The Tottenham playmaker disrupted Everton’s rigid defensive system
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With the influential Tim Cahill, the powerful Marouane Fellaini and the in-form Louis Saha all missing, David Moyes decided to line up his Everton team in a cautious …

The biting wind may have swept straight in from Russia’s steppes but, strangely immune to the Wearside chill, Steve Bruce’s technical area experienced a scorching microclimate. It is no exaggeration to say Sunderland’s manager is …

Six yellow cards, two reds not given and 36 fouls, yet it was only in the aftermath of Liverpool’s narrow defeat of Blackburn that things got truly nasty.
First out of the corner for the post-match …

Tottenham regained fourth position in the Premier League here today in the compelling competition to be the best of the rest, but there was a sombre expression on the manager Harry Redknapp’s face this evening …

• ‘Assumption of automatic deduction has never been tested’• Administrator is investigating all transfers made by the club
The administrator in charge of Portsmouth believes there is a chance of the club avoiding an expected nine-point …

• Young midfielder out for rest of season and perhaps longer• Operation on horrifically broken leg described as successful

Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey will miss the rest of the season after suffering fractures to the tibia and …

Luka Modric scores a beauty, Landon Donovan misses a sitter and Tottenham just about hang on for the win to go fourth

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Deposed England skipper John Terry endures miserable day after drubbing follows Wayne Bridge snub

It could have been two children on a school playing field. One was happy to shake hands and be friends, the other …

• Stoke defender ‘deeply upset’ over Ramsey’s broken leg • Shawcross ‘has no bad blood in him,’ says Tony Pulis
Stoke City’s Ryan Shawcross last night insisted there was “absolutely no malice” in the challenge on …

The Premier League have to decide whether they are a regulatory body or a secretariat overseeing a free-for-all
The most insidious deceit to invade English football’s phrase book in this age of boom and bust is …