The reason why football is such a beautiful game is mainly because of the twists and turns the game offers to the delight of followers of the game. And this has manifestly come to the fore in the just ending English Premier season, arguably one of the best organized and entertaining football leagues in the world.

Female beach volleyball players will be allowed to wear less revealing clothes at the London Olympics should they wish after the rules on clothing were relaxed.

Roberto Di Matteo is a man that needs all the luck in the world in order to overcome the big challenges before him. He is one football manager in the Premier League that has suddenly found himself at the deep end of things at a very critical time.

The Flames coach Kinnah Phiri has said he intends to recruit more players for the three crucial qualifying matches in June against Kenya, Nigeria and Chad. Flames are in a precarious situation as they play three consecutive matches in 14 days in the preliminary 2013 Africa Cup qualifiers and World Cup group stages.

Roberto Mancini, manager for Manchester City, must be a worried man now and (if this had not crossed his mind yet) he must seriously start looking  for another job.

The Manchester United fraternity must be hugely relieved at the turn of events across town (at Eastlands) following last Saturday's one-all draw between (the only other title contenders) Manchester City and Stoke City.

The Football Association of Malawi (Fam) has so far identified 14 players from the ongoing K60 million Presidential Cup to be drafted in the Africa Youth Championship which begins in September this year.

The Director of Domasi Rural Hospital Dr. Matius Joshua was all smiles last Sunday when a sporting charity walk raised over K175,000 for the maintenance of the OPD wing at the hospital.

Kinnah Phiri's frustrations that arose from being denied the chance to play professional football in Saudi Arabia is the reason none of his three sons became footballers.

Lack of contracts for Super League players is proving a source of trouble for players when they have disagreements with their employers and want to switch to another club.

The battle for the K2 million Presidential Cup points will intensify this weekend before the regional finals this month end.

About 600 volunteers walkers from all walks of life will converge at Gymkhana on Sunday from 12 noon to participate in the sporting walk in aid of Domasi rural hospital's OPD wing.

The battle for the Premiership title promises to be a race of nerves in the 10 remaining fixtures for the two top sides Manchester United and town rivals Manchester City. Equally exciting and nervy will be the final battles against relegation by the five teams at the bottom of the table: Wigan, Wolves, Blackburn, Bolton and QPR.

The two happenings that were most significant and (perhaps) predictable in the Premiership early in the week were the sacking of Andre Villas-Boas and Liverpool's league game loss to Arsenal.

Soccer lovers, particularly followers of the English Premier League, are in for a treat this weekend when they will be entertained to two mouth-watering fixtures.

Their energy is sinking; the determination is hitting low levels, but the Veterans—a side comprising former big name footballers—can still roar like a hungry and angry lion.

A primary school teacher in Mulanje, Chrispin Nyasulu, is the proud winner of a High Definition Personal Video Recorder (HD PVR) decoder, the grand prize in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations promotion after predicting Zambia would win the competition.

The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) will go down in the history of the competition as the most hugely haunted by spirits of failure for teams and players that ought to have been outstanding.

Zomba United's plans to bow out of the TNM Super League in style suffered a setback after five key players snatched uniforms over unpaid game bonuses.

Divided loyalty is what African soccer lovers are going to experience in the next four weeks, particularly on weekends, as they try to follow and be entertained by their beloved teams in the Afcon and the English Premier League.