Sensational Chelsea midfielder, N’Golo Kante emerged the winner of the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year award for 2016-17. It was Tottenham’s Dele Alli who won the young player prize for the second successive year, while Manchester City’s Lucy Bronze won the Women’s Player of the Year award. Kante, 26, beat Eden Hazard, Harry […]
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Manchester United cruised to a routine victory at Burnley to move to within a point of fourth-placed Manchester City. United boss Jose Mourinho made eight changes from the Europa League victory over Anderlecht, among them the return of David De Gea in goal and only Wayne Rooney’s second start of 2017. Burnley, meanwhile, replaced the […]
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Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United side put in a top performance to defeat Chelsea and cut their lead at the top of the Premier League to only four points and the title race is wide open again. United manager Jose Mourinho has suffered this season against the club where he was a three-time champion, losing 4-0 […]
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The season has come to an abrupt end for Liverpool forward Sadio Mane, who will miss the last seven games with a knee injury. Mane, 24, was taken off after colliding with Leighton Baines in Saturday’s 3-1 home victory over Everton. Manager Jurgen Klopp said he was “pretty sure” Mane needed surgery, leaving it “pretty […]
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The Football Association (FA) has handed Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic a three-match ban for his elbow on Bournemouth’s Tyrone Mings. The ban means that the giant Swede will miss the Red Devils’ FA Cup quarter-final at Chelsea on Monday and Premier League matches against Middlesbrough and West Brom. Ibrahimovic will return in the home game […]
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“Champions-elect” Chelsea put in a strong performance to defeat West Ham 2-1 and move 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League table. Eden Hazard opened the scoring on the 25th minute after a flowing counter-attack at the London Stadium and the visitors doubled the score when Diego Costa capitalised on poor West […]
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Tyrone Mings have both been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association following separate incidents during the Premier League game between Manchester United and Bournemouth on Saturday. According to the FA, the incidents “were not seen by the match officials at the time but caught on video.” “Furthermore, The FA has […]
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Leicester City were able to produce a sensational performance after Claudio Ranieri’s sacking, hammering Liverpool 3-1 on Monday Night. It was Jamie Vardy’s first Premier League goals since December 10 and Danny Drinkwater’s stunning volley that handed the beleaguered champions their first victory since New Year’s Eve, as interim boss Craig Shakespeare got his tenure […]
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Leicester City have announced the dismissal of their Italian manager, Claudio Ranieri, less than 10 months after he guided them to the top of English football. The Club in a statement said: “Domestic results in the current campaign have placed the Club’s Premier League status under threat and the Board reluctantly feels that a change […]
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French Ligue 1 club, Marseille have announced the signing of Dimitri Payet from West Ham for a fee of £25 million. The club confirmed Payet has signed a four-year contract and he will be officially unveiled at a press conference at the Robert Louis-Dreyfus centre – Marseille’s training complex – on Monday at 1.30pm. The […]
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