Bayern Munich host Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-final second leg, with the tie delicately balanced following last week’s 2-2 draw at the Emirates Stadium. Hoping to properly maintain their home advantage, Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka scored the first goal just 12 minutes into the game and Serge Gnabry equalized six minutes later. Harry Kane marked… Read More »
Paris organizers have big plans for 2024 Olympics opening ceremony – AFP/Florian Hulleu The 2024 Olympics will be held in Paris, France. The French capital is hosting the Summer Games for the third time, the first in 1900 and the second in 1924, exactly 100 years ago. This year’s Olympics will feature an equal number… Read More »
The Blyth Spartans team that won the Ordnance Cup in 1918 You may not have heard of Bella Reay, but she is the most prolific goalscorer in the long and distinguished history of football in the North East, with a remarkable record of 133 goals in just 30 appearances for Blyth Spartans. The goal-scoring skills… Read More »
Russia’s flag bearers Olga Fatkulina and Vadim Shipachev lead the delegation at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games held at the National Stadium known as the Bird’s Nest on February 4, 2022 in Beijing. (Manan VATSYAYANA) Although the United Nations voted last year to uphold the Olympic Truce, the Paris Games… Read More »
US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a cricket stadium in Ahmedabad in February 2020 (Mandel NGAN) Cricket is more than a game in India: Critics accuse ruling party politicians and the sport’s closely connected mega-rich governing body of exploiting its huge popularity for electoral advantage. India will begin voting on… Read More »
Boats on the River Seine, B-boys on the Place de la Concorde and the lure of cold, hard cash promise that the Paris 2024 Olympics, which kick off in the French capital in 100 days, will be a Games like no other. If traditionalists are already white-eyed at bold plans to shatter over a century… Read More »
Barcelona – PSG – LIVE! Barcelona will host Paris Saint-Germain in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final this evening. The two teams, champions of Spain and France respectively, played an exciting first leg in Paris last week, with Barça winning 3-2. This means they are confident of reaching the semi-finals in Xavi Hernandez’s… Read More »
Jude Bellingham has admitted Manchester City and other Premier League clubs had no chance of signing him last summer after Real Madrid’s “unwise” offer. Bellingham faces City in the Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday and had the selection of English teams wanting him when he left Borussia Dortmund and the Spanish giants handed him a… Read More »