Brendan Rodgers will face a Chelsea side without John Terry at the Liberty Stadium on Tuesday night but the Swansea manager has offered his support to the Blues skipper, saying …
Scotland striker Kris Boyd, the Scottish Premier League’s all-time leading scorer, is joining Major League Soccer’s Portland Timbers. Timbers general manager Gavin Wilkinson announced the move on Monday, with the …
Atletico Madrid have continued their good recent form since former Argentinian international midfielder Diego Simeone took over as coach with a 1-0 away win over Osasuna. Uruguayan centre-half Diego Godin …
A three-quarter brother to So You Think has fetched $NZ800,000 ($A623,880) at New Zealand’s Premier yearling sale in Auckland. Hong Kong agent Willie Leung was the successful buyer with bidding …
Sudan have reached the quarter-finals of the African Cup of Nations for the first time in 42 years on Monday, beating Burkina Faso 2-1 to squeeze through on goal difference …
Vladimir Weiss has quit as coach of Slovakia’s national football team, the Slovak Football Association says. “Slovakia’s Football Association has agreed with Weiss on ending their contract effective January 31,” …
Midfielder Lucho Gonzalez looks poised to return to Porto from Marseille. The 31-year-old, who left the Portuguese side for Ligue 1 in 2009, impressed as Marseille won the French title …
Top-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia beat Slovakia’s Karol Beck 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 6-3 on Monday to advance to the second round of the Zagreb Indoors tournament. Ljubicic, the 2006 champion …
Celtic have beaten arch-rivals Rangers to the signing of Polish striker Pawel Brozek on loan from Turkish side Trabzonspor. The 28-year-old will spend the remainder of the season at Parkhead, …
The Zimbabwe Football Association has suspended 67 players, including most of the national team, after a longstanding match-fixing investigation. A ZIFA probe last year led to a number of Zimbabwe …
Newcastle midfielder Yohan Cabaye has been charged with violent conduct following an incident in Saturday’s FA Cup fourth round defeat at Brighton. The Football Association on Monday evening confirmed that …
A virtual reserve Ivory Coast side cruised to a 2-0 win over Angola on Monday in a lacklustre Group B match at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. Emmanuel Eboue …
The football chairman accused of sending kickbacks to Harry Redknapp has told a court of their rollercoaster friendship. Milan Mandaric said he agreed to pay STG4.2 million ($A6.25 million) a …
Players may be deterred from reporting racist abuse in the future after witnessing Patrice Evra’s treatment by Liverpool fans at the weekend, players’ chief Gordon Taylor has warned. Liverpool fans …
Florian Mayer of Germany beat Gilles Muller of Luxembourg 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 on Monday to reach the second round of the Open Sud de France. The sixth-seeded Mayer saved seven …
Portsmouth’s bank accounts have been frozen as part of a winding-up order from British authorities over the Championship side’s failure to pay a STG1.6 million ($A2.38 million) tax bill, the …
John Terry is to miss Chelsea’s Premier League match away to Swansea on Tuesday – less than a day before a court case begins into allegations he racially abused QPR …
Former Wales football manager Gary Speed may have killed himself by accident, a judicial investigation concluded on Monday. The 42-year-old father of two, who played for Leeds, Everton, Newcastle, Bolton …
