January 2019 – Page 3 – Football Flame

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Samir Nasri joins West Ham as doping ban end

Former Arsenal and Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri has completed his expected move to Premier League team West Ham on a deal to the end of the season after he finished a doping ban. West Ham on Monday announced the signing of the 31-year-old Nasri, who is available to play from Tuesday after an 18-month ban for receiving an intravenous treatment at a Los Angeles clinic in breach of the World Anti-Doping Agency's rules. Nasri has been without a club since leaving Antalyaspor of Turkey in January and previously played in the Premier League for Arsenal and Manchester City, the latter under now West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini. He has been training with West Ham and there is an option to extend his stay beyond the end of the season. Pellegrini stated in club website: "I am very plea...

Leicester City grab 1-0 win over Everton at Goodison Park

Leicester City beat Everton 1-0 through Jamie Vardy's 58th-minute strike to move up to into seventh place in the English Premier League.After a poor first half, the decisive goal came when Everton defender Michael Keane mis-controlled the ball to Ricardo Pereira, who sent Vardy through.The striker made no mistake with a low drive past Jordan Pickford before celebrating with a cartwheel in front of the travelling Foxes fans.Gylfi Sigurdsson blasted over from a promising position for Everton but Leicester should have doubled their lead when Harry Maguire somehow missed the target from point-blank range.Everton, with just one win from their last eight games have now failed to win in their last four home matches while the win moves Leicester up into seventh place, on 31 points, four ...

Cardiff city manager Neil Warnock disclose plans to stop his sides conceding any more penalties

Neil Warnock has urged his stars not to give their opponents any chance of going down after conceding soft spot-kicks in two of their last three games, against Manchester United and Leicester.Cardiff today host Tottenham, whose star striker Harry Kane was booked for diving during Saturday's loss to Wolves and Warnock has told his squad to avoid taking even the slightest risk when making challenges in their own area.He stated:“I say to my players about the top players,'try not to breathe on them'.“I said that before the Manchester United game, ‘If they get in the box, don’t breathe on them at all because they’ll be down’. That’s how it is nowadays.”England star Jesse Lingard was awarded a penalty he scored against Cardiff 10 days ago after he was adjudged to have been tugged back by Sol Bam...