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Kaka's foot not broken but badly injured

Serie A: Kaka is a doubt for Milan's derby with Inter after damaging his foot in the draw against Reggina

Heskey out of England squad

England's lack of striking options could be further exposed today with Emile Heskey expected to withdraw from the squad for Wednesday's friendly against Spain in Seville after sustaining an achilles injury in Aston Villa's win at Blackburn Rovers.Heskey limped from the turf 20 minutes from the end...

Tottenham 0-0 Arsenal

In the end even bitter rivals were united in seething frustration. Tottenham Hotspur remain precariously placed just above the relegation cut-off, the exasperation at their inability to pierce an Arsenal side forced to play much of this game with 10 men matched only by the visitors' sense of...

Five top players head for United States

The Football Association's central contracts for England players, intended to come into operation later this year with salaries of £16,000 a year, have proved too little, too late to prevent five key members of the national squad quitting the Premier League to join clubs in the new Women's...

Chelsea 0-0 Hull City

Luiz Felipe Scolari will be long accustomed to the volatility of football crowds. After all he comes from Brazil where the mood can swing from euphoric to suicidal and back again in the course of a single game. Nevertheless there cannot have been many occasions when a World Cup-winning manager has...

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'We're back on top – let's hope we stay there' says Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson virtually wrote off Chelsea's chances of winning the Premier League yesterday after his team racked up a record-breaking 13th clean sheet in their 1-0 win over West Ham. It leaves United two points ahead of Liverpool with a game in hand and seven ahead of Luiz Felipe Scolari's...

Sam Wallace: Barry and Carrick stake claim for run as England's midfield double act

Sometimes I dream of revolution, a bloody coup d'état by the second rank – troupes of actors slaughtered by their understudies, magicians sawn in half by indefatigably smiling glamour girls, cricket teams wiped out by marauding bands of twelfth men – I dream of champions chopped...