Graeme Souness is to step down as a Sky Sports pundit. Souness made the announcement live on Sky Sports following Liverpool’s home game with Tottenham on Super Sunday.The Scot, who started his playing career at Tottenham before becoming a player and manager with both Rangers and Liverpool, has been a regular on Sky Sports for over a decade. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player The best moments from pundit Graeme Souness following his last show for Sky Sports “I was given an opportunity to do this and it was magnificent,” said Souness as he reflected on…
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Napoli would have won their first Serie A title since 1990 with a record six games to spare if they had beaten local rivals.Napoli will have to wait at least a few more days to seal the Serie A title after drawing 1-1 with regional football rivals Salernitana, disappointing legions of fans of the southern club who had already started celebrating in anticipation of the championship. The Partenopei could have clinched with a record six rounds to spare if they beat Salernitana on Sunday, but Boulaye Dia equalised for the visitors six minutes from time after Mathias Olivera had given…
BASEL, SWITZERLAND — Macklin Celebrini scored the game-winning goal 7:51 into overtime and Canada topped Slovakia 4-3 to earn bronze at the men’s under-18 world hockey championship in Switzerland on Sunday. Celebrini also netted the game’s opening goal, while Colby Barlow and Matthew Wood added the others for Canada. Gabriel D’Aigle made 26 saves. Dalibor Dvorsky, Peter Cisar and Daniel Jencko replied for Slovakia. Samuel Urban stopped 37-of-41 shots. After a scoreless first period, Canada took a 2-1 lead thanks to Barlow’s goal with 13 seconds remaining in the second. In the third, Slovakia took a 3-2 edge with Jencko’s marker…
UNHCR says it is working closely with the government days after reports surfaced that there was a complete lack of international humanitarian response at the Egypt border.The United Nations says it is working closely with Egyptian authorities to help people arriving at the border escape the ongoing conflict in Sudan, after complaints the international response to the crisis had been lacking. A UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) employee told Al Jazeera the agency is working with the government, particularly with the Ministry of Health, to provide necessary supplies to people at the border. “UNHCR is coordinating an interagency response…
Naples, Italy – The streets of central Naples were quiet, except for the low murmur of TVs and radios all tuned to the same match: Juventus v Napoli. But as the game entered stoppage time, the pall was broken by a collective gasp followed by an eruption of cheers and whistles as Napoli scored to make it 1-0. As Napoli closed out the victory last weekend, the rumbling of people jumping up and down in their homes could be heard, like a train passing though the city. The win means that if league leaders Napoli beat local rivals Salernitana on…
The United States has accused China of “harassment and intimidation of Philippine vessels” and called on Beijing to end “provocative” action in the South China Sea after a recent near-collision between a Chinese vessel and a Philippine Coast Guard boat. “We call upon Beijing to desist from its provocative and unsafe conduct,” US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement on Saturday, just two days before President Joe Biden is to host his counterpart, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, in Washington, DC. The State Department also warned that an attack on Philippine security forces or public vessels would…
Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said casualties in Bakhmut would be ‘five times fewer if we had more ammunition’.The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force has threatened to withdraw his troops from the key battle for Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine as casualty rates mount, while Ukraine military authorities said Russian forces have been unable to cut their supply routes to the front line city. Losses in Bakhmut were five times higher than necessary because of the lack of artillery ammunition, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an interview with Russian military blogger Semyon Pegov published on Saturday. “Every day we…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Bryce Duke and Mathieu Choiniere scored first-half goals to lead CF Montreal to a 2-0 Major League Soccer victory over Sporting Kansas City on Saturday night. Duke gave Montreal (3-6-0) a 1-0 lead, using assists from Choiniere and Sean Rea to score in the 35th minute. Choiniere added a goal in the first minute of stoppage time — with assists from Aaron Herrera and Rea — to put Montreal up 2-0 at halftime. Sporting KC (0-7-3) had advantages of 13-10 in shots and 6-4 in shots on goal. Jonathan Sirois had six saves to earn…
Twenty years ago, when Gloria Morales arrived in Yuendumu, a remote community in Australia’s Northern Territory, “there were dead dogs everywhere”, she remembers. An overpopulation crisis meant dogs were starving, sick, covered in mange. They were unvaccinated, malnourished, easily infected with bacteria, and their puppies were dying from infections. Many of the dogs were aggressive too, fighting and killing each other over territory and food. Like many of Australia’s remote Indigenous communities, Yuendumu had no vet and the nearest was located in Alice Springs, about 300km (186 miles) away. It took Morales a long time to earn people’s trust. But…
The Colorado Avalanche will be without forward Andrew Cogliano for the foreseeable future after he suffered a fractured neck in Friday night’s Game 6 against the Seattle Kraken. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Cogliano suffered the injury on a hit from behind from Kraken forward Jordan Eberle late in the second period. Eberle was assessed a two-minute minor for boarding after the play and will not receive supplemental discipline. Incredibly, Cogliano returned and played the remainder of the game. He finished the contest with 11:01 of ice time in the Avalanche’s 4-1 win. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin:…