Carlos Carvalhal can look forward to a reunion with the club he parted company with on Christmas Eve, only four days before pitching up in south Wales, after Swansea swept aside Notts County in emphatic style to stride into the last 16 of the FA Cup and set up an intriguing tie at Hillsborough on Saturday week.



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So, Hope Solo is running for president of the US Soccer Federation. It turns out the record-breaking goalkeeper is also trying to solve a mystery. When she is asked why the federation’s relationship with Soccer United Marketing (SUM) – a for-profit company owned by Major League Soccer that includes MLS commissioner Don Garber as its CEO and Solo’s rival candidate Kathy Carter as its president – is the subject of debate within football circles the World Cup winner is quick to pounce.…

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Steve Kaplan and http://www.knicksstoreonline.com/Patrick_Ewing_Jersey Jason Levien are at the other end of a transatlantic line, extolling the impact of Carlos Carvalhal, acknowledging mistakes in the summer transfer window, dismissing concerns about asset-stripping, vowing to improve recruitment and singing the praises of Mike van der Hoorn, yet there is one point in particular that Swansea’s majority shareholders are keen to… Continue

If you ask a football fan to name the first time Arsenal played Tottenham at Wembley, they might say the 1991 FA Cup semi-final. Alas, they would be incorrect. The two teams met in the inaugural Wembley International Tournament three years earlier. It was only a friendly but for Arsenal fans it proved the perfect appetiser for the 1988-89 season.



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One day I’ll give you the list of those at the top level who have made careers with me and you will see,” boasted Arsène Wenger in 2010. “You will be absolutely astonished.” Eight years on and Arsenal supporters could be forgiven for wondering if their long-serving manager has lost his touch.



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There was a strange and strangely protracted period in the modern history of the England football team Ben Roethlisberger Jersey when coaches, spectators and pundits became collectively convinced that something called “the left-sided problem” existed.



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The strains of “We’ll keep the red flag flying high” sang out across Manchester Platz, or Manchester Square, Munich on a bitterly cold February day. The sun shone out of the pale blue sky that Munich does so well, helping warm the Manchester United fans gathered for the memorial service marking Antoine Bethea Jersey the 60th anniversary of the crash that killed eight of their finest players.…

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Three months have passed since Lyon visited the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard and destroyed St Étienne 5-0, a mauling that will go down as one of the worst defeats in the club’s 99-year history. Ôscar Garcia, who was only appointed manager in the summer but had clashed with the board over transfer targets, resigned soon after the defeat – and the man brought in to replace him, Julien Sablé, proved to be a disastrous appointment.…

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When Mino Raiola mischievously suggested “Sánchez is part of the Mikhi deal, not the other way round”, the general consensus was to raise eyebrows at the brash machinations of the agents’ world. It is fair to say most people felt the Alexis Sánchez-Henrikh Mkhitaryan swap was weighted more favourably for Manchester United.



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West Ham are facing a crisis after their head of player recruitment was suspended following allegations of racism and unlawful discrimination. Senior players reacted with bemusement to the club’s messy end to the transfer window and remarks by Karren Brady were said to have scuppered a deal to sign Islam Slimani from Leicester.



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In the aftermath of a defeat Antonio Conte tends to drop his guard. The emotions are too raw and the Italian, consumed by that toxic blend of disappointment and frustration, lashes out and airs his troubles. Yet, as he lurched from an insistence he has been overachieving to preaching realism over Chelsea’s aspirations in the wake of a humiliating home loss to Bournemouth, it was hard not to conclude that this is a head coach pushing his relationship with his employers to breaking point.…

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For the second time in five days, Jack Stephens got Southampton and Mauricio Pellegrino out of jail in front of a home crowd whose patience is wearing thin.



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Olivier Giroud sat behind the home dugout here, descending ever deeper into his new training coat as if attempting to hide from all he was witnessing. So much of this new start would have reminded him of his darker days at Arsenal. Only 24 hours previously he had been summoned from the bench in South Wales as his old team succumbed to Swansea, then the Premier League’s bottom club. Now, having been prised away by the champions, he endured having to watch his new side capitulate against…

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