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Manchester City midfielder Fernandinho has signed a one-year contract extension with the Premier League club. Fernandinho has established himself as a key player for City since joining in 2013, winning three Premier League titles and four EFL Cups. 🔥2⃣0⃣2⃣1⃣🔥 Another year of @fernandinho!!! 🔵 #ManCity pic.twitter.com/rrEEKTHC5x — Manchester City (@ManCity) January 28, 2020 The extension will see the 34-year-old…

Lyon’s Martin Terrier was stretchered off after suddenly collapsing in a worrying incident during Sunday’s Ligue 1 game against Toulouse. The 22-year-old lay motionless and was placed into the recovery position by concerned players from both sides before he received medical treatment on the pitch. Lyon said at half-time that Terrier “was the victim earlier…

Kobe Bryant, a former Basketballer, has died at 41. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar, who won five championships with the team, died Sunday in a helicopter crash in the Los Angeles County suburb of Calabasas. Reports say the helicopter, which belongs to him, had three other people on board. An 18-time NBA All-Star, Bryant was…

Boxing promoter, Eddie Hearn, has confirmed Kubrat Pulev is the ‘front-runner’ to face the unified world boxing heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, in the coming weeks. Pulev is the mandatory challenger to face Joshua, who holds the IBF world heavyweight title belt in addition to the WBA, WBO and IBO belts. Hearn said talks are in…

Manchester United fans are planning a mass walkout in the next home game against Wolves on February 1st, as reported in The Mirror. The walkout is set to happen on the 58th minute of the game. The time has been chosen to symbolize the Munich air disaster, which happened on the 6th February 1958. Anti-Glazer…

Odion Ighalo and Islam Slimani are two of a number of players Manchester United have looked at as they try to bring in a striker on loan following the long-term injury to Marcus Rashford. Former Watford forward Ighalo is with Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua and has two years left on his contract while Slimani is…

Frank Warren has slammed Anthony Joshua for lying about holding talks with Deontay Wilder over a unification fight after his rematch with Tyson Fury. The British heavyweight said he was hoping to ‘throw a curveball’ in the mix after Wilder and Fury’s rematch, which would see the winner of that bout pull out of a…

Serena Williams suffered her earliest exit from the Australian Open in 14 years, falling to a shock defeat to China’s Wang Qiang in a stunning third-round upset. The American’s bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title ended with a 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 7-5 defeat to Wang. When they met at the US Open…

Sport lovers in Nigeria has urged the Super Eagles to compensate Nigerians by defeating their Tunisian counterparts in the third place match of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nation (AFCON) in Egypt. A sport analyst Anthony Ozioko made the appeal in an interview with our correspondent in Nsukka on Monday. He noted that the Super…