EURO 2021

Wayne Rooney will return to Manchester United’s starting line-up for their Champions League clash against Romanian side Otelul Galati, a match Sir Alex Ferguson’s team are 13/2 with bookmaker to win 3-0.

Rooney was named as a substitute for Saturday’s 1…

The Euro 2012 playoff draw was held Thursday in Krakow, Poland. The winners of these four home-and-home series will get the final four berths at next summer’s tournament, joining the 12 teams that have already qualified. The entire tournament will be televised on ESPN networks. Here are notes and Soccer Power Index projections for the four matchups. Turkey vs. Croatia This is a rematch of their dramatic Euro 2008 quarterfinal, when Croatia’s Ivan Klasnic scored an apparent winner in the 119th minute. But Turkey’s Semih Senturk tied it in stoppage […]

Defence coach Shaun Edwards has warned Wales, 8/11 with bookmaker to win in Auckland on Saturday, that World Cup semi-final opponents France will be difficult opponents.

Les Bleus shocked England 19-12 at the weekend and Warren Gatland’s assistant belie…

Fabio Capello says Wayne Rooney will not start in any of England’s friendlies ahead of the 2012 European Championships.

Rooney will be suspended for at least the first game of the finals in Poland and Ukraine after being red carded against Montenegro…

England head coach Martin Johnson has warned his players to expect a backlash when they face France, 9/5 with bookmaker to win Saturday’s quarter-final.

Johnson has urged his team to stay focused even though Les Bleus suffered two defeats in Pool A at t…

More than 40 applicants have registered an interest in the managerial vacancy at Championship strugglers Nottingham Forest.

Former England boss Steve McClaren left the club following a 3-1 defeat at home to Birmingham City which left the Nottingham c…

England’s Ian Bell, 6/1 to be his team’s leading run-scorer in the series, is relishing the prospect of taking on India in their own back yard.

Bell helped England defeat India in all forms of the game over the summer and he and his colleagues are 6/…

Stefan Savic believes England will not find it easy when they take on Montenegro in a crucial Euro 2012 qualifier in Podgorica on Friday.

The Manchester City defender, who scored his first goal for the club when he came off the bench to head home in …

Mike Tindall could miss Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final between England, 8/15 with bookmaker to win the game, and France.

The veteran centre was forced to miss training on Tuesday with a dead leg, the injury he sustained in the second half of Saturda…

England’s Delon Armitage will not play in Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final against France after being handed a one-match ban for a “dangerous high tackle”.

The winger was cited after a tackle on Scotland’s Chris Paterson during last Saturday’s win…