Wherever Bosnian Serb football coach Dusan Bajevic has worked, success and trouble have followed.
The stormy managerial career of the 61-year-old, most of which has been spent in Greece, took its latest twist for the worse on Saturday when a handful of angry AEK Athens fans attacked him on the field shortly after his team lost a 2-1 friendly encounter with second-division Kallithea.
He was surrounded by a group of around 20 fans, pushed to the ground and attacked before police and other AEK fans could intervene to help him.
This is nothing strange, it happens. This is an ugly image sent out to the world, Bajevic told Serb daily Blic.
The police investigators are doing their job and we?ll see what happens. What I can say at the time is the whole of Gree…
Paris Saint Germain clinched their first away league victory since December 2009 on Sunday when they defeated Lens 2-0, a victory which elevated them into fifth place in the French first division.
An own-goal by Yohan Demont in the 50th-minute and a stoppage time strike from Brazilian summer signing Nene, his fourth of the campaign, put an end to PSG s 14-match run without a win on the road.
Toulouse blew their chance to nip ahead of Saint Etienne on goal difference at the top when they could only draw 1-1 at home with Lille.
Gervinho opened the scoring for Lille before Antoine Devaux equalised for Toulouse 15 minutes from time.
On Saturday, Dimitri Payet scored the winning goal and cleared two shots off the line as Saint-Etienne earned a 1-0 win at loca…
Louis van Gaal doesn t feel that Jesse Lingard is ready for a senior England call up
Jesse Lingard became the latest in a long line of Manchester United youth products to score in England’s top flight as he netted the opener in his side’s 2-0 win over West Bromwich Albion on Saturday afternoon.
The twenty-two year old has been patiently waiting for his first-team chance at United having spent the majority of his senior career so far out on loan in spells with Leicester City, Birmingham City, Brighton and Hove Albion and Derby County.
A taste of silverware
His first professional game came for the Foxes in a goalless draw with Bolton Wanderers in November 2012, eighteen months after scoring the opening goal in the first leg of Manchester United’s You…
Samir Nasri believes team-mate Yaya Toure would be seen as the best midfielder in the world if he was Brazilian or Argentinian.
Ivory Coast international Toure has been the driving force in Manchester City s engine room since his move from Barcelona in 2010, and his wonder-strike set Manuel Pellegrini s men en route to League Cup glory against Sunderland on Sunday.
And City playmaker Nasri, who followed Toure s 55th-minute equaliser at Wembley with a sublime finish of his own 90 seconds later, feels the 30-year-old suffers in terms of gaining global recognition due to his nationality.
If he wasn t African everyone will say he s the best midfielder in the world, the Frenchman said.
Of course it counts against him being from Ivory Coast. If he was Argentinian or …
I wrote my editorial about Everton’s Marco Silva yesterday and how the Toffees board have to act quickly. Well, Arsenal are in a similar situation with their Spanish boss Unai Emery.
There is a lot of parallels in the two bosses’ situations, in that both arrived at their clubs as highly-rated bosses, and both of their teams have struggled this season. One difference is that Emery had achieved something prior to his move to north London whereas Silva had not.
Emery may have been the budget-friendly option
Although Emery had a big budget at PSG for his two years in the French capital, he was more accustomed to working with more modest means at Valencia and Sevilla. He enjoyed relative success with both clubs on a small budget.
His coaching acumen at Valencia …
Former Sydney FC goalkeeper Vedran Janjetovic was sent off as Western Sydney Wanderers let slip the lead to lose 3-1 to his old club in a thrilling derby at ANZ Stadium.
Janjetovic, who switched allegiances in a transfer that angered Sydney FC fans in December 2016, was shown a straight red card after he handled the ball outside the penalty area just moments after Oriol Riera had given the home side the lead from close range on 23 minutes.
Alex Brosque levelled the match in first-half stoppage time, flicking home the rebound from Joshua Brillante s drive that came back off the post before substitute keeper Danijel Nizic could react.
Siem de Jong scored to put the visitors ahead, arriving at the far post to score after Aaron Calver flicked on a 57th-minute corne…
Manchester United will be able to call on Aaron Wan-Bissaka for next week s Champions League clash with Atalanta.
Full-back Wan-Bissaka was sent off in the first half of United s 2-1 defeat to Young Boys in September.
The former Crystal Palace defender subsequently missed the second Champions League outing of the campaign, as United came from behind to beat Villarreal 2-1 thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo s late strike.
However, United have been successful in appealing the length of the ban, which was reduced from two games to one.
As such, the 23-year-old – who has started every Premier League game this season – will be available to face Serie A side Atalanta at Old Trafford next Wednesday.
A UEFA statement read: The appeal lodged by Manchester Un…
Simone Inzaghi was left anguished after his first Serie A defeat as Inter boss came at his former club Lazio, admitting: We lost our heads.
A 3-1 setback came after a flurry of second-half goals from the home side in Rome, with the defending champions knocked out of their stride late on by a moment of controversy.
With Inter s Federico Dimarco down, apparently injured, Lazio played on and got the 81st-minute goal that put them 2-1 ahead, Felipe Anderson netting from close range after Ciro Immobile s strike was parried by Samir Handanovic.
Inter were furious and both sides had two players booked as bickering on the pitch threatened to spill over. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic sealed the points in stoppage time with a fine header, ending Inter s seven-game unbeate…
A cult classic action-RPG has gotten another chance at success this year. Nier Replicant ver 1.22474487139, an upgraded remaster of the original 2010 game, is out now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and reviews are generally much stronger than they were for the first version.
A precursor to Platinum Games’ Nier Automata and technically a sequel to the original Drakengard, Replicant helped establish the world of Nier that would later be explored in that breakout hit. But the original release was met with poor sales and middling reviews–with much of the criticism aimed at the combat–making it ripe for a modernized facelift. The reception has been largely positive, citing the revamped combat system and a new appreciation for Yoko Taro’s charming sensibilities Come from Asamoah Gyan and Sulley Muntari are in line to appear at their third FIFA World Cup after being named in Ghana s 26-man provisional squad. All participating nations are required to submit provisional squad lists by Tuesday, with those groups being trimmed to 23 players by June 2. The duo represented the African nation in both 2006 and 2010, reaching the last 16 and quarter-finals respectively, and are among the more experienced players likely to be heading to Brazil. Milan s Michael Essien takes his place in a midfield with a strong Serie A representation, which also features Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu of Udinese and Juventus Kwadwo Asamoah. There is no place, however, for Ghana s most capped player Richard Kingson, with Adam Kwarasey, Fatau Dauda and Stephen Adams s…