Nottingham Forest have appointed Billy Davies as their new manager.
The 48-year-old Scot replaces his fellow countryman Alex McLeish, who left the club on Tuesday after just 40 days at the City Ground.
This will be Davies second stint in charge of Forest, whom he twice led to the play-offs during his two-and-a-half-year stint between 2008 and 2011.
Speaking to the club s official website, chairman Fawaz Al Hasawi declared: I’m delighted to welcome Billy back to our club and really look forward to working closely with him.
Billy has unfinished business with the Reds and we know how hungry he is for success. In returning to the City Ground we believe his leadership will help us fulfil our ambition of making it to the Premier League.
Billy is …
Thomas Tuchel and Bayern Munich were left fuming after Matthijs de Ligt s contentious late strike was disallowed in their semi-final defeat to Real Madrid.
Bayern crashed out 4-3 on aggregate at Santiago Bernabeu after a dramatic double from substitute Joselu saw the hosts snatch victory to advance to the final on June 1.
Tuchel s side thought they had forced extra-time when De Ligt had the ball in the net, but the referee had already blown his whistle after the linesman raised his flag, so VAR could not intervene.
The replays showed that the original decision was closer than first thought, and the head coach bemoaned the lack of consistency after Madrid s second goal was awarded following a VAR review.
I think it s pretty clear and there is no doubt tha…
The adjudicatory chamber of FIFA s Ethics Committee has provided Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini with the written reasons for their eight-year suspensions from football.
The pair, scrutinised for a $2million payment made to UEFA president Platini by FIFA in 2011, were banned from all football-related activity in December after being judged to have broken rules on conflicts of interest, breach of loyalty and offering or receiving gifts.
By sending them written reasons for the punishments, the Ethics Committee has fulfilled its obligation to do so in the first half of January.
Blatter and Platini had already signalled an intention to appeal and their lawyers now have the opportunity to do so after receiving the document.
If they chose to do so, their initia…
Robert Lewandowski moved on to 50 Bayern Munich goals as his double earned a 2-1 win at Hamburg on Friday to mark the return from the Bundesliga s mid-season break.
Pep Guardiola s team have handed Hamburg six emphatic beatings by five goals or more since 2011, but they were made to work much harder this time around.
Lewandowski gave Bayern a first-half lead from the penalty spot, but a Xabi Alonso own goal shortly after the break had the match briefly in the balance.
However, an instinctive finish by Lewandowski gave the away side a narrow victory that moves them 11 points clear of Borussia Dortmund, who play Borussia Monchengladbach on Saturday, at the top of the table.
Hamburg, meanwhile, have only won one of their last eight home matches in the lea…
Pep Guardiola insisted Manchester City s squad harbour no doubts over Gabriel Jesus ability to step up and fill the void left by the injured Sergio Aguero.
Jesus ended a five-match scoreless run in the Premier League with City s first two goals in a 4-1 rout of Burnley at Turf Moor on Tuesday.
Aguero has missed the past two league matches with a thigh injury sustained in a 2-1 win over Chelsea, and is also set to be out for the Manchester derby on Saturday.
However, Guardiola is adamant none of City s players or coaching staff had any concerns over Jesus form.
Of course it s not easy [replacing Aguero] but the team doesn t have doubts about him, Guardiola told Amazon Prime.
As a striker sometimes you score, sometimes not. We need the quality o…
Harry Kane and Erik Lamela each scored twice as Tottenham beat Leicester City 5-4 to sign off from their stay at Wembley with a pulsating end-of-season Premier League classic.
England striker Kane cancelled out Jamie Vardy s early opener, but goals from Riyad Mahrez and Kelechi Iheanacho had the Foxes 3-1 ahead two minutes after the break.
Lamela inspired the fightback by twice finishing from Kyle Walker-Peters assists, and it was the Argentine s strike that forced an own goal from Christian Fuchs to put Spurs in front by the hour mark.
Vardy s expertly taken second appeared to have earned Leicester a remarkable point, but England team-mate Kane had the last word to seal a scarcely believable three points with his 11th Premier League goal against Leicester more t…
Unai Emery believes his Arsenal replacement Mikel Arteta will make a successful transition into life as a head coach.
Arsenal confirmed Arteta had signed a three-and-a-half-year deal on Friday, three weeks after sacking Emery and temporarily replacing him with Freddie Ljungberg.
Arteta has worked as assistant to Pep Guardiola at Manchester City since July 2016, but Emery is confident the ex-Gunners captain can become a notable boss in his own right.
He really is prepared to make that next jump, he told BBC Sport. He has been at Arsenal before, he s been in the Premier League and he has been working with Pep Guardiola.
I do believe this is a good decision and I would also like it to be a good decision.
— Arsenal (@Arsenal)
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Roma have successfully tied talented winger Cengiz Under down to a new contract until 2023, a day after securing Nicolo Zaniolo s long-term future.
Under, 22, joined Roma from Istanbul Basaksehir in 2017 and enjoyed a promising first campaign, helping the Serie A club to the Champions League semi-finals and third place domestically.
He struggled to build on that early encouragement last season, seeing his goal haul drop from seven to three in 2018-19, as Roma endured a turbulent season on and off the pitch.
Nevertheless, the Turkey international is expected to play a bigger role under new coach Paulo Fonseca in 2019-20, with sporting director Gianluca Petrachi a believer in Under.
Another new deal agreed has signed a contract extension with that runs u…
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In what is a real relegation six-pointer this weekend, Newcastle will welcome Watford to St. James Park on Saturday afternoon for what could be a nervy affair.
Starting with the hosts, crashing out of the FA Cup at the hands of League One outfit Cambridge last weekend, there is no doubt that Newcastle find themselves in the midst of a nightmare. While Eddie Howe s side might have managed to bring a couple of new arrivals through the door at St. James Park, the Magpies are still battling it out in the drop zone. Coming under more scrutiny for their woeful display on home soil last time out, the former Bournemouth boss has failed to hand his new squad much of a boost. Despite grabbing a point against Manchester United when signi…
Lionel Messi is not sure if his record will be broken after the Paris Saint-Germain and Argentina superstar won a seventh Ballon d Or on Monday.
Messi claimed the coveted award for a record-extending seventh time during a ceremony in Paris, while Bayern Munich talisman Robert Lewandowski won the inaugural Striker of the Year award and finished second in the Ballon d Or voting.
Many had backed Lewandowski to take home the prized individual honour, after France Football s 2020 Ballon d Or was scrapped due to COVID-19 – the Bayern forward has scored 53 goals in 42 appearances in 2021, the most of any player in Europe s top five leagues across all competitions.
But Messi added to his incredible haul after guiding Argentina to a drought-ending triumph at the Copa A…