Author: Brila

England boss Mark Sampson was cleared of wrongdoing after Eniola Aluko made a complaint to the Football Association about “bullying and harassment”. Eniola Aluko, 30, has not been selected since making the claims in May 2016. The Chelsea player said she also felt “undermined and belittled” by England staff and claims their negative bias contributed to her not being picked. But the FA said an independent report found no evidence of wrongdoing by Sampson or his staff. In a statement on Tuesday, Aluko confirmed she and the FA agreed a settlement earlier this year. BBC Sport understands Eniola Aluko was paid…

Christian Coleman could be the heir to Usain Bolt thrown – despite finishing second at London 2017. All eyes were on Usain Bolt in the World Championships 100m final on Saturday night as he bowed out from the individual race as he won the bronze, with Justin Gatlin taking gold. The former drugs cheat is now 35 and hasn’t got too long left at the top. So is Coleman the next big thing in sprinting? The Tennessee Volunteers young gun ran a blistering 9.82 at the NCAA Championships in Eugene on June 7, his personal best. Coleman qualified for the semi-finals…

Manchester United see Tottenham Hotspur’s Danny Rose as a potential solution to their search for a wide player in the transfer market, as Jose Mourinho continues to assess his options, given the club’s frustrated pursuits of Internazionale’s Ivan Perisic and Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale. The Portuguese would have wanted to sign a wide attacker and two full-backs in this window, but with United only likely to bring in four or five players, the forward role had been seen as a priority. That had seen the Old Trafford hierarchy come close to an agreement with Internazionale, only for the Italian club to refuse to budge on their £48m valuation, while…

CHAN Eagles to face Kanopillars today in a friendly match as they continue preparations for the weekend qualifier against Benin Republic In their last friendly against Kanopillars feeders team some days ago, MFM FC forward Sikiru Olatunbosun and goal scorer Samuel Matthias from Gombe United shone for the home-based Eagles. CHAN Eagles shot in front through midfielder Samuel Matthias after nine minutes. Junior Pillars drew level in the 27th minute through captain Awalu Ali aka Mallam after he cashed in on a mix-up in the Eagles defence. Alhassan Ibrahim ‘Muazzam’ restored the Eagles lead in the 42nd minute courtesy of a superb…

Nigeria women’s table tennis star, Cecilia Akpan, says the aim of the Nigerian team at the Third International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Challenge Open is to make sure the foreign stars do not dominate. This year’s edition runs from August 9th to 13th inside the Molade-Okoya Thomas Indoor Sports Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos. Over 100 players from about 22 different countries will storm Lagos for this year’s edition. According to ITTF-Africa, Akpan, 31, who won the women’s singles title when the ITTF Nigeria Open was test run in 2013 as Lagos Classics expressed delight over the quality of players that will…

Lough Derg Yacht Club’s Aisling Keller took seventh place overall at the under–21 Laser Radial World Championships closely followed by Irish team mate Aoife Hopkins of Howth YC in ninth place overall. The encouraging results achieve at the Nieuwpoort, Belgium venue from 26 July – 2 August followed Euro title success in this age category for Hopkins the preceding week in Douarnenez, France. A result that earned the Howth youth sailor an Afloat Sailor of the Month Award. The event calendar is now so packed its no longer possible to attend all the events. For example,  Hopkins had turned down her invite from World Sailing to attend the Aarhus…

It wasn’t Lionel Messi who received the loudest ovation at Camp Nou on Monday. And it certainly wasn’t Neymar, who is long gone having left for Paris Saint-Germain last week. Instead, it was Neymar’s Brazilian compatriots, Chapecoense, who Barcelona invited to take part in this season’s Joan Gamper Trophy match after last year’s devastating plane crash which killed 71 people, who were given the biggest reception. They were also given €250,000 by Barca as way of a donation. It wasn’t just a noisy reception, either, but an emotional one. The final three players to be welcomed on to the Camp…

It is hardly the most prestigious of competitions, but the Super Cup appeared to mean a lot to Romelu Lukaku as he prepared to take a decisive penalty in Prague four years ago. Looking back at that moment now, at a player who has since become associated with power, composure and a persuasive air of confidence, it is striking to see just how vulnerable he looked. After nine perfect kicks, with Chelsea 5-4 behind to Bayern Munich in the shoot-out, it was up to the 20-year-old, part of Jose Mourinho’s first-team plans after an outstanding season at West Bromwich Albion, to score and force sudden death. His miss,…

Jose Mourinho naturally couldn’t resist it – but then Zinedine Zidane couldn’t completely reject it. When the predictable subject of Gareth Bale’s future came up, Mourinho offered up a bit of pantomime, and added what the Real Madrid manager would have called “gasoline” to the situation. It says a lot about the actual stakes of the Super Cup that this was the primary issue ahead of notionally prestige match between two of Europe’s premier clubs. But then you remember that for all the other angles brought up beyond Bale – Mourinho’s history with Real, Mourinho’s history with Sergio Ramos and Marcelo, Mourinho’s history with Zidane, Cristiano Ronaldo’s…

Could this be why Chelsea aren’t planning to spend hugely any more this Transfer window?