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Mowbray attacks media over Brown

• Manager says claims that midfielder will go are 'a total lie'• Newspaper sticks with story that has enraged CelticTony Mowbray has vented his anger again over the suggestion he told Scott Brown that he would be sold by Celtic, the ­manager repeating his claims about invention and...

Can Trevor Brooking kill the long ball? | Barney Ronay

For the FA, this is not a history that can be kicked into touch and replaced with teaching five-year-olds how to juggle a grapeThis week Trevor Brooking announced that the FA's academy of the teenaged backheel at Burton-on-Trent is a step closer to opening its doors. In the process he also took the...

Darren Ferguson aiming to emulate Leeds with Preston in the FA Cup

Preston play Chelsea with their new manager hoping to match the team that beat his father'sMeticulous preparation has been second nature to Darren Ferguson since his school days, when the Preston North End manager used notebooks to dissect the tactics that brought his father three league titles,...

Michael Owen talks to Paul Hayward

The Manchester United striker has not given up hope of being called up for the summer's World Cup in South AfricaMichael Owen knows the question is ­coming. It always does. "England, ­England, England," he says, with sadness and affection, as if talking of a far-off place. The...

FA Cup lifeline keeps Stanley breathing

Their players earn an average of £26,000 a year basic and their manager has been working week to week without a contract for the past 11 years but the name of the sponsor that a prudent Accrington Stanley found to wear on their shirts this season, Combined Stabilisation, still seems like some...

Fulham's bad tourists head north with meagre support

It is a damning indictment of the number of fans Fulham take on their travels that when manager Roy Hodgson wished to honour the hardy souls who braved the arduous journey up to Stoke during the recent cold snap, he was able to write a personally thank-you letter to each and every one.

'Everyone said we'd lose at United. I knew we had a chance'

Amid all the hugging and high-fiving after Leeds United's FA Cup victory over Manchester United, Neil Kilkenny slipped into the corridor between the dressing rooms at Old Trafford. His mission was to relieve Ryan Giggs of his shirt. An arm on the shoulder stopped him. "If I were you," one of the...

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Sven's County go for broke