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  KENYA SEVENS: How We Got Here. I have been seeing a lot of people in shock by the conversation that Kenya Sevens is at the verge of relegation from the #HSBCWorldSevens . Well this started a while back when the World Sevens decided to have only 12 teams in the series. This decision was made in order to fit into the Olympic style kind of tournament for only the best of the best. Since Kenya won the #Singapore7s title in 2016. we have only managed to finish in the top 12 4 times with only once have we been able to finish in the top 10. It has been a combination of factors that have led us to this position. One of them being the retirement of Key players who were a permanent fixture in the team. The next has been the constant wrangles that have been at Kenya Rugby Union. The mistrust between the Union and sponsors over financial accountability as well as mistrust between the Union and the Players. This has been a permanent fixture season in and out. So when this season started we h...

When I think of special players I think of a particular club in Italy that its players seem to never want to leave. A team that was founded back in 1927 and wears wine and Gold, a team with a Logo so unique, a she-wolf suckling two twins Romulus and Remus – this is a myth of the founding of Rome.   The team is known as Giallorossi, red and Yellow, but more popular by the name AS Roma. Former captain and all-time scorer of the Rome based club, Francesco Totti denied Real Madrid when he was at the prime of his career, preferring to stay with his childhood team and giving the world a famous quote in 2006: “They taught us in school that family is the most Important thing for a human. Roma is my Family, have you ever heard of someone who left his poor parents to live with rich strangers.”   Enough about this great man for now soon I will write it all down for you. But you get the Roma spirit. The man I speak about in this piece is one who wears his heart on his sl...

FOOTBALL HAS GONE MAD: I don’t really mean this in a negative connotation I mean it in the best way possible. I have over the past 7 years witnessed the game go absolutely berserk. Crazy transfer fees, crazy T.V. money for the Premier League, crazy score lines, crazy transfers and crazy salaries for players. Ok before you rubbish my thoughts let us go through a couple of things to defend my thesis: CHELSEA FC Of course yes I am a Chelsea fan so I shall start with a little something about my team and believe me that 2011/12 UEFA Champions league campaign was bizarre. It all started with the 3-1 loss to Napoli in Naples before Chelsea launched a comeback and won the game 4-1 with goals from Didier Drogba, John Terry, Frank Lampard and Branislav Ivanovic. Then yet another mountain arose for the men in blue. Chelsea would then go on and beat Benfica and book a date with a Barcelona side at some point looked like they were unbeatable. How Chelsea managed to win 1-nil at Stamfor...

Dear Antonio Conte, CC: Chelsea Football Club, I write to you this letter so early in the season as a die hard CFC fan. A fan who no matter what happens I never stop believing. But today's letter is not one of telling of my unending Love for my Club but a letter on something I would like done in the summer or in January if possible. Yes, it is about a specific transfer. I would like you to consider bringing back a specific player by the name Juan Mata. His contract with a certain team that wears red ends in the summer of 2018 making him a free agent and that means we could buy him as some manager deems him surplus to requirement. When Mata left in 2014 it broke my heart, he was our little magician who dazzled the world on his way to two consecutive player of the year awards for Chelsea in a team that had Drogba, Terry, Lamps and even Brana. But he scooped it. He was a creative force and in your system Mr Conte, he would sl...

The FIFA Council on Friday appointed Senegalese Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura as the Secretary General of the Football Governing Body. Ms Samoura is a 21 year veteran of United Nations Programmes who is currently the UN’s Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Nigeria. The announcement was made by FIFA President Gianni Infantino at the 66 th FIFA Congress being held in Mexico City, Mexico. As a requirement of FIFA Ms Samoura will undergo an eligibility check administered by the Independent Review Committee as per Article 37 of the FIFA Statutes. Ms Samoura is expected to assume the role of FIFA Sec Gen before mid-June. Infantino praised Ms Samoura’s Integrity and said the council was particularly impressed with her operational experience, as well as her expertise in governance and working in multi-cultural environments. He also added that her expertise will complement the long-standing and deep knowledge of world football within the FIFA lea...

34 year old Swede striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be leaving PSG when his contract ends in the summer. Ibrahimovic is the Club’s record goalcorer with 152 goals in 178 appearances since him joining the team in 2012. PSG have won Ligue 1 in every single season he has been at the club and this season he guided the team to wrap up the title with two months to spare. PSG will host Nantes on Sunday in his final Ligue 1 appearance before meeting Marseille in the French Cup final on the 21 st of May. Already an agreement has been put in place for Zlatan to return to the club at the end of his career. Zlatan has finished as Ligue 1 top scorer in three seasons; 2012-13, 2013-14 and the current season 2015-16 he is on pole to take the award home as he leads Olympic Lyon’s Alexandre Lacazette by 15 goals. Throughout his four seasons at Parc de Princes he has been included in the League 1 team of the year. On his Official Twitter account Zlatan said that “I came as a King, I leave a Leg...

