CHELSEA VS MORECAMBE 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BRISTOL CITY VS WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : LEICESTER CITY VS QUEENS PARK RANGERS 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BOURNEMOUTH VS WEST BROMWICH ALBION 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BRENTFORD VS PLYMOUTH ARGYLE 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BIRMINGHAM CITY VS LINCOLN CITY 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : MIDDLESBROUGH VS BLACKBURN ROVERS 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : EXETER CITY VS OXFORD UNITED 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS LUTON TOWN 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : NORWICH CITY VS BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : COVENTRY CITY VS SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 11/01/20...
