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MANCHESTER UNITED star Paul Pogba has always been a show off – but football needs him. That is the view of Watford midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure, who will go up against Pogba on Saturday. Pogba, the £89million Manchester United star, has been criticised for too many tricks and not enough consistency ever since he returned to the club in the summer ...

Jose Mourinho is “real” and does not fake his emotions like other managers in the Premier League, says Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku. United boss Mourinho demanded respect from the media after an angry news conference following a 3-0 defeat by Tottenham at Old Trafford in August. But Lukaku says the Portuguese is a family man, makes the players laugh ...

Dr Kofi Amoah, who was the CAF/FIFA liaison team head will lead a four-member Normalisation Committee to run Ghana Football for the next six months following the announcement at the GFA Secretariat on Thursday. He will be deputized by former Airtel Chief Executive Officer Lucy Quist. Other members on the committee are Lawyer Duah Adonten, a former Kotoko Board member with Naa Odofoley ...

Asante Kotoko head coach Paa Kwesi Fabin has quit after seven months in charge of the club. His decision immediate effect and will not be on the bench for Sunday’s return leg against AshantiGold at the Len Clay Stadium in Obuasi. His resignation letter read: ”I write without any malice to inform you that I am tendering my resignation as ...

The vice president of Spain-based J.Garcia Carrion producers of Don Simon Multifrutas says his outfit has plans to tighten the football relationship between his country and Ghana. Lucianao Garcia-Carrion Corujo was in Ghana recently for a project and expressed the view that the football trade between Spain and Ghana can be enhanced. Corujo, who is of the fifth generation of ...

‘A watershed moment in officiating’ Williams’ claims of sexism were backed by the governing body of women’s tennis, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), whose chief executive said the umpire had shown the 36-year-old a different level of tolerance than if she had been a man. The United States Tennis Association (USTA) also supported Williams’ claims, while Billie Jean King, founder ...

GARY NEVILLE has opened up on Paul Pogba’s future at Manchester United, admitting the fan in him would tell the midfielder to move on. Pogba’s future has been uncertain this summer after links to Barcelona and suggestions of a fallout with Jose Mourinho. Paul Pogba has refused to rule out a move on several occasions and admitted he doesn’t know ...

Liberia president George Weah played in an international friendly for his country on Tuesday – at the age of 51. Weah, the first African footballer to win Fifa’s World Player of the Year award, featured for 79 minutes of a 2-1 home defeat by Nigeria in Monrovia. Liberia arranged the friendly to retire their number 14 shirt, worn by Weah ...

MANCHESTER UNITED news is coming thick and fast with the Red Devils currently preparing for Saturday’s clash with Watford. Express Sport brings you all the latest from Old Trafford with Jose Mourinho, Memphis Depay, Zinedine Zidane and Toby Alderweireld involved. Mourinho sent Depay demand Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho demanded the club put a buy-back clause in Memphis Depay’s Lyon ...

Of course, the quality of the Ghanaian Premier League has been on a downward spiral for quite some time but that doesn’t mean there is a genuine lack of talent. Asante Kotoko’s Felix Annan is one such admirable talent of notable mention. As a football fan, my heart aches when players are called up to the Black Stars but with ...