Canada 5 Honduras 0
June 17 – Canada over the past six years have forced their way into Concacaf’s elite but have so often flattered to deceive. They are the team everyone quite likes but have never delivered the championship title their talent screams for. Re-adjust everyone.
Day 2 of the Euros and three matches. Nick Webster is in Cologne for Switzerland vs. Hungary and it was a great game. He also had the chance to talk with Clive Tyldesley about commentary and his legendary call during the 1999 Champions League Final.
June 15 – Croatia must be sick of the sight of Spain. In the nearest the Euros has to a group of death, the Spanish emerged comfortable 3-0 victors in Berlin today. The win maintained their winning streak against Luka Modric and co.
June 15 -The last time Switzerland played in Cologne, they treated those in attendance and the millions watching at home to the most turgid 120 minutes of football I have ever witnessed, while losing to Ukraine on penalties during the 2006 World Cup.
June 14 – Hosts Germany got their European Championship campaign off to a riproaring start as they ruthlessly blew away 10-man Scotland in the opening game in Munich with a 5-1 demolition.
June 14 – England’s Professional Footballers’ Association has joined the Fifpro-led legal action against FIFA over the “overloaded and unworkable” football calendar.
June 14 – The inaugural AFC Women’s Champions League will kick off this August with 22 clubs from 22 member associations making up the opening cohort of pioneering women’s teams.
June 14 – Edin Terzic has quit Champions League finalists Borussia Dortmund having asked the club “to terminate his contract with immediate effect”.
June 14 – Milan prosecutors have asked for a case against former AC Milan owner Li Yonghong over alleged false accounting to be dropped after a lengthy investigation.
June 14 – With the window of betting company sponsorships on Premier League shirt fronts rapidly closing, Wolverhampton Wanderers have become the latest club to cash-in with a two-year deal with DEBET.
June 14 – Spain have consolidated their position as the world’s top ranked women’s team, in the latest iteration of the FIFA/Cola-Cola Women’s World Ranking, assuming the kind of imperious dominance that was previously seen by the US.
June 14 – Can Germany shrug off past disappointments and make their nation proud again? Do England, with their ferocious fire power, have what it takes to finally get over the line?
June 14 – Amidst tight security, Euro 2024 kicks off tonight in Munich with the host nation desperate to rekindle past glories after three straight embarrassing exits.
June 14 – On Saturday, reigning European champions Italy will get their title defence underway against Albania in their Group B curtain raiser.
June 14 – On Sunday, England will kick off their Euro 2024 campaign against Serbia with defensive worries and the need to convince the critics that they can claim a first major trophy since 1966.
June 14 – Manchester City have agreed a multi-year global partnership with JinkoSolar, a leading globalphotovoltaic and energy storage system supplier.