Tag: premier league
DESTINATION RWANDA?: Kagame’s Arsenal Gamble May Be Paying Off
Roll your eyes all you want, but you're going to hear a lot more about Rwanda in the news -- you know, about how...
A FAN’S DREAM: Bawumia Meets Spurs boss Pochettino in London
It's not everyday that one gets to meet the manager of their favorite European football club, but if you're Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Ghana's vice-president,...
WIN TO LOSE: Liverpool Could Pay Cost Of Premier League Glory
Eight points clear of reigning champions Manchester City at the top of the English Premier League table -- even with seven months and 30...
GOLD OVER BRONZE: Nigeria Looks to Reclaim ‘Lost’ Gems from England
In London's British Museum sits some of the 4,000
bronze sculptures British troops pillaged from an invasion of the Kingdom of
Benin (now southwestern Nigeria) over...
FIX IT: Liverpool Can’t Shrug Off Mane-Salah Row
An angry Sadio Mane isn't a sight one sees every day. Usually the
Senegalese plays with a pearly smile that breaks through his sweaty dark...
BETTER HALF: Matip Catches Up With Van Dijk & Co.
Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are not the only Africans at Liverpool but, until recently, you'd almost have thought they were.
Between them, the two...
PLAY TO THE BEAT: ‘Afrobeats’ Inspires England’s Big Stars
In many a Premier League dressing room, the ambience just before a game
and after it ends -- in victory -- are not too different,...
NO-SHOW: Poor Aubameyang Misses CAF POTY Chance in Baku
They
won't say it out loud, but, as I write this, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has actually
had a better season than Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, the...
PHOTO-BLOG: ‘Moneyball’ On The Roll
The 2018/19 European football season rapidly
draws to a close, and while most clubs nurse disappointment, a triumphant --
and elite -- few celebrate.
In France and...
Premier League Golden Boot: The More the Merrier for Africa
At the end of the 1998/99 season, Dwight Yorke became the first non-European to win the Premier League’s Golden Boot, splitting the honours with...
