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PREMIER LEAGUE : MAN UNITED VS IPSWICH – 26/02/2025 (PHOTO – HARRY MAGUIRE CELEBRATES)
PREMIER LEAGUE : MAN UNITED VS IPSWICH – 26/02/2025 – (PHOTO – JADEN PHILOGENE CELEBRATES) IPSWICH TOWN’S JADEN PHILOGENE SCORED THE FIRST PART OF A BRILLIANT BRACE AT JUST 4 MINS INTO THE MATCH AGAINST MAN UNITED YESTERDAY, (WITH HIS TEAM-MATE SAM MORSY SCORING AN UNFORTUNATE OWN GOAL A LITTLE AFTERWARDS AT 22 MINS.) MAN UNITED HAD 10 SHOTS WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A FURTHER 2 GOALS, WITH THE FIRST FROM MATTHIJS DE LIGT AT 26 MINS. AND THEN HARRY MAGUIRE AT 47 MINS. (WITH PATRICK DORGU BEING RED CARDED AT 43 MINS., THEREBY GOING DOWN TO 10 MEN!) IPSWICH TOWN HAD 12 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET INCLUDING THE 2ND PART OF JADEN PHILOGENE’S BRACE AT 45+2 MINS., (RETAINING 56% POSSESSION), BUT WITH NOTHING FURTHER REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET THIS EXCITING MATCH E...
PREMIER LEAGUE : SUNDAY – 23/02/2025 (PHOTO – ALEXANDER ISAK CELEBRATES HIS BRACE)
PREMIER LEAGUE : NEWCASTLE VS NOTTINGHAM FOREST – 23/03/2025 WELL, IF IT WAS ENTERTAINMENT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR ON SUNDAY, IT DOESN’T COME MUCH BETTER THAN THIS! A SEVEN-GOAL-THRILLER! IT WAS FOREST’S CALLUM HUDSON-ODOI WHO GOT THE PARTY STARTED AT JUST 6 MINS. AND THEN IT WAS OVER TO NEWCASTLE’S LEWIS MILEY TO SCORE AT 23 MINS., FOLLOWED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS BY ANOTHER CRACKER FROM HIS TEAM-MATE JACOB MURPHY AT 25 MINS., AND THEN ANOTHER NEWCASTLE TEAM-MATE, ALEXANDER ISAK FOLLOWED ON WITH A BRILLIANT BRACE! ONCE FROM A PENALTY AT 33 MINS., AND ANOTHER JUST A MINUTE LATER AT 34 MINS! AND THEN IT WAS BACK OVER TO FOREST’S NIKOLA MILENKOVIC TO SCORE AT 63 MINS., AND WITH HIS TEAM-MATE SCORING A LATE CRACKER AT 90 MINS., (WHICH WAS NOT ENOUGH TO EQUALISE) THIS...
PREMIER LEAGUE : SATURDAY – 22/02/2025 (PHOTO – RASHFORD AND ASENSIO CELEBRATE AFTER RASHFORD’S SUPERB ASSISTS)
PREMIER LEAGUE : ASTON VILLA VS CHELSEA – 22/02/2025 – (PHOTO – MARCO ASENSIO CELEBRATES) IT WAS CHELSEA’S ENZO FERNANDEZ WHO GOT THE BALL ROLLING AT 9 MINS. ON SATURDAY INTO THE MATCH BETWEEN ASTON VILLA VS CHELSEA, AND ALTHOUGH THEY HAD 15 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET, AND 446 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY, NOTHING FURTHER REACHED-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET. ASTON VILLA MADE 484 PASSES, WITH AN 86% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 12 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNING BRACE FROM MARCO ASENSIO AT 57 MINS., AND 89 MINS., (WHICH WERE ASSISTED BOTH TIMES BY MARCUS RASHFORD) SO THIS DYNAMIC MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO ASTON VILLA! PREMIER LEAGUE : IPSWICH TOWN VS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR – 22/02/2025 (PHOTO – DJED SPENCE CELEBRATES) TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR LOOKED PR...
PREMIER LEAGUE : BOURNEMOUTH VS WOLVES – 22/02/2025 (PHOTO – CUNHA CELEBRATES)
PREMIER LEAGUE – BOURNEMOUTH VS WOLVES – 22/02/2025 MATHEUS CUNHA’S STUNNING FIRST-HALF GOAL FOR WOLVES WAS AN EYE-OPENER FOR BOURNEMOUTH YESTERDAY, (FOLLOWING SOME SLIGHTLY EARLIER BAD LUCK WHEN ILLIA ZABARNYI WAS RED-CARDED AT 31 MINS. FOR SOME ‘STUDS-OUT’ ARGEY-BARGEY ON RAYAN AIT-NOURI’S SHIN) LEAVING THEM DOWN TO 10 MEN. BOURNEMOUTH HAD 8 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET AND WOLVES HAD 13 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET (INCLUDING CUNHA’S GOAL), AND ALSO HAD 55% POSSESSION, BUT WITH CUNHA’S GOAL REMAINING THE ONLY GOAL OF THE MATCH, IT ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO WOLVES!
