Chelsea defender Gary Cahill has warned his team-mates they must cut out their habit of making careless mistakes if the Blues are to make a serious bid to win the Champions League. Jose Mourinho’s side face Steaua Bucharest in their final Group E fixture…
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Brazil’s organisational reputation, already under fire in the run-up to the World Cup, suffered another blow Sunday when three spectators were seriously hurt in violent clashes at a league match. Police said that fans of Atletico Paranaense and Vasco…
Emmanuel Riviere scored his eighth goal of the season to give Monaco a 1-0 win over 10-man Ajaccio on Sunday and cut the gap on Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain to two points. Riviere struck in the 75th minute as Monaco replaced Lille, who had lost…
Napoli dropped two precious points in the Italian title race on Saturday after Dujan Basta levelled late on for Udinese to grab a share of the spoils from a 3-3 draw. Rafael Benitez’s men started their 15th match of the campaign looking to build on…
Real Madrid badly missed the firepower of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale as they were held 0-0 away to third tier Olimpic Xativa in the first-leg of their Copa del Rey fourth round tie on Saturday. With Ronaldo suspended following his red card in…
Bayern Munich’s Austrian defender David Alaba has agreed a deal to extend his contract with the European champions until 2018, the Bundesliga club announced on Monday. The 21-year-old international left-back joined Bayern at the age of 16 and is regarded…
Barcelona slipped to a second consecutive defeat for the first time since April 2012 as they lost for the first time in the league this season 1-0 away to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. Barcelona had suffered their first defeat under coach Gerardo Martino…
Gareth Bale took his tally to eight goals in his last seven games with a hat-trick as Real Madrid shrugged off the loss of Cristiano Ronaldo to beat Valladolid 4-0. With the Portuguese sidelined by a slight muscle strain, Bale proved to be decisive…
Man of the moment Aaron Ramsey scored twice against his former club as Arsenal beat Cardiff City 3-0 on Saturday to move seven points clear in the Premier League. Ramsey broke the deadlock with a fine first-half header and after substitute Mathieu Flamini…
David Beckham tells Sky News there are not many players that can say they have played at the top level at 40 like Manchester United’s Ryan Giggs. Meanwhile Giggs has dismissed the relevance of age to his career as he celebrates his 40th birthday. http…
Ryan Giggs believes the stability of playing for Manchester United throughout his career has allowed him to extend his playing days until his 40th birthday. Giggs turns 40 on Friday but his performances remain of such a high standard that United manager…
Manchester United manager David Moyes praised Ryan Giggs’ dedication as the evergreen Old Trafford star celebrated his 40th birthday. Giggs, now a coach as well as a player, marked the milestone on Friday, just days after a starring role in United’s…
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said on Friday he feared match-fixing would never be eradicated completely, as English football was forced to confront the issue head-on. Two men with Singaporean nationality suspected of fixing matches in lower-league…
AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani said he will resign from his post after claiming his reputation had been “seriously damaged” by recent criticism amid an ongoing crisis at the Serie A giants. Galliani, who has helped oversee the most successful…
Tottenham Hotspur won 2-0 against Tromso in the bitter chill of Norway on Thursday to seal first place in Europa League Group K and ease a little of the pressure on manager Andre Villas-Boas. Reports in England in recent days suggest that the Portuguese…
Jack Wilshere said Thursday that Cesc Fabregas had been Arsenal’s greatest loss of recent times in the transfer market. The England midfielder said he was “really upset” when the Spain star left the London club for Barcelona in 2011. And Wilshere insisted…
Hungarian football champions Gyori ETO found an original way to punish their players after an embarrassing defeat, by confiscating the keys to their high-end cars, a media report said Thursday. The management of the club, which took its fourth Hungarian…
Four-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi will travel to his native Argentina on Friday to continue his recuperation from a torn hamstring, his club Barcelona confirmed on Thursday. Messi suffered his third and most serious muscle injury of the…
A senior Nigerian football official has been banned for 10 years for corruption, the country’s football federation announced late Monday. A Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) emergency committee handed Leye Adepoju the sanction excluding him from all…