The FA Cup final will be held on August 1, the Football Association announced on Friday, after the Premier League said on Thursday that its season will restart on June 17. The quarterfinals of the FA Cup will be held over the weekend of June 27-28, with the semifinals earmarked for the weekend of July 18-19. The knockout competition, like Read More
The Premier League is set to return on Wednesday 17 June, according to reports. Manchester City will host Arsenal while Aston Villa take on Sheffield United in the first games back after the break. Plans were in place for the season to resume on Friday 19 June, but the Telegraph claim that has been scrapped. Two matches will be played Read More
Premier League clubs have agreed on a restart date of June 20 in what is a huge breakthrough for their Project Restart plans, according to the Mirror. The Premier League have desperately been trying to finalise plans to get the season back underway again following its suspension at the beginning of March amid the coronavirus crisis. And now a big breakthrough appears to Read More
In Bundesliga, Bayern took a decisive step towards an eighth straight German title, as victory at the home of their closest rivals left them seven points clear with six games to play. But this was the evening when we realised that behind-closed-doors football can still possess high quality, intensity and tempo. After two rounds of largely uninspiring ‘ghost games’ since Read More
Manchester United players arrived for training for the first time in over two months after getting the all-clear from their coronavirus tests. Red Devils stars last worked out at their Carrington complex on March 13 but are now back to business following a vote from Premier League clubs to approve a formal return to the training ground, the Sun reports. The Read More
All 20 teams in Italy’s Serie A have voted to finish the 2019/20 season in full. An emergency meeting was held on Friday amid reports that Torino and Brescia wanted the campaign to be axed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Sun reports. But it has now been revealed that every team in the league shares the belief that the Read More
Newcastle United are prepared to make Mauricio Pochettino one of the best-paid managers in the world, should the impending takeover go through. The North East club are currently the subject of a bid, led by Amanda Staveley and backed by the wealth of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which is is currently being ratified by the Premier League. Should the deal go Read More
Tottenham began welcoming players back to training on Tuesday ahead of football’s return from the coronavirus pandemic. Harry Kane was among the stars seen entering the Enfield base as part of Spurs’ efforts to prepare for the Premier League’s resumption. No date has been set for any matches as of yet but the North London side joined neighbours Arsenal in slowly Read More
Premier League football could be back on TV within weeks — in a major boost for bored Brits. Boris Johnson has been briefed on plans for matches to be played behind closed doors and sees the resumption of live sport as key to boosting the moral of the nation after weeks of being shut inside. Other football leagues, tennis, cricket and horse Read More
England manager Gareth Southgate has agreed to a 30 per cent pay cut. The move is expected to be confirmed by the Football Association (FA) next week. An FA spokesman told Sky Sports News: “The financial implications of the coronavirus are not yet known however, as a not-for-profit organisation, we want to ensure that we take the appropriate course of Read More
FrankLampard and Chelsea humbled Jose Mourinho again thanks to goals from Olivier Giroud and Marcos Alonso. On the ground where Lampard and Mourinho enjoyed such happy times together, the former Chelsea boss was serenaded with chants of “You’re not special anymore” from the home fans. Goals from Giroud and Alonso seal the win against Spurs, who grabbed a late consolation Read More
Former Super Eagles striker, Odion Ighalo, has just replaced teammate Anthony Joshua in the first leg of Manchester United’s Europa League last-32 game against Club Brugge still ongoing. The former Nigeria international joined the Red Devils on a short-term loan deal from Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua in January. Ighalo first played for the Red Devils at Monday’s Premier Read More
Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho believes Manchester City’s two-season ban from the Champions League has opened the door for a host of teams to qualify for next season’s competition. Mourinho’s men moved up to fifth in the Premier League – which could be enough to secure Champions League football should City’s appeal against the ban fail – thanks to Son Heung-min’s Read More
After the ban placed on Manchester City by UEFA, the club will now resolve to sell leading players such as Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Aymeric Laporte. This will happen if their appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport fails. UEFA slammed City a two-year ban from the Champions League and other European competitions on Friday. Pep Guardiola’s Read More
Manchester City have been banned from all UEFA competitions for the next two seasons and fined £24.9m for “serious breaches” of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play and club licensing regulations. An Adjudicatory Chamber of the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) found the Premier League champions guilty of serious breaches of the UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations. In a Read More
Arsenal are reportedly planning to bring their longest-serving manager Arsene Wenger back to the Emirates Stadium. The Frenchman parted ways with the club after 22 years in May 2018 having won three Premier Leagues and several other domestic titles during his reign. Wenger was heavily scrutinised by the supporters towards the end of his reign at the north London club Read More
Manchester United have assigned jersey number 25 to Odion Ighalo, who joined the club for a short-term loan from Shanghai Shenhua. Also, the former Super Eagles striker has unveiled his Manchester United boots less than a week after making a sensational return to Premier League, and interestingly the beautiful pair was dedicated to his late sister Mary Atole. The club Read More
Odion Ighalo described his move to Manchester United as a ‘dream come true’ as he arrived in the UK after signing for the club on loan until the end of the season. The 30-year-old striker sealed a shock loan move to United from Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua in the closing moments of the transfer window on Friday. The move came as a surprise to Read More
West Ham’s late capture of Hull City forward Jarrod Bowen for an initial £18m was the only big-money move of the lowest-spending Premier League January transfer deadline day since 2010. Premier League clubs spent £230m in the month, the second highest total ever. But only £25m of that was spent on deadline day. Odion Ighalo’s move from Shanghai Shenhua to Manchester United dominated Read More
Leicester edged into the FA Cup fifth round as Kelechi Iheanacho’s early goal sealed a 1-0 win at second-tier Brentford on Saturday. Brendan Rodgers’ side are chasing a trip to Wembley on two fronts and they took the next step in the FA Cup after surviving a hard-fought fourth-round clash in west London. Flying high in the Premier League, third-placed Read More
Leicester City ended their poor recent form and returned to winning ways with a 4-1 home victory over West Ham. They had entered the fixture following a run of three games without a win, which had led to frustrations creeping in at the club. This started with them being held to a surprise 1-1 draw at home to Aston Villa Read More
Ten-man Arsenal slowed Chelsea’s charge for a Champions League place on Tuesday as Manchester City kept up their distant pursuit of Liverpool with victory at Sheffield United on a dramatic evening of Premier League football. Newcastle improbably came back from 2-0 down to draw against Everton, with substitute Florian Lejeune netting twice in stoppage time, and Aston Villa found a Read More
Premier League leaders Liverpool moved 16 points clear at the top of the table with a 1-0 win at Tottenham, while Manchester United eased to victory over Norwich at Old Trafford. Roberto Firmino scored the only goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium late in the first half but Spurs should have had an equaliser when Giovani Lo Celso sliced wide Read More
Pep Guardiola insists he would rather retire to the golf course than coach Manchester United or Real Madrid in the future. The Manchester City manager faces Ole Gunnar’s Solskjaer’s team in a Carabao Cup semi-final on Tuesday night aiming to win the trophy for a third successive year. He could have been in the opposing dugout had former United manager Sir Alex Ferguson convinced the former Barcelona boss to take over Read More
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