EURO 2021

Stuart Pearce has a medal in his sights after Team GB defeated Uruguay 1-0 to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Olympics.

Great Britain, who are 7/1 with bookmaker to win gold, will take on South Korea at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday after Dan…

Andy Murray had to battle with a back injury as he fought back from a set down to defeat Jarkko Nieminen in the second round of the French Open.

Murray, who is 33/1 with bookmaker to win the tournament, crashed 1-6 in the opening set as a sudden flare-u…

Security preparations for Euro 2012 football championship, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine, are progressing according to the schedule, Polish deputy Interior Minister Michal Deskur said on Thursday. Deskur recalled that the Interior Ministry and its services have been preparing for the tournament for several years. ” Complete readiness should be confirmed in mid-May, about three weeks before the first match,” he added. Three organisational areas are of key significance to the tournament: security, transport and servicing the guests, the deputy minister explained. Referring to his cooperation with Ukrainian authorities he […]

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini insists he will still take many positives from this season even if the club fails in its title bid.

City are now 9/2 with bookmaker to win the Premier League after slipping to second in the table. Mancini’s men had s…

200 days before the beginning of the European Football Championship UEFA sees progress in Ukraine in preparations and has no significant objections to the preparations – said Markiyan Lubkivskyi, director of the Organizing Committee of the Euro 2012 at a press conference in Kiev. ‘We will do everything to make next year’s tournament the best event’ – he stressed. The greatest achievement of the past hundred days, mentioned by Łubikowski, is completion of stadiums in Kiev and Lviv. At these stadiums first matches have already been played. – They have […]

Bryan Ruiz has predicted that Fulham will have to defend well when they play his former club FC Twente in Thursday’s Europa League Group K clash at De Grolsch Veste.

The Costa Rican winger is ineligible to line up for Martin Jol’s Cottagers, who are …

Andre Villas-Boas believes Chelsea will advance in the Champions League, despite their stoppage-time defeat to Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday night.

The Blues boss has accepted responsibility for his side’s recent poor run of form, which has seen them…

All the Polish parties involved in organising UEFA EURO 2012 met in Warsaw and spoke positively of the state of preparations for a tournament that can help drive the country forward. “There is no risk that we will delay any of the important EURO investments. Everything is going fine, including the construction of the stadiums – the four Polish stadiums will be ready on time, in the summer of 2011.” That was the message from Adam Giersz, Polish minister for sport and tourism during a special meeting of all the […]

Preparations for the Euro 2012 football tournament in Poland and Ukraine are well on track, the ruling body UEFA said on Friday with nine days left until the qualifying group draw. The February 7 draw in Warsaw is the first big event around the tournament which created various problems in the early stages after the two Eastern European nations were elected hosts in 2007. ‘Preparations for Euro 2012 are going well,’ UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino told the body’s website after an executive board meeting on Thursday in Malta.

UEFA is delighted with the progress of Ukraine in preparations to organize the European football championships in 2012 in recent months – assessed on Wednesday in Kiev, Martin Kallen, UEFA chief executive for Euro 2012. – Now, the situation looks good, works are being made, so we are pleased with the progress made by Ukraine – said Kallen at the press conference. When asked by journalists how he assess the level of preparations in Poland and Ukraine Kallen said that “it is equal.” He also pointed out that the Ukrainians […]