Manchester United surged 15 points clear at the Premier League summit on Saturday, capitalizing on Manchester City losing at Everton by beating Reading to close in on a 20th English league title.
Manchester City kept up its stubborn pursuit of Manchester United with a routine 2-0 win over Fulham on Saturday, with David Silva’s double reducing the champions’ deficit to four points in the Premier League title race.
A resurgent Fernando Torres scored his fifth goal in three matches to help Chelsea reach the Club World Cup final with a 3-1 victory over Monterrey on Thursday.
After spurning Manchester City’s advances in the offseason, Robin van Persie scored the goal that ended the champions’ unbeaten start to the Premier League season and took Manchester United six points clear of its neighbor on Sunday.
Liverpool put its Europa League campaign back on track by beating big-spending Anzhi Makhachkala 1-0 on Thursday, and Inter Milan broke through Partizan Belgrade’s resistance late on to win by the same score line.
Liverpool’s promising young midfielder Suso signed a new contract with the Premier League club on Friday. Suso, 18, has been rewarded with a new long-term deal after playing his way into Brendan Rodgers’ team this season.
The managers of Manchester United and Liverpool are urging their clubs’ fans to stop the ugly chants at matches in the wake of the release of findings about the Hillsborough tragedy.
If we accept the well-know and oft-used adage that in football, “you’re only as good as your last game”, then Arsenal have every right to be considered world beaters right now. The way they dismantled Tottenham Hotspur in Sunday’s North London derby, was a sight for the sore eyes of Gunners’ fans who’ve shed more [...]
British police said they arrested a man late Saturday in connection with an alleged racist gesture made at Liverpool’s Anfield stadium during the FA Cup fourth-round tie against Manchester United.
When I was 14, I played for my Sunday-football side against the Ipswich Town Youth Team at a Navy base in East Anglia. They were a year older than us and quite a bit bigger and better. Ipswich were coached by the club’s chief scout Ron Grey, whose mere endorsement could make or break youthful [...]
2011 has been an extraordinary year in the world of sport, and if anything, 2012 looks all set to top it in terms of action, excitement, and the human drama that can lift our spirits and crush our souls in the blink of an eye. When Santa asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I [...]
