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Anthony Joshua cemented his status as the best pound for pound heavyweight boxer on the planet after overpowering a resilient and determined Carlos Takam in front of a brimming Principality Stadium.
Nemanja Matic has reiterated that Manchester United are title challengers after they edged past Tottenham at Old Trafford. The Serbian midfielder was named Sky Sports’ Man of the Match in a game where he helped shut down Spurs before Anthony Martial sprung from the bench to grab a late winner for the hosts. “This is one of the best teams in the league,” Matic said of Spurs. Thankfully we managed to score a goal to win this important game. It was a great game and the most important is that we won it. “They had more of the ball in…
England have beaten Spain 5-2 to win the Under-17s World Cup, with Manchester City’s Phil Foden inspiring an incredible comeback victory at the Salt Lake Stadium in India to emulate the Under-20s success earlier this summer. Sergio Gomez’s first-half double had given Spain Under-17s a commanding lead, leaving the England Under-17s staring at World Cup heartbreak unless they could manufacture an almighty comeback. However, fresh from his hat-trick against Brazil in the semi-finals, Liverpool striker Rhian Brewster struck just before half-time to give England hope of a turnaround, and he was joined on the score-sheet by Morgan Gibbs-White, with the…
“What animal/thing flies at the same altitude as a plane and can cause this???” tweeted Oklahoma City Thunder’s Spanish player Álex Abrines after the NBA team’s plane suffered major damage in mid-air on Friday night.
After the switch of opponent, change in tactics, big weight gain and several sessions walking through hordes of fans kissing babies, it is time for Anthony Joshua to strip and fight. Joshua defends his world heavyweight belts against Carlos Takam, who is either the luckiest or the unluckiest man in boxing, in Cardiff on Saturday night in front of 78,000 in a fight increasingly being condemned as a mismatch. Takam took the fight at short notice, is a long way short of peak, but an equal distance from being the sacrificial lamb of some perverted narratives. Takam received a hefty…
Tiger Woods has pleaded guilty to reckless driving and agreed to enter a diversion programme to settle a charge of driving under the influence. The terms of the agreement require Tiger Woods to spend a year on probation and undergo regular drugs tests, according to the Associated Press. In May the star golfer was found passed out in his car in Jupiter, Florida early in the morning and was subsequently arrested. A police report said officers awoke the slumbering Tiger Woods and found him to be “confused” and exhibiting “extremely slow and slurred speech”. At the time Woods was recovering…
Former Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester City, Blackburn Rovers, Coventry city goal poacher, Yakubu Aiyegbeni has joined the world heavyweight champion in the gym, is he on the verge of dumping the soccer boots for boxing gloves?
Players of protesting Taraba FC and Taraba Queens have alleged that they were assaulted by Policemen during a peaceful protest on Wednesday.
Harry Kane has been ruled out of Tottenham’s match at Manchester United on Saturday with a minor hamstring strain sustained against Liverpool last weekend.
