With one home victory this season, The Hawthorns is anything but the fortress that the Britannia Stadium was during Tony Pulis’s spell on the Potteries
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Although Southampton are unbeaten away from home during the 2015-16 campaign, the team’s performances at St Mary’s have not been as strong, with the side dropping points in half of their home fixtures so far this season
Never before in his 15 years of management has the Portuguese lost seven league games in a single campaign, a tally that was reached with the 1-0 reverse at Stoke City a fortnight ago
Watford are yet to suffer back-to-back defeats in the league this season, but with so many more challenges to come, even victory today would not be enough to encourage any overconfidence from inside the club
It is an interesting match up in the men’s final, with Akwa United aiming to win their first title, while Lobi Stars will be looking for a second title after they won in 2003 and then lost in the final in 2005 and 2012
The encounter, which is expected to kick off at 9am local time (10am in Nigeria), will see the Dream Team parading players like Emmanuel Daniel, Oduduwa Segun, Oghenekaro Etebo, Stanley Dimgba and Chile U-17 highest goal scorer, Victor Osihmen, who has overcome his malaria attack and is now training with the team
A good number of former and present coaches of the national teams, head coaches of Nigeria Professional Football League teams and a good number of ex-international players are taking part in the two weeks course being superintended by former FIFA Advisor on technical matters, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde
Sports broadcaster, Andy Goldstein, conducted an exclusive interview with the legendary Jamaican sprinter, who famously won gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics in Beijing and London respectively
He was loaned back to the Dons for the remainder of 2014/15, helping them win promotion to the Championship and being named the Football League Young Player of the Year as a result
Van Gaal, who took over Manchester United last year following the sacking of David Moyes, revealed that he paid Finidi George’s transfer fee of £3,000, adding however that the former Eagles winger was not the only one he got on board as the likes of Edgar Davids, Patrick Kluivert, Clarence Seedorf and Edwin van der Sar all joined him to make the team tick
“I told them we can only afford N200,000 and they banged the phone on me and I have not heard from them since. We can only appeal to them to release the old woman to us
Alimi, a product of Airtel’s U-17 grass root football initiative, which recorded its fifth season in 2015, came into limelight when he made his debut for the Golden Eaglets and scored a crucial goal that saved the day for his side during an international friendly against Egypt in Kaduna last year
No date has been fixed yet for the draw for this final round of the World Cup qualifiers, which will be played on league basis
He has also seen how fellow Nigerian youngster, 19-year-old Kelechi Iheanacho, has made an impressive first-team breakthrough at the Etihad Stadium this season
This followed a new arrangement of electronic transfer of bonuses by the Nigeria Football Federation
Dalong explained that he was among the Federal Government delegation to the 2002 Africa Nations Cup where they were promised $7000, only for the football federation to pay them only $400, shortchanging him and others by $6,600
Siasia hinted that the kidnappers got in touch with him in the wee hours of Tuesday and were demanding for N150 million as ransom
A FIFA statement said on Wednesday in Berlin that the Appeals Committee “rejected in full the appeals lodged by Blatter and Platini” and confirmed the provisional suspensions imposed last month by the world governing body’s ethics committee
“It is okay for the NNL; we are still committed to organising a befitting Super Four tournament for our league.
“We planned to round off the season before the Annual General Assembly of the NFF, which will now hold in the month of December
Salami scored two goals in Warri Wolves’ 5-1 demolition of FC Taraba on Monday after the game was rescheduled from Sunday due to heavy rain at the Warri Township Stadium