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Premier League Transfer Rumours Round-Up: 21st May, 2013

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Mourinho and Madrid part ways

The least surprising news of the calendar year has been confirmed by Real Madrid as the Spanish giants announced the departure of Jose Mourinho. The self-styled ‘Special One’ was brought in to deliver Champions League success but after ending the season empty-handed he has parted ways with Madrid by ‘mutual consent’. “We've decided to bring our relationship to an end. Nobody's been sacked, it's a mutual agreement,” said Florentino Per...

Hyderabad sneak into the Play-offs; RCB out

Amid fears that the controversy surrounding three players had dampened the enthusiasm of fans for Pepsi IPL 2013, a packed house at the Rajiv Gandhi International stadium saw the Sunrisers rise, sink and then rise again when it really mattered the most to beat the Knights by 5 wickets - a result ensured Sunrisers' qualification to the Play-offs besides exiting the spirited RCB, who were glued to this fourth Play-offs berth deciding battle, after out-batting Chennai yest...

Arsenal clinch Champions League spot with nervy victory against Newcastle on final day

Arsene Wenger kept up his incredible record of taking Arsenal into the Champions League in every one of his 16 years in charge as the Gunners managed to secure the win they needed on the final day, winning 1-0 against Newcastle thanks to a 2 ^nd half goal from Laurent Koscielny. The defender’s strike on 52 minutes separated the two sides at St.James’ Park in a scrappy game at best, which was unsurprising considering the stakes. Chelsea’s victory means that Arsenal will fini...

Chelsea seal 3rd spot with win against Everton on a day of managerial goodbyes

Chelsea and Everton bid farewell to their respective managers on the final day of the Premier League and fittingly the game at Stamford Bridge was a evenly contested encounter that the Blues edged 2-1. Fernando Torres scored the decisive winner in the 76 ^th minute, his first goal in the Premier League since Boxing Day. Everton had earlier cancelled out Juan Mata’s 7 ^th minute opener through Steven Naismith on 14 minutes. The win ensures that Chelsea finish 3 ^rd and with it sec...

Nadal dominates Federer for 7th Rome title

It has been 7 years since the 2006 Rome Masters final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. That was one of the few times that the Swiss Maestro came close to challenging the ‘King of Clay’ on his favourite surface.  The young Spaniard saved numerous match points and came back from 2-5 down in the final set tie break to pull off a famous win and improve his head to head against the then world no.1 Roger Federer to 5-1.

Till 2008, the Nadal-Federer rivalry was one of th...

McDowell wins Volvo World Match Play Championship

Graeme McDowell overcame Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee 2&1 in the final of the Volvo World Match Play Championship to become the first Irishman to put his name on the trophy alongside some the golf’s most legendary names.

McDowell, who defeated Branden Grace in his morning semi-final 3&2 to book his place in the final at the stunning Thracian Cliffs Beach and Golf Resort in Bulgaria, was delighted to win for the second time in the space of just four weeks following ...

Serena defeats Azarenka in Rome for 4th straight title this season

With two time defending champion Maria Sharapova pulling out of her quarterfinal match against Sara Errani as a result of injury, there was a guarantee that a new champion would be crowned in Rome this season. Before that could happen, world no. 1 Serena Williams would have to clash against her closest rival and the woman who defeated her in the finals of 2013 Doha Open, earlier this year, world no. 3 Victoria Azarenka.

Seeing that Serena held a 13 -2 head to head against...

RCB down CSK in rain-affected game, keep hopes of qualifying alive

Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore found themselves at the sorry and sour end of a number of their previous games in this competition already and their campaign needed nothing less than a victory to ensure they qualified to the next stage of the competition. A victory would still have not guaranteed RCB a definite place in the play-offs as they would then have to wait for the result of the Sunrisers -Kolkata game on Sunday. The Super Kings went into this game sit...

Sunrisers Hyderabad stun Rajasthan Royals by 23 runs to move into 4th place

A terrific bowling effort of 5-16 from Australian seamer James Faulkner went in vain as the Sunrisers Hyderabad, led by a crucial half century by Biplab Samantray crawled to 136-9 in their 20 overs, a total that proved to be enough as their bowlers came to the party in style with Dale Steyn and Amit Mishra the standout performers in particular to lead their side to a 23 run win. The result meant that the Sunrisers moved above the Royal Challengers Bangalore into fourth p...

Chelsea stun Benfica 2-1 to win the Europa League crown

Chelsea have made it back to back European titles, producing an excellent second half performance against Portuguese giants Benfica to beat them 2-1 to end their season long wait for silverware. In what was clearly a tale of two halves, Benfica battered Chelsea in the first, but failed to make their superiority count in the only place that matters, on the scoresheet.

Chelsea played much better in the second half and went ahead through a Fernando Torres goal on the hour ma...

Feisty Fernando rampages to popular victory in Barcelona

Fernando Alonso took victory in the Spanish Grand Prix in front of a raucous home crowd at the Circuit de Catalunya this afternoon. The Ferrari driver came out on top in a battle of tyre strategies, a measured race ensuring he beat the Lotus of Kimi Raikkonen by a comfortable margin of 9 seconds. The scarlet cars’ performance was underlined by a strong performance by teammate Felipe Massa coming in third.

Championship leader Sebastian Vettel had to settle for fourth with ...