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  • Latest news : Will Addison set to play his first game in almost 15 months
  • Latest news : Funding of €5.8m to FAI on hold pending approval by Sport Ireland
  • Latest news : Michael Bent announces retirement after nine years with Leinster
  • Latest news : Manchester Utd fans protest against Glazers at club’s training ground
  • Latest news : Ronan O’Gara to assume director of rugby role at La Rochelle
  • Latest news : Derry City manager Declan Devine pays price for sluggish start
  • Latest news : ‘The English haven’t gone’ - Perez insists Super League project not dead
$alt Manchester Utd fans protest against Glazers at club’s training ground
  • English Soccer
  • April 22, 2021, 12:19

The club manager and others spoke to the small group at Carrington training ground

Derry City FC and Declan Devine have parted company by mutual consent. File photograph: Inpho Derry City manager Declan Devine pays price for sluggish start
  • National League
  • April 22, 2021, 11:14

Derry make the short trip to face joint league leaders Sligo Rovers on Saturday evening

Real Madrid chief Florentino Perez, who was announced as the first ESL president, said the European Super League breakaway reflected the big clubs’ wishes. File photograph: Getty Images ‘The English haven’t gone’ - Perez insists Super League project not dead
  • Soccer
  • Sid Lowe
  • April 22, 2021, 10:22

‘I’m convinced that if this project doesn’t work another similar one will’

  • 1 comment
$alt Man City win at Villa Park to go 11 points clear at the top
  • English Soccer
  • Paul Doyle
  • April 21, 2021, 22:30

Aston Villa score an early goal but runaway league leaders prove too good

  • 1 comment
 The owners or chairmen of the 12  European  clubs that announced  the launch of the   European Super League: (from top left to bottom right) Real Madrid’s Florentino Perez; FC Barcelona’s Joan Laporta; Atletico Madrid’s Enrique Cerezo; Juventus’s Andrea Agnelli; Inter Milan’s Steven Zhang; AC Milan’s Ivan Gazidis; Arsenal’s Stan Kroenke; Manchester United’s Joel Glazer; Liverpool’s John W Henry; Tottenham Hotspur’s chairman Daniel Levy; Chelsea’s Roman Abramovich; and Manchester City’s Ferran Soriano United, Liverpool and City apologise to fans for European Super League fiasco
  • Soccer
  • Jamie Jackson
  • April 21, 2021, 22:20

Andrea Agnelli, project’s founder and Juventus chairman, accepts breakaway is over

 Real Madrid president Florentino Perez claimed the Super League was being created to save soccer. File photograph: AP European Super League may have died a death but the cartel lives on
  • Soccer
  • Jonathan Liew
  • April 21, 2021, 22:06

Now is the time to get vindictive - Points deductions, suspensions, expulsions, fines

  • 3 comments
$alt Spurs come from behind to give Ryan Mason a winning start
  • English Soccer
  • David Hytner
  • April 21, 2021, 21:14

Gareth Bale and Son on target as young interim boss wins his first match in charge

Uefa’s intention is to reserve two of the four new Champions League spots for “clubs with the highest club coefficient over the last five years” that have not qualified for the Champions League but have qualified for the Europa League or Europa Conference League. File photograph: Getty Images Breakaway clubs could be hit by changes to new Champions League format
  • Champions League
  • Ed Aarons
  • April 21, 2021, 18:28

Pressure to remove the proposal to award places based on historical performances

Milan and Internazionale have both pulled out of the proposed European Super League. Photograph: Miguel Medina/Getty/AFP Milan clubs become latest to pull out of European Super League
  • English Soccer
  • April 21, 2021, 13:47

Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli has said breakaway proposals can no longer go ahead

$alt Dublin looks certain to be stripped of Euro 2020 matches
  • International
  • April 21, 2021, 11:58

Leo Varadkar says June is ‘too soon’; final decision has been delayed until Friday

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Banners protesting against the European Super League hang outside Old Trafford. Photograph: Paul Ellis/Getty/AFP Liverpool owner John Henry apologises for his part in European Super League plans
  • English Soccer
  • April 21, 2021, 09:50

‘The project put forward was never going to stand without the support of the fans’

