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The Swiss Ambassador-designate to Ghana, Mr Philipp Stalder has presented his open letters to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor-Botchwey, to begin his role as the official representative and diplomatic liaison of Switzerland in the country. He replaces Markus Nicklaus Paul Dugly whose service to his country ended last year. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and ...

A famous follower of the Blues, who is revelling in another Premier League title triumph, believes arch-rivals have become stuck in a serious rut Manchester United are “in trouble”, says Noel Gallagher, with the former Oasis star seeing the struggles of Paul Pogba and Co set to continue as Manchester City go from strength to strength. The Red Devils once ...

Here is your complete guide to United’s 2019-20 pre-season and matches, dates, venues and all you need to know about their summer Manchester United have a packed pre-season tour planned with trips to Australia, Singapore and China ahead of the new 2019-20 campaign. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be looking to bring back the positivity to a Red Devils side that ...

Black Stars Skipper, Asamoah Gyan could be dropped from the 23-man contingent for the 2019 African Cup of Nations in Egypt, Coach Kwesi Appiah has hinted. This came to light when some journalists visited the coach with a prophet at his private residence in Kumasi. The prophet (name withheld) had gone to tell the coach that he had had a ...

Chairman of the Ghana FA Normalisation Committee Dr. Kofi Amoah has revealed that he has asked Black Stars coach to consider calling the controversial duo of Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. Dr Amoah disclosed that Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari have expressed their desires to feature for the Black Stars at the forthcoming ...

Spain’s football league, La Liga, yesterday announced that their clubs had posted a record revenue of €4.479 billion for the 2017-18 season. The number marks a 20.6 per cent growth from the previous campaign (€3.6 billion) and therefore becomes the best in the competition’s history. Crucially, it has not been bloated by a new TV deal given the figures come ...

Mauricio Pochettino is anticipating an “amazing” all-English Champions League final after his Tottenham side took inspiration from Liverpool to stage an incredible comeback to beat Ajax. Lucas Moura scored a second-half hat-trick, and 96th-minute winner, as Spurs progressed on away goals on Wednesday. It came 24 hours after Liverpool beat Barcelona 4-0, having lost the first leg 3-0, to book ...

Lucy Quist, the Vice Chairperson of the Normalisation Committee put together by FIFA to fix Ghana Football after the #12 investigations by Anas Aremeyaw Anas has resigned from the committee. Announcing her decision on Facebook, the former Airtel Ghana CEO said: ” I would like to express my profound gratitude to my colleagues on the Normalisation Committee, FIFA, the State ...

The Dutch side are expected to lose key players to bigger clubs this summer. Jose Mourinho has accused Ajax of naivety after their Champions League collapse against Tottenham. Ajax’s ambitions of meeting Liverpool in the June 1 final were destroyed as Spurs staged an extraordinary second-half revival in Amsterdam on Wednesday, overturning a 3-0 aggregate deficit to progress on the ...

David Beckham has been banned from driving for six months for using his mobile phone while driving his Bentley in London’s West End. The football star, 43, previously pleaded guilty to using the device while driving in Great Portland Street, after being spotted by a member of the public on November 21. His case was initially considered at Bromley Magistrates’ ...