Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri is confident a good turn he did for Fulham coach Claudio Ranieri will not come back to bite him when his side clash with the Premier League’s bottom club on Sunday. Maurizio Sarri Sarri, who will hope his side rebound from the 3-1 reverse by TottenhamContinue Reading
Chinese snooker players Yu Delu and Cao Yupeng have been banned from the sport for match-fixing with the former being given the longest suspension since English player Stephen Lee received a 12-year ban in 2013. Snooker An independent tribunal ruled Yu, 31, will be out of the sport for 10Continue Reading
Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino is not going to let the north London derby clash on Sunday affect his friendship with Arsenal boss Unai Emery. The two old friends will meet for the first time in the Premier League with third-placed Spurs three points better off than the Gunners. PochettinoContinue Reading
Football’s world governing body FIFA is looking in to claims of sexual and physical abuse on the Afghanistan national women’s team, it confirmed in a statement Saturday. The allegations against officials including the Afghanistan Football Federation’s president Keramuddin Karim were reported in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. The AFF has “vigorously” rejectedContinue Reading
A unique European Championships in 2020 that will be hosted in 12 cities across the continent will begin to take shape when the qualifying draw takes place in Dublin on Sunday at 1100GMT. How does it work?UEFA’s 55 nations will be split into five groups of six teams and fiveContinue Reading
The organisers of Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics said Saturday they would continue working to stage a boxing tournament at the games despite a freeze by the International Olympic Committee. On Friday, the IOC said it was freezing preparations for boxing at the 2020 Games and launched a probe into the sport’sContinue Reading
Former Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand has poured encomiums on former Super Eagles captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha, branding him one of Africa’s best footballer ever to have played the beautiful game. FG freezes bank accounts of suspects on ‘looters list’ Rio Ferdinand Rio who is on a visit toContinue Reading
By Dennis Agbo He was in the Flying Eagles. He played for Enugu Rangers and defunct ACB before moving to Germany where he also played briefly before retiring to food industry, acquiring the expertise that made him stand out in the European country. He has lived in Germany for moreContinue Reading
BY ISAAC OLAMIKAN Ex-Nigeria international, Tony Emedofu, has given the thumbs up to the Super Falcons who battle their South African counterparts, Banyana Banyana, in the final of the African Women Cup of Nations, in Ghana today. Super Falcons Sarri concerned by Hazard’s injury woes The left footed player saidContinue Reading
Categories: Football, Social Written By: Jaguar The Super Eagles regained some respect in African football last weekend. They drew with Bafana Bafana in Johannesburg. They had lost in their first-leg encounter in Nigeria a long time ago. Since the disappointment of not going beyond the first round (like all theContinue Reading
