4 h. ago FA defends Mitre match ball after Pep Guardiola’s ‘not proper’ criticism

Guardiola said the ball was ‘not proper’ after his side’s win over Plymouth

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7 h. ago FA Cup defends Mitre matchball after Pep Guardiola’s ‘not proper’ criticism

Guardiola said the ball was ‘not proper’ after his side’s win over Plymouth

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8 h. ago Football Association says cup ball ‘performs well’ after Pep Guardiola slating

Guardiola said the ball was “not proper” after his side’s win over Plymouth on Saturday.

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30 h. ago When is FA Cup draw? Start time today, ball numbers, TV channel and live stream for quarter

Manchester United or Fulham to join Crystal Palace and Manchester City in the hat

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35 h. ago When is FA Cup draw? Start time today, confirmed ball numbers, TV channel and live stream for quarter

Manchester United or Fulham to join Crystal Palace and Manchester City in the hat

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49 h. ago Vitor Pereira remains upbeat despite losing key man Matheus Cunha to red card

The Wolves star lost his head with spot-kicks on the horizon.

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52 h. ago Goalkeepers to be punished with corner for holding ball more than eight seconds

Ifab announces law change for next season‘It could be one of those very effective deterrents’Goalkeepers who waste time by holding on to the ball are to be penalised with the award of a corner, the law-making International Football Association Board (Ifab) has confirmed.The new law, which will be rolled out across the game this summer, will mean goalkeepers have eight seconds to claim and redistribute the ball before they are penalised, with the referee giving the keeper a five-second countdown to warn them of incoming punishment. This will replace the current system whereby a keeper has six seconds to move the ball on, and is punished with an indirect free-kick if they do not. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Fifa’s Gianni Infantino defends ‘crucial’ relationship with Donald Trump

Fifa president focused on success of 2026 World CupDefends decision to give 2034 event to Saudi ArabiaGianni Infantino has defended his relationship with Donald Trump, saying proximity to the US president is “absolutely crucial” to the success of the 2026 World Cup.Fifa’s president also defended the decision to award Saudi Arabia the World Cup in 2034 in rare remarks to the media while attending the International Football Association Board (Ifab) AGM in Belfast. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago When is FA Cup draw? Date, start time, confirmed ball numbers, TV channel and live stream for quarter

16 will soon become eight as trip to Wembley approaches

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6 d. ago Thomas Tuchel shares England plans with Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle

William succeeded Queen Elizabeth II as patron of the Football Association last summer following his time as FA president.

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6 d. ago Prince William meets England boss Thomas Tuchel as the German prepares for his first Three Lions camp since being appointed as Gareth Southgate's successor

The Prince of Wales arranged the private one-on-one with the German-born former Chelsea boss in his role as President of the Football Association ahead of Tuchel's first England camp.

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6 d. ago Prince William meets new England manager Thomas Tuchel ahead of crunch qualifiers

Prince William, who is Patron of the Football Association, welcomed new England manager Thomas Tuchel to Windsor Castle today ahead of his first matches in charge of the Three Lions

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7 d. ago Pep Guardiola's telling comment might have just ended six Man City careers

Pep Guardiola declared the Manchester City performance against Liverpool as the future of his team, but that could spell the end for a number of long-serving players.

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1 week ago ‘We’ve had enough’: anger threatens Zambian football after election controversy

The Zambian FA’s president Andrew Kamanga was re-elected unopposed after eight nominees were disqualifiedZambia’s victory at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon remains one of football’s most compelling stories. Returning to the country where most of the Chipolopolo squad had been killed in a plane crash almost two decades earlier en route to a World Cup qualifier in Senegal, Zambia defeated the heavy favourites Ivory Coast in the final on penalties to become African champions for the first time. But you won’t find any trace of that famous triumph at the Football Association of Zambia’s headquarters in Lusaka.“If you walk into Football House today, you will never find a single picture of what is our greatest achievement,” says Godfrey Chikumbi, a journalist and the vice-president of Mansa Wanderers in Zambia’s northern Luapula province. That, he says, is down to Andrew Kamanga, who in 2016 succeeded Kalusha Bwalya, one of the few surviving members of the 1993 squad, as president...

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