We've learned from last season - Fergie

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has vowed there will be no repeat of last seasons European disappointment Read More

Sturridge grateful for Pearce patience

Striker Daniel Sturridge has thanked Great Britain manager Stuart Pearce for helping him keep his Olympic dream alive Read More

Laudrup ready for anything on Allen

Swansea manager Michael Laudrup has a contingency plan should Joe Allen leave for Liverpool and says the midfielder will be allowed to decide his own future Read More

Scott positive after draw

Midfielder Jill Scott emerged from Team GBs final warm-up football game against Sweden confident there is more to come before their Olympic campaign gets under way Read More

Southgate exit leaves FA in the lurch

The Football Association will have to look elsewhere for a technical director after Gareth Southgates shock decision to turn his back on the post Read More

Ferguson coy after confirming RVP bid

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson must decide whether to up the ante in a bid to snare last seasons Premier League top scorer Robin van Persie Read More

Bin Hammam says he wants to quit sport

Mohamed bin Hammam the scandal-tainted former FIFA presidential candidate whose life ban was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport this week has said he wants to retire from football Read More

Camoranesi joins Argentine side Racing Club

Italys Argentine-born World Cup-winner Mauro Camoranesi 35 has signed for Argentine side Racing Club from Lanus who announced his departure on Friday Read More

Oscar holds fire on Chelsea move

Brazil midfielder Oscar has confirmed he has had a medical with Chelsea but will delay his decision on whether or not to sign for the Champions League winners until after the Olympics Read More

Murray: No final agreement with SFA

Rangers chairman Malcolm Murray has insisted no final agreement has been reached over the clubs transfer embargo despite the Scottish Football Associations earlier announcement that the newco have accepted a 12-month ban Read More

Ferguson: Carrick is key to season

Sir Alex Ferguson believes Michael Carrick holds the key to Manchester Uniteds season Read More

Pearce: Brazil the gold standard

Team GB boss Stuart Pearce believes any side which beats Brazil is likely to claim gold at the Olympic Games Read More

Brazil show Team GB the gold standard

Brazil showed Team GB the standard required to win gold at the Olympics as the tournament favourites warmed up for the London Games with a 2-0 win at Middlesbroughs Riverside Stadium on Friday Read More

Kompany stunner sinks Besiktas

An outstanding goal from captain Vincent Kompany was the highlight in a 2-0 win over Besiktas as Manchester City wrapped up their pre-season training camp in Austria with victory Read More

Bayern beaten by Napoli in pre-season friendly

Bayern Munich fell 3-2 to Napoli in the final match of the Bavarians pre-season training camp on the banks of Lake Garda in Italy on Friday Read More

Rangers accept transfer ban from September

Fallen giants Rangers have accepted a one-year transfer ban beginning on September 1 to ensure their membership of the Scottish Football Association SFA Read More

Kagawa to start for United

Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed new-boy Shinji Kagawa will start Manchester Uniteds pre-season encounter with Ajax Cape Town on Saturday Read More

Fergie confirms United bid for van Persie

Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed on Friday that Manchester United have made a bid for unsettled Arsenal striker Robin van Persie Read More

Swansea sign Vallecanos Michu

Swansea signed Spanish midfielder Michu from Rayo Vallecano for £2 million 3 Read More

Fergie confirms Van Persie bid

Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed Manchester United had made a bid for Arsenal captain Robin van Persie Read More

Sing anthem or dont play - former DFB head

The former head of the German football federation Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder said in an interview published on Friday that national team players should sing the national anthem or risk not been picked Read More

Trapattoni goes for younger option

Republic of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni has dispensed with the services of his old guard for next months friendly clash with Serbia Read More

Saints swoop for keeper Gazzaniga

Premier League new-boys Southampton signed highly-rated Argentine goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga from Gillingham for an undisclosed fee on Friday Read More

FIFA rubber-stamp Ness deal

Jamie Ness has been been given the go-ahead by FIFA to start his career with Stoke Read More

Celtic star Ki eyes England switch

South Koreas Celtic midfielder Ki Sung-yueng admitted Friday that he fears for the Scottish Premier League after Rangers dramatic collapse and that he would be interested in a move to England Read More

