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Barça and Real maintain perfect starts

La Liga: Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in a 2-0 Barcelona win, while Karim Benzema's brace boosted Madrid

Sampdoria stun Inter to top table

Serie A: Giampaolo Pazzini's second-half strike helped Sampdoria to a shock 1-0 victory over champions Inter

Supporters' Trust happy with takeover

"There's only one Sol Campbell!" The former England defender, whose name was sung by the comedians among visiting Port Vale fans, had walked out on his £40,000-a-week, five-year deal at Notts County. But at least this tumultuous week in the life of the League's oldest club ended with a game of...

Fulham 0-1 Arsenal

The story of this tense match was encapsulated in the facial expressions of its two goalkeepers. Fulham's Mark Schwarzer, for much of the game under-employed, was a picture of smooth composure. Down the other end, Vito Mannone looked like a young boxer thrown into the ring for the first time...

No stage for football's amateur dramatics

Jack Wilshere reached a momentous junction in his short career this week, but the Arsenal player chose the wrong pathThe modern starlet always comes to a junction where he must choose theatricality and deviousness or a steelier and more honourable response to the bumps that are bound to come his...

A bar in Qatar is an England hope too far

But it may not be too much to hope that Craig Bellamy joins Arsène Wenger in football managementPleasing as it was to discover that Arsène Wenger learned all he knows about football from spending his childhood in a pub, it was not quite as mind-boggling as the revelation that Craig...

Mutu bedevilled by damage control

Chelsea's determination to make the Fiorentina striker pay for his indiscretions has left him a tormented soulIn times of hardship, football fans think nothing of rallying round their own and giving all they can. Caring though it is for the fans of Fiorentina to pledge their very best for Adrian...

Smith seeks Euro success for Rangers

The Scottish champions are confident of avoiding another Champions League capitulation after a fine start in Group GThose Rangers fans who anticipate Champions League glory on the basis of their team's admirable draw in Stuttgart on matchday one should perhaps be mindful of the professional...