Mark Clattenburg has stepped forward to defend Michael Oliver’s awarding of a penalty to Manchester City’s “clever” Raheem Sterling in Sunday’s 3-1 defeat of Arsenal. “Michael Oliver was right to award a penalty for Nacho Monreal’s challenge on Raheem Sterling,” he told The Times. “It is very clever of Sterling because he slows down so that there is always going to be contact from Monreal, who cannot stop quickly enough.” Commenting on Wenger’s insistence that Sterling “dives well,” Clattenburg added: “While he has been guilty of such things in the past, this is a foul. It is not clear-cut enough…
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John Stones is enjoying life at Manchester City but the England defender believes he can get even better. “It’s a compliment to ourselves that we have set that standard and want to keep at it,” he told reporters. “It’s almost impossible to do that every week and you might have a few percent down but as long as we give our all and the fans can see that, we won’t go far wrong in how we defend and attack, and the commitment is never questionable. “As defenders we want more clean sheets and we should have had one against Arsenal…
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has tagged Marouane Fellaini “fantastic” after the midfielder rushed back from injury to play against Chelsea on Sunday. Fellaini missed six games after suffering strained knee ligaments playing for Belgium last month. Mourinho told reporters afterwards: “I have to say that Fellaini was fantastic for me, for his fellow players, for the fans, for the team, for the club because he was injured [for] weeks. “He trained on Saturday for the first time with the team, and he put himself on the line ready to come in and help if the team needed him. “So…
Jose Mourinho talked about Antonio Conte’s clear handshake snub following Manchester United’s 1-0 defeat at Chelsea on Sunday by saying that congratulating Conte’s assistant had been enough. “I shook hands with the people who were there. I think one of them was his brother, the assistant, so I feel that, by shaking the hands of his brother and the other assistants, I did my duty. “I cannot go and run to chase him.” Mourinho also said he was “worried” about Manchester City’s lead in the title race but maintained that United could make up ground when Paul Pogba and Zlatan…
Danny Rose has hailed Mauricio Pochettino and Gareth Southgate, his managers for club and country, for giving him another chance, after outspokenness and injury left his Tottenham and England futures in doubt. “For my part, it is forgotten,” Rose said. “I think it is forgotten on the club’s point as well. There is no point dwelling in the past. If we want to take the club forward and go that one stage further and win the league and go as far as possible in the Champions League. On my part, it is all forgotten about and I am just concentrating…
Pepe has denied blasting the atmosphere at the Santiago Bernabeu, although the Besiktas player says his current team’s fans are “completely different.” However, his legacy in the Spanish capital suffered a blow when it was reported last month that he had said Madrid players needed to “motivate themselves” for games due to the quiet atmosphere at the Bernabeu. The Portuguese has however said his words had been misunderstood and the criticism he had received had been unfair. “People did not understand what I wanted to say in an interview I did with UEFA,” Pepe said. “In Spain they killed me…
David Moyes has said he is pleased with his initial six-month contract as West Ham manager. Former Everton, Manchester United and Sunderland boss Moyes was confirmed as the new West Ham boss on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after Slaven Bilic was sacked. Moyes said: “We’ve done a contract which suits both parties, we are all comfortable with it. “Let’s get the job done and then talk at the end of the year.” “I’m thrilled to be back in the game and looking forward to getting started,” added Moyes. “The job is to get wins and get ourselves up the…
Steven Gerrard believes Mohamed Salah has been Liverpool’s best player this season “by a mile.” “As a fan, I watched him at Chelsea and it didn’t really take off for him,” he said. “Of course he hit top form at Roma but you’re thinking: ‘Is he a player suited to the Premier League?’ “And when he first came I, along with a lot of Liverpool fans, wasn’t totally sure how it was going to work out. “But you’ve got to give the manager and the recruitment staff a huge amount of credit for spending that amount of money on a…
Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are close making their comeback for Manchester United, according to manager Jose Mourinho. Ibrahimovic has not featured since April after undergoing knee surgery while Pogba has missed the last 12 games with a hamstring problem. Mourinho told MUTV: “We have the group of players which are the ones that we hope will recover as soon as possible. “They have to work every day but they are in a good position now. “Pogba, Ibra, Rojo, Fellaini. They are in good positions so I think we can go into this part of the season, the Christmas period,…
When Migos released their new song, “Motor Sport” featuring two of the hottest female rappers in the game, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, it didn’t take long for rumors about the two feuding to once again start circulating. As the rumors multiplied, Minaj took to Twitter to address the critics and shared her side of how “Motor Sport” came about. Nicki informed the her critics that when she first received the track, the only other person featured on it was Quavo. “I was on the song w/Quavo. No one else was on it,” she said. “He called & asked if…
