When Arsenal's first team are underperforming, Arsene Wenger has always been comforted by the fact that he has had a plethora of promising youngsters ready to bring in and rejuvenate the team, but even that may no longer be true. The Arsenal first-team may have lost three games in a row, but the reserve side's [.

The Arsenal striker Marouane Chamakh has been suffering from a massive loss of form since the middle of last season, but it was being hoped that a sequence of starts for Morocco at the African Cup of Nations may galvanise him to recapture some of his undoubted ability. But Morocco's opening game ended in a [.

Ferguson punished for showing Palace a lack of respect

Bookies were offering odds of 12/1 on a Crystal Palace victory at Old Trafford last night, and Sir Alex Ferguson's shock following his side's 2-1 quarter final loss showed that he expected his Manchester United side to win as much as they did.

A fourth defeat in seven Premier League games has done little to lift the mood at the Emirates, a defeat that leaves Arsenal 12 points behind the two Manchester clubs and just two points off the bottom three places. Arsene Wenger is starting to worry about his teams poor start to the season and is [.

Arsenal 2004/05

GK Lehmann
RB Lauren
CB Campbell
CB Toure
LB Cole

RM Ljungberg
CM Veira
CM Gilberto
LM Pires

CF Bergkamp
CF Henry

Arsenal 2011

GK Szczesny
RB Jenkison
CB Koscielny
CB Djourou
LB Traore

LMAshavin
CM Rosicky
CM Ramsey
CM Coquelin
RM Walcott

CF Van Persie

Arsenal 2004/05

GK Lehmann
RB Lauren
CB Campbell
CB Toure
LB Cole

RM Ljungberg
CM Veira
CM Gilberto
LM Pires

CF Bergkamp
CF Henry

Arsenal 2011

GK Szczesny
RB Jenkison
CB Koscielny
CB Djourou
LB Traore

LMAshavin
CM Rosicky
CM Ramsey
CM Coquelin
RM Walcott

CF Van Persie

LONDON, England Chelsea have announced that Carlo Ancelotti has left the club after a trophyless season at Stamford Bridge. It has long been expected that the Italian would leave the London club, despite winning the Double in his debut campaign in England in 2009/10. And Chelsea confirmed the inevitable decision to part company with [.

Arsenal 1-2 Birmingham City

As a football fan you roll with the highs, but you also have to cope with the lows. Barcelona, a few weeks ago, was as good as it gets. Yesterday, losing in the last minute to an amateur defensive error, was of course the opposite.

You could line up the disappointing aspects of that game and ask them to form an orderly queue, but for me the most frustrating thing was the way we played.

MADRID: Since February 23, 2002, José Mourinho has coached Porto, Chelsea, Internazionale and Real Madrid in 180 home domestic league and cup matches with 152 wins, 28 draws . . . and no defeats. That remarkable record was extended when Madrid moved within two points of Spanish league leaders Barcelona, for 24 hours at least, [.

ROME, Italy — Claudio Ranieri has resigned as Roma coach following Sunday's disastrous 4-3 defeat at Genoa, despite having led 3-0. It was the club's fourth defeat in a row and Ranieri then told Italian news agency Ansa he had decided to quit. "I've always thought about the good of Roma and after a game [.

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS Groningen were stunned at home by Roda JC, Excelsior added to Willem II's misery with another drubbing, while AZ Alkmaar were too strong for Heerenveen. Mads Junker grabbed a hat-trick as Groningen's impressive home record was tarnished with a 4-1 reverse at the hands of Roda JC.

BIRMINGHAM, England — Newcastle scored their first win since the departure of striker Andy Carroll on Tuesday, winning 2-0 at Birmingham with a goal in each half from Peter Lovenkrands and Leon Best. Lovenkrands opened the scoring for the visitors after only two minutes, sliding in to meet a low cross from Jonas Gutierrez at [.

BERLIN, Germany — Bundesliga bottom side Borussia Moenchengladbach sacked their coach Michael Frontzeck on Sunday, 24 hours after their 3-1 German league defeat at St Pauli. 'Gladbach are seven points from safety at the foot of the table and 46-year-old Frontzeck, who has been in charge for 18 months, was shown the door after his [.

Sunderland new signing Sulley Muntari reckons the Black Cats need to bounce back from a disappointing few weeks if they want to finish in the Premier League top six. The former Portsmouth midfielder arrived in the north-east on loan from Inter Milan during January and made his debut in Sunderland's disappointing defeat to Stoke City [.

NYON, Switzerland — UEFA has chosen Israel to host the Under-21 European Championships in 2013. UEFA's Executive Committee voted for Israel's bid ahead of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, England and Wales. Israel's victory comes after it was edged by Denmark in the contest to host the 2011 edition. Compensation for that defeat was offered when UEFA [.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands The board of Rotterdam football club Feyenoord has announced the suspension of technical director Leo Beenhakker. General director Eric Gudde said there had been a crisis of trust between Beenhakker and the club. At a press conference last week Beenhakker, who had just learned his contract with Feyenoord would not be extended, [.

LIVERPOOL, England Liverpool forward Ryan Babel has been fined £10,000 ($15,800) and warned about his future conduct by the Football Association after admitting a charge of improper conduct relating to comments and images posted on Twitter concerning referee Howard Webb. Babel incurred the wrath of the governing body when tweeting a doctored photo of [.

I was watching very closely the BBC interview with Arsene Wenger after last nights defeat to Ipswich, and considering the enormity of the defeat he certainly managed to keep a straight face for most of the two minutes. There were a couple of little twitches when i thought he was going to cry but he [.

DOHA, Qatar — Saudi Arabian football chiefs sacked coach Jose Peseiro on Sunday immediately after his demoralised side slumped to a shock 2-1 defeat at the hands of unfancied Asian Cup outsiders Syria. The 2007 finalists and three-time champions announced that Nasser Al Johar will take over from the 50-year-old Portuguese for the remainder of the [.

MADRID, Spain Real Madrid, cushioned by an 8-0 first leg lead, secured their place in the Spanish Cup quarterfinals on Thursday despite a 2-0 defeat in the return match at Levante. Levante's two second-half goals by Xisco Nadal and Sergio Gonzalez were not enough to overturn Real's huge advantage secured over the Valencia-based side [.