MILAN (AP) — Cheating is rife in football and players get up to many dirty tricks in their attempts to win a match at any cost. Calls are growing for video technology to be introduced to help referees reach the correct decision, although many methods cunning players use to dupe officials will still slip under […]
PARIS (AP) — Referees, hang in there. Help is surely on its way. Sooner or later, football will see, must see, that the only way to preserve the authority and reputations of its match officials is to give them real-time access to the same video technology now used to painfully dissect them. But make no […]
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s Champions League ban for a red card as Paris Saint-Germain eliminated Chelsea will be reviewed next week. UEFA says its disciplinary panel will study the case at its March 19 meeting. All red-card offenses in UEFA matches are reviewed to possibly extend mandatory one-match bans. Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho […]
PARIS (AP) — The accolades have been pouring in for Paris Saint-Germain after its dramatic qualification for the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Playing with 10 mean after Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s sending off, coach Laurent Blanc’s team twice rallied to draw 2-2 at Chelsea to go through on away goals. “Heroiques (Heroic)” sports daily L’Equipe wrote […]
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