England won its penultimate World Cup tune-up with a 2-1 victory over Nigeria on Saturday at Wembley Stadium. But the win was marred by an indefensible Raheem Sterling dive early in the second half.
The first-half performance was strong for the Three Lions, though they faded a bit in the second half as Nigeria sought a result. London-based players scored all three goals in the match.
As the old cliche screamed from the sidelines goes, you gotta call it both ways, sir! So all credit to this man in the middle during Monday’s Turkish Super Lig match between Besiktas and Kayserispor at the Vodafone Arena.
This fine piece of neutrality began with a Kayserispor player dribbling into pressure in his own half. Perhaps confused as to where in the hell this cat planned on going, the ref triggered the counterattack himself by laying him out.
We all love to laugh at players who miss the easiest goals. I mean, they are paid to play well and score goals, right? It’s all fun and games until it’s one of us that misses the easiest chance. For this poor lad, well, misses don’t come much worse than this.
Liverpool is almost certainly into the 2018 Champions League Final holding, at the time of writing this, a 7–3 aggregate lead over Roma. They’ve equalled Roma’s away goal tally, but they’ve also conceded a brilliant own goal involving Real Madrid’s favorite defensive liability, Dejan Lovren.
The goal was scored by the greatest playmaker the Champions League has ever seen, James Milner, and I think you can already tell how special this is.