Former West Ham and Aston Villa football star Thomas Hitzlsperger has announced that he is gay, one of the world’s most high profile footballers to do so.
The final match of the Brazilian football season ended on Sunday with three people left seriously injured after a violent fight broke out in the stands.
Six people have been arrested in connection with a second investigation into match fixing with allegations that players are rigging Championship games for money.
Children as young as eight years-old have been used as “mules” for older relatives to smuggle flares, smoke bombs, and other pyrotechnics into Premier League football grounds a survey has revealed.
Three footballers have been arrested by police in an investigation into match-fixing in the UK along with three other men.