English Footballers

29 Dec 2012

Wariness of Uefa's Financial Fair Play rules and concerns about a lack of value in the market mean the Premier League's top clubs will proceed with caution when the January transfer window opens...

England football stars told how to behave

11 Oct 2012

England's soccer stars are to be issued with a code of conduct to bring them in line with other major sporting bodies in an attempt to govern their behaviour when they are on and off international...

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers eyes Michael Owen, Didier Drogba

4 Sep 2012

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers admits he will be forced to look into signing free agent forwards Michael Owen and Didier Drogba after his club's worst league start for 50 years.

Liverpool seek to bounce back in trip to Scotland

23 Aug 2012

Liverpool can put the disappointment of their opening Premier League game under new coach Brendan Rodgers behind them when they head north of the border to face Hearts in their Europa League play-...

Insider says Coventry City wooing HK

22 Jul 2012

A second advertisement in nine months has appeared in local media seeking to drum up investment for a 'famous' English soccer club.

Opinion

Alex Lo

Relaxing maids' live-in rule means less room for conflict

Peter Kammerer

In Hong Kong, affordability is off the menu

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Beautiful game scores winners

It is known worldwide as 'the beautiful game' although you might not know it from recent ugly behaviour on and off the field, and indeed in the courts of China. But a spate of surveys and...

Who said it?

It is our task today to make up for what was not done (when the euro was created in 1999)

Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel, rejecting calls for Germany to underwrite euro-zone debt

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Will the pluck of the Irish be enough?

After an exhilarating, unforgettable week of football in the endearing Polish capital Warsaw, it's time once more to crank my old Land Rover into life and join the Euro 2012 football caravan,...

Draw like a victory for delusional fan

Oh, what joy to be a fan of a pedestrian England team and with the smart money on another spectacular underachievement at an international tournament. For first time in my 37-odd years following...

Young footballer eyes new goal after beating cancer

A former Hong Kong football prodigy hopes to achieve his goal of playing in the English Premier League after beating cancer.

Ex-HK soccer starlet defeats cancer

A former Hong Kong soccer prodigy is aiming to achieve his goal of playing in the star-studded English Premier League after beating cancer.

Australian Dylan Tombides, 18, was a...