Author: Brila

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has said he would rather play against Manchester United on Thursday “without a referee” after City had a goal wrongly disallowed in their 2-1 FA Cup semi-final defeat to Arsenal on Sunday.

Former D’Tigers captain and Owner of Hoops and Read Basketball Club, Olumide Oyedeji has slammed the NBBF and organizers of the Premier Basketball League suggesting the elite division is unsuitable and ‘not operated as a professional league.’

When the Cleveland Cavaliers limped into the NBA play-offs with a four-game losing streak to finish the regular season, some wondered if the reigning champions were vulnerable.

Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone has been given 20 days to respond to an offer from Inter Milan.

Serena Williams is already plotting a return to tennis next year once she has given birth, saying she ‘can’t wait’ to introduce her first child to the players box.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez has been banned from hosting any parties, because her boyfriend thinks they are unlucky.

Puma has unveiled the new boots which Sergio Kun Aguero will wear in Thursday’s Manchester derby. Aguero will be looking to add to his 30 goals for the season when Jose’s side visit the Etihad on thursday and he’ll be taking to the turf in a fresh pair of cleats after Puma designed the Argentine some new boots especially for the encounter. The bespoke evoSPEED boots were personally delivered to the City Striker in a derby-inspired Nissan GT-R. Yianni Charalambous, owner and founder of car customising company Yiannimize carried out the delivery. Culled from Mirror

Nigeria’s sole continental football competitions campaigners Rivers United today arrived the country from Rwanda where they booked a spot into the group stage of the ongoing CAF confederations cup after playing out a goalless draw with Rayon Sports in Kigali to qualify on a two nil  aggregate. Head coach of the team Stanley Eguma revealed to www.brila.net that the experience they had in Sudan inspired the team to do well against a well organized Rayon Sport team despite playing with 10 players for the best part of the game. An excited Eguma says he’s confident the team [Rivers United] will…

Don’t let his pristine looks fool you , but Wilfred Ndidi is actually and indeed a man that lives his life according to the teachings of the good book; carrying no baggage from the past, and leaving his forehead wrinkle-free.

Former Director-General of the defunct National Sports Commission, Gbenga Elegbeleye has sounded a wake up call to the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation.