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• Sergio Agüero extends Manchester City contract by a year • David Beckham career ends as he misses PSG's Lorient game Agüero signs one-year extension of City deal Sergio Agüero has underlined his commitment to Manchester City by signing a one-year contract extension. The…

The final analysis

Former England boss Steve McClaren explains where the 2013 Champions League final was won and lost

Rewind TV: Panorama: Hillsborough – How They Buried the Truth; The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs; David Bowie – Five Years; Case Histories

The police were properly damned in Panorama but elsewhere acquitted themselves well rounding up Britain's sex gangs Panorama: Hillsborough – How They Buried the Truth (BBC1) | iPlayer The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs (C4) | 4oD David Bowie – Five Years (BBC2) Case Histories (BBC1) |…

Manchester City aiming big in America

IT has been some week for football across The Pond after Manchester City announced a tie-in with the New York Yankees that brings to mind the glory days of the North American Soccer League of the 1970s.

Manchester City face fight to be kings of Queens

After a week of talk about their vision of a new Major League Soccer franchise, Manchester City were putting in the hard yards yesterday, taking players into the Queens district on unannounced visits to the many games which take place in the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where the club want to…

Decisions loom for in-demand Spanish pair Roberto Martinez and Rafa Benitez

Roberto Martinez and Rafa Benitez are weighing up their options this weekend before deciding whether to move on to Everton and Napoli respectively. Of the two Spanish managers, Benitez has the more concrete offer, the Italian club's president, Aurelio De Laurentiis, having gone on record as wanting…

Roy Hodgson's goalkeeper crisis

GORDON BANKS heard the familiar Scottish voice behind him and knew what was coming.

Bitter Florent Malouda bowing out with a blast as Chelsea’s new targets wait in the wing

FLORENT MALOUDA has launched a final parting shot at Chelsea as his six-year stint comes to an acrimonious end.

Ian Holloway eyes special return into top flight

WHILE most of the Premier League prepares to welcome the return of the ‘Special One’ at Chelsea, another manager out of a very different but still unique mould will be waiting in the wings at Wembley tomorrow.