After narrowly failing to find the net last time out, Victor Osimhen aims to avoid going successive Serie A matches without scoring for the first time since September when Napoli host Atalanta this afternoon. The much-coveted striker has scored in two of three previous appearances against Atalanta, including his very first goal in Italy’s top […]

US hedge fund Elliott Investment Management has made it through to the second stage of the bidding process in the potential sale of Manchester United. Representatives from the company are understood to have been at Old Trafford on Thursday to watch the team’s 4-1 win against Real Betis in the Europa League. The BBC and […]

Graham Potter said Friday that Chelsea’s Champions League last-16 triumph over Borussia Dortmund had lifted a weight off his shoulders following a miserable run of results. The Blues won 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit and advance to the quarter-finals. The victory against the Bundesliga high-fliers, which followed a […]

Gary Lineker will “step back” from presenting until an agreement is reached on his use of social media following an impartiality row sparked by his criticism of the British government’s new asylum policy, the BBC said Friday. The former England footballer, who presents the flagship Match of the Day show, compared the language used to […]

Spanish prosecutors on Friday charged Barcelona with corruption over payments the club made to a former vice-president of Spain’s referees’ committee through a company owned by him. According to the prosecution, the Catalan club paid a total of more than 7.3 million euros to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, former referee and ex-vice president of the refereeing […]