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Premier League 2015-16 preview No 6: Manchester City

Manuel Pellegrini hasn’t done a full squad overhaul but that may be due to company policy in what may well be his valedictory season at the club.

Crowd control: Spanish fans are ready to celebrate another tournament victory.

Euro 2012: Greatness awaits Spain

No European side has ever won three successive tournaments, but Vicente del Bosque’s team look well-equipped to be the first.

Tyranny, freedom and all that jazz

Josef Skvorecky, who has died aged 87, belonged to that great generation of postwar Czech writers that includes Vaclav Havel.

The Wayne drain

Manchester United have been shown to be heavily reliant on Wayne Rooney, and if he is injured they could struggle this season.

Europe goes to war

There is only one prediction it is safe to make about Euro 2008 and that is that England will not win it.

Cristiano Ronaldo: Premier League’s entertainer

There is little doubt Cristiano Ronaldo is the Premier League’s greatest entertainer. Cesc Fabregas, Wayne Rooney and Fernando Torres are his only rivals for flair and, with 27…

Giggs: Leader of men

It is all very well noting that Ryan Giggs has just won his ninth league title, breaking the record held by Liverpool’s Phil Neal and Alan Hansen, and will become the most…

Serie A scandal a peculiarly Italian affair

You have to love the Italians, don’t you? If they didn’t exist someone would have to invent them, and just think what sort of tortured imagination it would take to dream up such…

Matt Busby’s revolutionary vision

Alan Hansen was born in June 1955, which means he was around — albeit in nappies and in Scotland — when the Busby Babes won their first league title in April 1956. Hansen will be…

Mourinho gets it right: the devil’s in the detail

Jose Mourinho never spoke a truer word than when he claimed, after Chelsea’s exit from the Champions League in Barcelona, that at the highest level of football details can make a…

Wigan’s good doctor

Arjan de Zeeuw is smarter than your average Premiership footballer, as Prime Minister Tony Blair might have been aware when he named him as a favourite player a couple of weeks…

Roy Keane, Man United manager?

So, Roy Keane is in his last season as a Manchester United player. Given that he is 35 next birthday, that hardly counts as a surprise and, given that he has his heart set on a…

Another ‘trophy’ for the toon

Earlier this month England’s 2004 young footballer of the year changed hands between the country’s clubs for £6,5-million, bringing the total spent on one of the brightest…

Bowyer has already paid

It is a pity Lee Bowyer is keeping his thoughts to himself at the moment because his views on the English justice system could only be interesting. It should be remembered he was…

Why Sir Alex should quit

Sir Alex Ferguson left Old Trafford without saying goodbye to the fans after Manchester United’s last home game of the season. There would have been little point on Tuesday…

First the spit, now the polish

El Hadji Diouf celebrated his 24th birthday last week, but the Bolton Wanderers player was most pleased when he received a telephone call from Steven Gerrard wishing him many…

Reaching the heart of Soho Square

Hurrah for the new Premiership season! Last season there were complaints that competition was actually quite dull, but when you see what passes for football news when no matches…

England’s G-Force

One of the key contests when England take on France in their opening Euro 2004 game in Lisbon on Sunday will be in midfield, where Steven Gerrard of Liverpool comes up against…

England’s young guns aim high

Michael Owen believes the European Championship will provide England’s youthful squad with an acid test – and one they are capable of passing with flying colours. There is an…

The Dein machine

Arsenal already had the most wanted manager in European football before they raised his profile even higher by going through a Premiership season undefeated, but eight years ago…