Premier league title

Sport Manchester City retained the Premier League title on Sunday, securing top spot with a 4-1 win at Brighton & Hove Albion on the final day of the season. 13 May 2019 12:00AM Bookmark REUTERS: Manchester City retained the Premier League title on Sunday, securing top spot with a 4-1 win at Brighton & Hove Albion on the final day of the season.City finished with 98 points, one ahead of second-placed Liverpool, who finished the campaign with a 2-0 home victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers.(Editing by Toby Davis) … [Read more...] about Manchester City retain Premier League title

MANCHESTER, England: The following is a look back on key moments in the Premier League title race ahead of Sunday's final day.Manchester City will win the title with a victory at Brighton and Hove Albion while Liverpool play Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield, hoping they can pounce on any slip-up from their rivals.Liverpool 0 Manchester City 0, Oct. 7:Both teams went into the game unbeaten from their opening seven matches - Liverpool's six-match winning start had ended with a 1-1 draw at Chelsea, while City had the same record after a 1-1 draw at Wolves in August.City left Anfield feeling they had let two points slip out of their hands, however, as Riyad Mahrez missed an 86th minute penalty.With regular penalty taker Sergio Aguero having been substituted, Algerian Mahrez took the responsibility and blasted the spot kick high over the bar.The result left the pair level with Chelsea on 20 points although City were top on goal difference with Juergen Klopp’s Liverpool side in third … [Read more...] about Key moments in the 2018/19 Premier League title race

MANCHESTER: For the only eighth time in Premier League history, the title will be decided on the final day of the season with Manchester City well poised to win their second straight championship. A one point advantage over Liverpool means that City will collect their club’s sixth English domestic top flight title if they win at Brighton and Hove Albion on Sunday - even if Juergen Klopp’s men beat Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield. Although the lead at the top of the table has changed hands 32 times this season, the bulk of those swaps have been due to the timing of their fixtures. That ends on Sunday with all games kicking off at 1400 GMT as the final blast of tension is packed into 90 minutes. Nothing during the title run-in suggests that either side is about to slip-up. City have won 13 successive Premier League matches and Liverpool their last eight games and both survived real tests of nerves in their penultimate matches. Liverpool grabbed a 3-2 win at Newcastle only … [Read more...] about Epic Premier League title race goes down to final day

LIVERPOOL: The church organist wanted to meet outside Liverpool's Anfield Stadium. Her name is Anne Preston, and she carried the program of a funeral she'd played the day before, as a document of something both ancient and achingly current.She wanted me to see it, so I'd understand how life, death and resurrection are so tied together with football along the banks of the Mersey River.She arrived with her husband, meeting me between the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand and the Kop, the mighty Liverpool Kop. As he went over to sort his tickets for the first leg of the Champions League semifinal in Barcelona, she produced the programme and told me about a musical request from the family.The mom made the request herself. To honor her son, whose funeral program had Anfield on the front and the club crest on the back, she wanted Anne to subtly work in "You'll Never Walk Alone" during the Mass.It's a familiar request to Anne, and to every funeral director and organist in Liverpool.At the crematorium … [Read more...] about What a Premier League title would mean for Liverpool