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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 PREPARE FOR THE MATCH WHICH MADE HISTORY FOR THEM BY BECOMING PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS FOR FOUR YEARS IN A ROW…!   BY AMANDA WATERS

THE LIONESSES MUST BE FEELING CHIPPER AFTER THEIR SUPERB PERFORMANCE AGAINST WALES RECENTLY! GEORGIA STANWAY GOT THE PARTY STARTED WITH A CRACKER FROM A PENALTY AT 13 MINS., WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY GOAL AFTER GOAL FROM THE LIONESSES. NEXT, IT WAS ELLA TOONE’S TURN TO SCORE AT 21 MINS., FOLLOWED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS BY LAUREN HEMP AT 30 MINS., ALESSIA RUSSO AT 44 MINS., BETH MEAD AT 72 MINS., AND AGGIE BEEVER-JONES WITH THE FINAL ENGLAND GOAL AT 89 MINS! WALES’ HANNAH CAIN SCORED A STUNNER, AFTER A SUPERB ASSIST FROM JESS FISHLOCK AT 76 MINS. ALSO, MEANING THAT THIS EXCITING GAME ENDED IN A 6 – 1 TRIUMPH TO ENGLAND! UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 : ENGLAND VS WALES – 13/07/2025 THE LIONESSES ARE QUARTER-FINAL BOUND AFTER THEIR WIN AGAINST WALES! THE LIONESSES EXPLAIN WHAT...

PSG MADE 601 PASSES, WITH A 90% PASS ACCURACY (HAD 67% POSSESSION), 5 CORNERS, AND 8 SHOTS WITH 6 ON TARGET, BUT NO GOALS IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST CHELSEA LAST NIGHT!  CHELSEA MADE 301 PASSES, WITH AN 80% ACCURACY, AND HAD 10 SHOTS WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING 2 STUNNERS FROM COLE PALMER AT 22 MINS., AND 30 MINS., RESPECTIVELY AND NEW  SIGNING JOAO PEDRO, WHO SCORED A CRACKER AT 43 MINS., MEANING THAT CHELSEA ENDED UP LIFTING THE FIFA WORLD CUP TROPHY AFTER A 3 – 0 WIN! FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP FINAL : CHELSEA VS PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN – 13/07/2025

IF IT WAS TREATS YOU WERE LOOKING FOR IN THE FORM OF INDIVIDUAL FOOTBALLING SKILLS, THEN THE LIONESSES OFFERED A SMORGASBORD IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST JAMAICA ON 29/06/2025! 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 ...

AFTER THE TERRIBLE NEWS OF DIOGO JOTA’S DEATH, IT WAS TOUCH-AND-GO AS TO WHETHER THE MATCH WOULD GO AHEAD AT ALL LAST NIGHT BETWEEN SPAIN VS PORTUGAL! (DIOGA JOTA WAS A HIGHLY REVERED INTERNATIONAL IN THE PORTUGAL MEN’S TEAM, PLAYING 49 TIMES AND SCORING 14 GOALS, AND ALSO A NATIONS LEAGUE WINNER) BUT GO-AHEAD IT DID, WITH THE PORTUGUESE LADIES SHOWING UP AND TRYING THEIR VERY BEST SEEMINGLY TO HONOUR THE WONDERFUL LEGACY OF DIOGO JOTA, BUT OBVIOUSLY WITH HEAVY HEARTS, AMIDST GREAVING AND SHOCKED FANS. SPAIN, OBVIOUSLY REALISING THAT THEY HAD A JOB-TO-DO, NO MATTER WHAT PERFORMED TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY (JUST AS THEIR FANS WOULD HAVE EXPECTED), WITH GOALS COMING QUICK-AND-FAST, WITH A BRACE FROM ESTHER GONZALEZ AT 2 MINS., AND 43 MINS. RESPECTIVELY, VICKY LOPEZ AT 7 MINS.,...

(PHOTO – ‘HONOUR AND GRACE IN DEFEAT’ – JACK DRAPER CONGRATULATES MARIN CILIC) -THIS WAS AN INTERESTING MATCH YESTERDAY BETWEEN 23 YEAR OLD JACK DRAPER AND 36 YEAR OLD MARIN CILIC, WHO SEEMS TO BE LIKE THE CRISTIANO RONALDO OF THE TENNIS WORLD. HIS SERVES WERE SO DIRECT AND POWERFUL THAT THEY SEEMED UNANSWERABLE FOR JACK AT TIMES. IT WAS A RIVETING WATCH, AND JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT YOUTH DOESN’T ALWAYS TRIUMPH OVER EXPERIENCE! STAY TUNED FOR MORE!  WIMBLEDON 2025 – JACK DRAPER VS MARIN CILIC – 03/07/2025 JACK DRAPER SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH MARIN CILIC SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH

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...

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

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...

AS WE WAIT EXCITEDLY FOR THE ENGLAND U21’s TO PLAY THE NETHERLANDS U21’s TODAY, LET’S TAKE A LOOK BACK AT THE SUPERB MATCH BETWEEN THE YOUNG LIONS AND SPAIN, WHERE 3 CRACKERS FROM ENGLAND’S JAMES MCATEE AT 10 MINS., HARVEY ELLIOTT AT 15 MINS., AND A LATE PENALTY BY ELLIOTT ANDERSON AT 90 +4 MINS., PLUS A STUNNER FROM SPAIN’S JAVI GUERRA, WHO SCORED FROM THE SPOT RESULTED IN A 3 – 1 WIN TO THE YOUNG LIONS IN A RIVETING GAME!