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Veteran English manager Harry Redknapp has replaced Gianfranco Zola as the boss of Birmingham City, the struggling Championship club announced on Tuesday. The 70-year-old former Tottenham Hotspur takes charge with Birmingham three points above the relegation zone after a dismal four-month spell under Zola. Redknapp’s most recent managerial post was with Jordan. He last worked in English football with Derby ...

Despite going five games without a win, interim coach of Asante Kotoko insists the team is not under pressure to deliver. Kotoko were tipped to win this year’s league after an intensive recruitment which saw them sign some of the finest players in the country. Their season started with unimpressive performances despite picking up wins but after going 4 games ...

The Champions League is back and the first fixture tonight is a sumptuous one. Real Madrid and Bayern Munich face off in the second leg of the quarterfinals and the elite European competition cannot ask for a bigger encounter than this. A Cristiano Ronaldo brace saw Real Madrid earn a 2-1 win at the Allianz Arena after Arturo Vidal opened ...

New Black Stars coach has called on the Ghana Football Association to have confidence in local coaches. Kwesi Appiah was re-appointed by the football governing body in the country three years after he was shown the exit. After a poor end to Avram Grant’s reign which saw Ghana place fourth at the AFCON and five points behind Egypt in the ...

Former Chelsea stars Michael Essien and Carlton Cole are facing the prospect of imprisonment in Indonesia after their club Persib Bandung admitted it had not acquired work permits for the high-profile duo.Essien and cole were signed last month amid fanfare and made their respective debuts last Saturday in a 0-0 draw against Arema FC.However, the players and their club may ...

Eleven goals in his debut season for Hearts, the brightest spot in a turbulent end to the season for the Phobians and many fans were expectant of greater things to come from Cosmos Dauda. An injury at the tail end of last season ended the Phobians’ dream of a league title but more importantly, it has ended his dream of ...

With Sulley Muntari hardly impressing against Juventus, the defender proved why he could be an asset for Ghana’s new coach Kwesi Appiah Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah would have realised by watching Juventus’ 2-0 win at Pescara on Saturday which player to chase for an invitation back in the Black Stars ahead of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in ...

Manchester United produced arguably their best performance of the season to damage Chelsea’s title charge with a 2-0 win at Old Trafford on Sunday. United boss Jose Mourinho made the controversial decision to bench his star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and in-form winger Henrikh Mkhitaryan before kick-off and handed the captain’s armband to bit-part player Ashley Young, putting the omissions down ...

Red Bull Leipzig completed their remarkable rise in world football by booking a place in next season’s UEFA champions league just 8 years into its inception. The fast improving Bundesliga side dispatched SC Freiburg 4-0 at the Red Bulls Arena to open up an unassailable lead over the fifth place Hertha Berlin. Formed in 2009 under the fifth wing of ...

Jurgen Klopp could not have been more forthright. “Nonsense” was his description of choice as he dismantled the rumours suggesting Liverpool were preparing a January move for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. The same word can be applied to the reported £35 million valuation of the Arsenal midfielder, who will enter the final 12 months of his contract this summer. What exactly is ...