• Dominic Bossi
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A-League teams won a club versus country battle with the FFA, but it could come at a significant cost to the Olyroos who are falling behind the pacesetters in Asia.

• Michael Lynch

Melbourne Victory boss Kevin Muscat has flagged a number of changes – some forced, some by choice – for the road trip to Perth following the team's surprise 3-0 loss to Wellington Phoenix in New Zealand on Tuesday night.

• Michael Cockerill

He may not be one of us – at least in a football sense – but there's a lot to be proud of in the ascension of Adama Traore at the African Cup of Nations.

​Central Coast manager Paul Okon has challenged the A-League match review panel to follow the precedent shown in Besart Berisha's case and clear his striker Roy O'Donovan.

• Michael Lynch

Melbourne City interim coach Michael Valkanis can be pleased enough with his results so far: two wins out of three and the latter an unlucky defeat in Adelaide when the champions scored a last gasp winner against the run of play.

• Michael Lynch

It was the win they had to have - only their second in seven weeks - but Melbourne City lacked the killer touch in a 2-1 victory over a Central Coast Mariners side that played for well over an hour with ten men following the sending off of striker Roy O'Donovan.

Former Real Madrid striker Robinho was recalled by Brazil for the first time in more than a year on Thursday to face Colombia in a charity match to raise funds for the victims of the Chapecoense air crash.

• Dominic Bossi

More A-League marquees are on the horizon with tripling of the player fund though clubs aren't holding out for a bigger cheque from the TV rights as Fox Sports and Channel 10 edge closer to a partnership.

Manchester United are a long way from winning the English Premier League again but are back on top of another table - as soccer's biggest moneymakers.

Lucas has ended a goal drought stretching back to 2010 and Divock Origi missed a late penalty as Liverpool beat fourth-tier Plymouth Argyle 1-0 in an FA Cup third-round replay.

Real Madrid's King's Cup hopes were hanging by a thread after they lost 2-1 at home to Celta Vigo on Wednesday and suffered back-to-back defeats for the first time under coach Zinedine Zidane.

FIFA technical director Marco van Basten would like to see how football works without offside and limit the number of fouls a player can commit during a game.

Reigning Asian club champions Jeonbuk Motors of South Korea will be unable to defend their title over their involvement in a 2013 bribery scandal, the continent's soccer governing body said on Wednesday.

• Cameron Mee

Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold has vowed his team will not overlook Friday night's match with Adelaide before next Thursday's blockbuster clash with Melbourne Victory.

• Michael Lynch

Nothing short of a win for Melbourne City over Central Coast Mariners on Thursday night at AAMI Park will be acceptable for a club with huge ambitions.

Socceroos Robbie Kruse and James Holland have signed for Chinese Super League club Liaoning Whowin.

• Michael Lynch

Melbourne Victory's credentials as genuine challengers for top spot on the A-League ladder were always going to be sorely tested during their fixture pile-up, but the examination has become much tougher following their 3-0 loss to Wellington Phoenix.

Minor League sides Lincoln City and Sutton United produced FA Cup upsets with victories over two former winners of the competition on Tuesday to reach the fourth round.

• Matt Law

Diego Costa returned to Chelsea's first-team training on Tuesday, but head coach Antonio Conte has already identified Alvaro Morata as his preferred long-term successor.

Poor results and contract dramas have darkened the mood at Brisbane Roar but veteran Thomas Kristensen says they're refusing to let their A-League ambitions fall by the wayside.

• Liam Hyslop

Roly Bonevacia's form resurgence has continued with a match-winning performance for Wellington Phoenix against Melbourne Victory.

• Dominic Bossi

The A-League can't offer as much as other leagues, but it can promise it will deliver and Jordy Buijs' signing for Sydney FC shows how much of an advantage that is in a competitive market place.

• Dominic Bossi

Seb Ryall is set to return for Sydney FC before the end of the season after being cleared of a serious injury and is closing in on a new deal.

• Dominic Bossi

120 years of history were washed away with two strokes from a graphic designer as one of the world's biggest clubs Juventus unveiled a controversial new logo.

• Michael Lynch

Australian players will find it more difficult than ever to cash in on the booming Chinese Super League after changes were made to the competition's foreign quota system.

• James Ducker

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has told Paul Pogba he must handle the scrutiny his high profile brings after saying outside pressures were child's play compared to the demands he places on himself.

Former Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal appears to have called time on his coaching career, saying he is unlikely to take another job for family reasons.

• Jason Burt

What does it say if you can take the Premier League's top scorer out of the team at the top of the richest, most high-profile league in the world when he is 28, in his prime, and sell him to China?

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho played down the touchline confrontation between him and Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp near the end of Sunday's English Premier League draw.