EURO 2021

England have suffered a blow mere days before the start of the World Cup with the news Lewis Moody is out of the opening match against Argentina.

The England captain initially injured his knee in January but had made a full recovery before aggravatin…

Phil Mickelson believes he has finally found his best form after returning a third round 63 at the Deutsche Bank Championship – and the 41-year-old insists he can get even better.

Mickelson, who is 40/1 with bookmaker to win the tournament, made a late …

England team manager Martin Johnson says that only winning will be important at the World Cup in New Zealand.

Johnson’s side’s style has been criticised in some quarters, but the 2003 World Cup-winning captain is solely focused on the job of trying t…

England captain Andrew Strauss has warned his team not to let up after they reached the number one spot in the ICC’s Test rankings.

A 4-0 whitewash of India has left Strauss’ men at the summit, above South Africa and the well-beaten tourists, but the…

Britain’s Andy Murray – 6/1 to win the Cincinnati Masters with bookmaker – has said he still has to improve ahead of the US Open.

The world number four beat Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6-2 7-5 to book a quarter-final clash with Gilles Simon of France in Ohio.

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It has emerged that QPR – 6/5 to be relegated with bookmaker – boss Neil Warnock is keen to bring West Ham midfielder Scott Parker to Loftus Road, after Tony Fernandes took over the west London club.

Malaysian businessman Fernandes recently took ownersh…

Construction has been completed on a stadium in Gdansk, northern Poland that is to be one of the venues for the Euro 2012 football championships, officials said on Tuesday. The stadium was given the green light nearly three weeks after its completion deadline of July 1. It will have its grand opening on August 6. Delays in building the Gdansk stadium forced officials to move a June 9 friendly between Poland and France to Warsaw. The stadium is one of four Polish venues that will host matches at Euro 2012, […]

In mid 2007, Poland was abuzz after receiving co-hosting rights with Ukraine for the Euro 2012 football championship. A year from the event, the country is biting its nails with key infrastructure yet to be completed. As May came to an end, a storm drew over the Polish capital, Warsaw, and it became evident that the roof at its brand new national football stadium – built ahead of the 2012 European Championship – was not entirely waterproof. Shortly beforehand, it had become known that the staircases at the stadium were […]

Martin Kallen, an operating executive, visiting Lviv a year before the Euro 2012 assessed the level of preparations of Poland for the tournament at the level of 80%, and Ukraine – a slightly lower. Generally, I am hopeful – he said. According to Kallen, “80%” for Poland concerns both the state of preparations of stadiums, as well as airports and highways. When it comes to Ukraine: stadiums consists in 70-80% and airports – 60%. However, as far as highways are concerned, it will take take 30-40 years. In Ukraine there […]

The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association will this week host a conference to launch the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) programme to challenge extremism and racism at next year’s UEFA European Championships in Poland and Ukraine. An audience of Polish government ministers, European activists, former players and representatives of governing bodies of football will attend the Polish Parliament and the Polish Foreign Ministry Palace for an expert seminar on Tuesday and Wednesday. The seminar will set out the issues facing the host countries of the Euro 2012. The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association, […]