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Tottenham Hotspur, who have 2 games in hand at the time of writing this article, will be looking to stay in touching distance of the top two when they travel to take on newly promoted Swansea City on New Years Day.
Manchester United v Wigan – Monday 26 December – Old Trafford (17:00) The English Premiership has entered the festive period and there is little time
City rivals are back to their best and 2 points clear at the top of the table. The log leaders travel to The Hawthorns on Monday to face Roy Hodgson’s West Brom.
With the new Rugby Championship tournament having officially launched, I could not help but think where the hell we are going to fit in all this rugby?
The mighty Barcelona proved once again why they are the champions of Spain. Barcelona outclassed Real Madrid to move top of the La Liga standings however Mourinho’s men have a game in hand and will face another team who suffered a disappointing defeat over the weekend.
The English Premiership is in full swing and the table is starting to take shape as the big guns all find themselves vying for the title. This weekend tosses up a mouth watering encounter between two teams that are in a rich vein of form and one can expect fireworks in this tie.
New Zealand may have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in the final of the Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens tournament in Port Elizabeth at the weekend, but their 31-26 victory over the Blitz bokke showed the South Africans are a team on the up.
The usual tendency is to compare the two modern-day greats on the basis of their batting skills alone but let us compare the two on the basis of everything a cricketer is supposed to bring to the table.
‘Everything’ includes batting, bowling and fielding skills and virtually anything else that a cricketer can do to make his team win.
This Saturday will see Bidvest Wits face Orlando Pirates in the Telkom Knockout Final that will be held at the majestic Moses Mabhida Stadium. A cracker is expected as both sides seek to win their first Telkom Knockout Cup titles.
The Spanish Super Cup in the beginning of the season (2-2 and 3-2 to Barcelona over two legs) may have provided a fiery and freescoring match in typical Clasico fashion between Madrid and Barca (and a bit of eye gouging, too), but the league clashes are what matter most and this Saturday provides the first head-to-head of the campaign between the two Spanish giants.
Even watching the Barbarians vs. Australia clash from over 9000 kilometers away, you could feel the immense sense of relief from the majority of the fifty thousand strong crowds at Twickenham after referee Romain Poite blew his whistle for full time.
Longstanding owner Sabine Plattner celebrated victory in the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
The Barend Botes-trained Lance filly Quid Pro Quo overcame enormous odds to make it five in a row and galloped her way into the history books
Richard Fourie crowned a superb season with an armchair ride to register a 141st Grade 1 winner for Mike de Kock
Cape Racing’s ongoing tussle with Mother Nature in what has been a wet July to beat all July’s, produced a fairytale at a sunny, but very chilly, Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday
