Former England captain Gary Lineker says some parents are "instilling fear" into children who play grassroots football.
Speaking to the BBC's Don't Tell Me The Score podcast, the Match of the Day presenter urged parents to "shut up and …
Cameroon's new Portuguese coach Toni Conceicao handed maiden call-ups to two new players as he named his first Indomitable Lions squad.
France-based duo Ignatius Ganago and Harold Moukoudi have been included on a 29-man list for a frien…
Reece James' star showing in Chelsea's Carabao Cup third round thrashing of League Two side Grimsby Town is "just the start" for the teenager, says Blues boss Frank Lampard.
James, 19, set up Michy Batshuayi in the seventh minute before…
Last season's surprise semi-finalists Burton claimed another big scalp in the Carabao Cup as they beat Bournemouth to reach round four in a game stopped three times for floodlight failure.
The Brewers were deserved winners, given to the…
West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini took responsibility as his side were bundled out of the Carabao Cup in humiliating fashion by League One Oxford United.
The Hammers arrived at the Kassam Stadium on the back of an outstanding win over …
Manchester United needed penalties to beat neighbours Rochdale in the Carabao Cup third round on a tense night at Old Trafford.
Mason Greenwood put United ahead with a low strike but 16-year-old Luke Matheson smashed home a famous equal…
Mr. Kofi Manu, a Football Administrator and an Official of Sekondi Hassaacas has raised concerns over the composition of the Vetting Committee for the upcoming Ghana Football Association (GFA) elections.
He questioned the inclusion of t…
Charlotte Purdue has been pounding a laboratory treadmill in 36C heat for the past month.
The 28-year-old told BBC Sport she had performed 10 sessions of up to 90 minutes each at the physiology department of St Mary's University, with t…
Real Madrid continued their unbeaten start to the La Liga season by beating Osasuna 2-0 to return to the top of the table.
Manager Zinedine Zidane rested several of his first-team players, including Gareth Bale, before the Madrid derby …
Midfielder Naby Keita has made a return into the 18-man squad of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, with forward Songne Yacouba dropped as the team heads to Tunisia to play Etoile Du Sahel in the second leg of the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF…
Paris St-Germain lost at home in the league for the first time since May 2018 as they were beaten 2-0 by Reims.
The French champions beat Real Madrid 3-0 in the Champions League last week but looked a shadow of that side in this game, f…
The SkyBet English Football League Championship Championship is widely regarded as one of the most entertaining and unpredictable leagues around Europe, with its marathon nature; there are no less than 24 teams and breakneck speed making f…
Uruguay left Fiji on the brink of exiting the Rugby World Cup at the pool stage as they pulled off a memorable win in Kamaishi.
In a frantic first half, Fiji were left stunned as Uruguay came from behind to lead through tries from Santi…
"Well, I mean, you're American to start with. You don't even have rugby here."
So observed Emily, Ross Geller's English girlfriend, when the sport popped up as a plot device in a 1998 Friends episode.
It didn't get any better for rug…
Head coach Eddie Jones is confident his reshuffled England team will cope with their short turnaround as they prepare for Thursday's game against the USA, four days after battling past Tonga.
Only five of the team from Sunday's 35-3 win…
Australia winger Reece Hodge has been banned for three games after his dangerous tackle on Peceli Yato in the World Cup Pool D victory over Fiji.
An independent disciplinary committee in Tokyo adjudged Hodge's no-arms challenge on the F…
Sebastian Vettel can breathe a sigh of relief after finally banking his first win of the season in Singapore.
The most under-pressure driver on the grid heading into the heat of Marina Bay managed to pull a much needed victory out of th…
After 22 years in first-class cricket, you might think that thoughts would begin to turn to retirement - unless your name is Darren Stevens.
"I've got no intention of finishing playing anytime soon," he told BBC Sport. "I haven't once c…
Lancashire pace bowler Saqib Mahmood says he was called a "terrorist" after he missed the England Lions tour of India because he could not get a visa.
Uncapped Mahmood, 22, has been called up to England's Test and Twenty20 squads for Ne…
Australia batsman Travis Head will join Sussex for the entire 2020 season, playing in all formats of the game.
The 25-year-old left-hander was part of Australia's triumphant Ashes campaign, featuring in four Tests.
He amassed 191 run…
Yorkshire and Warwickshire's Division One Championship game at Edgbaston was rained off without a ball being bowled for the second successive day.
Yorkshire reached 261-2 at the end of the first day on Monday, but no play was possible o…
Wimbledon champion Simona Halep retired from the Wuhan Open after sustaining a lower back injury in her third-round match against Elena Rybakina in China.
The world number six, who ended the year as world number one in 2017 and 2018, wi…
Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell says he pulled out of last weekend's PGA Championship at Wentworth because of the hurricane that hit the Bahamas.
McDowell, who has a house on one of the many Caribbean islands that make up the country…
A Japanese comedy duo have apologised after they reportedly said Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka "needed some bleach" during a live event.
Japanese Osaka, 21, won her first Pan Pacific Open title in her hometown Osaka on Sunday - h…
Madam Amanda Clinton, a presidential aspirant of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), has said she was ready to take Ghana football to the next level when elected as president of the local football controlling body.
