Partizan Belgrade Group H Position: 3rd Group H Form: L (1-0 Shakhtar Donestk – A) Partizan Belgrade are making just their second ever appearance in the Champions League proper, their first spell at Europe’s top table since 2003/2004, where the Serbian side failed to win a single one of their […]

Tottenham Hotspur Group A Position: 1st Group A Form: D (2-2 Werder Bremen – A) The four-or-so-thousand travelling Tottenham fans seen their side collect their first ever Champions League point on Match Day 1, although it could and perhaps should have been more after manager Harry Redknapp had seen his […]

Valencia Group C Position: 1st Group C Form: W (0-4 Buraspor – A) So often just the third-best team in Spain’s Primera division, Valencia have began the season like a house on fire and will be buoyed by their magnificent start despite facing their toughest game of the season thus […]

Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson stood up for striker Fernando Torres after a disappointing display in the goalless draw at Birmingham City. The Spain international frontman has started the new season slowly, but Hodgson is confident that as Torres gains match fitness he will return to top form. He told reporters: […]

The former Southampton full-back Chris Baird has signed a new three-year deal at Fulham. The Northern Ireland international’s current deal was due to expire next summer but he will now stay with the Cottagers until the end of the 2012-13 campaign. Baird moved to Craven Cottage in the summer of […]

Manchester United winger Antonio Valencia is set to miss the rest of the season after suffering a dreadful ankle injury in the Champions League goalless draw with Rangers. The 25-year-old Ecuador international was injured in a tackle with Kirk Broadfoot, before leaving the Old Trafford pitch on a stretcher. United […]

Sans Frontieres has been given the go-ahead to take part in the Melbourne Cup in November. Trainer Jeremy Noseda has given the progressive colt the green light top travel Down Under, saying the four-year-old is the ‘ideal candidate’. The son of Galileo landed the Irish St Leger last time out […]

Canford Cliffs will miss his deciding showdown with Makfi at Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot. The three-year-old and the French colt Makfi have shared one win apiece this year following the 2000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes. However a dirty scope means that the Richard Hannon-trained Cliffs […]

New Blackburn loan signing Mame Biram Diouf made himself an instant hero by scoring a hat-trick in his side’s Carling Cup second round tie versus Norwich City. Diouf’s hat-trick came as Blackburn eased into the third round with a 3-1 victory over the Championship new boys, improving their Carling Cup […]

The French population likes to gamble but the French government is obsessed about controlling gambling and maintaining a state monopoly. As a result gamblers in France get one of the worst deals of any European nation. In short, if you want to gamble in France you should do so purely […]

John Higgins, the world’s number one snooker player, has been banned for six months and fined £75,000, but crucially cleared of accepting a bribe to fix matches. An independent disciplinary hearing on Wednesday concluded that Higgins’ claim that he felt intimidated during a meeting in Kiev with an undercover journalist […]

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