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Sepp Blatter plays game of follow the lederhosen | Harry Pearson

Sport may be big business but the people who run it are often smallFamiliar as Sepp Blatter's preoccupations with hosiery are, it is no surprise that he spent much of last weekend holed up in a luxury hotel formulating methods to tackle the menace of tights. As a well-known supporter of the World...

You are the Ref: Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool

Click to enlarge, and debate the strip below the line. Keith Hackett's verdict appears in Sunday's Observer and here from Monday.Competition: win an official club shirt of your choiceFor a chance to win a club shirt from the range at Kitbag.com send us your questions for You are the Ref to...

Dynamo Kiev 2-0 Manchester City

The temperature was several degrees below zero, Manchester City's midfield operated as if semi-frozen and a suddenly allergy stricken Mario Balotelli departed early, feeling sickly.All in all a Ukrainian night illuminated by Andrey Shevchenko's clever feet and perfect balance proved pretty awful...

Wenger: Uefa is an arrogant dictatorship

??? Manager to fight Uefa charge over comments made to referee??? 'A bit more humility would do Uefa good. We've been punished'Ars??ne Wenger has accused Uefa of behaving like a "dictatorship" and of showing inexplicable "arrogance" in the wake of its decision to bring improper conduct charges...

Sporting Braga 1-0 Liverpool

Only the surreal experience of playing in a disused quarry can explain Liverpool's decision to dig themselves into a hole. From the heights of Manchester United on Sunday came the depths of a self-inflicted defeat and the first public criticism of his players from Kenny Dalglish. There is a...

PSV Eindhoven 0-0 Rangers | Europa League match report

Rangers' second-choice goalkeeper, Neil Alexander, helped give the Scottish champions a fighting chance of progressing to the last eight of the Europa League after they secured a defiant draw in Holland.Rangers sprang a surprise by naming Alexander in goal and keeping their first choice goalkeeper,...

Queens Park Rangers face anxious wait over FA charges and consequences

With their chairman charged with impropriety, the club's push for promotion to the Premier League may founder in docked pointsThe prospect for Queens Park Rangers of being docked points to deprive them of a return to the Premier League is just the latest outlandish episode in the stormy modern...

Fifa investigates after seven penalties are awarded in two friendlies

??? Heavy betting prompts inquiry from governing body??? Hungary suspends one of its refereesFifa has launched disciplinary proceedings against six match officials as part of an investigation into two international friendlies where all seven goals were scored from the penalty spot.The matches,...