All the talk was about the thrilling 3-3 draw between Chelsea and Manchester United. The Red Devils' powers of recovery were once again apparent when they had looked down and out following a four-minute blitz by Chelsea.
Everyone remarked that only Manchester United is capable of coming back and clinching a draw from the jaws of defeat.

Nottingham Forest's Robbie Findley had the chance to level Tuesday's match against local rivals Leicester from 2 yards out, but make quite a mess of things... After Kasper Schmeichel makes a mess of dealing with a cross, American Robbie Findley has the chance to tap in to make it 1-1. His missed opportunity and the [.

Couldn't Find the target Nottingham Forest got a 4-0 spanking from East Midlands rivals Leicester City during last night's FA Cup third round replay. The score was only 1-0 when Forest had this chance to grab an equaliser. Foxes keeper Kasper Schmeichel generously dropped the ball onto the toes of Forest striker Robbie Findley just [.

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Kickettes, give a pageant queen wave hello to Dom Dwyer, Sporting Kansas City's first round draft pick at yesterday's 2012 MLS SuperDraft. There's a lot to learn about Dom, but because he's still so box fresh, we're only sticking to the need-to-know facts for today.

As he completed 25 years in charge of Man United today, Sir Alex in the bigger picture has always looked an epitome of perfection, a Midas of sorts. To the common man, most of his buys were intelligent and always paid dividends but even the greatest make mistakes. So on this day, we take a quick look at the 10 worst signings of the Fergie era (in no particular order)

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Imagine a time when Arsenal had a decent back four –

HA.

No, not ‘The Invincibles" – they were a pale shadow of the 1998/99 quartet that stood as a brick wall. In front of Seaman roamed Adams, Dixon, Keown and Winterburn – together they allowed a miserly 17 goals, thirteen less than the next best record that season.

This summer Manchester United faced a challenge in the transfer market that had similar connotations to 1999 when the great Dane Peter Schmeichel announced he would be leaving for pastures new. Back then, it was felt that the decision on his replacement was made in a rather hasty fashion with the unpredictable Australian Mark Bosnich being [.

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You might wonder at the good humour literally flowing through this week's Good Week/Bad Week post. Either we woke up this morning and just felt great about ourselves or we've just realised that it's a Bank Holiday in the UK this week and Labor Day in the USA the next, meaning we get to skive off busy work and get drunk without warning.

Wojciech Szczesny v Udinese, Schmeichel v Arsenal, Lehmann v Villarreal: six of the best penalty saves

The 'keepers who saved their clubs

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I go back to as far as I can go with my memories or with the documentaries that I seen, and I remember Peter Schmeichel in 1992 Euro final, Toldo in the 2000 Euro Semi Final against Netherlands, Dino Zoff against Brazil in 1982 Semi Final, Gianluigi Buffon or Iker Casillas in the last two world cups finals, and now, I can add confidently one more name to the golden list: Fernando Muslera vs.

BREAKING NEWS: Liverpool left-back Paul Konchesky joins Leicester City on three-year deal

Out of favour full-back has secured a move to the free-spending Championship side, who have already signed Danns, Nugent, Schmeichel and Mills

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It's not time to make a change, just relax, take it easy...

Wayne Rooney's young son Kai flunks an absolute sitter in front of the Stretford End

Michael Essien chats away with his Dad before a charity game in his native Ghana

Letter of the law: Bolton's Tamir Cohen sees yellow for taking off his shirt to reveal a picture of his late father, Avi, after scoring the winning goal against Arsenal back in April

The two Frank Lampards sit in the stands to watch Chelsea's Premier League tie with Wolves

US coach Bob Bradley attempts to calm son Michael after the States' 2-2 draw with Slovenia at the 2010 World Cup ended in controversy

Jack Rodwell signed his new deal with Everton last year with his father, Malcolm, by his side

Five-year old Lionel Messi (i'll let you guess which of these whippersnappers is actually Leo) and his father Jorge (on the right) pose with the rest of the Grandoli urchins, 1992

Two generations, one haircut between them: Jorge and Lionel (and Lionel's brother Matias), 14 years on

Kasper Schmeichel (then of Notts County) looks for a 'thumbs up' from dad, Peter

Juan Sebastian Veron receives the Copa Libertadores Best Player Trophy with father Juan Ramon (right) by his side, 2009

Michel and Aldo Platini stand either side of Alessendro Del Piero before a friendly between Nancy and Juventus, 2009

Sergio Aguero, his little sister and their father Leonel pose with Kun's U20 World Cup trophy haul, 2007

Diego Maradona rushes to greet his father, 'Don Diego', during an Argentina training session in Buenos Aires, 2009

Wensley Engelaar helps hold son Orlando's new shirt aloft during his official presentation at German side Schalke, 2008

The Beckham brood, Brooklyn and Romeo, watch on as father David celebrates Real Madrid's title win on the Bernabeu turf, 2007

Zinedine Zidane touches down at Algiers airport with mother Malika and father Smail in tow, 2006

Wim Bergkamp kicks off his son Dennis' testimonial game with Ajax at the new Emirates Stadium, 2006

Harry Kewell's young daughter Ruby unfurls a message for her Dad during Australia's second-round tie with Italy at the 2006 World Cup

Ronaldo is embraced by his father Nelio Nazario after a training session in Frankfurt shortly before the 2006 World Cup was due to start in earnest

