Louis van Gaal has cast doubt on the idea that he will walk away from Manchester United in 2017 but admits delaying his retirement would be hard on his wife. Van Gaal insisted on United's preseason tour that he would leave Old Trafford when his contract expires in 18 months' time. Sir Alex Ferguson claimed last […]

London (AFP) – Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney claims that he did not submit a transfer request shortly before Alex Ferguson retired as manager in May 2013. Rooney came close to leaving United in October 2010 and Ferguson has alleged that the England striker also asked to leave the club two years ago. Rooney sat […]

Stand-in goalkeeper David Ospina had a night to forget as Arsenal slumped to a 3-2 home defeat against Olympiacos to leave their Champions League hopes in jeopardy. Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his side they already faced a must-win tie following their opening Group F loss at Dinamo Zagreb. The Barclays Premier League side […]

Madrid (AFP) – Luis Suarez rounded off a stirring fightback by European champions Barcelona as they shrugged off the absence of the injured Lionel Messi to beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 on Wednesday. Kyriakos Papadopoulos had headed the visitors into a deserved halftime lead as Barca struggled to open up the Germans without Messi's magic touch. However, […]

Jose Mourinho's return to former club Porto ended in a 2-1 Champions League defeat as Chelsea's miserable start to the season continued. Chelsea lost to Porto on Mourinho's first return in 2004-05 and history repeated itself at Estadio do Dragao as Andre Andre and Maicon scored either side of Willian's free kick in the Group […]

UEFA chief Michel Platini is "still determined" to run for the FIFA presidency as successor to Sepp Blatter in next February's elections,he told AFP on Tuesday, despite "doubts" about his integrity. On the same day, according to a report by journalist Paul Kelso, Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber says he cannot rule out raiding UEFA HQ […]

Turin (Italy) (AFP) – Juventus have suspended Uruguayan defender Martin Caceres after he crashed his Ferrari into a bus shelter in Turin and failed a breath test, the Italian champions announced on Tuesday. The incident happened on Monday night when Caceres reportedly drove down a one-way street, lost control of his Ferrari, drove into a bus […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Midfielder Michael Carrick is likely to miss Manchester United's Champions League home game with Wolfsburg on Wednesday due to injury, manager Louis van Gaal revealed on Tuesday. England international Carrick was one of four players who sat out training on Tuesday, along with Ander Herrera, Antonio Valencia and Marcos Rojo, […]

Count Gary Neville among the people who were keeping an open mind about Anthony Martial, the Monaco attacker Manchester United made the most expensive teenager of all time in the last transfer window. But having seen the 19-year-old in person three times, and focusing specifically on him this weekend at Old Trafford, the Sky Sports […]

Had Iker Casillas written his own script, his vindication would have been Lisbon, a year-and-half-ago, when he wore the captain’s armband as Real Madrid claimed their 10th European crown. But it’s been a some time since San Iker could author his own fairytales. Over the past five years, a player that was once considered among […]

The Swiss justice ministry on Tuesday approved the extradition to the United States of Costa Rican national Eduardo Li, one the FIFA officials whose arrest in May ignited an unprecedented crisis in world soccer. "The Federal Office of Justice (FoJ) has approved the extradition of Eduardo Li to the USA. The Costa-Rican citizen has 30 […]

Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has been banned for life from all football-related activity, the adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee of the sport's world governing body said on Tuesday. The former Caribbean federation president "was found to have committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official […]

Bournemouth striker Callum Wilson will be out for at least six months after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, the Premier League club announced on Tuesday. Wilson, Bournemouth's top scorer with five goals, sustained the injury during his side's 2-1 defeat at Stoke City last Saturday and is due to undergo surgery […]

There's been a lot of promising signs about Spurs this season even before their 4-1 victory against Manchester City that knocked the Citizens off the top of the table. Here to go through a few of the reasons why there's a feel-good factor at White Hart Lane is the one-and-only Sky Sports analyst Gary Neville. […]

It’s a question that has plagued every women’s soccer league in the United States since the Women’s United Soccer Association collapsed: How do you get people to come to games, and keep coming to games? How do you grab people’s attention, then turn that into loyalty? On the surface, it may seem like a fairly […]