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As Liverpool slide into decline, Steven Gerrard admits: My career is at the crossroads

Liverpool captain is aware that he is yet to produce a defining performance at a major tournament for England

Abuse from Wembley fans will not faze me, insists Jamie Carragher

• Liverpool defender ready for tough reception on England return• Fabio Capello pledging 'really, really strong' first elevenJamie Carragher is prepared to be booed by sections of the Wembley crowd in his comeback game for England against Mexico tomorrow, but says he will handle any...

T.J. and the hat-trick, and T.J. and the penalty by Theo Walcott

Theo Walcott's sticks to what he knows with his foray into child fiction, with surprisingly good resultsTheo Walcott seems likeable enough, but releasing a series of books for children? Footballers rarely publish anything more than autobiographies, yet here is some whippet-heeled colt, still only...

Lord Triesman fell victim to a battle between commerce and committee | Paul Hayward

Lord Triesman was a marked man from the moment he tried to take on the Premier League, something the FA is incapable of doing effectivelyThe politics of English football can be scripted as a civil war between the Football Association and the state within a state known as the Premier League. With no...

Steven Gerrard: Forget Liverpool, it's all about England for now

Winning the World Cup is all the matters to the midfielder after a difficult and potentially defining season with his clubThere are some things you never expect to hear Steven Gerrard saying, and this is one of them. "I'm not really interested at the moment in what's going on at Liverpool," the...

World Cup blow for South Africa as foreign fans stay at home

Football authorities offer cut-price tickets to fill stadiums as forecasts for the number of international visitors fall by half a millionThe World Cup is set to be a major financial disappointment for the host nation South Africa, after it became clear that international fans have decided to stay...

Whose interests are being served by this squalid tale of entrapment? | Andrew Anthony

The exposé of Lord Triesman's dinner-table conversation marks a new low in the erosion of our civil libertiesA former politician loses his job following an indiscretion with a woman much younger than himself. Put that way, Lord Triesman's resignation as chairman of the Football Association...

Bonk-bios, the perfect beach books | Victoria Coren

Read all about the saucy ambassador and his young American mistressLadies! Settle yourselves into a deck chair. Decant a goblet of the finest Tesco's chardonnay. Summer is here and it's time to enjoy an indulgent beach read…"Something takes hold of me, something that immediately eclipses...