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Chelsea captain John Terry has been offered a new one-year contract by the Blues and is considering whether to accept it. Terry, 35, is out of contract at the end of this season and in January said he would not be extending his stay. “With it coming so late in the season, this is a big decision for John and ...

Real Madrid defender Marcelo says the club needed new direction after stuttering under Rafael Benitez and has praised Zinedine Zidane for “breathing life back” into the team since taking over as coach in January. Newcastle United’s relegation from the English Premier League on Wednesday completed a miserable season for Benitez who was sacked by Real barely six months into the ...

Outgoing Celtic manager Ronny Deila says he doesn’t regret joining the Parkhead club, despite rueing some of his decisions from his time in charge. The 40-year-old will leave the club on Sunday after his side are presented with the Scottish Premiership championship trophy following their final game of the season against Motherwell. The Norwegian won two league titles and a ...

Everton have sacked manager Roberto Martinez after three years in charge. Martinez’s side, 12th in the Premier League, were beaten 3-1 by champions Leicester on Saturday and lost 3-0 at Sunderland on Wednesday. The Toffees lost in the semi-finals of the FA Cup and League Cup this season. The club praised the Spaniard, 42, for his “utmost integrity and dignity”, ...

World football governing body Fifa president Gianni Infantino has accepted an invitation to visit Zambia in 2018. He will visit the country to grace the 25th anniversary of the Gabon Air Crash that killed 18 members of the Zambia national football team in 1993. Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) president Andrew Kamanga, who is in Mexico City where FIFA is ...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was thrilled with his side’s late equaliser in their 1-1 draw against Chelsea at Anfield, but bemoaned his players’ lack of patience. Eden Hazard’s fine finish for Chelsea in Wednesday’s Premier League game left Liverpool staring at a first home reverse since the 1-0 defeat by Manchester United on January 17. However, an injury-time header from ...

Newcastle United and Norwich City were relegated from the Premier League on Wednesday as Sunderland secured their survival with a one-sided 3-0 victory over Everton. Sunderland centre-back Lamine Kone’s first two goals for the club and a Patrick van Aanholt free-kick took Sam Allardyce’s side four points clear of danger with one game remaining. Norwich returned to the Championship a ...

Former Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has criticised current owner Mike Ashley with the club on the brink of relegation from the Premier League. Newcastle, who have one game left, against Tottenham on Sunday, could be relegated on Tuesday if Sunderland win their game in hand against Everton. “The owner has had quite a lot of years of making a lot ...

Zambia coach George Lwandamina has hinted that he might draft some foreign-based players for next month’s Cosafa Cup outing in Namibia. So far, the team is comprised of 25 domestic league-based players who held their first training camp during the May 1 holiday weekend in Ndola. Zambia will begin its proper countdown for the Cosafa Cup after June 4 following ...

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal put on a brave face and refused to blame an attack on his team’s bus for the serious setback to his side’s Champions League hopes at West Ham United. Tuesday’s gripping 3-2 loss, which was preceded by the United team bus being pelted with cans and bottles outside the east London ground, leaves Van ...