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India’s growing importance to the English Premier League was emphasised when leading club Liverpool announced Monday their first marketing deal with an Indian company. The Reds have signed a three-year agreement with smart mobile firm XOLO which will…

  Sunderland manager Gus Poyet believes the draws for the fourth round of the FA Cup shouldn’t be held until all third round games have been completed. Poyet, whose side went into the next round with a 3-1 victory over Carlisle United at the…

  Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho claims Ramires was rightly booked with a yellow card for his dive in the 2-0 win over Derby County, but he refused to accept that Chelsea was a club that promoted or thrived on simulations and diving antics to win…

Juventus romped to a 3-0 win over nine-man Roma on Sunday to end the visitors’ unbeaten run in the league this season and extend their lead in Serie A to eight points. High-flying Roma came to Turin confident of taking at least a share of the spoils…

Big-spenders Monaco were given a scare in the French Cup on Sunday before a late Yannick Ferreira Carrasco winner eased them past third division Vannes 3-2 and into the last-32. Top flight leaders Paris Saint-Germain had their match at Brest postponed…

AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri has confirmed he will quit the Serie A giants at the end of the season. For the second successive season Milan struggled to impress in Italy’s top flight in the run-up to the festive break and currently sit 13th,…

West Ham United crashed out of the FA Cup in embarrassing fashion on Sunday after being thrashed 5-0 at second-tier Nottingham Forest in the third round. Jamie Paterson was the star man for Championship side Forest with a 14-minute hat-trick against…

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will miss the FA Cup third-round meeting with Swansea City on Sunday due to a groin injury, manager David Moyes has revealed. The England striker, 28, has been nursing the problem for the last few weeks and sat…

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has waded into the debate about diving in football by claiming that “players are always trying to cheat”. FIFA president Sepp Blatter broached the issue earlier this week when he called for tougher sanctions…

Southampton striker Dani Osvaldo was fined £40,000 ($65,000, 48,0000 euros) and suspended for three matches on Friday for his part in a touchline brawl during an ill-tempered Premier League clash at Newcastle. Osvaldo, an Argentina-born Italy international…

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is raring to start as coach of Cardiff City and sees Saturday’s third-round FA Cup clash at Newcastle as the perfect starting point. With Premier League survival top of the Welsh club’s agenda, Solsjkaer could be forgiven for looking…

Charlton Athletic, from England’s second-tier Championship, on Friday confirmed they had been taken over by Belgian entrepreneur Roland Duchatelet. The 67-year-old’s company, Staprix NV, will acquire 100 percent of the shares in the club, subject to…

Southampton have accused controversial referee Mark Clattenburg of “abusing and insulting” their captain Adam Lallana during the recent 2-1 defeat at Everton. The Premier League club have lodged a complaint with the Professional Game Match Officials…

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has maintained that Fulham striker Dimitar Berbatov is not currently on his wish list for the January transfer window. Wenger added that he will wait to discover the extent of Nicklas Bendtner’s ankle injury before deciding…