Jamie Vardy sent a screaming reminder that leaders Leicester City are in the Premier league title race for the long haul with a sensational strike in a 2-0 win over Liverpool on Tuesday.
Guardiola beat out Chelsea's Antonio Conte, Burnley's Sean Dyche, Liverpool's Juergen Klopp, Manchester United's Jose Mourinho and Arsenal's Arsene Wenger for the award.
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Manchester City claimed the win required to finally end Liverpool's relentless attempt to dethrone them as Premier League champions as they hit back from a goal down to crush Brighton and Hove Albion on the south coast on Sunday.
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Jose Mourinho's wretched week ended on a high note as Manchester United's big guns Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba finally began firing, both finding the target in a 3-1 win at dismal Swansea City on Sunday. Mourinho watched from the stands at the Liberty Stadium following his touchline ban imposed by the Football Association on Wednesday and was buoyed to see Ibrahimovic score twice -- his first league goals in eight weeks -- and Pogba net a superb volley. United, vastly improved after their midweek Europa League defeat at Fenerbahce, went ahead with a 15th minute strike from Pogba worthy of his 89 million pounds price tag before Ibrahimovic ended his goal drought with a sharp first-half double in the space of 12 minutes.
Jose Mourinho was sacked as manager of Premier League champions Chelsea on Thursday, according to BBC sources, following a dreadful run of results.
At 17 years, 292 days, Yashasvi Jaiswal became the youngest player ever to score a double hundred in men's List A cricket, points out Rajneesh Gupta.
Jurgen Klopp has agreed a contract extension with Liverpool until 2024
Following is a match by match look at the English Premier League's weekend fixtures:
But for third-placed Spurs, who trail leaders Manchester City and Liverpool by five points, this may prove to be a loss that leaves them with too much ground to make up.
In a three part series, Rajneesh Gupta highlights all the important numbers from Cricket World Cup held between 1975 to 2015.
A meal in an Indian restaurant in London has become costlier due to stronger rupee and restrictions on supplies and exports necessitated by growing demand within India for basmati rice.According to a London-based Rice Association, the strengthening Indian rupee has increased sterling import costs by more than 10 per cent between August 2006 and January 2008.
Images from EPL matches played on Saturday.
Nainesh Patel, managing director of Farsan in Leicester, has started constructing the factory near Baroda to make inroads into Indian, American, Chinese and Australian markets. The Gujarat factory would allow Patel to supply two markets: quality British-made and mass-produced lower-cost.
Manchester United won 2-1 at Crystal Palace to consolidate fourth spot.
A teenager of Indian origin will be awarded the Diana Award for her "voluntary and selfless work" within the community of Leicester, a British town comprising a sizeable population of ethnic Indians. Kamalpreet Kau Aulakh, 16, will be presented the award by Manjula Sood, the Indian-origin Lord Mayor of Leicester on Monday, in recognition of her "selfless community work, compassion and work to improve people's lives."
Speculation about Paul Pogba's future at Manchester United continues to mount amid reports in the British media that the midfielder is afraid he will be punished if he says the wrong thing.
As we prepare to cruise into the New Year, Rediff.com gives you a glance back, through photos, into all the sporting moments that made the last 12 months memorable.
From sports to history, Rediff reader Sabyasachi Dutta shares a selection of books for you to add to your reading list in 2020.
Barcelona crashed out of the Champions League following a 3-0 defeat at Bayern Munich on Wednesday, failing to make it past the group stage of the competition for the first time since the 2000-01 season.
One cricketer made all the difference when the first All India cricket team toured England in 1911. Baloo Palwankar startled the English with his guile and genius.
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The campaign to install a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Leicester, with a sizable Gujarati minority, ran into trouble when some local groups opposed the move, saying that the town should have the statue of the local football hero Gary Lineker. Lineker, however, supported the move to install the Gandhi statue.
