London (AFP) – Arsene Wenger was given a four-game touchline ban with "immediate effect" by the Football Association on Friday after accepting a misconduct charge following an incident that saw the veteran Arsenal manager sent off in Sunday's dramatic win over Burnley. Wenger was sent to the stands by referee Jon Moss after allegedly using […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Manchester City are to appear before the Football Association after admitting breaching anti-doping rules, a club spokesman told AFP on Friday. The Premier League side are now set to be fined around £25,000 ($31,000, 29,000 euros) after being charged with failing to ensure anti-doping officials knew where their players were […]

London (AFP) – Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney has revealed he wants to go into management when he hangs up his boots. The 31-year-old, who recently became United's record goalscorer, has made more than enough money to retire and spend the rest of his life relaxing, but the England captain loves the sport too much […]

Montpellier (France) (AFP) – South African international midfielder Keagan Dolly has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal with Ligue 1 outfit Montpellier, the French club confirmed on Friday. The 24-year-old arrives from 2016 African Champions League winners Mamelodi Sundowns on a deal worth 1.8 million euros ($1.9 million). The five-times capped player becomes Montpellier's fourth recruit of […]

London (AFP) – Jurgen Klopp is confident Daniel Sturridge's numerous injury problems have not led to a permanent decline in the Liverpool forward's ability. The 27-year-old striker has not scored for five games and, following Liverpool's League Cup semi-final loss to Southampton, former Reds defender Jamie Carragher suggested Sturridge had lost a significant amount of […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Pep Guardiola has urged his players to help come up with a plan to spark a Manchester City revival, saying clubs can only be successful if a manager and his squad are on the same wavelength. City boss Guardiola is under pressure to salvage something from the season after conceding […]

Berlin (AFP) – The Bundesliga has again posted record returns and it's CEO Christian Seifert believes future growth will only be affected if Bayern Munich's stranglehold on the German league trophy continues unchecked. On Thursday, Germany's 18 top flight clubs posted a revenue total for the 2015/16 season of 3.24 billion euros ($3.4b) for the […]

We're into the final 8 of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations with Egypt, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Tunisia and Morocco remaining in the competition. For soccer fans in the United States, all of the quarterfinals will be shown on US television and/or streaming this weekend (see the full schedule at the […]

London (AFP) – Asmir Begovic will only move from Chelsea during the transfer window if the Premier League leaders can bring in a replacement before next week's deadline, Blues manager Antonio Conte said Friday. Conte's comments came as Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers confirmed London club Chelsea had made an offer for the Glasgow giants' Scotland […]

Oyem (Gabon) (AFP) – Ghana are hopeful that skipper Asamoah Gyan will be able to feature in Sunday's Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against DR Congo after tests on an injury he suffered on Wednesday proved encouraging. A Ghana FA statement said the striker had returned to the team's base in Oyem in northern Gabon […]

If your team is involved in one of the nine FA Cup 4th Round games that will be televised and/or streamed in the United States this weekend, consider yourself fortunate. Unfortunately, there are seven other games that won't be televised anywhere in the world including such big teams as Manchester City, Crystal Palace, Newcastle United […]

Berlin (AFP) – Arjen Robben says Bayern Munich have the quality to repeat their 2013 triple of Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup titles, but admits the Bavarian giants need to improve. Bayern, who play Werder Bremen away on Saturday, are three points clear in Germany's top flight and face Arsenal next month in the […]

Franceville (Gabon) (AFP) – Senegal coach Aliou Cisse still looks back at the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations with a sense of unfinished business, so Saturday's quarter-final against Cameroon offers a chance, partly, to settle an old score. The Lions of Teranga have never won the continental trophy, but they came mighty close 15 years […]

Berlin (AFP) – Ralf Rangnick says the Bundesliga will flaunt its future on Saturday when his "sexy" second-placed RB Leipzig face unbeaten Hoffenheim with both aiming to chase down leaders Bayern Munich. "We are proud, modern and attractive, sexy even," Leipzig's director of sport, who has taken the Red Bull-backed upstarts from the fourth division […]

Madrid (AFP) – Real Madrid host high-flying Real Sociedad on Sunday aiming to reverse an alarming dip in form that has seen Zinedine Zidane's seemingly unbeatable squad just two weeks ago fail to win in three of their last four matches. The European champions bowed out of the Copa del Rey to Celta Vigo in […]