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The Referees Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed the recommendation of  its Disciplinary Board to ban Nigerian...

Argentine football legend Diego Maradona was sacked at United Arab Emirates (UAE) first division club Fujairah SC on Friday, his...

Liverpool’s hopes of securing a top-four English Premier League spot were frustrated by a battling Stoke City side who restricted...

Brazilian football head, Marco Polo Del Nero, has been banned from football for life by FIFA’s ethics committee for bribery,...

The Supreme Court, on Friday, ordered the warring factions of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), led by Amaju Pinnick and...

England’s Football Association (FA) is in negotiations to sell Wembley Stadium, the home of the national football team, to U.S....

Deontay Wilder, World Boxing Council (WBC) Heavy Weight Champion on Thursday offered Nigerian-born British World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Anthony Joshua a...

Holders Real Madrid came from a goal down to snatch a precious 2-1 victory at wasteful Bayern Munich on Wednesday...

Football’s World Cup competition can boost Russia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 150 billion to 210 billion rubles (about $2.43...

Liverpool took a big step towards the UEFA Champions League final with a 5-2 win over AS Roma in their...

Free-scoring Lazio thumped Sampdoria 4-0 in Serie A on Sunday to stay on course for next season’s UEFA Champions League....

A flash of attacking brilliance from Olivier Giroud and an emphatic header from substitute Alvaro Morata earned Chelsea a 2-0...

Arsenal scored three goals in the final eight minutes as manager, Arsene Wenger, marked his penultimate home English Premier League...

Unstoppable duo Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi helped Barcelona thrash Sevilla 5-0 to win the King’s Cup final for the...

Manchester United inflicted yet more FA Cup semi-final misery on Tottenham Hotspur as they recovered from a poor start to...

Wolverhampton Wanderers sealed the second-tier Championship title in style by routing relegation-threatened Bolton Wanderers 4-0 at Molineux on Saturday. On...

Olympique de Marseille’s Florian Thauvin and Konstantinos Mitroglou both scored twice as they hammered Lille 5-1 at the Stade Velodrome...

Jose Mourinho once called Arsene Wenger a “specialist in failure’’ but, after the Arsenal manager announced he was stepping down...

Massimo Busacca still remembers the sleepless nights. FIFA’s director of refereeing was himself a match official for 15 years and...

Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, is to leave at the end of the season after a reign of almost 22 years...