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Jose Mourinho has launched a scathing attack on the Football Association after the Chelsea manager was fined and given a one-match suspended stadium ban. Mourinho was fined £50 000 on Wednesday after accepting a misconduct charge from the English FA for comments he made about the officials in the wake of a 3-1 loss to Southampton in the Premier League ...

Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, jailed for killing his girlfriend, is to be freed from prison to house arrest next Tuesday, a South African parole board says. He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2014 after being found guilty of culpable homicide, or manslaughter. He shot Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door but said he thought ...

Bailiffs on Wednesday morning pounced on the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) seizing office equipment from Football House. The bailiffs were acting on behalf of Cresta hotel to recover a hotel bill that has been pending since 2011 arising from the Chipolopolo’s camping bill which the ministry of Sport was supposed to settle. The action by the bailiffs prompted the ...

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been handed a suspended one-match stadium ban and fined £50 000 by England’s Football Association for misconduct following comments made in the wake of his side’s recent defeat to Southampton. Mourinho accused officials of being “afraid” to award his team penalties after Chelsea went down 3-1 to the Saints in the Stamford Bridge clash on October ...

Fifa is investigating the transfer of Eliaquim Mangala from Porto to Manchester City in August 2014. The 24-year-old joined City for a fee understood to be about £32m and signed a five-year deal. The France international’s move is being looked into to see if it breached third party ownership rules at the time, according to Bloomberg,  The report added that ...

All league games which were scheduled for Sunday, 18 October, 2015 have been cancelled in order to allow the football family to join the rest of the Zambian citizenry in the national day of prayer and fasting. FAZ president Kalusha Bwalya says the prayer and fasting accords all citizens a chance to re-energise their relationships with God. Kalusha says the ...

Barclays Bank Zambia will in January 2016 host Manchester United and Barclays Premier League Legend Andy Cole. The Old Trafford Great is the second highest goal scorer in the Barclays Premier League history with a return of 187 goals behind leading scorer Alan Shearer on 260 goals. Barclays Bank Zambia Head Marketing and Corporate Relations Mato Shimabale in a statement ...

Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud says it is a new experience for him to be the second choice behind Theo Walcott and believes manager Arsene Wenger still has faith in his abilities. Things have changed drastically since last season when Wenger preferred Giroud in the centre as a “target man” and Walcott was the right winger. Walcott has always insisted his ...

Mumamba Numba has disclosed that Zanaco are resigned to a second place finish in the 2015 Faz Super League season. Zanaco on Sunday squandered an opportunity of picking up silverware this season when they were booted out of the Barclays Cup semifinals by Nkwazi 5-3 on post-match penalties after a 1-1 draw at full-time at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka. This ...

Egypt last evening beat Zambia 3-0 in an international friendly played in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Ahmed Hassan Koka netting two goals. Ahmed Hassan Koka opened the scoring for Egypt in the 3rd minute of the game with a back-heeled goal before Bassem Morsyy came very close to doubling the score for the Pharaohs soon after. After 25 minutes ...