Mark's World of Sports

Bank Holiday weekend in May usually it's the end of the football season however for 6 teams it was the last game of their long gruelling seasons. Saturday was the League 2 play-off final between Tranmere Rovers and Newport County. Sunday was Charlton Athletic and Sunderland in the League 1 final, and on Bank Holiday Monday was the Championship final between Aston Villa and Derby County. The winners would get promoted the losers would stay in the same division next season and look to go up next year. Newport players celebrating going to Wembley Saturday's match was the first of them was between Newport County and Tranmere Rovers. The two teams went down on Saturday and only filled over 25,000 of the seats at Wembley which showed the amount of the support in League 2 especially where both sides are in the country. Tranmere has an issue with being the little brother to their Merseyside neighbours Liverpool and Everton (despite having Premier League referee Mike Dean). Mea...

What a week in Europe first off Liverpool coming from 3-0 down to win 4-3 last night and then Spurs pulling off an Istanbul. Spurs had a disadvantage in that they had to go to Amsterdam to play, which was a bad sign for them as they didn't have the home support like Liverpool. Spurs had to go out without Harry Kane but luckily had Jan Vertonghen back after coming off concussion symptoms. Also, Pochettino put Victor Wanyama for Eric Dier. Meanwhile, Ajax who had been creating headlines by defeating former champions Real Madrid and Juventus were looking to add to their trophy collection after they won the Dutch Cup at the weekend. Spurs had the advantage of away goals if needed. Captain de Ligt scores for Ajax The first half didn't go Spurs way. Dusan Tadic formerly of Southampton fired a shot 18 yards from the edge of the box which was deflected by Kieran Trippier but brilliantly handled by Hugo Lloris. On the ensuing corner, the Ajax captain Matthijs de Ligt got free of...

A happy Klopp Tuesday night provided one of the greatest nights of football madness. Liverpool and Barcelona were going into the game with Barcelona looking at a comfortable 3-0 advantage courtesy of the magician named Lionel Messi. Barcelona also had another advantage in that two of Liverpool's main strike force Roberto Firmino and Mo Salah due to injuries. That forced manager Jurgen Klopp to put Divock Origi and Xherdan Shaquiri into the lineup. There were returns for James Milner and Joel Matip. Barcelona put out the same team believing they can hang on to the lead. Messi with a sprinkling of magic at the Camp Nou However, for Barcelona, there was always one thing that never plays in anyone's hands. Anfield. The fans always seem to provide something extra especially on European nights like this one. That was made clear 5 minutes before kickoff as Anfield went into full-on You'll Never Walk Alone. Some in the media were thinking of this could be the Miracle of I...