There was a popular joke that did the rounds throughout the final week of the World Cup.
"What's that scrabbling sound?"
"It's PSG's owners trying to find the receipt for David Luiz."
After a Titanic-like captaincy of a 7-1 defeat to Germany, Luiz's tears in a clown's wig in Belo Horizonte recalled ...
Posted by Eliot Rothwell
Galatasaray president Unal Aysal is perhaps Turkey's most high profile frequenter of the managerial merry-go-round. For the second time in a row, it has thrown up an Italian, and for the third, a former Fiorentina boss, as Cesare Prandelli fills Roberto Mancini's recently vacated seat.
The original ...
Louis van Gaal broke Costa Rican hearts on Saturday night -- and probably Netherlands goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen's -- when he sent on Tim Krul as a 120th-minute substitute. The manager's clever and gutsy decisiveness paid off as Krul made two saves in the penalty shootout to send Netherlands to t...
With Luis Suarez potentially facing a fairly lengthy suspension after biting Giorgio Chiellini, we look at some other notable bans from the World Cup through the years:
LUIS SUAREZ
- 'I lost my balance,' Suarez tells FIFA
- FIFA bans Luis Suarez for four months
- Toe Poke: Fan gets dodgy Suarez tattoo
- Thompson: Portrait of a serial winner
- Stoichkov warns Suarez over Barca move
- Brewin: No sympathy for Luis Suarez
- Thompson: Uruguay comes to Suarez defence
- Marcotti: Suarez in another bite storm
10. Alessandro Costacurta, 1994
Italy, in truth, stumbled into the final of the 1994 World Cup, scraping through their group on go...
Walking in the footsteps of a giant takes one of two things: very big feet or a very big heart. Luckily for Andre Ayew, he has both.
Ayew is the second son of the man widely recognised as Ghana's -- and perhaps even Africa's -- greatest player ever, Abedi Pele. His talent had to be nurtured in the s...
Posted by Kevin Palmer
The World Cup finals may be consuming the attention of football fans around the globe right now, but a reminder that the next Premier League season will soon be upon us arrived with the release of the new fixtures.
Incoming Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal appears to be one of the biggest winne...
