pogba - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

An ode to the enigma that was Paul PogbaWith the news that Paul Pogba has been suspended for four years (pending appeal), it almost certainly ends his career. Should he have to serve the full four seasons, he’ll be 35 and not have played in forever. The question of whether he’s a legend or left far too much on the table would depend on wh...

The fall of Paul Pogba continuesFrance and Juventas midfielder Paul Pogbahas has been banned for four years from football for a doping offense. ...

Paul Pogba's career could be done after 4-year doping banJuventus midfielder and French National team player Paul Pogba’s future career remains uncertain after Italy’s national anti-doping prosecutors requested a four-year ban from soccer after testing positive for testosterone in September. ...

World Cup 2022 Diary: Day 25 - Morocco's historic run comes to an end

What if you just Morocco’d Morocco?...

World Cup 2022 Preview: Group D — Can Denmark be the midnight bomber what bombs at midnight?

If you ascribe to the theory that this will be a truly goofy World Cup — that the short run-up, the injuries everywhere (not clear the amount of injured is all that abnormal but let’s go with it), the odd setting — and that some team from out of nowhere could make a run, you’re probably sizing up yo...

France may be without their spine at the World Cup, and they won’t be alone

Crowbarring a World Cup into the middle of the club season in winter was always a dumb idea, probably equal to the idea that the tournament ever could have been held in the summer in Qatar, which is what the country and FIFA were originally selling when they awarded it to Qatar (and it was literally...

Juventus is pretty garbage and it’s pretty wonderful

While one traditional power of European soccer might only be in a temporary blip, there’s another that has fallen off its horse and then had that horse piss on them. Bayern Munich will most likely recover. Juventus, on the other hand, might be headed to the muck for a while....

France warms up for the World Cup by being their normal furiously weird selves

One of the great orators of our time, Eddie Izzard, once said of the French, “They’re a bit…fuckin’ French.” Perhaps there is no greater example than the French national team, and that covers both the men and the women....