Arsenal are within touching distance of their first Premier League crown for 22 years after a VAR “earthquake” rocked the title race in their contentious 1-0 win at West Ham on Sunday. Mikel Arteta’s side were embroiled in a controversial stoppage-time incident that looked set to derail their title bid before a VAR intervention tilted […]
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Premier League fans back call to scrap VAR
More than three-quarters of Premier League fans would like to see VAR scrapped and even more believe it has a detrimental impact on the matchday experience, according to a survey by the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA). The poll of nearly 8,000 supporters, just over half of whom attend more than 15 home games a season, […]
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Dan Egan on ‘The Clyde Best Story’: The Bermudan broke English soccer color barriers before starring in the NASL
In 1975, Best moved to the North American Soccer League, in which he played for the Tampa Bay Rowdies and the Portland Timbers.
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K+S Film Festival delivers eclectic soccer cinema from around the globe
Organizers received over 125 submissions from more than 40 countries, and from Vermont to California in the USA.
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Watch (golazos): Louisville's Cameron Lancaster score from 40 yards out
USL Championship Goal of the Week candidates come from Josue Aaron Gomez (El Paso), Joel Johnson (Charlotte), Cameron Lancaster (Louisville), Peter-Lee Vassell (Indy Eleven) and Akeem Ward (Oakland). * * * * * * * * * * You could say Week 27 was a little wild Which of these stunning strikes gets your vote […]
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Watch: Liverpool's Fabinho and Co. face off in cooking challenge
Liverpool’s Takashi Minamino, Adrian and Fabinho compete in a lighthearted “Cooking with Champions” contest in kitchens connectedvirtually. Today’s Special: vegetable gyoza. And the winner is …
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Watch: The 16-Year-Old Ansu Fati score and assist for Barcelona
In Barcelona’s 5-2 win over Valencia, Luis Suarez scored twice and Ansu Fati became the youngest player to score and assist in La Liga. The 16-year-old Fati, whomoved to Spain at age 6 from Guinea-Bissau, scored Barcelona’s opening goal in the 2nd minute and assisted on its second, by Frenkie de Jong in the 7th […]
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VARs — a new elite group among referees, something soccer does not need
The responsibility for what happens on the field during a soccer game is shared by players, coaches and game officials. We hear a lot — maybe too much — from the coaches and players. They dopress and TV interviews, they sit on TV guru panels, they write books, they twitter and tweet, they are rarely […]
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Pep Guardiola supports VAR even after Manchester City's 'cruel' exit
From beginning to end, Wednesday’sManchester City-Tottenham game in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals was one of the craziest games ever played in Europe. It began with four goals in the opening 11minutes, a fifth after 21 minutes, and it wasn’t decided until deep into stoppage time when Manchester City scored what […]
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What They're Saying: Thomas Tuchel
“I am a big supporter of VAR and I stay a big supporter of VAR. From my point of view, I watched Dalot take the shot. I saw the ball flying straight from his foot and for me it was clear that it wasgoing way over the bar. There are many things to discuss before […]