The mother of Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has died, it was confirmed on Thursday afternoon.

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Barcelona president Joan Laporta believes his side are better than Manchester United and is confident the Catalan giants will advance to next month's Champions League final in Moscow.

Lampard is now understandably a major doubt for Saturday's potential title decider against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.

Cardiff will represent England in next season's UEFA Cup should they beat Portsmouth in the FA Cup final, the Football Association board decided on Thursday.

Cardiff will represent England in next season's UEFA Cup should they beat Portsmouth in the FA Cup final, the Football Association board decided on Thursday.

An eventful game saw Chelsea youth come back from a one-goal deficit to lead 3-2 before eventually losing out to a freak goal in the dying minutes.

The one scenario none of the six players on hand at Chelsea Piers wants to imagine is what happened to quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers in 2005 and Brady Quinn last year: a nose-dive to the back end of the first round.

Cardiff will represent England in next season's UEFA Cup should they beat Portsmouth in the FA Cup final, the Football Association board decided on Thursday.

Chelsea fought hard in a game of end-to-end football under torrential rain, but left the Portsmouth training ground without any points from the final game of the season after a two penalty decisions went the wrong way.

'We went into the last three games against Cardiff, Leicester and Portsmouth and we wanted to win all of the games and finish with a bit more respectable league position

Nic Heimann replaced Rhys Taylor between the posts while Ben Gordon, Jacob Mellis and Jack Saville all started in the back line with only Nikki Ahamed remaining from the defence that started against Leicester on Saturday.

Cardiff will represent England in next season's UEFA Cup should they beat Portsmouth in the FA Cup final, the Football Association board decided on Thursday.

Away at Arsenal there was an equaliser from a tight angle and in the final game on Monday versus Aston Villa, it was pure opportunism as he pounced on a defensive slip to head home.

When the League of Wales was formed in 1992, Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham all decided not to join, choosing to remain instead in English leagues. Cardiff last played in the FA Cup final in 1927, winning 1-0 over Arsenal. It& 039;s the only time that ....

Just over two months and eight games after he played his first competitive game at Chelsea, Franco Di Santo has completed the reserve team's league season as our top scorer.

its competitions, but European football's governing body said that Cardiff

if they win the FA Cup, the Football Association has announced.

Welsh club Cardiff can take up one of England& 039;s European places next season if it wins FA Cup - International Herald Tribune

It had originally been believed that the Welsh club, who face Portsmouth at