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Harry Kane The Spurs striker just scored his 100th goal for the club against Liverpool last weekend. The England forward is the second fastest player in Premier League history to hit the Hundred Club behind Alan Shearer. Kane hit the hundred mark in just 141 league appearances, while Shearer managed it in just 124 appearances. Though the Spurs star broke the former Blackburn and Newcastle striker’s record for most league goals scored in a calendar year with 39 last year....

Perhaps the most showy appearance at the Seoul WInter Olympics opening ceremony was that of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, accompanied by the President of the United States Donald Trump.   https://twitter.com/adore13/status/961928829554999296 Or rather an Australian Kim Jong-Un impersonator called Howard and an American Donald Trump lookalike called Dennis Alan. Though as the world's media snapped away at them the pair were rather unceremoniously ejected from the opening ceremony after causing a commotion.   https://twitter.com/ajrod/status/961971792599396352 The impressionists wanted "to...

Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The Week 1 review is here, Week 2 transfers & preview here, Week 3 preview here, Week 4 preview here, Week 5 preview here, Week 6 preview here, Week 7 preview here, Week 8 preview here, Week 9 preview here, Week 10 preview here, Week 11 preview here. Week 12 preview here. Week 13 preview here. Week 14 preview here. Week 15 here. Week 16 here. Week 17 here. Week 18 here. Week 19 here. Week 20 here. Week 21 here. Last...

England's World Cup victory in 1966 has been revealed as the landmark moment Brits would love to have witnessed - over the birth of Christ, the construction of Stonehenge and Live Aid. The game, played at Wembley on July 30, remains the greatest moment in England's footballing history and made legends of players like the late Bobby Moore and Nobby Stiles. The match featured Geoff Hurst's infamous 'was it, or wasn't it' goal and Kenneth Wolstenholme's immortal 'They think it’s...

Arsenal hope to have Petr Cech, Danny Welbeck and Nacho Monreal match fit for Saturday’s North London Derby at Wembley. With Arsenal sixth place in the Premier League, four points behind their North London rivals, Arsene Wenger was ebullient this morning at a press conference. The Arsenal manager admitted that goal for goal there is no better striker in Europe than Tottenham’s Harry Kane. The Spurs striker just scored his 100th goal for the club against Liverpool last weekend. And...

Patrice Evra is reported to have completed a medical on his move to West Ham and has signed for the London club on a free transfer. Everton are also interested in the former French captain, but he is set to move to the Hammers until the end of the season, preferring a move to London. The left-back played under West Ham manager David Moyes when he was at Manchester United, where he played a total of eight years before a...

New Manchester United signing Alexis Sanchez has been handed a 16-month suspended sentence for tax evasion by a Spanish court. The former Arsenal and Barcelona forward was found guilty of defrauding the Spanish tax authorities of £900,000 during his spell at the Nou Camp. But under Spanish law, the 29-year-old will not go to prison as the sentence is less than two years and it is his first offence. Instead Sanchez, the highest played Premier League player must pay a...

By Dan Betts The London Football Awards are back for 2018, and they’re bigger than ever. In its fourth year, the London Football Awards showcase the finest that the London-based clubs have to offer, in both men’s and ladies football. The likes of Ainslie Maitland-Niles, Wilfried Zaha and Mauricio Pochettino have been nominated from the men’s game, while Lionesses Jordan Nobbs, Fran Kirby and Danielle Carter are in the running for the prestigious Women’s Player of the Year award. Last...

A retired sports journalist has revealed for the first time how he should have been on the Munich Air Disaster plane. Don Hardisty, 88, says he is the 'luckiest man alive' after his editor at the Daily Mail cancelled his plane ticket two weeks before the crash. Colleague Eric Thompson was sent on the ill-fated journey instead to cover Manchester United's match against Red Star Belgrade - and died in the crash. Twenty-three people were killed, including eight Busby Babes,...