The case between Kumasi Asante Kotoko and the former CEO of the club, Dr K. K. Sarpong, was last Friday adjourned to February 15, 2016 by a Kumasi Commercial High Court.

This was because the parties were unable to finish the case management stage to set the tone for the trial.

But it was mainly due to the inability of the Kotoko Management to file all its statements to enable the trial judge, Justice Mrs Angelina Homiah, to set the date for the trial.

The two parties had earlier failed to reach an amicable settlement at a pre-trial conference held last year before another High Court and, therefore, decided to go through the normal trial to resolve the issues.

Ghana’s only qualifier for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, 800-metre runner Alex Amankwah, has been nominated for the inaugural Liquid Sports Ghana Athlete of the Year Award to be announced on Friday.

The award is aimed at promoting athletics in the country by throwing the spotlight on national athletes who excell both locally and internationally.

The list is dominated by athletes who helped Team Ghana win an impressive eight medals in athletics at the 2015 All African Games (AAG) in Congo-Brazzaville.

Four goals conceded in the first half by Rwanda saw Morocco cruise to victory in the teams' final Group A game of the first stage of CHAN 2016, but Rwanda still go through to the knockouts along with Cote d’Ivoire.

Ivory Coast joined defeated Gabon 4-1 in Butare in the other Group game yesterday and, therefore, go through with Rwanda to the quarterfinals.

As early as the 5th minute, Ernest Sugira made a good run on the right flank but no one picked up his pass, and Savio Nshuti's attempt was saved by Bourkadi. Then, five minutes later, Sugira had another scoring chance, but Bourkadi saved it easily as Morocco also forced a good save from Kwizera on the other end.

A report claiming Jose Mourinho wrote a six-page letter to Manchester United outlining his suitability to succeed Louis van Gaal as manager is "totally absurd", says his agent Jorge Mendes.

The Independent yesterday also claims Mourinho offered a "forensic analysis" of the Old Trafford squad in what it called a "love letter" to the club.

Diego Costa returned to haunt Arsenal once again as he scored the only goal in Chelsea's 1-0 victory at the Emirates having been involved in Per Mertesacker's sending-off.

Arsene Wenger's Premier League title hopefuls started brightly, but suffered a massive setback as Mertesacker was given his marching orders after 18 minutes.

Chelsea broke forward through Willian, and the Brazilian's weighted pass in behind Mertesacker led to the World Cup winner sliding in on Costa as last man to receive a red card from Mark Clattenburg.

Danny Garcia overcame a sluggish start to win a unanimous decision over Robert Guerrero at the Staples Center in Los Angeles last Saturday and claim the WBC welterweight title vacated by Floyd Mayweather Jr.

With Mayweather, who retired in September, sitting ringside, Garcia (32-0) took control from the middle rounds and was awarded the decision 116-112 by all three judges.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic survived a scare against Gilles Simon to reach the last eight of the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Five-time champion Djokovic made 100 unforced errors but prevailed 6-3 6-7 (1-7) 6-4 4-6 6-3 after four hours and 32 minutes on Rod Laver Arena.

Djokovic, 28, is through to his 27th consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final.

John Stones will be at centre of a £50m transfer scramble in the summer, with Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City and Chelsea all keen to sign him.

Everton turned down the opportunity to sell their highly-rated centre half last summer, rejecting a £38million bid from Chelsea.

But the interest in Stones has intensified since then, with Rafa Benitez having asked Real Madrid to sign him when he was manager at the club.

Lionel Messi returned from injury to send Barcelona back to the top of La Liga as they won at Malaga.

Messi missed the midweek Copa Del Rey win at Athletic Bilbao with a hamstring problem, but came back to volley in Adriano's cross for the decisive goal.

Munir El Haddadi gave Barca the lead with a tap-in after 70 seconds.

Daniel Amartey has begun training with his new club, Leicester City, after completing a £5m deal from the Danish club for four-and-a-half year.

The Ghana international becomes Claudio Ranieri's second capture of the transfer window after the acquisition of Demarai Gray from Birmingham City.

Amartey, who has won six caps for the senior side after making his debut against Senegal in 2015, plays as a central-midfielder and can also cover at right-back.

Speaking to the club's website Amartey said: 'It's a great pleasure to join Leicester City. I know the club have been interested in signing me for some time and that was a big part of my decision to come here.

Swansea recorded their first ever league win over Everton as they hung on to record a 2-1 success in Francesco Guidolin's first game as manager, thanks to Andre Dede Ayew, who was instrumental in both goals by the Swans.

The visitors went in front through Gylfi Sigurdsson's penalty after Tim Howard brought down Andre Ayew following John Stones' weak backpass.

Gareth Barry's deflected flick made it 1-1 just eight minutes later but Ayew restored the advantage with an effort which looped in over Howard off Stones.

Roger Federer, the Swiss third seed, produced a masterclass to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals, easing past David Goffin in straight sets yesterday.

Federer barely broke sweat in his 6-2 6-1 6-4 dismantling of the talented Belgian, 15th seed on Rod Laver Arena.

The 17-time grand slam champion was in control throughout, only dropping serve once as he beat Goffin for the fourth time in as many meetings to earn a last-eight showdown with sixth seed Tomas Berdych.

It was a late start in Melbourne, with the marathon five-setter between Novak Djokovic and Gilles Simon earlier in the day forcing back the scheduled times on court.

Diego Costa once again proved to be Arsenal's undoing with the Chelsea man scoring the only goal as the reigning Barclays Premier League champions beat the 10-man Gunners yesterday.

Having tussled with Gabriel and Laurent Koscielny in September's reverse fixture at Stamford Bridge, Costa was again the villain of the piece from an Arsenal perspective as he proved the catalyst in Chelsea's 1-0 win - a result which leaves the Gunners in third behind both Leicester and Manchester City.

Twenty-four-year-old Felix Lartey from the Ghana Immigration Service defeated Bernard Joe Sam from Ghana Revenue Authority 3-0 in the finals of the national table tennis top eight competition held at the D.G Hathiramani Sports Hall at the Accra Stadium on Saturday to scoop the top prize and a cash prize of GHC2000.

In a keenly contested competition Beatrice Gyasi from the Ghana Police Service defeated Bernice Borquaye from the Ghana Armed Forces 3-1 to win the female category and a cash amount of GHC1500.

In the third and fourth placed matches, defending champion Derek Abrefa of Immigration beat fellow pal from Immigration 3-1 to take the third place in the male category while in the female category Linda Annor of Immigration beat pupil teacher Gina Ackman 3-0.

In a competition which featured the best eight male and female players of the country , all participants were rewarded with appearance fees and cash prizes.

The vice chairman of the Ghana Table

An impressive attacking display by DR Congo saw them beat Angola 4-2 in a thrilling six-goal encounter in their CHAN 2016 Group B encounter yesterday.

DR Congo took the lead in the eigth minute following a corner kick. A header towards the far post saw Angola's keeper fumble the ball under pressure and the ball spun off his back and back into play from which Nelson Munganga pounced and poked home the game's opening goal.

Just a few minutes after the goal, Angola came close to a leveller when a cross reached captain Osvlado only for him to slice his shot off the side of his boot from a very good position.