Billy Sharp
Birmingham City vs Sheffield United prediction: Championship betting tips, odds and free bet
Championship action from St. Andrew’s this Friday evening where Birmingham City entertain Sheffield United. The Blades make the trip knowing that their recent good form has been enough to see them climb up to 11th in the league standings. With multiple games in hand on all their promotion rivals, Paul Heckingbottom’s side is perfectly poised to make a run at the playoff spots. Birmingham, on the other hand, have underperformed this season. The Blues are 17th in the Championship table, 13 points ahead of teams in the bottom four but equally adrift from the teams challenging for promotion at the top of the league. Lee Bowyer’s side needs to put a string of performances together to salvage its season, and what better place to begin than back at St. Andrew’s, in front of the passionate home su...
Another Premier League player tests positive for novel coronavirus
A third first-team player from Brighton & Hove Albion tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, the Premier League club’s chief executive Paul Barber has confirmed. Two Brighton players had contracted the novel coronavirus in March and April and the latest positive result could cast doubts on the Premier League’s plans to resume the season that has been suspended due to the pandemic. Clubs are due to meet on Monday to further discuss “Project Restart” which envisages a return to play in June once given the green light from government, with the remaining 92 matches held behind closed doors at neutral venues. “It is a concern. Unfortunately we’ve had a third player test positive yesterday,” Barber told Sky Sports on Sunday. “So despite all of the measures that we’ve been taking over the ...
