Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL), MultiChoice and uptown eatery Steers have teamed up to run a promotion during the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations tournament which kicks off on January 21 up to February 12.

If worry had ever got the better of Roberto Mancini before the FA Cup clash against Manchester United, that worry must now have graduated to desperation.

The Flames first 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Chad is on February 29 here at home, but the preparations for the match have the not yet started.

I haven't been to many Super League games this season. However, from the few I have watched it is clear that youthful players are displaying good football.

If champions Manchester United are going to lose the title, one of the games they will rue is the one against potentially relegation material (at this stage of the race) Blackburn Rovers at their own (the champions) fortress Old Trafford.

There were some sad moments in football in 2011 during which a number of notable figures in the game passed on.

Roberto Mancini should be a worried man that his charges have allowed their closest title and bitter rivals Manchester United to come so uncomfortably close in the title chase.

South Africa's premier soccer magazine Kickoff has revealed the secret behind Malawi's SuperSport United star striker Atusaye Nyondo finding the net on a regular basis.

Malawi football team coach Kinnah Phiri is torn between two weddings involving Flames players and is sweating on how to arrange his programme on Monday.

With only one fixture (two each or Tottenham Hotspur and Everton) remaining to wrap up the first half of the season in the English Premier League, everything favours current log leaders Manchester City to maintain their position.

As the race to the English Premier League title enters the 12th week, the focus for most followers of the league will most likely be centred on the two teams that have yet to lose a game — Manchester City and Newcastle United — who square up against each other this weekend.

It is now daggers drawn in the English Premier League by the seven top teams. The situation between the teams in the race to final hurdle could never be more interesting and so close at this stage of the race.

Malawi junior welterweight champion Osgood Kayuni is out to save the country's battered reputation when he squares up against invincible Zimbabwean boxer Ishmael Takudzwa Kuchocha in a non-title contest at Motel Paradise on Sunday.

The Malawi government has said judo can help save resources spent on treating some ailments in the country.

Who can stop Manchester City? This is the question that must be running through the minds of many Premier League followers. The team may not have increased points over their next rivals at the top of the table, but it has increased its goal difference from +12 (the previous week )to +13 between them and Manchester United.

The notoriety of Fischer Anong'a Kondowe has been exaggerated so-often yet his acts in more than a decade would not fit to be an opening line of the notorious footballers' biographies the world has seen.

The search for Mr Mangochi, who will represent the district during the national finals, has intensified as registration ends Sunday.

Silver Striker’s 1-0 loss to Bullets FC in TNM supper League last Saturday was enough ground to force its managers to stop thinking football but resort to kick-boxing. Two Silver officials Mike Chirwa and Kingsley Saizi tussled following a misunderstanding over uniform. On Saturday, there was special arrangement that Silver Strikers Youth would play Osa Stars to curtain-raise their senior team’s game against Big Bullets at Silver Stadium. Hence, through the club’s General Secretary, Silver Youth manager Saizi was given permission to use senior side’s uniform.

Bingu Tigresses training session ended prematurely on Wednesday after coach-player Peace Chawinga-Kalua picked up a fight with centre Beatrice Mpinganjira- Kadango at College of Medicine. According to a source, who asked for anonymity, the two argued vehemently after a new unidentified player had fouled Mpinganjira- Kadango. “In the course of the training a new player fouled Beatrice who retaliated by using foul words at her.

Division One team Bangwe Madrid have cried foul after they were sidelined by outgoing Southern Region Football League (SRFL) chairman Hastings Kapenuka. The team did not get the uniform that Kapenuka sourced despite the outfit meeting the criteria set for recipients. Owner of the team Enos Chatama said people have told him that his team did not get the uniform because he was seen to be siding with Kapenuka’s rival Trouble Kalua in the SRFL elections that will take place this weekend.