Former England and Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard retired as a player on this day in 2017 after a stellar 21-year career.
Lampard, then 38, widely regarded as one of the Premier League’s all-time greats, announced his decision on social media after spending the previous year at Major League Soccer side New York City.
He said: “After 21 incredible years, I have decided that now is the right time to finish my career as a professional footballer.
What a career. Thank you, Frank.
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC)
“Whilst I have received a number of exciting offers to continue playing at home and abroad, at 38 I feel now is the time to begin the next chapter in my life.
“I’m immensely proud of the trophies I’ve won, of representing m…
Week 6 is here and it kicks off Thursday night with a possibly high-scoring game between the Bucs and Eagles. We’re looking into every matchup to uncover some of TNF’s best player prop bets, doing the heavy lifting so you don’t have to. We’re riding one Jalen Hurts prop and taking a pair of RB plays with favorable matchups.
We bring you our favorite free prop picks and predictions for Thursday night’s matchup between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Philadelphia Eagles.
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The Indianapolis Colts and the Buffalo Bills open their respective preseason slates when they meet at Highmark Stadium this afternoon.
The Colts are looking to wipe the bad taste from their mouths of an embarrassing Week 18 loss to the Jaguars that cost them a playoff berth. The Bills won the AFC East last season but were ultimately dispatched in the divisional round in overtime by the Kansas City Chiefs in an instant classic.
Which AFC playoff hopeful will start their preseason with a victory? Find out in our free NFL picks and predictions for Colts vs. Bills on Saturday, August 13.
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The trade that everyone in the football universe knew was coming finally got done on Monday afternoon, as Aaron Rodgers was sent from the Green Bay Packers to the New York Jets for a bundle of draft picks.
Now that the dust has settled and Super Bowl odds have been adjusted, it’s time to look ahead and figure out just how Rodgers might do in his new home. Will A-Rod take flight with the Jets and snap what’s currently the NFL’s longest playoff drought? Could he possibly take this moribund franchise to the promised land for the first time since Super Bowl III? Or will Rodgers simply add to the long list of quarterback failures in New York?
Let’s dig through his NFL player prop future wagers and predict how Rodgers will fare in the Big Apple.
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The New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins will be entering their Week 8 matchup in very different moods.
New England was on the right end of one of the biggest upsets of the year vs. the Bills while the Dolphins are spending the week being accused of being frauds after a disappointing loss to the Eagles.
This is the second matchup of the season between the teams with Miami winning the first game 24-17 in Week 2. The Dolphins are the biggest favorite on the NFL odds board, coming in as a 9.5-point favorite with the total sitting at 47.
Let’s take a look at what we’ve seen from these teams this season, how they match up, and my free NFL picks for Patriots vs. Dolphins on…
Severe winter weather in Western New York forced the NFL to postpone Sunday’s AFC Wild Card contest between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Buffalo Bills to this afternoon. That decision, due to dangerous conditions in the Orchard Park area, flipped the sports betting industry upside down on Saturday.
Sportsbooks had to repost NFL odds for the game, which originally would’ve been played in extremely strong winds and snow. And many bettors who based their wagers on that winter weather were left out in the cold. Several operators’ house rules will keep those bets in action for today’s game, which won’t be as harshly impacted by the elements.
I dig into the reposted spread and Over/Under total for the Wild Card odds as well as give my be…
The Jacksonville Jaguars can expect a raucous welcome from Bills Mafia tonight when they battle Buffalo in primetime.
The team’s passionate fanbase is just one reason why the Bills are 16-3 at home over the last three seasons. Buffalo’s lights-out offense is another. Josh Allen & Co. rank second in scoring at 32.5 points per game, and haven’t skipped a beat despite losing Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis in the offseason.
It’s been an entirely different story for the Jags, who rank 27th in scoring and are coming off a pair of humbling losses to the Miami Dolphins and Cleveland Browns. They’ll need a far better performance from fourth-year QB Trevor Lawrence tonight to stand a chance in a highly hostile environment.
There are a number of subsc…
The absence of fans did not cause footballers to doubt themselves but did make referees think twice, a study of behind-closed-doors football has found.
According to researchers from Reading University, playing matches without supporters had a minimal effect on the phenomenon of home advantage but it did correspond with officials showing fewer yellow cards to away teams.
In a paper on the effects of behind-closed-doors matches, researchers studied 6,481 games from before and after coronavirus lockdown. In the Premier League and Championship, games played in empty stadiums saw the proportion of home victories drop from 43.4% before the pandemic to 42.0%.
‘It’s beyond the model’: have Liverpool exposed the limits of…
They’d done the hard part without him. Not just hard. Historically hard.
When the Canadian men sealed a place at the World Cup for the first time in a lifetime in March, the most remarkable part of this most remarkable journey was that it had been sealed without the country’s talisman. Alphonso Davies had missed the entirety of the second half of Concacaf qualification as John Herdman’s unlikely, unheralded men from the north topped the continent to book their spot in Qatar.
The party? That should have been the easy bit. Instead, Canada begin their first post-qualification window in Vancouver on Sunday in dire need of some Davies magic.
Ukraine players offer their suffering nation a moment of joy and clarit…
BURNLEY v LUTON
Friday 7.45pm TNT Sports 1 Venue Turf Moor
Referee Tony Harrington This season G1 Y3 R0 3.00 cards/game
View image in fullscreenBurnley v Luton: probable starters, contenders in italics
Burnley
Subs from Muric, Vigouroux, Roberts, Al-Dakhil, Delcroix, Cullen, Cork, Massengo, Ramsey, Redmond, Benson, Gudmundsson, Trésor, Rodriguez, Obafemi
Doubtful Beyer (knock), Taylor (shoulder), Foster (foot)
Injured Ekdal (knock, unknown), Koleosho (knee, May)
Suspended None
Form LDLWLL Leading scorer Foster 4