By Alan Duffy

Former Danish international becomes the latest victim of a relatively recent trend of assistant managers getting the boot rather the manager.

The former Arsenal midfielder thus follows Rovers' chief scout, chairman, finance director and secretary out the Ewood Park door and one wonders if Steve Kean will be next.

Dennis Marshall, the 25 year old left back for Los Ticos tragically passed away in a car crash which also claimed the life of his wife. He was returning from his grandfather's funeral when his car collided head on with a truck near San Jose, the Costa Rican capital.

Marshall saw action five days ago in the Gold Cup quarterfinals against Panama where he scored his first goal, an equalizer which resulted in a penalty shootout loss for his team.

The 2-1 comeback win for Denmark against Belarus in Aarhus underlined the importance of the host nation progressing in a tournament.

While it might be too big a leap of faith to credit Danish Football Association chief Allan Hansen's claim that the UEFA U21 tournament "has caught the imagination of the Danish public," - too many of them were enjoying the Pentecost weekend holiday to watch their Under-21s lose to Switzerland - the Denmark v Belarus clash was an 18,000 sell-out, double the crowd of any other game so far.

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The last time we saw Nicklas Bendtner parading around a hotel lobby he was sans trousers; a situation we were most pleased about.

How times have changed. Bendy is pictured on Danish sports site sporten.dk today, clutching the bundle of loveliness that is his six month old son, Nicholas.

Ajax may won the Eredivisie this season, but the traditional powerhouses of Dutch football were frozen out in the top goalscorers list where, as Luke Edwards explains, the names at the top came from somewhat unexpected sources.

Normally, if you were to take a glance at the top scorers in the Eredivisie you would expect see representatives from the big three of Ajax, PSV or Feyernoord.

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Prepare the cocktail weiners and stock up on cheap champagne, Kickettes, because we're throwing a homecoming bash for Benny Feilhaber.

One of our favourite fuzzy Americans has just signed with the MLS (from Danish team AGF Aarhus) to play with the New England Revolution and could make his debut this weekend when the Revs take on Sporting Kansas City.

Having a rather poor results in their last three consecutive matches, Chelsea's manager, Carlo Ancelotti, still have the utmost confident on his team's strength in the Champions League and believe that the Blues will eliminate their opponent, FC Copenhagen.

Ancelotti stated that although his team are having a difficult period, playing in a prestigious competition such as the Champions League will bring out the motivation they needed to acquire great results.

The Arsenal and Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner is often castigated for his over-confidence and big-headedness, but his Danish team-mate Thomas Sorensen reckons that the Gunners' striker used to be even MORE big-headed when he was younger! The Arsenal sports psychologist Jacques Crevoisier recently said that in tests for ‘self perceived competence,' (i.

Proud day for SPANISH SPORT & SPANISH HANDBALL with SPAIN winning the home team Sweden 23 - 24 in the Handball World Championships 3rd place game to take the Bronze Medal. Spain have had a wonderful tournament only being defeated by the mighty Danish team by 4 points in their semi - final clash. An excellent match with an extraordinary defensive effort that kept out Sweden & allowed the Spanish