Browsing: English football

  Sunderland manager Gus Poyet believes the draws for the fourth round of the FA Cup shouldn’t be held until all third round games have been completed. Poyet, whose side went into the next round with a 3-1 victory over Carlisle United at the…

  Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho claims Ramires was rightly booked with a yellow card for his dive in the 2-0 win over Derby County, but he refused to accept that Chelsea was a club that promoted or thrived on simulations and diving antics to win…

West Ham United crashed out of the FA Cup in embarrassing fashion on Sunday after being thrashed 5-0 at second-tier Nottingham Forest in the third round. Jamie Paterson was the star man for Championship side Forest with a 14-minute hat-trick against…

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will miss the FA Cup third-round meeting with Swansea City on Sunday due to a groin injury, manager David Moyes has revealed. The England striker, 28, has been nursing the problem for the last few weeks and sat…

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has waded into the debate about diving in football by claiming that “players are always trying to cheat”. FIFA president Sepp Blatter broached the issue earlier this week when he called for tougher sanctions…