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Arsenal’s Under-19s also beat Bayern Munich 2-0 on Tuesday and are setting the pace in the youth version of the European Champion’s League.
Wenger has presided over 177 games in Europe’s elite competition yet Arsenal keep slipping on the banana skins put before them.
Stability has been the watchword at Arsenal and Arsène Wenger believes his squad has the hunger, quality and togetherness to succeed.
Seven goals conceded in 135 minutes of tournament football for Spain? How was that even possible?
It’s crowded at the top of the table – and that’s without a challenge from Manchester United.
With a derided coach and a grim Euro 2008, France have had it rough since the previous World Cup final, as Florent Malouda admits.
There is only one man in the history of football who has achieved what Diego Maradona craves from the weeks ahead in South Africa.
With France far from certain to qualify for next year’s World Cup, attention focuses on the poker-faced French coach’s strategies.
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The ability to win gracefully ought to be less troublesome a skill than losing with dignity. Recently, however, we witnessed an act of spectacular smugness from the Birmingham…
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The beauty of having a billionaire benefactor is not so much the money available to spend, but the money available to lose. Look beyond this summer’s acquisition of Andriy…
Less than two months have passed since AC Milan’s defender Kakha Kaladze returned to his homeland to bury his brother. It was a moment of closure of sorts. The end of an ordeal…
The who’s who of international football has been on a European tour. With the World Cup looming, the Champions League quarterfinals proved essential viewing for a host of coaches…
Tickets for Juventus’s Champions League quarterfinal against Arsenal went on sale in Italy last Friday, and they were hardly flying out of the box office. Well, they never are…
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A year from today, those obsessives who feel bereft during this football-free European summer (guilty as charged) will be able to watch their umpteenth consecutive game of the…
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