Saturday 26 May 2018, Champions League final Real Madrid 3 1 Liverpool Benzema 51’ Mane 55’ Bale 64’, 83’ Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale’s bicycle kick highlighted and underpinned Spanish teams’s superiority and triumph over English teams in European finals winning the last seven 2006: Sevilla 4-0 Middlesbrough, 2006: Barcelona 2-1 Arsenal, 2009: Barcelona 2-0…
Chelsea 1 Manchester United 0 E Hazard (22’ pen) FT HT 1-0 Sat 19 May 2018 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium Eden Hazard’s penalty secured Chelsea the FA Cup after they beat Manchester United and a bitter defeat for Jose Mourinho and Manchester United go empty-handed this season. Hazard tore past Phil Jones…
Manchester City have won the Premier League title with five games remaining – their victory over Tottenham on Saturday coupled with Manchester United’s defeat to West Bromwich on Sunday after West Brom striker Jay Rodriguez’s header confirms that Pep Guardiola’ side have clinched it, by 18 times consecutive winning streak of premier games, and beating…
This is the fascinating account of how public schoolboy Jim Swanton and Hampshire burr of the state school-educated John Arlott, the undisputed poet laureate of Test Match Special, two contrasting legendary voices resisted and lamented the rise of commercialised Twenty20 format which swept social and commercial changes that swept through cricket and Britain at large…
Investigative reporters Jeff Benedict of Sports Illustrated and eleven-time Emmy Award winner and Armen Keteyian, in their first major biography of TigerWoods describes the Shakespearean rise and epic fall of American icon and attempted to understand who the real Tiger Wood is and summed up their subject as “the most mysterious athlete of his time,…
International Friendlies Tue 27, Mar 2018, Wembley Stadium England 1 1 Italy Vardy 26’ FT Insigne (87’pen) HT 1-0 England were in lead given to them by Jamie Vardy’s powerful 26th-minute goal fired past goal keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma after Jesse Lingard’s hurridly taken free-kick shocked the visitors out early. England were denied a…
U-19 World Cup Final India vs Australia at Mount Maunganui. Australia 216/10 (47.2 ov) Jonathan Merlo 76, Param Uppal 34, Ishan Porel 2/30; Anukul Roy 2/32. India 220/2 (38.5 ov) Manjot Kalra 101 not out, Harvik Desai 47, will Sutherland 1/36; Param Uppal 1/38 India won by 8 wickets. India’s eight-wicket win over Australia in…
Roger Federer (36) secured his sixth Melbourne crown to equal Emerson and Novak Djokovic with electric five-set victory over Marin Cilic, who was chasing his second major victory after the winning the US ope in 2014. Before Federer won his match 6-2, 6-7 (5) , 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in three hours and two minutes, against…
Cristiano Ronaldo (32) beats Lionel Messi to win fifth Ballon d’Or 2107 award Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to win the Ballon d’Or award for the fifth time – and the second year in a row. Last season, Ronaldo helped Real Madrid t win the Champions League and their first La…
A minibus of Mercedes workers was held up on the Road from Interlagos track as according to Lewis Hamilton “Gunshots fired, gun held at one’s head. But no one was injured. This is very upsetting to hear. It happens every single year here. F1 and the teams need to do more. No excuse. Please say a…