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Manchester City did not deserve their last-minute Champions League victory at Borussia Monchengladbach, says Blues manager Manuel Pellegrini. Sergio Aguero's penalty earned a 2-1 win, with keeper Joe Hart saving a penalty before the Germans took a 1-0 second-half lead. Nicolas...

Gareth Bale has been named in the Wales squad for the Euro 2016 qualifiers against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Andorra later this month. The 26-year-old forward has missed Real Madrid's last three games with a calf injury but is set to return...

Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge has been left out of the England squad for the Euro 2016 qualifiers against Estonia and Lithuania. Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli, 19, and Reds forward Danny Ings, 23, have received their first senior call-ups, having represented...

Chelsea suffered a fifth defeat of the season after losing 2-1 to Porto in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday night. The home side led just before half-time through Andre Andre's close-range finish, only for Willian's brilliant free kick to...

Daniel Sturridge will not play in Liverpool's Europa League clash with Sion on Thursday, manager Brendan Rodgers has confirmed. Sturridge scored twice in the 3-2 win over Aston Villa at the weekend - only his second appearance since returning from...

Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has been banned from football for life. The 72-year-old Trinidadian is the former head of Caribbean and North and Central American football (Concacaf), but quit Fifa in 2011. He is fighting extradition to the US on...

Sepp Blatter says he will not stand down as Fifa president because of the criminal proceedings opened against him by Swiss investigators. The Swiss, 79, is suspected of signing a contract that was "unfavourable to Fifa" and making a "disloyal...

Former Chelsea forward Andre Schurrle says he left the club because of a breakdown in his relationship with manager Jose Mourinho. The 24-year-old signed on a permanent deal for Wolfsburg in February, and has revealed that he felt Mourinho no...

Romelu Lukaku believes Everton made a statement by keeping John Stones at the club over the summer. Stones, 21, was the subject of several summer transfer bids from Chelsea but ultimately stayed at Goodison Park. He has gone on to...

Wayne Rooney was on the scoresheet as Manchester United leapfrogged rivals City to go top of the Premier League after a 3-0 win over Sunderland at Old Trafford. Memphis Depay put Louis van Gaal's men in front on the stroke...