DEADLINE DAY

Manchester City – step away from the window. It’s shut.

Garry Cook – retract the credit card

That’s all folks – the transfer headlines you’ll be reading in tomorrow’s papers will be that hardly anyone went hardly anywhere.

Anyone seeking one last fix of transfer activity should check out goings on in France and Spain, who in typical continental fashion keep their windows open [...]

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On'T Radio

The Spoiler vs Stan Collymore, the aftermath

After The Spoiler’s visit to Stan’s talkSPORT studio, the gulf between blogs and former players is wider than ever.

Dear Stan,

Oh dear. That didn’t go too well, did it? Not radio’s finest half hour. Still, thanks for having me.

There seems to be some confusion over my comment that players can’t be fans, [...]

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REGIME CHANGE

New Chelsea caretaker manager has “teabagging” form

Chelsea’s new interim governor Raymond Wilkins knows all about Big Phil, but what of Big Kevin?

This, from scurrilous gossip outfit Popbitch, not a couple of weeks ago…

>> Butch teabag and the sunlounger kid << The life and times of a top football coach

This week we saw news that Chelsea boss Felipe [...]

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Anglo-Russian relations

Arshavin’s agent confirms deal missed deadline

New Arsenal saviour about to feel the sharp side of British bureaucracy

It appears the Merseyside derby wasn’t the only tedious affair that went into extra time this week. In a Spoiler exclusive, Andrei Arshavin’s agent Dennis Lichter has revealed that the on-off-on-off-on-off-on-off-you-get-the-idea-with-that transfer was not concluded inside the 5pm Premier League deadline.

Speaking [...]

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Unreal Madrid

Juande loves Didier Zokora

Ramos eager to Spursify Real Madrid, but finds much of his work already done

Of all the Spurs players new Real Madrid manager Juande Ramos dreams about at night, the one he’d most like the chance to bewilder in Spain, according to the Spanish press at least, is Didier Zokora.

Madrid could [...]

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Blackburn

Five reasons why Paul Ince’s Blackburn days are numbered

Ince’s managerial career about to contract a deadly virus: statistics

The Spoiler is very much an admirer of Paul Ince and believes that a great deal of silverware lies in his future. His fondness for pale grey suits might not do him any favours and most schoolchildren can knot a tie more elegantly than [...]

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Room at the top

Arsenal’s league season officially over

Gunners’ capitulation to Aston Villa suggests they are growing bored of top four finishes

By going over like cardboard to Villa at the Emirates this afternoon, Arsenal have now registered four defeats in the first 13 league games this season, something they haven’t managed since 1994/95, long before the arrival of Professor Wenger. For those [...]

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MOTD

The wisdom of Shearer

Classic Alan, from his analysis of Liverpool-Wigan on Match of the Day

“There were terrific players on both sides, and I include Wigan in that.”

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