The English Football Association suspended West Bromwich Albion striker Nicolas Anelka for five matches and fined him £80,000 due to the controversial "quenelle" gesture he made during a December ...

When Nicolas Anelka rolled the ball into the bottom corner of the goal against Spartak Moscow on Tuesday night, it was his 50th goal scored in the Chelsea blue. Despite playing for seven previous ...

KNYSNA, South Africa (AP) — French star Nicolas Anelka has been thrown off his nation's World Cup team after getting into a heated exchange with coach Raymond Domenech and refusing to apologize. The ...

When Arsenal’s Nicolas Anelka was awarded the PFA Young Player of the Year award in 1999, he declined to attend the ceremony. In the absence of the nation’s finest young footballer, it was left to ...

When Raheem Sterling signed for Arsenal on the final day of the transfer window, he became just the second player to represent four of the “big six” Premier League clubs. Twelve years earlier, that ...

Nicolas Anelka agreed not to perform his controversial ‘quenelle’ gesture again, on this day in 2013. France’s sports minister Valerie Fourneyron accused him of making a “disgusting anti-Semitic” ...

The English Football Association charged Nicolas Anelka on Tuesday for making a “quenelle” salute after scoring for West Bromwich Albion against West Ham United in the Premier League last month. The ...

Nicolas Anelka has said his "quenelle" goal celebration was not anti-Semitic. (AFP Photo/Ian Kington) West Bromwich Albion striker Nicolas Anelka has requested that the English Football Association ...

LONDON (AP) — Nicolas Anelka returned to the headlines. And – once again – the bad boy of French football grabbed the spotlight for the wrong reasons. Anelka caused an outcry in his home country by ...

Controversial French soccer star Nicolas Anelka faces a possible five-match suspension after being charged by the English Football Association (FA) Tuesday for making a “quenelle” gesture last month.

Former France and Liverpool striker Nicolas Anelka has accused ex-manager Gerard Houllier of racism, a claim Houllier has labelled "ridiculous." According to Goal, Houllier wrote about Anelka's ...