Football

Miura, who began his professional career in 1986, is not the only veteran raging against the dying light in J-League

There has been a question of when not if a generational talent moves to the league but now there are no guarantees

German is already having his best ever goalscoring season with 13 as the Citizens face Gladbach in their last 16 tie

Sofiane Diop and Guillermo Maripan scored to give his team the points as they stretched their unbeaten run to 11 games

Hammers 2-1 victory over Spurs means they are in the top four after at least 25 games for the first time since 1986

Their defence remains a cause for concern having conceded 31 goals after 22 league games

Los Blancos beat Valladolid 1-0 after Simeone’s men suffer 2-0 defeat against Levante

Richarlison, Sigurdsson score as Toffees beat Premier League champions 2-0 in Merseyside derby

Bundesliga leaders give renewed hope to title rivals after suffering 2-1 loss on Saturday

World went crazy over a cricketing stadium, but no one wants to talk about footballers

Gunners condemned the abuse and said anybody with a club membership that sends such messages would be banned

Media reported that Zlatan, who has Bosnian roots, was insulted by an individual seated in the stadium's VIP box

Injury-plagued Reds are languishing 16 points behind Citizens in sixth place after three successive league defeats

PL players have also been racially abused online, prompting English bodies to put pressure on social media companies

Five straight league wins have rocketed Eintracht from eighth in mid January to sit third in the Bundesliga

Striker stated his aim of one day winning the Ballon d'Or when he first signed for Monaco as a 14-year-old in 2013

Citizens are the first English top-flight side to begin a calendar year with 10 successive league wins

Their 1-1 draw at Levante has given new hope to Real Madrid and Barcelona of chasing the title race

Brazilian international has just three assists in 24 games in all competitions and struggled to score goals

Forward is one of several PL footballers to be targeted with online racist abuse and he has spoken out about it

It was a below-par performance by Juve who are chasing their third Champions League title and first in 25 years

His goals moved him on to a remarkable 18 in 13 UCL matches and he is on course to overtake the Frenchmen's record

French club found their groove and blitzed the Catalans thanks to a Mbappe hat-trick and a header from Kean

Forward is just the second visiting player to score a hat-trick against Barca in a UCL matc at the Camp Nou

Barcelona's Antoine Griezmann says Frenchmen can reach the level of modern greats Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

Blues on revival path as they beat Newcastle 2-0 to enter Premier League’s top four

Star striker wants German side to beat Sevilla in Champions League last 16, first-leg tie

Gabon striker made his first start in six games against Leeds United after taking time to be with his ill mother

Belgium striker scores twice and took his tally to 300 career goals with a 3-1 win to move top of Serie A

Carvajal was returning after more than a month out with a muscle injury but limped off in the 28th minute at Valencia

Argentine is expected to wait until the season end to decide his future, with the French club and City interested

Both owe their success to the energetic, high-pressing football, but have also proved innovative in their own ways.

Pirlo's men are 10 points away from Milan at the top of the league after their 1-0 defeat to Gattuso's team

"Leo is focused, he's happy, he's ruthless. Hefinds those gaps, everything is easier," says Ronald Koeman

Defending champions are now 13 points off the top, having played one game more than leaders City

Shumaila, top player in recently concluded U23 event, wants more exposure for women

Bundesliga club will face Premier League’s Reds in Champions League in midweek

Man Utd striker believes problem should be ‘easy to stop’ for technology giants

The 16-year-old, the youngest player in Bundesliga history, could possibly start at home against Hoffenheim

Forward suffered the injury against Caen as the club are hopeful he could return for the second leg on March 10

French club suffered a setback ahead when Neymar joined Di Maria on the sidelines after suffering a groin injury

Seven-time European champions Milan will also be favourites to at least hold on to their five-point lead at the summit

Tuchel has won four and drawn one of his five games in charge since replacing the sacked Frank Lampard

Pep Guardiola's men have not tasted defeat in 22 games in all competitions, since they faced Tottenham in November

Toffees won by 5-4 over Spurs while the Citizens won their 15th consecutive game

If Munich win, they will become the second club after Barcelona in 2009 to sweep all six trophies available

Argentine has been free to negotiate with rival clubs since last month as his contract with Barcelona expires in June

Striker wants to see signs of progress as Tottenham haven't won a leading trophy since the 2008 League Cup

Munich captain Manuel Neuer has made it clear the German giants are "up for it, we can make history" against Tigres

Pirlo's side will face one of Napoli or Atalanta, who are locked at 0-0 ahead of Wednesday's second leg in Bergamo