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Charlotte Carey has been on the Table Tennis circuit since her first Commonwealth Games at the age of 14 in 2010. 11 years on Carey is attempting to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics despite Covid-19 disruptions. The Wales number one was recently named alongside England table tennis trio, Liam Pitchford, Paul Drinkhall, and Tin-Tin Ho […]
Last night was a relatively quiet one for the National Basketball Association, with just two fixtures to report on this morning with the Denver Nuggets downing the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Utah Jazz defeating the New Orleans Pelicans. Denver Nuggets vs Oklahoma City Thunder Nikola Jokic was on it last night, leading his Nuggets […]
Cheltenham Town manager Michael Duff said that Newport County goalkeeper Tom King scoring from a goal-kick was a “freak incident” in the 1-1 draw between the two sides at the Jonny-Rocks Stadium. Exiles goalkeeper King scored from his own penalty area after just 12 minutes, when his powerful goal-kick took a wicked bounce which caught […]
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 […]
Embed from Getty Images The UFC will continue it’s hectic schedule tomorrow night in it’s third stint on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi. Event headliners Michael Chiesa and Neil Magny will clash in the main event, with both men making the welterweight limit of 171 pounds earlier today. Chiesa enters fight week with the momentum […]