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The Knowledge | Football dressing-room misadventures

Plus: Tottenham's points misfortune, high-scoring semis (2) and the origin of the Black Cats. Send your questions and answers to knowledge@guardian.co.uk and follow us on Twitter "After the recent escapades at Brighton , have there been any other high-profile dressing-room misdeeds?" asks Victoria Jenson. We start, Victoria, at Upton Park in May 1999 and a fiery game between West Ham and Leeds. The two sides were both battling to qualify for the Uefa Cup and Leeds took the lead inside a minute when Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored from 20 yards out. It got worse from there for West Ham. Shortly…

Tony Pulis sacking was largely down to Stoke's failure to raise the bar | Louise Taylor

Old-school Stoke City manager paid the price for failing to introduce a more beautiful game at the Britannia Stadium Tony Pulis possibly first suspected his time at Stoke City was running out last December. As Christmas approached, Peter Coates, the club's owner, appointed Mark Cartwright, a former Wrexham and Shrewsbury Town goalkeeper and football agent, to the newly created post of technical director – and two worlds collided. Civil as relations between Pulis and Cartwright might have appeared to casual observers, there were understood to be underlying tensions between an "old-school…

New York Yankees could play MLB game at Manchester City's Etihad Stadium after £66m partnership deal

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Paolo Di Canio's crackdown on player discipline backed by Sunderland owner Ellis Short

Sunderland owner is fully behind Italian manager's implementation of a strict new regime at the Stadium of Light, despite complaints from the players and criticism from the Professional Footballers' Association.        

West Ham have £15 milllion bid for Andy Carroll accepted but striker keen to make his mark with Liverpool

Andy Carroll is stalling on a £15?million move to West Ham after Liverpool accepted a bid for the England striker.        

Roberto Mancini paid the price for Manchester City's season of failure, says Gaël Clichy

Gaël Clichy has claimed Roberto Mancini was "at fault" for Manchester City's failure to perform in a season that ended without a trophy        

Kris Commons ends Scotland career as Gordon Strachan names squad to face Croatia

Celtic midfielder Kris Commons dramatically called time on his short Scotland career on Tuesday night.        

Scottish Cup final 2013: Anthony Stokes on what Celtic must do, plus Hibs team news

Anthony Stokes believes Celtic need to win the William Hill Scottish Cup to make this a truly memorable campaign.        

Nasri staying with City

Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri insists he wants to stay at the Etihad Stadium.

Cahill would welcome Mourinho

Chelsea defender Gary Cahill would welcome the anticipated return of Jose Mourinho to Stamford Bridge.

Motherwell fear Stuart McCall exit as Hearts release Mehdi Taouil

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Manchester City strike gold in New York as MLS deal extends their empire

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Gaël Clichy: Roberto Mancini must take share of blame for dismissal

Manchester City's Gaël Clichy has said that Roberto Mancini must take responsibility for events that led to the Italian's dismissal as manager last week, though admitted that there were games last season during which the players "didn't give anything".

Andy Carroll stalls on £15m move to West Ham in hope Newcastle step in

Andy Carroll was tonight stalling on a move to West Ham after a £15m fee was agreed with Liverpool, in the hope that Newcastle United enter the race for his signature.

In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

The Stoke City players had their end-of-season bash a week early on the penultimate Sunday of the season, and rather than Stoke-on-Trent it was 55 miles north up the M6 at a restaurant in the upmarket new Spinningfields district of Manchester city centre that they toasted another year in the Premier League.

Phil Neville in frame for role at Stoke City

The former England international and Everton captain Phil Neville is in the frame for a senior coaching role at Stoke City following the departure of manager Tony Pulis after seven years in charge at the club.

Real Madrid should never have hired Jose Mourinho according to former president Ramon Calderon

Real Madrid should never have hired Jose Mourinho, according to former president Ramon Calderon.        

Carroll pulls out of England squad

Andy Carroll withdraws from the England squad for the friendlies against the Republic of Ireland and Brazil.

Everton's Leon Osman signs new two-year contract with Goodison club

• Deal will keep Osman at Goodison Park until he is 34 • One-club man would have been out of contract next summer Leon Osman has signed a new two-year contract at Everton that will tie the midfielder to his boyhood club until the age of 34. Osman, who along with the full-back Tony Hibbert is one of two players to pre-date David Moyes at Everton, would have been out of contract next summer but has now agreed a deal until the end of the 2014–15 season. The 32-year-old made 42 appearances for Moyes's team last season and received full England recognition for the first time in…

Tony Pulis sacked by Stoke after problematic campaign at the Britannia Stadium

Tony Pulis's seven-year reign at Stoke City came to a brutal end when he was sacked by chairman Peter Coates.        

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