England 4 Netherlands 0
July 9 – The European champions responded in style to the pressure that had been building after their opening 2-1 defeat against France. England comprehensively demolished the Netherlands 4-0 with Lauren James scoring a brace.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 16 – After lurching from one crisis to another through an era of financial mismanagement, there is finally light at the end of the tunnel for troubled English club Portsmouth.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 16 – England’s top-flight clubs have agreed in principle to introduce a model similar to UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules that ensure teams breakeven.
The debate on racism in football has now descended into absurd levels. On one hand, we are having accusations that the Football Association (FA) is institutionally racist. On the other hand, there are those who argue, and this includes some very powerful figures in the game, that Chelsea should never have made a complaint against Mark Clattenburg.
Both positions are absurd. Let us first deal with the Chelsea situation. As is very clear from what Bruce Buck,
By Tom Degun at the Aspire Dome in Doha
November 16 – The Supreme Committee for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar has confirmed that all 12 stadiums for the event will be ready by the 2021 Confederations Cup, clearing the way for the competition to be held in either the summer or the winter.
By Tom Degun at the Aspire Dome in Doha
November 15 – Former Spain and Real Madrid striker Raúl believes that Qatar could be a threat at the 2022 FIFA World Cup when the sovereign Arab state plays host to the prestigious competition.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 15 – Former German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann says the social media revolution is having a detrimental effect on footballers being able to communicate properly on the pitch.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 15 – Lucrative new sponsorship deals allied to a strong start to the season at home and in Europe have contributed to cut the mountain of debt at Manchester United, regarded as the world’s best-supported club.
By Tom Degun at the Aspire Dome in Doha
November 15 – Former England and Liverpool player John Barnes has said that football must not look for racism where it doesn’t exist despite the fact that it is one of the most high-profile issues in the sport at present.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 15 – The international players’ union FIFPro has raised concerns over the decision to stage certain matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup during the hottest part of the day in more tropical venues.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 15 – Sunday’s eagerly awaited African Champions League final second leg between Esperance of Tunisia and Egypt’s Al Ahly will have a restricted crowd of 35,000 due to fears of fan violence.
By Tom Degun at the Aspire Dome in Doha
November 14 – Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit has become the latest high profile figure in the sport to call for the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar to be held in the winter to avoid the searing summer desert temperatures.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – Serbian football, already under the threat of disciplinary sanctions by UEFA, has now fallen foul of FIFA as well as a result of crowd disturbances in a World Cup qualifying match against Wales.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – Romanian football has been plunged into disgrace after prison sentences were handed out to some of the country’s most influential senior executives and former players for tax evasion and money laundering in connection with the overseas transfers of 12 players over a six-year period.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – South African football is reeling from the deaths of four players killed in a car accident in the same region where national team assistant coach Thomas Madigage lost his life in another crash last month.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – One of the two investigations into the Chelsea-Mark Clattenburg case has been dropped through lack of sufficient evidence, the latest twist in a debacle that continues to sour English football.