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The English Football League has asked the government to allow its clubs to defer millions of pounds in tax payments as it tries to resolve the £250m funding issue that has sparked fears some may go bust. The government says EFL clubs owe £77.6m in unpaid taxes excluding VAT – …

The minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Kirsty Coventry, has implored Treasury to consider allocating more funding to the sector. She told parliamentarians sport has become an expensive business since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Coventry made the remarks in a ministerial statement in the House of Assembly …

The Zimbabwe Warriors have a new coach in Zdravko Logarusic, an instance that always comes with surprises in player selections. Some players have an automatic place, and then there are some resurrections of some sort – Lazarus moments as it were. The question that has not been answered over the …

Two Zimbabwe Cricket players have tested positive for Covid-19. Zimbabwe Cricket confirmed on Thursday saying Regis Chakabva and Timycen Maruma are in isolation and did not travel with the Chevrons to Pakistan. “The two were room-mates for a week while in a bio-secure bubble set up,” said ZC in a …

Marvelous Nakamba has made the Aston Villa 25-man squad for the English Premiership campaign despite the high-flying Birmingham club splashing about £92 million towards a host of recruits during the last transfer window. His fellow Zimbabwean international Footballer, David Moyo, scored for his side Hamilton Academical as they lost 2-4 …

Bosso benefactors from across the globe have come to the aid of the Highlanders Royals through donations that were received by the club yesterday. While their male counterparts have been getting donations from companies, organisations and individuals, nothing was coming to the ladies’ side. Just like men sides, the Royals …

The Norwegian masterminded a dramatic win over PSG at the Parc des Princes, with Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford on target in a 2-1 victory. There have been many questions asked about Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s position at Manchester United in recent weeks, but he answered plenty of them by masterminding …

On the eve of his 80th birthday, Brazilian football great Pele told his fans he was happy and healthy and pleased to be reaching the landmark with his lucid mental state. Pele has been shielding at home in Brazil, for most of the Covid-19 pandemic but, in a jovial recorded …

Marcus Rashford repeated his late heroics against Paris St-Germain with a superb winner as Manchester United marked their return to the Champions League with a fine win at the home of last season’s beaten finalists. Rashford’s stoppage-time penalty sealed a famous victory at the Parc des Princes 18 months ago …

Zimbabwe Cricket head coach Lalchand Rajput will miss the Pakistan tour after his side arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday without him. The Embassy of India in Harare wrote to Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) asking that Rajput, who is an Indian national, be exempted from visiting Pakistan for the limited-overs tour in …