Ten years ago, AFC Bournemouth were dying.
Handed a 17-point penalty in League Two, they did not even reach zero points until early December. Players were not being paid on time and only received salaries at all thanks to loans from the…
Manie Christine Patience, captain of the Cameroon female national football team, has admitted that their final group match against Ghana would still be difficult despite her side tagged as favourites.
The Cameroonian side look the stron…
Elizabeth Addo, captain of the national female football team the Black Queens, has called on fans to troop to the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday, to support the team in their last Group A game against Cameroon.
Elizabeth, who came off t…
Celtic may refuse tickets for next month's meeting with Rangers at Ibrox for security reasons, chief executive Peter Lawwell has told the club's AGM.
Lawwell says the club will advise fans not to attend the game if he feels there are sa…
Republic of Ireland manager Martin O'Neill and his assistant Roy Keane have left their roles.
The pair were appointed in 2013 and guided the Republic to the last 16 of the 2016 European Championship.
However, they did not win a compe…
Joseph Brilliant Ndoko Touongo, head coach of the Cameroon female national team has said, his side is determined to do their best in their last group match at this year’s Africa Women Cup of Nations (AWCON) against a hungry host, Ghana.
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The Charity Commission says it will be "engaging" with the Professional Footballers' Association "to establish the facts", amid criticism of PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor.
The watchdog told BBC Sport it had become "aware of concerns…
The Euro 2020 qualifiers will be drawn on Sunday, 2 December in Dublin.
The top two teams from each group will qualify for the tournament - which is being held in 12 countries - alongside the four Nations League play-off winners.
Eng…
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has been warned by the Football Association after he spoke about referee Anthony Taylor before the Manchester derby.
Guardiola broke FA rules by discussing the suitability of the Cheshire official, who…
Tottenham host Chelsea on Saturday as the Premier League gets back under way with a top-four London derby.
But who would you pick in a combined Spurs and Chelsea XI?
Hugo Lloris or Kepa Arrizabalaga in goal? Pedro or Son Heung-min? I…
Barcelona must pay 100m euros (£89m) on top of a transfer fee if they try to sign a Liverpool player before 2020.
BBC Sport understands the deal was struck as part of Brazil playmaker Philippe Coutinho's £142m move to Barcelona in Janua…
In the space of one sentence during his interview with BBC Sport, Zlatan Ibrahimovic refers to himself in the third person three times.
Other footballers - other people - wouldn't be able get away with such a self-aggrandising habit, bu…
Chelsea have joined Manchester United in the pursuit of Inter Milan's £70m-rated Slovakia defender Milan Skriniar, 23. (Sun)
Manchester United could look to sign Fiorentina and Serbia defender Nikola Milenkovic, 21, in January (Sky Spor…
In four years' time, the Qatar World Cup will be under way.
The Gulf state's hosting has been mired in controversy since Fifa's shock decision to award it the tournament in 2010.
From being the first World Cup staged in the winter, t…
When La Liga leaders Barcelona face third-placed Atletico Madrid on Saturday, they will be led out by a man whose playing abilities could never be questioned but whose leadership skills often are: Lionel Messi.
This is Messi's first sea…
Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has confirmed his retirement from playing, ending "an amazing 20 years".
The Ivory Coast striker, 40, had two spells at Chelsea, scoring 164 goals in 381 games and winning four Premier Leagues and the 2012 C…
The Chairman of Ghana's National Anti-Doping Committee (NADC), Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie is confident that the country will become compliant to the World Anti-Doping Association's (WADA) rules before it hosts the All-Africa Games in 2023.
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Ghana finished as Group A winners at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Uruguay 2018 with a 2-0 victory over New Zealand in the final matchday of their group stage play, thanks to a brace from captain Mukarama Abdulai.
The match was all …
Bashir Hayford, head coach for the national female football team, the Black Queens, has said, his team was frustrated by referee Leticia Antonella Viana from Swaziland, who handled the second Group A game between Ghana and Mali at the ongo…
A brace from the Black Maidens captain Mukarama Abdulai was all Ghana needed to top Group A with nine points to set up a meeting with Mexico in the quarterfinal stage of the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup ongoing in Uruguay.
The Black Maide…
Houssein Saloum, head coach of the Malian national female football team, has said, his team played above themselves to beat Ghana by 2-1 in second Group A game in the ongoing African Women Cup (AWCON) 2018 at the Accra Sports Stadium.
A…
England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow says he has not accepted that his only way back into the Test team is as a specialist batsman.
He missed the first Test in Sri Lanka with an ankle injury, and replacement Ben Foakes kept his place for…
Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny has been ruled out of Saturday's autumn Test against South Africa after failing to recover from concussion.
The 29-year-old was injured in a challenge by Australia's Samu Kerevi on 10 November, an inciden…
Wales manager Ryan Giggs was scathing in his criticism of his "complacent" players after their humiliating 1-0 friendly defeat in Albania.
Tuesday's loss in Elbasan was Giggs' fifth in nine matches in charge.
Wales wasted several cha…
LeBron James returns to Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday - and how they must wish he was lining up in their jersey.
