Why Giroud is best used as a super sub The 67-year-old’s deal is due to expire at the end of the season and he has yet to make a final decision on his future, refusing to commit when pressed on the topic by the press. Wenger celebrated his 20th anniversary in charge of the Gunners - a side he helped shape into a Premier League powerhouse over the last decade - last October....
The Sheffield-born 31-year-old completed a stunning week in Surrey with a closing five-under-par 67 to reach 20 under through 72 holes. It meant he finished three clear of Spaniard Rahm, with whom he had been level-pegging at the start of the day. Rahm made 70 - his worst score of the week - to finish one in front of South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout, who carded a 68. Americans Billy Horschel and Patrick Reed had stirring final rounds of 65 and 66 respectively to tie for fourth on 15 under....
Another game shown off was Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood, an action-RPG based on the tabletop game of the same name. For those that don’t know, the game puts players in control of eco-terrorist Cahal, who battles against the Pentex corporation, which is causing pollution and generally harming the environment. RELATED: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Introduces Pioneer Faction The new trailer is really short, barely under a minute long, and only shows off quick snippets of gameplay of Cahal in his three different forms....
Dutch coach Louis van Gaal named 26 players in his provisional squad for the match in Faro, Portugal, reports Xinhua. Among others the regular big names like Robin van Persie (Manchester United), Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich) and Rafael van der Vaart (Hamburger SV) are in, but Sneijder is not. Just one year ago when Van Gaal started his second term as Dutch national team coach, he appointed Sneijder as his captain....
Five supporters were banned for life by the club after a series of unsavoury incidents during the 3-0 defeat to prior to the international break. Several fans invaded the playing surface, while a coin struck co-chairman David Sullivan’s glasses during a toxic atmosphere. Captain Mark Noble tussled with one supporter, and West Ham confirmed a number of changes to security at their stadium for when fellow Premier League strugglers Southampton visit this weekend....
Pep Guardiola made two bold selection decisions in leaving Claudio Bravo and Sergio Aguero on the substitutes’ bench and was rewarded with only a second top-flight victory in five attempts. Kevin De Bruyne put City ahead with his fourth league goal of the season having been set up by Jesus. David Silva swiftly doubled the visitors’ lead with his second goal of the league campaign and Jesus struck himself before the break....
The 54-year-old, whose reign began last month, named an unchanged starting XI for Wednesday’s 0-0 draw with Arsenal, having shocked defending champions Chelsea to a 1-0 win four days earlier. Moyes took to a three-back system for both games, but as positive as the change has seemed, the formation has also limited the Hammers’ attacking options as the manager has had to set up only Michail Antonio and Marko Arnautovic as the main goal outlets....
The Poland international suffered the injury taking a goal-kick during the first half of his side’s 2-2 draw with Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday. Back-up keeper Roberto replaced Fabianski in the 34th minute and is set for a prolonged run in the starting XI. The 33-year-old Spaniard had spells with Atletico Madrid, Benfica, Real Zaragoza and Olympiacos prior to joining West Ham on a free transfer in May....
KOLKATA (Reuters) - West Indies skipper Darren Sammy has an uncomplicated approach to cricket and the affable all-rounder had a typically nonchalant view of the 22-yard pitch on which his team will face England in Sunday’s World Twenty20 final. “Just want a 22-yard long wicket and six feet wide,” the 32-year-old told reporters at Eden Gardens on Saturday. “Whatever they give us, we’ll play on. It’s a final. (I) haven’t had a look at the wicket, will see it today during practice,” the easy-going 32-year-old Saint Lucian said....
“Usually, you average a day to be 270 in Test cricket with 90 full overs and we have restricted them, especially with [KL] Rahul going the way he was and then the skipper [Virat Kohli] later. Restricting them to 230 (232) in 90 (88) overs shows (that) there’s improvement from Antigua,” Simmons said. “I think they learned today what we have been talking about for the last six months, about being patient in Test cricket....
The West Indian batsmen had a forgettable game as they could put up just 95 runs on the board, with only Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran scoring in double figures. The likes of Evin Lewis and Shimron Hetmyer would be looking to make amends for their failures in the first T20I. The Indian batsman would also be looking to perform better going forward as they lost 6 wickets in a chase of just 96 runs....
