A third Brighton and Hove Albion player has tested positive for coronavirus, the club s chief executive Paul Barber has confirmed.
The Premier League club said in March that a player had returned a positive test after three members of the squad displayed symptoms.
On Saturday, Brighton s confirmed number of cases rose to three in spite of strict health and safety regulations, with players largely isolating at home.
With talks ongoing over a plan to resume the 2019-20 season, Barber admits seeing new cases among players is a worry for all clubs involved.
It is a concern, he told Sky Sports News. Unfortunately we ve had a third player test positive yesterday [Saturday], so despite all of the measures that we ve been taking over the past few weeks, where …
Japanese powerhouse Kashima Antlers earned the honour of being the only team to win all six of their AFC Champions League group games on Wednesday while Beijing Guoan booked a berth in the round of 16.
Kashima beat Korea s Jeonbuk Motors 2-1 with their dominant run, securing them top spot in Group F and home advantage in the one-leg knockout stage against defending champions Pohang Steelers.
That match will be a family affair, with Kashima coach Oswaldo Oliveira s younger brother Waldermar Lemos de Oliveira at the helm of Pohang.
South Korean international Lee Jung-Soo opened the scoring for Kashima, heading home a pinpoint corner from Takuya Nozawa, who got on the scoresheet himself two minutes later with a lightning shot that whistled into the net.
Jeo…
(GSM) Finally, there s light at the end of the tunnel for Owen Hargreaves. The Manchester United midfielder has been recovering from various knee injuries for almost one and a half year now and should ve been fit for a while.
At last, his return looks to be in sight: the Mancunian aims for a comeback against Milan, later this month.
Sir Alex Ferguson hopes Hargreaves will be available to him for the first time in seventeen months.
But we won t rush him, insisted Ferguson. We are being patient with the rehabilitation following his knee operations and he is alternating his training with the reserve and first-team squads, working for two days and then resting a day.
It s a matter of him regaining his confidence and, when he is able to train every day, t…
Liverpool s Philippe Coutinho has won the 2016 Samba Gold award for the best Brazilian player in Europe, beating Neymar and Casemiro to the trophy.
The attacking midfielder received 32.13 per cent of the vote in a combined poll of journalists, current and ex-professionals and supporters.
Coutinho netted 13 times for Liverpool in a successful calendar year, while also impressing for Brazil s national team.
The 24-year-old s victory prevented Neymar from making it three in a row, the Barcelona striker having claimed the award in both 2014 and 2015.
Neymar had to settle for second place this year with 27.88 per cent of the vote, despite winning LaLiga with Barca and guiding Brazil to a first-ever Olympic football gold.
Real Madrid midfielder…
Erik Pieters has not forgotten Dutchman Louis van Gaal s words on his transfer from PSV to Stoke City in 2013.
Then-Netherlands manager Van Gaal said Pieters decision to join Premier League outfit Stoke lacked ambition.
But the Dutch left-back said he is happy with his decision almost three years on ahead of Van Gaal s Boxing Day visit to the Britannia Stadium with Manchester United.
I remember what he said, Pieters told the Stoke Sentinel.
People still think that Stoke will be relegated at the start of each season. It happened in my first season, second season and third season.
But in the first season, we had a top-10 finish, the second season we did it again, and we are hoping we can do it three years in a row.
I m happy with my choi…
Mikel Arteta is backing his kid captains to lead Arsenal out of the gloom as the Gunners launch their quest for EFL Cup silverware.
After a poor Premier League start, Arsenal have strung together 1-0 wins over Norwich City and Burnley, with Arteta pinpointing Martin Odegaard as a key factor behind their improvement.
The Gunners had lost each of their first three top-flight games, but confidence is growing before their first meeting with AFC Wimbledon in the cup on Wednesday.
Arsenal have only failed to go beyond the third round of the competition in one of the last 18 seasons.
Odegaard, who made his move permanent from Real Madrid after a loan spell at Emirates Stadium, scored the winner against Burnley last time out.
Arteta hailed the 22-year-ol…
Timo Werner said it was good to be back on the scoresheet after finding the back of the net for the first time this season in Chelsea s EFL Cup third-round triumph over Aston Villa.
Chelsea overcame Villa 4-3 on penalties at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, with Reece James netting the decisive spot-kick following a 1-1 draw.
Werner – now in the shadow of star recruit Romelu Lukaku – opened the scoring in the 54th minute – only his fifth goal of 2021, though Villa s Cameron Archer equalised 10 minutes later midweek.
After scoring his first Chelsea goal since May s Champions League fixture against Real Madrid, Germany international Werner revelled in the performance.
I feel good [hearing people sing my name]. It is good to be back on the scoresheet of …
Switzerland s highest court said on Monday it has upheld a record damages payment of 17.2-million-euros imposed on striker Adrian Mutu by his former club Chelsea after a positive cocaine test.
The Swiss Federal Tribunal has rejected the appeal filed by Adrian Mutu against a sentence by Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).
The CAS had sentenced the professional Romanian footballer to paying a sum of more than 17 million euros to his previous employer, Chelsea Football Club Limited, it added.
Mutu, now at Italian club Fiorentina, was sacked by Chelsea in October 2004 and banned for seven months after failing a drugs test for cocaine.
Football s governing body FIFA had ordered him to pay Chelsea the compensation then the biggest ever handed down to a fo…
Who will be lifting it later?
It’s all over after tonight’s game and it won’t be on again for another four years. It has been a great spectacle and it has, hopefully, done a huge amount of good for the ordinary people of South Africa. Having said all that, it feels as though it has been going on for about four years to me!
I suppose that being an England fan it was very easy to lose interest in the tournament really early as it became clear within about thirty minutes that we had absolutely no chance what so ever.
Before looking at the tournament as a whole, I would just like to congratulate Germany and Uruguay for putting on an excellent third place play-off game last night. Both teams did their country proud and it was probably just about right that the ex…
Steven Gerrard believes Brendan Rodgers is the right man for the England job when Roy Hodgson s reign is over.
Hodgson s contract expires after Euro 2016, and it is thought that the 68-year-old who took over from Fabio Capello in May 2012 will not be offered a new deal by the Football Association.
Former England and Liverpool captain Gerrard, who has played under both men, feels that current Anfield boss Rodgers would be the perfect replacement.
When asked who should be next in line for England, LA Galaxy midfielder Gerrard told the Daily Mail: Obviously when Roy s had his time Brendan Rodgers.
The way he plays would suit England. He would improve the possession football you need at international level.
His man management is brilliant. At tou…