Ten years in the past this month, Kosovo weren’t recognised by soccer. On Tuesday, the Balkan nation with simply 1.6million inhabitants will qualify for the males’s World Cup in the event that they defeat Turkey in the play-off closing. Kosovo have been solely granted membership standing by FIFA, world football’s governing physique, and its European…
Sweden endured a disastrous 2026 World Cup qualifying marketing campaign as they went winless and completed rock-bottom of their group. But they nonetheless have an opportunity to be one in every of the 48 competing groups this summer season, and Graham Potter has been tipped to verify their entry. 5 Sweden have one final likelihood…
“Jimmy Savile, he’s one of your own…” At Leeds United soccer matches, the chanting about certainly one of Britain’s most infamous paedophiles and rapists normally begins like this. On Sunday, earlier than an FA Cup fifth-round tie at Elland Road, Norwich City followers reminded their hosts that Savile was born, lived and died within the…
A brand new blue plaque honouring legendary soccer supervisor Herbert Chapman has been unveiled on the University of Sheffield, marking his hyperlinks to the University and celebrating Sheffield’s proud soccer heritage. The University of Sheffield has unveiled a brand new blue plaque honouring one of the greatest managers within the historical past of soccer –…