IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE
Shortly before former Uefa secretary general Hans Bangerter commissioned the current incarnation of Big Cup, its designer Jürg Stadelman and his father went to his office and covered the floor with drawings of different trophies. “He made comments like ‘The Bulgarians would like the bottom of that’,” Stadelman would later recall. “‘The Spaniards would like this but the Italians would prefer that and the Germans would go for this.’ We put the design together like a jigsaw puzzle.” It remains unclear whether or not Stadelman specified that Bangerter insisted on making the mouth of the trophy wide enough so that one day, decades in the future, Lucas Hernandez might hit upo…
Former Holland defender Adri van Tiggelen has encouraged Oranje boss Bert van Marwijk to include Klaas-Jan Huntelaar in the starting XI for the next two group stage matches.
The inclusion of Huntelaar would inevitably relegate Arsenal talisman Robin van Persie, who did little to nothing against Denmark in Holland s first match of Euro 2012, to the bench.
I guess it is about time that Klaas-Jan Huntelaar starts up front, I am kind of fed up with Robin van Persie, he told NUSport.
It is a fact he did an amazing job at Arsenal this season, but his performances have been heavily disappointing in the Netherlands national team.
Besides, we have two defensive midfielders who are hardly involved in attack. If Denmark benefited from that, Germ…
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West Ham came from behind to beat Manchester United in the final game to be played at Upton Park on this day in 2016.
Headers from Michail Antonio and Winston Reid secured a 3-2 victory for the Hammers as they bade farewell to their home of 112 years ahead of their move to the London Stadium.
Diafra Sakho had given the hosts the lead until Anthony Martial put United ahead with a second-half brace.
The occasion was marred before kick-off when bottles were thrown at the Manchester United coach as it made its way into the ground.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed a police officer and a member of the public were hurt, with the Football Association launching an investigation.
Kick-off was delayed by 45 minutes but West Ham were quickly out of the block…
The NFL schedule is out and the oddsmakers have crunched the numbers for which teams have the best chance to begin the season undefeated — and conversely, which teams might take some time to find their first victory.
I’m sorting through the lookahead NFL odds to see which squads have the best chances of beginning the season 3-0 SU and 0-3 SU. Here are my three best choices along with their probability percentages.
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We’re three full weeks into the NFL season, and some ugly starts have a handful of coaches already swimming in hot water.
NFL odds to be the first coach fired are now available for those guys on the hot seat — and the list starts with Doug Pederson after an 0-3 start and 47-10 pummeling on Monday Night Football.
First NFL head coach fired odds
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| Doug Pederson | Let’s be honest — the Super Wild Card Weekend games kind of sucked thanks to blowouts in five of the six games, but like I often say, “this is why we bet.” Monday’s Steelers vs. Bills game was anything but entertaining, but I clung to my TV until the final whistle to see if the Steelers could cover the 10-point spread. They of course did not, which resulted in the Bills bringing an end to their 0-8 ATS skid as a double-digit favorite. So that trend was a bust last week, as was the Over in Detroit after the offenses fell asleep in the second half. But the other four NFL betting trends in last week’s article came through, so hopefully we can pick up in the Divisional Round odds where we left off in the Wild Card Round. … The Battle of the Big Apple is four years in the making with the New York Jets and New York Giants fighting over MetLife Stadium bragging rights in the Week 8 odds. Both teams enter this Sunday non-conference clash off a win. The Giants snapped a four-game skid by dumping Washington at home last weekend while the Jets have had two weeks to let their Week 6 upset win over Philadelphia sink in… enjoying a bye in Week 7. The NFL odds peg the Jets as 3-point “road” favorites in their own stadium as the G-Men wait on the status of starting QB Daniel Jones, who missed Week 7 and hasn’t been cleared of a neck injury suffered two weeks ago. I break down the spread and Over/Under total for this New York City showdown and give my best NFL pick… The 50th edition of The Players Championship begins Thursday at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Often called "the fifth major," the 144-player field is arguably the strongest of the year outside of the four majors, even minus those who left for LIV Golf. Our golf experts preview the event and provide their favorite prop picks along with best bets to win this week. THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., March 14-17 Course: TPC Sawgrass (Par 72, 7,275 yards) Purse: $25M (Winner: $4.5M) Defending Champion: Scheffler FedEx Cup Leader: Scheffler HOW TO FOLLOW TV: Thursday-Friday, 1-7 p.m. ET (Golf Channel); Saturday, 2-7 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, 1-6 p.m. (NBC) Streaming (ESPN+): Thursday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. ET; Saturday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, 7… Mikel Arteta has compared Arsenal’s disappointing run of results to an onion and is confident his side’s “phenomenal” mid-season break can reignite their title challenge. Successive defeats against West Ham and Fulham at the end of last year have seen Arsenal slip to fourth, and last season’s runners-up have won only one of their past seven matches in all competitions. Arteta’s side face a Crystal Palace team similarly out of form on Saturday after a week in Dubai that the Arsenal manager believes has helped to “recharge the batteries” of his players. Although Arteta was positive about Arsenal’s chances of overhauling Liverpool’s five-point gap at the top given that the statistics show they are c… |