John Terry must decide whether to launch an appeal after being hit with a four-match ban and a $356,000 fine after being found guilty of racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand.

It was far from electric but Real Madrid did enough to claim a 2-0 victory at Rayo Vallecano in a game which was postponed on Sunday night following suspected sabotage at Estadio de Vallecas.

CNN asked „The Secret Footballer” to write a column about his experience of depression in football.

„Cartoons are about doom and disaster — and you don’t get more doom and disaster than in a German prisoner of war camp,” says Mike Peyton, the man uniquely hailed as the world’s greatest yachting cartoonist.

Rio Ferdinand has been found guilty of improper conduct and fined £45,000 ($70,000) by the English Football Association (FA) for comments posted on Twitter relating to his England teammate and Chelsea star, Ashley Cole.