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AFTER dominating the Malawian Premiership, for the past two seasons, Callisto Pasuwa’s Nyasa Big Bullets have started their campaign slowly this season.
‘Ronaldo can play until 40’
ROME. — Few people in football know Cristiano Ronaldo’s body better than Giovanni Mauri and the former Real Madrid fitness coach is adamant that the Portuguese star “can play until he’s 40”.
Woman armed gangster arrested
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has arrested six suspected armed robbers, including a woman for committing a spate of crimes in Chiweshe while armed with a machete and a pistol.
24th Major weighs heavily on Serena’s mind
MELBOURNE. — Serena Williams admitted that her long chase for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam tennis trophy has been weighing on her mind ahead of this week’s Australian Open. The 39-year-old has not added to her glittering collection since beating her sister Venus in the Australian Open final in 2017 when she was pregnant with daughter Olympia. Williams, chasing Margaret Court’s all-time record, has since lost four Grand Slam finals, but insisted she was now used to the pressure. “It’s definitely on my shoulders and on my mind,” said the seven-time Australian Open champion. “I think it’s good to be on my mind… I’m used to it now.”
Ole rues poor defending
MANCHESTER. — Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer endured a sour ending to his 100th English Premier League game in charge after slack defending again cost his team home points in a 3-3 draw with Everton on Saturday.
Man City demolish Liverpool
lONDON. — Manchester City moved 10 points clear of defending Premier League champions Liverpool with a superb 1-4 victory at Anfield yesterday and still have a game in hand.
Former heavyweight champ Spinks dies
NEW YORK. — Former world heavyweight champion Leon Spinks has died aged 67.
ZPCS fights Covid-19
ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) is conducting peer education training on inmates and officers countrywide on managing Covid-19 in prisons.
Zim wrap up preparations for Pakistan series
THE Zimbabwe women’s cricket team will today wrap up their preparations for the historic women’s one-day and Twenty20 international series against Pakistan that gets underway in Harare tomorrow.
Bitter-sweet for Knox Mutizwa
DURBAN. — Zimbabwe international forward, Knox Mutizwa, was named man-of-the-match but his Golden Arrows conceded a last-gasp goal, and then lost on penalties, in a Round 32 Nedbank Cup match here on Saturday.