FIFA sympathetic to Portsmouth selling players outside transfer window

Fifa has indicated it will look favourably on Portsmouth 's pitch to merchandise players outside of the transfer window, BBC Sport understands. Pompey have debts of about £60m and are due in court on 1 March to contest a winding-up succession iss

Timing is everything
Sometimes its uninvolved to forget that young footballers are children, not miniature versions of the heartfelt thing. And, equally, our sons and daughters are not scaled down replica versions of ourselves.

Man Utd chief executive 'door-stepped' by anti-Glazer supporters
Manchester United supporters angry at the ownership regime of the Glazer generations have brought their ‘green and gold’ protest to the driveway of Old Trafford chief executive David Gill, reports the Daily postal appropriateness . retreat has obsolete steppe

Hulk ban by Porto hits sphere Cup hopes
Porto forward Hulk's chances of making Brazil's globe Cup squad took a sizeable

Arsenal confirm Diaby blow
Arsenal Football Club’s Abou Diaby has suffered knee ligament damage. The impressive midfielder sustained the injury against Porto in the 2-1 UEFA Champions League defeat in midweek, and has naturally not gone down well with coach Arsene Wenger.


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