PREMIER LEAGUE : ARSENAL VS WEST HAM – 22/02/2025 (PHOTO – JARROD BOWEN HEADS THE BALL IN)
PREMIER LEAGUE : ARSENAL VS WEST HAM – 22/02/2025 ARSENAL HAD 20 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, AND MADE 642 PASSES, WITH AN 89% PASS ACCURACY, BUT WERE UNABLE TO REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST WEST HAM YESTERDAY. THEY WENT DOWN TO 10 MEN AFTER SOME ARGEY-BARGEY BETWEEN MYLES LEWIS-SKELLY AND MOHAMMED KUDUS AFTER HE KNICKED THE BALL FROM HIM, AND WAS TAKEN DOWN, SO LEWIS-SKELLY WAS RED CARDED AT 73 MINS. WEST HAM MADE 309 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 5 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNING HEADER FROM JARROD BOWEN AT 44 MINS. AND WITH NOTHING FURTHER REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO WEST HAM! MIKEL ARTETA SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH “IT’S VERY PAINFUL. FIRST OF ALL, I CONGRATULATE WEST HAM...
PREMIER LEAGUE : LEICESTER CITY VS BRENTFORD – 21/02/2025 (PHOTO – BRENTFORD CELEBRATE)
BRENTFORD HAD A GREAT DAY AT THE OFFICE YESTERDAY, WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF ENERGETIC GOALS FROM YOANNE WISSA AT 17 MINS., BRYAM MBEUMO AT 27 MINS., AND CHRISTIANO NORGAARD AT 43 MINS. (ALL BEFORE THE END OF THE FIRST-HALF! IMAGINE THE LEICESTER CITY DRESSING ROOM AT HALF-TIME😒) IN TOTAL, BRENTFORD HAD 14 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDED ANOTHER CRACKING LATE GOAL FROM A SPRITELY FABIO CARVALHO AT 89 MINS., WHO HAD JUST BEEN SUBBED OFF THE BENCH, AND LEICESTER CITY HAD 6 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A COUPLE OF SUPERB ATTEMPTS FROM JAMIE VARDY, WHICH HE COULDN’T GET PAST AN EXTREMELY COMPETENT MARK FLEKKEN. YOANNE WISSA CELEBRATES SCORING THE FIRST GOAL OF THE MATCH AT 17 MINS. THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 4 – 0 WIN TO BRENTFORD, BUT THERE WAS ‘MUTINY ON THE HO...
IOC RECOMMENDS BOXING FOR LA OLYMPICS 2028 (PHOTO – BRITISH BOXER ANTHONY JOSHUA WON GOLD AT THE LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS)
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board has announced its recommendation to include boxing in the Olympic Games LA28, pending approval from the IOC Session. This announcement comes ahead of the 144th IOC Session this week, where a new IOC President will be elected. IOC EB recommends boxing for LA28; New IOC President to be elected at 144th Session on Thursday 20 March Additionally, Edgar Grospiron has been welcomed as the new head of the French Alps 2030 Olympic Winter Games, bringing considerable experience and an Olympic champion’s legacy to the role. Meanwhile, updates from Milano Cortina 2026 reveal robust enthusiasm, with 600,000 tickets sold out of 1.5 million, particularly attracting younger audiences.
PREMIER LEAGUE : SUNDAY – LIVERPOOL VS WOLVES – 16/02/2025 – (PHOTO – LUIS DIAZ AND MO SALAH CELEBRATE)
THERE WERE 10 SHOTS FOR LIVERPOOL WITH 3 ON TARGET YESTERDAY (16/02/2025), INCLUDING TWO CRACKERS FROM LUIS DIAZ AT 15 MINS., AND MO SALAH FROM A PENALTY AT 37 MINS MO SALAH CELEBRATES (AFTER SOME ARGEY-BARGEY BETWEEN JOTA AND AGBADOU.) WOLVES HAD 16 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM MATTHEUS CUNHA AT 67 MINS. (AND, INTERESTINGLY, 51% POSSESSION.) IT WAS ACTION GALORE THROUGHOUT – WITH LIVERPOOL MAKING 443 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY, AND WOLVES, 458 PASSES, WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY, BUT EVEN THOUGH WOLVES PLAYED SUPERBLY IN THE SECOND-HALF, THEY WERE UNABLE TO EQUALISE MEANING THAT LIVERPOOL RESTORE THEIR SEVEN-POINT LEAD AT THE TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE WITH A 2 – 1 WIN! ARNE SLOT SPEAKS AFTER THE GAME “YOU CAN NEVER BREATHE IN THIS COMPETITI...
Another Chance To Look At Lewis Hamilton’s Superb Triumph At The Portuguese Grand Prix 2021 Making It His 67th Career Victory…!
On a windy day in Portugal at the Portimao Grand Prix, Valtteri Bottas led at the beginning, followed by Lewis Hamilton, and then Max Verstappen. But shortly afterwards, it must have become apparent once again to Lewis Hamilton just how much of a ‘force to be reckoned with’ Red Bull’s Max Verstappen had become when he overtook him after a safety-car restart, following Kimi Raikkonen sustaining damage to his car… KIMI RAIKKONEN SUSTAINED DAMAGE TO HIS CAR (BELOW) and, also to Max, the realisation of just how much it would take to beat such a great and experienced Champion such as Lewis, when Lewis overtook both himself on Lap 14… LEWIS OVERTAKES MAX VERSTAPPEN (BELOW) and Valtteri a little later on, and thus… LEWIS CHASES DOWN VALTTERI BOTTAS BEFORE OVERT...
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...
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!
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!
