Finance Headache

Liverpool may be forced to sell Fernando Torres

Spanish striker could be working for a bank next year

Fernando Torres

According to The Times, Liverpool will be forced to sell Fernando Torres and Ryan Babel if they do not stump up £31.5m owed to creditors.

Usually, Premier League clubs fund purchases through television income, but [...]

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Artist's Impression

It’s Stan Collymore as you’ve never seen him before!

Most football fans and doggers could create a better likeness than this Stan Collymore. I think. Yesterday’s edition of The Game carried an interview with Stan Collymore, and nothing was more intriguing than the illustration that came with the article [...]

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Gazza

More insights into Paul Gascoigne’s crazy head

“Tragic ace” has more vivid inner life than the rest of England’s footballers put together

Paul Gascoigne

As part of their Gazza coverage, the Times have run an extract from Hunter Davies’ outstanding book, Gazza My Story, written with Paul Gascoigne in 2004, which you can read by

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Gazza

Not everyone entirely sympathetic to Paul Gascoigne’s plight

Writing in the Times, Simon Barnes describes Paul Gascoigne’s last few weeks as an increasingly unhinged guest at a Gateshead hotel, including the line “Gascoigne, 40, had apparently also spent hours in his room playing on a Nintendo Wii handheld computer game console.”

One reader’s reaction to this harrowing account? “The only one comment I [...]

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