Anthony Ujah opened scoring as early as the eight minute for Liaoning in the 2-1 win over Chongqing Lifan in the Chinese Super League on Saturday.
Fassou Antoine Pogba, the father of Manchester United star Paul Pogba, has died according to reports in France. He was 79.
Then there were two. On Tuesday night inside the giant shiny-plated Armadillo that is the Juventus Stadium, as the lights dazzled and thrillingly loud American brat-rock split a hole in the sky, 10,000 Italians held up 10,000 plastic cards to spell the word “Cardiff” in vast shimmery letters.
This is, in all likelihood, the first time this has ever happened, and probably the last too.
Divock Origi calls it his “resource” – a memory bank of highs and lows that is extensive for a 22-year-old and drawn upon regularly.
It contains a World Cup emergence offset by European Championship torment, a leading role at Liverpool snatched away by injury and now, as Jürgen Klopp’s team inch towards Champions League qualification, fierce and occasionally unforgiving scrutiny.
The voice is incredulous, as if the commentator is unable to compute what his eyes are telling him. “Look at the clock!” he urges as a tiny Jamaican sprinter, Brianna Lyston, powers clear of the field to win the 200m in 23.46sec. “She absolutely demolishes the record … she has just produced something out of this world!”
It is rare that the sporting exploits of a 12-year-old go viral. But Lyston’s performance at this year’s Champs, Jamaica’s boys’ and girls’ inter-schools championships, was so spectacular that TV stations and newspapers across the globe rushed to proclaim her as the heiress to Usain Bolt.
On a Saturday evening in Leeds, in an anonymous hotel where he winks and shouts out hello to a passing waitress who returns his wave cheerfully, Roberto Durán keeps gripping my arm and cackling.
The 65-year-old Panamanian, who was a renowned world champion at four different weights and boxed professionally in five separate decades, is in a jovial mood while reliving his years as the most menacing fighter on the planet.
When the decisive moment arrived there were a few seconds when Antonio Conte gave the impression he might actually run all the away from the touchline to join in the victory scrum.
Chelsea’s manager made it half a dozen yards on to the pitch before checking back but he did not have to wait too long before he could be with his players and his first season in the Premier League was assured of a happy ending.
Yeni Malayatspor go-to-guy, Azubuike Okechukwu has the chance of helping the club gain promotion to the Super Lig at the end of the season, and the player says it’ll be a “major achievement.”.