Jordi Cruyff (then of Alaves) kisses his father Johan after receiving his UEFA Cup runners-up medal from UEFA President Lennart Johansson after the Spanish side were beaten by Liverpool, 2001

Gianfranco Zola's father watches his son train with the rest of the Chelsea side in preparation for the FA Cup Final, 1997

Bryan Robson's daughters Claire and Charlotte join their dad as he lifts the FA Cup (won by Manchester United the previous season) before his testimonial game against Celtic, 1990

Harry Redknapp gives son Jamie an ear-bashing from the touchlines during their time together at Southampton, 2005

Samuel Eto'o receives the African Footballer of the Year Award from his father before Barcelona's game against Real Mallorca, 2005

Shaun Wright-Phillips warms up alongside dad Ian Wright before Martin Keown's Arsenal testimonial at Highbury, 2004

Daniel Van Buyten (then of Standard Liege) larks around with his impossibly snazzy-looking father Francis, 1999

Cesare and Marisa Maldini welcome young Paolo into the world, 1968

The Maldini family, with a slightly older Paolo waving from the arm of the settee, 1973

Phil and father Neville Neville watch the rest of the England squad train for Le Tournoi, 1997

PFA Player of the Year Teddy Sheringham shows off the trophy to his old man, 2001

The-then Porto coach Jose Mourinho shakes hands with his father Felix, 2003

It's those crazy Redknapps again!

"Totally outlcassed"; "you just can't argue with that they're just too good!"; "we're the best of the rest, at least...". But a selection of the comments I have heard from Manchester United fans in the wake of their club's second capitulation to Barcelona's incomparable passing football in three years.

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Mark Bosnich spent a total of six years during two spells playing for Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford giving him a good insight into what makes 'The Boss' tick. The former keeper is now a leading...
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Manchester United travel to Newcastle just three days after hopes of another treble was snuffed out at Wembley but when the 'impossible dream' was achieved in 1999, it was the same Toon who provided...
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Faltering Whites finally run out of steam?

After yet another disappointing display today Leeds United have won just one of their last six games heading into the final 4 games of the season. At the minute they are playing like a team threatened with relegation rather than one destined for the premier league.

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Edwin Van der Sar ha decidido cerrar la tienda a los 40 años. Sólo Seedorf le ha sobrevivido de aquel Ajax campeón de Europa en el 95. Como Ferguson pasa varios pueblos del mediocre polaco Tomasz Kuszczak, antes de navidades el United se dejó algo más de 3 kilos en el fichaje del danés Anders Lindegaard, que a sus 26 años se gana la vida parando balones para el Aalesunds FK noruego.

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No Cup glory for Leeds then. Arsenal were deserved winners in this easy-on-the-eye FA Cup replay at Elland Road. Samir Nasri opened the scoring with a composed finish past Kasper Schmeichel, then goals by Sagna (a fierce striker) and Van Persie put the game beyond Leeds.

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A result to put a smile back on our faces, a Nasri inspired Arsenal waltzed past a doggedly determined Leeds side to halt the slide against Championship opposition.

The game kicked off with some tough challenges signalling a hard fought encounter but we soon got our passing game going, Arshavin and Chamakh combining nicely before the latter dummied the return of a one/two letting a besnooded Nasri slip through the centre of defence and bury the ball in the 5th minute.

LEEDS, England — Samir Nasri helped Arsenal overcome a potentially tricky FA Cup third round replay as Arsene Wenger's side defeated Leeds 3-1 on Wednesday to book a fourth round date with Huddersfield. After being held 1-1 by Simon Grayson's Championship team at the Emirates 11 days earlier and losing to Ipswich in the League [.

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Elland Road mid-week in January, 40,000 noisy fans up for the Cup, a promising Leeds team looking to cement their reputations; the joys of the F.A. Cup 3rd round.

Being honest, we were fortunate to have the chance of this replay, the very late penalty saving Arsenal from the ignominy of an early Cup exit to a team from a lower division.

Well that was much more like it. A convincing 3-0 win over a fairly disinterested West Ham made sure we kept pace with Man City and put a litle bit of pressure on United as they face their bi-annual win over Sp*rs later on.

"Om nom nom ..."

The line-up was as expected and the performance from the lads a far cry from that against Ipswich.

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There's a very nasty tendency among Arsenal fans to pick on individual players when the game isn't going for us.
The thing about the Leeds match, was that things just weren't going for us. Leeds weren't creating anything, but frankly, neither were we. And we can have no complaints about the penalty we conceded.

Arsenal continued to find ways to get to goal only to be thwarted by poor finishing and Kasper's Schmeichel's goalkeeping. When the son of the Danish legend failed, Jonathan Howson was at hand to effect a goal line clearance.

Then came the moment which changed the match. Denilson stuck his leg out in unthinking fashion to trip Max Gradel after the Leeds winger got past him.

If yesterday was a chance for some of our fringe players to show what they're made of it, I'm not sure I particularly like what they're made of.

That said I'm cognisant of the fact that they've been bench sitting for quite some time and it's hard to expect guys who don't play regularly to come in and be in top form.

Not quite the game I wanted to see and certainly not the result.

Leeds United came with a plan and stuck to it. In some ways it was similar to what Newcastle did at the Emirates. The visitors went tight on each man and reduced the passing options. They pressed well and in coordination. The Arsenal players were able to move the ball at the back but weren't able to penetrate the lines with any sort of consistency.