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Chelsea ruined Didier Drogba’s return to Stamford Bridge as the Blues swept into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 2-0 victory over Galatasaray on Tuesday. Jose Mourinho’s side refused to be distracted by Galatasaray striker Drogba’s emotional…

Trophy-holders Guangzhou Evergrande seized control of their AFC Champions League group with a 3-1 win over Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Tuesday, as Uruguay star Diego Forlan scored his first goal for Cerezo Osaka. A first-half double from Guangzhou striker…

Controversial plans to change the official name of English Premier League club Hull City appeared to have been thwarted on Monday by the Football Association. The membership committee of English football’s governing body said it had made a “unanimous…

The present French side can go on and win the World Cup next year despite a third successive disappointing Six Nations campaign, said head coach Philippe Saint-Andre. The 46-year-old — who unlike his two predecessors Bernard Laporte and Marc Lievremont…

England scrum-half Danny Care believes the side’s runners-up finish in the Six Nations has prepared them well for their upcoming tour of New Zealand and a serious tilt at the World Cup on home soil next year. Stuart Lancaster’s men thrashed Italy 52…

Everton defender Sylvain Distin admitted he will have mixed emotions should the Toffees qualify for the Europa League. A place in next season’s elite and lucrative Champions League now looks beyond the Merseysiders, who are nine points adrift of fourth…

Former England captain Michael Vaughan felt deceived by Jonathan Trott’s revelation last weekend that he left England’s Ashes tour of Australia suffering from “burn out”, he revealed on Monday. When Trott quit what turned out to be a 5-0 Ashes thrashing…

Kevin Anderson handed Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka his first defeat of 2014 to reach the quarter-finals of the Indian Wells ATP Masters. South Africa’s Anderson beat Wawrinka 7-6 (7/1), 4-6, 6-1 to end Wawrinka’s run of 13 straight match…

Second-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska held on for a three-set victory over Jelena Jankovic to book a semi-final clash with Romanian starlet Simona Halep at the BNP Paribas Open. Radwanska, ranked third in the world, downed Serbia’s seventh-seeded Jankovic…