George Graham may have managed both Arsenal and Spurs and won trophies for both clubs, but if you were to ask him who he holds a torch for the answer would most definitely be Arsenal. He has been speaking to the Mail on Sunday about the game today and he thinks that Spurs are the [...]

BIRMINGHAM, England — Carlos Vela saved Roy Hodgson from defeat in his first match as West Bromwich Albion manager as the Mexican striker's last-gasp goal earned a 1-1 draw against local rivals Wolves on Sunday. Hodgson was moments away from opening his reign at the Hawthorns in the worst possible manner as Albion trailed to [.

HAMBURG, Germany — Frank Arnesen will take over as sporting director of Bundesliga club Hamburger SV in the off-season, German media reported on Saturday. The 54-year-old Dane, last employed in the same capacity by Chelsea, will receive a three-year contract, Bild said. Hamburg's first choice, Matthias Sammer, the technical director of the German football association, [.

HAMBURG, Germany Former Germany international Gerald Asamoah headed his sixth goal of the season to give St Pauli a 1-0 win at Hamburg on Wednesday, their first Bundesliga victory over their city rivals since 1977. In a match postponed this month due to heavy rain, Hamburg had half a dozen good scoring chances in [.

PARIS, France Former France coach Raymond Domenech has broken his silence over the World Cup debacle, labeling the players "stupid brats" for going on strike at a training session to make "a laughing stock" of their country. Domenech's bitter six-year tenure as France coach ended after last year's World Cup in South Africa and [.

LONDON, England — Former Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson has been appointed head coach of West Brom, the Premier League club confirmed Friday. West Brom, who fired Roberto Di Matteo earlier this week, hired Hodgson just over a month after he was sacked by Liverpool. Hodgson, 63, was voted English football's manager of the year last [.

LONDON, England Premier League Tottenham Hotspur and David Beckham's Los Angeles Galaxy are planning closer ties that could lead to players crossing the Atlantic in both directions. Tim Leiweke, president of the American sports and entertainment giant AEG that owns the Galaxy and is bidding in partnership with Spurs to take over the London [.

?WOLFSBURG, Germany — Former England coach Steve McClaren was sacked by Wolfsburg on Monday, with the club battling against relegation from the Bundesliga. "We were no longer convinced that we could finish the season with stability by working together with Steve McClaren," the Wolfsburg general manager Dieter Hoeness said on the club's website.

SANTIAGO, Chile -Marcelo Bielsa resigned as Chile's national team coach on Friday, ending a three-month saga over his future. Bielsa stepped down at a news conference despite his overwhelming popularity in Chile and attempts by new Chilean football association president Sergio Jadue to persuade him to stay.

MILAN, Italy AC Milan held onto top spot in Serie A after a disappointing 0-0 stalemate with Lazio at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. Despite having the vast share of possession and a catalogue of chances Massimiliano Allegri's men could not break down a stubborn Roman wall of defiance. A bright spark was AC Milan's [.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Forgotten American defender Oguchi Onyewu made his debut for the Dutch club Twente in a 5-0 league win over Heracles Almelo on Wednesday night. Onyewu was loaned to the Eredivisie champion for the rest of the season on Jan. 11 by AC Milan, where he failed to make a single appearance this [.

MOSCOW, Russia — Former Dutch international skipper Ruud Gullit was appointed on Tuesday coach of Russian Premier League club Terek Grozny, local media reported. The 48-year-old has previously coached English Premiership sides Chelsea and Newcastle United along with Dutch giants Feyenoord and MLS club Los Angeles Galaxy.

LONDON, England Former Bolton and England striker Nat Lofthouse has died. He was 85. The Premier League club said Saturday that Lofthouse, who scored 30 goals in 33 appearances for England, died in his sleep Saturday night at a nursing home in Bolton, northwest England. Lofthouse spent his entire career with Bolton, scoring 255 [.

LONDON, England — Former Manchester United star Roy Keane has been sacked as manager of Ipswich after 20 months in the job, the club confirmed Friday. The club have lost seven of their last nine games and the 1-0 loss to Nottingham Forest on Monday left them sitting 19th in the Championship, England's second division.

MILAN, Italy Leonardo made a winning start as Internazionale manager after the Champions League holders downed Napoli 3-1 in a pulsating Serie A encounter at the San Siro. Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez departed due to a disagreement with the Inter president Massimo Moratti in the aftermath of their win in the Club World [.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Former Lazio and Netherlands midfielder Aron Winter has said he will become the new head coach of Toronto FC. Winter, 43, currently on the coaching staff at Ajax Amsterdam, where he began his playing career, told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf a deal was reached last week. "I visited the club last week [.