AG's Football Reports

HARRY KANE broke Crystal Palace hearts as he headed home an 88th minute winner at Selhurst Park.  It was Kane's 35th goal of the season and his 150th career club goal, the goal equalled his record of goals for last season as he once again looks on course for another stunning season in front of goal. His header broke the hearts of Palace who were denied a precious point in the battle against relegation. One man who will be thanking Kane for scoring will be Spurs right back Serge Aurier who had missed an open goal a few minutes prior to Kane's goal. The result saw Spurs go above Chelsea into the top four on goal difference before the Blues's trip to Manchester United. The defeat for Palace see's them remain 17th in the table outside the drop zone on goal difference. They also play Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool in three of their next four fixtures. It was a tight and tense affair in the first half and Spurs were unlucky to be denied two penalties....

MILLWALL came from behind to beat Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 at the The Den on Tuesday night. The win see's Millwall rise up to 11th in the Championship table.  Lee Gregory and Steve Morsion turned the game in the second half after Joey Pelupessy had given the away side the lead with a stunner just before half time. Millwall dominated the play in the first half but were unable to really test Wednesday keeper Joe Wildsmith, Ben Marshall saw an effort deflected onto the woodwork as that was the closest the home side came to scoring. Wednesday took the lead against the run of play in the 42nd minute through Pelupessy's stunning strike from outside the box. However, he looked offside when he first received the ball. Millwall took just seven second half minutes to get themselves level in the game when Ben Marshall's free kick was headed back across superbly by Jake Cooper for Lee Gregory to power home a close range header to bring the scores level. Gregory w...

NORWICH scored a last minute equaliser to extend their nine year unbeaten run against their Suffolk rivals Ipswich.  Norwich celebrate late equaliser (BBC Sport) The game looked to be heading towards a 0-0 draw until the 88th minute when Luke Chambers thought he had won it for Ipswich when he headed home from a corner, but with just seven seconds left of stoppage time Timm Klose headed home a dramatic equaliser to deny Ipswich their first East Anglian derby win since 2009. Ipswich controlled the first half of with a very disciplined and professional performance. However, after the break Norwich responded and produced a good second half display. The result did little to help either side in their aims of reaching play-offs. Both sides are locked on 45 points, eight off Bristol City who occupy the final play-off place. Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy decided to match Norwich and play with three at the back and it looked to have worked very well the for the visi...

DERBY DAY in the Second City belonged to Aston Villa as they made it seven straight league wins to move up to second in the Championship against Birmingham at Villa Park. Albert Adomah gave the hosts the lead with his 13th goal of the season and from that moment on they didn't look back and nine minutes from time they doubled the lead with a stunning half volley from Connor Hourihane his 8th goal of the season. Birmingham's misery was compounded in stoppage time when N'Doye was sent off for a second yellow card. Villa started the game the better side and created the better chances including one from Scott Hogan which cannoned off the crossbar. The Blues also hit the woodwork just before half time as Sam Gallagher beat John Terry for pace and cut inside the box but his shot came off the far post before he sent the round over the bar. Steve Bruce who has a very difficult week on a personal level made one change to his side with Mile Jedinak coming in to play in ...

West Ham are believed to have started looking for a new permeant manager for next season.  The Irons sacked Slaven Billic in November and replaced him with former Everton, Manchester United and Sunderland boss David Moyes. Both the Telegraph and The Sun are reporting that Moyes has failed to to persuade the owners to extend his contract pass the end of the season. Names such as Rafa Benitez and Huddersfield's David Wagner along with Marco Silva are all being talked about by the West Ham board. After defeat on Saturday the Hammers are without a win in three Premier League games and are 12th in the table with 27 points, three above the bottom three. They were also dumped out of the FA Cup by Wigan and ad a difficult transfer window which ended in the Head of Recruitment being sacked for comments. Opinion from me is that it would be a harsh decision. West Ham are without 11 first team players due to injury so that would make any job harder The window wasn't g...

ANOTHER weekend has come and gone on the Premier League as we are now approaching the tail end of what has been another wonderful campaign. The first game of the weekend was Saturday's early kick off at Turf Moor between Burnley and Manchester City. All of the pre-match talk was about Pep Guardiola's decision to only name six substitutes with Gary Neville blasting it a 'joke' decision. It appeared business as usual for Man City after 22 minutes when left back Danilo curled a beautiful effort into Sthe top corner to give City the lead. In the second half Raheem Sterling was guilty of surely the miss of the season when he somehow failed to turn the ball into the net from 3 yards out. That miss would came back to hurt Sterling and City because 8 minutes from time Burnley equalised through Gudmundsson who got on the end of Matthew Lowton's cross to give Burnley an unlikely point. City's lead at the top has been cut to 13 points after that draw because Manch...