EURO 2021

France head coach Marc Lievremont believes his side, 7/1 with bookmaker, can cause a massive shock by beating hosts New Zealand in Sunday’s World Cup final.

The All Blacks are 1/9 to win the Auckland showdown, but Lievremont has backed his unpredictable…

Wayne Rooney will return to Manchester United’s starting line-up for their Champions League clash against Romanian side Otelul Galati, a match Sir Alex Ferguson’s team are 13/2 with bookmaker to win 3-0.

Rooney was named as a substitute for Saturday’s 1…

Gethin Jenkins will captain Wales in Friday’s bronze-medal match against Australia at Eden Park as Sam Warburton is serving a three-week ban after being sent off during the semi-final defeat to France, who are 13/2 with bookmaker to beat New Zealand in th…

The Euro 2012 playoff draw was held Thursday in Krakow, Poland. The winners of these four home-and-home series will get the final four berths at next summer’s tournament, joining the 12 teams that have already qualified. The entire tournament will be televised on ESPN networks. Here are notes and Soccer Power Index projections for the four matchups. Turkey vs. Croatia This is a rematch of their dramatic Euro 2008 quarterfinal, when Croatia’s Ivan Klasnic scored an apparent winner in the 119th minute. But Turkey’s Semih Senturk tied it in stoppage […]

The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association co-organized the high-profile ‘Poland for All’ event together with the Polish Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Sports and Tourism, the City of Warsaw and the Polish Association of Former Players. It took place at the Warsaw Agrykola stadium on 14 October. The event formed a part of the Football Against Racism in Europe Action Weeks. One of the event’s attractions was a match involving players of Warsaw’s multicultural Ethnoleague and Polish football stars, including legends such as the former internationals Dariusz Dziekanowski, Radoslaw Majdan and Roman […]

England are now 10/1 with bookmaker to win Euro 2012 after star striker Wayne Rooney was handed a three-match suspension by UEFA.

Rooney has been punished heavily for being sent off in the 2-2 draw in Montenegro which clinched England’s place at next su…

Warren Gatland’s only injury doubt in the build-up to Saturday’s World Cup semi-final between Wales, 4/1 with bookmaker to win the game by between one and five points, and France, is Rhys Priestland.

The fly-half injured his shoulder during Wales’ quart…

St Helens full-back Paul Wellens has played down his side’s chances of beating Leeds Rhinos in Saturday’s Grand Final.

Saints, 4/6 with bookmaker to win at Old Trafford, were beaten in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 finals by Leeds, who are 11/8 to edge the ma…

England’s Ian Bell, 6/1 to be his team’s leading run-scorer in the series, is relishing the prospect of taking on India in their own back yard.

Bell helped England defeat India in all forms of the game over the summer and he and his colleagues are 6/…

England’s Delon Armitage will not play in Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against France after being handed a one-match ban for a “dangerous high tackle”.

The winger was cited after a tackle on Scotland’s Chris Paterson during last Saturday’s win…