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Football transfer rumours: Radamel Falcao to Chelsea?

Today's tell-all reads remarkably like a lot of last summer's tell-all With the Everton full-back Leighton Baines , the Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrera and the Borussia Dortmund enforcer Ilkay Gündogan repeatedly being linked with imminent moves to Manchester United, the Rumour Mill has been experiencing feelings of deja vu – harking back to a long and tedious summer in which the trio were repeatedly linked with imminent moves to Manchester United, only to end up staying where they were. The Colombian striker Radamel Falcao was a Rumour Mill staple back then too, when…

Manchester United may go back in for Athletic Bilbao's Ander Herrera

• Hoping to get him for less than his €36m release clause • United want no repeat of embarrassing summer scenes David Moyes is considering returning for Athletic Bilbao's Ander Herrera in the January transfer window, with the Manchester United manager conscious he has to strengthen his midfield resources. If Moyes were to move again for the 24-year-old he may hope to prise him from Bilbao for less than his €36m (£29.9m) buyout clause as the player has struggled to reclaim his form in the early part of the Spanish season. A deal to buy Herrera in the summer failed…

Athletic Bilbao defender Andoni Iraola pens new deal

Athletic Bilbao defender Andoni Iraola has signed a new one-year deal. read more        

Iraola signs Bilbao extension

Athletic Bilbao defender Andoni Iraola has signed a one-year contract extension with the Primera Division outfit.

Januzaj shortlisted for Young Sports Personality award

• Manchester United winger in breakthrough season • Stiff competition comes from Jessica Judd Adnan Januzaj has been named on the shortlist for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award after breaking through into the first team at Manchester United. The 18-year-old is qualified to play for Belgium, Albania, Turkey, Serbia or England, once he has lived in the country for five years . He has made 10 appearances for United this season, scoring twice. He is likely to face stiff competition from Jessica Judd, the 18-year-old middle distance runner who competed in the 800…

Barcelona's first league defeat raises deeper issues of football and philosophy | Sid Lowe

Questions are being asked and criticism is being aired as the entorno builds around Tata Martino after two defeats in a week When the final whistle went on week 15, FC Barcelona were top of the table in Spain. They have now been there for 53 weeks, as long as anyone else ever. On Sunday night they officially equalled Real Madrid's record, set by the Emilio Butragueño-led 'Vulture Squad' a quarter of a century ago. But there was no celebration; instead there was sadness, a sense of loss and bewilderment. "That's not our Barça!" wailed the cover of the Catalan daily Sport. Sure,…

Athletic chief keeping calm

Athletic Bilbao coach Ernesto Valverde is refusing to read too much into his side's lofty placing in the Primera Division table, save to take it as evidence they are on the right track.

Barcelona star calls for calm

Midfielder Sergio Busquets insists there is no reason for Barcelona to panic following their defeat to Athletic Bilbao, which saw the Catalan giants beaten for the second time in five days.

Barcelona suffer first La Liga defeat of the season at the hands of Athletic Bilbao

League leaders lose 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao after one of their worst displays of the campaign.        

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Athletic first to beat Barca

Barcelona saw their unbeaten start in the Primera Division brought to an end as Athletic Bilbao claimed a deserved 1-0 victory at San Mames Barria on Sunday night.

Athletic Bilbao 1-0 Barcelona

Leaders Barcelona lose in La Liga for the first time this season as Iker Muniain's goal hands Athletic Bilbao victory.

Athletic Bilbao 1-0 Barcelona | La Liga match report

Barcelona crashed to their first La Liga defeat of the season when they were beaten 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao to lose their three-point lead over Atlético Madrid at the top of the table. Barça were without the injured Lionel Messi, who is not expected back until mid-January, and turned in probably their worst performance of the campaign against a fired-up Bilbao. A miserable week for the Spanish champions, which included a 2-1 Champions League loss at Ajax Amsterdam, ended on a worse note when Bilbao's Iker Muniain turned in a Markel Susaeta cross in the 71st minute. It was only the…

Primera Liga weekend preview

Athletic Bilbao striker Aritz Aduriz has rubbished suggestions Sunday's opponents Barcelona are weaker now than in recent years.

From 100m sprints to 100 footballers: our favourite things online this week

The best sports journalism from around the web, featuring transsexual fandom, BASE jumping, the history of WWF wrestling, Barcelona and jingle bells in NBA basketball Thanks for all your comments and suggestions on our last blog . 1) In Bed With Maradona: The 100 for 2013 reviewed In Bed With Maradona 's now annual collection of the 100 most exciting young footballers in the world is a joy to behold. This is not an exercise in lazy, click-grabbing list-based journalism. This series is extensively researched by editor Jeff Livingstone and his team. They watch stupid amounts of football and…

Sporting firsts of the 1980s: from a nine-dart finish to a 147 break

The 1983 Rugby World Cup, the New Zealand cricket team winning in England, a 100m javelin throw and some TV debuts Some of these might not seem all that remarkable in this modern era of sport, but I can assure you, back in the 1980s some of these achievements left you open-mouthed in astonishment. For any of the younger readers, you probably had to be there. Snooker: The first televised 147 break One day in the future, some of our successors, who by that time may have visited the moon repeatedly, may look back at all the fuss made about Neil Armstrong et al in 1969 and wonder if we were all…

Llorente: I had regrets

Former Athletic Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente has admitted he initially doubted his decision to join Juventus.

Real and Athletic claim wins

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo scored yet another hat-trick, while Athletic Bilbao moved up to fifth in La Liga.