The majority of contracts negotiated at Old Trafford include a clause that sees players lose 25 percent of their wage for finishing outside the top four.
Since refusing to give in to injury to play in the 2012 Champions League final just four months after arriving as a £7 million signing from Bolton Wanderers, Cahill has been one of Chelsea’s most reliable players and characters. But his final season has left him dissatisfied.
FC Zenit St Petersburg are champions of Russia with three games still to go and the squad found out they had won the league while flying home in a plane.
Two former Super Eagles superstars, Emmanuel Amuneke and Finidi George, have joined the train of African legends scheduled to play in the Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode Testimonial match slated for the Agege Stadium, Lagos on May 18.
2019 London Marathon winner, Eliud Kipchoge as a child ran two miles to school on a daily basis, and started as a 5000metres runner, though his track career didn’t quite progress, he didn’t quit, rather he switched to marathon and started his Journey to becoming the greatest male marathon runner of all time.
Sheffield United midfielder Oliver Norwood is hopeful of getting his chance in the Premier League next season after winning a third successive promotion to the top flight.
Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson regarded as one of the finest fighters ever to reign supreme in boxing, has spoken of his remorse at ‘putting down a lot of fighters’ during his storied professional career.
The Nigeria Football Federation and Federation of International Football Association have paid glowing tribute to the late former Super Eagles forward Rashidi Yekini seven years after his demise.
Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) president, Amaju Pinnick has given words of assurance on getting top notch medical care for ailing former Green Eagles’ captain, Christian Chukwu.
Speaking to brila.net, Pinnick served updates on moves being made to fly Chukwu to London for further medical treatment noting that everything had been done to get him in a very stable condition and he would be leaving for the UK next weekend.
“We are working hard on Christian Chukwu’s situation and I’m very much in touch with the hospital and Peter Thomas of the British Deputy High Commission in Lagos so we are seriously on top of things. We are looking at him leaving before next weekend”, he revealed.
Christian Chukwu captained Nigeria to her first ever football success when the then Green Eagles won the African Nations Cup in 1980 and he deservedly earned the nickname, ‘Chairman’ for his authority and commanding presence in the Eagles’ defence.
Ahead of Chelsea’s 2019 Europa league semi-final game, Chelsea fans got a feel of the 2019/2020 season on Thursday as the club revealed a bold new Nike home kit with Eden Hazard front and center of the promo shots on their social media accounts.