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A plane carrying a Brazilian football team has crashed in Colombia The plane crashed in a mountainous area outside the city shortly before midnight local time (05:00 GMT). BBC reports that the plane was carrying a total of 72 persons including the players. The chartered plane, flying from...

Manchester United posted sliding quarterly profits Thursday as the team paid the price for failing to qualify for the lucrative UEFA Champions League. Operating profit dived one third to £6.2 million (7.2 million euros, $7.7 million) in three months to September 30, or the first quarter of the...

Theo Walcott scored twice as Arsenal put in a dominant home display against Basel in the Champions League. It took the Gunners just six minutes to open the scoring as Walcott headed in from Alexis Sanchez's cutback. The two Arsenal men linked up again as Englishman Walcott drilled low into...

Come 5:30pm, Chelsea Football Club and Arsenal Club will do battle at the Emirates Stadium. See the starting lineup for both teams: Chelsea: Courtois; Ivanovic (c), Cahill, David Luiz, Azpilicueta; Kante; Willian, Fabregas, Matic, Hazard; Diego Costa. Arsenal: Cech, Bellerin, Mustafi...

Manchester United is set to clash with Leicester City Football Club today at Old Trafford. Here are the starting lineup for both teams: Leicester City: Zieler, Simpson, Huth, Morgan (c), Fuchs, Mahrez, Drinkwater, Amartey, Albrighton, Slimani, Vardy Manchester United: De Gea, Valencia...

Yaya Toure's dad has pleaded with Pep Guardiola to forgive his son and allow him play football for Manchester City Football club. Speaking to THE SUN, Yaya's father Mory said, “I’m worried about him. It’s a problem. We ask Guardiola to come down to earth. He’s the boss. I ask him for...

Everton have made a bid for Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart, with the Toffees offering the England international a permanent deal or a loan move. - Barcelona are set to announce the signing of Valencia striker Paco Alcacer, with the Spanish attacker set to cost up to €30 million. The...

Neymar struck the winning penalty as Brazil claimed a first ever Olympic football gold medal with victory over Germany on penalties at Rio’s Maracana on Saturday. The 5-4 shoot-out win exacted revenge for a humiliating 7-1 World Cup semi-final defeat to Germany two years ago. Olympic gold was...

English Premier League results on Saturday: Stoke 1 (Bojan 49-pen) Manchester City 4 (Aguero 27-pen, 36, Nolito 86, 90+5) Burnley 2 (Vokes 2, Gray 37) Liverpool 0 Swansea 0 Hull 2 (Maloney 79, Hernandez 90+3) Tottenham 1 (Wanyama 83) Crystal Palace 0 Watford 1 (Capoue 55) Chelsea 2...

Chelsea could break their club record with a £60m bid for Napoli's Senegal international defender Kalidou Koulibaly, 25. balotelli Here are other transfer stories for today: - Crystal Palace have offered to take Loic Remy on a season-long loan deal from Chelsea. (L'Equipe) - Herths...

24 minutes into play, Ronaldo threw his armband to the floor in anger. He needs a stretcher to be helped off, and is in tears again as he hands the armband to Nani before being helped onto a stretcher. He was applauded off by both sets of fans. See photos:

The Euro 2016 final on Sunday sees a match between hosts France and Portugal that will unleash a clash between one of the world’s greatest players ever Cristiano Ronaldo and would be pretender Antoine Griezmann. 108th min: Portugal 1 Vs France 0 Catch all the exciting updates...

According to L'Equipe, Paul Pogba has told his family and closest friends that he intends to leave Juventus in order to return to Manchester United, snubbing Real Madrid in the process. Will such move materialize? Here are other top stories for the day. - AZ expect Tottenham Hotspur to...