Frank Lampard was carried off on a stretcher as Manchester City beat Tottenham 4-1 at the Etihad on Saturday, but luckily for the New York City FC midfielder, who is on a short-term loan atCity until the 2015 MLS season begins, the injury doesn’t sound too serious. After the game, City coach Manuel Pellegrini said […]
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Report: Russians Unhappy with Capello
Some Russian fans are calling for the dismissal of coach Fabio Capello after the national team’s poor start to Euro 2016 qualifying, Football Italia reports. Capello’s men arecurrently second in Group G with five points from three games after a pair of 1-1 draws away to Sweden and at home to Moldova during the current […]
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Reports: UEFA to Change UCL Seeding System
By as early as next season, the top seeds in the UEFA Champions League draw could be made up of the defending champion and the winners of the seven highest-ranked European leagues, which arecurrently Spain, Germany, England, Italy, Portugal, France and Russia. UEFA on Thursday confirmed that the proposal to change the seeding system, which […]
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CSKA Moscow Receives Three-Game Stadium Ban
CSKA Moscow on Friday was handed a three-game stadium ban for supporters, in addition to other penalties, after a section of the Russian club’s traveling support clashed with stewardsduring its 5-1 defeat to AS Roma in UEFA Champions League Group E action on Matchday One. Additionally, the club was charged with its fans throwing flares into […]
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Bayern Bosses Slam CSKA's Empty Stadium
Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola admitted there were few benefits to playing in an empty stadium as his team beat CSKA Moscow, 1-0, at the Arena Khimki in a UEFA Champions League Group Eclash on Tuesday. The Russian club’s stadium was closed by UEFA due to its fans’ display of “a range of racist and […]
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Arrests Mar Roma's UCL Win
Police arrested three fans prior to AS Roma’s UEFA Champions League opener against Russian side CSKA Moscow on Wednesday amid reports that one CSKA fan was stabbed and another picked up ahead injury. Some 15 CSKA fans were arrested following the Group E encounter, which the Italian side won 5-1. Other reports claimed that flares […]
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Roma Players Warn City, Bayern Following Rout
AS Roma’s players said they are full of confidence following their 5-1 hammering of CSKA Moscow in the teams’ UEFA Champions League Group E opener on Wednesday. Ivory Coast forwardGervinho, who scored twice, said the Italian club “made it look easy” against the Russian giant, “because we played a great game in both attack and […]
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FIFA's Putin problem
By Paul Kennedy (@pkedit) How is it that the latest issue of GQ ranks FIFA president Sepp Blatter as No. 3 on its top 10 list of sleaziest sports personalities — behind only former Clippers owner DonaldSterling and former Patriots tight end and murder suspect Aaron Hernandez — yet Blatter is poised for reelection? Who […]
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Zenit Signs Javi Garcia from Man City
Manchester City midfielder Javi Garcia on Thursday completed a 13 million-pound ($21.7 million) transfer to Russian Premier League giant Zenit St. Petersburg. Garcia, a Spain international,made 71 appearances for City since joining in 2012, winning both the English Premier League title and League Cup last season.
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UCL Qualifiers: Besiktas, Zenit Through; Celtic Shocked
Former Chelsea striker Demba Ba scored a hat trick on Wednesday as Besiktas beat Feyenoord, 3-1, in Istanbul to send the Turkish giant into the UEFA Champions League playoff round on theback of a 5-2 aggregate win in the two-game series. Elsewhere, Scottish champ Celtic slumped to a humiliating 6-1 series loss to Polish club […]