(Reuters) – Czech Republic will be without captain Tomas Rosicky for this weekend’s Euro 2012 warm-up match against Israel due to a calf problem, Czec...
SOFIA, May 23 (Reuters) – Unheralded Ludogorets completed a remarkable domestic double in Bulgaria on Wednesday when they beat CSKA Sofia 1-0 in an il...
LISBON, (Reuters): Portugal replaced injured midfielder Carlos Martins with Braga playmaker Hugo Viana in their 23-man squad for next month’s Euro 201...
LONDON: Wolfsburg have revived their interest in QPR’s Adel Taarabt. The German side wanted the 22-year-old in January when he was valued at £8mil. Bu...
LONDON: Roberto Martinez is expected to fly to United States tomorrow for talks about taking the Anfield hot seat. The Spaniard is due to meet Liverpo...
SHANGHAI: Shanghai Shenhua say they plan to name a new head coach, just weeks after the big-spending Chinese football club appointed mercurial French ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has turned down the chance of managing Aston Villa, a spokesman for the English Premier League said on Tues...
BERLIN (Reuters) – Stricken Bayern Munich managed to beat Netherlands 3-2 in an badly-timed friendly on Tuesday, played less than 72 hours after their...
MADRID (Reuters) – Chelsea duo Fernando Torres and Juan Mata were called up to Spain’s provisional squad for Euro 2012 on Monday, two days after helpi...
SOFIA (Reuters): Striker Dimitar Berbatov wants to leave Manchester United because he feels he has fallen out of favour with manager Alex Ferguson. “M...
CHICAGO (Reuters) : British Prime Minister David Cameron savored Chelsea’s win over German club Bayern Munich in the Champions League final on Sunday ...
By Mike Collett MUNICH (Reuters) – Chelsea’s late surge to glory, which saw them crowned European champions on Saturday, means that two of the richest...
MUNICH (Reuters) – Chelsea players made it clear they wanted Roberto Di Matteo to be given the coach’s job full-time after the Italian’s whirlwind thr...
MUNICH (Reuters) – Roberto Di Matteo can now claim the title of “Mr Chelsea” with as much justification as any of the club’s great players of the past...
MUNICH (Reuters) – Bayern Munich have only themselves to blame for failing to lift the Champions League trophy for the fifth time on Saturday after do...
MUNICH (Reuters) – Some Bayern Munich players including Arjen Robben refused to take penalties in their shoot-out defeat by Chelsea in the Champions L...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Universidad de Chile winger Matias Rodriguez has earned his first Argentina call-up for their World Cup qualifier against Ecu...
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski wants to leave Arsenal after months of watching his compatriot Wojciech Szczesny from the benc...
LONDON: Former Manchester United and Norway striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is to hold talks with Premier League club Aston Villa about their managerial ...
LONDON: Liverpool’s search for a new manager suffered a setback yesterday when Swansea boss Brendan Rodgers rejected the chance to talk to the Anfield...
MUNICH: Family are usually the first to celebrate the success of a relative, but one member of Frank Lampard’s is hoping Chelsea fail against Bayern M...
MUNICH (Reuters) – Teenagers Todd Kane, 18 and Nathaniel Chalobah, 17, who have never played for Chelsea’s senior side, have been called into the squa...
LONDON (Reuters) – Swansea City’s highly-rated manager Brendan Rodgers has turned down an offer to talk to Liverpool about replacing Kenny Dalglish, t...
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski wants to leave Arsenal after months of watching his compatriot Wojciech Szczesny from the benc...
LONDON: England fans assessing their team’s tournament prospects usually trot out the weary predicition “We’ll lose in the quarters on penalties” but ...
LONDON: Liverpool’s managing director Ian Ayre has said the club will not be rushed into naming Kenny Dalglish’s successor with potential candidates f...
PETALING JAYA: Now that the English Premier League is over, football crazy Malaysians can look forward to what is considered to be the second most ant...
IN THE SPORT-LIGHT by R.MANOGARAN RUTHLESS and shocking. That’s all I can say about Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish’s sacking by the Fenway Sports G...
May 17 (Reuters) – Arsenal striker Park Chu-young has been left out of the South Korean squad for next month’s final round of 2014 World Cup qualifier...
LONDON: Stoke City winger Jermaine Pennant (pic) on Tuesday received a suspended jail sentence and a three-year driving ban after he admitted drink-dr...
LONDON: Roberto Mancini has vowed that newly-crowned Premier League champions Manchester City will splash out in a manner similar to Spanish giants Re...
LONDON: A match programme for the 1909 FA Cup final between Manchester United and Bristol City fetched a world-record price of £23,500 (US$37,600) at ...
LONDON (Reuters) – As Liverpool begin their search for a successor to Kenny Dalglish, the burning question is how the once dominant force in English f...
LONDON (Reuters) – England manager Roy Hodgson cast aside Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand, probably signalling the end of his international c...
LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) – England manager Roy Hodgson on Wednesday named the following 23-man squad for the June 8-July 1 European Championship: Goal...
LONDON (Reuters): England manager Roy Hodgson named Liverpool striker Andy Carroll, Norwich City goalkeeper John Ruddy and Tottenham Hotspur striker J...
(Reuters) – Borussia Dortmund midfielder Shinji Kagawa has spoken to Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and would like to move to an English Prem...
LONDON6 (Reuters): Defender Rio Ferdinand will be omitted from England’s Euro 2012 squad which is due to be announced by new national team manager Roy...
KUALA LUMPUR: Five aspiring footballers have been given the chance of a lifetime to win an opportunity to train with the best clubs in the world such ...
LONDON (AP) – Manchester United’s Alex Ferguson has been voted the top manager in the first 20 years of the Premier League, and Ryan Giggs has been se...
LAS ROZAS, Spain (Reuters) – Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea was one of a number of fringe Spain players named in Vicente del Bosque’s provi...
BERLIN (Reuters) – Werder Bremen striker Claudio Pizarro, who holds the Bundesliga record for most goals by a foreign player, is to leave the club, th...
ASUNCION (Reuters) – Paraguay have been forced to name an injury-weakened side for their 2014 World Cup qualifier at Bolivia next month. Benfica strik...
LONDON (Reuters) – Manchester City’s unrivalled spending power since Abu Dhabi’s Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan bought the club in 2008 has transformed t...
RETROSPECT By V. VASUDEVAN – AN error has ended and a new era has begun in Manchester. That’s how Manchester City fans see their team’s dramatic asc...
