The kick-off of the fourth edition of Indian Super League (ISL) is less than two weeks away and as 10 teams prepare for four months of football extravaganza, Goal takes a look at the strengths and weaknesses of each team in their hunt for the trophy. In this article, we analyse the squad of Tata group owned Jamshedpur FC who will make their debut in ISL this season. They have roped in Steve Coppell as their head coach who famously guided Kerala Blasters to the ISL final last season....

Provided the deal does not suffer any hiccups, the 24-year-old defender will be joining a setup which is coached by former Man Utd striker Teddy Sheringham. Moreover, Technical Director Ashley Westwood is also a Manchester United academy graduate. Raghu Iyer, CEO of ATK, confirmed that the franchise was in talks with the ex-United star when Goal contacted him. “We are in negotiations with Tom Thorpe. However, nothing has been finalised yet,” he said....

It was Robbie Keane who lit up the tie. The best moves of the game for the home side saw him being heavily involved. In the first half when Zequinha was through on goal and saw his shot miss the far corner by a few inches, it was Keane’s dummy which foxed the Delhi defence and allowed the Portuguese to get on the ball. In the second half, he had an effort on goal from inside the box which was brilliantly kept out by Arnab Das Sharma....

It was no surprise that it coincided with ATK’s marquee player Robbie Keane’s first start of the season after an injury-enforced abasence. Robbie Keane had been sidelined with an Achilles’ injury which meant he made his first appearance as a substitute in a 3-2 loss to Chenaniyin FC away. But he started the two subsequent games for ATK, both of which were won 1-0 by the Kolkata-based team. He played a starring role in the latest win on Saturday against Delhi Dynamos, netting the matchwinner....

The home side were awarded a penalty after going behind to one but striker Kevin Belfort’s effort was saved by Chennaiyin custodian Karanjit Singh. Coppell attributed the loss to the missed spot-kick and once again took a potshot at the playing conditions on offer at the JRD Tata Sports Complex despite saying that the pitch was fine on Wednesday. “We missed a penalty. In the second half, we tried hard....

The Blues have lorded over the rest of the league, beating each and every opposition on their way to finishing comfortably at the top of the standings as we head into the play-offs. With 13 wins from their 18 games, their Spanish tactician has drawn praise from all quarters. The heady compliments have not always been there for Bengaluru’s second-ever manager in their nascent history. Taking over the reins of the club from Ashley Westwood in 2017 was never going to be a cakewalk despite the pedigree of the former Barcelona assistant coach....

And this is how the big countries deal with terrorism: they call a conference. To show how seriously the world takes the latest round of terror bombings in Israel – which killed 55 people as well as the four young Palestinians who set them off – this week’s peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, enrolled more than 30 delegations in a few days. Among the heads of state: Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, Jacques Chirac of France, Helmut Kohl of Germany, and representatives from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and perhaps even Syria....

There are no easy answers. Too much of our country’s history is wrapped up in our inability, our unwillingness, to extend the concept of equal justice under law to every man, woman and child. By failing to do so, by failing to strangle the institution of slavery in its crib as it came to our shores, our forefathers allowed our new nation to be branded like Cain. We cannot—indeed, we must not—forget this original of our sins, even though the Founders held other things to be of greater importance when securing our independence from Britain....

The story of Mou vs. Wenger It helped that Sanchez had scored twice the night before – in Chile’s 3-1 World Cup qualification victory against Uruguay at the Estadio Nacional – and moved within two goals of Marcelo Salas’s all-time scoring record. Alexis spoke of the honor of having moved past Ivan Zamorano into second place on the all-time ranking and described his ambition of catching El Matador ahead of him....

A month from now, the voters of Indiana will have the potential to play a pivotal role in the Democratic nominating contest for the first time in 40 years. The anniversary is important–especially today. On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy–who would eventually win the state’s primary–arrived in Indiana for a series of campaign stops. Boarding a plane to fly from an event in Muncie to Indianapolis, Kennedy learned that Dr....

