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Great Olympics Board member Fred Pappoe has urged the Ghana Football Association Disciplinary Committee to be transparent, fair, and swift with decisions in order to curb violence and hooliganism arising at the various match venues in the ongoing football season. Ghana football has been hit with a series of violence and hooliganism in recent times with the FA president Kurt ...

Ghanaian forward Joseph Esso promises new club MC Alger of more goals as he can’t get started after sealing his transfer from Dreams FC. Esso completed his switch to the Algerian giants after passing medicals and completing all other documentations. The 24-year-old has been handed the number 10 shirt at the club and is expected to make his debut in ...

The European Super League was created “to save football”, says Real Madrid president Florentino Perez. Real are one of the 12 European clubs who have signed up to the breakaway league and intend to establish a new midweek competition. Perez said the move had been made because young people are “no longer interested in football” because of “a lot of ...

The European Super League (ESL) is a “disgraceful, self-serving” plan and a “spit in the face of football lovers”, says Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin. He also said players who play for teams involved in the closed league would be “banned from the World Cup and Euros”. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are among 12 clubs who have ...

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba says current boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer “wouldn’t go against the players” like former manager Jose Mourinho. Pogba re-joined United in 2016 for a then-world record £89m when Mourinho was manager at the Old Trafford club. But the pair fell out by the time Mourinho was sacked in December 2018. “Once I had a great relationship ...

Division One League Zone One campaigner’s Young Apostles have expressed gratitude to their sponsors Ashfoam Ghana Limited for their immense support to the team over the years. Speaking after the management members and the playing body of the team were guided on a tour of the Ashfoam Showroom on Thursday (April 15, 2021) in Accra, the Executive Chairman of the ...

Chris Smalling was robbed at home in front of his wife and two-year-old child in a horrifying ordeal for the Roma defender on Friday morning, according to reports. Italian news outlet Gazzetta Dello Sport claims three armed robbers broke into the English footballer’s home and forced him to open his family’s safe, where the aggressors took items of jewelry and other ...

Barely a moth after announcing their departure from the Accra Sports Stadium, Kumasi Asante Kotoko are set to return to the nation’s capital as they play Accra Great Olympics on Friday. The Porcupine Warriors moved to the top of the Ghana Premier League table last weekend following their win over Berekum Chelsea whiles Olympics on the other hand suffered a ...

Top executives of Betway-sponsored teams across Africa were hosted by the leading online sports betting company in a virtual session. The leadership roundtable is one of the many initiatives set up by Betway to offer support to its sponsored clubs in Africa. The country’s leader in sports betting has continuously supported its sponsored clubs through various initiatives including equipment donations ...

Two old adversaries are set to lock horns at Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday, with the Blancos aware that they face another tough test Karim Benzema says Lionel Messi “does everything for Barcelona”, with the Real Madrid striker readying himself for another Clasico clash with a “very dangerous” rival. The Blancos are due to welcome their old adversaries to Santiago Bernabeu ...