FIFA President Sepp Blatter met with News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch on Thursday, weeks after their organisations signed a $425 million ($A407 million) broadcast deal. Murdoch later wrote on Twitter …

John Rooney, a 21-year-old midfielder and younger brother of Manchester United star Wayne Rooney, signed a contract on Thursday with Orlando City in the lowest level of US professional soccer. …

Ivory Coast became the second country after Equatorial Guinea to reach the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals thanks to a 2-0 win over Burkina Faso in Group B ON …

Juventus were somewhat of a surprise winner of the Italian league’s symbolic winter title, and the team’s supremacy will immediately be tested when they begins the second half of the …

Despite spending freely on new players last year, Bayern Munich have found themselves caught up in the closest Bundesliga race in 20 years. Four teams are separated by only one …

European clubs have been given a final warning over financial fair play, as UEFA threatened to impose player bans and points deductions for the continent’s worst offenders from the 2014-15 …

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp will swap the dock for the dugout on Friday and his men will be fully prepared to beat Watford despite his absence from training this week, …

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp told police he writes like a toddler and paid his accountant handsomely “to look after me”, the jury in his trial on allegations of tax evasion …

Eliminated from the Copa del Rey by Barcelona, Real Madrid will now turn their focus to breaking their rival’s three-year reign at the top of the Spanish league, beginning with …

Barcelona says midfielder Andres Iniesta will be sidelined for three weeks with a muscle tear in his left thigh. Iniesta was injured in the first half of Barcelona’s 2-2 draw …

Stricken Swiss side Neuchatel Xamax slipped from crisis into shame and near-oblivion on Thursday, as its Chechen owner was arrested hours after declaring the club bankrupt. Bulat Chagaev was detained …

Swiss authorities say they have arrested the Chechen owner of Neuchatel Xamax, hours after the football club said it would file for bankruptcy. Geneva prosecutors said in a statement on …

Football boss Harry Redknapp has denied dodging taxes by telling police “I couldn’t even fill a team sheet in”, a court in London has heard. The Sun columnist said on …

Sun and sand in Tahiti or the gray skies of northwest England? For United States defender Tim Ream, there was only one choice. Contacted by English Premier League club Bolton …

Predicting the outcome of football matches on Twitter could land players in trouble, as the English football authorities are wary they could be seen to be providing inside betting information. …

QPR captain Joey Barton has unleashed an online tirade against the Football Association, labelling them an “Orwellian organisation” in need of a “drastic shake-up”. The 29-year-old midfielder is widely known …

Harry Redknapp had sole responsibility for the Monaco bank account that was named after his dog, a British court has heard. The Tottenham manager was the only signature on records …

FIFA has denied a split with Roger Milla despite reports the Cameroon great was dropped from its Football Committee, then resigned as a goodwill ambassador. FIFA says in a statement …