The fallout from the ill-fated Super League continues and Mesut Ozil has the final say on the dead and buried league. Find out what the former Arsenal star said in our Top Roasts of the Day countdown. Back at home, it was another top weekend of racing for the Ciaron Maher, Toby Edmonds and Simon Zahra stables while the mighty Roosters had plenty to crow about in their Anzac Day clash against the Dragons. Find out below who gets our top gong in our top Toasts of the Day countdown!
3 – Football – City captures first trophy of the season, Spurs’ drought continues
“Death, taxes and Manchester City winning the League Cup.”
“It has now been 4,809 days since Spurs last won a trophy.”
– Optus Sports, Twitter
Optus Sport’s tweet says it all.
Death, taxes and a Manchester City League Cup trophy, that’s the norm these days.
City captured its first trophy of the season, downing Spurs 1-0 in the League Cup final.
It’s City’s 4th consecutive League Cup trophy and it has now been a whopping 4,809 days since Spurs last claimed a trophy!
Death, taxes and Manchester City winning the League Cup
Pep Guardiola's side claim their first trophy of the 2020/21 season.
It has now been 4,809 days since Spurs last won a trophy #OptusSport pic.twitter.com/JaX2DQ4fFX
— Optus Sport (@OptusSport) April 25, 2021
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2 – Football – Super League like a ‘lads night out’
“This European Super League is like a lads night out before everyone asks their Mrs if it’s alright.”
– Twitter user
The world's biggest football fiasco, otherwise known as the 'European Super League' was jokingly referred to ‘like a lads night out before everyone asked their Mrs if it’s alright’ by a witty Twitter user and it drew an immediate reaction from former Premier League star Peter Crouch.
Perhaps being able to relate to the lads night out comment, the former prolific scoring Liverpool and Stoke striker admitted the comment 'tickled' his funny bones.
Tickled me this James pic.twitter.com/iDfNarJKQl
— Peter Crouch (@petercrouch) April 21, 2021
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1 – Football – Ozil says there’s only one Super League
“There’s only one Super League.”
– Mesut Ozil
The final word on the now defunct Super League goes to Fenerbahce and former Arsenal star Mesut Ozil.
The Turkish Super Lig star summed it up perfectly in a cheeky tweet saying ‘There’s only one Super League" in referencing the Turkish Super Lig.
Ozil’s tweet has drawn more than 178,000 likes and over 17,000 retweets.
There's only one Super League pic.twitter.com/KKKQWWEUaz
— Mesut Özil (@MesutOzil1088) April 20, 2021
Top Toasts
3 – Basketball – Joel Embiid almost sinks length of the court miracle
“Joel Embiid ALMOST forced OT from the other end!”
– NBA
Ben Simmons’ Philadelphia 76ers teammate Joel Embiid almost sank the hail mary of hail marys when he narrowly missed a full length of the court game-tying three against the Suns!
What a shot it would have been had it gone in, but for almost giving us a moment to savour, he makes it into our Top Toasts countdown.
Check out the NBA's phantomcam footage of the shot below to see just how close the 76ers big man came to sinking what would have been the greatest shot ever in the history of the NBA!
Joel Embiid was THIS CLOSE to sending it to OT in incredible fashion. pic.twitter.com/gw6eFGiml8
— NBA (@NBA) April 22, 2021
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3 – UFC – Kamaru Usman
“Kamaru Usman is that dude.”
– UFC
The Nigerian Nightmare was exactly that for Jorge Masvidal at UFC 261 on Sunday.
Kamaru Usman retained his Weltwerweight belt, knocking out Masvidal in round 2 of their Championship fight in Florida.
Usman unleashed a crushing right hand on Masvidal before following up on the ground to get his hand raised again and maintain his standing as ‘that dude’.
https://t.co/6osD5VcL5R pic.twitter.com/mP9wPvpdVA
— UFC (@ufc) April 25, 2021
2 – NRL – Roosters collect silverware in Anzac Day footy
“Silverware”
– Roosters
The Roosters’ domination of the Dragons continues with the tricolours racing in 6 tries to 1 and thumping the Dragons 34-10 in a one-sided NRL Anzac Day clash on Sunday.
It’s the Roosters’ 6th straight win over the Dragons.
Silverware #EastsToWin #AnzacCup pic.twitter.com/lHZ73Oi4t3
— Sydney Roosters (@sydneyroosters) April 26, 2021
1 – Racing – Ageless Kolding salutes in All Aged Stakes
The Chris Waller-trained Kolding gets better with age after the 5YO bay took out the Group 1 All Aged Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
Waller’s super horse has now won the Golden Eagle (2019), Epsom Handicap (2019), George Main Stakes (2020) and All Aged Stakes (2021) over the last 3 years.
KOLDING WINS THE GROUP 1 ALL AGED STAKES pic.twitter.com/EeCHf2ud1D
— 7HorseRacing (@7horseracing) April 24, 2021
Up in Brisbane, the Edmonds stable is the place to be after top trainer and Unibet ambassador Toby Edmonds got two of his star runners up to place (as predicted by Edmonds himself) at Doomben.
Walking Flying and Xerri both finished in the placings with Xerri (in below tweet) grabbing a place at the juicy odds of 9.00.
Pernell and Albert's In Charge also saluted for the flying Edmonds stable!
XERRI @BrisRacingClub
❤️ this horse. Always gives his best & ridden to advantage here to nail black type-LR Mick Dittman
Well done to his owners & breeder Fairway Thoroughbreds @peterobrien2014 @SegenhoeGroup
Still lightly raced Xerri has the ❄️ Carnival ahead of him pic.twitter.com/1NsZaQPDYb
— Edmonds Racing (@EdmondsRacing) April 24, 2021
Cox Plate winning trainer Ciaron Maher also tasted victory over a big weekend of Anzac Day racing with Incredulous Dream (in below tweet) getting the chocolates in the Listed Nitschke Stakes at Morphettville and Through Irish Eyes winning the VRC St Leger at Flemington.
It's Incredulous Dream in the Listed Nitschke Stakes!@cmaherracing @RacingSA pic.twitter.com/rnokOKlHLh
— Racing.com (@Racing) April 24, 2021
It was also a stellar weekend for leading trainer Simon Zahra with the Ellerton and Zahra stable saluting with Good And Proper at Flemington on Anzac Day.
A homebred for @HsktBloodstock, GOOD AND PROPER won over 1600m @FlemingtonVRC today. Congratulations to all involved! @ellertonzahra @daniel_moor https://t.co/O64VibUkJ2
— TBV (@vicbreeders) April 25, 2021
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