Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France) (AFP) – Thomas Tuchel on Monday blasted Neymar for hitting a fan who insulted Paris Saint-Germain players as they filed up to collect their French Cup losers' medals. A 28-year-old delivery driver from Nantes had been filming the PSG players and making less than flattering comments about them when a simmering Neymar grabbed […]

London (AFP) – Leicester midfielder Hamza Choudhury apologised on Monday after a series of historic offensive social media posts were re-discovered.. Choudhury, 21, responded after the Twitter messages from 2013 and 2014 were revealed over the weekend. In June 2013, he wrote: "Why are black people so fast. Because the slow ones are in prison." […]

London (AFP) – Arsenal's Denis Suarez will miss the rest of the season after suffering a groin injury, the midfielder announced on Monday. Suarez has been limited to only six substitute appearances for Arsenal since arriving on loan from Barcelona in January. "I want you all to know that I will not be able to […]

Paris (AFP) – The football boots with which Paul Pogba effectively won the World Cup for France last year were sold for 30,000 euros ($33,470) at a Paris auction on Monday. The Manchester United midfielder, who scored France's third goal in the 4-2 victory over Croatia, had donated them to a French charity which helps […]

London (AFP) – Manchester United's Eric Bailly will miss the rest of the Premier League season and the Africa Cup of Nations after the Ivory Coast defender suffered a knee injury against Chelsea, the Red Devils announced on Monday. Bailly sustained medial ligament damage in a collision with Chelsea midfielder Mateo Kovacic in the second […]

London (AFP) – Mauricio Pochettino has told Tottenham to shrug off the absence of Harry Kane and Son Heung-min as they prepare to face Ajax in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday. Kane headlines a lengthy injury list also including Erik Lamela and Harry Winks, while Son is suspended. But having upset […]

Berlin (AFP) – Marco Reus will miss two of Borussia Dortmund's remaining three games in the Bundesliga title race after being slapped with a suspension by the German Football Association (DFB) following his sending off in Saturday's derby defeat to Schalke. The DFB's announcement on Monday means the Dortmund captain will return for his side's […]

London (AFP) – David de Gea's forlorn expression in the final seconds of Manchester United's damaging draw against Chelsea laid bare the error-prone goalkeeper's despair after his latest costly blunder. De Gea has been in dismal form and the Spaniard's troubled season took another turn for the worse at Old Trafford on Sunday. When Antonio […]

London (AFP) – Virgil van Dijk was crowned the Premier League's Player of the Year by his peers on Sunday, but the Liverpool defender insists he is not thinking of battling Lionel Messi to win the Ballon d'Or. Van Dijk will come up against the five-time Ballon d'Or winner when Liverpool travel to Barcelona for […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic was involved in a war of the words with Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke this weekend as a thrilling Bundesliga title race took another unexpected turn. Reigning champions Bayern remain on course to wrap up a seventh successive title, but missed the chance to pull clear […]

London (AFP) – Stevie Chalmers, scorer of Celtic's winning goal in the 1967 European Cup final, has died at the age of 83, the club announced on Monday. Chalmers is the second member of the Scottish giants' great "Lisbon Lions" side to die in the past week after captain Billy McNeill passed away aged 79. […]

London (AFP) – Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United all failed to muster a win for the second consecutive Premier League weekend as the contenders for a place in next season's Champions League stumble towards the finish line. Spurs, in third place behind runaway pacesetters Manchester City and Liverpool, are best-placed to secure a fourth […]

London (AFP) – Raheem Sterling was named the 2019 footballer of the year by the Football Writers' Association on Monday hours after missing out on the players' player of the year award. The Manchester City and England forward topped the poll of the 400-strong FWA membership as a clear winner, with 62 percent of the […]

Paris (AFP) – Senegalese Sadio Mane, Egyptian Mohamed Salah and Guinean Naby Keita shared the glory among Africans in Europe at the weekend by scoring all the goals as Liverpool crushed Huddersfield 5-0. Mane and Salah netted twice each after Keita had put the Reds ahead in 15 seconds at Anfield as a thrilling title […]

Ankara (AFP) – Czech international Josef Sural has died of injuries he sustained in a minibus crash while returning with teammates from a match in southern Turkey, his Turkish club Aytemiz Alanyaspor said on Monday. The club's chairman said the accident occurred after both the drivers on the bus fell asleep. "Czech player Josef Sural […]