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Richard Neale
Liverpool bowed to the inevitable, as they exited the Champions League in the group stage with a game remaining despite beating Debrecen, the Hungarian champions, in Budapest on Wednesday night.
It is the first time under Benitez’s tenure that the Anfield giants ...
Premiership
Champions League
Liverpool
Rafael Benitez
In today's e-mail bulletin, we asked: "What are the consequences for Liverpool if they go out of the Champions League tonight?" Tony Barrett responded: "When you have been a leading member of the continental elite for the past five seasons, then anything other than ...
Premiership
Champions League
Liverpool
Fernando Torres
Graham Spiers Scottish football fans of a certain vintage cannot help but admire Dundee United - unless, of course, you are a Dundee FC fan. United, in their flaming tangerine-and-black strips, became a force to reckon with under Jim McLean in the 1980s, and the ...
Premiership
Zola
digs in for Cole - The Sun
Gianfranco Zola insists West Ham will not be forced to sell Carlton Cole in
the January transfer window. The England striker, 26, has already been
linked with £20 million moves to Liverpool and Manchester United.
Beckham:
I have got astma - ...
Premiership
Chelsea
West Ham United
Liverpool
Manchester United
Alex Ferguson
Joe Cole
In today's e-mail bulletin, we asked: "Who was more impressive in terms of strengthening their England credentials: Darren Bent scoring the winner against third-place Arsenal or Jermain Defoe bagging five goals against struggling Wigan?" Patrick Barclay responded: "Without ...
Premiership
Darren Bent
England
Michael Owen
Jermain Defoe
Tom Dart Tottenham's 9-1 defeat of Wigan yesterday was the second-highest winning margin in Premier League history. Here are some other one-sided contests and what the future held for the sides involved: The game: Manchester United 9 Ipswich 0 - March 1995 Andy Cole led the way ...
Premiership
Russell Kempson A small group of Ireland fans waylaid, almost hijacked, a car outside the Stade de France. The trains had long since stopped running and no self-preserving taxi driver would venture into St Denis at 2am, let alone to pick up intoxicated supporters of a team that had ...
Premiership
Tom Dart Ratings can be tricky to get right –
after all, there is no correct answer. Should more Spurs players have approached
the 8, 9 and 10 of Niko Kranjcar, Aaron Lennon and Jermain Defoe? In my opinion,
defenders shouldn’t get very high marks when they’re not ...
Premiership
Tottenham Hotspur
Wigan Athletic
Aaron Lennon
Blues
in Rib raid - The Sun
Chelsea will try to steal Franck Ribery from under the nose of Real Madrid in
the January transfer window. With the £37.5m signing of Atletico Madrid
striker Sergio Aguero all but tied up, Chelsea will offer a British transfer
record of around £45million ...
Premiership
Chelsea
Sergio Aguero
Franck Ribery
Manchester United
Portsmouth
Birmingham City
Patrick Barclay, Chief Football Commentator
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Remember David Ngog? He was Cheat of the Week immediately before Thierry Henry and we have Rafael Benítez to thank for reviving the debate about what the young Liverpool ...
Premiership
Liverpool
Patrick Vieira
Rafael Benitez
Tony Cascarino
Anyone who thinks Chelsea will be seriously affected by the African Cup of Nations in January is crazy. Yes, Didier Drogba won’t be around — but they’ll just win games 1-0 or 2-0 instead of 4-0. Their defence will be unaffected by call-ups, and being hard to score against is ...
Premiership
Chelsea
Will Johnson
Matt Hughes José Mourinho caused a storm, as only he can, in this newspaper last week by fluttering his eyelids in the direction of the Barclays Premier League before trying to reassure his domestic audience of his desire to stay in Italy. But despite the subsequent outcry, more squalls ...
Premiership
Manchester City
Jose Mourinho
Will Johnson
Champions League
Manchester United
Bill Edgar 1 Strange series of results this season: Wigan 3 Chelsea 1; Chelsea 3 Tottenham 0; Tottenham 9 Wigan 1.
2 Tottenham players exceeding three goals in one of past four home league games. Also Keane, four against Burnley. 17 Defoe goals in his past 17 games for Tottenham and ...
Premiership
Chelsea
Tottenham Hotspur
England
Reading
Newcastle United
Hull City
Phill Jupitus As much as I feared when I first took this gig, the worlds of showbiz and football have collided, but not in a hilarious way like Hoddle and Waddle being on Top of the Pops . My new role as a gentleman of the English theatre means that I have been unable to go to any ...
Premiership
Alex Ferguson
Kettering 0 Kidderminster 2 (Courtney 70, Barnes-Homer 82) Mark Venables, Rockingham Road If anyone at Rockingham Road had any doubts how much Kettering Town would miss Mark Cooper, their departed manager, then Saturday’s comprehensive defeat by Kidderminster Harriers would have ...
Premiership
Press conferences are normally pretty easy-going affairs. The journalists and the manager ask and answer the questions politely, perhaps exchange a bit of gentle banter, and everyone's happy. But there are exceptions, as any football writer could tell you. The times when, often out of ...
Premiership
Roy Keane
“And now half-time is here, and so we face humiliation.” So begins Rafael Benítez’s team-talk in 15 Minutes That Shook the World , a new film that reveals the “truth” of how Liverpool were inspired to overturn a 3-0 deficit in the 2005 Champions League final. It’s an actor who delivers ...
Premiership
Rafael Benitez
Liverpool
Champions League
Steven Gerrard
Jamie Carragher
With this season's FA Cup well under way, Jonathan Owen has nominated one of the competition's vintage years for inclusion in our repository of memories. The 1927 edition is unique, with Cardiff City taking the trophy out of England for the first and only time with their 1-0 victory over ...
Premiership
Jonathan
Arsenal
England
Tony Cascarino George Burley must be one of the few non-French people grateful for Thierry Henry’s handball against Ireland because it’s distracted everyone from his sacking as Scotland manager this week. Longer-term, though, what are his prospects? As a failed international ...
Premiership
England
In today's e-mail bulletin, we asked: "Is Liverpool v Manchester City the defining match for who will finish fourth this season?" James Ducker responded: "Perhaps not a defining game, but it's obviously very important for both sides and psychologically it could possibly have ...
