French club Lyon have been demoted to Ligue 2 because of the poor state of their finances. The club were provisionally demoted by the DNGC, the body which oversees the accounts of French professional football clubs, in November. Lyon officials including owner John Textor, met with the DNGC on Tuesday but failed to convince the...
The month before Sampdoria’s play-off exit Pirlo was called “a key part of the project” by the club’s owners, but three games into the current campaign he was dismissed following two defeats and a draw. Andrea Sottil replaced him and oversaw a Coppa Italia penalty-shootout victory against Genoa in the first Derby della Lanterna in...
Three years ago, Bristol Rovers fans were celebrating one of the most remarkable days in the club’s history as they beat Scunthorpe 7-0 and, against the odds, won automatic promotion to League One. Nothing has come close to those highs since. Kuwaiti businessman Hussain AlSaeed took majority control in August 2023, before becoming sole owner...
With the Saints and the Foxes joining Ipswich in the Championship next season, all three promoted sides have suffered instant demotion. It is the first time in Premier League history that the identity of all three relegated sides has been known with as many as four games to go, and the second time after 2005-06...
Watch BBC Sport’s round-up of the action as Falkirk’s Scottish Championship title party is delayed, Hamilton Academical are relegated pending an appeal, while there are crucial games in League 1 and League 2. Read full article at source...
As the plane’s banner suggested, director of football Jon Rudkin and the board have been the target for fans this season. They see Rudkin as a root cause of their decline in recent seasons. He was, of course, in the same position when the Foxes stunned the world to win the Premier League in 2016,...
Match of the Day 2’s Troy Deeney, Shay Given and Mark Chapman look at why newly promoted teams are getting in a “muddle” in the Premier League, after confirmation of Southampton’s relegation. READ MORE: ‘We must avoid that record’ – how it all went wrong for relegated Saints Watch Premier League highlights on Match of...
BBC Sport takes a look back at the Calciopoli scandal, in which Italian champions Juventus were relegated from Serie A and stripped of two titles in 2006. READ MORE: The scandal that rocked Italy and left Juventus in Serie B LISTEN: Calciopoli: The Juventus scandal – Sporting Witness Read article in full at source...
