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Gunners want Dutch to pay up

Arsene Wenger has revealed Arsenal are gunning for compensation from the Dutch football federation over Robin van Persie's injury.

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Said & Done: Featuring a ghost that likes footballers

McDonald's changing kids; Rio's Midas touch; Nives cashes in; plus the ghost who fancies footballersHeal the worldHeadlining the McDonald's 2010 World Cup press launch this month: plans for a global impact on obesity – 1,084 kids to be chosen as mascots in South Africa, "selected through...

Walter Smith may be no martyr but Rangers fans are beginning to demand a sacrifice

• Forgiving press opinion is not reflected in the stands• Rangers management team may take pay cutAt Rangers, collective culpability seems to have become an alien concept. Despite an unmanageable level of debt, from which salvation will only be achieved through a deep-pocketed buyer for...

Dressing-room sackings are amateurish

Interfering chairman made Kettering look amateurishOne of the great things about football is its almost endless capacity to surprise. Another is that despite all the money around these days the game at the top level continues to be recognisable as the game we have all played on park pitches or...

Benítez cuts across the Liverpool gloom

Rafael Benítez is more upbeat about his Liverpool team than most on Merseyside but cash constraints give him a tougher task than his rivalsSome good news for Liverpool at last. Fernando Torres is not going anywhere and, far from being in meltdown as Graeme Souness has unkindly suggested, the...

Obituaries 2009: Sir Bobby Robson

The former footballer and legendary England manager, who died of cancer on 31 July at the age of 76, is remembered by the star of Italia 90My first memories of Sir Bobby are when I was 12 years old and I trained with Ipswich Town. He was their manager at the time and was winning loads of trophies...