Chelsea sacked the striker after he was found guilty of drug-taking in 2004.And the BBC has learnt Chelsea have won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport against Fifa’s decision they were not entitled to compensation.Chelsea will decide upon their next step after the judgement is delivered, which is expected to be next [...]
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The 26-year-old defender told BBC One’s new Inside Sport programme: “I’d certainly like to manage one day.”When I was speaking about my contract with Chelsea, I was talking about a nine-year contract and maybe with an option to manage at the end of it.”It’s certainly the way I want to go. I want to get [...]
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Governing body the ECB will assume more control over the running of the team following publication of the Schofield report next month, the BBC has learnt.And on tour the coach will no longer fulfil the role of team manager, chief selector and coach.Those roles will be split between the coach and other people.The Schofield report [...]
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Benitez said the home fans will act as a 12th man as Liverpool try to overturn a 1-0 deficit from the first leg.But Mourinho said: “I am not interested in what Benitez is suggesting about the atmosphere, so do [...]
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Leeds were all but relegated to League One on Saturday and the club’s second relegation in three years could lead to serious financial implications.But Bates told Yorkshire Radio that support shown for the Yorkshire club over the last 48 hours was “beyond my wildest expectations”.”Big clubs fall on hard times but they always rise as [...]
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Despite Hull’s insistence he was still contracted to them, Cooke was cleared to make his Rovers debut last Friday. “It was tough on me, my friends and my family,” admitted the 26-year-old, who had announced last Monday that he was leaving Hull for their city rivals.”People that are close to me know how difficult a [...]
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The American favourites came to grief after losing their headsail in the second set of round robins on Monday.The 2003 LV Cup finalists limped on after failing to set a second headsail, hoping for a mistake from their error-prone rivals.But the bottom-placed Chinese team held their nerve to take victory over BMW Oracle by three [...]
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The 24-year-old Russian, who won three clay-court titles last season before injury saw her miss the French Open and Wimbledon, won 6-3 7-5.”I was playing against two opponents,” said world number nine Petrova. “One was on the other side of the net and one was on the same side as I was. “I really had [...]
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The Swiss sailor finished the 30,000-mile (48,300-km) race in a total of 103 days, 22 hours, 10 minutes, after leaving Bilbao on 22 October.Stamm won all three legs of the race. He arrived first in the port of Bilbao at 1713 local time in his self-built Open 60 Cheminees Poujoulat.Japan’s Kojiro Shiraishi, in Spirit of [...]
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The Great Britain forward suffered ankle ligament damage in last Friday’s 54-8 win over Catalans Dragons.X-rays showed no serious damage, but the 29-year-old has been ruled out of Sunday’s ‘derby’ clash in Cardiff.Leeds expect both stand-off Danny McGuire and centre Ashley Gibson to be fit to face Bradford after picking up injuries against the Dragons.
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