Every generation of Welsh football fans finds their own special moment of heartbreak. I wasn’t alive to witness the great robbery of 1977 when a Maradona-grade handball decision sent Scotland to the 1978 World Cup at our expense and I was a touch too young to have my hopes and dreams brutally crushed by Paul Bodin’s missed penalty of 1993, which would have taken us to USA 94. Instead, I had to wait for 2003 at the Millennium Stadium, watching Wales take on Russia for a spot at the 2004 Euros. It was a match so drab that our fans started chanting “USA, USA, USA”, as though all we had to get excited about was the cold war. In the end, that chant turned out to be weirdly prescient. A few days after our 0-1 defeat, one of the Russian players, Yegor Titov, tested …
England progressed to the Euro 2024 quarter-finals by completing a late comeback against Slovakia on Sunday.
Jude Bellingham scored the Three Lions equaliser in a 2-1 extra-time victory in Gelsenkirchen, dispatching a stunning overhead kick deep into stoppage time.
There was plenty of reaction on social media that continued into Monday, while other teams looked forward to their last-16 ties.
Here, we round up the best posts from around the tournament.
Bellingham rubbishes celebration speculation
UEFA has confirmed it will investigate Bellingham s celebration, in which he appeared to make a rude gesture in the direction of the Slovakia fans.
Bellingham, however, insists it was an inside joke .
He also apologised for any offence caus…
Anthony Martial has admitted his Euro 2016 was disastrous after he played just 69 minutes as France reached the final.
The Manchester United forward enjoyed a productive debut campaign at Old Trafford with 12 goals in all competitions, earning him a first international call from Didier Deschamps.
He was included in the France squad for the finals but struggled when called upon, the 20-year-old only starting one match and being hauled off at half-time.
When introduced late on in the final against Portugal he was unable to make a difference, bringing an end to a disappointing tournament for the striker.
It was a very difficult Euros, we didn t manage to win the title and the coach only played me for 45 minutes it was pretty disastrous, he told Telefoot…
Day eight of the Euro 2008 tournament saw Spain beat Sweden 2-1 and defending champions Greece go out of the tournament losing 1-0 to Russia.
In the early game Spain took the lead after fourteen minutes when Silva chipped the ball into the Sweden area and Liverpool s Fernando Torres opened his Euro 2008 account at full stretch with a neat finish.
The lead only lasted until the thirty-third minute when the ball fell to Ibrahimovic in the Spain box and he mishit the ball past Casillas who should have done better.
Spain were denied a clear cut penalty on the stroke of half-time when David Villa was flattened but the referee inexplicably waved play on.
The Spaniards gradually took control of the second half but met their match in the Swedish keeper, Isakss…
Gareth Southgate believes England must win Euro 2024 on Sunday if they are to earn the respect of the footballing world .
The Three Lions face Spain in the tournament s climax at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, aiming to land only the second major silverware of their history 58 years after their World Cup triumph on home soil.
Runners-up to Italy at the delayed Euro 2020, England are only the fourth different nation to appear in successive European Championship finals along with Spain, Germany and the Soviet Union.
Southgate, who has led his nation to their first major tournament final on foreign soil, has also guided them to the 2018 semi-finals and 2022 quarter-finals at the two World Cups he has overseen.
And the Three Lions head coach acknowledges all t…
The curtain fell on a peculiar Premier League season on Sunday with the final day of fixtures notable mostly for an unfamiliar absence of tension.
Manchester City s huge lead at the top and a bottom three that had effectively already been set in place meant 10 simultaneous matches produced few changes to the table.
But while surprises were generally scant across the campaign, there were no shortage of weird and wonderful facts to emerge from another nine months in England s top-flight.
Here, we look at the best Opta stats from the 2017-18 season.
48 Arsene Wenger ended his Premier League career with Arsenal by winning at his 48th different ground; more than any other manager in the competition (Alex Ferguson, 47). Legacy.
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Trabzonspor have had their appeal against Fenerbahce winning the 2010-11 Super Lig title dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Fenerbahce edged out Trabzonspor on goal difference after both teams finished with 82 points at the end of the season.
But senior Fenerbahce officials including the club s president Aziz Yildirim were then implicated in a match-fixing scandal.
Trabzonspor claimed Fenerbahce should be relegated as a result, with the 2010-11 title given to them instead, but CAS ruled against the club.
There is indeed no legal provision which would have allowed TFF [the Turkish Football Federation] or FIFA to allow the second-ranked team of the Turkish Super Lig to be automatically declared champion instead of the first, if this …
The Denver Broncos are riding (mile) high after a huge upset at Dallas last Sunday. The Broncos take on another NFC East opponent in Week 10, hosting the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
Denver opened as a 2.5-point home favorite and that spread has ticked up to as high as a field goal with early bets on the Broncos. The Eagles, who have only three total wins, have played better on the road (+7.4 scoring margin – 7th) with that trio of victories all coming in the role of visitor.
Here are our NFL free picks and predictions for Eagles at Broncos on November 14.
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Sunday sees the Denver Broncos welcoming the Houston Texans to the Mile High City after both teams had an unexpected performance in Week 1.
The Texans overcame expectations and tied the Colts, while the Broncos came unstuck against the Seahawks in a game that didn’t follow the script anybody expected.
Find out the betting edge for this Week 2 clash in our NFL picks and predictions for Texans vs. Broncos.
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Patrick Mahomes and the reigning Super Bowl champion Chiefs stumbled out of the gate in Week 1 after losing to the Detroit Lions. They were noticeably without some juice on both sides of the ball, with Travis Kelce out with a bone bruise and Chris Jones holding out.
Both return this week for the Week 2 matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars, a rematch from last year’s playoffs. Can Mahomes and company put their foot down once again on the Jaguars and make up for last week’s loss?
The NFL odds tab the Chiefs as -3 point road favorites with the total sitting at 51.
We break down the Patrick Mahomes odds, and give our best free NFL picks, for Chiefs vs. Jaguars.
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