PEP Guardiola has been banned for Manchester City’s first Champions League game next term after coming on to the Etihad pitch to confront the referee against Liverpool. But the Merseysiders have escaped with little more than a slapped wrist for their fan behaviour at THREE games in last season’s competition. Guardiola blew his stack at […]
EUROPEAN football chiefs have opened a public war with Fifa over plans for an expanded Club World Cup. Fifa president Gianni Infantino wants the 24-team tournament, with 12 sides from Europe taking part, to be held every four years from 2021. Infantino is offering clubs a potential £100million share of the £2billion prize fund to […]
CHELSEA missed out on winning the Uefa Youth League for the third time in four years after losing 3-0 to Barcelona in the final. Barca striker Alejandro Marques netted either side of half-time at the Colovray Stadium, before Abel Ruiz fired in a third in stoppage time. It was Chelsea who almost opened the scoring in the […]
UEFA will soon approve the use of a fourth substitution, according to reports in Spain. The idea has been previously trialled in the 2016 and 2017 women’s European Championship, the 2016 and 2017 women’s Under 19s European Championship, and 2017 men’s Under-21 European Championship. And Marca report that the results of the study have convinced […]
UEFA claim match-fixing inspectors looking into Albanian side Skenderbeu have been subjected to anonymous death threats. Europe’s governing body have released an extraordinary statement in which they vow not to be deterred from their probe. Skenderbeu were banned from Europe in the 2016-17 season after Uefa opened an investigation into suspicious betting patterns. Upheld by […]