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The former football coach Barry Bennell has been remanded in custody after being charged in court with child sex offences. The 62-year-old, who appeared at South Cheshire Magistrates’ Court via video link, faced a series of charges including five counts of indecent assault.    

Earlier this year, after 112 years of memories, West Ham left their East London stadium for a new home in the former Olympic stadium in Stratford. But what about the community West Ham left behind?

Remember the summer of 2012? That heady month of the London Olympics when the sport seemed so clean and pure? Well, an official investigation into Russian doping practices revealed that the country’s Olympic team “corrupted the London Games on an unprecedented scale”.

QPR is the latest football club to be linked to historical allegations of child sexual abuse. It’s said it will co-operate with inquiries into one of its former coaches, Chris Gieler, who left the club in 2003 and died a year later.

Interview with David Mellor, who, among his many jobs in government in the 1980s and 90s, was National Heritage Secretary, with responsibility for sport.

Footballers who have spoken out to reveal allegations of child abuse by coaches have told Channel 4 News they are forming a Trust to help other potential victims. Former players Andy Woodward, Steve Walters and Chris Unsworth want the “Offside Trust” to support players who are victims of child abuse, along with their families. All…

The FA announces a review of allegations of child sex abuse in football.

Interviews with Paul Stewart, a former England footballer who came forward this week detailing his own allegations of the years of abuse he suffered as a young player, and Tom Perry, from the Mandate Now charity.

The scale is only just becoming clear: now the national inquiry into child sex abuse says it could start looking into allegations by former footballers that they were abused within the sport.

The Football Association has said it will offer its full support to any police investigation into the sexual abuse of young players, in the wake of growing revelations of attacks by coaches.

Northern Ireland has reached a major international football finals for the first time in 30 years.

The pundits said Leicester would crumble but now, with three games to go, they need just three points to make the fairy-tale become reality by winning the Premier League, writes Malcolm Boughen.

The 96 Liverpool fans who died at Hillsborough football stadium 27 years ago were unlawfully killed, an inquests jury concludes after two years of hearings.

For this group of boxers, losing is the name of the game. Welcome to the strange world of the journeyman boxer.

More than 70 doctors and health experts urge the government to ban tackling in school rugby because of the risk of serious injury to under-18s.