AFPEuropean battle adds spice to fiery Leipzig-Dortmund clash
RB Leipzig host Borussia Dortmund on Saturday with possible Champions League qualification at stake in what has become one of the Bundesliga's bitterest rivalries in recent years. Other than Bayern, Leipzig and Dortmund -- both Champions League regulars -- have performed best in Europe's premier competition.
AFPMan City in title groove as Arsenal face Spurs test
Manchester City are in ominous form as the champions chase a fourth successive Premier League crown.Their fate will be sealed if they lose at Newcastle on Saturday or if fourth bottom Nottingham Forest match their result against Manchester City on Sunday.
AFPVictor Boniface: Leverkusen boss Alonso makes you 'up your game'
Bayer Leverkusen and Nigeria striker Victor Boniface said Xabi Alonso has a particular advantage over other coaches on the training pitch."Imagine you're training and your coach is doing better than you," Boniface told AFP in an interview.
The Telegraph‘Nobody said it would be easy’ - Dave Kitson on managing in Nauru, one of the fattest countries
Dave Kitson is about to embark on a somewhat unexpected footballing journey. In July the former Reading, Stoke and Oxford striker is heading off to one of the most isolated places on earth: the tiny Micronesian state of Nauru. His role: to get the locals playing football. Which, given that the island boasts just one quarter-sized pitch and almost the entire landscape has been horribly scarred by a generation of phosphate mining, is likely to prove no easy task. Not to mention the fact that 70 pe