Bochum to sign Japans Tasaka

German second division side Bochum said on Friday that they are to sign Japans attacking midfielder Yusuke Tasaka from Kawasaki Frontale after a medical Read More

Bayern head to China without Schweinsteiger, Lahm

Bayern Munich head to China this weekend without Bastian Schweinsteiger and Philipp Lahm club coach Jupp Heynckes announced on Friday Read More

UEFA fines Cassano for discriminatory comments

European footballs governing body on Friday said it had fined Italy forward Antonio Cassano for homophobic comments he made during a news conference at Euro 2012 Read More

Liverpool to face Renova or Gomel in Europa League

European heavyweights Liverpool will face either Macedonia minnows Renova or Gomel from Belarus in the Europa League third qualifying round next month Read More

Henry looking for stability

Liverpool have been handed a Europa League third qualifying round clash with either Macedonian side FK Renova or FC Gomel of Belarus for their first competitive match under Brendan Rodgers who will be under no pressure this term to get the team into the Champions League according to Reds principal owner John Henry Read More

Former England star Southgate quits FA role

Former England and Aston Villa defender Gareth Southgate has quit his role as the Football Associations head of elite development after only 18 months Read More

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Swansea complete Michu signing

Swansea have completed the 2million signing of Rayo Vallecano midfielder Michu Read More

Norwich 'increase offer for Snodgrass'

Norwich have tabled an increased offer to Leeds for their skipper Robert Snodgrass Press Association Sport understands Read More

Modric will cost Real Madrid 40m

It will take £40million to prise Luka Modric away from Tottenham Press Association Sport understands Read More

Trapattoni axes Irish old guard after Euro flop

Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has dropped veteran trio Robbie Keane Shay Given and Richard Dunne for next months friendly against Serbia in the aftermath of his sides Euro 2012 flop Read More

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Liverpool learn Europa League opponents

Brendan Rodgers first competitive game in charge of Liverpool will see him face either FK Renova from Macedonia or FC Gomel of Belarus in the third qualifying round of the Europa League Read More

City and United to battle for Van Persie with Juve also waiting

Manchester United Manchester City and Juventus are locked in a three-way battle to sign Arsenal captain Robin van Persie Read More

Southgate leaving FA role

Gareth Southgate is to quit the Football Association after only 18 months - dashing hopes that the former England defender would become the bodys new technical director Read More

Reds chief won't put pressure on Rodgers

Liverpool principal owner John Henry is being realistic in his expectations of new manager Brendan Rodgers and will not set him a target of Champions League qualification Read More

Norwich and Barnsley agree Butterfield fee

Barnsley have come to an agreement with Norwich over a transfer fee for Jacob Butterfield avoiding the prospect of a tribunal Read More

Celtic set for Scandinavian mission

Scottish champions Celtic will play either HJK Helsinki or KR Reykjavik in the third qualifying round of the Champions League while Motherwell face Greek side Panathinaikos Read More

Rodgers rules out Carroll loan

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers insists there is no chance of Andy Carroll leaving the club on loan but admits the Reds will consider any offers they receive for the striker Read More

O'Driscoll: Forest return was easy decision

New Nottingham Forest boss Sean ODriscoll described his return to the club as an easy decision to make Read More

Southampton sign Gills keeper Gazzaniga

Southampton have completed the signing of Gillingham goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga on a four-year deal Read More

Wigan won't budge over Moses valuation

Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has told Chelsea to come up with £10million or forget signing Victor Moses Read More

Suarez affair harmed Dalglish - Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson believes the highly controversial manner in which Kenny Dalglish handled the Luis Suarez racism case was a factor in him getting sacked by Liverpool Read More

Travel takes its toll on Fergie

Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted he will have to curb some of his travelling after his recent health scare Read More

Powell eager to learn from friendly

Coach Hope Powell is looking forward to seeing what her Great Britain team are made of ahead of Friday nights Olympic preparation friendly with Sweden Read More

Pearce hails Giggs impact

Stuart Pearce is far happier having Ryan Giggs under his charge than he ever was chasing him around a football pitch Read More

