ISTANBUL - Despite having a major chance to win the Turkcell Super League, Beşiktaş is aware that the job is not done yet, especially playing at Denizlispor, which has a reputation for striking major blows against title contenders. Beşiktaş wants to beat Denizlispor and not look back on its way to start celebrations in Istanbul
PARIS - Having waited 10 years for a French league title, Bordeaux fans were happy to get up at the break of dawn Monday morning and queue outside the club shop in the hope of obtaining one of 200 remaining tickets for Saturday's potentially title-deciding home game against Monaco.
MONTE CARLO - Monaco’s Hotel de Paris is home to the world's largest hotel cellar with some 450,000 bottles of top vintages. Wines are stored in the cellar, or ’laid down’ as they say in the trade, several decades before being drunk. The most precious one is an 1850 Chateau Bel Air-Marquis d’Aligre
The World Cup is over, and the champions are happy. But no one has been the subject of as much post-match talk as French football star Zinedine Zidane. The headbutt he aimed at Italian Marco Materazzi's chest shocked everyone watching. And now everyone is asking this question: "How is it that a football player like Zidane could do such a thing?"