Spanish La Liga side Villarreal said Friday they will close part of their stadium for a Europa League match in an anti-racism gesture after one of their fans threw a banana at Barcelona’s Dani Alves. The club will close part of the stands in its El…
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Osasuna and Valladolid were relegated to the Spanish second division on Sunday, but the final round of La Liga matches was overshadowed by the collapse of a barrier which injured 49 fans at Osasuna’s El Sadar stadium in Pamplona. The Navarran Red Cross…
Thousands of club-wielding striking workers at a platinum mine in South Africa were urged by their leaders to remain steadfast in the face of a deadline to return underground Wednesday. The miners gathered at a stadium near the Lonmin operations in…
Chelsea assistant manager Rui Faria was hit with a six-match stadium ban and fined £30,000 ($50,640, 36,564 euros) on Thursday following his furious rant at the officials during Sunderland’s shock win at Stamford Bridge. The Football Association found…
Liverpool’s Anfield stadium will witness emotionally charged scenes on Sunday when it marks the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster before their Premier League game with Manchester City. In tribute to the 96 Liverpool fans who died in the…
West Indies captain Darren Sammy won the toss and elected to bat against Pakistan in a crucial World Twenty20 match in Dhaka on Tuesday. The winner of the night game at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium will join India in the semi-finals from group two of the…
Relatives wept Tuesday as the names of the 96 Liverpool football supporters who died in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium crush were read out in court. Lord Justice John Goldring, the coroner presiding, said Britain’s worst sporting disaster was “seared…
A construction worker at Sao Paulo’s troubled World Cup stadium was killed after falling from a stand on Saturday, bringing the number of deaths at the venue to three. The workman, named as Fabio Hamilton da Cruz, fell eight metres (26 feet) as he helped…
Monaco defender and captain Eric Abidal is in line for a recall after apologising for leaving the Louis II stadium on Sunday after being left out of the side that drew 1-1 against Lille. “There is no problem with Abidal,” said Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri…
Urawa Red Diamonds drew 1-1 with Shimizu S-Pulse on Sunday in a game played in an empty stadium as punishment for a racist “Japanese only” banner put up by hardline fans that deeply embarrassed the J-League. League officials hit Japan’s best-supported…