Ibrahimovic takes PSG into new dimension

With the acquisition of Zlatan Ibrahimovic Paris Saint-Germain have finally secured the marquee signing they had been chasing since Qatar Sports Investments bought the club a year ago Read More

Forest appoint O'Driscoll as manager

Nottingham Forest have appointed former first-team coach Sean ODriscoll as their new manager Read More

Lilles Garcia criticises PSGs foreign fixation

Lille coach Rudi Garcia on Thursday welcomed Paris Saint-Germains signing of Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic but lamented the fact they have not sought to sign more French players Read More

Younger Hazard set for Chelsea move

Thorgan Hazards move to Chelsea could be completed on Friday according to to Lens sporting director Antoine Sibierski Read More

Truth has prevailed, Bin Hammam tells AFP

Mohamed Bin Hammam exclusively told AFP that the truth has been established after the life-long ban handed to him by FIFA was lifted by the Court of Arbitration for Sport CAS on Thursday Read More

Wenger: Arsenal are still competitive

Arsene Wenger insists Arsenal can still win the Barclays Premier League despite not being able to match the outlay of some rivals Read More

Robertson calls for language barrier

Sports Minister Hugh Robertson wants football to clamp down on swearing Read More

King keen to play part in retirement

Tottenhams Ledley King is disappointed to be calling time on his playing career but looking forward to a future with the north Londoners off the field Read More

Uproar in France over Ibrahimovics indecent salary

Football superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovics record-breaking salary at his new Paris club has sparked a fierce backlash from French politicians denouncing it as indecent at a time of financial hardship Read More

Tymoshchuk ponders Bayern future

Ukrainian international midfielder Anatoliy Tymoshchuk is considering his future at Bayern Munich he told German magazine Kicker Read More

Hull complete Proschwitz signing

Hull have completed the signing of striker Nick Proschwitz from German outfit SC Paderborn Read More

McFadden would talk to Celtic

James McFadden is still interested in signing for Celtic despite a proposed move to his boyhood heroes falling through last year Read More

Liverpool managers Rodgers targets Allen

Swansea midfielder Joe Allen has been named as a transfer target by Liverpool manager and former boss Brendan Rodgers Read More

Injury-plagued King retires

Tottenham captain Ledley King finally announced his retirement on Thursday after battling chronic knee problems for several years Read More

Pearce to decide on Sturridge

Team GB boss Stuart Pearce will make a decision on striker Daniel Sturridges Olympic football dream after Friday nights friendly against Brazil Read More

Lithuania detains Latvia-bound Polish hooligans

Thirteen Poles have been arrested in Lithuania after trouble involving fans of Legia Warsaw bound for a Europa League match in Latvia police said on Thursday Read More

Chelsea confirm Moses interest

Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo has confirmed the Blues interest in Wigan striker Victor Moses but admitted a deal is yet to be agreed Read More

Bin Hammam FIFA ban annulled

Mohamed Bin Hammam has had his lifetime FIFA ban annulled by the Court of Arbitration for Sport the Press Association can disclose Read More

Southampton complete Clyne signing

Southampton have confirmed the signing of highly-rated defender Nathaniel Clyne from Crystal Palace Read More

Lucas set for Reds return

Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva is set to make his return from a long-term knee injury two months ahead of schedule Reds manager Brendan Rodgers has confirmed Read More

Lennon seeks recognition for Hoops

Celtic manager Neil Lennon has reiterated his call for Rangers to be stripped of titles won over the past decade if they are found guilty of signing players on illegal contracts Read More

Lukaku powers Chelsea past Sounders

European champions Chelsea opened their tour of the United States on Wednesday with a 4-2 win over the Seattle Sounders as striker Romelu Lukaku led the way with two first half goals Read More

Apathy and Brazil to test GB football team

The team that many of their compatriots didnt want will return in public after decades of unmourned absence Friday without their biggest star and against one of the favourites for an Olympic football tournament where tickets are being withdrawn Read More

Neville understands Beckham omission

Gary Neville admits he understands Team GB coach Stuart Pearces decision to leave David Beckham out of his squad for the Olympics Read More

