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Manchester United's David Moyes may have more joy if he drops the frustrated Robin Van Persie

The fabric of Robin van Persie’s relationship with Manchester United frays a little more, day by day. On Sunday he garlanded the Dutch national coach Louis van Gaal with praise – “a fantastic manager” –and spoke of how age has made him “more sensitive to what my…

Manuel Pellegrini slams his Manchester City flops after crashing out of FA Cup

ANGRY Manuel Pellegrini last night admitted his complacent Manchester City stars made the inexcusable mistake of under-estimating Wigan once again.

Manchester City 1 - Wigan 2: City hit by a Uwe lightning strike

SO Manchester City have discovered that in football lightning can strike twice.

Hull 3 - Sunderland 0: David Meyler keeps his head to land a KO for Tigers

WHAT is it with David Meyler and the North-east clubs?

Silver lining looming for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Co

IN SOME senses, flying to the European champions to try to recover a two-goal deficit in their own back yard is the easy bit for Arsenal now. At least there is no real expectation.

Clock ticking for Felix Magath as Cardiff consign rock-bottom Fulham to more misery

JOHN HEITINGA summed it up. For Fulham, it is now “five minutes past midnight”. In other words, the deadline has just about ticked by.

Jose Mourinho coping just fine after Chelsea extend lead to seven points

THE kidology goes on. Jose Mourinho insists he would rather have three games in hand in the title race like Manchester City than the seven-point lead at the top over Liverpool and Arsenal now built up by Chelsea.

Canaries manager Chris Hughton eyes the difficult job ahead

JUST two points separate their teams, but Chris Hughton and Mark Hughes will have very different weeks.

Jose backs City and Arsenal

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists domestic rivals Manchester City and Arsenal are still very much in with a chance of progressing to the Champions League quarter-finals.