“I think we are close to that,” said the Ballon d’Or winner when asked if players could stage industrial action over their seemingly ever-growing fixture commitments. “If it keeps this way, (there) ...

Former Tottenham goalkeeper and France’s World Cup-winning captain Hugo Lloris and ex-Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud are standout names, while Odin Holm, on loan from Celtic, will also be familiar.

Chelsea are first in action against LAFC in Group D on June 16, with games against Flamengo and ES Tunis to follow. Bayern Munich could lie in wait in the last 16. City open against Morocco’s Wydad ...

COCAINE is becoming both more potent and more prevalent in Inverclyde – and is believed to have contributed to every drug-related death in the area over a single nine-month period. That’s the warning ...

A thug bit a female police officer who was trying to help him as he was being treated in a Greenock hospital bed.