Madam Clinton who…
The vetting process preceding the election of a new Ghana Football Association (GFA) president is expected to kick start tomorrow at a venue yet to be decided.
This follows the inauguration of the five-member vetting committee tasked …
GFA presidential hopeful, George Afriyie, is set to outline his vision for Ghana Football on October 3, 2019.
The event will be staged at the Eusbett Hotel in Sunyani – the capital of the newly created Bono Region.
The former GFA vice pr…
Ten football fans who claimed to have been falsely imprisoned by police before a match in 2015 have received an out of court settlement.
The Bristol City fans were detained by West Midlands Police before an away match at Birmingham City…
Aspiring Ghana Football Association (GFA) president, Kurt Okraku has vowed to restore the image of Ghana football on the bedrock of transparency and accountability.
Speaking at the launch of his manifesto in Accra yesterday, he said, …
Phil Neville says he has selected an expanded Great Britain squad that will be whittled down to a final 18 players for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The 42-year-old England manager will lead the women's football team made up of playe…
Juventus replaced Inter Milan at the top of Serie A after coming from behind to beat newly-promoted Brescia.
Alfredo Donnarumma fired the hosts, who gave a debut to former Liverpool and Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli, into a su…
Lionel Messi suffered an injury on his first start of the season in Barcelona's narrow win over Villarreal at the Nou Camp.
Messi, who had recovered from a calf injury to feature, was replaced at the start of the second half after suffe…
Sebastian Vettel badly needed a win after a drought stretching back more than a year, and getting one in Singapore - even if it came about in slightly fortunate circumstances - will have done wonders for his confidence.
The race yielded…
The funeral of ex-Rangers player Fernando Ricksen will take place in Glasgow later.
The Dutch international died last week at the age of 43 after battling motor neurone disease since 2013.
The cortege will make its way to Ibrox Stadi…
The Women's Super League this season is set to be one of the most competitive so far, and with record crowds.
After Manchester United launched a women's side in 2018-19, every major English club has one and teams in Europe are following…
Dina Asher-Smith is hoping to create history as she leads Britain's hopes of winning medals at the World Athletics Championships, which begin on Friday.
No British woman has won a world sprint title - in 1983 Kathy Cook won 200m bronze …
Viewers on DStv will be treated to some prime footballing action from the 2019/20 EFL League Cup also known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons which will hold its Third Round on the midweek of 24-25 September 2019.
This phase o…
Ghanaian Wheelchair Tennis Players Emmanuel Amosogo Amobire Age 11 and Maxwell Otoo 13 Off to South Africa for training Camp.
Two Ghanaian Wheelchair Tennis players and their coach left Accra today Friday September 20 2019 for South Afr…
Megan Rapinoe won the women's player award - ahead of fellow American Alex Morgan and England's Lucy Bronze - at the Best Fifa Football Awards in Milan.
Rapinoe, 34, claimed the Golden Ball for being the best player at the 2019 Women's …
The Best Fifa Football Awards were full of sophistication, elegance and swankiness in Milan's Teatro alla Scala.
Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp came up trumps in the best men's player and best men's coach categori…
Ghana football’s normalisation process will reach a new phase on Wednesday when the supervising Normalisation Committee begins a review exercise on nominees vying for the various openings in a new Ghana Football Association (GFA).
The…
Barcelona's Lionel Messi won the best men's player at the Best Fifa Football Awards in Milan as Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk missed out on the top prize.
It is the sixth time Messi has been voted the world…
Italian football should apply English-style punishments to supporters guilty of racism, says Gianni Infantino, the president of world governing body Fifa.
Sunday's game between Atalanta and Fiorentina was halted after reports of racist …
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh fears his beloved Hibernian are "favourites" for relegation from the Scottish Premiership this season.
Paul Heckingbottom's side are second bottom of the table, with four points from six games, followin…
From his father being mauled to death by a lion, to his abandonment, to representing his country and then ultimately being banned by his sport, the life of Jimmy Peters was nothing short of remarkable.
As the first black man to play rug…
Scotland scrum-half Ali Price is out of the World Cup because of a foot injury suffered in Sunday's defeat by Ireland.
The Glasgow Warriors player, 26, came on as a second-half substitute in place of Greig Laidlaw in the 27-3 loss in Yo…
Wales second row Cory Hill has been ruled out of the World Cup without playing a game.
The Dragons forward has failed to recover from a stress fracture and will be replaced by Ospreys' Bradley Davies.
Wales had only two fit regular l…
England have rung the changes for the second game of their World Cup campaign as coach Eddie Jones looks to deal with the short turnaround between matches.
Only five of the players who started Sunday's 35-3 win over Tonga will begin aga…
"I like to run fast and fly even faster!"
Zharnel Hughes is addicted to speed.
That may come as little surprise given he is the European 100m champion, but while his rivals focus strictly on earthbound feats, Hughes' "obsession" has …
The Taysec Titans jumped to the top of the Pool B standings after defeating the Kyebi Leopards in the ongoing 2019 Ghana Cricket Association's (GCA) President's T20 League.
The Leopards won the toss and elected to field first at t…
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