Is it really the end for Steven Gerrard as a player at Liverpool?
May 17, 2015 John Welsh
Anfield, England Football, Football, Liverpool, Steven GerrardAs Steven Gerrard bid an emotional farewell to the Liverpool supporters on Saturday after serving the team for 17 unbroken seasons since his debut against Blackburn at Anfield in 1998, he must have reflected on the absence of a Premier League winner’s medal from his collection of souvenirs from his playing time on Merseyside. Gerrard […]
Read more
Domestic cup competitions yielding surprises in European football
April 9, 2015 John Welsh
England Football, FIFA, FootballWith the major European football leagues entering their final phase of the season, those teams expected to challenge for the respective league titles are emerging as leading contenders to claim the domestic crowns. Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona lead the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and La Liga, but in […]
Read more
An embarrassing two weeks for the English Premier League in UEFA European competitions
March 20, 2015 John Welsh
England Football, Europa League, FIFA, Football, Premier League, UEFAFor the first time this century, there will be no English representatives in either the Europa or Champions League quarter-finals after Everton were defeated 5-2 by Dynamo Kiev on Thursday evening to be eliminated on a 6-4 aggregate from the Europa League. This week has also witnessed the early departures of Manchester City and Arsenal […]
Read more
Excitement continues at top of English Championship table
March 9, 2015 John Welsh
England Football, FIFA, FootballIt is a commonly shared belief that the vast sums of money available for competing in the English Premier League compares very unfavourably with the amounts earned by those teams participating in the lower tiers of the league hierarchy. The opportunity to earn such revenues is the prize awaiting those football clubs occupying the second […]
Read more
Five Newcastle players move to Glasgow Rangers on a bizarre transfer deadline day
February 5, 2015 John Welsh
England Football, Football, Glasgow Rangers, Newcastle, Transfer newsIn addition to Manchester City signing Wilfried Bony for £28, the transactions involving Juan Cuadrado moving to Chelsea and Andre Schurrle joining Wolfsburg may have been the other most expensive acquisitions during the FIFA January transfer window, but it would appear that loan deals were by far the most popular choice for clubs. For teams […]
Read more
Christmas fixture congestion divides opinion in English football
December 30, 2014 John Welsh
England Football, FIFA, Football, Liverpool, Premier LeagueOf the 20 Premier League teams playing football during the Christmas festive period, only Liverpool an Swansea were spared the necessity to be performing on both the 26th and 28th December as their encounter was delayed until the 29th for television coverage. Sunderland manager Gus Poyet claimed that the decision to play two games in […]
Read more
Liverpool Set for UEFA Probe
September 26, 2014 Paranjoy Goswami
England Football, Football, Liverpool, UEFAThis Wednesday Europe’s football-governing body UEFA has officially announced a formal investigation into Liverpool and six other clubs from the continent for possibly violating Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules. Inter Milan, Roma, Monaco, Sporting Lisbon, Besiktas and Krasnodar are the other clubs that accompany the Premiership side on this list. All European clubs had recently […]
Read more
Roy’s boys were toys of their own making in leading Suarez to score against them
June 20, 2014 R K Gupta
Brazil2014, England Football, Luis Suarez, Uruguay, World Cup 2014In the 85th minute of play yesterday night, Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera sent a huge optimistic kick too far down the halfway mark. England’s captain Steven Gerrard had the Uruguayan forward Cavani close to him and the two of them rose together to head the highball. Lurking behind them was the goal-hungry Suarez, Gerrard’s Liverpool […]
Read more
Uwe Rosler could inspire Wigan to an FA Cup winning double
March 10, 2014 John Welsh
Arsenal, England Football, Everton, FA Cup, Football, Wigan Athletic F.C.Prior to the staging of the English FA Cup quarter-final ties, much of the preview talk featured the possibility of Roberto Martinez winning the trophy in consecutive seasons while managing two different clubs. By the completion of the matches, there was the unlikely scenario of Wigan Athletic retaining the FA Cup against all of the […]
Read more
Recent focus on Finney and Rooney demonstrate the changing face of football
February 18, 2014 John Welsh
England Football, Football, Manchester United, Preston North End, Tom Finney, Wayne RooneyThe recent death of former England international forward Tom Finney, and the tributes which have flowed thereafter, have highlighted the contrasting ways in which footballers of his day were viewed by the general public as opposed to the sundry financial rewards associated with successful modern day players. Finney was a regular on the international stage […]
Read more- IPL 2020- Clinical MI win their 5th Championship in 8 years
- IPL 2020- Dhawan Stoinis power DC to first-ever IPL final
- IPL 2020 – SRH eliminates RCB courtesy of a Williamson masterclass
- IPL 2020 – MI decimates DC to cruise to Finals
- IPL 2020- Nortje Rahane take DC to the playoff, RCB tags along
| # | Player | Point |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor AXELSEN | 72,500 |
| 2 | PRANNOY H. S. | 66,730 |
| 3 | CHOU Tien Chen | 61,240 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 61,110 |
| 5 | Kodai NARAOKA | 55,370 |