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Ghana’s female Under-20 football team, the Black Princesses will depart Accra later today with a 25-man contingent to Algeria for their Women’s World Cup (WWC) appearance as they begin the qualifiers for the 2018 event to be staged in France. The crucial encounter in Algiers comes off on an artificial turf and under floodlights and host the second leg next ...

CHELSEA’s squad is nowhere near as good as Antonio Conte wants it to be, according to Duncan Castles. Chelsea spent around £200million on new players in the summer, including club-record signing Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid in a £60m deal. But Conte is said to be unhappy with the board’s efforts during the window, according to Daily Record journalist Castles. ...

MANCHESTER UNITED legend Ryan Giggs thinks Jose Mourinho’s side would win the Champions League if they had Gareth Bale ahead of their opening game with FC Basel tonight. Manchester United last won the competition back in 2008, when Sir Alex Ferguson was in charge. Giggs was part of that team – as well as the one that reigned supreme in ...

JOSE MOURINHO and Antonio Conte believe English clubs are fighting with one hand tied behind their backs in the Champions League. Five Premier League teams are in the group stages for the first time as Europe’s top club competition kicks off a new campaign tonight with Manchester United manager Mourinho and Chelsea boss Conte insisting they are all at a ...

The Deputy Sports Minister Enam Pius Hadzedi has exclusively told Starr FM Sports that officials of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) will be probed over the 84, 000 Dollar budget for this year’s IAAF championships. The sports ministry through the national sports authority gave out 84,000 dollars to the Ghana Athletics Association to cater for their participation which included accommodation, ...

The management of the South Africa Football Association ( SAFA) will meet today to discuss the way forward on FIFA’s ruling that South Africa must replay their 2018 World Cup qualifier with Senegal. Bafana Bafana won the match 2-1 in Polokwane last year, but FIFA ordered a replay for November after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld a ...

collated English Premier League results on Sunday: Burnley 1 (Wood 3) Crystal Palace 0 Swansea 0 Newcastle 1 (Lascelles 76) Played Saturday Arsenal 3 (Welbeck 6, 50, Lacazette 27) Bournemouth 0 Brighton 3 (Gross 45, 48, Hemed 63) West Brom 1 (Morrison 77) Everton 0 Tottenham 3 (Kane 28, 46, Eriksen 42) Leicester 1 (Vardy 62-pen) Chelsea 2 (Morata 41, ...

Sloane Stephens, who missed 11 months with a left foot injury before returning in July, reached her first Grand Slam final by outlasting Venus Williams 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 Thursday at the US Open. Stephens, whose best prior Slam run was to the 2013 Australian Open semi-finals, will play the winner of a later match between US compatriots CoCo Vandeweghe and ...

PREMIER LEAGUE scorers aren’t always great value for money – but these bargains certainly are. Harry Kane may have finished last season as the Premier League Golden Boot winner, but he wasn’t the best value for money goal-getter in the top flight. A new study conducted by SBO.net has uncovered the top value players based on their goals to salary ...

MARCUS RASHFORD has hailed his on-the-pitch relationship with Romelu Lukaku for Manchester United. United have made an excellent start to the season, winning three Premier League games in a row, scoring 10 goals and conceding none. Rashford and Lukaku have been instrumental to their impressive opening, with five goals between them and an instant connection on the pitch. And Rashford ...