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After an absence of three months and uncertainty as to whether the season would actually be continued, Italian football will be back on our screens on Friday. Okay, so it's only the Coppa Italia, but you'd take that after months of watching the Belarusian league and re-watching matches you already know the result to. The first couple of games are absolute crackers as well, with Juventus playing Milan and Inter facing SSC Napoli. The empty, echoey stadiums will take some getting used to, unless...

News After three long months away from competitive football, Italy's top sides are on the brink of a return – one which seemed inconceivable not so long ago. On Saturday night, Inter travel south to take on Napoli in the second leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final. Antonio Conte's side are trailing 1-0 on aggregate after Fabian Ruiz curled in the only goal of their last meeting prior to the suspension of play. "FABIAN RUIZ SHOCKS SAN SIRO!" What. A. Goal. ? Napoli lead in the #CoppaItalia...

A lot of things have changed since the COVID-19 outbreak ground football to a halt in March. One thing appears to have stayed very much the same though - Liverpool being devastatingly good at football. Jurgen Klopp's side got their Premier League restart preparations off to a perfect start on Thursday afternoon, putting six goals past Blackburn Rovers at Anfield. Full time at Anfield Liverpool 6-0 Blackburn - (Keita, Mane, Minamino, Matip, Hoever, Clarkson) pic.twitter.com/5mKTz2Q3b0 — Watch...

d Go It's tough times for Lyon right now. At the start of the season, they had one of the most exciting and dynamic sides in Europe as they flew out of the traps both domestically and in Europe. However, a few patchy spells of form after an injury to Memphis Depay saw them slip to seventh in Ligue 1, just before the league was cut short by COVID-19. This means there will be no European football at the Groupama Stadium for the first time in 20 years, and due to this they will have to sell some...

Liverpool Women winger Rinsola Babajide has signed a fresh contract with the club to extend her stay on Merseyside for at least another season, a rare piece of good news for the Reds at the moment following a raft of other departures and relegation. With the Women’s Super League season cancelled as a result of the challenges posed by the coronavirus crisis, it was decided last week that Liverpool would be relegated to the Women’s Championship on a points per game basis. Liverpool have been...

For the neutral, watching Juan Foyth play football must be such exhilarating entertainment. Why? Because whenever he plays, something really, really ridiculous happens. And yet, there's still a part of your average Tottenham fan that thinks, 'That Foyth has something about him, y'know.' Foyth celebrates his goal at Crystal Palace last season The Argentina international - no, really, he's accumulated ten caps since his debut in October 2018 - hasn't persuaded Jose Mourinho of his ability since...

Barcelona have entered the race for Feyenoord starlet Orkun Kökcü this summer. Kökcü's season is already over after the cancellation of the Eredivisie at the end of April, with Feyenoord sitting third in the table behind joint-leaders Ajax and AZ. The 2019/20 Eredivisie season was declared null and void back in April The talented 19-year-old may have played his final game in red and white, with Arsenal expected to lodge a bid for the player, while Dutch news outlet RTV Rijnmond report that...

As football across Europe inches closer to a return and the dust is blown off the tossed aside league tables, Serie A boasts something of a bottleneck at the business end. Juventus, in the hunt for their ninth consecutive Scudetto, occupy the familiar position of first place but are just one point above the surprise challengers Lazio. ?? Da quattro anni alla nostra guida! Il 3 aprile del 2016, Simone #Inzaghi diventava l'allenatore de #LaPrimaSquadraDellaCapitale ? pic.twitter.com/zhQs56xthb —...

tart Premier League clubs face missing out on combined lost revenue of up to £1bn this season as a result of the coronavirus crisis, with accountancy firm Deloitte expecting ‘significant revenue reduction and operating losses’ across European football as a whole. Premier League clubs pulled in a collective £5.2bn in revenue for the 2018/19 season, but Deloitte’s 2020 Annual Review of Football Finances projects a drop in revenues to £4.3bn in 2019/20. Much of that drop will be from lost...