Fergie happy for Berbatov to stay

Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed he would be happy for Dimitar Berbatov to stay at Manchester United but accepts why the Bulgarian wants to leave Read More

Modric won't go on the cheap - AVB

Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas has warned clubs interested in Luka Modric that the Croatia playmaker will not be sold until Spurs £35million asking price is met Read More

2014 World Cup is 'under control' - organizers

The World Cup which Brazil will host in 2014 is under control the head of the countrys organizing panel said Wednesday voicing optimism about progress in lagging infrastructure projects Read More

United start world tour with narrow victory

Manchester United started a six-game pre-season world tour with a 1-0 win over AmaZulu before a capacity 50000 crowd at Moses Mabhida Stadium Wednesday Read More

Cycling: Wiggins in control of Tour

Bradley Wiggins maintained his firm grip on the Tour de France after repelling a series of attacks from his rivals during a brutal 197km stage through the Pyrenees won by France's Thomas Voeckler.Read More

Motorsport: McLaren calm on Lewis

McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh expects Lewis Hamilton to extend his stay with the Formula One marque, despite his contract expiring at the end of the current season.Read More

Golf: Stars back return of mobiles

Two of the world's top golfers have backed the R & A's decision to embrace technology by allowing spectators to bring mobile phones into this week's British Open.Read More

Diarra AWOL from Marseille pre-season training

Marseille coach Elie Baup on Wednesday said that he still has no news of midfielder Alou Diarra two days after the resumption of training Read More

History offers comfort to African football quartet

Egypt Gabon Morocco and Senegal can draw strength from African football achievements at recent Olympics when they set off this month in search of medals Read More

Rodgers confirms interest in Dempsey

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted the club have made enquiries about the availability of Fulham forward Clint Dempsey Read More

West Ham sign Maiga from Sochaux

English Premier League new boys West Ham announced Wednesday they had signed Mali forward Modibo Maiga from French club Sochaux on a long-term deal Read More

Iaquinta linked with Fulham

Juventus striker Vincenzo Iaquinta could move to Fulham according to the players agent Read More

Hammers sign Maiga

West Ham have completed the signing of Modibo Maiga from Sochaux on a long-term deal Read More

City reject Milan Dzeko link

Manchester City have rejected talk that striker Edin Dzeko is bound for AC Milan Read More

Ibrahimovic makes PSG switch

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has completed his long-awaited transfer from AC Milan to big-spending Paris St Germain Read More

Clyne looks set to sign for Saints

Crystal Palaces Nathaniel Clyne is expected to complete his move to Southampton within the next 24 hours Press Association Sport understands Read More

Fulham dig their heels in over Dempsey move to Liverpool

• Fee the barrier as Fulham rule out cut-price move
• Liverpool remove story of Dempsey deal from website

Fulham have taken a resolute stance over the future of Clint Dempsey, insisting that he will not be allowed to complete a cut-price move to Liverpool simply because he has only 12 months to run on his contract.

The situation took a farcical twist on Wednesday morning when the website of Fenway Sports Group, the Liverpool owners, said that the club had "added Clint Dempsey to a team that came within a game of winning the FA Cup". Fulham were bewildered as they had received no offer from Liverpool. The story was removed from the website.

Liverpool do have a serious interest in Dempsey, who scored 23 goals in all competitions last season, and the United States international would be receptive to the notion of a move to Anfield. But the fee an obstacle. Liverpool would be loth to spend big money on a 29-year-old who stands to become a free agent next summer but Fulham's valuation of arguably their star player is reflected by the words of a club source, who said that a bid of around £5m would be "laughed out of the boardroom."

Fulham and Liverpool did discuss Dempsey's possible transfer earlier in the summer but, as yet, there has been no official approach. "We have received no offers from any club for Clint Dempsey," a Fulham spokesperson said. "We would discourage any club from making a bid for him."

