Newly promoted English football club, Hull City, have released Seyi Olofijana from the club refusing to renew their contracts after their promotion to the top flight. Olofinjana whose four-year contract was due to expire in June was offloaded along with 11 others, while four players including Senegal veteran, Abdoulaye Faye, were offered new deals. Meanwhile, the former Super Eagles midfielder joined Sheffi ...

 Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspurs will be doing battle in their last English Premier League match on Sunday, to decide who takes the fourth position on the EPL table as the fourth place slot means a ticket to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Arsenal will be hoping to outdo Newcastle to edge out their arch rivals Tottenham. With Manchester United crowned champions, Manchester City guara ...

Wigan Athletic has pulled off one of the greatest FA Cup final upset in the history of the competition when a 90th minute header from substitute Ben Watson gave them a 1-0 win over highly-fancied Manchester City at Wembley Stadium on this evening. Wigan, still threatened with relegation from the Premier League, played the better football throughout and deserved to win the match in what was their first FA Cu ...

"The decision to retire is one that I have thought a great deal about and one that I have not taken lightly. It is the right time. “It was important to me to leave an organisation in the strongest possible shape and I believe I have done so. The quality of this league winning squad, and the balance of ages within it, bodes well for continued success at the highest level whilst the structure of the youth set ...

Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger has once again said he will be honouring his contract with the Gunners. This he said during a news conference while reacting to a speculation that the 63 year old Frenchman is in a contract romance with Paris Saint Germain (PSG) that he is likely to leave the English club saying he had no intention of leaving Arsenal. "I answered that question already, no, I respect my contracts, ...

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has said that he is yet to make a decision about his future against widespread expectation that he will be joining his former English club Chelsea at the end of the season. Mourinho used the opportunity also to lash out at his critics, whom he suggested jump the gun ahead of him with speculations that he is poised to abandon the La Liga club at the end of this season. Accordi ...

Chelsea are aiming for their second consecutive European cup final this week with players training on Wednesday, at their training ground near London in preparation for their Europa League match with Basel on Thursday. Chelsea won the first leg of their semi-final 2-1 away last week, watched by interim manager Rafael Benitez. This week's second leg at Stamford Bridge has the distraction of talk about who wi ...

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers criticised the English Football Association (FA) for punishing the man rather than the incident after striker Luis Suarez was given a 10-game ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic. Rodgers compared the punishment meted out on Suarez to two other biting incidents, including one involving England striker Jermaine Defoe. He said that Suarez acted impulsively and said the ...

Goals from Mikel Arteta, Olivier Giroud and substitute Lukas Podolski ensured the gunners displace London rivals Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur in the race for champions’ league spot. Everton scored either side of half-time to maintain their European challenge and push Queens Park Rangers closer to relegation. Aston villa remain precariously placed in the battle against relegation after being held to a 1-1 d ...

The Blues will be facing Manchester City on Sunday in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, with the interim manager adamant he is pleased with the season so far. City beat Chelsea 2-0 in February at the Etihad stadium, but Benitez says his team learned from the experience. If Chelsea can beat Man City on Sunday, a cup double remains in their favour, having edged past Rubin Kazan to progress into the Europa lea ...