News in Brief

Arsene Wenger, Modric injury update, and Guti transfer…

Remeber this guy (on the left)?

Luka Modric 

Many football neutrals will probably view the weekend’s Merseyside Derby as the equivalent of the pre-movie cartoon, with Chelsea travelling to the Emirates later in the afternoon.

It should be a corker, and the rumblings coming from the finest football restaurants [...]

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stocking filler

2 Good 2 Bad – The World Cup

Featuring just one of these men

Chiles and Skinner

Fans of MOTD2‘s weekly 2 Good 2 Bad round-up have permission to go totally berserk, because you can now buy a movie length edition of the feature on DVD, focussing on the rather more zany and outlandish side of World [...]

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The Big Question

Can Everton beat Liverpool in the Merseyside Derby?

Which child will be smiling after 90 minutes?

Everton Liverpool 

Both teams will be going into Sunday’s Merseyside Derby on the back of a pretty shocking run of form. Everton have won just one of the last seven, and are now dangling in that horrible mid/lower table area just above [...]

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The Force

Avram Grant is like Yoda, says David James

No way, Avram is much better looking!

Yoda 

As a football manager, there are certain iconic figures whom it would be wonderful to be compared to. Perhaps Winston Churchill, or for the younger crop, Sir Alex Ferguson. Presumably, very few of them would look to the backwards talking gnome in Star [...]

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Blast from the past

VIDEO: Lineker’s El Clasico Hat-trick

Ahh, great days for Gary

Now the silky MOTD conductor, who can’t quite bring out the best in Alan Shearer, this weekend should bring back fond memories for Gary [...]

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Transfer News

More old names on Benitez shopping list

Guess who might be coming back to England? (clue below)

Patrick Vieira

It was reported yesterday that Rafa Benitez might yet look in the direction of Ruud van Nistelrooy in the upcoming transfer window, in a bid to strengthen his Liverpool attack. But, according to the BBC, Ruud isn’t [...]

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