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Alan Curbishley is shocked by the mini-League crisis that has left Chelsea bottom

Published on: 24th April, 2009

If Chelsea, as Guus Hiddink suggested yesterday, have blown their chances of winning the Premier League it won’t be because they failed to beat Everton at home on Wednesday night.

Nor will it be because they lost at home and away to Liverpool. It will be Full Article

Ashes fear as Andrew Flintoff flies in for surgery

Published on: 24th April, 2009

Andrew Flintoff has been ruled out of the forthcoming Test series against West Indies after contracting a knee injury playing in the Indian Premier League.

The influential England all-rounder will fly home from South Africa, where the IPL is being played, and undergo an operation on his right knee next week which their medical team believe will sideline him for the next three to five weeks.

That will sideline 31-year-old Flintoff for both Tests and the three-match one-day series against West Indies, but he should recover in time for the ICC World Twenty20 tournament starting Full Article

Wise words explain Gianfranco Zola’s genius

Published on: 24th April, 2009

Soon after joining Chelsea, Gianfranco Zola began reading his first book in English.

It was John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and the Sardinian loved every page. As Chelsea and West Ham supporters have discovered, whatever Zola does, he does well and reading his first novel in a foreign language was no different. He loved the nuances, the subtleties of the language in Le Carre’s story and read avidly.

There was only one problem, though The ending was strange, somehow out of place with what had gone before in the book.

Zola was at first Full Article

Best of the best: Sportsmail recalls the greatest matches in the history of football

Published on: 22nd April, 2009

After two eight-goal crackers in as many weeks – both 4-4 draws involving Liverpool against Chelsea and Arsenal – Sportsmail’s team of experts came over all misty-eyed when asked to recall the greatest matches they have ever witnessed, on TV or in person…

JAMIE REDKNAPP: Brazil 2 Italy 3, Estadio Sarria, July 5, 1982 (World Cup)

I remember as a boy growing up the sheer beauty, drama and brilliance of Paolo Rossi for Italy against Brazil in the quarter-finals of the 1982 World Cup.

Wearing Full Article

Fulham defender Pantsil’s amazing ‘£10,000 bonus for thwarting United star Ronaldo’

Published on: 21st April, 2009

John Pantsil is reported to have said that Fulham manager Roy Hodgson gave him £10,000 for keeping Cristiano Ronaldo quiet at Craven Cottage.

The 90 Minutes newspaper quotes the Ghana full back as saying he earned the money after snuffing out the World Footballer of the Year in his side’s 2-0 defeat of Manchester United last month.

However, Fulham categorically deny that Pantsil or any other player received extra financial rewards after the shock Craven Cottage win against the Barclays Premier League champions.
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