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Barcelona Clinch Crucial Win Over Real While Inter Beat AC Milan

Barcelona Clinch Crucial Win Over Real While Inter Beat AC Milan

Real’s dream of taking the upper hand in the match against Barcelona was not meant to come true as Barcelona beat their arch rivals at the Camp Nou on Sunday. At one point, it seemed that Real Betis were going to shift the momentum of the game in their favor. The side leveled the score [...]

Ronaldinho Likely to Leave his Club over Unpaid Wages

Ronaldinho Likely to Leave his Club over Unpaid Wages

It might seem that world class footballers don’t know what problem of unpaid wages is, but it turns out that footballers resemble ordinary people in more ways than one might think. Star striker Ronaldinho is going to leave his club Flamengo if he does not receive over $2 million wages, according to the brother, agent [...]

Cristiano Ronaldo Scores More Goals than Messi but Wins Fewer Tournaments

Cristiano Ronaldo Scores More Goals than Messi but Wins Fewer Tournaments

The rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid is probably the most intense and explosive rivalry in world football. It also finds manifestation in the duel of the sides’ talented strikers, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The two best players in world have a completely different playing style – the Argentine has more dribbling skills and [...]

Glory Owner and Roma Captain Want to Quit Because of Fan Abuse

Glory Owner and Roma Captain Want to Quit Because of Fan Abuse

Fan abuse has become a serious problem. The target of fan abuse for several years since taking over Glory Perth’s ownership in 2007, the 51-year-old Western Australian businessman Tony Sage has announced his desire to leave the club at the end of the A-League season. Sage has invested millions of dollars into Glory Perth for [...]

English Sides Struggling in Champions League

English Sides Struggling in Champions League

After a glorious seven years in the Champions League with many Premier League sides reaching the Champions League, England might end up in the situation when just one English team reaches the knockout stage. If Manchester United do not get defeated by FC Basel, they will advance to the next stage together with Arsenal, but [...]

Ibrahimovic Nets His 100th Serie A Goal to Crash Chievo 4-0

Ibrahimovic Nets His 100th Serie A Goal to Crash Chievo 4-0

Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimovic netted his 100th Serie A goal in Sunday’s match against Chievo and led Milan to a brilliant 4-0 victory. All the four goals were scored before half-time.  Ibrahimovic had a double while Alexandre Pato and Thiago Silva also got their names on the scoresheet. This victory propelled Milan to the second-best [...]

Neymar Decides Against Move to Real Madrid to Save his Hairstyle

Neymar Decides Against Move to Real Madrid to Save his Hairstyle

Though there were some rumors that Sanots midfielder Neymar was considering a €53 million move to Real Madrid, the 19-year-old footballer extended his contract with the Brazilian side last week. And, according to Santos president Luis Alvaro Ribeiro, Real should blame themselves for failing to secure the deal. Ribeiro said that Real Madrid were arrogant [...]

Ex-Juventus Executive Luciano Moggi, 74 Gets Plus 5 Years of Jail Sentence

Ex-Juventus Executive Luciano Moggi, 74 Gets Plus 5 Years of Jail Sentence

Former Juventus general manager was convicted of ‘sporting fraud’ and received a 64-month prison sentence. However, Moggi will not actually serve any time in prison, and, since it is the sentence of the first degree, he can appeal this decision on several levels. Former Italian Football Federation refereeing designators Pierluigi Pairetto and Paolo Bergamo have [...]

Police Make Probe into Terry’s Alleged Racial Slur

Police Make Probe into Terry’s Alleged Racial Slur

Police have launched an investigation into Anton Ferdinand’s allegations that John Terry offended him with a racial remark during the Chelsea – Arsenal game. The Metropolitan Police started looking into this incident after a member of the public made an official complaint and presented a video of the conflict. The Football Association has started its [...]

Nine-Man Chelsea Suffer Defeat to QPR

Nine-Man Chelsea Suffer Defeat to QPR

Chelsea suffered a humiliating defeat to Queen Park Rangers as the West London team remained short-handed due to misconduct. QPR’s Icelandic footballer Heidar Helguson netted the opener from the penalty spot early in the game after Chelsea’s Luiz fouled him. The red card received by Jose Bosingwa was the beginning of the end for Chelsea [...]

