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- May 31
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- Ronaldo close to buying Real Valladolid, say Brazilian reports
- 10 of football's weirdest postponements (ft. Pop Idol, sewers and a solar eclipse)
- How do you follow greatness? The glorious successes – and crushing failures – of 15 men who came next
- 10 managers who returned to ex-clubs – and what happened next
- Olá! World Cup 2014: When Brazil broke under the weight of expectation – and cried again
- Quiz! Can you name the top World Cup goalscorers for these 30 major countries?
- Philadelphia Union's Ilsinho scores a stunner, embarrasses Bastian Schweinsteiger
- When Alex Ferguson got sacked at St Mirren: 40 years on from the job that made him
- 10 superstars who suffered nightmares in lower-league dugouts
- Roy Keane says he "hopes John O'Shea is a 'head-case' at home"
- 11 of the feistiest and funniest manager-journalist exchanges
- May 30
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- 10 potential breakout stars of World Cup 2018 we can't wait to see
- 10 ridiculous boasts that made their subjects look stupid
- YouTube team Hashtag United reveal home ground – but are appealing their league allocation
- 10 footballers who tried different sports… with mixed results
- Sawubona! World Cup 2010: Vuvuzelas, Jabulanis and dodgy decisions rule South Africa
- Usain Bolt surprisingly turns up to train with Stromsgodset for a week
- 11 of football's most embarrassing excuses (featuring birds, Bentleys and bouncy balls)
- Wolves's Carl Ikeme named as Nigeria's 24th World Cup player as he battles leukaemia
- Liverpool's Loris Karius offered loan deal by Italian third-tier club Rimini
- One ideal summer transfer that YOUR Premier League club could make this summer
- 10 players you won’t believe were shortlisted for the Ballon d’Or
- Frank Lampard becomes joint-manager of Rangers
- May 29
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- USA's Josh Sargent profits from terrible blunder by Bolivia's goalkeeper
- European Judo Union criticise Sergio Ramos for illegal takedown of Mo Salah
- Ranked! The 25 best World Cup players EVER
- Watch: Mario Balotelli scores on first Italy start for four years against Saudi Arabia
- 71-year-old Bogdan Glabicki scores in the Polish sixth tier
- Where EVERY Premier League club needs to strengthen in the summer transfer window
- May 26
- May 25
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- YouTube 11-a-side team Hashtag United join the English football pyramid
- 10 players we’d LOVE to see in the Premier League in 2018-19
- Egypt squad to decide whether to fast during World Cup preparations
- The 14 best football films... ever!
- Jerzy Dudek: The games that changed my life
- James Rodriguez launches his own cryptocurrency
- 5 real-life underperforming clubs that YOU could steer to glory in Football Manager 2018
- Cesar Carrillo of Millonarios bangs in a screamer in Copa Libertadores action
- May 24
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- How Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool can break down Real Madrid and prevent a Champions League hat-trick
- Nike receive over three million orders for Nigeria's World Cup kit – which isn't even out yet
- John Terry may sign new Aston Villa contract – if he can skip Chelsea games, say reports
- How many of English football's first 20 foreign managers do you remember?
- Champions League anthem composer: "It's not my best work – I was doing music for Amstrad ads then"
- Ronaldinho to marry TWO women at the same time in August, say Brazilian reports
- 10 players who actually improved in their 30s
- Where are they now? Real Madrid's 1998 Champions League winners
- Serie B play-offs in chaos with participants Bari at risk of points deduction
- Robbie Fowler: "I was happiest in my career when I got the chance to re-sign for Liverpool in 2006"
- May 23
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- 11 former Premier League strugglers who've thrived abroad in 2017-18
- Ukrainian football is facing a massive match-fixing scandal
- Why Liverpool against Real Madrid is European football’s ultimate clash of styles
- Marcelo copies eight-year-old son by completing header challenge (sort of)
- 13 players who surprisingly played in Champions League finals
- Just 23 people out of 9,000 'confirmed' turn up to Radja Nainggolan protest at Belgian FA offices
- Vinicius Junior one year on: how Brazil’s boy wonder is shaping up ahead of his big Real Madrid switch
- USA Women's Brandi Chastain has a new plaque – and it's not good
- May 22
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- The 8 most undeserved promotions in football history
- 5 reasons why Real Madrid should worry about Liverpool in the Champions League final
- Will Smith will perform the official 2018 World Cup song
- How good really is Zidane the manager? Why the Real Madrid boss just keeps on winning
- Red Star Belgrade's open-top bus catches fire during parade celebrations
- Why Unai Emery is the manager Arsenal need for the here and now
- Arsenal release new 2018/19 home shirt
- Former Norwich striker Grant Holt will be a wrestler in 2019
- May 21
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- The 10 most shocking exclusions from World Cup squads
- Galway goalkeeper concedes hilariously daft goal after forgetting the rules
- Ranked! The 10 best goals of the 2014 World Cup
- Ranked! 10 football jokes that spectacularly backfired
- Coventry to wear one-off kit for League Two play-off final after "exhausting kit supply"
- Witchcraft! Portuguese Cup ball mysteriously floats to referee before kick-off
- Legia Warsaw win Ekstraklasa title after their game gets abandoned
- Quiz! Can you name all 36 goalscorers from the last 20 years of FA Cup finals?
