Aston Villa forward Rachel Daly has been handed a three-match suspension after admitting a charge of violent conduct, the Football Association has announced.
The England international appeared to catch Bristol City midfielder Amy Rodgers in the face with her arm late in the first half of Villa’s 2-2 Women’s Super League draw with the Robins at the Poundland Bescot Stadium on Saturday.
A statement from the FA said: “Rachel Daly has been suspended for three matches following Aston Villa Women’s game against Bristol City Women in the Women’s Super League on Saturday February 3.
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“Her behaviour during the 39th minute wasn’t seen by the match officials at the time, but it w…
Chelsea are interested in signing Wolverhampton Wanderers left-back Rayan Ait-Nouri, according to . The report has claimed that former Premier League and UEFA Champions League winners Chelsea want to add a new left-back to their squad in 2024, and that Ait-Nouri is one of the players on their radar.
Ait-Nouri had a loan spell at Wolves from Angers in 2020-21 before making the move to the Wanderers permanent. The 22-year-old has since been a superb player for Wolves and is one of the better left-backs/left wing-backs in the Premier League. The Algeria international has made 11 starts and one substitute appearance in the Premier League and has made one start and one substitute appearance in the Carabao Cup.
Chelsea are 10th in the Premier League table at the moment with 1…
Tottenham head coach Jose Mourinho hit out at Antonio Conte for speaking publicly about Inter s pursuit of Christian Eriksen.
Eriksen, 27, is out of contract at Tottenham at the end of the season and has been heavily linked with a move to the Serie A side.
Mourinho reignited his feud with Conte as speculation continues over Eriksen, criticising the Inter boss for discussing the midfielder publicly.
Conte is reported to have said: Eriksen? We have to go to people who have already had a career, who are at the end of their contracts.
I think Antonio, I think Antonio. I think it was publicly. He is very positive that Eriksen is coming to Inter, Mourinho told UK newspapers when asked who from Inter had been quoted about the Dane, via The Guardian.
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Two sides who have their sights firmly set on securing a Segunda play-off ticket this season, Real Valladolid will welcome Eibar to the Estadio Jose Zorrilla on Sunday afternoon.
Starting with the hosts, making an immediate return to losing ways last weekend as they eventually fell to a 2-0 loss at the hands of Ferrol, Real Valladolid have seen their play-off dreams take a real dent. Despite flying out of the traps when opening up the 2023/24 campaign, Paulo Pezzolano’s men have continued to struggle with their consistency over recent times. Getting March underway with a 2-1 loss against Andorra, the Pucelle have recorded just a trio of wins from any of their previous 12 straight Segunda appearances. With that extended rut st…
Carlo Ancelotti is the new head coach of Real Madrid after Florentino Perez attracted the Italian from Everton.
Ancelotti dramatically jumped to the front of the queue for the job when it had looked as though Raul and Mauricio Pochettino were the main contenders.
His appointment means a return to the club that sacked him six years ago, with Perez having been head of the board that reached that decision at the end of the 2014-15 season.
Perez said at the time he had a good personal relationship with Ancelotti, and that will have been a factor in bringing the veteran coach back to the Spanish capital.
Ancelotti could not deliver a LaLiga title during his previous two-year stint, but he helped Madrid win the Champions League in 2014 the 10th time in the…
Norwich City climbed to within one place of the Championship play-off spots following a 3-2 victory away at Derby County and a hat-trick from Borja Sainz.
The result ended a run of nine straight home wins in the league for Derby, and it was the first time they have been beaten at Pride Park since February. Norwich, meanwhile, have now won three of their last four matches.
Norwich took the lead in the first half through Sainz in controversial circumstances, with the ball looking as if it had gone out of play during the build-up to the goal.
But Derby would not go down without a fight, equalising through Craig Forsyth on his 300th career appearance, as he fired past Angus Gunn from eight yards.
Just five minutes later, Norwich were back in front with Sainz …
Although might have gained a string of plaudits after replacing Graham Potter at Brighton back in September 2022, the Italian tactician is already looking for a new adventure.
While there might have been plenty of speculation over his long-term future at the Amex, it was officially confirmed last week that the 44-year-old would be leaving the Seagulls at the end of the 2023/24 campaign.
Still with two years left on his current deal with , many across the Premier League were shocked by what felt like a spontaneous announcement.
Guiding Brighton to a sixth-place finish last season and spearhead their charge for a maiden European adventure, the former Shakhtar Donetsk boss appears to be a man in demand.
With Europe’s managerial merry-go-round now firmly …
Harrogate boss Simon Weaver praised his team’s character and ability as they leapt into the top half of League Two following a 2-1 home win over Accrington.
For the first time since August 2021, Harrogate secured maximum points after conceding the opening goal at their Wetherby Road ground with George Thomson’s stoppage-time effort sealing victory after he had set up Jack Muldoon’s equaliser to cancel out Jack Nolan’s second-half opener for the visitors.
The victory ended a run of four straight defeats against Stanley for the Sulphurites, dating back to the clubs’ Unibond League days in 2002/03, with a delighted Weaver hailing a “perfect Christmas” following a third league win on the bounce.
He said: “We always knew it would be a testing game. Acc…
Of course we have a certain history…but we don t know each other as well as everybody thinks.
So said Thomas Tuchel during a glowing assessment of his German compatriot Jurgen Klopp, not long after replacing club legend Frank Lampard in the Chelsea dugout in January.
You could be forgiven, though, for thinking there is a much stronger bond between two men from the same country, whose paths from young heavy-metal upstarts to coaching heavyweights have taken eerily similar paths.
There are striking facets in each man s style of play too. The high intensity pressing, the devastating speed of the counter-attack, the fluidity of the forwards.
Now, whether you are a believer in fate or coincidence, the two are set to battle in the Premier League for the fir…
Phil Foden gave Manchester City a slender 2-1 Champions League quarter-final advantage over Borussia Dortmund after Marco Reus snatched an away goal in a frantic finish at the Etihad Stadium.
Kevin De Bruyne started and finished a rapid move to put City ahead in the 19th minute, but Dortmund were unfortunate to be behind at half-time after referee Ovidiu Hategan inexplicably penalised Jude Bellingham for a fair challenge on Ederson.
City belatedly hit their stride in the final quarter of the game, although Foden looked like being the villain as he missed two golden opportunities before Bellingham and Erling Haaland combined for Reus to coolly equalise six minutes from time.
Fortunately for the home team, England youngster Foden kept a cool head when Ilkay Gundoga…