Former Nigeria international striker Yakubu has retired from football at the age of 35, BBC Sport reports. In almost a decade in English football, between January 2003 and June 2012, Yakubu scored 114 times in 293 league appearances, mostly in the top flight. He averaged nearly a goal every other game at Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester and Blackburn before joining Chinese club Guangzhou. He returned to England for short spells at Reading in 2015, then Coventry City. But after three substitute appearances under Slade, he did not figure when Mark Robins returned to the club as manager and was released in April.

Source: Punch November 23, 2017 00:56 UTC