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  Liverpool will welcome back Mohamed Salah for their Champions League clash with Atalanta on Wednesday night. The Reds’ top scorer is available after missing Sunday’s Premier League win over Leicester following a positive coronavirus test while on international duty with Egypt. Jurgen Klopp confirmed on ...

Kwaito star Mshoza, real name Nomasonto Maswanganyi, died on Thursday morning due to complications from diabetes.   The 37-year-old musician first revealed that she was diabetic in 2014 when she was hospitalised after a health scare. Her manager of 11 ...

  Tottenham moved top of the Premier League after strikes from Son Heung-min and Giovani Lo Celso earned them a statement 2-0 victory over Manchester City. Jose Mourinho celebrated a year in charge of Spurs with a second straight win over old ...

Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola, has hit back at his Tottenham Hotspur counterpart Jose Mourinho, after he accused him of getting Raheem Sterling withdrawn from England duty under false pretences.   Sterling returned to his The Etihad at the start ...

FIFA is to introduce new regulations to protect the rights of women players, including mandatory maternity leave, the world football governing body said on Thursday.   The reforms have been put forward by FIFA’s Football Stakeholders Committee (FSC) and will ...

  Lionel Messi has fired back at claims that he is responsible for Antoine Griezmann’s failure to acclimatise to life at Barcelona, with the Argentine stating that he is fed up of shouldering the blame for failures within the club. The Blaugrana skipper’s ...

Sir Geoff Hurst has offered to donate his own brain for dementia research after watching 1966 team mates die in an “unbelievably brutal” year.   Hurst, 78, the hat-trick hero of English football’s greatest triumph, has seen former team mates ...

Former governor of Abia State Orji Uzor Kalu has said he is considering investing in football and would buy a 35 percent stake in English professional football club, Arsenal FC.   The politician disclosed this via his verified Facebook page, ...

Olympic and World 3,000m Steeplechase Champion Conseslus Kipruto has been charged with defiling a 15-year-old minor in a Kapsabet court.   The world-renowned athlete was charged on Monday, November 16, with defiling a Form Two girl and released on Sh200,000 ...

  Luis Suarez has tested positive for coronavirus, the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) has confirmed. The Atletico Madrid striker is said to be in good health and adhering to self-isolation guidelines. Suarez will miss Uruguay’s World Cup qualifying match against Brazil on Tuesday, as well ...

Kidnapped former Super Eagles player, Christian Obodo has been freed.   Obodo was kidnapped yesterday evening, in Delta state. According to a report, he has now been freed. Confirming his release, Monday morning, a friend of the football star, Engr. ...

  Former Super Eagles midfielder, Christian Obodo, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen along Refinery Road, Warri in Delta State.   Obodo, 36, was abducted by the gunmen when he stopped by to buy bananas on Sunday, the Police Public ...

  United States President Donald Trump brought a “lifelong Leeds United fan” into his latest attack on the media – which prompted a response from the Premier League club. Still railing at his defeat to Joe Biden in the US presidential election, ...

A Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment and r3pe.   Sportsmail is aware of the player’s identity but is unable to reveal it for legal reasons. The incident is alleged to have taken place at his ...

England captain Harry Kane’s Range Rover has been stolen from outside an address in east London, according to reports.   Thieves used an electronic device to open the Tottenham striker’s £100,000 car in Chingford before making off with it, The ...

Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min has been named Premier League Player of the Month for October.   The Korean international saw off competition from Spurs teammate Harry Kane, Aston Villa talisman Jack Grealish, Chelsea defender Thiago Silva among other nominees. ...

Fans at next summer’s Olympics could be banned from cheering under drastic measures being considered by organisers.   Tokyo 2020 bosses are increasingly confident of spectators being allowed into venues when thedelayed Games get underway in July 2021. But they may ...

Italian giants, Juventus are considering cutting ties with forward Cristiano Ronaldo next summer. This is owing to fears that his huge pay is no longer affordable by the club.   Ronaldo joined Juventus from Real Madrid in 2018 in a ...

  Former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto’o is in stable condition after he was involved in a road accident around Nkongsamba-Douala road in Cameroon. Eto’o was said to be returning from a wedding celebration when his car was hit by a public transport ...

Real Madrid have confirmed that Eden Hazard and Casemiro have tested positive for coronavirus. The Spanish champions tested their players for Covid-19 ahead of the Liga match against Valencia on Sunday. Hazard, who has featured in just three games in 2020-21 after missing ...

  Manchester United have made an approach to former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino about him taking over from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the Manchester Evening News reports. The Norwegian has seen his position as manager come under intense scrutiny following a poor start to the 2020-21 ...

  Diego Maradona’s brain surgery was a success and the Argentina great is recovering, according to his personal doctor Leopoldo Luque. Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata head coach Maradona, 60, underwent a “routine” operation for a subdural haematoma on Tuesday. ...

England World Cup winner and former Manchester United player Nobby Stiles has died at the age of 78. Stiles’ family confirmed that the one-time midfielder passed away peacefully on Friday after a long illness. A statement issued by his family ...

  Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo is closing in on a return to the team after testing negative for Covid-19. The Serie A side confirmed the news on Friday in a statement on their official website. “Cristiano Ronaldo carried out a check with ...

    Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has resigned, with the entire board also stepping down from their posts. Bartomeu’s decision comes after several months of criticism in the wake of Barcelona’s 8-2 Champions League elimination to Bayern Munich, as well as Lionel Messi’s ...