(BUCHAREST, ROMANIA) – Romanian Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, condemned the unacceptable gesture of Rapid Bucureşti football team fans who displayed support of their team by burning Hungary’s flag. "There is no excuse for this gesture,” Ponta stated. “I categorically reject such irresponsible and unacceptable gestures for a society that wants to promote and live in [...]
(LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND) – The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today issued strong warnings to Korean footballer Jongwoo Park and the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) for inappropriate behaviour exhibited by the athlete during the London 2012 Olympic Games. On 10 August, following the bronze medal match between the Republic of Korea and [...]
(PRESTON, ENGLAND) – A Barrow man has been given a three year ban from attending any football matches in England, Scotland and Wales. Jon Doherty, aged 20, from Victoria Road, Barrow-in-Furness was handed a three year football banning order after he was arrested by British Transport Police for being drunk and disorderly at Preston Railway [...]
(RIPON, ENGLAND) – Ripon police are appealing for witnesses after the local football club’s changing rooms were broken into during a match. On Saturday 24 November, the home side changing rooms of Ripon Football Club, on Mallorie Park Drive, were broken into, sometime between 3pm and 4pm during the second half of the match against [...]
(TORONTO, ON) – Toronto Croatia won the CSL First Division with a 2-1 victory over Windsor Stars, Montreal Impact Academy made a clean sweep of their two weekend games in Toronto with a 1-0 defeat of York Region Shooters, SC Waterloo kept their playoff hopes alive with a 1-0 win over SC Toronto and Kingston [...]
(WINDSOR, ON) – Windsor Stars continued their good form with a 4-1 defeat of St. Catharines Wolves at Windsor Stadium, one of three games in the Canadian Soccer League Sunday. Serbian White Eagles defeated Brantford Galaxy by the same 4-1 score and York Region Shooters were held to a 1-1 tie by SC Waterloo. Forward [...]
(WINDSOR, ON) – The Lancer Men’s soccer team opened their 2012/13 season with a road trip to UOIT on Saturday afternoon. The Lancers started strongly, when new recruit Jamar Kelly opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Following a deep cross, Kelly latched onto the ball and drove it home to give Windsor an early [...]
(BRAMPTON, ON) – It took just one goal by midfielder Wade Allen at 56 minutes to give Windsor Stars three important points and their sixth straight game without a loss, a 1-0 result at Victoria Park in Brampton. Allen drove the ball from 20 yards to beat Brampton goalkeeper Jason Lopes and while the visitors [...]
(KYIV, UKRAINE) – Exactly three weeks after they opened their UEFA EURO 2012 finals campaigns with a 1-1 draw in Gdansk, Spain and Italy meet again in Kyiv for the right to be crowned European champions. The matchday one draw means Spain have not won a competitive game against Italy since their very first meeting [...]
(DONETSK, UKRAINE) – Defending champions Spain must reverse an anomaly of history when they take on France in their UEFA EURO 2012 quarter-final in Donetsk. Spain have never beaten their neighbours in a competitive fixture which holds only unhappy memories for them, not least UEFA European Championship defeats in the 1984 final and then the [...]
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