Embed from Getty Images Manchester United have won this season’s inaugural curtain raiser as the FA Cup winners beat Premier League champions Leicester City in the Community Shield final at Wembley. It was a win for new Red Devil’s boss, Jose Mourinho, in his first competitive game in charge ...
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Giggs leaves Old Trafford after 29 years of service
Embed from Getty Images Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs has today ended his 29 year tenure with the club. The news comes with the Welshman still having one year left on his contract, but new Red Devils manager Jose Mourinho is likely to bring in long time friend Rui ...
Read More »All-time Premier League French XI
For those of you that have been living under a rock for the last few months, and have no idea what’s going on in the world of football, you might be surprised to know that Euro 2016 takes place in France this summer. Anyway, to mark the occasion, I will ...
Read More »What has gone wrong for Chelsea this season?
Embed from Getty Images Despite being one of the most unpredictable and fascinating Premier League seasons to date, it has certainly been one to forget for Chelsea. Their fall from emphatic title winners in May, to having their season end in March the following year, has been sudden, complex and ...
Read More »Spurs beat Leicester to progress in FA Cup
Embed from Getty Images Goals from Son Heung-Min and Nacer Chadli earned Spurs a 2-0 win at the King Power Stadium to set up an FA Cup fourth round tie at Colchester United. Both sides started the game with similar line-ups to those that featured in the first match at ...
Read More »F.A Cupsets: 3rd Round
Round three of the FA Cup is where the ‘big boys’ come in. Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea all enter the competition at this stage, but ultimately this leaves bigger scalps for the lower ranked sides to take. As usual in the FA Cup, there were some upsets, and here ...
Read More »Leicester denied an FA Cup win
Embed from Getty Images Leicester City were harshly deprived of an FA Cup fourth round place when a late Tottenham penalty ensured the Foxes had to settle for a replay. The home side were the better of the two in the first half; Leicester took a little more time to ...
Read More »Oxford United take Swansea in FA Cup glory
After a weekend of FA Cup upsets, albeit draws, Premier League side Swansea City traveled to League Two outfit Oxford United determined not to be the first top flight side to be dumped straight out of the competition. But, a five goal thriller in front of a packed Kassam ...
Read More »FA Cupsets: Round Two
The FA Cup; an historic tournament that over the years has produced some major shocks. As usual, this season has already produced a number of early bigger scalps and round two was no different. Here is the FA Cupsets, round two: View image | gettyimages.com Friday 4 December Salford ...
Read More »F.A Cupsets – The magic of the Cup
Over the weekend, the first round of this year’s Emirates FA Cup took place, and as usual, there were a number of giant killings, shock results and big name scalps dumped out of the competition. Here at The Sports Lowdown, we take a look at those smaller sides that have ...
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