WAYNE ROONEY is set to miss out on a Wembley farewell match. There have been calls for England’s record scorer to be included in the squad for next month’s friendlies with Germany and Brazil to allow him a big send-off. German forward Lukas Podolski was given a similar tribute when he played against the Three […]
UNDER-FIRE FA chairman Greg Clarke is under more pressure after claims he said he would be “f***ing fired” if he tried to push through anti-discrimination measures. Former basketball star John Amaechi, now a psychologist and campaigner, was shocked by Clarke’s attitude when they met in March to discuss the possibility of a gay male footballer […]
BRAIN INJURY expert Dr Bennet Omalu warns football faces extinction if it fails to take concussions seriously. In 2002 Dr Omalu discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players, a degenerative brain disease found mainly in boxers that can lead to amnesia, depression and dementia in later life. Dr Omalu – who inspired the Hollywood […]
A SUNDAY league football team has become the smallest club ever convicted of match-fixing. Peacehaven DPA threw a game to stop their rivals winning the league. The FA found the club and manager guilty after the side deliberately let in a 95th minute goal in the Sussex Sunday Premier Division. Boss Sean Ligocki was banned […]
ENGLAND players “do not travel well and are brittle in unfamiliar circumstances”, according to FA boss Martin Glenn. Chief executive of the Football Association Glenn made incredible claim about the national side, suggesting they need to toughen up. England have infamously only won one major tournament in the 1966 World Cup… on home soil. Glenn […]