English football club Middlesbrough appoints Pulis as new manager on December 27, 2017LONDON: Middlesbrough has appointed Tony Pulis as manager in a bid to bolster the club’s Premier League promotion push, the English Championship club said on Tuesday. Pulis, 59, replaces Garry Monk, who was sacked by Middlesbrough on Sunday after his team managed only 10 wins in 23 league games. “We’re delighted to appoint Tony as […]
West Ham roar back to beat Spurs, Chelsea sink Everton on October 27, 2017LONDON: Premier League strugglers West Ham United came back from two goals down to beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 at Wembley Stadium to move into the League Cup quarter-finals in exhilarating style on Wednesday. Everton caretaker manager David Unsworth’s first game on the bench ended in a 2-1 defeat by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Spurs looked […]
Gunmen kill 12 Niger gendarmes in attack near Mali border on October 22, 2017NIAMEY: Gunmen mounted on pick-up trucks and motorcycles killed 12 gendarmes and wounded several in an attack on their base in western Niger, near the Mali border, on Saturday, two security sources said. The village is a few dozen kilometres from where militants killed four US soldiers in an ambush on Oct. 4 that has […]