Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger the broke news, and the hearts of Arsenal fans, on Monday by confirming defensive midfielder Francis Coquelin will be sidelined “at least two months” with a knee injury suffered during Arsenal’s disappointing 2-1 defeat to West Brom on Saturday. Coquelin is one of the most important players in the entire Arsenal […]

Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola insists Tuesday's Champions League clash against Olympiakos is effectively 'a final' for the Germans in the battle to finish top of the group. Both Olympiakos and Bayern have nine points in Group F, but Guardiola's Bavarians lead the table with an overwhelming goal difference and beat their Greek rivals 3-0 […]

No matter how you spin Swansea's record so far this season, the situation looks bleak in South Wales. While the club has achieved victories against Aston Villa, Manchester United and Newcastle, it has been mired by a string of losses against Arsenal, Watford, Southampton, Stoke and Norwich, as well as draws against Sunderland, Spurs, Chelsea, Everton […]

Bayern Munich will be able to find a "great coach" to replace Pep Guardiola, should the Spaniard not renew his contract which expires next June, says captain Philipp Lahm. "If Guardiola leaves one day, for sure another excellent coach will come along, but first we have to see what happens," Lahm told German magazine Kicker. […]

Juventus are preparing to do without Sami Khedira, Patrice Evra and Hernanes when they host Manchester City on Wednesday looking to clinch their place in the last 16 of the Champions League. Serie A champions Juventus claimed a third consecutive win in Italy's top flight for the first time this season with a 1-0 win […]

Far from riding on the euphoria of his team's 4-0 thrashing of Real Madrid, Barcelona coach Luis Enrique warned Monday that "flattery weakens" and said the club still had not won anything. "Flattery weakens. We are in a phase of flattery but the team is intelligent enough and the players know that playing football and […]

The judgement arm of FIFA's ethics committee on Monday opened a case against the body's suspended president Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, with a verdict in the corruption allegations surrounding both men due next month. The panel of judges, known as the adjudicatory chamber, received the final report from the ethics committee's investigative branch on […]

Arsenal have been dealt a blow with the news that midfielder Francis Coquelin will be out for at least two months with a knee injury. Manager Arsene Wenger announced that the 24-year-old Frenchman suffered knee ligament damage in Saturday's 2-1 Premier League defeat at West Bromwich Albion. Coquelin will now miss the busy festive period […]

Arsene Wenger insists Arsenal can still salvage their calamitous Champions League campaign as they prepare for Tuesday's do-or-die showdown with Dinamo Zagreb. Wenger's side are on brink of a stunning failure to make the knockout stages for the first time in 16 years after three defeats from their four Group F fixtures. The Gunners must […]

Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed Sunday that he feared he was dying during a recent health scare. The 79-year-old, who has been banned for 90 days as the ongoing probe into widespread corruption at football's world governing body, was hospitalised earlier this month suffering from stress. "I was close to dying. I was between […]

French legend and Real Madrid reserve team coach Zinedine Zidane has played down suggestions he could be set to replace the under-pressure Rafael Benitez in the top job at the Santiago Bernabeu. Madrid were humiliated 4-0 at home by Barcelona on Saturday to pile the pressure on Benitez after just 16 games in charge. Zidane […]

Justin Meram scored the fastest playoff goal in Major League Soccer history Sunday and the Columbus Crew blanked the New York Red Bulls 2-0 in the first leg of the Eastern Conference finals. US midfielder Meram's tally after only nine seconds and Kei Kamara's goal in the 85th minute off stellar footwork by fellow African […]

Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino played down his side's title chances after they closed to within four points of the Premier League summit by overwhelming West Ham United 4-1. Harry Kane scored twice, his seventh and eighth goals in five games, and defenders Toby Alderweireld and Kyle Walker were also on target at White Hart […]

If you can get away with it, writing a book on leadership lessons is the greatest gig ever. If your book isn't good or has bad advice, by default the reader is to blame because, well, the author was successful so the advice must work! In a sense, these kind of books are aggrandized autobiographies […]

Plenty has been put on the shoulders of Everton's Ross Barkley. Around this time last year, his club manager said when Barkley retired he would go down as the greatest player his country ever produced. The soon-to-be 22-year-old is far away from accomplishing that massive expectation but he's in the midst of the best campaign […]