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No fans at Chinese football over COVID-19 fears, weeks before Beijing Winter Olympics

Matches in China's top flight restart on Sunday after a hiatus so that the national side could concentrate on World Cup qualifiers.

T20 World Cup 2021: England fans turn New Zealand supporters for final against Australia

Both Australia and New Zealand are gunning for their maiden T20 World Cup crown in Dubai after defying predictions from pundits of an England-Pakistan title clash.

India vs New Zealand: No restriction on crowd attendance for Jaipur T20I

Those who are not jabbed will have to carry a valid COVID-19 negative test report which is not older than 48 hours from the start of the match.

European Leagues 'unanimously oppose' biennial FIFA World Cup plans

On Wednesday, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said the extensive shake-up would cut out "too many meaningless matches".

Racist abuse of England footballers in Hungary 'completely unacceptable', says UK PM Boris Johnson

Johnson urged football's world governing body FIFA "to take strong action against those responsible to ensure that this kind of disgraceful behaviour is eradicated from the game for good"

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Resignation, anger as Japan digests fan ban at Games

England vs Pakistan: Edgbaston to host third ODI with 80 percent capacity

The fixture, which is the final game of a three-match ODI series between the two sides, is slated to be played on 13 July.

Spain-Portugal football friendly to have fans in stands ahead of Euro 2020

The match will be one of the first major professional sports events to be held in the Spanish capital with a live audience since the start of the pandemic.

Former Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder rues absence of fans

Wilder believes the impact of the pandemic had a particularly profound effect on the Blades' dip in results.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Uncertainty, doubts for Games' volunteers, fans with less than six months to go

With less than six months to go, Japanese who hope to be involved as spectators, torch bearers and volunteers are confronting the prospect of the Olympics being drastically scaled back or cancelled altogether.