Gianni Infantino’s increasingly bitter confrontation with European football has taken a potentially much more serious turn. UEFA are preparing a criminal complaint against the FIFA president over his aborted attempt to bring private investment into
Celtic's extraordinary Champions League collapse against LASK may ultimately prove more damaging than simply missing out on this season's league phase. Having travelled to Austria with a three-goal advantage from the first leg, and then
Since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013, Manchester United have spent years trying to find a route back towards the summit of English football. Managers have come and gone, recruitment policies have changed, senior executives
Ollie Watkins’ future at Aston Villa was already uncertain before the club travelled to Brighton, but his absence from the squad for the 4–0 defeat has raised a more immediate question – did the striker
Pierre Sage could have been forgiven for hoping for a relatively low key start to life as Crystal Palace manager. Instead, the Frenchman who proved himself in Ligue 1 with Lens last season, already finds
For a while, Saudi Arabia looked like it would have the transformative effect that the Chinese Super League had a decade ago, when, for a brief period, big names were attracted by the huge salaries
Argentina’s staff and players have been given bans totalling a combined 21 games following the mass altercation that unfolded after their World Cup final defeat to Spain. FIFA, football’s global governing body, has now confirmed
Aston Villa should have been in an excellent position ahead of the new season which begins for them with a visit to the South Coast to play Brighton. Having won the Europa League and qualified
Supporters of Greek side PAOK have occupied parts of the club’s Toumba Stadium in protest at the sale of one of their most popular players, Giannis Konstantelias, to Borussia Dortmund. Hundreds of fans gathered at
Bodø/Glimt were one of the surprise packages of last season’s Champions League, producing a remarkable run that took them all the way to the last 16. They finished 23rd out of 36 teams in the