Dark clouds shroud 11th-tier club’s bright future
Doncaster City are back in the limelight after signing Wes Hoolahan, Ross McCormack and Charlie Mulgrew, but questions remain about the man who is bankrolling it all. On Saturday 17th February, 34 people gathered in an old mining village once home to the Yorkshire Main Colliery to watch its namesake football club contest a 12-goal […]
2 years ago
Cardiff pay Nantes first instalment of Emiliano Sala transfer fee
The first payment comes four years after Sala’s tragic death Cardiff City have paid the first instalment of their £15m transfer fee for Emiliano Sala to Nantes. Sala died in a plane crash in January 2019 when he was travelling from France to Cardiff. FIFA imposed a three-window transfer embargo because Cardiff initially refused to […]
3 years ago
Pilot of Emiliano Sala flight said plane was ‘dodgy’ prior to take off
‘Tomorrow I’m wearing my lifejacket’ The pilot of the plane in which footballer Emiliano Sala died said that the plane was “dodgy” and said he would wear his lifejacket prior to the flight. David Ibbotson was flying the 28-year-old from Nantes in France to Wales to join the then Premier League club Cardiff City in […]
3 years ago
Nice condemn own fans for ‘despicable’ chant about Emiliano Sala
‘Unthinkable and despicable’ from OGC Nice fans OGC Nice have condemned their own supporters over a sickening chant about Emiliano Sala during their clash with St Etienne on Wednesday. As reported by French Football News, during the ninth minute of Nice’s 4-2 victory over St Etienne, a section of home fans sang a distasteful chant about Sala, who died […]
4 years ago
Emiliano Sala case: a timeline of key events
Emiliano Sala lost his life in a plane crash in January 2019 In January 2019, an aircraft carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala, who had just completed a move from Nantes to Cardiff City, disappeared from radar over the English Channel. It later emerged the plane had crashed, killing Sala and its pilot, David Ibbotson. The […]
4 years ago
Emiliano Sala: David Henderson sentenced to 18 months in prison over plane crash deaths
David Henderson will face 18 months in prison David Henderson has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after organising the flight that killed footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson. The single-engine Piper Malibu aircraft carrying 28-year-old Sala, who had just completed a move to Cardiff City from Nantes, crashed into the English channel […]
4 years ago