Tv Broadcaster BT Sport who have the rights to the UEFA Competition, will be broadcasting the UEFA Europa League on 18 th May on their Tv Channel and on the Video-Sharing Website, Youtube. And on the 28 th of May will show the UEFA Champions League game pitting the two Madrid teams live on TV and Youtube. This is in an effort to get a large of their TV audience viewing the two games and increase viewership for the two finals. Liverpool fans in Merseyside will also be treated to a live experience at the City’s Echo Arena where 9,000 fans who will be unable to attend Basel’s St Jakob-Park will be able to watch the Europa League Final. The centre referee for the UEFA Champions League has already been appointed. Atletico Madrid versus Real Madrid Final in Milan this year will be handled by English Referee Mark Clattenburg .  The 41 year old will be Assisted by Countrymen Simon Beck, Jake Collins. The Fourth Official for the game will be Hungarian Viktor Kassai. ...

Claims have already emerged that Leicester has this sporting year emerged as the Sporting Capital of the United Kingdom. Leicester City’s infamous premier league win, that has become every underdogs dream come true, is the force behind this bold declaration. Also alongside it is the fact that Leicester Tigers’ are in the hunt for an 11 th English Rugby Union title, Leicester Riders’ success on the Basketball court and Loughborough University’s 35 consecutive British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUSCS) titles to add to the compelling debate. Leicester City Football Club: When the season began Leicester was given odds of 5000/1 of winning the premier league title. This was due to the fact that they had just battled from the relegation zone and narrowly survived the cut from the 2014/15 season. This season however, they started with all guns blazing as Riyad Mahrez, Jamie Vardy and Ngolo Kante spearheaded their fantastic start. Leicester slowly found themselves top...

Making the playoffs five times in the last six season’s wasn’t enough for Frank Vogel to keep his job as head coach of the Indiana Pacers. This is after the team declined to offer him a new deal after his current one expires at the end of the 2015-16 season. This is information passed on by Team President Larry Bird on Thursday.  Bird told reporters that he spoke with Vogel on Thursday morning with the coach asking him to reconsider his decision. Bird would also shoot down the notion of his former Celtics teammate Kevin McHale taking over from Vogel.  Indiana finished the regular season seventh having 45 wins against 37 losses in the Eastern Conference and lost to the Toronto Raptors in the first round of the 2016 Playoffs.  Indiana will be out looking for a Head Coach and could potentially gamble on their Marquee assistant who has yet to prove himself as a head coach but doing so would mean a season or two of transition.  ...

JAMES TAYLOR Ex-England batsman James Taylor recounted the day his life changed on Sunday. It was a pre-season match for Nottinghamshire County at Cambridge University in the first week of April. There had been no signs or symptoms as he had one of the best ever lead-up to his season. By 5pm, he was in hospital where he remained for 16 days after being diagnosed with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC) at the Nottingham City Hospital. Taylor was in his prime as a cricketer when his blossoming career was abruptly cut short at age 26. His one-day record was outstanding with his List  batting average being the fourth of all time just behind Legendary duo Michael Bevan and AB de Villiers, and India’s Cheteshwar Pujara.  This case is one of many Athletes whose careers have been cut short or interfered with by Heart Conditions. FABRICE MUAMBA On 17 th March 2012 Fabrice Muamba was playing in an FA Cup quarter-final match against Tottenham...

Nico Rosberg eased to victory at the Russian GP to extend his championship lead to 43 points over Lewis Hamilton. The German was in supreme form in Sochi on Sunday and led from start to finish as he maintained his 100 per cent victory record in 2016. Defending champion Hamilton recovered from 10 th on the grid following more unreliability problems in qualifying to take second place and limit the damage to his title chances. The Briton also had further problems during the race as he was instructed that his car had a ‘water pressure’ problem with less than 20 laps to go after he had cut Rosberg’s lead down to seven seconds. Hamilton after the race did however say that the issue did not show itself in the car and he had to back off and avoid being on full throttle at the straight stretches. There was more drama in the race as Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat hit Ferrari’s Sebastien Vettel twice in two corners. The Russian Carried too much speed into Turn Two on the opening lap a...

Leicester city must wait to claim the Premier League title after being held to a 1-1 draw with Manchester United in a pulsating clash at Old Trafford. Leicester walked into the ‘Theatre of Dreams’ needing any sort of victory to claim their first top-flight title in their 132-year History.  Claudio Ranieri’s men started nervously and found themselves in the backfoot when Antonio Valencia made light work of Christian Fuchs on the left side of the pitch before he picked out Anthony Martial with a pinpoint cross. Martial made easy work of the cross tapping in past Kasper Schmeichel to make it 1-0. This Goal was Anthony Martial’s ninth in the premier league this season.  The Visitors showed character levelling the scores nine minutes later after a Christian Fuchs free-kick was headed home by Wes Morgan.  The second half saw PFA’s Player of the season Riyad Mahrez and teammate Leonardo Ulloa come close, before Chris Smalling’s header rattled the post wi...