[ad_1] PSG overpower Arsenal to reach Champions League final (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) secured their Champions League final spot with a 2-1 victory against Arsenal in the second leg of their semi-final, achieving a 3-1 aggregate win on Wednesday.Fabian Ruiz struck from outside the box in the 27th minute at the Parc…
[ad_1] Football shirts were once an item of clothing for a) players to wear at work, and b) fans to sport on the terraces in solidarity with the lads out on the pitch. Now, what must seem abruptly to the uninitiated, they have become the uniform for British music festivals and a source of inspiration…
[ad_1] Dani Alves, who was this morning sentenced to four and a half years in prison in Spain after being found guilty of sexual assault, was, until very recently, one of global football’s golden boys. An exuberant, technical right-back, he was a major part of the Barcelona team that set new standards in the European…
[ad_1] Maybe this was a glimpse of the future. On Saturday night, Paris Saint-Germain took on Nantes without Kylian Mbappe in their starting XI. After playing 90 minutes against visitors Real Sociedad in the Champions League in midweek, and then privately revealing his intention to leave PSG at the end of the season, Mbappe was…
[ad_1] Ice ages haven’t lasted as long as this. Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid… it has been a thing for about a decade at least. The Athletic was not even in existence when the pair began courting each other. Twitter was still fun (and called Twitter), Taylor Swift hadn’t heard of American football and the…
[ad_1] The physical altercation that left Tottenham Hotspur and South Korea captain Son Heung-min with a dislocated finger had been a good few weeks in the making. The South Korea camp for the Asian Cup played in Qatar over the past month or so had been far from harmonious, with splits everywhere you looked. Manager…
[ad_1] Today, as we begin 2024, Kylian Mbappe enters the final six months of his contract with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), which means he will be able to negotiate with clubs who are interested in signing him on a free transfer at the end of that deal. Aged 25, Mbappe is already a World Cup winner,…
[ad_1] Follow live coverage of Manchester City vs Urawa Red Diamonds in the Club World Cup today The draw for the last 16 of the Champions League was made in UEFA’s Nyon headquarters this morning and Europe’s big guns will have largely liked the outcome. England’s two remaining representatives, Arsenal and Manchester City, were handed…
