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The Newcastle manager has been handed a seven-match ban by the English Football Association for head-butting an opposing player during a Premier League match.

"We're not mathematically out of the race, but to all intents and purposes we are. There's a significant gap," Rudi Garcia

Giroud scored two of Arsenal's three goals in the final 22 minutes as his team became the first to advance to the last four of the cup.

Wilshere has been ruled out for six weeks with a fractured foot, disrupting his club's title challenge and his own preparations for the World Cup.

Puncheon has been fined 15,000 pounds for comments made on Twitter about his former manager Neil Warnock, the FA said on Tuesday.

The Chilean coach steered Manchester City to a 3-1 League Cup final triumph over Sunderland on Sunday.

Ferguson says he owes his success to being beaten with a belt by his favourite school-teacher when he stepped out of line as a schoolboy.

Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals apiece as Real Madrid crushed Schalke.

Defeat at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium represented yet another body blow in an inauspicious campaign for last season's English Premier League title winners.

Lewandowski scored twice as Borussia Dortmund took a big step toward the Champions League quarter-finals with a 4-2 victory at Zenit St. Petersburg on Tuesday.

Juventus have been fined after fans displayed a banner referring to the Torino air crash and AS Roma have been penalised for crowd trouble.

Galatasaray's Didier Drogba will be full of emotions when he strides out to face former club Chelsea but Jose Mourinho knows the striker will be as clinical as ever.

Samir Nasri has warned his Manchester City team-mates that failure to beat Sunderland in Sunday's Capital One Cup final could derail this season.

Maradona is said to be joining a fifth tier Argentine minnows Deportivo Riestra, the club owned by his lawyer and close friend.

Rooney has signed a four-year contract extension with EPL champions United that will keep their prize asset at the club until June 2019.

Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid made it four away wins from the opening four Champions League last-16 first leg matches.