Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has received a two-match touchline ban for his comments about referee Alan Wiley’s fitness. The Football Association handed the 67-year-old a four-game ban, with two of those suspended until the end of the 2010/11 season. Ferguson has also been fined £20,000 and warned about his future conduct. After seeing Man […]
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So how bad was the Juande Ramos and Damien Comolli regime at Spurs? Well it took almost £150m on new players in the 16 months to undo the damage down by Ramos and Comolli. Spurs spent £119.3m in the year ending June 2009, with another £29.4m invested since on the likes of Peter Crouch, Sebastien […]
Real Madrid were jeered off by their own fans after being dumped out of the Copa del Rey by minnows Alcorcon after only managing a 1-0 fourth round second leg win at an expectant Bernabeu. Madrid suffered one of the biggest humiliations in their history after losing the first leg 4-0, and the Spanish giants […]
Valencia squeezed through to the next round of Copa del Ray after drawing 2-2 at home to local side Alcoyano, progressing with a 3-2 aggregate win. The Primera Division side had led through goals by Carlos Marchena and Nikola Zigic but after Victor Curto pulled one back, Alexis’ sending off paved the way for Carpio […]
Real Madrid were jeered off by their own fans after being dumped out of the Copa del Rey by minnows Alcorcon after only managing a 1-0 fourth round second leg win at an expectant Bernabeu. Madrid suffered one of the biggest humiliations in their history after losing the first leg 4-0, and the Spanish giants […]
Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo is in the middle of a dispute between Real Madrid and Portugal. Ronaldo was surprisingly called up by Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz for the two-legged FIFA World Cup play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina despite Real Madrid recently claiming that Ronaldo will not be fit for at least two more weeks. Queiroz and […]
Chelsea’s transfer ban has been temporarily suspended by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) pending a final decision on the matter. Fifa had ruled the club could not sign players until 2011 after inducing Gael Kakuta to break his Lens contract. But Chelsea appealed to Cas, which said on Friday: “Such sanctions are now stayed […]
Fernando Torres underwent tests on Thursday at a Liverpool hospital on the serious groin injury which is threatening to ruin his season. Torres played with pain throughout the match, before flying back with the Liverpool party on Thursday morning. This morning he went to a Liverpool hospital where more tests were carried out on his […]
It took four rounds of play but the Champions League group stages is finally heating up. If the group stages finished as they are now, then Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Liverpool would all be playing in the Europa League. Jose Mourinho and Inter Milan were five minutes away from an 9th consecutive Champions League game […]