A Peter Crouch hat-trick helped Tottenham secure their debut in the lucrative Champions League group stages as they saw off Swiss side Young Boys. Spurs trailed 3-2 from the first leg of the qualifier but drew level when Crouch headed in a Gareth Bale cross. Jermain Defoe appeared to control the ball with his arm [...]
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Manchester City captain CarlosTevez scored twice as Liverpool were beaten 3-0 in their Premier League encounter at Eastlands. Visiting manager Roy Hodgson’s night began badly as Javier Mascherano apparently refused to play against City with a £16 million move to Barcelona on the cards. It went downhill from there. City’s £23m debutant James Milner played [...]
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Indian businessman Ahsan Ali Syed would like to bring former England captain David Beckham back to the Premier League if his proposed takeover of Blackburn is successful. Rovers are in discussions with Syed, 36, over a proposed £300 million takeover with the Bahrain-based lawyer pledging an initial £80-100m for new players. And Syed believes Beckham [...]
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Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has said he is amazed at the “kamikaze” spending of some of his rivals. “Over the last two or three years we have seen very wealthy owners become part of football clubs and therefore go on this kamikaze effort to spend their money,” Ferguson said.Ferguson, whose own spending during the [...]
This quarter-final brings together a former football superpower hoping to recapture past glories and an emerging nation looking to write their place in World Cup history. Victory for Uruguay would take them through to their first semi-final since 1970, while Ghana can become the first African side to reach the last four. Uruguay’s two World [...]
The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium hosts the teams ranked first and fourth in the world, in a fascinating quarter-final encounter. Will it be jogo bonito versus total football, or winning ugly at the expense of the beautiful game? Brazil and the Netherlands have come to South Africa to win, not to entertain. Pragmatic, workmanlike and [...]
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Nigeria risk being expelled from Fifa if football’s world governing body decides there has been unacceptable government interference. Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan has suspended the national team for two years following a poor World Cup. “Fifa has a very clear position on political interference but it is premature to speak further. “The worst sanction available [...]
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2010 Fifa World Cup