Breakthrough in any chosen career mostly depends on one’s ability to make proper use of every opportunity that presents itself. So is the case of Nigerian singer, Uchenna Ikechukwu Okpala, aka Ikon-X, who shares a striking resemblance with award winning pop star, 2face Idibia. According to the fast rising singer, Ikon-X, sharing physical cum characteristic attributes with the ‘African Queen’ crooner has been of amazing benefits to his budding music career. Ikon-X who is signed to AZ Entertainment with a couple of singles to his credit, has displayed his musical talent and versatility in RnB, reggae, commercial, and pop tunes,…
It is becoming very likely that Iyanya may quit Don Jazzy’s Mavin records anytime from now. Pointers to this development released during the week following the seeming cracks in the camps of Iyanya and Don Jazzy, which may have been blown open by recent happenings in the Mavin family. It is over one year since Iyanya joined Mavin records, but the Kukere master, whose decision to join the Mavins was based on his determination to revive his fading music career and possibly commercialise it, now appears to be struggling to find his voice in the star-studded record label. There are…
Chris Brown is more than ready to make a mark with his new album Heartbreak on a Full Moon, and while the 45 tracks are the talk of social media, he is still hoping to impact the charts. The award-winning vocalist dropped the project on Tues., Oct. 31, and according to the RIAA, it will only have three days counting towards its first week sales. Now that Breezy has found out about the crucial factor for his album sales, he’s posting his frustation to Instagram, revealing that he doesn’t know why he will only be credited for three days, rather…
No kids, no family, just the two of them! Kim Kardashian and Kanye West had a rare date night on Friday night at high-end sushi stop Nobu Malibu. Kim rocked her bod’ in a skintight bodycon dress and kept her accessories to a minimum with a pair of gold chain necklaces. The trend-setting reality star paired the simple look with a sexy pair of lace-up stilettos by Merah Vodianova. Her hubby braced a workman’s look, opting for a grey work jacket by Caterpillar, black pants and black boots. Kim and Kanye left son, Saint, nearly two, and North, four, at…
I was trying to think of a major artist who’s ever had a more self-loathing album opener than “Kill Jay Z.” Even though it also contains barbed lines aimed at College Dropout Kanye West (“You dropped outta school, you lost your principles”) and other famous wife cheaters like rapper Future and former “Mr. Halle Berry” Eric Benet, most of the vitriol is aimed at the artist himself. He fesses up to cheating on Beyoncé and egging on sister-in-law Solange in an elevator and expresses his desire to go on a permanent bye-bye. Things To Do app: Get the best in…
Lil’ Kim has responded to images of Beyonce and Jay-Z dressing up as her and The Notorious B.I.G for Halloween. The couple attended Kelly Rowland’s costume party dressed as the iconic duo, with Beyonce sharing five images on her social media of her wearing exact looks worn by Lil’ Kim from back in the day. The rapper shared her delight at the images last night (November 3) on Instagram, posting a split image of her in the original outfit from her 1997 No Way Out tour, and Beyonce in a replica, with the caption: “Come all the way thru Bey!!”…
A sun-like globe. A sickly sweet rapper. And a hefty serving of hits. Drake brought it all to Auckland on Friday night, restarting his Boy Meets World tour after an eight-month break. Those months, interrupted with only an occasional performance, had been put to good use, the Canadian rapper promised. New music was on the way. The sun-like creation took centre stage, with no bad or serious backup dancers around to take over. “I never sleep around wasting my time. I got s… coming for you, don’t worry,” he told his Kiwi fans, who he said had been bugging him…
The famous musical rivalry between Nigerian pop stars, Wizkid and Davido, will be renewed at the grand finale of the biggest event of the music industry, COSON week, as the music stars will once again compete for the Best New Song category award at the COSON song awards scheduled to hold at the Balmoral Convention Centre, Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, on Sunday, November 5, 2017. The long awaited Nigerian music industry’s biggest event of the year, 2017 COSON Week, began last Sunday, October 29, 2017, with pomp and plum. The week-long event featured lots of activities. The event kicked…
Rihanna is the baddest. She could bat her eyelashes with her lids covered in Fenty Beauty or wear your grandma’s kitchen curtains and we’d all be on our knees screaming, “Yassss come thru Rih!” She has a Midas touch, which is why we should not be surprised that whenever she switches it up and decides to rap on a track, it slaps. From deep cuts to exalted singles, Rihanna has explored sounds and flexed her skills. And she hasn’t gone wrong yet. Rihanna’s been knowing she’s hot for more than a decade — this is not new. On this truthful…
Atiku Abubakar has debunked a video where he appeared to declare his intention to run for president in the 2019 general elections as false. In the video that showed up on social media on Thursday, the former vice president to former President Olusegun Obasanjo said he was ready to serve as a “true democrat, a believer in the rule of law and a fighter for justice and equity.” Immediately, Atiku responded to the video on his Twitter account (@atiku) denying any prior knowledge of the it and calling it fake news. He tweeted, “This Fake News is breaking across so…