Signing of the season?

So one of the most exciting days of the season is over, and Jim White's excitable gossip-hungry clone can go back into suspended animation until next year. Yet spending is down nearly 70% versus last year's January deadline, where Torres and Carroll dominated the headlines.

The draw for the FA Cup's fifth round was held earlier today. A reunion with Gus Poyet (via Brighton) wasn't in the cards, with Chelsea being drawn against Birmingham.

Not bad. The Championship club will pose a threat, but not to the extent that traveling to Anfield would have. Ties will be held 18/19 February.

[T]he furore surrounding Lyon's astounding 7-1 win in Zagreb last week puts one in mind of the perhaps the most anomalous sequence of results in this season's Football League. In September, warmly tipped Crawley Town followed up a 6-0 hiding at Morecambe with a 3-0 home battering by Swindon. Having begun existence in the League well, these results were far from expectedand everything that has happened since makes them seem still more unusual.

The furore surrounding Lyon's astounding 7-1 win in Zagreb last week puts one in mind of the perhaps the most anomalous sequence of results in this season's Football League. In September, warmly tipped Crawley Town followed up a 6-0 hiding at Morecambe with a 3-0 home battering by Swindon. Having begun existence in the League well, these results were far from expected and everything that has happened since makes them seem still more unusual.

The furore surrounding Lyon's astounding 7-1 win in Zagreb last week puts one in mind of the perhaps the most anomalous sequence of results in this season's Football League. In September, warmly tipped Crawley Town followed up a 6-0 hiding at Morecambe with a 3-0 home battering by Swindon. Having begun existence in the League well, these results were far from expected and everything that has

Our weekly Bet's be 'avin you betting column is back and walking tall after we made a solid £98 return from our £15 Saturday stake last week, with Manchester City, Everton, Sheffield United and Crawley doing the business for us. Even the most rudimentary of maths will tell you that those return meant that we [.

Blow me down with a feather, Crawley have lost five in six. Tipped widely to succeed for a second consecutive season, the Red Devils Mark II have been up against it in the last few weeks, their League Cup defeat at Palace preceding a woeful run that has witnessed pointless games against Cheltenham, Morecambe and Swindon.

So, three weeks into the new Football League season and in many ways it's much the same as the last. The divisions might be different, but Southampton and Brighton are still dazzling on the south coast; Peterborough are still serving up improbable goalfests at London Road; Crawley are still cruising at the top of the league; and, less happily, Plymouth's horrific decline continues seemingly

Liverpool, Swindon and Crawley to earn us a profit in accumulator of the day

Jim Knight fancies an English treble to earn him some money with selections from the Premier League & League Two.

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England's friendly against Holland at Wembley on Wednesday night has been called off as the London rioting intensified last night.

With the City in flames overnight and gangs taking a stronghold of large sections of the capital and Police resources stretched to their limit, the FA have made the right call on cancelling the much anticipated clash.

Carling Cup football returns to Broadhall Way tomorrow night for the first time in just under a year. Last season saw Stevenage make their first appearance in the League Cup against Portsmouth, live on Sky Sports. Boro lost the game by two goals to 1, but gave the newly relegated Premier League outfit a run for their money.

Carling Cup football returns to Broadhall Way tomorrow night for the first time in just under a year. Last season saw Stevenage make their first appearance in the League Cup against Portsmouth, live on Sky Sports. Boro lost the game by two goals to 1, but gave the newly relegated Premier League outfit a run for their money.

Today, our bumper (there really is no other word) preview of the coming football league season has gone live, a collaborative venture with The Seventy Two. The whole thing is presented in pdf format and is available for free download here or navigate the widget on the right hand side of this page. There is a whole lot to enjoy from a myriad of the blogosphere's best writers, but if your

Possibly the closest category to call, this split our voters - divided by micro and macro concerns. At the latter level, the usual suspects are there: the primary interviewee on Lord Sugar Tackles Football, some oval ball proponents from the South Manchester borders and all those associated with the downfall of a Green Army from Devonshire.

Bebe, who joined Manchester United in the summer for £7m, was comically described as looking like a competition winner during training sessions.

The 20-year old hasn't featured for the first team since our FA Cup game against Crawley. He has made 7 appearances in all competitions, 2 of those in the league as subs.

Manchester United are on course to become the first Premier League club to break through the £100million barrier for annual commercial turnover. United have posted their third quarter figures this morning, which show commercial revenue has risen to £75.3million, up 33% compared to 12 months ago.

Manchester United are on course to become the first Premier League club to break through the £100million barrier for annual commercial turnover. United have posted their third quarter figures this morning, which show commercial revenue has risen to £75.3million, up 33% compared to 12 months ago.

The history of football in Fleetwood, Lancashire, is one of boom and bust. The town's original club, Fleetwood FC, renamed itself Fleetwood Town and were founder members of the Northern Premier League in 1968, before folding in 1976. A new club sprang up the following year, reached the final of the FA Vase in 1985 and won back its place in the Premier Division of the Northern Premier League three years later.

