Manchester United teenager Angel Gomes made Premier League history on the last day of the season, becoming the first Premier League player to be born in the 2000s. The 16-year-old replaced Wayne Rooney with two minutes left in United’s 2-0 win over Crystal Palace to enter his name in the record books. Gomes follows up his selection in the NxGn ...

Madrid (AFP) – Real Madrid’s five-year wait to win La Liga came to an end on Sunday as they edged out rivals Barcelona by beating Malaga 2-0. Here, AFP Sports looks at five key fixtures that tilted the title race in the European champions’ favour. Atletico Madrid 0 Real Madrid 3, November 19 Zinedine Zidane’s men travelled across the Spanish ...

Manchester United debutant Demetri Mitchell paid tribute to Jose Mourinho after the youngest team in the club’s Premier League history defeated Crystal Palace. Three days before the Europa League final against Ajax, Mourinho named a team with an average age of 22 years and 284 days. Mitchell and the scorer of United’s first goal, Josh Harrop, were handed debuts from ...

Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) – Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed six people fighting alongside the military in two separate incidents in northeast Nigeria, vigilantes told AFP Sunday. Four of the slain vigilantes were hunting in the bush near a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of the city of Maiduguri when they were seized in a daytime attack. Vigilante ...

Every football fan’s dream come true: to witness your team win the league and then celebrate with the players. Roman Abramovich is no ordinary football fan, but he shares his passion for Chelsea with all of us, in his own quiet, mega-rich, reserved, publicity-shy way. Which makes the rare glimpses we do get of him, celebrating a goal, singing the ...

Boakye Mensa Panin’s 84th minute strike wasn’t enough for vizela to avoid relegation. Vizela has been relegated from segunda liga in Portugal. Vizela amassed 46 points after 42 league games. They join the likes of AD Fafe, Freamunde, and Olhanense whiles Portimonense and Aves have been promoted to the Primera liga Boakye Mensa Panin had this to say ” It ...

A former Minister of State and the Former Editor of the Daily Graphic, Kojo Yankah, has launched a blistering outcry against the penchant of governments to dismiss public office holders and appoint persons of their own stock to fill vacant positions. He questioned what he called “merry-go-round joke in Ghana”, where one government appoints and the other lays them off, ...

Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera appreciates the calls from the club’s supporters for him to take the captain’s armband at Old Trafford but does not think he is ready to skipper Jose Mourinho’s side. Herrera, 27, was recently named Manchester United’s player of the year after producing a number of fine displays this season and has been one of the ...

Asantehemaa, Nana Ama Konadu the III, is committing to the fight against misconception and discrimination against children with Cerebral Palsy. She says the tendency for parents to tag such children as river babies and even kill them in some instances is unfortunate. Nana Konadu made the pledge when local NGO, Kids and Single Parent Care Foundation paid a courtesy call ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama is in India to attend the 52nd Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group. The meetings under the theme: Transforming Agriculture for Wealth Creation in Africa, which begins today Monday, May 22, will end on May 26, 2017. A statement from the office of the former president and signed by his aide, Joyce ...