ZVISHAVANE – Buffaloes escaped relegation after holding FC Platinum to a lively 2-2 draw in a Castle Premiership match at Mandava Stadium on Sunday. The draw torched wild celebrations from the Buffaloes executive and a few of the travelling supporters. “This is a good result for the people of Manicaland. The province will be assured…
HARARE – Black Rhinos survived relegation from the Castle Premiership on the last day of the season after beating Division One-bound Monomotapa 1-0 at Gwanzura Stadium on Sunday. Lot Chiunga’s first half strike was all Rhinos needed to escape the hangman’s noose. With the curtain coming down on the season yesterday, Rhinos, Black Mambas, Buffaloes,…
BULAWAYO – Highlanders fans were left lamenting their teams’ failure to break Dynamos’ stranglehold on the Castle Premiership title after watching Bosso fail to achieve a goal harvest against Shabanie Mine at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday. Highlanders won the match 3-1 but it was not enough. If Bosso had won Sunday’s match by a four-goal…
HARARE – So near and yet so far has often been misused in society but how befitting is it for Harare City who came so close to lifting the Castle Premier Soccer League title only to lose it in cruel fashion on Sunday. City needed an outright victory to land the title but met a…
HARARE – Just when everyone and even some people within the Dynamos family doubted it, the Glamour Boys produced a Houdini Act to clinch their 20th Zimbabwe league title with a 2-0 victory over Black Mambas at Rufaro Stadium on Sunday. DeMbare started the day in second place and two points behind Harare City, who…
HARARE – Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa was an elated man after his charges edged out Black Mambas 2-0 to retain the Castle Premiership for the third year in a row at Rufaro Stadium on Sunday. Pasuwa became the first coach to win three league titles in a row. Since taking over the Glamour Boys in…
LONDON – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel wrapped up the Formula One season on Sunday by winning the Brazilian Grand Prix and becoming the first driver to take nine successive victories in a single year. The sport’s youngest quadruple world champion, still only 26 years old, also matched fellow-German Michael Schumacher’s 2004 record of 13 wins…
LONDON – World Champions New Zealand became the first team in the professional era to win all their test matches in a calendar year as Aaron Cruden converted with the last kick of the game to beat Ireland 24-22 in a pulsating encounter at Lansdowne Road in Dublin on Sunday. The Irish had stormed into…
LONDON – Tottenham Hotspur’s players should be “ashamed” according to manager Andre Villas-Boas after his faltering side were pummelled 6-0 at Manchester City on Sunday. The north Londoners had only conceded six goals in their previous 11 Premier League matches this season but capitulated after going behind after 15 seconds. Two goals from Sergio Aguero…
DORTMUND – Bayern Munich’s Germany star Mario Goetze came off the bench to score the opening goal in the European champions’ comprehensive 3-0 win at his ex-club Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. Goetze, who joined Bayern for €37 million in July after 12 years at Dortmund, gave the perfect reply to the chorus of boos he…
