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A winding-up order? It could be the start of something great

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Pompey fans are understandably fearful that their club enter liquidation next week but, as AFC Wimbledon fan Niall Couper explains, it won't be the end of the world

Robbie Savage faces his former club Birmingham in the FA Cup fifth round today

Second coming of the Savage

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Robbie Savage is a new man with a new plan. Derby’s tempestuous midfielder tells Phil Shaw that he is indebted to Nigel Clough for rescuing his career, and why the goal is to become a TV pundit rather than Wales coach

Neil Warnock: O'Neill will be gunning for me as he knows the FA Cup is Villa's best chance of glory

Saturday, 13 February 2010

What I Learnt This Week

PFA chief answers critics

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Gordon Taylor, the Professional Footballers' Association chief executive, has claimed the Premier League do not feel homophobia in football is a big issue. Taylor also denied that players had refused to appear in an anti-homophobia DVD, saying none had been asked because the time was not right.

Rio Ferdinand is accused of striking Hull forward Craig Fagan in the face

Football accused in homophobia row

Friday, 12 February 2010

Ian Herbert: Professional footballers have refused to appear in a campaign video against homophobia because they fear being ridiculed for taking a stand against one of the sport's most stubborn taboos, The Independent has learnt.

<b>Sven Goran Eriksson</b><br/> When Notts County were taken over at the start of the season, the new owners came in with big ambitions. They were a League Two side destined for the Premier League and the man who would lead the revolution was Sven Goran Eriksson. The very same Sven who led England for five-years, was paid millions of pounds and was once considered one of the best managers in the world. With this in mind, football fans struggled to understand what would motivate the Swede to take the Director of Football role at the League Two side - and most are still wondering. But after the club were sold this week to new owners, his time at Meadow Lane has come to an end - just seven-months after his arrival. But at least he lasted longer than Sol Campbell who made just one appearance for the Magpies before jumping ship.

Told you so: The football appointments they said wouldn't last

Friday, 12 February 2010

Sven Goran-Eriksson has resigned at Notts County, bringing an end to one of the stranger appointments in football.

September 2004: Paul Stretford (left) with Wayne Rooney, Coleen McLoughlin and Sir Alex Ferguson after Rooney's signing at Manchester United

Wayne Rooney speaks out in court

Friday, 12 February 2010

Footballer Wayne Rooney agreed today that his agent had helped make him a "very wealthy young man".

Football shirt couture: A sport-fashion fusion

Friday, 12 February 2010

The sports-luxe look may be all the rage on the catwalk right now, but few designers are prepared to make sport and fashion such close bedfellows as Angy Morton, whose latest range of couture gowns is made from Premier League football shirts.

Wayne Rooney's current form and display against Aston Villa led Martin O'Neill to call him 'one of the world's best'

The wonder of Wayne: what makes Rooney world-class

Friday, 12 February 2010

The United striker has seized centre stage following Cristiano Ronaldo's exit, writes Sam Wallace. Now trophy hopes for club and country rest on his shoulders.

Taylor claims gay issue 'not easy' for stars

Friday, 12 February 2010

Players' chief Gordon Taylor has defended professional footballers following claims that no big names would agree to appear in a video to launch a campaign against homophobia.

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