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Paris Saint-Germain resume their Ligue 1 title bid after the winter break against last season’s runners-up Lens as the focus sharpens increasingly on the future of France captain Kylian Mbappe. The league’s top scorer for each of the past five seasons, Mbappe’s contract with the French champions runs out at the end of June and he is free to sign ...

  Bangla Mirror Desk ::   Friends United Football Club UK (FUFC) Annual Award Giving Ceremony and Gala Dinner 2023 has been completed in East London, United Kingdom. Young footballer Imran Uddin Presided over the Annual Awards Ceremony Organised by Friends United Football Club UK (FUFC)  at a restaurant in East London on Wednesday (January 10). Presented by community activist, young ...

Real Madrid defeated Atletico Madrid 5-3 after extra-time in a pulsating battle in Saudi Arabia to reach the Spanish Super Cup final on Wednesday. Mario Hermoso and Antonio Rudiger exchanged early headed goals before Ferland Mendy sent Madrid ahead at the Al-Awwal Park stadium in Riyadh, AFP reports. Antoine Griezmann levelled with a milestone goal for Atletico to become their ...

A court in Nepal on Wednesday sentenced former cricket captain Sandeep Lamichhane to eight years in prison for rape. Lamichhane, 23, was once the poster boy for cricket in Nepal and the leg spinner’s onfield success had boosted the sport’s profile in the Himalayan republic, AFP reports. In 2022 he was accused of raping a young woman in a Kathmandu ...

Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino bemoaned a familiar lack of cutting edge after his team lost the first leg of their League Cup semi-final 1-0 to Championship side Middlesbrough at the Riverside on Tuesday. Hayden Hackney scored the only goal on 38 minutes as Pochettino’s expensively assembled array of stars again failed to perform away from home, AFP reports. Chelsea have ...

Manchester United proved too strong for League One Wigan Athletic as Erik ten Hag’s side moved into the fourth round of the FA Cup. Diogo Dalot fired the 12-time winners into a 22nd-minute lead with a fine curling strike after the impressive Marcus Rashford had a shot blocked. Rasmus Hojlund’s diving header clipped the bar, Rashford had an attempt fumbled ...

Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby legend JPR Williams has died at the age of 74. The former London Welsh, Bridgend and Barbarians full-back was synonymous with Wales and the Lions’ glories of the 1970s. Williams captained Wales and Bridgend, winning 55 caps for his country. During historic triumphant Lions tours to New Zealand in 1971 and 1974 in ...

A day after being elected as the Member of Parliament for the first time, Shakib Al Hasan turned up at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket in Mirpur of the capital on Monday as he gears up for the upcoming Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), starting on January 19. Shakib, still an all format captain of Bangladesh, earned a landslide victory in Magura-1 constituency ...

Kylian Mbappe helped record 14-time champions Paris Saint-Germain avoid an embarrassing slip-up with a 9-0 rout at sixth-tier amateurs Revel in the French Cup on Sunday. Revel’s young supporters had implored Mbappe to make the trip to the game played at Castres – Revel’s humble stadium only has capacity for 2,000 fans in the Haute-Garonne south-western region – in a ...

With an aim to win the Under-19 World Cup trophy for the second time, Bangladesh youth team leaves country for South Africa at the early hour on Sunday, a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) official said. The expectation is high on the youngsters this time around after they clinched the Asia Cup trophy for the first time in December last year, ...