Sadly for them, the four-time NBA Most Valuable Player award winner will be facing them instead with his new club - the …
At the end of a grueling competition, ten top performers have been selected from Kumasi, to join 20 others, from Accra and Takoradi for the Maltavator Challenge Season 2.
Residents of Kumasi poured out onto the Opoku Ware Senior High Sc…
Mr. Isaac Kwame Asiamah, Minister for Youth and Sports, has said, the Government is committed to eradicating cheating in sports, by setting up the National Anti-Doping Committee (NADC), aimed at promoting drug free sports in Africa and bey…
Scotland clinched a Euro 2020 play-off place and Nations League promotion after a dramatic and angst-ridden night against Israel at Hampden.
Celtic winger James Forrest scored a hat trick - taking his tally to five in two games - to put…
Poland came from behind to draw against Portugal and ensure they will be in pot one for the Euro 2020 qualifying draw.
The Poles went into the tie knowing a point would secure their status as a top-10 European side, despite having been …
An 18-man squad of Ghana's home based national team, Black Stars B, on Wednesday evening, departed to Namibia, to engage in an international friendly with Namibia, on November 24, 2018.
Maxwell Konadu, head coach of the side, had to re…
The Professional Golfers Association (PGA), has paid a courtesy call on Mr Isaac Kwame Asiamah, Minister for Youth and Sports.
The visit was to officially invite him for the Fifth Goldfields championship, to Tee off from 28th November t…
Kylian Mbappe injured a shoulder as world champions France beat Uruguay in a friendly in Paris.
Paris St-Germain forward Mbappe was unable to continue after landing awkwardly after a challenge from Uruguay goalkeeper Martin Campana.
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Formula 3 driver Sophia Florsch says she is "going to come back" after having an 11-hour operation on the fractured spine she sustained in a high-speed crash in Macau on Sunday.
Doctors used bone from the 17-year-old German driver's hip…
The bans on Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft will not be reduced, says Cricket Australia (CA).
Smith and Warner were suspended for 12 months and Bancroft for nine for ball-tampering in South Africa in March.
The Austral…
Venus Williams has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a man who died as a result of a car crash in Florida involving the US tennis star.
Ms Williams and the family of Jerome Barson reached a settlement last week, court …
Luca Di Montezemolo was Ferrari president throughout Fernando Alonso's time with the team, and he remembers him, Michael Schumacher and Niki Lauda as "the three best drivers I have seen in the Ferrari team".
"What I appreciated about Fe…
Paris St-Germain forward Neymar played for only six minutes as Brazil edged out Cameroon in Milton Keynes.
Neymar suffered an adductor muscle injury while taking a shot and was replaced by Everton's Richarlison.
And the Toffees forwa…
Captain Mukarama Abdulai scored a brace to send the Black Maidens into the quarterfinals of the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup with a 100 percent record.
The national U17 female side beat New Zealand 2-0 in their last to earn the 9 maximu…
Black Queens coach Bashir Hayford has made two changes to his team for their second Group A clash against Mali in the ongoing African Women Cup of Nations.
Hayford has replaced both strikers, Samira 'King Mira' Suleman and skipper Eli…
The Black Queens of Ghana will now have to win their final group match of the ongoing Women African Cup of Nations against Cameroon after losing 1-2 to their Malian counterparts yesterday at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The Queens we…
Five of the countries who have already booked their places at the Africa Cup of Nations finals will continue preparations for next year's tournament with friendly internationals on Tuesday.
The weekend's penultimate round of qualifiers …
From "glorified friendlies" to "it's coming home!" in the space of 12 minutes.
Derided initially by some as confusing and complex, the Uefa Nations League proved a massive hit at Wembley on Sunday.
Despite the competition's complexit…
Recent success has got England fans excited - so are Gareth Southgate's side realistically capable of winning a major tournament?
Southgate says England are "breaking new barriers" as they near the end of a year that brought a first Wor…
Like most football-obsessed kids, those playing on the streets of Hargeisa dream of one day representing their country. The problem is their country, officially at least, doesn't exist.
Somaliland has everything you expect from a countr…
Coach Maxwell Konadu has been compelled to revise his Black Stars B squad for Saturday’s international friendly against Namibia following Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s decision to withdraw their players for their upcoming CAF Confederation Cup as…
Fifteen years after making his Barcelona debut in a friendly, Lionel Messi is still going strong. So strong there is a theory he is an alien.
Almost half a lifetime ago, Messi played against Porto at the Nou Camp - and has gone on to br…
Boxer Samuel Turkson has thrown a challenge to former world champion Emmanuel 'Gameboy' Tagoe to face him in the ring to decide the true lightweight champion in the country.
The fighter known as 'Python' is also challenging fellow elit…
Remember the moans, groans and general ambivalence when watching England was not so much a labour of love, but more a thankless task?
Not any more. This year has been a little different.
With the World Cup evoking memories of Italia …
Mali’s coach, Saloum Mohamed Houssein, has warned Ghana to brace themselves up for a tough fight when the two sides clash this afternoon at the Accra Stadium in the second Group A game of the ongoing Total Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AF…
Republic of Ireland manager Martin O'Neill is positive about his side's chances in the Euro 2020 qualifiers despite a disappointing 2018.
O'Neill's side drew 0-0 with Denmark in their final Nations League Group B4 game in Aarhus to fini…