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A MANCHESTER CITY official apologised to Chelsea after the 6-0 Etihad drubbing on Sunday. A mischievous member of staff at the Etihad mocked Chelsea by playing One Step Beyond at the final whistle. The Madness song is usually played over the public address system at Stamford Bridge – but Manchester City decided to rub salt in the wounds by playing ...

CLARENCE SEEDORF has revealed he was approached over the vacant Real Madrid job last summer – and would be ready to accept if the post was offered again. Real Madrid were seeking a new boss at the end of last season after Zinedine Zidane quit the club. The search began as soon as Zidane confirmed he was leaving the Bernabeu. ...

OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER insists he is DISAPPOINTED that Paris Saint-Germain stars Neymar and Edinson Cavani will not play in Tuesday’s Champions League last 16 clash. Neymar is struggling with a foot injury, while Cavani is struggling with a hip problem and neither will play any part in the first leg at least. While their absence does Manchester United’s chances of ...

Brazil beat Argentina 1-0 on the final day of the South American under-20 championship on Sunday but the result was no good for either side as Ecuador pipped Argentina to the title with Brazil ending outside the qualifying spots for this year’s World Cup. Uruguay and Colombia will join Ecuador, who won their maiden title, and Argentina in the finals ...

MANCHESTER UNITED’s American owners have decided Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is the man to take the club forward and will appoint him as the next permanent manager, according to reports. Solskjaer met with Avram Glazer on Saturday following the 3-0 win over Fulham in London and is now the top candidate for the job. And the Sun report that both Glazers ...

Kacey Musgraves and Childish Gambino led the 61st Annual Grammy Awards with four wins each. Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover picked up the Best Music Video award for his socially-conscious single, “This Is America.” The song also won Best Rap/Sung Performance, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Glover did not attend the show. Country star Musgraves’s four ...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is the new Chairperson of the African Union (AU) for 2019. He takes over from Rwandan Leader, Paul Kagame who has been occupying the position since January 2018. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi according to Ashraf Swelam, who heads a think tank linked to the country’s foreign ministry, will likely focus less on “financial and administrative reform” ...

Up-and-coming UK rapper Cadet was killed in a car crash in England’s West Midlands region in the early hours of Saturday, police said. The 28-year-old, real name Blaine Johnson, was being driven to a gig at Keele University in Staffordshire at the time, Britain’s Press Association news agency reported. A statement on Cadet’s Instagram page, cited by PA, said: “We ...

The Ministry of Tourism has added curvy and sexy Ugandan women to the list of tourism products to attract tourists. Unveiling the initiative in Kampala Tuesday, the State Minister for Tourism, Mr Godfrey Kiwanda, said a beauty pageant dubbed ‘Miss Curvy Uganda’ has been launched to select sexy curvaceous women and the finalists will be selected in June. “We have ...

Liverpool’s Joe Gomez is to undergo an operation in the hope of aiding his recovery from a lower leg fracture, the Premier League leaders announced Monday. Gomez suffered the injury in a 3-1 victory at Burnley early in December. Liverpool’s initial assessment was that Gomez might be sidelined for six weeks, but have now refused to set a specific timescale ...