Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez insisted his side will finish in the Champions League places following their 2-2 home draw with Manchester City.
The Reds have lost five and drawn two of their opening 13 Premier League matches and are now 13 points adrift of Premier League leaders Chelsea.
But a defiant Benitez said: "When we have all our players coming back I am confident we will start winning games. Click to continue reading...

Following their defeat to Chelsea, I read a couple of articles writing off Manchester United's title hopes. This feels absurdly early to me, so ahead of this weekend's Premiership matches here are 4 reasons why I reckon Manchester United will be lifting the Premier League title in May 2010.

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Chris Hughton claims that the team's focus was the key to Newcastle United's win over Peterborough yesterday. Cardiff lost away to derby rivals Swansea and West Brom managed to beat promotion hopefuls Leicester, which means a bit of a gap has opened up between the top 2 and the chasing back. After the game, Hughton said: "We have [. Click to continue reading...

Sevilla vs Stuttgart

Group G leaders Sevilla can book their place in the knock out stages with a win over struggling Stuttgart as the Group's prize positions begin to take shape.

Sevilla's rampant form has seen them blitz their way to the top, with 9 points from a possible 9.

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What a tumultuous ten weeks it has been. When the season kicked off, even the most Italian-friendly pundits were predicting that this season, dubbed 'Year Zero' by the AC Milan fans, would be the dullest season in Italian history.

But it is now clear how wrong that prediction was. In the first two games of the season, most predictions were proven true as AC Milan were pummelled 4-0 by rivals Inter Milan, while Roma slumped to two successive defeats and Genoa and Juve both played with style.

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Argentine international targeted by Serie A title hopefuls.

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Juventus' winter transfer list is getting bigger by the hour, as Manchester City defender Pablo Zabaleta has been added to it.

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Carlo's ‘cross' with the defence. What do Abdoulaye Faye, Titus Bramble, James Collins, and Richad Dunne have in common? They've all scored against Chelsea from crosses into the box. Totaling half of Chelsea's goals conceded for the season, 8 in 8 matches, Carlo Ancelotti must address his teams crossing deficiency before their title challenge resumes against high-flying, Lancashire derby winners, Blackburn.

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Promoted Championship teams entering the Premier League transition in different ways. Some settle straight away and show why they belong in the league. Others take longer and end up struggling to survive, battling in the relegation flight. Then there are the special cases: teams that surprise everyone and do extremely well with relegation not even a factor to consider during their first season; or conversely they are completely out of their league and winning is not a realistic goal.

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From England's crop of 1934 to Zambia's talented but tragic USA hopefuls: half a dozen teams who didn't make it to the big party. Click to continue reading...

Before the climax, the anticlimax. Battered beyond the point of collapse by Roma's thug tactics, we crawled toward the end of the league season leaving bloody handprints all over the linoleum. If we won just one of our two remaining matches against Atalanta and Bologna, 16th and 14th in Serie A we'd win the title, but we were in no shape to practice, much less to play a competitive game.

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SO finally we have some juicy news to get our collective teeth into. But firstly, FP should mention that Perth Glory winger Adriano Pellegrino will be doing a live chat today from 1.30pm (WST) on the West Online.
Now this sounds pretty cool, but it'll be interesting to see how it works, and more importantly, whether there is a good response from the fans – but knowing the Perth Glory faithful, FP is sure that shouldn't be a problem. Click to continue reading...

The Columbus Crew stayed on pace for the Supporter's Shield, beating the Los Angeles Galaxy 2-0 at Crew Stadium. Also in the East, Toronto drew with Chicago and New York played spoiler splitting the points with Western Conference playoff hopefuls Chivas USA. San Jose reversed the spoiler role on Sunday, beating Eastern Conference contenders DC United. Click to continue reading...

The 17th FIFA Under-20 World Cup begins in Egypt on Thursday as 24 countries compete for the right to be named the best youth side on the planet. Hoping to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Diego Maradona, Marco van Basten and Luis Figo who all made an impression in previous tournaments, 504 young hopefuls have gathered in Egypt in an attempt to showcase their talent to the watching world, and no small amount of scouts. Click to continue reading...

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DAVID MOYES is willing to allow James Vaughan to leave Everton on loan – with Middlesbrough preparing a move for the injury-plagued striker.

Vaughan has played just eight minutes of first-team action this season as a late substitute in the 4-0 Europa League win over Sigma Olomouc last month.

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'Tis the season for third kits! With little fanfare, Umbro and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) have launched the Republic of Ireland's 2009/10 third kit. It's not known, however, when the FIFA World Cup 2010 hopefuls will wear this jersey for the first time. They certainly did not for yesterday's 1-0 friendly win over South Africa. Click to continue reading...

Christophe Jallet celebtates his goal against Lille

It was a weekend of big matches with champions Bordeaux taking on runners-up Marseille and fallen giants Lyon against a team who have put together some impressive results so far Nancy. Â A few changes were made overall to the Ligue 1 table, with newly promoted Montpellier rocketing into 4th place and Lille slipping into the relegation zone all after 4 matches played.

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Tottenham have defeated title hopefuls Liverpool 2-1 at White Hart Lane. The first half was cagey affair with the two sides feeling each other out. Tottenham had slightly the better of the first half and former Liverpool striker Robbie Keane was denied twice by Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina.

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Champions São Paulo pick up another win

With the season at the halfway stage, just four points separate the top four teams in the Brasileiro.

Palmeiras were held at home 1-1 by a plucky Botafogo. André Lima struck first for the away team. Danilo got the equalizer for the league leaders.

