Brazilian football legend Mario Zagallo, who won four World Cups as a player and coach, has died aged 92. Zagallo was a winger in the Brazil team who won back-to-back World Cups in 1958 and…
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Newcastle United ended their dismal recent run of form to reach the FA Cup fourth round with a comfortable win over arch-rivals Sunderland in the Wear-Tyne derby at the Stadium of Light. The first meeting…
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Chelsea booked their place in the FA Cup fourth round as four second-half goals took them past Championship side Preston at Stamford Bridge. Armando Broja opened the scoring with a superb glancing header from Malo…
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Aston Villa won an FA Cup tie for the first time since 2016 after Matty Cash hit a late winner at Middlesbrough. Championship club Boro were close to earning a replay when Cash’s attempt from…
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Tottenham beat fellow Premier League side Burnley to move into the fourth round of the FA Cup thanks to Pedro Porro’s stunning strike. Without club captain Son Heung-min, who has joined up with South Korea…
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Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin was controversially sent off but the 10-man Toffees held on to force an FA Cup third-round replay with Crystal Palace. Calvert-Lewin was shown a straight red card in the 79th minute…
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Popular Yoruba filmmaker and actor, Chief Adedeji Aderemi, popularly known as Olofa Ina is dead. The 73-year-old actor, in his lifetime, was well known in the contemporary Yoruba theatre industry. The news of his death…
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Wilfred Ndidi has been ruled out of Nigeria’s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations campaign because of injury. The 27-year-old Leicester City midfielder was named in the Super Eagles’ 25-man squad on 29 December but was absent…
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Brighton boss Roberto de Zerbi praised his side’s “very smart game” after they kept their first Premier League clean sheet of the season at West Ham. It was the first time in 24 league matches…
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Mohamed Salah scored twice as Liverpool eventually broke down Newcastle United to open up a three-point lead at the top of the Premier League. In a relentless and frantic game, fuelled by wicked rain and…
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