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Manchester United have announced record revenues of £627.1million and an operating profit of £50m for 2019. A run to the Champions League quarter-finals and an increase in broadcasting revenue helped the Red Devils achieve record figures for the fiscal year. Revenues were within the estimated range of £615m to £630m, as noted in their Q3 results, but are expected to fall to £580m or below in 2020 due to a lack of Champions League football. United are second only to Real Madrid in terms of global revenue in football, the LaLiga giants having generated £662.5m in 2018, according to this year’s Deloitte Football Money…

The Best FIFA Football Awards ceremony was conducted in Milan on the 23rd of September and plenty of football fanatics awaited that particular occasion with bated breath. The likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Virgil Van Dijk were vying to be crowned the Best Men’s Player while the FIFA FIFPro Men’s World11 was also a source of intrigue. Unsurprisingly, the diminutive Argentine took home the premier prize after conjuring a breath-taking 2018-19 season. However, contrastingly, the World11 threw up its fair share of questionable selections and it ultimately, left most across the globe scratching their heads. The team comprised of Alisson Becker…

•‘How Nigeria, others can save 60m lives, increase average life expectancy’ Ahead of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), which begins today in New York, United States, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and partners have advised that an additional $200 billion (N70 trillion) should be invested yearly to scale up primary health care across low and middle-income countries, including Nigeria. According to the global agency, the additional investment would potentially save 60 million lives, increase average life expectancy by 3.7 years by 2030, and contribute significantly to socio-economic development. The WHO and partners,…

By Sunday Saanu It is perhaps no longer news that a once upon moral, cultural and spiritual society of ours has so degenerated in values to the extent that some perverted people now openly advertise their erogenous zones for commerce. Much sadder, our society has sunk lower in moral that some secondary school students these days go to classes with pornographic items on their handsets. During the break time, they gather in a corner to watch what mummy and daddy are hiding at home. All that is rotten is in oversupply these days. Our ethos and moral fibre have withered…

By Comfort ObiLike most Nigerians, I have never met Allen Onyema, the Chairman of Air Peace Airline, before. I may not even be able to pick him out in a crowd. All I know is that he founded the Air Peace Airline, which now bestrides Nigeria’s skyline like a colossus, and quietly pushed out Arik Air which proudly occupied that position a couple of years back.Let me confess that even though I fly Air Peace every now and then, I am not its huge fan. And this, for no other reason than I’m not adventurous when it comes to the choice of…

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Sunday that world footbalil’s governing body has been “assured” by Iranian authorities that women will be able to attend a World Cup qualifier in Tehran next month. FIFA had demanded Iran allow women free unlimited access to stadiums following the ‘Blue girl’ incident where a woman killed herself after being arrested trying to access a football stadium. “We have been assured, that as of the next international game of Iran, women will be allowed to enter football stadiums,” Infantino told a FIFA conference on women’s football in Milan on Sunday. FIFA wants Iran to end…

Virgil Van Dijk threatens to eclipse fellow European stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to lift FIFA’s The Best Player award on Monday, to set himself up as favourite for this year’s Ballon d’Or. Van Dijk, Ronaldo and Messi are the three men’s finalists for The Best Player award, with the winner to be announced on Monday in a star-studded ceremony in Milan’s famous opera house La Scala. The towering Dutch defender helped Liverpool to the Champions League trophy last season and is well-positioned having already won the UEFA player of the year award. Since The Best award was created…

The feature game of this week’s Premier League will see Chelsea and Liverpool clash against each other. It is a fixture that has, over the years, paid witness to spectacular goals, anticlimactic moments, title-defining junctures, is set to open the door for another chapter that would bless the heritage of this beautiful competition. A lot has changed over the years for these two. While Jurgen Klopp has built his team block-by-block, and converted them to one of the most feared units in world football, Chelsea are in a period of metamorphosis under one of their most special former servants – Frank Lampard. Not only…

Cheslea head coach Frank Lampard remains optimistic midfielder Mason Mount will be fit for their Premier League clash with Liverpool. Mount, 20, sustained an ankle injury sustained in Chelsea’s defeat to Valencia in the Champions League on Wednesday. Chelsea’s medical staff will make the final call on Mount’s involvement but Lampard is hopeful he will be available to face Jurgen Klopp’s side on Sunday. “He has got a chance. The image of the tackle made it look really bad,” Lampard said, at his media conference ahead of the match at Stamford Bridge. “Hopefully it is not so bad, we are trying to…

Riyad Mahrez’s love of the ball is starting to pay dividends, says Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. City signed Algeria winger Mahrez from Leicester City for what was then a club-record fee of £60million in July last year. Although the 28-year-old netted the pivotal third goal in City’s 4-1 final-day win at Brighton and Hove Albion to seal the Premier League title, he spent much of his debut campaign on the periphery of Guardiola’s first XI. But Leroy Sane’s knee injury and a comparatively slow start this time around from City’s player of the year for 2018-19, Bernardo Silva, has handed Mahrez a…