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Wayne Rooney proved decisive as Manchester United began their Premier League title defence with a 1-0 home win over newly promoted Birmingham City, while prospective challengers Liverpool kicked off with a 2-1 loss at Tottenham Hotspur.

Trying to become the first club to collect four consecutive Premier League crowns, United created plenty of openings as they strived to demonstrate they have not been weakened by the summer departure of Cristiano Ronaldo.

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This weeks stunner is Nati who hails from Preston. She is a massive Manchester United fan who also plays and referee's ladies football. Nati is a full time model who can be found on the pages of Nuts & Zoo both in print and on-line and is currently in the top 10 on the FHM High Street Honies web site and whose ambitions are to be on the front page of FHM in the UK and the USA and of course to walk out onto the turf at the Theatre of Dreams.

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Italy out of the Confederations Cup

As the final of the Confederations Cup approaches, the tournament for one team in particular has been an unmitigated disaster. Coming into the competition, as World Champions would surely mean an easy route to the semi-finals at least, however Italy capitulated in almighty fashion.

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Let's just get the obvious out of the way, FC Dallas is not going to the playoffs. Right, that is pretty obvious to anyone that's been paying attention - but for the spoonful of hardcore hopefuls that might need to be reinforced as to help lessen the blow come this Fall. Click to continue reading...

Well this is yer lot for 2008-09, which is now being definitively wrapped up in newspaper, shoved into cardboard boxes and locked away in a great big wooden crate like the one containing those ghost things that melted the Nazis in Raiders of The Lost Ark. Entirely subjective, not necessarily listed in strict order of merit and cobbled-together in the least-scientific manner possible, it's the All Action No Plot Top Ten Spurs Ruddy Marvellous Goals of 2008-09.

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Well this is yer lot for 2008-09, which is now being definitively wrapped up in newspaper, shoved into cardboard boxes and locked away in a great big wooden crate like the one containing those ghost things that melted the Nazis in Raiders of The Lost Ark. Entirely subjective, not necessarily listed in strict order of merit and cobbled-together in the least-scientific manner possible, it's the All Action No Plot Top Ten Spurs Ruddy Marvellous Goals of 2008-09.

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Well this is yer lot for 2008-09, which is now being definitively wrapped up in newspaper, shoved into cardboard boxes and locked away in a great big wooden crate like the one containing those ghost things that melted the Nazis in Raiders of The Lost Ark. Entirely subjective, not necessarily listed in strict order of merit and cobbled-together in the least-scientific manner possible, it's the All Action No Plot Top Ten Spurs Ruddy Marvellous Goals of 2008-09.

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The Scottish domestic season might be over, but the qualification campaign for World Cup 2010 goes on. Scotland are not action until August - a home game against Norway - but on the 6th and 10th June, Scotland's fellow Group 9 hopefuls will be wanting to edge a few points closer to making the finals.

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With most Americans Abroad finished for the summer, Carlos Bocanegra and Stade Rennais FC had their European dreams dashed to the ground violently as title hopefuls Marseille smashed them 4-0 on the final day of the season.
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Florentino Perez moved a step closer to returning to the Real Madrid presidency after prospective candidate Eduardo Garcia confirmed he was pulling out of the election race.

Garcia's announcement on Thursday means that Perez is now currently the only man in the running for the post, as the other two hopefuls Juan Onieva and Eugenio Martinez Bravo had already withdrawn.

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Remember MLS expansion hopefuls Montreal and their run in the 2008-09 CONCACAF Champions League? Well there will be no repeat performance this year because they have been eliminated by 2011 MLS expansion side, Vancouver Whitecaps FC:
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Men against boys. A strange way to describe the FA Youth Cup final but that is how it seemed as Liverpool's U18 were outplayed by Arsenal in the 4-1 first leg defeat.
The relative ease with which Arsenal racked up that victory leaves very little hope for today's second leg. And it seems to have killed off much of the hype surrounding Liverpool's current batch of hopefuls. Click to continue reading...

Hello and welcome to my latest football betting preview.
Hello, I'm Tom Mallows and welcome to my latest fortnightly football betting preview on behalf of this site.
I shall be looking at this weekend's Coca-Cola Championship fixtures, along with some of the LIVE TV games in more detail. Click to continue reading...

Reading got the three points they needed to make the play-offs and a timely boost to confidence with an impressive 2-0 win against Derby County. Dave Kitson and Shane Long were on the score sheet in front of over 31,000 at Pride Park. The Royals had the ball in the back of the net three times in the first half, but all were ruled out for offside. Click to continue reading...

For at least two of South Korea's four representatives in the Asian Champions League, this week is make or break time. The quartet stands at the halfway point of the group stage with three games gone and three to go. With the top two in each group of four progressing to the second round, now is the time to start picking up points. Click to continue reading...

Former Holland manager Marco van Basten gave voice to very strong feelings concerning Ryan Babel, specifically pertaining to his continued inability to force himself into Liverpool's starting lineup.
Van Basten suggested the 22-year-old, who made a £11.5 million switch from Ajax in 2007, is wasting away at Anfield as a consequence of leaving his homeland too early
"If you look at Ryan Babel it is a mortal sin he now sits on the bench at Liverpool," van Basten told the Daily Star Sunday. Click to continue reading...

Follow tonight's UEFA CUP game between Serie A giants AC Milan and Swiss Uefa Cup hopefuls FC Zurich here on Switzerland World Cup Blog, tonight. Starting at 8.30 PM (European Time), 7.30 PM British Time. Will Abdi and co. come back from Milan with Zurich's result of the century? Click to continue reading...