Xavi eyes another Super Cup-inspired Barca revival
Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez hopes winning the Spanish Super Cup will be the turning point that revives their La Liga title challenge as it did last season.
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Morocco hope World Cup feelgood factor can help lift their Afcon 'curse'
Hard to pinpoint the precise moment when Africa, en masse, fell in love with Morocco’s national football team, but the peak of pan-continental support would probably have been reached sometime between quarter to four, Casablanca time, on December 10, 2022 and about an hour and seven minutes later.
Super Cup in Saudi Arabia starts sequence of crunch Madrid derbies
You can take a Madrid derby 3,000 miles away from the capital of Spain, but no distance will ever blunt its sharp edge. No sooner had the identity of the referee taking charge of Wednesday’s Super Cup semi-final, Real versus Atletico, been revealed than the snarling and the grumbling began.
RTÉ Rugby podcast: Irish squad decisions, Carbery's move & Champions Cup previews
Neil Treacy is joined by Bernard Jackman and Johne Murphy to discuss the major talking points of the rugby week.
Kyogo missing elements named as Celtic hero sees Japan boss explain 'painful' Asian Cup snub
Snubbing Kyogo Furuhashi for this month's Asian Cup was "painful" for Japan manager Hajime Moriyasu.
Maidstone United manager George Elokobi sees his players get back to work after their FA Cup heroics with 2-1 National League South victory over Dartford
Maidstone boss George Elokobi loved the professionalism of his players in their comeback win over Dartford.
Middlesbrough Stun Chelsea Flops To Take League Cup Semi-Final Lead
Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino bemoaned a familiar lack of cutting edge after his team lost the first leg of their League Cup semi-final 1-0 to Championship side Middlesbrough at the Riverside on Tuesday. Hayden Hackney scored the only goal on 38 minutes as Pochettino's expensively assembled array of stars again failed to perform away from home. Chelsea have lost five of their last six away games and 21 times on the road since the beginning of last season -- the most of any Premier League team. The Blues must turn the tie around when the sides meet again at Stamford Bridge on January 23 to avoid heaping more pressure on Pochettino's position during a disappointing first season in charge for the Argentine.
"You Can't Say...": India Legend On Rohit Sharma And Virat Kohli Playing T20 World Cup 2024
Legendary Indian cricket team batter Krishnamachari Srikkanth believes that both Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will be part of the T20 World Cup 2024 squad if they are available for selection. The two veteran cricketers have not played T20I cricket for quite some time and ahead of the T20I series against Afghanistan, a lot of questions have been asked about their possible inclusion. However, Srikkanth said that both of them will be looking to win the World Cup title and they cannot be ignored for the competition.