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FA Cup: Highest Goal Scorers This Season (See top 20)

January 26, 2020 9:28 am

Ahead of Arsenal’s FA Cup fourth round clash against Bournemouth on Monday night, below are the highest goal scorers in the competition so far.

Carlisle’s Harry McKirdy and Solihull Moors’ Jimmy Ball are currently on top of the goal chart with 5 goals each.

Blackpool’s Nathan Delfouneso has 4 goals alongside Port Vale’s Tom Pope and Tranmere’s Morgan Ferrier.

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FA Cup highest goal scorers:

5 goals: Harry McKirdy (Carlisle), Jimmy Ball (Solihull Moors)

4 goals: Nathan Delfouneso (Blackpool), Tom Pope (Port Vale), Morgan Ferrier (Tranmere)

3 goals: Nathan Thomas …

Golden Globes Rev Up Award Season

January 3, 2020 2:51 pm

Hollywood’s biggest stars gather Sunday for the glitzy Golden Globes, the first major awards show of a packed season that looks set to mark Netflix’s coming-of-age in Tinseltown.

The celebrity-filled gala in Beverly Hills is billed as the most raucous event in the showbiz calendar, where success helps create buzz ahead of next month’s Oscars.

Netflix garnered an overwhelming 34 Globe nominations across film and television categories, and is the hot favorite to win several major gongs at the champagne-soaked ceremony.

The streaming giant has two frontrunners for the night’s top film prize, best drama — Martin Scorsese’s gangster …

Season Over For Austria’s Reichelt, Career At Risk

December 29, 2019 5:15 pm

Veteran alpine skier Hannes Reichelt has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a serious right knee injury in the World Cup downhill in Bormio, the Austrian ski federation confirmed on Sunday.

“The season is over prematurely for Reichelt,” the Austrian team said in a statement.

The 39-year-old former super-G world champion’s career now looks over as it was confirmed he suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament and damage to the outer capsular ligament.

 

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Austrian Reichelt, who finished 12th in the first downhill on …

Six Things We Learned From The 2019 Formula One Season

December 2, 2019 3:46 pm

Lewis Hamilton left no room for doubt that he deserved his sixth drivers’ world championship title with a dominant victory in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, his fifth at Yas Marina, his 11th in 21 races this year and the 84th of his career.

Yet it was his future as much as his current and past achievements that attracted most attention during the weekend.

Here, AFP Sport looks at six things we learned from the 2019 Formula One season, with the start of the next campaign on March 15 in Melbourne:

Peerless Hamilton remains the man to beat

Hamilton’s ‘Grand

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Monza Wins Highlight Of Leclerc’s First Season At Ferrari

November 30, 2019 2:09 pm

Charles Leclerc took time out at this weekend’s season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to reflect on his first year at Ferrari and the mayhem generated by his “crazy” win at Monza.

It was “probably the best week of my whole life” Leclerc told AFP of his Italian Grand Prix success.

The 22-year-old Monegasque dealt admirably with the massive pressure of the celebrations for Ferrari’s 90th anniversary to secure pole and a first home win for his team since 2010.

“Very difficult to put into words what I felt on the podium with hundreds and thousands of people underneath me yelling …

Hamilton Eyes Season-Ending Victory In UAE Twilight Zone

November 28, 2019 4:29 pm

Lewis Hamilton heads into this weekend’s season-ending floodlit Abu Dhabi Grand Prix seeking to mark his 250th Formula One race with a memorable performance as Mercedes bid to bounce back from an off-form outing in Brazil.

The six-time world champion, whose future beyond 2020 when his current contract expires has been a subject of intensifying speculation, has conceded that he faces a battle with his advancing age next season against the sport’s new generation of younger tyros.

“I feel like I’m still able to kick it with these guys right now and so I am excited about the future,” said …

Lakers Consolidate On Great Start To NBA Season

November 14, 2019 4:25 pm

Los Angeles Lakers’ rollercoaster ride in the new NBA season continued on Wednesday night as LeBron James inspired their 120-94 win against a struggling Golden State Warriors.

James who took the place of the teammate Anthony Davies was blazing in fine form, grabbing a double-double to help his team stay firm on course in the early season contests.

In 26 minutes whirlwind performance on the night, James confounded the Warriors with 23 points and 12 rebounds.

The Lakers stepped up 9-2 in midweek following the victory over Warriors.…

Ten Hag Says He Will Finish Season At Ajax Amid Rumours

November 5, 2019 4:34 pm
Ajax coach Erik ten Hag on Monday ruled himself out of the running to take over as Bayern Munich coach, for the time being, saying he would be staying at the Dutch champions until at least the end of the current season.
Bayern sacked Niko Kovac on Sunday, sparking heated speculation as to who the Bundesliga giants could appoint in his place, with Ten Hag reportedly high on the list after Ajax’s scintillating run to the Champions League semi-finals last season and their impressive start to this campaign.

Ten Hag was Bayern’s reserves coach from 2013-15 under Pep Guardiola, but

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Barty Tops End-Of-Season Women’s Ranking

Barty Tops End-Of-Season Women’s Ranking

November 4, 2019 3:40 pm
Ashleigh Barty of Australia tops the end of season women’s tennis rankings released Monday, a day after her triumph in the WTA Finals in Shenzhen, China.With 7,851 points, Barty, who has topped the rankings since early September, eclipsed second-placed Karolína Plíšková (5,940 points) by almost 2,000 points.

Naomi Osaka (5,497) held on to third place from Simona Halep, who moved up one spot to fourth on 5.462 points.

Barty dominated Elina Svitolina in Sunday’s final in Shenzhen, winning 6-4, 6-3 to collect the richest prize in women’s tennis of $4.4

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Ramos Nets For 16th Straight Season As Real Thrash Leganes

Ramos Nets For 16th Straight Season As Real Thrash Leganes

October 31, 2019 7:06 am
Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos scored for the 16th La Liga season in a row as his side coasted to a 5-0 win at home to basement club Leganes in La Liga on Wednesday.

The result meant Real Madrid moved up to second in the standings.

The defender became only the second player after Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to score in 16 consecutive Spanish league campaigns.

This was when he slotted home from the penalty spot at the second time of asking for Real’s third goal in the 24th minute.

Ramos had initially seen his shot saved but was given a

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At 20 Goals A Season, Lewandowski Is the World Best Striker

At 20 Goals A Season, Lewandowski Is the World Best Striker

October 24, 2019 1:59 am

Every club wants a 20-goals-a-season striker but not many get one who has that many before it is even Halloween. Bayern Munich has it in Lewandowski.

Robert Lewandowski scored twice as the Bundesliga giants beat Olympiakos 3-2 in the Champions League on Tuesday, taking the Poland international’s tally for club and country in 2019-20 to an incredible 21 goals in just 17 games.

The 31-year-old’s scintillating form has prompted many on social media to ask the question: is he the best number nine in the world right now?

It is hard to argue with the statistics, certainly in 2019 anyway.…

Big Brother Naija Season 4 kicks off June – Multichoice

May 7, 2019 12:36 pm
Pay television channel, Multichoice Nigeria, says season 4 of its reality TV show, Big Brother Naija, which kicks off in June, will be filmed in Nigeria.

Announcing the return of the reality TV show on Sunday, Multichoice said the 2019 edition  will have its theme as  – “Forget Wahala”.

It said that Ebuka Obi-Uchendu would return as the show host for the third time, adding that the reality TV show was scheduled to be filmed in some other countries as well.

The first edition was tagged Big Brother Nigeria, while second edition had the theme, ‘See Gobe,’ then the third …

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