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Businessman Aka Udofia has offered the Super Eagles the sum of $20,000 for every goal scored in Monday’s 2018 World Cup qualifer against Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions in Yaounde. The businessman from Akwa Ibom State made the promise as he briefly greeted players and officials inside the chartered ARIK Bombadier CRJ 1000 aircraft just before the team took off at the ...

JOSE MOURINHO swapped his usual spot in the dugout for a place between the sticks this afternoon. Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer are both in charge of teams that include a mixture of ex-pros and celebrities. Jose Mourinho is one of the biggest names on the team sheet and prior to the match he was seen showing off his reflexes ...

ANDY COLE does not hesitate for a second when asked the question: Would he swap all his medals, goals and memories for good health? “In a heartbeat,” he said. “What I’ve been through, what I’ve seen my family go through, how distressed they have been, not sure if I was going to come through the other side, I’d swap it ...

BARCELONA director Albert Soler has revealed Liverpool wanted €200million (£185m) for Philippe Coutinho. Liverpool managed to keep hold of the talented Brazilian despite the player handing in a transfer request and asking to join Barca. Having managed to keep hold of Coutinho on deadline day in England on Thursday, Liverpool could have still cashed in on him the following day ...

ENGLAND fans were finally treated to five minutes of the sort of free-scoring football Gareth Southgate’s youthful revolution had promised them. Ryan Bertrand, Danny Welbeck and Harry Kane – the last two instinctive strikers’ finishes from international class deliveries – gave England their biggest competitive win for nearly two years. –– ADVERTISEMENT –– What a shame so many of their ...

It has taken her eight years, but Taylor Swift has finally made it to the top of the UK singles chart. Given the the number of records that Look What You Made Me Do has smashed, it is perhaps not a surprise. The song, her first solo release in two years, has already had huge success on Spotify and YouTube. ...

Tennis star Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl at a clinic in Florida. Williams, 35, whose partner is Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, was admitted to the St Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach on Wednesday. The 23-time Grand Slam winner said last month she was planning to return to tennis for the Australian Open in January. ...

Uefa has opened a formal investigation into Paris St-Germain as part of its “ongoing monitoring” of clubs under Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. European football’s governing body introduced FFP ‘break-even’ rules in 2013, requiring clubs to balance their spending with their revenue. PSG more than doubled the world record transfer fee when they spent 222m euros (£200m) to sign Neymar ...

MANCHESTER UNITED’s transfer business has finished until January and Express Sport is on hand to bring you all the latest news and gossip coming out of Old Trafford. Man Utd News LIVE updates: Express Sport brings you all the latest from Old Trafford Saturday 2 September Perisic clause 10:54: Inter Milan are to insert an ‘anti-United’ clause into Ivan Perisic’s ...

THE EUROPEAN Union’s Brexit negotiators are panicking and have essentially thrown the steering wheel “out of the car”, a think tank has declared. Think Scotland said the European Union was becoming increasingly confused and divided in the face of UK negotiators – whose energy was described as a “welcome surprise”. Consultant Miles Saltiel, writing for the think tank, said the ...