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Houston Dynamo vs D.C. United - live!

MLS : Live MLS soccer is back with Houston Dynamo facing D.C. United on the opening day Graham Parker

£1.5bn bid for Arsenal takeover

• Unnamed group would make substantial investment in team • Arsenal debts would be wiped out and ticket prices reduced The extraordinary flow of money into European football from the Middle East could be set to accelerate dramatically after an unnamed consortium revealed plans to pay a...

Said & Done: The football family; enforcer of the week; plus Maradona

The week in football: Messenger of the week, football family news, the sharpest exits plus Gigi's Chelsea tickets Messenger of the week Backing Sunderland's 18-month charity deal with the Nelson Mandela Foundation as "a great validation of the community and charitable work we do": club...

Football in brief

• Uefa is maintaining ban on goalline technology • York sack Gary Mills following 2-0 home defeat Uefa maintaining ban on goalline technology Fifa has decided that competition organisers will be free to decide whether to use goalline technology, meaning Premier League clubs are likely...

Real Madrid 2-1 Barcelona: four pointers for Manchester United trip

A look ahead to the big Champions League match between the nine-times champions and the three-times winners Pepe in midfield, Essien at right-back If Real Madrid's starting XI in the 2-1 win against Barcelona was predictable enough, the way they were distributed brought a surprise. Rather than...

Manchester United 4 Norwich City 0 match report: Shinji Kagawa steals spotlight from Giggs to claim his own record

After smiling benignly as the build-up gathered pace through the week, Sir Alex Ferguson pulled the rug from under all the eulogies by asking Ryan Giggs to wait for his 1,000th senior game, sparing his longest-serving disciple even the need to sit on the substitutes' bench as Manchester United...

Sunderland 2 Fulham 2 match report: Simon Mignolet makes Dimitar Berbatov pay penalty

Twenty minutes of this game remained when Dimitar Berbatov steadied himself for victory. Fulham led 2-1, Berbatov was 10 yards from the Sunderland goal as a return pass from Bryan Ruiz came into his path.

Southampton 1 QPR 2 match report: Drinks on Harry Redknapp after birthday win

Harry Redknapp might take his QPR team back to Dubai again if this is the effect it has. He woke on his 66th birthday yesterday to tabloid headlines about drunken nights out during a warm-weather training break in the Gulf state last month. But a hard-earned victory for the alleged sinners over the...

Chelsea 1 West Bromwich Albion 0 match report: Narrow win leaves Rafael Benitez tense... but not past tense

Historically, Chelsea teams have rarely made things easy and they did not do so for either their manager or a divided crowd here yesterday. Promising beginnings and a goal tapped in by Demba Ba suggested West Bromwich Albion might be swept aside, but failure to score a second one spawned impatience...