Police in Monza, a town just outside of Milan in Northern Italy, arrested the man on Saturday night after his attempted robbery of a church oratory, The Guardian reported. The man, who has not been identified publicly, donned a leather jacket as part of his attempt to emulate Netflix’s gentleman thief and allegedly tried to make off with an orange soft drink and around 21 euros (or about $24) from the oratory’s till....

According to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, police found the woman outside her home on Monday. When asked to present justification for breaking quarantine, she said she had left her house to take her turtle for a walk. The reason was not considered satisfactory and she was fined €400 ($430). Italy has been in lockdown since March 9 and this is not the first time residents have broken protocol. As Newsweek previously reported, a 31-year-old man from San Fermo della Battaglia was fined in March after flouting the lockdown rules to play “Pokemon Go....

Journalists and historians scrambled to locate the words Ivanka used to defend her father in Tocqueville’s works, but were left scratching their heads when no matching quotes were found. It was then established that the words Ivanka claimed to be from de Tocqueville, who published the influential book Democracy in America in 1835, in fact came from a book written by John Innes Clark Hare nearly a century later....

Federline, who was married to Spears between 2004 and 2007, recently gave an interview to The Daily Mail in which he revealed that sons Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden James, 15, have chosen not to see their mother in recent months, as he raises them with his wife, Victoria Prince. Spears reacted by lashing out at Federline on Instagram, with one of her posts on the matter, which was shared and deleted on Wednesday, taking aim at her sons, who she accused of engaging in “hateful” behavior toward her....

MORE: Most memorable (and badass) images of Watt | Watt’s post-NFL plans And in a wide-ranging interview with MMQB’s Peter King, Watt — who is rehabbing from surgery to repair multiple groin- and stomach-muscle tears suffered last season — also said each player answers questions of career longevity differently based on potential long-term risks and a list of the game’s rewards beyond money: “I think every single guy in this league makes his own decision and that’s perfectly fine....

“For years, J.J. Watt has been perfecting his box jump, where he takes a standing position, leaps vertically into the air, and lands on a raised platform,” a description for the video reads. “His newest personal record is 61” – or 5’ 1” – destroying his previous results.” MORE: Watt sings about hot dogs | Darrelle Revis’ NSFW comments | NFL Mock Draft 2015 Very impressive. The only real complaint is someone should have told the camera man to hold the phone horizontal while recording....

Before the Texans’ preseason opener on Tuesday, Watt was seen playing catch with a fan. Sounds normal, right? Wrong! The fan he threw the ball to was hanging out in the upper deck. A perfect spiral landed straight into the hands of the expectant man. MORE: Whose NFL jersey should you buy? | Peyton and Eli’s weird Gatorade ads As a fan who has seen many T-shirt guns fail to deliver precious free cargo to the upper deck, I can confirm this is not a simple task....

Midway through the fourth quarter of Cardinals vs. Vikings in a tight game, Watt logged a third-down sack on Kirk Cousins that got the Cardinals the ball back with a chance to tie. Afterwards, Watt did Jared Allen’s signature sack celebration, much to the chagrin of the Viking faithful. Watt was met with a chorus of boos for the celebration. Allen, who was inducted in the Vikings’ Ring of Honor Sunday at halftime in the most Jared Allen way possible, is one of the most recent entrants into Vikings lore....

In a lawsuit filed Thursday and obtained by ESPN.com, Justin Brown accuses Smith of choking him outside Artichoke Basille’s Pizza in Chelsea after Brown cracked a joke about Smith’s 2015 trade from the New York Knicks to the Cavaliers. MORE: Five reasons Spurs > Warriors | LeBron can’t make 3s anymore According to the police report, Brown, 19 at the time, sought a photo with Smith around 4 a.m. after spotting the former Knick leaving 1Oak, a popular celebrity nightclub....

The Cavaliers guard has been accused of choking a 19-year-old high school student in New York City, something his attorney said is “completely false.” MORE: Worst crimes connected to athletes | Adam Silver’s stealth Twitter account “We don’t believe he’s going to be charged,” Attorney Alex Spiro told ESPN.com. The Cavs said they were aware of the situation, but haven’t taken any action against Smith. “We are aware of the story and have spoken to J....