Date published: Friday 12th February 2021 8:37 – Lewis Oldham Michael Owen believes Manchester City will be able to expose Tottenham’s defensive frailties on Saturday at the Etihad. Pep Guardiola’s side are on a phenomenal run of late. They have won 15 straight games in all competitions. This form has seen them go five points…
Bristol Rovers against Swindon in League One was one of several EFL games postponed on SaturdayThe Championship games between Rotherham and QPR, and Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea are among more than half of Saturday’s EFL fixtures to be postponed because of frozen pitches. The League One matches at Blackpool, Bristol Rovers, Crewe and Wimbledon are…
The Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis is home to Greek side OlympiakosArsenal’s home leg of their Europa League last-32 tie against Portuguese side Benfica will be played in Athens because of Covid-19 restrictions. The match, which takes place on 25 February, will be played at Olympiakos’ Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis. It was switched after the UK government imposed…
This week’s FA Cup football has swung a wrecking ball into the carefully laid plans of many managers before gameweek 24, with injuries to Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Lucas Digne and James Justin, plus doubts over the fitness of Michail Antonio, Ruben Dias and Nick Pope to name just a few. The reason the potential absentees could…
Leicester playmaker James Maddison is “hungry” for an England recall in time to make it to this summer’s rearranged European Championship. Since then, Jack Grealish and Phil Foden have staked strong claims to be in Gareth Southgate’s Euro 2020 squad. Speaking to Football Focus, he said: “I know I am good enough. I just want…
Leicester City playmaker James Maddison says playing for England is the “best feeling ever” and that he is “hungry” to return to Gareth Southgate’s squad for Euro 2020. Watch the full interview on Football Focus on Saturday, 13 February at 12:00 GMT on BBC One, iPlayer, and the BBC Sport website & app. This video…
Crutchlow will step down from a full-time racing career in MotoGP after this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix and will join Yamaha as its official test rider. The outgoing LCR rider replaces triple MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo in the role, which the Spaniard took on after announcing his retirement from racing last year. But, largely…
Sutton’s future spearheaded the silly-season talk at last weekend’s BTCC finale at Brands Hatch, where he became champion for the second time, at the wheel of the Infiniti Q50 run under the Laser Tools Racing banner by his old Subaru crew at BMR Engineering. WSR boss Dick Bennetts confirmed to Motorsport.com that his team would…
F2 star Ilott had a test outing with the Hinwil-based outfit in Barcelona last May, and he was scheduled to do an FP1 session with Haas at the Eifel GP at the Nurburgring in October, only for bad weather to cause the cancellation of the day’s running. Mick Schumacher, who was supposed to drive for…
Two former Cup Series champions – Kurt Busch and Martin Truex Jr. – took part in this week’s two-day test, with Busch driving a car prepared by Richard Childress Racing in collaboration with NASCAR and Truex in a car built by Action Express. The drivers spent several hours Monday testing on the Charlotte Motor Speedway…
