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Familiar frontrunners for T1 crown
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 11/08/2023
» The new season of Thai League 1 with a difference kicks off today with Port taking on newcomers Nakhon Pathom United in an away game.
Tour de France gets underway in rain-swept Copenhagen
AFP, Published on 01/07/2022
» COPENHAGEN - Fans braved the rain and packed downtown Copenhagen as the Tour de France got underway Friday, with Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik watching from in front of the royal palace as riders set off gingerly on the rain-slick roads.
Romania's football derby which survived fall of communism
AFP, Published on 29/11/2016
» BUCHAREST - At 87 years old, Mircea Barbu has no qualms about braving the freezing temperatures for Wednesday's fiery Dinamo Bucharest-Steaua Bucharest derby, a holdover from the communist era that still stands long after the fall of the Iron Curtain despite the decline of Romanian football.
Allardyce fights to save England job after newspaper sting
AFP, Published on 27/09/2016
» LONDON - Sam Allardyce is set for crisis talks with the Football Association on Tuesday as the England manager fights to save his job after being caught in a newspaper sting.
Dreams of football stardom dashed for young Africans
AFP, Published on 16/03/2016
» NOGUEIRA DO CRAVO (PORTUGAL) - They dream of being the next Cristiano Ronaldo, but for many budding young stars who arrive in Portugal from Africa and Latin America, Europe's football riches remain an illusion.
WADA inquiry says Russian athletes blackmailed over doping - report
AFP, Published on 06/11/2015
» PARIS - Russian athletics chiefs and the sons of the former world body president Lamine Diack blackmailed athletes suspected of doping to let them keep competing, according to a secret World Anti-Doping Agency inquiry quoted by the Mediapart news website on Thursday.
Under-fire Marseille look for Nice lift in French Ligue 1
AFP, Published on 23/01/2015
» PARIS - Title challengers Marseille will look to put their legal woes behind them and reclaim top spot in Ligue 1 when they travel to Nice in Friday's early French league match.
Six charged in French match-fixing probe
AFP, Published on 21/11/2014
» Six people, including the presidents of Ligue 1 side Caen and Ligue 2 Nimes, were charged on Thursday in connection with a match-fixing inquiry that has rocked French football.
Promotion beckons for lesser lights
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 09/08/2014
» Premier League fans may beg to differ, but the English football season really kicks off this weekend as the 72 clubs not in the top flight begin their campaigns with the usual mixture of false hopes and realistic fears which may all end in tears.
Romanian football great Popescu jailed for fraud
AFP, Published on 05/03/2014
» Former Romania football great and Barcelona captain Gheorghe Popescu was jailed for over three years on Tuesday for his part in a corruption scandal that shook Romanian football.