Without doubt, the calmest man in the maelstrom stew of nerves and emotions on the touchline of the Allianz Arena tomorrow night will be Roberto Di Ma...

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• Date: Fri 18 May 13:14

In Sweden they must barely be able to contain the laughter. In France, you imagine the footage of John Terry stumbling around the Anfield pitch like a...

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• Date: Wed 16 May 22:06

With the kind of timing publishers must dread, this month sees the release of Colin Shindler's latest memoir. The author sold an awful lot of copies o...

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• Date: Fri 11 May 16:35

An odd consensus emerged on Monday night after Blackburn were relegated to the Championship. On phone-ins and chat rooms, in newspaper columns and soc...

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• Date: Wed 09 May 11:16

Three days into the job and Roy Hodgson must already wonder what it is he has let himself in for. There he was much admired at the Hawthorns, doing a ...

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• Date: Fri 04 May 16:51

You don't have to see life through Niall Quinn's sky-blue-tinted disco specs to appreciate this truth about last night's Premier League show down: the...

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• Date: Tue 01 May 11:18

So much for assumption. So much for fixes. So much for hot balls. From the moment the draw for the quarter and semi-finals of the Champions League was...

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• Date: Fri 27 Apr 13:12

What a night. What an astonishing result. At the Camp Nou Chelsea gave final vindication to those who have long preached that what matters in football...

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• Date: Wed 25 Apr 12:51

Recently, I had the chance to interview Owen Coyle. So I asked the pretty obvious question: you may talk about trying to play an aesthetically-pleasin...

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• Date: Fri 20 Apr 15:44

Andriy Shevchenko put it pretty succinctly: tonight is the game that could turn our perceptions of the sort of season Chelsea have had on their head. ...

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• Date: Wed 18 Apr 16:31

In London the Ken and Boris show enters its final furlong, awash with candidate's tears and mutual accusations of tax dodging. So close is the vote li...

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• Date: Fri 13 Apr 13:34

I was talking to a Newcastle United supporter yesterday. The interesting thing was — like every other Newcastle fan I have ever met — he did not confo...

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• Date: Wed 11 Apr 13:03

I think Mario Balotelli is great. He is a huge addition to the public landscape. Apparently on a one-man mission to cheer us all up, everything about ...

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• Date: Fri 06 Apr 15:14

Liverpool have provided over the years far more media pundits than any other club. From Jim Beglin and Jan Molby, through Mark Lawrenson to the king o...

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• Date: Wed 04 Apr 11:00

A couple of intriguing ideas surfaced this week. First was the extraordinary prospect that David Moyes, the man who has made a career from being the o...

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• Date: Fri 30 Mar 13:02

Glenn Hoddle has never been quite as sure with words as he was with a football. His syntax is at times as tortured, over-wrought and convoluted as his...

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• Date: Wed 28 Mar 14:39

Here are a couple of statistics that shed fresh light on Tottenham's season. Arsenal — a club pitched deep into apparently terminal crisis but two mon...

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• Date: Fri 23 Mar 12:23

Patrick Vieira is one of football's good guys. Intelligent, decent, thoughtful, like many a modern player of African descent, his philanthropic instin...

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• Date: Wed 21 Mar 15:29

Those balls must have been nice and warm in UEFA headquarters this morning, hot enough to keep the entire town of Nyon toasty in the glow. For the bla...

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• Date: Fri 16 Mar 13:37

It wasn't the greatest way to mark an anniversary. Ten years in charge at Everton and David Moyes saw his team shredded in the game that matters most ...

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• Date: Wed 14 Mar 10:59

Dave Woods, commentating on Channel 5 got it spot on: Old Trafford, he said, used to be a fortress on European nights, now it has become a gift shop. ...

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• Date: Fri 09 Mar 11:57

When the ball landed at Robin van Persie's feet a yard from goal and with the Milan keeper lying prone on the turf, suddenly at the Emirates last nigh...

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• Date: Wed 07 Mar 12:55

If, as everyone seems to think it will, the FA is bound to appoint Harry Redknapp as the next England manager, you wonder why it hasn't done so alread...

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• Date: Fri 02 Mar 13:18

There won't be a shortage of pride this evening at Wembley. Leading out the England team as coach, Stuart Pearce will almost be bursting with patrioti...

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• Date: Wed 29 Feb 12:35

By an odd quirk, after they had both been largely messed up by previous expensive, high-profile incumbents, England's two most significant internation...

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• Date: Fri 24 Feb 12:28