Massimiliano Allegri defended the decision to let Italian World Cup winning midfielder Andrea Pirlo leave in the northern summer to join Juventus, saying the midfielder needed a new challenge. The …
Andre Villas-Boas admits his insistence he is at Chelsea for the long haul would carry more weight if publicly backed by the club’s hierarchy. Blues boss Villas-Boas was once again …
Joey O’Brien has hailed the resilience of West Ham as they look to reclaim top spot in the npower Championship with victory over Blackpool on Tuesday. The Hammers have taken …
Andre Villas-Boas says he has no fear for his Chelsea future ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League second round, first leg clash with Napoli in Naples because the culture at the …
France’s top two football divisions have witnessed an unwelcome upsurge in racist abuse from the terraces in the 2011-12 season to date, a police report released on Monday revealed. According …
Steve Bruce is the favourite to be the next manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers, according to the UK bookmakers. The former Sunderland, Wigan and Birmingham manager is now Wolves’ first choice …
Germany manager Joachim Loew says he has a back-up plan in place for Euro 2012 despite the rising number of injuries that threaten to scupper his attempt to win June’s …
The International Cricket Council Monday denied it had cleared Pakistan’s Danish Kaneria to play after he was implicated in a spot-fixing trial that resulted in the jailing of a former …
A large scale exercise will be staged this week to test how the emergency services will need to react if a major incident strikes during the London 2012 Games. Lessons …
Up to 2100 part-time military personnel will be called out to work as part of the security force for the London 2012 Games, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has announced. The …
Bulls and Springboks flanker Dewald Potgieter will probably miss the first two months of the Super Rugby season after badly cutting his arm trying to open a toilet window at …
Former captain Ricky Ponting will hold a press conference in Sydney on Tuesday to announce whether he intends to retire from international cricket. The 37-year-old was dumped from Australia’s one-day …
Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki hit back at Martina Navratilova on Monday for claiming that the Dane had never deserved to be top of the tennis rankings. Wozniacki also …
Former Arsenal star Emmanuel Petit said on Monday that parting ways with Arsene Wenger would be “the biggest mistake” but admitted that the London side are suffering from a crisis …
Niall Quinn is to step down as Sunderland’s director of international development. The 45-year-old former chairman and manager of the north east club says he will be returning to Ireland …
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet took an early battering in the opening 24 hours of leg four as race leaders Telefnica led into atrocious weather conditions in the South China …
Chelsea, Inter Milan and Bayern Munich are looking to the Champions League to help relieve growing domestic pressures but face tricky away tasks in their first-leg matches in the last …
For Stevenage goalkeeper Chris Day, the FA Cup replay with Tottenham means he will finally get a chance to play a competitive match at White Hart Lane 21 years after …