*TRANSFER SAGAS ALERT* Even before football properly returns from a three-month hiatus, a pair of blockbusting transfer 'sagas' involving two of the finest talents this continent has to offer are already starting to unravel. The futures of both Jadon Sancho and Kai Havertz have been thrust into the unknown as a result of the unprecedented financial strains brought about by COVID-19, with the former's exit from Borussia Dortmund this summer now not looking so clear-cut, while the latter's...

Jill Scott has put pen to paper on a new two-year deal at Manchester City in a combined playing and coaching role, emphasising her continued ability to defy age and the huge importance she still has for both club and country. City have a proud history of investing in youth, with youngsters Keira Walsh, Jess Park and Lauren Hemp all signing new, long-term contracts at the club over the past six months. Despite the club's reputation for putting their faith in youth, they had no qualms in handing...

Martin Braithwaite has lavished praise on his Barcelona teammates including Lionel Messi ahead of La Liga's imminent return. The 29-year-old arrived at the Camp Nou in controversial circumstances back in February. Despite their significant financial resources, Barça were awarded special dispensation to bring the forward in from relegation-threatened Leganes outside of the transfer window following the injury of Ousmane Dembele. Martin Braithwaite in action for Barcelona The deal was criticised...

Jadon Sancho or Kai Havertz: Assessing who's the better player

turn The Championship is following in the Premier League's footsteps with a return to action on 20 June, following three months without football. Standings are tantalisingly poised, with just six points separating sixth from 13th, and just three points between 22nd and 17th, meaning there's everything to play for in the nine remaining league fixtures. Let's take a look at a selection of fixtures that could prove decisive when the league gets back underway. 20 June: Brentford vs. Fulham Restart...

Australia and New Zealand are now firm favourites to be named co-hosts of the next FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023 following a strong assessment in the official Bid Evaluation Report, giving them a key advantage over Japan and Colombia at the final stage of the process. With Brazil withdrawing from the race earlier this month, FIFA has now published its report on the final three bids, with the FIFA Council scheduled to hold a decisive vote later this month and announce the winning bid for 2023...

News With the rest of Europe's top leagues almost back in business, the Bundesliga may start to fade into the background soon; with the title race done and the season almost over. There's still plenty to play for in the interim though, with the European spots still up for grabs and the relegation battle very much alive. Bayern Munich have more or less wrapped up the title, leading Borussia Dortmund by seven points with just four games to go, but they haven't taken their collective foot off the...

Chelsea have been taken taken to the High Court by a group of former players who were victims of racist abuse by former club coach Gwyn Williams during the 1980s and 1990s. Williams was found guilty of subjecting youth team players as young as 12 to daily racist abuse, prompting Chelsea to issue a public apology and offer support to the victims. Former youth coach Gwyn Williams has been named as the "instigator" of racial abuse at Chelsea Read more: https://t.co/SRxN9WbkJY...

So we all know that Newcastle are hopeful of coming into a little bit of money in the near future. Their Saudi Arabia-backed takeover is close to completion (unless, of course, it isn't) so the transfer rumours are already going wild. We've had rubbish, unfounded rumours of bids for Kylian Mbappé and Neymar, and now we've got a link to Bayer Leverkusen's Kai Havertz. Because of many requests. True: Kai Havertz can imagine to play for @ChelseaFC. True: there are already talks. But: @ChelseaFC...

gain Whether it be for his hairstyles, antics off the field, transfer stories, his agent...or his stellar performances on the pitch, Paul Pogba is never too far away from the headlines. There are few quite like the Frenchman in world football. With the perfect blend of power and technical skill, Pogba has the ability to change a game singlehandedly. Paul Pogba - Manchester United Departing Manchester United in the summer of 2012 for Juventus, Pogba went on to get the first team minutes he was...

lans The UEFA Executive Committee will hold its next videoconference meeting in two parts on 17 and 18 June, with discussions to include the conclusion of the 2019/20 Champions League and Europa League, as well as looking ahead to next season’s competitions. All European competitions were suspended indefinitely in March, with both the Champions League and Europa League frozen at the last 16 stage. View this post on Instagram ?️"“If the @ChampionsLeague can't be completed, the trophy should go...