The fantastic success of veteran politician Newin Chitchob’s Buriram PEA football club this season has not gone unnoticed by other politicians.

A village football club is to benefit from a seasonal gift from local heroes, the rock band Stereophonics.

West Ham are warned that the Olympic Stadium does not need a football club playing there in order to survive after the Games.

Former Corinthians manager Oswaldo de Oliveira, the most successful manager in Japanese football history with six trophies in five seasons, is leaving Kashima Antlers to be nearer his family.

The Chechen boss of Swiss football club Neuchatel Xamax, Bulat Chagaev, was charged with forgery on Thursday following four hours of questioning in Geneva, prosecutors said.