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Revealed: Ligue 1′s answer to Heurelho Gomes

French keeper commits a big “non non”

Avid fans of goalkeeping errors will no doubt be aware of the howler AS Nancy’s Gennaro Bracigliano committed last night in a [...]

Rio Ferdinand’s birthday, Jens Lehmann’s retirement and a streaking ban

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Ronaldinho shows us how to win a UEFA Cup game in style [The Offside]

Premier League ref Mark Clattenburg’s Porsche [...]

Eight reasons why Steve McClaren will get a result in Manchester tonight

Manchester City/ FC twente, 7.45pm, ITV4, Free £10 bet

While billionaires Manchester City are struggling to have any real impact in the Premier League, everyone’s favourite laughing stock Schteve McClaren is two points off the top of the Eredivisie with his new club [...]

Aston Villa fans produce chant of the season

Villains show excellent sense of humour over striker’s antics

Following the news that ‘fatigued’ striker John Carew was spotted at a lap dancing club prior to last week’s UEFA Cup clash with Ajax, Villa fans treated the big Norwegian to a roaring chorus of:

“Get your t*ts out for Carew!”

After coming off [...]

Ramos insists he didn’t exclude Bentley because of his comments to the media

But the Spaniard fails to convince The Spoiler

David Bentley was axed from Tottenham’s 18-man squad for the 2-0 UEFA Cup loss to Udinese but Juande Ramos denied dropping the winger because he had labelled the club’s season “shocking” and “a bit shit”. Ramos said:

“I just had to [...]

UEFA Cup predictions: all three English sides face tough tests tonight

Udinese/ Tottenham, Five, 6.10pm Aston Villa/ Ajax, Five, 8.15pm Sporting Braga/ Portsmouth, not on tele, 8.15pm

Despite the fact there are still forty teams in the UEFA Cup, the difficulty starts cranking up a few notches at the group stage. That’s bad news for Tottenham, Aston Villa [...]

Portsmouth draw Milan, Villa face Jol’s Hamburg and City meet McClaren’s FC Twente

Redknapp’s plans to play the reserves might need altering

While all four still stand a strong chance of progressing, the Premier League’s UEFA Cup hopefuls Aston Villa, Portsmouth, Tottenham and Manchester City all drew interesting group stage opposition.

Harry Redknapp spoke about fielding reserves in some games but may [...]

Another dismal Spurs performance… apparently not the players fault

Things go from worse to really worse 

Once again, against Wisla Krakow, Spurs went that extra mile to produce a performance so lacking in skill that even peasant children – used to kicking deflated basketballs up muddy hills – would struggle to sit through it. And yet, [...]