Manchester City boss Gareth Taylor has signed a one-year contract extension to keep him in charge of the Women’s Super League side for the 2023-24 season.
The 50-year-old was appointed in May 2020, succeeding Nick Cushing, and went on to oversee City winning a delayed FA Cup final in November of that year and the League Cup in March 2022. They were also FA Cup runners-up in 2021-22.
Having finished second and then third in the WSL in the previous two seasons, the team missed out on the Champions League spots in 2022-23 with a fourth-placed finish.
At the start of the campaign they were knocked out in the qualifying rounds of the European competition for a second successive year.
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Lionel Scaloni has no intention of stepping down as head coach after guiding Argentina to World Cup glory, says Argentine Football Association (AFA) president Claudio Tapia.
Argentina defeated France 4-2 on penalties in a thrilling Qatar 2022 final that finished 3-3 after extra time to add to the Copa America crown won last year.
With his team s latest success, Scaloni became just the third manager in history to win both competitions, after former Brazil bosses Mario Zagallo and Carlos Alberto Parreira.
The 44-year-old is due to be out of contract later this week and has been tipped to take on a high-profile position at club level, but Tapia does not see that happening.
I have no doubt he will continue to be the head coach of the Argentina team, AFA chie…
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Hamrun Spartans and Maccabi Haifa will lock horns with each other in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League Qualifying First Round this week. The match between the club from Malta and the team from Israel will be held at the Victor Tedesco Stadium in Hamrun and is scheduled to kick off at 9pm UK time on Tuesday.
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Hamrun Spartans are one of the major clubs in Malta. Tas-Sikkina won the 2022–23 Maltese Premier League title. They ended the campaign with 69 points from 26 matches, as many as 19 points clear of second-placed Birkirkara. That has allowed Hamrun Spartans to enter the 2023-24 UEFA Champions League campaign at the first qualifying round.
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Arsenal may not get a better chance to win the Premier League than this season, former boss Arsene Wenger has warned ahead of Wednesday s game with Manchester City.
Wenger managed Arsenal to three Premier League titles, but the Gunners have not finished top of the pile in England since the last of those triumphs in the 2003-04 campaign.
However, with Mikel Arteta now at the helm, the London side are three points clear of second-placed City with a game in hand heading into their meeting at Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal have stuttered of late, taking just one point from their past two matches, and legendary former manager Wenger has urged them not to let the opportunity pass them by.
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While Tottenham might have been handed the chance to break into the Champions League spots on Saturday evening, Spurs fell to a shock 3-0 drumming away at Fulham.
Although Ange Postecoglou’s men might have been looking to make another top-four statement, it was Fulham who dominated large proceedings and took a more than worthy lead as the red-hot Rodrigo Muniz opened the scoring moments before the interval.
Flying out of the traps when returning from the half-time break and with both Muniz and Sasa Lukic breaching Spurs’ leaky defence just before the hour-mark, Marco Silva’s men certainly put in a season-best performance here.
Now winning three of their previous four Premier League appearances, some in west London could be eyeing a late European charge.
Everton have formally lodged an appeal against the two-point penalty imposed on the club earlier this month for breaching Premier League financial rules.
The Toffees indicated their intention to appeal last Monday, the same day the sanction was announced. The PA news agency understands that appeal has now been lodged.
The club admitted breaching the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) for permitted losses by £16.6million for the assessment period ending with the 2022-23 season.
The independent commission which imposed the sanction disclosed in the written reasons for its decision that the Premier League had initially sought a five-point penalty.
This was reduced to two by the commission, after mitigation was taken into account…
Harry Kane twice punished hapless Everton defending as Tottenham salvaged a 2-2 draw at Goodison Park on Friday, though it does little good for their dwindling top-four hopes.
Jose Mourinho s side were looking to bounce back from a deflating 3-1 defeat to Manchester United, yet they were underwhelming once again and arguably fortunate to leave Merseyside with a point.
Kane punished a Michael Keane error to reach 20 Premier League goals in a season for the fifth time, a record bettered by only Alan Shearer (seven) and Sergio Aguero (six), though their lead did not last long as Gylfi Sigurdsson equalised from the spot for an Everton side being orchestrated by the excellent James Rodriguez.
Sigurdsson doubled his tally in the second half as Everton threatened to mov…
Colombia inflicted Brazil with a second consecutive defeat, leaving them fifth in the World Cup qualifications in the CONMEBOL region.
Arsenal winger Gabriel Martinelli put the Selecao ahead in the fourth minute, but Liverpool s Luis Diaz scored twice in quick succession in the second half, turning the game in favour of Colombia.
Diaz s father was recently released from captivity, while his teammate Alisson Becker tragically lost his father in February 2021. The Brazil goalkeeper therefore felt for the Colombia winger during his time of trouble, probably more than most, and Diaz apparently felt the need to console Alisson after the game.
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Manchester United are set to confront their haunting memories of last season s devastating seven-goal defeat as they embark on a brief journey to Merseyside to take on Liverpool. The highly anticipated match is expected to draw a record-breaking crowd of approximately 57,000 spectators at Anfield this Sunday,.
Both football powerhouses aim to bounce back from their recent setbacks, with the match serving as the weekend s headline Premier League fixture.
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Thanks to a successful test event conducted on Monday, a section of Liverpool s reconstructed Anfield Road Stand is set to officially open ahead of schedule this Sunday, with the iconic stadium potentially hosting the highest number of spectators in the Premier Leag…
Former Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has conceded the club’s re-signing of Cristiano Ronaldo “turned out wrong”.
Solskjaer was in charge when United brought the five-time Ballon d’Or winner back to Old Trafford amid much optimism and fanfare in August 2021.
At the time the transfer was viewed as a coup that could potentially fuel a Premier League title challenge.
Yet things soon unravelled as the team struggled and Solskjaer was sacked in November that year.
Ronaldo left the club in acrimonious fashion 12 months later.
Solskjaer told The Athletic: “It was about taking the next step to challenge for the title. And, unfortunately, it just didn’t work out.
“It was a decision that was very difficult to turn down …