Month: December 2024

Newcastle United players Paul Dummett and Jamal Lascelles were left gutted after the club were relegated from the Premier League. 

Newcastle were confined to the drop on Wednesday without kicking a ball following Sunderland s 3-0 win over Everton at the Stadium of Light. 

With just one game left in the season, Newcastle sit 18th in the table four points behind 17th-placed Sunderland.

It is just the second time Newcastle have been relegated in the Premier League era after they also faced the drop in 2008-09, however they achieved immediate promotion by winning the Championship the following season. 

Dummett who came through the Newcastle youth academy was left disappointed by the news but insisted the club will make a return to the top-tier of English…

that Wojciech Szczesny is set to return to Arsenal at the end of the season, with Roma not planning on making a permanent move to secure his services.

The Poland international joined the Serie A side on a season-long loan back in the summer, and has played for them twenty-six times in all competitions.

However, the Rome side have opted against extending his stay, instead making a move for Internacional shot-stopper Alisson.

Prior to his temporary switch to Italy, Szczesny racked up one hundred and eighty-one appearances in all competitions for the Gunners and was part of the squad that won back to back FA Cup’s under Arsene Wenger, while he spent the majority of the 2009/10 campaign on loan at Brentford.

However, with Petr Cech firmly cemented as…

Brighton and Hove Albion beat Millwall on penalties to reach the semi-finals of the FA Cup after staging a dramatic late comeback to draw 2-2 with the Championship strugglers.

The Premier League side looked set to be tumbling out of the competition after second-half goals from Alex Pearce and Aiden O Brien put Millwall 2-0 up.

However, Jurgen Locadia gave Brighton hope of a comeback, which was duly completed when Millwall goalkeeper David Martin inexplicably let Solly March s free-kick slip through his hands with the last kick of normal time.

Shane Ferguson was sent off in extra time but Millwall held on for penalties, only to be denied a trip to Wembley as Jake Cooper blazed over to give Brighton a 5-4 win in the shoot-out and a last-four tie with Manchester C…

Marco Asensio s half-time introduction proved decisive as Real Madrid pickpocketed a 2-1 win at Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final.

Bayern overcame the early loss of Arjen Robben through injury to lead when Joshua Kimmich caught out Kaylor Navas with a rasping finish before the half-hour mark.

Zinedine Zidane s European champions never truly recovered their defensive poise from that point, even after Marcelo clattered home a 44th-minute equaliser.

Full-backs were the heroes in both first-half goals, but an awful error by Bayern left-back Rafinha allowed Asensio, on for the struggling Isco, to hand Madrid a significant second away goal. 

Cristiano Ronaldo, who had scored in every match in this season s competition, had a …

Given much of FIFA s present reality must be concerned with damage control, Gianni Infantino s election on Friday to succeed the disgraced Sepp Blatter as president should be viewed positively.

Back in Zurich nine months on from the dawn hotel raids that set in motion a period of turbulent introspection, with a bloodied and discredited FIFA forced to face the reality of its squalid past, those delegates not implicated in wrongdoing returned to crown Infantino and hand him a thankless task.

Having served as UEFA general secretary since 2009 under the now-suspended Michel Platini, Infantino cannot be viewed as a clean and definitive break with the ills afflicting global football administration. Platini remains close to Infantino, long after the relationship with Blatter t…