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Why Leicester owner’s helicopter crashed – Investigator

The helicopter crash which killed Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people probably began with a “major failure of the tail rotor”, a senior air investigator said on Wednesday, Metro reports. Tony Cable, a former senior investigator at the Air Accident Investigations Branch, assessed poignant footage of the chopper as it descended from the skies at the King ...

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Nyantakyi’s life ban not surprising – M.anifest

Popular Ghanaian rapper, M.anifest, has described former GFA president, Kwasi Nyantakyi’s lifetime ban by FIFA as not surprising. M.anifest who had the opportunity to watch the Anas expose titled #Number 12, said the level of corruption unearthed in the video gave no less a punishment than a lifetime ban. “We all need redemption but everybody must be responsible for his ...

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Nyantakyi’s successor should learn from the FIFA ban- Brew Butler

Former GFA Chairman Sam Brew Butler has cautioned Kwesi Nyantakyi’s successor to take major lessons from his life ban by FIFA. Nyantakyi has been handed a life ban by the football world governing body, FIFA from all football related activities. The decision by FIFA was based on Nyantakyi’s alleged corrupt acts captured in the Number 12 investigative piece by Anas ...

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Retired women’s footballers association founded

The “Retired Women National Footballers Association of Ghana (RWONFAG), has been inaugurated in Accra. The sole aim of the group, which has been in existence for four years, was to seek the welfare of former female footballers in the country. Madam Anita Wiredu Mintah, Secretary of RWONFAG, who delivered a speech on behalf of Mrs Mercy Tagoe Quarcoo, President of ...

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VAR to be used in CAF Champions League final

Video assistant referees (VAR) will be used in the CAF Champions League final for the first time on Friday when Al Ahly of Egypt host Esperance of Tunisia in the first leg. The system allows off-field referees to assist match officials regarding goals, penalty and straight red card decisions, and mistaken identity when awarding red and yellow cards. VAR has ...

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Turkish Cup: Gyan scores against Pazarspor

Ghana skipper Asamoah Gyan scored his first goal of the season as Kayserispor walloped Pazarspor 6-1 in the Turkish Cup on Wednesday. Ghana’s all-time top scorer was making his first start of the campaign and also provided two assists. Gyan’s countryman Bernard Mensah was also on target for Kayserispor, before his goal on the hour mark, the Ghana international provided ...

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Don’t pay ‘harsh’ GHC2.4 million FIFA fine – Baako to Nyantakyi

The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul-Malik Kwaku Baako, has said if he were the former president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), he would not pay the SFr500,000 (GHS2.4 million) fine slapped on him by world football governing body Fifa, in addition to the life ban placed on him in connection with all football-related activities. The Adjudicatory ...

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Neymar faces six years in prison

A Spanish magistrate leading an investigation into alleged irregularities in Neymar’s move to Barcelona in 2013 said on Wednesday the Brazilian superstar could face up to six years in prison, AFP reports. “The term imposed, in principle, could be between four and six years,” said a decree issued by judge Jose Maria Vazquez Honrubia, a copy of which was seen ...

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