Month: April 2021

4:57 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent A group of Manchester United supporters broke into the club’s Carrington training base in protest at the failed plans for a European Super League before leaving following a conversation with manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. A group of around 20 fans entered United’s training ground on Thursday morning with banners which
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9:14 AM ET The Bundesliga is set to finish on May 23. Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Bundesliga clubs will move into mandatory quarantine for the final two rounds of the season as a preventative measure against any further fixture postponements due to COVID-19. The German Football League (DFL) confirmed the measures
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6:13 AM ET Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said owner Stan Kroenke apologised to him directly over the European Super League fiasco and believes the backlash proves “the soul of this sport belongs to the fans.” The north London side were one of six English clubs signed up to a breakaway competition which appears on
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5:58 AM ET Jesse Lingard has said that he considered taking a break from football last year due to issues concerning the mental health of his family and himself. The forward also discussed how coping with his mother’s depression impacted his life on and off the pitch. The interview was conducted in January but was
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5:24 AM ET Adriana Garcia Luka Modric has agreed to continue at Real Madrid next season, club president Florentino Perez has announced on Wednesday. Modric, 35, joined Real Madrid from Tottenham Hotspur in 2012 and played 384 times for the La Liga side. – Madrid’s ‘sad’ Perez: Super League ‘on stand-by’ Perez did not give
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4:55 AM ET Stephanie Frappart will officiate at the men’s Euro 2020 tournament. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images Stephanie Frappart will become the first female official at a men’s European Championship this summer. UEFA confirmed the list of officials on Wednesday and she was named as one of the 51-strong contingent. While Frappart, 37, hasn’t been
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6:07 PM ET Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has said the proposed plans for a European Super League were unsustainable and would have destroyed the entire football ecosystem. Barca were one of the 12 founding members of the project and have not yet withdrawn their support for it. However, with the exception of Real Madrid, the
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2:49 PM ET Second-half strikes from Son Heung-min and Gareth Bale handed Tottenham Hotspur a Premier League comeback win over Southampton on Wednesday night. The match was the first in charge for Tottenham interim manager Ryan Mason, who took over after Spurs sacked Jose Mourinho on Monday, making him the youngest coach ever to oversee
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12:25 PM ET Manchester United co-chairman Joel Glazer has apologised to supporters for the club’s involvement in the breakaway European Super League project, saying the hierarchy failed to show respect to the “deep-rooted traditions” of the English game. United were among the six Premier League clubs who had signed up for the venture before withdrawing
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7:45 AM ET Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan have followed Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United in announcing their withdrawal from the proposed European Super League. On Sunday, 12 leading European sides confirmed the creation of a midweek breakaway tournament, with Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and AC Milan the other teams
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5:13 AM ET Breakaway European Super League founder and Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli said on Wednesday that the league can no longer go ahead after six English clubs withdrew. Asked whether the project could still happen after the exits, Agnelli told Reuters: “To be frank and honest no, evidently that is not the case.” –
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5:06 AM ET Schalke players were attacked by their own fans when returning from Bielefeld after getting relegated from the Bundesliga. Gelsenkirchen police confirmed they were on site at the Veltins Arena as footage published on social media showed that fans chased some of the club’s players on the stadium perimeters, and though police could
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8:37 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman has said UEFA are only focused on money and are ignoring managers and players after some of the game’s biggest clubs tried to break away from European football’s governing body this week. Barca were one of 12 teams from Spain, England and Italy to
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5:49 AM ET Adriana Garcia Costa Rican top division club Deportivo Saprissa announced a coaching change three times in the space of five hours before finally confirming Mauricio Wright is taking the reins. The 35-time Costa Rican champions parted company with coach Roy Myers on Monday in the aftermath of the team’s 5-0 home loss
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