The Super League has flopped , with 8 Club leaving the short-term lived competition earlier this week after a massive backlash by fans. The European Super League finally collapsed on Tuesday early this week , as 6 English clubs withdrew from the project, and other European teams like Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid. German Media … Read more
Watford bounced back to the Premier League at the first time of asking after Saturday’s 1-0 win over Millwall sealed promotion. Ismaila Sarr’s early penalty gave Watford the perfect start, but they had to withstand a nervy finale to guarantee their place back in the prestige and riches of the English top-flight. Watford bounced back … Read more
Regarding the league Wiz Khalifia joined, The Professional Fighters League is an American mixed martial arts league and the first major MMA (Mixed Martial Art) It’s a competition where individual athletes compete in a regular season, post-season, and championship, rather than on a year-round basis and the champion walk away with the grand championship prize. … Read more
In football, not everyone eventually gets called up to represent his national team. A lot of factors may cause this, such as lack of success at club level, injury, lack of consistent form or stubborn character amongst others. In this article, EKO HOT BLOG will be showing you 7 players who never played for their national … Read more
Super Eagles former midfielder enforcer Seyi Olofinjana is set to quit his role at his former club, Wolverhampton Wanderers in England for a new role as a Sporting Director in Switzerland. According to reports, 40-year-old Olofinjana who is a loan manager at Wolves will be taking up the new role at Zurich-based side Grasshoppers, historically considered the most successful side in Swiss … Read more
European football governing body UEFA has taken a final stance on the rumoured cancellation of the semi final tie between Chelsea and Spanish champions Real Madrid. This comes after the teams involvement in the now defunct European Super league formation. UEFA has earlier insisted that teams who signed up for the proposed new competition would be banned from further participation … Read more
The following soccer stars had a contentious relationship with Pep Guardiola. EKO HOT BLOG (1.) Yaya Toure. (Manchester City) Many footballers dream of playing under Guardiola, one man who can’t seem to escape him is Yaya Toure. The Ivorian emerged as of the brightest prospects in Europe playing in Greece with Olympiacos. Barcelona snapped him up for … Read more
Enyimba failed to get the needed result in their penultimate game in the Caf Confederation Cup group phase on Thursday night. The People’s Elephant needed to avoid defeat in Benghazi to boost their chances of progressing from the group stage but they failed to get that and they are now in a precarious situation. Coach … Read more
Ceferin had requested that they be outrightly banned from taking part in UEFA sponsored European competitions. In a statement to the press, in the wake of the botched European Super League saga earlier in the week, UEFA President, Alexander Ceferin, had called for sanctions against all 12 defaulting clubs. As the world awaits possible sanctions … Read more
According to reports, the heavyweight fight between Nigeria born-America fighter Anthony Joshua, and Tyson Fury have been scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia during the Summer. The negotiations between the two parties have been ongoing for weeks. Boxing promoter, Eddie Hearn admits that the self imposed deadline was missed by the boxers. The date … Read more
Arsenal’s initial decision to join the European Super league has resurrected healing wounds from the Arsenal fans. Arteta responded to the present unrest Arsenal boss, Mikel Arteta granted a press interview ahead of Everton game on Friday and answered all the questions concerning the Super league competition. The Arsenal boss was asked about the general … Read more
In an exclusive interview between Real Madrid’s President and The European Super League Chairman, Florentino Perez and a Spanish sports tabloid ‘El Larguero’, he revealed that the Super League is not dead yet, rather the project is on standby. According to him, all 12 clubs have a binding contract, so they have not officially left … Read more
UEFA president Alexander Cèferin has in a recent interview with RMC Sport expressed his view on what Real Madrid president Florentino Perez thinks about him. As EKO HOT BLOG could recall Florentino Perez is the major driving force for the breakout European Super League which was suspended after facing severe criticism from football lovers. Transfer expert … Read more
Popular Nigerian footballer and midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi has heavily criticized cable network owners, DStv for using his image to run their advertisement without obtaining consent from him. DSTV is a South African owned cable television network, which owns the rights to show the premier league and a host of other football matches in Nigeria and … Read more
Tottenham Hotspurs are believed to be on the lookout for a new first team manager, after letting go of Portuguese tactician Jose Mourinho on the 19th of April 2021. Mourinho faced his third sack in the space of 5 years, after previously been sent packing by former EPL clubs Manchester United and Chelsea. The possible … Read more
Aubameyang has deleted his Twitter account after he confronted the social media platform 31 year old Arsenal’s captain, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, has been forced to deactivate his Twitter account, after facing online abuse and backlash on Tuesday evening, the 20th of April. According to the striker who was off the pitch for some days due to malaria, … Read more
The six Premier League clubs that were set to be involved in the planned European Super League have withdrawn from the breakaway competition. Manchester United, Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham were all set to take part in the proposed tournament, alongside three La Liga teams from Spain and three of Italy’s Serie A … Read more
Tyson Fury is back to the gym for the much expected unification bout against Anthony Joshua. The camp of of both boxers have signed the necessary papers though a date has not been decided. It is speculated that Saudi Arabia tops the list of countries bidding to host the fight. In a weird twist, Tyson … Read more
Football fans have begun protests outside stadia as the angry reaction to plans for a European Super League continues, EKO HOT BLOG gathered. Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Tottenham on Sunday joined six other European clubs in announcing plans for a new midweek competition which could effectively lead to a ‘closed shop’ … Read more
Florentino Peréz held a press conference yesterday concerning the formation of the European Super league. He assured that everything concerning football will be improved with the super league. During the press conference, he went ahead to reassure the players that neither FIFA nor UEFA can stop them from playing for their national team and that … Read more