Manchester City maintained the pressure on Premier League leaders Arsenal by shrugging off the absence of the injured Erling Haaland to outclass Liverpool with a magnificent display at Etihad Stadium.   City’s 42-goal striker was ruled out with a groin injury, but Pep Guardiola’s reigning champions demonstrated their all-round strength by coming from a goal…

Gabriel Jesus scored his first Arsenal goals since October as the Gunners restored their eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League with a comfortable win over Leeds.   Second-placed Manchester City’s victory at home to Liverpool on Saturday lunchtime had cut the gap to five points, but Jesus’s first-half penalty – awarded for…

According to ESPN Argentina’s Martin Arevalo, Lionel Messi will leave PSG this summer, with the 35-year-old’s happiness being at FC Barcelona. The Argentina captain will do his best to try and return to his boyhood club even if it means that he might have to play for free.   Messi left Barcelona in the summer…

Max Verstappen held off a surprise Mercedes charge in Australian Grand Prix Qualifying to beat George Russell and Lewis Hamilton to pole position.   The reigning world champion became an overwhelming favourite for pole when his Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez crashed out in Q1, but in challenging cool and windy conditions at Albert Park,…

Everton are in serious danger of incurring a points deduction after announcing £400m in losses over the last four years.   Having released their financial accounts for the 2021/22 season the club announced further losses of £44.7m, which might sound minimal, but added to their losses over the past couple of seasons, it could spell…

The All England Club have announced that a ban on Russian and Belarusian players from competing has been lifted, allowing players from those nations to compete at Wimbledon once again.   The club had banned Russian and Belarusian players last year in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war between the two…

Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya knows there’s a lot on the line ahead of UFC 287.   Adesanya will face Alex Pereira in an immediate middleweight title rematch at UFC 287 on April 8th. He’s looking to avenge his loss to Pereira at UFC 281 when he was minutes away from likely winning a…

Flykite Productions, organisers of the newly unveiled NAIJA Super 8 off-season club football competition, have dismissed suggestions that the competition is competing with the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Super 8.   In a statement issued on Thursday, Flykite Productions, explained that there is no division higher than the NPFL in the domestic game and…