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Paris, Dec 28 (AFP/APP): French football results from Ligue 1 on Wednesday: Ajaccio 1 (Belaili 40-pen) Angers 0 Troyes 0 Nantes 0 Auxerre 2 (Niang 30-pen, Fofana 68-og) Monaco 3 (Ben Yedder 45+3-pen, Ben Seghir 58, 85) Playing later Clermont v Lille (1800), Brest v […]

Semmering, Austria, Dec 27 (AFP/APP):Mikaela Shiffrin had to go ‘full gas’ to pull off the 78th World Cup win of her career with victory in Tuesday’s giant slalom event in Semmering. Still only 27-years-old the American is now just four wins short of the women’s […]

LONDON – December 28 (ONLINE) Rangers midfielder Steven Davis will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury. Davis, 37, is out of contract at Ibrox at the end of the season, raising suggestions he could have played his final game in a […]

LONDON, UK – December 26 (ONLINE) Tottenham manager Antonio Conte has suggested he will only select players who were not involved in the World Cup for his side’s Boxing Day match at Brentford. The Premier League resumes on Monday, just eight days after the World […]

ANKARA, Turkey – December 26 (ONLINE) Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Cristiano Ronaldo was subjected to a “political ban” at the World Cup, as he compared the Portuguese footballer to Lionel Messi. “They have wasted Ronaldo. Unfortunately, they have imposed a political ban […]

London, Dec 26 (AFP/APP):Harry Kane bounced back from his World Cup heartbreak to earn Tottenham a 2-2 draw at Brentford as Newcastle climbed to second place in the Premier League with a 3-0 win at Leicester on Monday. Liverpool also made a winning return from […]