- The 15 best players in Europe in 2017-18 – according to the data
- Andres Iniesta takes in Camp Nou for one last time by himself... at 1am
- Why Alex Sandro could shine at Manchester United despite a year of struggle
- May 19
- May 18
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- Facebook, feuds and 50 masked madmen: how Sporting’s crazy season reached a bloody end
- The 26 managers who have bossed three or more Premier League teams
- Is Jean Michael Seri right for Arsenal? The case for and against
- Alex Ferguson at Mexico '86: when the world got its first blast of the hairdryer
- The England players cut from every World Cup squad
- Quiz! Can you name the line-ups from Chelsea vs Manchester United in the 2007 FA Cup final?
- The 8 group games we're most excited about at World Cup 2018
- May 17
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- Turkish fans furious as President Erdogan appears to endorse Mesut Ozil
- Mohamed Salah's boots are now on exhibition in the British Museum
- After 26 Premier League seasons, where YOUR club sits in the all-time table
- Watch: Reno 1868's Lamar Hunt scores classic own goal in US Open Cup
- How Russia wasted seven years ahead of hosting the 2018 World Cup
- Ex-Spurs youngster Dorian Dervite recalls bizarre anecdote about Robbie Keane
- 10 players we’d LOVE to see in the Premier League in 2018/19
- Watch: Clinton Njie pulls off worst shot of all time in Europa League final
- May 16
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- England's World Cup rejects: a brief history of woe and where-are-they-nows
- Rated! YOUR Premier League club's worst player of 2017-18
- Ranked! England's 23-man World Cup squad... in order of their importance this summer
- England World Cup squad revealed: See the list in full
- 10 World Cup wildcard picks who shocked the world and shone
- Diego Maradona named chairman of obscure Belarusian club
- Watch: New York Cosmos score outrageous halfway line goal from kick-off
- Quiz! Can you name every England player to feature in a major tournament squad from 1996 to 2016?
- May 15
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- Mark Clattenburg: “English refs can’t be arrogant – they have no right to be at the World Cup”
- Park Ji-sung reveals disgusting detail about his conditioning regime
- Rated! YOUR Premier League club's best player of 2017-18
- Why Jonjo Shelvey DOES deserve a place in England's World Cup squad
- Twenty-five years on from scandal-riddled triumph, Marseille have chance to become force again
- Watch: Fulham's Aboubakar Kamara booked for horrendous dive
- Watch: Ireland U17 goalkeeper gets sent off... during a penalty shootout
- Quiz! Can you name all 47 clubs that played in the Premier League after Arsene Wenger took over at Arsenal?
- May 14
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- Bizarre pitchside 'aeroplane' follows ball during Saudi King's Cup final
- Ranked! The 10 biggest howlers of the 2017/18 season
- Hibs manager Neil Lennon taunts Rangers fans with aeroplane celebration in 5-5 draw
- Rated! YOUR Premier League club's best and worst player of 2017/18
- Serbian side set to miss out on Europa League place after horrific penalty decision
- New signings worst XI: shockers from the 2017/18 Premier League
- Down, down: 10 players who kept experiencing relegation
- Atletico Paranaense goalkeeper checks his phone... on-field
- Quiz! Can you name the 60 highest-scoring Fantasy Premier League players of 2017/18?
