Much to the relief of his legion of fans around the world, Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona has been released from a psychiatric clinic in Buenos Aires and his alcohol abuse treatment will now continue at home. Maradona was admitted in a hospital for alcoholic hepatitis in March before he was sent to a psychiatric [...]
Kelly Smith and Jayne Ludlow scored a brace each as Arsenal ladies thrashed Charlton women 4-1 to win the Women’s FA Cup. The London side thus completed a quadruple after winning the league title, League Cup and Uefa Cup. Arsenal looked little late in the match and it was in fact Charlton which drew the [...]
A week after casting aspersion on South Africa’s organizational capability, FIFA President Sepp Blatter has now said that only a catastrophe can prevent the country from successfully hosting the World Cup in 2010. Surprisingly, Blatter was less assured last week and revealed that FIFA had contingency plan ready in case South Africa fails to host [...]
Missing much of the action due to the knee injury he suffered in last year’s World Cup, star striker Michael Owen is set to return to international soccer with England’s May 25 match against Albania. Owen, who played in just two matches for his club Newcastle this year, has been named in the England B [...]
It seems a double trouble for Chelsea which is likely to miss the service of Michael Ballack and Ricardo Carvalho in the FA Cup final against Manchester United on May 19. Barely a week before the final showdown, this piece of bad news dealt a severe blow to their preparation and club manager Jose Mourinho [...]
Now that Manchester United has safely locked the Premiership title in their cupboard, soccer pundits are taxing their brain thinking who deserves the manager of the season award. While Sir Alex Ferguson, after winning his ninth Premiership title at Manchester United, is the obvious front-runner, other contenders in the fray ensure that he does not [...]
England paid its homage to soccer legend Bobby Moore by installing a 20ft statue of its lone World Cup winning captain in front of the new Wembley Stadium. Moore led the English team which beat the then West Germany in the old Wembley Stadium in the final of the 1966 World Cup. The legendary defender [...]
With a big question mark on the club’s Premiership status, Fulham has roped in Lawrie Sanchez as its new manager, hoping for a revival in its sagging fortune. Fulham chairman Mohamed al-Fayed sacked former manager Chris Coleman last month after the London club’s slew of disappointing shows and hopes Sanchez would be able not only [...]
Not in manager Rafa Benitez’s scheme of things for the next season, Robbie Fowler, ‘God’ to his admirers, will leave Liverpool at the end of this season. Benitez told the club website that Kop favourite Fowler, who returned to Liverpool for his second stint with the club in January last year, is surplus to the [...]
Carlos Tevez, the diminutive striker from Argentina, saved West Ham from relegation on the final day of the season by scoring solitary goal of the game against Manchester United. Their Premiership stay was confirmed when ten-man Wigan Athletic beat Sheffield United to condemn the latter to the First division. With three teams fighting to stay [...]
