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Barcelona move eight points clear at top

La Liga: A 3-0 win at Real Valladolid meant that Barcelona reached the season's mid-point unbeaten

Bayern go top as Robben settles thriller

Bundesliga: A 78th minute Arjen Robben goal secured a 3-2 win at Werder Bremen for Bayern Munich

Amateurs Colmar beat Lille in shootout

French Cup: Fourth division Colmar knocked Ligue 1 Lille out of the French Cup 10-9 on penalties

Deportivo La Coruna 3-1 Athletic Bilbao La Liga match report

Deportivo La Coruna boosted their hopes of qualifying for next season's Champions League by beating Athletic Bilbao. However, the Galicians' victory was tainted as full-back Filipe Luís fractured his ankle as he scored his side's first goal. The Brazilian is set for a long spell on the...

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With their striker the star of this year's FA Cup, the Elland Road club have finally shed their traumatic historyLeeds are a club much copied. They built a debt mountain long before Portsmouth, Newcastle or West Ham, pioneering the suicidal wage bill and lunatic transfer budget for others to...

Money – not love or lack of it – is driving force in life of Carlos Tevez | Paul Hayward

Manchester City's willingness to pay over the odds for the Argentinian was legitimate gesture politicsCarlos Tevez and the philanthropic folk who own his "economic rights" constructed a myth around themselves that El Apache was pushed out of Old Trafford by Manchester United's coldness. In...

Scunthorpe are ready for their close-up

Scunthorpe v Manchester City, Glanford Park, 4pm, ITV1There is a first time for everything and today sees Scunthorpe United's inaugural appearance on live terrestrial television. "We've never been shown before," marvels Nigel Adkins, the Championship club's former physiotherapist, now the manager,...

Unloved BBC and Carling Cup should take a bow| Paul Wilson

It was a pleasure to discover the BBC still know how to cover a live game, despite dealing mostly in highlights in recent yearsLet's hear it for the Carling Cup, the surprise new hit of the season. Who would have thought the least regarded of television's football offerings would end up...