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Steve Cram: Being available for an hour is a small price to pay for a clean sport. Ask Rio Ferdinand

Being available for an hour is a small price to pay for a clean sport. Ask Rio Football has been dragged into the drug-testing environment that most sports have long since accepted as necessary It came as no surprise last week...

Football gossip

Check out all the gossip relating to our local clubs below, and if you've heard a rumour, have your say via the comment box. United The Reds are lining up a bid for Valerenga's 23-year-old Norwegian striker Moa Abdellaoui,...

Gibson willing to bide his time at United

Darron Gibson is not about to make the mistake of leaving Manchester United in a search for regular first-team football. Gibson was a shock inclusion in Giovanni Trapattoni's Republic of Ireland side for their World Cup...

O'Shea: No pressure from Fergie

Updated: November 17, 2008, 6:47 AM EST defender John O'Shea insists manager Sir Alex Ferguson would never prevent his players from representing their countries. Aston Villa vs. Man United Stoke City vs. West Brom United trio...

Striker Bent can score goals for England, says Spurs skipper King

Ledley King has urged Fabio Capello to hand Darren Bent a starting place for England's friendly against Germany on Wednesday after his Tottenham team-mate's recall to the national squad. Bent has scored seven goals in as many...

Gerrard and Lampard ruled out as Capello brings in Parker and Bullard

Gerrard and Lampard ruled out for England as Capello brings in Parker and Bullard Steven Gerrard has been sent home after having his 'injury' assessed by England's medical staff at the team hotel in Hertfordshire. Midfielders...

Knife crime battle 'not working'

Keith Vaz is worried current efforts to tackle knife crime are failing Efforts to tackle knife crime are "clearly not working", the chairman of the home affairs committee has warned. Labour MP Keith Vaz said the weekend...

Capello's England squad in tatters

Fabio Capello's England squad to face Germany on Wednesday was in ruins last night as Steven Gerrard became the third high-profile name after Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand to pull out citing injury. While his senior players...

Premier League: Manchester United 5-0 Stoke City

Even those who did not necessarily carry the fortunes of Manchester United close to their heart, whose heads had not been turned by the whispered blandishments of Sir Alex Ferguson, could not fail to leave Old Trafford on...

'Contento' The word of God

Published Date: 17 November 2008 IN HIS heyday, one of the qualities that distinguished Diego Armando Maradona as a candidate for the accolade of football's greatest ever player was a low centre of gravity. Now he's an...