1 month ago
Brentford made it a miserable start to the Premier League season for Roberto de Zerbi's expensively rebuilt Tottenham Hotspur side with an emphatic 3-0 victory at The Gtech Community Stadium.
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Spurs make nightmare start as Brentford hit three in easy win
Caoimhin Kelleher: Calm as ever in goal and made the saves when he needed to. 6
#brentford #start #premier
Here's how I rated the players and how you rated the players.
What do BBC Sport's player ratings mean?
Spurs make nightmare start as Brentford hit three in easy win
Caoimhin Kelleher: Calm as ever in goal and made the saves when he needed to. 6
#brentford #start #premier
2 months ago
With the IBF world light-middleweight ******* le in his possession, Josh Kelly feels "it's a different version of me" since he dethroned Bakhram Murtazaliev as he promised to "put on a show" in his maiden defence against Caoimhin Agyarko on Saturday.
Kelly had to bide his time for his opportunity, but the silky 32-year-old from Sunderland grabbed it with both hands with a majority points decision verdict against the Russian in January, improving to 18 wins with one defeat and one draw.
In some ways, 29-year-old Belfast challenger Agyarko has followed a similar path, enjoying big promotional backing in spells under the Queensberry and Matchroom banners, but was cut adrift by the latter following what was then a career-best win over Troy Williamson in 2023.
Both men will walk to the ring in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's heavyweight return against Kristian Prenga fully aware of how tough it has been to get to this stage.
Kelly, who had to rebuild from a 2021 defeat by David Avanesyan, has rattled off eight successful wins, culminating in his ******* le victory over Murtazaliev in Newcastle, dropping the champion in the fourth before coming through a late storm and surviving his own 11th-round trip to the canvas.
#year #wins #defeat #caoimhin
Kelly had to bide his time for his opportunity, but the silky 32-year-old from Sunderland grabbed it with both hands with a majority points decision verdict against the Russian in January, improving to 18 wins with one defeat and one draw.
In some ways, 29-year-old Belfast challenger Agyarko has followed a similar path, enjoying big promotional backing in spells under the Queensberry and Matchroom banners, but was cut adrift by the latter following what was then a career-best win over Troy Williamson in 2023.
Both men will walk to the ring in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's heavyweight return against Kristian Prenga fully aware of how tough it has been to get to this stage.
Kelly, who had to rebuild from a 2021 defeat by David Avanesyan, has rattled off eight successful wins, culminating in his ******* le victory over Murtazaliev in Newcastle, dropping the champion in the fourth before coming through a late storm and surviving his own 11th-round trip to the canvas.
#year #wins #defeat #caoimhin
3 months ago
Liverpool made several alterations to the squad last summer.
Richard Hughes bid farewell to plenty of ******* le-winning stars - including Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz, Caoimhin Kelleher and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Deals were concluded for replacements and upgrades - including Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike, Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong.
Unfortunately for the Reds they got worse - not better - and slumped to a fifth-place Premier League finish. Those failures cost Arne Slot his job as he was simply unable to get the best out of his new signings on a regular basis.
And now it's been claimed that one of those new faces is being offered around just ONE year after his arrival.
Richard Hughes bid farewell to plenty of ******* le-winning stars - including Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz, Caoimhin Kelleher and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Deals were concluded for replacements and upgrades - including Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike, Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong.
Unfortunately for the Reds they got worse - not better - and slumped to a fifth-place Premier League finish. Those failures cost Arne Slot his job as he was simply unable to get the best out of his new signings on a regular basis.
And now it's been claimed that one of those new faces is being offered around just ONE year after his arrival.
