Apr 18, 2024, 06:37 AM ET Wrexham midfielder James McClean has confirmed he joined in singing an anti-monarchy chant during the club’s promotion celebrations last weekend. Wrexham secured automatic promotion to League One — English football’s third-tier — with an emphatic 6-0 victory over Forest Green. After the match, the former Republic of Ireland international
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Adriana Garcia Apr 18, 2024, 10:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Barcelona defender Ronald Araújo has declined to respond to teammate Ilkay Gündogan‘s criticism of his sending off against Paris Saint-Germain. Gündogan was frustrated with Araújo’s 29th minute red card in Barça’s 4-1 loss to PSG in Wednesday’s Champions League quarterfinal return leg, saying it
Apr 18, 2024, 07:02 AM ET Open Extended Reactions FA Cup replays will be scrapped from the first round next season as part of a six-year agreement with the Premier League to strengthen the domestic competition, the English Football Association (FA) announced on Thursday. The FA added that all FA Cup rounds will be played
Associated Press Apr 18, 2024, 12:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Barcelona were fined €25,000 ($26,600) by UEFA on Thursday for Nazi salutes and racist gestures by fans at a Champions League game against Paris Saint-Germain last week. UEFA said the proven charge of “racist behavior” followed images circulating of misconduct by some fans at
Associated Press Apr 18, 2024, 10:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions FIFA is set to create dozens of new committees and expert panels, reversing a governance reform passed in 2016 when the world football body was in turmoil during corruption scandals. FIFA’s plan to increase its number of standing committees from seven to 35 —
Jeff Kassouf Apr 18, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions KANSAS CITY, Missouri — One thing is undeniably true about the recent and continued influx of talented young players in the National Women’s Soccer League: they would not be in the league right now without Olivia Moultrie. Moultrie is 18 years old, but is
Apr 18, 2024, 05:51 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Bastian Schweinsteiger has said José Mourinho banned him from the first-team dressing room without explanation when he was at Mancester United, kickstarting a months-long exile. Schweinsteiger had already lifted eight Bundesliga titles, as well as the Champions League and World Cup, before ending a 13-year stay
Apr 18, 2024, 04:37 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Daniele De Rossi will continue on as Roma‘s manager for next season and the “foreseeable future,” the Serie A club’s owners said on Thursday. De Rossi, who was appointed in January on a deal that ran until the end of the season, replaced Jose Mourinho and
Open Extended Reactions Arsenal were far from convincing in their loss against Bayern Munich, resulting in the Gunners’ elimination from the Champions League. (Photo by Alex Grimm/Getty Images) MUNICH — Bayern Munich manager Thomas Tuchel said his team’s Champions League experience would give them an advantage over Arsenal and he was right. Bayern advanced to the
Open Extended Reactions MANCHESTER — It’s clear that Manchester City have established themselves within football’s elite since Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan began to transform the club in 2008, but Real Madrid occupy an even higher echelon in the game’s hierarchy, delivering a painful reminder by dethroning the European champions and ending Pep Guardiola’s