Chelsea have joined several other Premier League clubs in sending their condolences to the Royal Family following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Royal Family announced Her Majesty had passed away peacefully at her Balmoral residence on Thursday.
The news was met with tributes from across the sporting world; Manchester United said the club shares the sorrow of the entire nation , while Arsenal held a minute s silence ahead of the second half of their Europa League match at FC Zurich.
The Premier League, meanwhile, announced it was deeply saddened by the Queen s passing.
A statement on Chelsea s website read: Chelsea Football Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We join those mourning in the UK and across …
UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Nice and Koln after crowd trouble marred a Europa Conference League match between the teams.
Thursday s group game on the French Riviera saw a delayed kick-off due to fans clashing in the stands and missiles being thrown.
Reports also cited trouble around the city prior to the match, with vandalism and damage to the French team s official club shop.
A number of fans were injured, and European football s governing body confirmed the start of disciplinary proceedings.
In a statement, UEFA said: Disciplinary proceedings have been instigated in accordance with article 55 of the UEFA disciplinary regulations following the UEFA Europa Conference League group stage match between OGC Nice and 1. FC Koln (1-1) pl…
Described by developer Serenity Forge as a “romcom adventure game,” Land of Screens is both charming and decidedly more grounded than similarly sentimental games. While it examines the weighty process of how we build ourselves back up after suffering a loss, rather than sending players down the path of introspection, it opts to be a bit more simplistic and deliver just one pertinent message: There’s a whole world outside your phone screen and you might just be missing it. However, in taking this approach and focusing so entirely on this one message, Land of Screens ultimately comes across a bit too reductive and preachy to deliver it as subtly and powerfully as it could.
Land of Screens begins as life as Holland knows it comes to an end: After five, long years together, …
New Zealand stood no chance against Spain in the second match of the 2009 Confederations Cup, as the European champions cruised to a 5-0 victory in Rustenburg.
The difference between the two sides was visible from the start, as Spain needed only six minutes for Fernando Torres to strike home for 1-0. Another eight minuted later, David Villa enabled the Liverpool striker to net his second.
And in the 17th minute, Torres header handed the forward one of the quickest hat-tricks in football history.
Cesc Fabregas made it 4-0 on 24 minutes and a monster score seemed to be in the making. But, other than a goal from Villa just after the break, the Spanish spared their opponents and saved energy for their next match.
Spain lead Group A with three points, followe…
Chelsea were held to a lively goalless draw by Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge as both sides squandered opportunities to settle their FA Cup fourth-round tie.
Mauricio Pochettino’s team had scored six in their previous outing, dispatching Middlesbrough to reach next month’s Carabao Cup final, but found Unai Emery’s Premier League high-flyers a more obdurate hurdle as a combined 23 shots from both sides failed to yield a winner.
John McGinn spurned Villa’s best chances in either half, while Emiliano Martinez twice denied Chelsea as Noni Madueke and Cole Palmer found themselves frustrated.
It was a theme of the night in west London as a replay at Villa Park beckoned.
Villa should have led after 10 minutes, Youri Tielemans with a free header from six …
Having almost joined Porto as a player, Basel coach Paulo Sousa is working on masterminding their exit from the UEFA Champions League.
Basel coach Paulo Sousa almost signed for Porto during his days as a player, but will now be doing all he can to knock the Portuguese outfit out of the UEFA Champions League.
Having started out in his homeland with Benfica, Sousa s illustrious playing career saw him win this competition on two occasions with Juventus and Borussia Dortmund, and the 44-year-old remains one of only three men to have won back-to-back finals with different clubs.
After leaving Dortmund in 1997, Sousa played for Inter, Parma and Panathinaikos before calling it a day following a stint at Espanyol.
Sousa revealed this week that, on more than one …
Southampton manager Claude Puel has backed Manchester City to win the Premier League title, despite their humiliating Champions League defeat to Barcelona.
Pep Guardiola s men made a flying start to the season, but their momentum has slowed in recent weeks and they are winless in four matches across all competitions.
However, after seeing City beaten 4-0 in Spain, Puel whose Saints side travel to the Etihad Stadium on Sunday insisted it was a hard-fought game and sees the 2014 champions triumphing again in the league this season.
For the moment, Manchester [City] are not at the same level as Barcelona, because all this work takes time, he told a pre-match news conference
But [Guardiola] hasn t changed his philosophy [since managing Barca] and it s a …
Paris Saint-Germain did not have a good transfer window, according to the club s football advisor Luis Campos.
The French champions underwent a significant overhaul following the departure of Mauricio Pochettino, with Campos arriving and swiftly appointing Christophe Galtier as the Argentine s successor.
PSG s new hierarchy then brought in a wealth of additions, including Vitinha and Fabian Ruiz, but were unable to complete a move for Inter defender Milan Skriniar.
That defensive gap is one of the reasons why Campos was left underwhelmed by the club s business in the transfer window.
We are coming to the end of the transfer window without the perfect balance. We have a huge quality in the squad, no doubt. In the end, it was not perfect, he told RMC Spor…
While Manchester City might have gone about things the hard way on Saturday afternoon, the Sky Blues claimed a 2-1 victory against Leeds at the Etihad.
Storming their way to a 2-0 lead when heading into the half-time break as Ilkay Gundogan bagged a classy brace, it appeared that is was set to be another routine display for Pep Guardiola’s side.
However, with Gundogan missing out on the chance to claim a first Premier League hat-trick after missing from the penalty spot, Leeds certainly set up a nail-biting ending as second-half substitute Rodrigo halved the deficit just 58 seconds after Gundogan’s spot-kick miss.
Nevertheless, with City dragging themselves over the finish line and extending their unbeaten run to 20 games across all competitions, Guardiola�…
Jason Statham has said he hopes to make a return to the Fast and Furious franchise, and for his character Deckard Shaw to have a showdown with Han, played by Sung Kang.
Shaw was responsible for Han’s apparent death back in 2006’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, which was directed by Justin Lin Come from Sports betting site VPbet . But although Han is making a return to the franchise in Lin’s upcoming movie F9: The Fast Saga, Statham won’t be part of it. He told Entertainment Weekly that both characters have unfinished business.
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