Brighton players wear t-shirts opposing the Super League ahead of their game with Chelsea. Photograph: Neil Hall/PA European Super League vows to ‘reshape’ after English clubs depart
  • English Soccer
  • April 21, 2021, 06:49

Breakaway insist plans are legally sound after they all but collapsed on Tuesday night

  • 2 comments
$alt Super League: Fifa chief tells clubs they cannot be ‘half in, half out’
  • Soccer
  • April 21, 2021, 01:00

Football bodies warned not to ban clubs and players before hearing Super League’s case

 Florentino Perez: “We’re doing this to save football. We want to save football for the next 20 years at least so we can survive without worries.” Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Real’s Perez claims Super League here to ‘save football’
  • Soccer
  • Sid Lowe
  • April 21, 2021, 01:00

New body’s president said they had been working on plans for two years

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A banner outside Stamford Bridge on Tuesday ahead of Chelsea’s draw with Brighton. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/Getty/AFP All six Premier League clubs withdraw from European Super League
  • English Soccer
  • April 20, 2021, 23:31

Proposed breakaway competition crumbles on Tuesday amid widespread criticism

  • 5 comments
$alt Dundalk’s poor start continues against Derry City
  • National League
  • April 20, 2021, 22:48

Round-up: St Pat’s and Sligo Rovers go joint top, Finn Harps held at Longford Town

Chelsea’s Olivier Giroud has a late header during his side’s stalemate with Brighton. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/PA Chelsea draw Brighton blank as fans protest against Super League
  • English Soccer
  • Jacob Steinberg
  • April 20, 2021, 22:36

Seagulls unlucky not to leave with three points as Tuchel’s side creep up to fourth

Graham Burke celebrates Shamrock Rovers’ later winner against Drogheda. Photograph: Brian Reilly-Troy/Inpho Shamrock Rovers break Drogheda hearts at the last
  • National League
  • April 20, 2021, 22:24

Daniel Mandroiu’s injury-time header earns champions all three points on the road

$alt Man United confirm Ed Woodward to leave club at end of the season
  • English Soccer
  • Jamie Jackson
  • April 20, 2021, 21:53

News is reportedly not linked to fallout from the crumbling European Super League

  • 2 comments
Petr Cech speaks to protesting supporters outside Stamford Bridge. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/Getty/AFP Chelsea and Man City to withdraw as European Super League unravels
  • English Soccer
  • April 20, 2021, 19:59

Atletico Madrid and Barcelona also reported to have withdrawn from controvesial plans

  • 3 comments
Pep Guardiola has spoken out against the new Super League proposals. Photograph: Ian Walton/EPA ‘This is not sport’: Pep Guardiola speaks out against Super League plans
  • English Soccer
  • Jamie Jackson
  • April 20, 2021, 14:56

14 Premier League clubs have ‘unanimously and vigorously’ rejected breakway proposal

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Manchester City got the result they needed last night at Villa Park, albeit after an imperfect performance. Photograph: Getty Images Time to get vindictive with Europe’s dirty dozen; Maguire starts LA Open strongly
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Chelsea fans protest against the European Super League outside Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night ahead of their game against Brighton. Photograph: Rob Pinney/Getty European Super League unravels as English clubs pull out; Gordon D’Arcy on a final Lions audition

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English Soccer

PosNamePldPts
1 Manchester City 33 77
2 Manchester United 32 66
3 Leicester City 31 56
4 Chelsea 32 55
5 West Ham United 32 55
6 Tottenham Hotspur 33 53
7 Liverpool 32 53
8 Everton 31 49
9 Arsenal 32 46
10 Leeds United 32 46
11 Aston Villa 31 44
12 Wolverhampton Wanderers 32 41
13 Crystal Palace 31 38
14 Southampton 32 36
15 Newcastle United 32 35
16 Brighton & Hove Albion 32 34
17 Burnley 32 33
18 Fulham 33 27
19 West Bromwich Albion 31 24
20 Sheffield United 32 14
Full English Soccer standings

National League

PosNamePldPts
1 Shamrock Rovers 6 14
2 Sligo Rovers 6 14
3 St. Patrick's Athletic 6 14
4 Finn Harps 6 11
5 Drogheda United 6 8
6 Bohemian FC 6 7
7 Longford Town 6 5
8 Dundalk 6 3
9 Waterford 6 3
10 Derry City 6 2
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