Author: David Great

Frank Lampard got off to a losing start on his return as interim Chelsea manager on Saturday with the Blues beaten 1-0 at Wolverhampton Wanderers and still looking toothless in the Premier League. Matheus Nunes scored a 31st minute screamer at Molineux, the Portugal midfielder hitting the ball on the volley from the edge of the box on the right and past Kepa Arrizabalaga into the far corner. Chelsea great Lampard’s appointment was announced on Thursday after Graham Potter paid the price for a string of poor results which left the team 11th and with a Champions league quarter-final away…

Matthijs de Ligt’s 25-metres strike handed Bayern Munich a 1-0 victory over Freiburg on Saturday, keeping them two points clear at the top of the table with seven games remaining. The Bavarians, who face Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-final first leg next week, had been beaten at home by Freiburg 2-1 in the German Cup last eight on Tuesday. Desperate to make amends and protect their Bundesliga lead, Bayern had possession and a couple of good chances in the first half. But it was Freiburg who came closer to scoring with Ritsu Doan catching Bayern’s Alphonso Davies napping on…

Second-half substitute Anthony Martial scored the winner as Manchester United beat Everton at Old Trafford to go third in the Premier League. United created chance after chance in the first half but struggled to finish with Jordan Pickford thwarting Marcus Rashford and Aaron Wan-Bissaka. In the 36th minute, Scott McTominay put Erik ten Hag’s men ahead with a fierce strike after a pass from Jadon Sancho. The defeat for Sean Dyche’s Everton, who are battling to avoid relegation, leaves them in 16th spot, outside the drop zone only on goal difference and level on 27 points with Nottingham Forest in…

Frank Lampard can get this Chelsea team to score goals but not just score they can win too and by winning I mean Real Madrid in the Champions League. This team has a blend of experience and youth but it seems the previous manager just simply didn’t understand what to do. Graham Potter’s time at Chelsea was a torrid one. Given his win ratio at Brighton, I was not excited about the appointment but as a true Chelsea fan I gave him the chance and he did not disappoint. He led the team in the wrong direction on the table…

Bandits kidnapped 80 children in Zamfara State’s Tsafe Local Government Area on Friday morning. The children range in age from 12 to 17, according to BBC Hausa. According to some of the abducted children’s parents who spoke to the British broadcaster, the victims were in the bush fetching firewood around 8:00 a.m. when the assailants rounded them up and marched them away into the forest. Bandits’ activities in Zamfara have not stopped despite several government interventions to stop them. Hundreds of schoolchildren have been kidnapped and some have been released after a ransom has been paid. As of the time…

Carlo Ancelotti will be considered by Chelsea for a second spell as manager if he leaves Real Madrid at the end of the season. (ESPN) Fiorentina are willing to listen to offers for 26-year-old Morocco midfielder Sofyan Amrabat this summer, and Manchester United made an offer in January, says his agent. (Sport – in Spanish) Former Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been included on the shortlist for the manager’s job vacated by Scott Parker at Club Bruges. (Times – subscription) Paris St-Germain have dashed Real Madrid’s hopes of signing 24-year-old France forward Kylian Mbappe this summer by declaring they will not sell him before 2024. (Sport – in Spanish) Paris St-Germain have stepped up their interest…

Burnley have secured promotion to the Premier League after a 2-1 win at Middlesbrough helped Vincent Kompany guide the team to the top flight in his first season of trying. Relegated on the final day of the 2021-22 campaign, in which they finished third-bottom, the Clarets will return to England’s top flight league next season with seven games to spare. According to Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance, the promotion to the Premier League can be worth over 300 million pounds over five seasons, if a club survives their first season in the top flight. The three points helped Burnley…

Nigeria airline operators Air Peace, Azman Air, Flynas, Aero Contractors, and Max Air will fly 2023 hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, the Nigerian government has said. The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) on Friday in Abuja announced eight different 2023 hajj fares regimes for the Northern States and other parts of the country. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NAHCON, Zikrullah Hassan, made the announcement at a news conference shortly after a meeting with the chief executives of the 36 States and FCT pilgrims boards, agencies and commissions. “The 2023 Hajj fare incidentally has eight different costs. Pilgrims…

Chelsea have contacted former manager and current Roma boss Jose Mourinho about returning for a third spell in charge at Stamford Bridge. (Relevo – in Spanish) Mourinho has also received a 120m euros (£105m) offer to coach in Saudi Arabia for two years. (Corriere dello Sport – in Italian) Chelsea are eyeing a summer move for Portugal and Benfica striker Goncalo Ramos, 21. (Football Insider) Inter Milan want to tie Italy centre-back Alessandro Bastoni, 23, down to a new contract amid interest from Manchester City. (Calciomercato – in Italian) Barcelona are confident they can sign Portugal full-back Joao Cancelo from Manchester City this summer. The 28-year-old is currently on loan at Bayern Munich. (Sport – in…

Former Tesla employees have revealed that the company’s electric cars spied on customers revealing some doing intimate things, a Reuters report uncovered. Tesla has however assured its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with…