Robert Earnshaw Out For The Season?

Wales striker Robert Earnshaw appears to be out for the season and the Euro 2008 qualifying games against Republic of Ireland, San Marino and Czech Republic.

Earnshaw suffered the injury last Thursday at the Norwich City training ground on crutches , but is awaiting the result of a scan before the full scale of the injury is obtained.

Norwich boss Peter Grant commented:

"To be fair he was in a lot of pain the other day there and I am not
expecting the best news to be honest."

Scolari to step down in 2008

Eurosport has reported that the Portuguese Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari will step down after the Euro 2008 tournament.

Scolari has been a successful coach in his time havn taken Portugal to the finals in 2004 and the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2006.

Scolari said about his decisions:

"The work of a coach is limited to five or six years, and it's only logical that I should stop after Euro 2008," he told Portuguese magazine Record.

Scolari became Portugal Manager in 2003 after taking Brazil to fifth World Cup victory. He became the target of the English FA in the summer of 2006 but signed a new contract with his current employers and now leaves the press to speculate over his next challenge - with probably every Premiership chairman interested in his signature, it'll prove to an interesting couple of years for the man from Brazil.

New Bosnia-Herzegovina Coach

Fuad Muzurović has been appointed coach of the Bosnia-Herzegovina national team for a second time. Muzurović was the first coach of the national side following independence in 1992 until 1997.

He commented: "I'm very glad to have been selected to lead the national team again," he said. "The assignment I have been given is not easy, and I know this from the start. I will try to do my best and with the help of my team I hope we will achieve good results."

Muzurović replaced Blaž Slišković who was sacked due to their poor start to the UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying campaign.

Lawrie Sanchez to Quit

Northern Ireland boss Lawrie Sanchez has commented that he expects to quit his job as as Northern Ireland national team manager at the end of the Euro 2008 campaign.

He made these remarks to The Sunday Life:

"The likelihood is that whenever the campaign finishes, I need to be looking forward to my next job.

"In the meantime, the IFA (Irish Football Association) are in agreement with me, that if a job comes up that interests me and would allow me to continue with Northern Ireland, then I would be given permission to speak to the relevant club.

"I am committed to finishing the campaign because I want to see how well we can do."

Let's hope he does a good job whilst he's at the helm and we can all say thanks at the end of their involvement.