Football News
Who's going where in a £400m summer of transfer madness?
Published: 18 May 2007
The Premiership's bumper television deal and the influx of billionaire owners point to a record-smashing £400m spending spree this summer.
Countdown to the FA Cup final: 1923 and all that
Published: 18 May 2007
O'Shea shoots on sight along his road to United redemption
Published: 18 May 2007
With the grand total of four goals from five attempts John O'Shea has materialised as the most accurate marksman in the Premiership this season and he has not wasted the opportunity to rub it in the noses of the disbelieving Manchester United forward line.
Cole desperate to fulfil boyhood Cup final dream
Published: 18 May 2007
Tomorrow's FA Cup final is the hottest ticket in town but when Chelsea and Manchester United last met, in 1994, George Cole gave his ticket away
The best since Maradona: The footballing warrior from Fort Apache
Published: 16 May 2007
After stress of another last-day battle, Jewell quits while still ahead
Published: 15 May 2007
Whelan says Tevez appeal is doomed
Published: 15 May 2007
Safe in the knowledge that his club's Premiership status is now guaranteed for another season, Wigan's chairman, Dave Whelan, admitted yesterday that West Ham's £5.5m fine over irregularities in the signings of Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano cannot be overturned or transformed into a points deduction.
Countdown to the FA Cup final: Is Wembley the world's greatest stadium?
Published: 15 May 2007
Hutchings looks a gamble after career in background
Published: 15 May 2007
Football management is a capricious profession but even Chris Hutchings must have been surprised to get the call from Dave Whelan yesterday morning. Failed Premiership managers do not often receive a second chance and Hutchings has one of the more spectacular failures to his name. Twelve League matches, one win, 137 days.
Fergie's only fear is Drogba in drama reserved for titans
Published: 13 May 2007
As doubts swirl over future, Terry craves the perfect present
Published: 13 May 2007
Kidderminster 2 Stevenage Borough 3: Stimson's Wembley hat-trick - and he didn't kick a ball
Published: 13 May 2007
Giggs: 'This can be the best United ever'
Published: 13 May 2007
Jordan accuses PFA executive
Published: 12 May 2007
The Professional Footballers' Association deputy chief executive Mick McGuire was yesterday accused of lying over his involvement with the Crystal Palace manager Iain Dowie's move to Charlton Ahtletic. The accusation came from the Palace chairman Simon Jordan during his £1m High Court compensation claim against Dowie for "fraudulent misrepresentation".
Going up painted over the cracks, claims Jordan
Published: 11 May 2007
Crystal Palace's chairman Simon Jordan yesterday denied in the High Court that he told FHM magazine that he "hated" Iain Dowie despite Palace's promotion to the Premiership in 2004, although Jordan did agree that in one of his final telephone conversations with Dowie, he expressed the view that the team were "fucking shit" and had "no bollocks".
Exeter in the final as Oxford pay the penalty
Published: 09 May 2007
Exeter made it through to the Conference play-offs final last night after defeating Oxford on penalties. Steve Tully struck the winning spot-kick in sudden death of the shoot-out.
Arsenal Ladies 4 Charlton Women 1: Ludlow gives Gunners clean sweep
Published: 08 May 2007
Arsenal came from a goal down to beat Charlton in the FA Women's Cup final at the City Ground and complete a clean sweep of major trophies this season.
Ball and Brown face nervous wait as FA examine video
Published: 08 May 2007
Football Association officials will decide today whether Michael Ball should be charged with serious foul play for his stamp on Cristiano Ronaldo during the Manchester derby on Saturday.
Writers give Ronaldo his third award of the season
Published: 05 May 2007
He may have flopped on a rainy Wednesday night in Milan, but Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers' Association - adding to his PFA Player and Young Player of the Year trophies.
Webster ruling sets transfer landmark
Published: 05 May 2007
Andy Webster, the Scotland defender who unilaterally broke his contract with Heart of Midlothian to move to Wigan last summer yesterday set a landmark precedent for players wanting to "buy" themselves out of clubs after a Fifa ruling that has been described as "the new Bosman".
Flat cap and flag give Ball fitting send-off
Published: 04 May 2007
The coffin that came to a halt outside the great doors of Winchester Cathedral yesterday afternoon, borne on a hearse that gleamed in heavenly sunshine, spoke of its occupant in graphic terms. It was draped in a flag of St George, on top of which someone had lovingly laid a tweed flat cap.
Burglars ransack home of Liverpool hero Reina
Published: 03 May 2007
The home of Liverpool's penalty shoot-out hero Jose Reina was burgled while he played in Tuesday night's Champions League semi-final against Chelsea.
Microsoft tycoon in £50m bid for Southampton FC
Published: 28 April 2007
English football is becoming accustomed to foreign businessmen buying its biggest clubs but arguably the most astonishing deal of them all was mooted yesterday as it emerged that the billionaire Microsoft tycoon Paul Allen is working on a £50m takeover bid for Southampton. The club currently play in the second-tier Championship.
Ball 'died of natural causes'
Published: 27 April 2007
Alan Ball died as a result of natural causes, a post-mortem examination has found. The 61-year-old member of the victorious 1966 World Cup squad was found dead at his home in Hook Lane, Warsash, Hampshire, at 12.15am on Wednesday morning.
Threlfall makes amends for blunder
Published: 27 April 2007
