Beijing Hotshots

The ‘players to watch at the Olympics’ XI

Feast your eyes on some football players in China

Alexandre Pato

Perhaps one day someone will start a sentence with “there’s an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman” without it being a joke about people in boxes saying “potatoes” – it could even be used to introduce a [...]

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Transfer talk

Aston Villa to buy half a new team with Barry transfer fee

Today’s gossip, rumours and damned lies

Gareth Barry

The maths genii at The Daily Star are ahead of the game once more, reporting that if Liverpool cave and pay £18 million for Barry, Villa will use the money to sign David Bentley (who last time we heard was valued [...]

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