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Olympic close in on Premier League title
After Cooma's shock 1-0 loss to Tuggeranong last week, the door is open for Olympic to claim top spot.
After Cooma's shock 1-0 loss to Tuggeranong last week, the door is open for Olympic to claim top spot.
Australian defender Jason Davidson has joined Dutch side FC Groningen on a season-long deal from English Football League side Huddersfield Town.
The club that has aimed to propel the careers of so many young players has not ruled out doing so for a coach.
Arsene Wenger has warned English football that it risks "suffocating" itself amid a two-tiered transfer market where fees for Premier League clubs are as much as 10 times more than the rest of Europe.
Tom Rogic scored after only nine minutes in Celtic's 5-2 Champions League playoff victory on Thursday.
In the same week that swimmer Joseph Schooling was honoured after getting the better of US icon Michael Phelps in Rio, two Americans looked to make their mark on Singapore football.
Aston Villa have signed Socceroos skipper Mile Jedinak from Crystal Palace on a three-year contract.
Sydney FC's search for a new marquee striker is over after signing Brazilian centre forward Bobo.
Melbourne City's new man Tim Cahill has been selected in the Socceroos squad to face Iraq in the first game of the final World Cup qualifiers despite not having played in more than a month.
Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou has named Canberra's Tom Rogic in a 23-man squad for the final stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in September.
Wayne Rooney is slow, overweight, unable to move his body quickly enough to shoot properly and still playing for Manchester United mainly for marketing reasons, according to Paul Parker, the club's former defender.
Gary Cahill has suggested that Chelsea have benefited from a more intense pre-season under Antonio Conte than last year's gamble by Jose Mourinho to have a short preparation period.
By the closing stages, as the shots rained down on Steaua Bucharest's over-employed goalkeeper and Manchester City simply revelled in turning the screw, it was easy to understand why the club's owners had made it a four-year mission to lure Pep Guardiola.
Joao Havelange, the former president of FIFA, died in Rio de Janeiro's Samaritano Hospital on Tuesday.
Melbourne City defender Ivan Franjic has been ruled out for an indefinite period after suffering a virus during the pre-season, the club said in a statement released on Tuesday night.
From representing Canberra FC to facing them as part of the "biggest club in Australia", Steven Lustica has played all around the world but will play against his boyhood club on Wednesday night.
A masked fan ran onto the pitch, attacked a goalkeeper and said he had left a bomb in the stands of a top flight Swedish soccer match, forcing the game to be abandoned in the final minute.
Even those players considered central to his plans and among the most tactically savvy members of his squad have admitted the manager's methods are taking some grasping.
Bournemouth have signed Ireland utility player Marc Wilson from fellow English Premier League team Stoke City on a two-year deal.
Chelsea's fiery Spain striker Diego Costa has snatched a last-minute goal to secure a 2-1 home win over West Ham United and hand new manager Antonio Conte a winning start to his Premier League career.
Former English premier league striker Dalian Atkinson has died after police fired a high-voltage Taser stun-gun at him, according to media reports on Monday.
Wanderers could part ways with their captain after inviting A-League rivals to sign Nikolai Topor-Stanley
Tim Cahill reveals a frank text message from his 11-year-old son finally convinced him to bring his family back to Australia.
When Optus shocked the Australian sporting landscape by buying the rights for the English Premier League, outbidding Foxtel three-to-one, there were murmurs of discontent within the football fraternity.
Jose Mourinho's first Premier League game as manager of Manchester United has ended in a comfortable victory away to Bournemouth.
Tim Cahill has landed in Melbourne ahead of his unveiling as the year's biggest A-League signing, and has won Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou's backing for the move.
Former England striker Gary Lineker kept a long-standing promise to present BBC's Match of the Day programme in his underpants.
Leicester City's Premier League title defence got off to a terrible start.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has said he could stay at Manchester United for "more than three years" as he vowed to conquer English football.
The women's football tournament at the Games has been blown wide open after reigning Olympic and world champions the US were eliminated in a stunning result against Sweden on Friday afternoon (Brazil time).
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