New signing Alexandre Lacazette announced himself to the Gunners faithful with a debut goal in Thursday’s 2-0 win over Sydney FC and Arsene Wenger will want to see more of that as he primes his team for a renewed assault on the Premier League. The latest Arsenal transfer rumours The game against Western Sydney sets Arsenal up for an International Champions Cup clash against Bayern Munich in China four days later, ahead of friendlies against Chelsea, Sevilla and Benfica....
After recovering from a broken leg, Wilshere is yet to play in the Premier League this season, but he made a 22-minute cameo against Cologne in the Europa League last week and is expected to be given another run-out against Doncaster Rovers in the EFL Cup on Wednesday. Arsenal 7/1 to win League Cup While the futures of Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil dominate conversation around the Emirates Stadium, Wilshere is similar to the high-profile pair in that his contract expires at the end of the campaign, with reports this week suggesting the midfielder is open to joining West Ham, having spent last term on loan at Bournemouth....
The Frenchman was left seething by the late awarding of a corner to Everton which Ashley Williams headed home to seal a 2-1 win for the home side at Goodison Park in midweek. Wenger’s mood worsened on Sunday when he suggested that both Manchester City goals should have been disallowed in the Gunners’ 2-1 reverse to their Premier League title rivals. Arsenal sleepwalking out of title race The 66-year-old told Sky Sports that “enough is enough” after accusing referee Martin Atkinson and his assistants of failing to spot offside infringements from Leroy Sane – scorer of City’s equaliser - and David Silva, who ran close to Petr Cech’s line of sight for Raheem Sterling’s winner....
Arsenal were on the verge on progressing as pool winners as Olivier Giroud’s penalty and Marco Verratti’s calamitous own-goal cancelled out Edinson Cavani’s opener. However, Lucas Moura’s header - via an Alex Iwobi deflection - 13 minutes from time salvaged a deserved 2-2 draw for Paris Saint-Germain at the Emirates Stadium. And Wenger was unable to hide his disappointment with the ease of PSG’s equaliser. “We had good spells in the game but we could not dominate,” Wenger told BBC Sport....
Wilshere is out of contract at the end of the campaign and the England international has been linked with a move away, though the midfielder could have left the Emirates Stadium earlier. Preparing for England’s international friendlies against Netherlands and Italy, Wilshere said he was granted the opportunity to leave boyhood club Arsenal following his season-long loan spell at Bournemouth in 2016-17. “It was an honest conversation,” Wilshere said. “It had been boiling up for a while....
The coach and his assistants Florian Kohlfeldt and Thorsten Frings have been released from all their duties “with immediate effect”, Werder Bremen said in a statement on Sunday. Under-23 coach Alexander Nouri and Florian Bruns will take the helm for the next two games against Mainz and Wolfsburg, reports Xinhua. “We have decided to take this step because we lack in confidence after the performance in Monchengladbach,” Bremen’s sporting director Frank Baumann said....
The first and most well-known story of tragic or strange events comes from the death of the two young female stars of the original movie. Heather O’Rourke, who played Carol Anne, died at the age of twelve due to undetected intestinal stenosis. She had no symptoms when she suddenly collapsed on January 31, 1988 around 9:20 am. She had just had her twelfth birthday one month prior. When O’Rourke passed away, she had just finished filming the third installment in the franchise....
This was a week of controversial decisions in the Barclays Premier League, with referees in the lime-light for the wrong reasons. The most appalling decision was that of Kevin Friend’s, who sent off Wes Brown, for a tackle that wasn’t. However, Sunderland have managed to overturn the 3 match ban, following a successful appeal to the Football Association. In a statement released by the FA, it said, “With regard to Brown, who was dismissed for serious foul play during Saturday’s game at Stoke City, the claim was upheld....
That earned David Moyes’s entertaining side a shot at the UEFA Europa Conference League during 2022/23, where they will be looking to recreate the European heroics that took them to the semifinals of the Europa League last time out. Former Manchester United manager Moyes has enjoyed a renaissance at the London Stadium and will feel confident of overseeing another impressive season. When are West Ham’s European games going to be?...
