Cristiano Ronaldo busted
A bust of Ronaldo has been installed at the airport in his hometown at Madeira in Portugal. The artist...
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Brazil qualify for Russia 2018
Brazil have booked a berth at Russia 2018 with a 3 – 0 win over Paraguay,their 8th win in...
Messi – less Argentina drop to fifth place
Argentina lost 2 – 0 to Bolivia and are now fifth in the race to qualify for Russia 2018....
Messi gets a four match ban
Very bad news for Argentina. Messi has been given a four match ban for insulting an assistant referee during...
Sanchez gets his own statue
Sanchez hasn’t been in the best of form of late.The folks in his hometown of Tocopilla have tried to...
Southgate takes England one step closer
Jermain Defoe and Jamie Vardy scored a goal each against Lithuania and Gareth Southgate’s three lions are one step...
Ronaldo scores his 70th goal for Portugal
Ronaldo,who had been giving the impression while playing for Real Madrid of late,that he was declining in his goal...
USA’s World Cup hopes reignited
Bruce Arena has taken USA from their last game – which was a 4 – 0 loss to Costa...
Messi gives Argentina a much needed win
Argentina were facing the possibility of failing to qualify for a World Cup for the first time since 1970.However...
Paulinho scores hat trick against Uruguay
Brazil’s success story after the sacking of Dunga continues. Tite has coached Brazil to 6 wins in a row...
Podolski marks his farewell with a brilliant goal
Lukas Podolski scored a spectacular goal in his farewell game for Germany – a friendly against old rivals England....
Barcelona achieve remarkable fair play record
Barcelona have become the first team since the 1970- 71 season to have played 28 league games without conceding...
Bastian Schweinsteiger moves to Chicago Fire
Schwiensteiger’s brief stint at Manchester United has finally come to an end. His 13 years in the Bundesliga saw...
Misery has company: Wenger’s love for Arsenal
Arsene Wenger’s love for Arsenal is beginning to remind one of Kathy Bates character in Misery trapping the unfortunate...
Arsenal’s sliding status confirmed in one sentence
There is every possibility that Arsene Wenger is not going anywhere despite the Thomas Tuchel distraction. A two year...
Manchester United move into 5th place
Mouninho’s Manchester United moved up to fifth in the Premier League as Middlesbrough’s first game since the departure of...
Klopp and Guardiola cancel each other out
Manchester City and Liverpool neutralised each other.Following a goalless first-half at the Etihad, James Milner put Liverpool in front...
Is Cristiano Ronaldo on the wane?
Real Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao 2 – 1 in frenetic hard fought game.Real Madrid are thus five points clear...
Chelsea dream run continues
Chelsea go 13 points clear a the top with another win. They beat Stoke at 2 – 1 even...
When “In Arsene we trust” begins to look like fascism
Another match, yet another dispiriting loss. This time Arsenal crumbled to West Brom, their fourth league defeat in 5...
West Brom thrash Arsenal 3 -1
Craig Dawson scored two identical goals from corners,Sanchez scored one and Hal Robson-Kanu scored another. Arsenal were totally outplayed.WEst...
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..a Happy St Patrick’s Day
Marked to the bitter end
Chicarito has had a remarkable revival of fortunes after after he was transferred to Bayer Leverkusen – becoming among...
Manchester United slip past Rostov
Mourninho caught on camera as he furtively tries to slip a banana to Marcos Rojo. Mourinho went bananas because...
Monaco dump Manchester City out of the Champion’s League
Kylian Mbappe, Fabinho scored in the first half to overcome the two goal deficit that Monaco started the game...
Leicester City keep making history
Leicester City reached the quarter finals of the Champion’s League for the first time in history after they overcame...
Pogba goes missing
Chelsea moved into the semifinals of the FA Cup with a 1-0 home victory over Manchester United in a...
Sergio Ramos does it yet again
Commentator after Ramos' goal: pic.twitter.com/bcE9CEMMeJ — Abdulmanan Shahid (@IAmAbdulmanan) March 12, 2017 “If Real Madrid do end up winning...
Barcelona switch off,lose La Liga lead
Barcelona switched off superpower mode and went back to playing like mere mortals.All the flaws and failings of the...
Suarez did not dive
Luis Suarez has been at the receiving end of much calumny and condemnation for diving to earn a penalty...
Wenger Out changes to to “Wexit”
Theo Walcott,Olivier Giroud,Alexis Sanchez and Aaron Ramsey scored a goal each against Lincoln City and Luke Waterfall scored one...
City go through to FA Cup semis
Grim Guardiola’s men made short work of a hapless and toothless Middlesbrough to become the first semi finalists of...
Glum Guardiola is manager of the month
Guardiola won EPL manager of the month and was less than elated- saying that they probably gave it to...
Henrikh Mkhitaryan helps United to escape with a draw
In sharp contrast to the energy filled,action packed,thrill a minute game between Barcelona and PSG in that historic Champion’s...
Pierre-Emerick hat – trick takes Dortmund past Benfica
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored 3 when Dortmund beat Benfica four zero. The hat trick was timely – making up for...
Barcelona pull off the greatest comeback of all time
“If they can score four, we can score six,” Luis Enrique had said. No one believed him and he...
Zlatan banned for 3 matches
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been cast into the sin bin where he will serve a three-match ban as repentance for...
Sergio Ramos does it again
Napoli had an early lead against Real Madrid and it was looking like they had done enough to get...
Laurent’s loss leads to lamentable exit
In the last game Wenger learned that Arsenal could not manage without Sanchez.This time around he’s figured out that...
Why waste time dribbling ..
Comercial thrashed home side Catanduvense 4-1 down in the third tier of the Sao Paulo regional campeonato over the...
Harry Kane continues incredible goal scoring form
Harry Kane has scored three hat-tricks in the last six weeks (which must be a record in itself) and...
Manchester City stay in the race
Sunderland are on course to sink without a trace – after yet another defeat – this time against Manchester...
Barcelona dream of a CL comeback against PSG
All of a sudden the misfiring forward triad – Messi,Suarez and Neymar have started firing on all cylinders again.The...
Real Madrid manage without Bale and Ronaldo
Benzema and James filled the Ronaldo and Bale shaped void in Real Madrid’s forward line in the crucial game...
Wenger rues decision to bench Sanchez
Wenger kept Sanchez on the bench and Liverpool were 2 – 0 up by half time.Sanchez’s introduction in the...
Mayhem at Old Trafford
United lost a chance to move to 4th position when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Bournemouth.The...
Kostas Stafylidis scores 30 yard thunderbolt
Kostas Stafylidis scored this goal of a lifetime from all of thirty yards out.Second-place RB Leipzig were denied their...
Torres out of hospital
Fernando Torres was knocked unconscious after a clash of heads with Deportivo’s Alex Bergantinos in the 85th minute of...
Barcelona go back to the top
Two points clear at the top after a walk in the park 6 -1 win over Sporting Gijon. Messi,Neymar...
Real Madrid allow Barcelona to catch up.
Zidane will probably be feeling like just giving someone a good head butt.Real Madrid almost lost 3 – 1...
Rooney to Everton ?
T S ELiot said something about returning at the end of all one’s exploring to the place where it...