The FSG website video story did explain, when the link was clicked, that Dempsey was only expected to join Liverpool but the damage had been done by the manner in which it was trailed. Read More

Football: PSG confirm Ibrahimovic arrival

Swedish superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic says his move to big-spending French club Paris Saint-Germain from AC Milan is a "dream come true."Read More

Libya's rising Taekwondo star

CNN profiles Libya's rising Taekwondo star who remembers his brother a former Olympian and now a revolutionary martyr.Read More

Gold medalist returns 12 years on

2000 Olympic gold medalist Anthony Ervin returns to swimming after selling his medal and later rediscovering his passion.Read More

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Van der Vaart rules out leaving Spurs

• Holland international says he has no plans to seek move
• 'My place is at Spurs. I want to win the title with this club'

Rafael van der Vaart has insisted he has no plans to leave Tottenham during the summer transfer window.

The 29-year-old Holland international has been linked with a move away from White Hart Lane following the dismissal of Harry Redknapp.

But he has played down the speculation, and says he expects a bright future under the new manager André Villas-Boas.

He told The Sun: "My place is at Spurs. I want to win the title with this club. Each summer my name appears in the transfer market. The race for the top four will be a total war from the very first day."

Van der Vaart, who joined the club two years ago from Real Madrid, added: "The new coach has good plans for me and this is important. I have heard excellent reports about AVB.

"We have very good attacking players and if AVB imposes an offensive system the team could be a real spectacle." Read More

Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday celebrated in South Africa - video

South Africans celebrate former president Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday in Qunu, Durban and Johannesburg

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Cahill backing for Terry

Gary Cahill has backed Chelsea team-mate and captain John Terry to put his turbulent summer behind him when the new season kicks off next month Read More

NBA: Lin joins Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets sign basketball sensation Jeremy Lin after the New York Knicks fail to match their NBA rivals' three-year, $25 million offer for the point guard.Read More

Olympics: Pregnant Olympian to compete

On paper, Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi is entirely average for athletes competing in the women's 10-meter air rifle event at the 2012 London Olympics. There's just one difference: when she steps up to the line to shoot, she will be eight months pregnant.Read More

Suarez reopens racism row

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez believes the eight-game ban he received last season was down to Manchester Uniteds political power Read More

Van der Vaart committed to Spurs

Tottenham forward Rafael van der Vaart has no plans to leave the club this summer Read More

Di Matteo - No news on Oscar

Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo preferred not to comment on speculation linking the club with Internacional midfielder Oscar Read More

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Watford, it seems, is like one of those equatorial African countries. You know, one of the ones where the local formal economy is so askew that supermarkets are full of fruit imported from Europe. Watford, you see, have one of the most progressive youth development systems in England – and yet we learn today that the top transfer targets for their new Italian owner are Pippo Inzaghi and Alessandro Del Piero. Feel free at this point to wonder aloud whether Gianfranco Zola has been hired as a player rather than manager and to make hilarious wisecracks about imminent swoops for Bruno Conte, Gigi Riva and Sophia Loren.

Speaking of Italian screen legends of advancing years, that's pretty much how Dimitar Berbatov sees himself; and it looks like he could move closer to his vocation by agreeing to a move to Milan.

Rafael van der Vaart won't be agreeing to a move any time soon because, according to the Sun, he's determined to stay at White Hart Lane to make love and war, the all-action wildman. "RVD LOVES AVB" carves the Sun onto the dead tree forming its back page before going on to explain excitedly that Van der Vaart foresees a ferocious battle for the Premier League's top spots next seasons but strongly fancies the "good plans" that the Portuguese manager has for him, though he does not specify whether it involves an unfamiliar role as someone who regularly playing whole matches.

Staying in London, as gridlock demands we must, Chelsea hope that the captain of Spain Olympic football team will be so enamoured by the incessant rain and relentless whinging about traffic that he will want to set up permanent home in the capital. A bid for 22-year-old right-back César Azpilicueta is ready and set to go. As for a fee, Marseille have reputedly said that they want more than the €7m that they paid to Osasuna for him a couple of years back. Chelsea, then, will go over €6m – at least that seems to be the approach they are taking with Victor Moses, as Chelsea have had a third bid for the burly forward rejected by Wigan, whose valuation they have so far refused to meet.

