Canelas (Portugal) (AFP) – A Portuguese football team branded "thugs" and "butchers" have risen to the top of their amateur league after a string of default wins because opponents are too afraid to play them. The club, Canelas, from the suburbs of Porto, field three members of the 'Super Dragons' ultras, an infamous fan group […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Portuguese police have rounded up a Russian mafia gang suspected of buying cash-strapped football clubs and using them for major money-laundering operations, law officials said Wednesday. More than 70 police swooped on four clubs including Uniao de Leiria, as well as 22 homes and businesses in "Operation Matrioskas" on Tuesday, Europol and […]