IT HAS BEEN some couple of days for Stephen Ward.
On Saturday he scored a stunning goal to help Burnley beat defending champions Chelsea 3-2 to open their Premier League campaign.
This morning he was named in Martin O’Neill’s squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers with Georgia and Serbia.
And this afternoon he agreed a new deal with his club that will keep him at Turf Moor until June 2019, with the possibility of a further 12 months.
The 31-year has been with the club since 2014 and, in a statement on the club website, said:
I’m delighted to have signed. It’s just great to be part of a club like this at the minute and hopefully we can have another successful season.”
Ward joined Burnley from Wolves, following a season-long loan spell at Brighton, after Burnley had won promotion to the Premier League in 2014.
Injury meant the defender was restricted to just nine appearances in his first season with the club and he again had to be patient at the start of the following campaign.
But the defender’s return coincided with an unbeaten run to the end of the campaign as Sean Dyche’s side bounced straight back to the Premier League as 2016 Championship winners.
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Hope it comes right for him. Wouldn’t be the same without him.
Total druggie
Ya come up with that all in your own.. One of the most tested athletes ever. One of the greatest if not the greatest sprinters ever!! But sure if u say he is a druggie I take it he is!!
Hope he’s not a druggie but wasn’t Lance one of the most tested cyclists of all time.
Most tested athletes ever.Give me a break will ya?are you still wearing your yellow wristband too?
Bolt is like the only guy out of the top 20 fastest times ever to never get caught doping. He’s not a unique snowflake. He’s doped to the gills just as much as Gatlin or anyone else. It’d be naive to think otherwise. Athletics is as corrupt as Cycling.
Lance Armstrong was “one of the most tested athletes ever”. He never ” officially” tested positive. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t using PEDs.
He’s the greatest.
The horrible question around Bolt is his junior record. If he is doping now, when did he start? Very sinister
I subscribe to Tommy Tiernans vision….let them take whatever drugs they want. Who doesn’t want to see a man run 100 metres in 4 seconds??
Ah who cares – the lines are so blurred these days it’s hard to know the difference between just about clean & doping. I’m presuming the ” clean ” athletes are the ones on right side of legal – just. The man is box office – let’s hope and pray for this legend ..
Surely it should be like the karate kid, defending champion has to be in the Olympics