Each year, the FA Cup brings the English football consumer, entertainment that (apparently) no other country brings to the table, as the joy of a second knock-out tournament makes its yearly appraisal.

And now, our journey has brought us to a completely underwhelming semi-final, where even the mere glimpse of the ties makes you wonder if the FA Cup itself is out to ruin its own enjoyment.

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As has been well documented in recent years there are a whole host of league clubs who are seemingly operating on borrowed time due to season upon season of poor financial management.

The squad that flew out to face Marseille has been revealed. Have you seen it? The French champions must be licking their chops...

Squad:Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Lindegaard; Vidic, O'Shea, Brown, Rafael, Fabio, Evra, Smalling; Scholes, Gibson, Nani, Carrick, Fletcher, Bebe, Obertan, Tunnicliffe; Rooney, Berbatov, Hernandez, King.

Ryan Giggs and Rio Ferdinand will definitely not be playing against Marseille in the Champions League on Wednesday after both missed the trip to France.

Ferdinand has failed to recover from an injury picked up several weeks ago while Giggs absence is not quite clear.

United will also be missing Anderson who picked up a knee injury at the week-end against Crawley while Michael Owen, Jonny Evans Park ji Sung and Antonio Valencia who picked up an horrendous Injury against Rangers in United's opening Champions League game are also absent.

I'm delighted to announce a new Arseblog feature, a weekly column from Tim Stillman who you might know from his stuff at Vital Arsenal. He'll still be there, Vitalfans, don't worry, but once a week he'll do his stuff here too. This week Orient, the magic of the cup, Stoke and a trip to Wembley.

There are times in football when certain opinions are formed without having concrete evidence to support them – except statistics which we all know can often be misleading. One such observation which...
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Manchester United will play either Premier League side Arsenal or League One side Leyton Orient at Old Trafford in the Quarter Finals of the FA cup. Yesterday Man United beat Crawley Town 1-0 at...
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As Sir Alex Ferguson once famously exclaimed ‘Football...Bloody Hell'. Perhaps it would have been appropriate for him to say ‘FA Cup...There's No Logic' after Blue Square League minnows Crawley Town went...
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With 93 league places between the two sides, on paper it should have been an easy win for Man United, but it was far from that. Crawley made sure that Manchester United had to fight for their place...
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Manchester United lead 1-0 at half-time against non league side Crawley, Darren Gibson's brilliantly flighted ball was headed in by centre half Wes Brown who's not known for his scoring.

As it's little vs. Large, David vs. Goliath, Minnows vs. Champions; in the form of Crawley United and Manchester United today; I thought I would hit you with a relevant fact...

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Alex Ferguson is wary of Crawley's attempt of one of the biggest cup shocks in history as Manchester United line up against non league side Crawley.

Non League side Crawley visited Old Trafford today before their FA Cup 5th round tie with the Red Devils tomorrow and a lot of them looked starstruck by the look of things. However they are all looking forward to taking on the 11 times FA Cup winners in their own back yard.

Non League side Crawley visited Old Trafford today before their FA Cup 5th round tie with the Red Devils tomorrow and a lot of them looked starstruck by the look of things. However they are all looking forward to taking on the 11 times FA Cup winners in their own back yard.

Sentimentality plays no part in the tough world of professional football...and nor should it. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has a huge job to get done and is hardnosed enough to do what's...
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Rossobianchi has a funny biography of Nemanja Vidic's life.

Henry Witter writes for The Telegraph about Crawley's visit to OT last night.

The Daily Mail reports on Michael Owen's latest injury.

The Mirror reckons winning the league this season would be Fergie's greatest achievement.

If ever you needed proof that the FA Cup has lost its lustre then this week should do the trick.

While people's attentions have been firmly on the drama of the Champions League, the fifth round of the historic competition has arrived with almost no fanfare.

The biggest team in the country – sorry Liverpool fans – faces non-league Crawley while Leyton Orient (fresh from their screwing-over at the hands of Newham Council, West Ham United and the Olympic Park Legacy Company) play Arsenal, but there's a distinct lack of romance in the air.

The journalists have been waiting for this. "The Big One," I hear one say gleefully. "Red Devils v Red Devils!" exclaims another. But the truth is, they're most likely to be disappointed. A giant-killing is improbable at Old Trafford, unless of course, you mean that literally and United thump in goals from all corners.

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With Crawley set to play Manchester United in the fifth round of the FA Cup this weekend, a gaggle of the club's supporters banded together to record a tribute song 'A Message To You, Rooney' to commemorate the occasion.

However, the fairly good-humoured atmosphere was spoiled when it came to light that one of the Crawley fans that appeared in the video had spent most of his time making 'aeroplane' gestures in reference to the 1958 Munich Air disaster that killed 23 of United's players and staff.

Ducky's Note: Now that the euphoria from THAT goal in the derby has more or less died down, and with no competitive games for United till the trip to Marseille (Crawley at home, come on), this seemed like a good time to step back, take a breath and have a look at our complete non-activity in the January transfer window, especially considering records got broken over the space of hours on the last day.