South African football news

DRC insist there will be no change to schedule Team’s first game is on 17 June against Portugal The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have no plans to change their preparations for the World Cup despite a warning from the United States that the national team must isolate for 21 days before arriving in the count…

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The Democratic Republic of Congo's World Cup squad must isolate for 21 days before they can enter the US because of the Ebola outbreak.

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Naegohyang beat Tokyo Verdy Beleza 1-0 in South Korea final Kim Kyong-yong scores only goal in rare trip across border The first North Korean team to visit the South in eight years crowned their trip by winning the Asian Women’s Champions League, beating Japan’s Tokyo Verdy Beleza 1-0 in Saturday’s final. Naegohyang…

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Pack your team with players whose teams have something to play for on the final day of the season, writes Thomas Woods.

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Bruno Fernandes wins PL Player of the Season as teams across the continent gear up for massive games. I enjoyed this piece from Barry yesterday. It’s all noise and bluster and guff, innit? I mean, not for the guys who missed our or were selected, but the outrage and hot takes really are a lot. Continue reading...

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Manchester City are about to lose a player Pep Guardiola called ‘my weakness’ and ‘my favourite’. Who am I to disagree? Bernardo Silva is more than a footballer. He’s a time-travelling, shapeshifting superhero. He even looks like a superhero – a nine-volt battery of a man doing battle with feral giants on the pitch.…

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From Champions League redemption to that stunner against City, we look at half a dozen memorable moments from striker’s Anfield career It was surely the worst moment of Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool career, yet the reaction said everything about his impact on the English game; the respect he had earned in his first seas…

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Our fans’ network reviews the season with one game to play: the highs, the lows and what they need in the summer In this age of the managerial revolving door, I’m enormously proud that the Premier League champions (man, does that sound sweet!) stand as the antithesis to that. Admittedly, “trusting the process” aged…

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Scotland captain Andy Robertson speaks to Kelly Cates and her father Sir Kenny Dalglish before his last game for Liverpool.

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Reijnen chase is sign Reds manager will stay as Moyes admits being despondent over a poor end to season Continue reading...

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England and Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane is on Barcelona's shortlist to replace Robert Lewandowski, Manchester United agree deal for Atalanta midfielder Ederson, while Liverpool close in on Colombian teenage attacker Samuel Martinez, plus more.

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Barcelona’s former coach Jonatan Giráldez can bring insider knowledge to a fourth final between the European giants You could be forgiven for having a sense of deja vu before a fourth Champions League final between the Spanish champions, Barcelona, and French title-winners, OL Lyonnes, on Saturday evening. The three…

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How will Manchester City cope after Pep leaves & will it be Spurs or West Ham going down?

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Hammers need their former manager to win as the incumbent tells his players to focus on their own game There is a certain irony to West Ham relying, once again, on David Moyes to help them avoid relegation. Unless the Scot can mastermind a win against Tottenham on Sunday, West Ham are down. Even a draw would leave t…

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Two Celtic games are among five investigated by the SPFL as the SFA's KMI panel suggests the Scottish champions should not have had a penalty against Motherwell.

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Manager was in a joyful mood as he met the media for his final pre-match press conference at Manchester City Pep Guardiola cracked a joke about fielding questions on facing Aston Villa as he entered the room. But after more than 1,100 press conferences in 10 years at Manchester City he knew this one was never going…

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Saints’ self-destruction has left Kim Hellberg and Sergej Jakirovic tantalisingly close to fulfilling their dream in Saturday’s Wembley trip When the television cameras zoomed in for a closeup it became clear Hayden Hackney was crying. Middlesbrough’s best player had just watched his teammates lose the second leg of…

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Thomas Tuchel has placed great faith in John Stones and Djed Spence while ignoring several star names in attack Thomas Tuchel said that whittling down his 55-player longlist gave him “a certain edge”. There were some tough phone calls and some decisions inevitably caused outrage. But there was a pointed remark from…

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FA will try to erect fences around Kansas City base Ethan Nwaneri among quartet called up to training The Football Association is worried England’s World Cup training ground in Kansas City lacks privacy and will try to erect protective fences to guard against the team being spied on by rivals. The English game is in…

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Manchester City boss went from dressing like an overgrown schoolboy to relaxing the unwritten manager dress code In 2016, when Pep Guardiola took his place in the dugout for his first game in charge of Manchester City, the fashion plates in the Premier League included José Mourinho, in a quarter zip and mac at Manch…

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Wayne Rooney on how Tuchel got Maguire, Foden and Palmer decisions WRONG.

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