IRON DICK

Vincent Kompany axed from Belgium after returning late from nan’s funeral

Boss Dick Advocaat maintains hardline policy…

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New Belgium manager Dick Advocaat was brought into whip an unbelievably underachieving squad into shape, and he’s taking his job pretty seriously. Marouane Fellaini is already a marked man, having missed a match to go to the dentist and reported for training in [...]

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The Future

Man City close to signing long-term Arsenal target

Tomorrow’s headlines today…

Vincent Kompany

Arsene Wenger admitted in June that he’s been tracking the progress of Vincent Kompany since he was 16, but that he wouldn’t sign him this summer because his defence didn’t need strengthening (which seems strange considering they’ve just bought Mikael Silvestre).

Anyway, it looks [...]

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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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