Sports

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

“Respect, respect, respect.” This is Jose Mourinho’s famous meltdown rant after his Manchester United side was thrashed 3-0 by Tottenham at Old Trafford last year.  

On that August night, as he repeated the lyrics of a popular Lucky Dube song, he waved three fingers in the faces of the journalists saying: “Do you know what was the result? This (whiles holding his three fingers) 3-0, 3-0. Do you know what this is? 3-0. But it also means three premiership and I won more premiership than the other 19 managers together.”

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

The new Chairman of the Premier League Board, Allieu Vandy Koroma, has told Politico over the weekend that they need Le8 billion to run the 2019/2020 Premier League season.

Koroma said more than half of this money will go to clubs as seed money.

“Over half of the Le8 billion is for subsidy because we really want to build the clubs,” he said.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

Leone Stars Head Coach, Sellas Tetteh has been left under a growing pressure following a 1-1 draw with Lesotho in Freetown on Wednesday.

Sierra Leone travels to Cotonou to face Benin on Sunday in match day two of the 2021 African Cup of Nations Qualifiers.

Lesotho is the least ranked team in Group L. Leone Stars were expected to at least beat Lesotho in Freetown and get a draw against Benin away.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

The Minister of Sports, Ibrahim Nyelenkeh has said some members of the 43-man delegation travelling to Benin will be paying for themselves. Nyelenkeh made the clarification to Politico on Thursday evening following concerns about the size of the delegation travelling with the national team.

20 of the 43 people in the delegation are officials, these include 9 team officials. Among the list are names like Billy Parkinson, Alie Kadar and Charlie Bio whose inclusion have raised questions.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

The controversial East End Lions forward, Musa Noah Kamara aka Musa Tombo has been dropped from the Sierra Leone national team, Leone Stars. This means he will not be part of the squad that faces Lesotho on Thursday and Benin next week.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

The management of the Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown has closed all entry points to the stadium ahead of Leone Stars match against Lesotho in Freetown on Thursday.

The closure, which happened at midnight on Sunday, is as a result of a directive from the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) in adherence to a sanction on supporters.

The sanction, which means that Leone Stars’ fans cannot watch the national team playing, was slammed by world football governing body FIFA in September following crowd trouble.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

Sierra Leone National team, Leone Stars have invited Captain Umaru Zaingeley Bangura, Kei Kamara and Mohamed Buya Turay. The three stars are among 15 foreign based players that have been invited by coach Sellas Tetteh to face Lesotho in Freetown and Benin in Porto Novo this month.

The Leone Stars team is expected to start its 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers on the 13^th of November in Freetown. The team will then travel to Porto Novo three days later to face Benin.