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Lionesses hero Beth Mead is one of six nominees for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Arsenal and England forward Mead was the standout player at this year’s European Championships, which Sarina Wiegman’s Lionesses won, as she was named Player of the Tournament for her six goals and five assists. Those six goals meant she finished the tournament as its top scorer, while she has also scored three goals and four assists in seven Women’s Super League matches in the 2022/23 season so far – to go with the 11 strikes and eight assists last term. Mead has…
Andre Trindade, a midfielder for Fluminense, has reportedly “verbally agreed personal terms” with the Reds after confessing that he wanted to join a major club, presumably Liverpool, during the summer transfer window. The Brazilian has been at the center of Jurgen Klopp’s search for a new defensive midfield player since the summer, but it appears that the 22-year-old is getting closer to joining Anfield than ever. Fabinho left to join Al-Ittihad in the summer, and Alexis Mac Allister is the team’s stand-in for a specialist operator in the no. 6 role. Although many names have been linked to Liverpool, Andre…
South Africa’s best ever player Pierre ‘Perrie’ Mans, who won the Masters in 1979 and reached the World Championship final in 1978, has died at the age of 82. Snooker and Billiards South Africa’s Facebook page announced on Wednesday that Mans, from Lichtenburg, had passed away. Born in 1940, Mans became the best player in his country during his 20s and won the South African national title for the first time in 1965. The left-hander first played in the World Championship in 1970, and four years later he scored a surprise victory over John Spencer in the last 16 before losing to…
After just 25 minutes at the weekend, Nottingham Forest academy graduate Arvin Appiah became enamored with the game. The winger’s team, Rotherham United, suffered a defeat to Sheffield Wednesday over the weekend. When Forest chose to accept an offer of £8 million from Almeria for the gifted young player, eyebrows were raised. In his meager eight senior league games, he had managed just one goal. Since leaving the Forest, Appiah has had difficulty realizing his full potential. He is currently 22 years old and, following loan stints with Lugo, Malaga, and Tenerife, he is with Rotherham in South Yorkshire. Appiah…
Now is the ideal time for Nottingham Forest to secure Chris Cohen’s emotional return to the team. In 2021, the coach departed to join Nathan Jones at Luton Town. Chris Hughton didn’t make nearly enough of an effort to retain Cohen at Forest at the time. The man who made 303 appearances for the team ought to have been given a role from the minute he made the decision that he wanted to try out men’s coaching. Rather, Forest let Cohen go into the sunset and started a career that has significantly improved Cohen’s coaching standing. Forest now has the…
Emmanuel Agbaeze, the Creative Director and organiser of the 2023 Snooker Fest, has said the event would showcase the talents of the billiard community in Nigeria to the world. Agbaeze told The Guardian that the festival would explore untapped potentials in the billiard community as well as attract investors. He pointed out that the festival would serve as a platform for the billiard community to strengthen the sports and the tourism sectors in the country. “There are different ideas behind this festival but the main one is to showcase the enormous talents of the billiard community in the country to the global…
After suffering an injury on the ice, ice hockey player Adam Johnson tragically passed away. This has sparked new discussions about the dangers of the sport and how players can be better protected. Johnson, a player for the Nottingham Panthers, passed away on Saturday in Sheffield, UK, following a skate blade cut to his neck. The event was dubbed a “freak accident” by the team. After playing for two seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL), the 29-year-old Minnesota native was in his first season with the Panthers. Although it is uncommon, there have been fatal…
Hockey players who participate in body-checking leagues have a far higher injury rate than players who don’t, according to research from Calgary’s Paul Eliason and his colleagues. Paul Eliason, a postdoctoral fellow in the Sport Injury Prevention Research Center in Calgary, has spent much of his career examining ways in which youth athletes can be better protected while playing contact sports. While most of his research involves the minor hockey community, Eliason hopes that athletes across all sports are able to play — free from injury — well into their adulthood. Curious about body checking rules and regulations that have been…
Judd Trump scored two centuries as he advanced to the third round of the Northern Ireland Open by defeating Belgian Julien Leclercq 4-0 in Belfast. The world number three knocked in breaks of 108 in the opening two frames and followed that up with a 55 before tying up the win in just 45 minutes. Trump is targeting a fourth NI Open title, having lifted the Alex Higgins Trophy in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He is also aiming for a third consecutive ranking title this season. The 2019 world champion has secured back-to-back tournament victories in the English Open and…
Judd Trump has reached the final of the Northern Ireland Open after recovering from a poor start to beat Barry Hawkins in their semi-final in Belfast. World number three Trump was 3-0 and 4-1 down before winning five frames in a row to claim victory. He will meet fellow Englishman Chris Wakelin in Sunday’s decider. Wakelin, who saw off China’s Yuan Sijun in the quarter-final, earned an easy 6-1 victory over compatriot Jack Lisowski in the last four. The Belfast showpiece will be only the 31-one-year-old’s second ranking event final, having won his first event in the Shoot Out in…