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The swirling wind and pouring rain that swept around the King Power Stadium last night wouldn’t have been amiss in a make-believe novel. It was the sort of pathetic fallacy, scene setting and foreshadowing that signified a sad end. This felt like it might have been Frank Lampard’s. As Leicester City and Brendan Rodgers paraded […]
In celebration of Newport County’s goalkeeper Tom King scoring last night against Cheltenham Town, we’ve put together a list of five more ‘keepers that got their names on the scoresheet! Jimmy Glass – Carlisle United 1999 This is the one of the greatest stories in English Football. It was the last game of the 1999 […]
Forest Green Rovers fell to a disappointing 3-2 defeat to Tranmere Rovers at Prenton Park on Saturday. Late goals from Elliott Whitehouse and Scott Wagstaff weren’t enough as the Gloucestershire side missed the chance to go second in League Two. Here are five things we learned from the game: Slow starters Only Grimsby and Stevenage […]
Peter Beardsley made over 130 appearances for reigning Premier League Champions Liverpool, winning the Football League First Division twice, while also briefly featuring for both Manchester United and Manchester City in what was an illustrious professional footballing career. Embed from Getty Images The former forward praised the trio of his former clubs and expressed his […]
Embed from Getty Images Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester City swept Chelsea aside with a 2-0 victory at the King Power Stadium, piling even more scrutiny on Frank Lampard who seems to have lost the ability to help his team to a win over tough sides. Goals from midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and James Maddison were enough to […]
Embed from Getty Images West Ham continued their impressive Premier League run with an exciting 2-1 home victory over struggling West Brom. Michail Antonio scored his second in as many games since coming back into the side last week from injury. He now has 41 West Ham goals in the Premier League, with only club […]
Forest Green Rovers head coach Mark Cooper is expecting a “feisty” battle as his promotion-chasing side travel to Tranmere Rovers this evening (7pm). Despite being fourth in the table, Forest Green have won just one of their last five games, and they will be keen to get back to winning ways against a side who […]
Filipino international goalkeeper Neil Etheridge has emphasised the importance of turning around a poor run of home form for Birmingham City that has seen them win just three of their last 28 home games. Embed from Getty Images St. Andrew’s has been home to many weak Blues performances even before Etheridge signed from Cadiff in […]
Embed from Getty Images A big game awaits for both teams this evening, as Brendan Rodgers’ inform Leicester side take on a Chelsea side who are slowly finding their feet following a sticky batch of results during mid to late December. The two sides currently sit six points apart in the league table with Chelsea […]
Embed from Getty Images Tim Paine V Ravi Ashwin India’s victory over Australia is without doubt going to go down in history as one of the best test series of all time. It was full of iconic moments, sadly for Australia captain Tim Paine there’s one in particular that he won’t remember fondly. It happened […]