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Togo 'will play in African Cup'

Togo's footballers will play in the African Nations Cup, even though the government withdrew the team after a deadly attack, players say.

Internazionale 4-3 Siena

Serie A: Walter Samuel scored a dramatic injury-time winner as Inter came from behind at the San Siro

'Stay in Angola,' Wenger tells Arsenal pair

• No recall for Emmanuel Eboué and Alex Song, says manager• 'Tournament in Angola has to go on,' insists WengerArsène Wenger will not be seeking the release of Emmanuel Eboué and Alex Song from the Africa Cup of Nations and has insisted the tournament should go ahead as...

Togo withdraw from the Cup of Nations

• Togo players criticise CAF for failing to delay tournament's start• FA says it will try to ensure all Premier League players' safetyTogo pulled out of the Africa Cup of Nations last night following the gun attack on the team bus on Friday in Angola, which killed at least three people....

Said & Done | David Hills

Italy beating racism; Piers Morgan on self-inflated edifices; plus some in-flight molesting in IndiaIrony: no hint Man of the week: Fifa ethics icon Jack Warner, veteran of years of clean, transparent Fifa elections. New from Jack last week, in his capacity as a Trinidad & Tobago MP and deputy...

Poor old Pompey made to pay dear in the age of imprudence | David James

The rest of the game has a serious lesson to learn from Portsmouth's fall from great deedsA new year, a new decade – but what will it bring for football? As much as I would like to be positive I can't help but advise that we proceed with caution. With everything going on at Portsmouth right...

1963: When football in Britain froze for nearly 10 weeks

The current deep freeze has nothing on 47 years ago when football was gripped by an ice ageThe current big freeze has far to go before it equals the paralysis that disrupted the season of 1963. When Middlesbrough beat Blackburn 3-1 in a replay at Ayresome Park on 11 March, this brought to an end...

Is Tony Mowbray cursed? | Glenn Gibbons

The latest Old Firm result seems to be part of a disturbing patternWalter Smith's latest improbable achievement in an Old Firm match – leaving Celtic Park last week with a point after being subdued for almost 90 minutes – produced two corollaries to the event that were not so much...