Football: Son lifts Spurs to second spotENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUETottenham 1Newcastle 0LONDON • Tottenham left it late again yesterday. Son Heung-min's second goal in four days since returning from the Asian Cup earned a 1-0 Premier League win over Newcastle that allowed Spurs to leapfrog Manchester City into second place.Spurs...

Pep proud Manchester City have raised barLONDON • Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City have raised the standard of the English Premier League, just as Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus did in golf and Usain Bolt did in athletics.City won the title last season with a record 100 points and this year could retain it with...

Football: Delighted Klopp tells players to stay focusedLONDON (AFP) - Jurgen Klopp refused to get carried away with the growing expectation that Liverpool can lift the league title for the first time in 29 years saying his players must stay focussed after they thrashed Arsenal 5-1 on Saturday (Dec 29).Roberto Firmino's...

Reserves deliver as Spurs eye City clashENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUETottenham 4Huddersfield 0LONDON • Tottenham Hotspur believe they are on the brink of a piece of modern-day history and it has certainly been difficult to keep a lid on the excitement that is building ahead of the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final...

Mourinho blames player power, wants top coaching jobLONDON • Jose Mourinho has bemoaned the power wielded by modern players and suggested that clubs ought to be structured to empower managers to deal with it.Speaking to beIN Sports where he was appearing as an analyst, the former Manchester United manager said: "The...

Ex-FAS gen sec Lee withdraws from AFC exco contestFormer Football Association of Singapore (FAS) general secretary Winston Lee withdrew his candidacy for one of nine seats on the executive committee of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) yesterday, just hours before the governing body's Congress in Kuala Lumpur.The...

Football: Fandi Ahmad's Young Lions 'have to keep fighting' to avoid being wooden spoonistsSINGAPORE - The Young Lions are technically Singapore's Under-22 development team but, in reality, the Singapore Premier League (SPL) team are even younger in 2019.As Fandi Ahmad's team take on Balestier Khalsa in their opening SPL...

Football: Solskjaer wants United players to enjoy their footballMANCHESTER, England (REUTERS) - Manchester United's caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said on Thursday (Dec 20) that he wanted to "get the players enjoying their football" after he returned to Old Trafford following the sacking of Jose Mourinho.United...