He’s only played two matches at Euro 2008 but already Russian superstar Andrei Arshavin has pushed himself to the top of almost every top club’s list of transfer targets this summer. The diminutive Zenit St Petersburg and Russian playmaking Captain has taken a grip on this summer’s tournament despite missing the opening 2 games through suspension.

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“I am happy here but let’s see what happens after the Champions League final.” These are the words that Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly uttered to Spanish TV channel Antena 3.

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As the Premier League announces proposals to introduce an additional game to the 38-game season, Premiership footballers will be living life like a rock star with their new, international Premiership tour dates!

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I to-ed and fro-ed over whether or not to watch England last night and I suppose the main reason I tuned in was the same reason people look at car crashes - morbid curiosity.

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It seems we’re all happy to be swept along in the romanticism of football at the moment. Watching the Havant and Waterlooville players with their camcorders and mobile phones as they graced Anfield, epitomising everything the FA Cup stands for, was enough to warm even the most sceptical of hearts.

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Between Newcastle and Liverpool, the country is not short of football stories at the moment. Whatever paper you read, whatever football site you visit, the general focus is on the latest events in the Liverpool-Benitez-Hicks-Gillett showdown.

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The football world was shocked with the reappointment of Kevin Keegan at Newcastle after an 11-year absence, but is it a wise move for King Kev to return to try and recapture past glories or will he taint his saint-like image on Tyneside?

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There’s no escaping the current news of Allardyce’s departure from Newcastle ‘by mutual consent’. And despite his exit not coming as the biggest shock in the world, we have to ask how can you sack someone a mere 240 days into a job (and only 151 of those involved Premiership games and results)?

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