Real Talent: Bellingham is the ‘poster boy’, but Vini Jnr should be considered the ‘Prince of Madrid’

0 Comments

If you were to ask the average Real Madrid fan who is their player of the year, the majority would pick English star Jude Bellingham, who had joined Madrid from Dortmund in the summer for 103 million Euros. Well, a reasonable answer would be, ‘that’s fair enough’. The ex-Dortmund sensation enjoyed a remarkable debut season […]

The Demon’s French Open run shows he can mix it with the best: How far can Alex de Minaur go in winning a Grand Slam?

0 Comments

Unfortunately for Alex de Minaur fans, he exited Roland Garros at the quarter-final stage after defeat to Alexander Zverev. But the straight-set defeat does not tell the whole story. What was impressive was that de Minaur hung in there with the German, only losing eight fewer points than his opponent across the whole match. Zverev […]

Footy Fix: The Crows are an utter shambles – and one horror stat shows just how far they’ve fallen

0 Comments

There comes a night with every coach where the feeling that they’ve reached the end of the line simply cannot be mistaken for anything else. When it’s not hyperbole, or the instant hit of pessimism that follows a particularly galling loss, or any other rational factor to explain why a team and their leader has […]

Socceroos struggle to gain ascendancy but build World Cup qualifying momentum with ugly win over Bangladesh

0 Comments

It wasn’t the free-flowing attacking performance that Graham Arnold was craving but the Socceroos got the job done against Bangladesh in Thursday night’s game in Dhaka Australia are already through to the next round of World Cup qualifying and on top of Group I before the match and after a 7-0 win in Melbourne last […]

Brown sinks Blues in the wet with late field goal as trademark Maroons comeback forces Origin series decider

0 Comments

Queensland’s women showed the Maroons spirit is not confined to the men’s arena by stealing victory from NSW in the wet at Newcastle with a late field goal after looking down and out for most of the match. The Maroons trailed 10-4 in the slippery conditions after Tiani Penitani scored in the 58th minute but […]