Man U’s Wayne Rooney Becomes Highest-Scoring Englishman in Champions League

Man U’s Wayne Rooney Becomes Highest-Scoring Englishman in Champions League

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney was banned for three Euro games, but redeemed himself in another tournament. After netting two goals against Otelul Galati last night, he became the highest scoring Englishman in the history of the Champions League. The 25-year-old Liverpudlian scored two second-half goals from the penalty spot as Man U had to [...]

Rooney to Miss Euro 2012 Qualifier because of Red Card in Match against Montenegro

Rooney to Miss Euro 2012 Qualifier because of Red Card in Match against Montenegro

Rooney was sent off during England’s 2-2 draw against Montenegro for kicking out at Montenegro and Spartak Nalchik defender Miodrag Dzudovic. The Manchester United striker will miss one Euro 2012 qualifier for sure and might sit out an additional match if UEFA decides to be hard on him. However, German referee Wolfgang Stark who handed [...]

Wayne Rooney’s Father Put under Arrest in Betting Investigation

Wayne Rooney’s Father Put under Arrest in Betting Investigation

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is having a tough time. His father and uncle were put under arrest as a result of the probe into betting patterns in the Scottish Premier League football league. Rooney’s father, Wayne, 48 and uncle Richie Rooney, 54 are suspected in participating in a conspiracy with the intent to commit [...]

Munich ‘Strike’ Costs Tevez Suspension by Manchester City and Possible Sacking

Munich ‘Strike’ Costs Tevez Suspension by Manchester City and Possible Sacking

These days, footballers are paid for their skills on the field but for this kind of money, they have to do what their coaches tell them. Argentine international Carlos Tevez was not smart enough to do that and paid dearly for it. The Manchester city captain (probably a former one) refused to go on the [...]

Manchester United Given Wake-Up Call

Manchester United Given Wake-Up Call

Man U manager Sir Alex Ferguson said that the 3-3 draw in the home leg of the Champions League tie between the Premier League side against Swiss FC Basel was a wake-up call for the team, adding that his team was ‘careless’. The draw was indeed very disappointing for Manchester United. The Premier League squad [...]

Napoli President Calls Manchester City 'Money Wasters'

Napoli President Calls Manchester City ‘Money Wasters’

Italian football club Napoli chairman Aurelio De Laurentiis called their Champions League opponents Manchester City and called on UEFA to set financial fair play rules. City and Napoli settled for a 1-1 draw in their opening Champions League match on Wednesday though the Napoli president believes that his side claimed a moral victory as the [...]

Chung Slams FIFA Head Blatter As “Little Brat”

Chung Slams FIFA Head Blatter As “Little Brat”

Former vice president of FIFA and ex-president of the Korea Football Association Chung Mong-joon has slammed FIFA head Sepp Blatter as a “little brat” who rules the governing body of world football as a dictator. Chung who had been considered a likely candidate to succeed Blatter as FIFA president before losing this year’s FIFA vice-presidency [...]

Torres’ Position in Spain Squad Threatened

Torres’ Position in Spain Squad Threatened

Fernando Torres’s position in the Spain national team has become so critical that chances are that he will not help his country’s squad to defend the European Championship title next summer. Spanish national football team manager Vicente Del Bosque sent the Chelsea forward to the stands to watch the 6-0 thrashing of Liechtenstein by Spain [...]

England’s Green and Russia’s Akinfeev out with injuries

England’s Green and Russia’s Akinfeev out with injuries

A goalkeeper crisis has recently hit England and Russia. West Ham’s Rob Green suffered a finger injury and will not be able to play in next month’s EURO 2012 qualifiers of England against Bulgaria and Wales. Green came to the national team’s base at the Grove in Watford but since it was clear that he [...]

Spain's Football Federation Looking into Mourinho’s Eye-Poking Behavior

Spain’s Football Federation Looking into Mourinho’s Eye-Poking Behavior

The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has started looking into the eye-poking incident involving Real Madrid head coach during the Spanish Super Cup final against Barcelona. Spain’s federation saw the filmed moments of Mourinho poking a finger into Barcelona assistant coach Tito Vilanova ‘s eye, with Vilanova responding by slapping the Portuguese coach on the [...]

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