BAYERN Munich came away from Real Madrid’s Bernabéu stadium with a 2-1 win in the Champions League quarter-final 1st leg. They are firm favourites to win through to the last four and they have an excellent chance to win the competition. This is a team that had lost twice all season, once in the Bundesliga and once in the Champions League. They have won 37 of 43 games this sea...

AS expected, PSV Eindhoven won their third consecutive Eredivisie title with five games to spare. PSV beat FC Utrecht 4-3 but had to wait 24 hours to be crowned as champions – Feyenoord, who had to win at Volendam to keep their very slim hopes alive, were held 0-0, meaning they could not catch the leaders. PSV have 71 points from 29 games and are 17 ahead of their rivals from...

THE current season had been something of an anti-climax for Newcastle United. After winning their first trophy since 1969 in 2024-25, expectations were relatively high at the club, but they look likely to fail in their bid for a Champions League place and they might not have enough in them to qualify for any of the European competitions.

The club has yet to fully c...

ITALY is in a state of mourning after the Azzurri crashed out of the World Cup against Bosnia & Herzegovina, a nation that sits 53 places lower in the. FIFA rankings. The subject is so sensitive that the government, via Sports Minister Andrea Abodi, called for the removal of Gabriele Gravina, the head of Federcalcio, the Italian Football Federation. It w...

AFTER Thomas and Igor, comes Roberto. Spurs have hired their new manager, undoubtedly with one eye on a promotion campaign, and given him a five-year deal. Roberto De Zerbi will not last half a decade either by design or by the decisions of others. He probably knows the odds – on current form – are against his new club avoiding the drop, so a year in the Championship will giv...