- Beitar Jerusalem plan to rename themselves as Beitar Trump Jerusalem
- May 13
- May 11
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- West Ham players clearly brawling with one eye on the beach, complain fans
- Ex-Middlesbrough and Sunderland star Julio Arca finally retires from football
- How Sadio Mané stepped up to make Liverpool fans forget Philippe Coutinho
- Arsenal definitely getting relegated next year, says Wenger
- Why the Premier League urgently needs a relegation play-off
- Arsene Wenger became English football’s moral compass – he’ll be sorely missed when he's gone
- Revealed! YOUR Premier League club's next first-team youth prospect
- Real Sociedad honour retiring captain Xabi Prieto by replacing crest with his portrait
- Where are they now? Arsene Wenger's first Arsenal team, October 1996
- Quiz! Name the 40 players who've committed the most fouls in the Premier League this season
- Premier League final-day preview: What (definitely) will and won't happen
- Watch: Sparta Rotterdam's Stijn Spierings smashes in one of the all-time great own goals
- Where are they now? The 2002 Barcelona team Andres Iniesta debuted in
- May 10
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- Martin Allen leaves as Barnet manager... for the fifth time
- England won't have an official 2018 World Cup song
- Ranked! The 20 WORST finishers in the Premier League... according to Expected Goals (xG)
- Eh?! The 15 random players who scored their ONLY Premier League goal against Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal
- Stuart Broad is leading Premier League Fantasy Football so far this gameweek
- Jermain Defoe says 2010 World Cup was so boring that he watched Wayne Rooney's entire wedding DVD
- 10 former Premier League strugglers who've thrived abroad in 2017/18
- 7 teams who needed a favour from a rival: title chases, drop dodges and fan-led losses
- Atlanta United's Brad Guzan gets straight red after wiping out Sporting KC striker
- Quiz! Name the 71 players who've scored 3+ Premier League goals against Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal
- Watch: Ousmane Dembele finishes off Villarreal with a lovely individual goal in La Liga
- May 9
- May 8
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- The 8 most undeserved promotions in football history
- Promoted Salford City part ways with joint-managers Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley
- New Zealand men's and women's national teams to receive equal pay
- New signings worst XI: shockers from the 2017/18 Premier League
- Bolton's Mark Little reunited with wedding ring and wallet following botched survival celebrations
- Paul Pogba's brother Florentin clashes with own Genclerbirligi team-mates
- 8 of the most brilliant, bonkers Premier League night games
- Referee takes out a Kayserispor player AND Besiktas's Talisca in Turkish Super Lig
- The 7 most nail-biting final-day deciders between direct rivals
- May 5
- May 4
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- Meet Leicester target Caglar Soyuncu: Turkey's great defensive hope
- Borussia Dortmund release new 2018/19 home shirt
- Revealed! How the Premier League table should REALLY look this season
- Besiktas said they wouldn't turn up for their rescheduled Turkish Cup semi-final tie... so they didn't
- 10 footballers who tried different sports… with mixed results
- FourFourTwo’s Premier League Team of the Year – if only one player per club could make it
- Watch: Salzburg's Amadou Haidara scores stunning solo goal... then gets sent off in extra-time
- Mystery set of unused Euro 96 tickets withdrawn from auction as original owner claims they were stolen
- Premier League preview: What (definitely) will and won't happen this weekend
- May 3
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- Subbuteo launch first ever all-female set ahead of FA Women's Cup final
- 8 Premier League players who've benefited most from a positional change this season
- Tim Cahill: Yes, I've played jetlagged – it’s a big reason why I left Everton
- Ranked! The 10 best players aged 21 or under in the Championship
- 10 football jokes that spectacularly backfired
- Rio Ferdinand isn't allowed to become a professional boxer
- Quiz! Can you name the club history of Arsenal's first-choice Europa League squad?
- Liverpool fan mistakenly packs Santa pyjamas instead of shirt for Champions League semi-final
- Notoriously attack-shy Javier Mascherano scores first Hebei China Fortune goal... after nine games
- Iwobi: Training with world-class players at Arsenal will help me shine for Nigeria at World Cup
- May 2
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- Watch: Jubilo Iwata's Guilherme goes on rampage after seeing red in Japan
- Kane: "I'd be extremely proud to be England captain, but I'll do my job whether I've got the armband or not"
- Marouane Fellaini slams Jamie Carragher as "the guy who spat on a girl from his car"
- 11 footballers who played through the pain barrier (and definitely, definitely shouldn't have)
- Rochdale fans pay for Spanish superfan to see team play for very first time
- Tim Cahill: My World Cup wonder goal against Holland was like an out-of-body experience – I went crazy
- 7 players who actually improved in their 30s
- Kane: Pochettino won't like it, but Beckham's 2002 penalty is my standout England World Cup memory
- Max Gradel 'suspects' Toulouse team-mate has stolen his Rolex watch
- The big interview: Rafael van der Vaart – "Yes, Zlatan threatened to break my legs – but he did that to everyone..."
- Ex-Manchester United flop Federico Macheda gets comical red card in Serie B
- Watch: Ethiopian referee attacked for allowing a goal
- In the mag: Kane exclusive! 68-page World Cup Guide! Tim Cahill One-on-One! How to win the Golden Boot!
- May 1
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- The making of Mohamed Salah: “At no stage did I believe I didn’t belong at this level. Absolutely not”
- Ross McCormack will earn near-£1m bonus if Aston Villa are promoted... despite not playing a minute for them this season
- Ranked! Who'd win a Premier League Old Player of the Season award?
- Revealed! YOUR Premier League club's next first-team youth prospect
- Can you name the Premier League-winning loanees?
- Quiz! Can you name the 26 French players who've appeared in the 2017/18 Premier League?
- 10 hardcore Football Manager 2018 challenges you need to try
- Win! A pair of tickets for England vs Nigeria on June 2
- Local Burnley pub to re-brand itself 'The Royal Dyche' after brilliant season
- FourFourTwo’s Premier League Team of the Year – if only one player per club could make it
- Analysed: the evolution of the goalkeeper
- Diego Maradona leaves Al Fujairah, then rejoins days later... or does he?
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