Barcelona, meanwhile, are refusing to meet Athletic Bilbao's valuation of Javi Martínez, so will turn their intention instead to Daniel Agger of Liverpool, who will use the funds form that transfer to buy Javi Martínez from Athletic Bilbao.

Regurgitating tittle-tattle is the Mill's forte, confused readers, not arithmetic. Roman Lukaku could be about to move clubs but not houses: Martin Jol wants the Belgian striker to join Fulham from Chelsea. Meanwhile, Bafetimbi Gomis has let it be known that he has decided to move to Tottenham and will instead stay at Lyon, when it is more likely that AVB did that deciding.

Kolo Touré does not feature prominent in Manchester City's plans for next season. Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal do not feature prominently in Touré's plans for next season, but, according to the Daily Mirror, his people have hinted that could change if the Saudis cross his palm with £50,000-per-week after tax plus a house, free flights and two cars. If they could provide a straight face for him to wear as a disguise, that would also be appreciated.

Paul Lambert is readying himself for the challenge of trying to get Aston Villa to finish above Norwich next season by preparing a bid for Feyenoord centre back Ron Vlaar. "Joining Aston Villa would be a dream come true," Vlarr is reported as saying in what must surely be the latest example of a player's words being severely mistranslated.

Martin O'Neill, however, has taken this as his cue to try to prise James Collins from Villa Park.

WBA and Everton are interested in Costa Rican defender Bryan Oviedo, who Manchester United have been monitoring.

Ajax are interested in Blackburn defender Scott Dann, who Ajax must not have stopped monitoring before he left Birmingham. Read More

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Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany was forced off with an apparent hamstring strain as Roberto Mancinis men were held to a goalless draw by Dynamo Dresden in Innsbruck Read More

Luis Suárez says Manchester United used political clout in race row

• United wanted to stop Liverpool, claims Uruguayan
• 'In England Manchester United have political power'

Luis Suárez has said he was a victim of Manchester United's political power during the Patrice Evra race row and that he saw the whole issue as a way of getting at Liverpool. The forward reopened the matter days before he is due to return to Old Trafford as captain of Uruguay at the London Olympic Games.

"People at the club are sure that it was a way that Manchester United used to put me out of the team and stop Liverpool," said Suárez. "But in England, Manchester United have this political power and you have to respect that and shut your mouth."

The 25-year-old told a TV show in Uruguay that the ordeal, which resulted in him being banned for eight games last season, left him in tears. But he hinted that there was a political angle to the affair.

Speaking to RR Gol, Suárez said: "It was so hard what happened to me. I don't show my emotions on the field but outside I do – and I cried a lot with all the Evra stuff. The trial [disciplinary hearing] week was so complicated for me. My wife and I cried a lot during that week."

When the interviewer suggested there had been claims United had used their political influence during the race row, Suarez said the Old Trafford club used the opportunity to stop Liverpool and the forward from playing.

"I had to go to Manchester in a taxi for the trial. I got up at seven in the morning and I came home at nine at night. I was exhausted, I was so tired. I wanted to cry, and kick all the things around me," he said.

"I came home and I wanted to do all that but I couldn't because my daughter was at home. There were really complicated days and then things became harder after the punishment."

The Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, is apparently aware of the comments made in the interview but is unlikely to take any further action. Suárez also suggested the British media conspired to manipulatecoverage of the handshake incident with the French international at Old Trafford in February. Suárez said he fully intended to shake the United defender's hand before the match but that the positioning of Evra's hand forced him to rethink. "It was a misunderstanding, what happened between me and Evra at Old Trafford when we were to shake hands," he added.

"In fact, I think it was all arranged against me again, as it had happened with the punishment. I promised my wife, the manager and the directors that I was going to shake my hand with Evra. Why not? I thought, because I had no problems with him. I had been punished because of him but I had no problems with shaking hands. But I was not forced to greet him. I had no problems with Evra. It was only a handshake and I was OK with that.

"The media in England showed the moment when I passed in front of him but they didn't see that he had his hand low before. Only the media in Uruguay and Spain showed that I wanted to shake his hand. But in England Man United has this political power and you have to respect that and shut your mouth." Suárez said he received enormous support inside Anfield from countryman Seb Coates and Gerrard.

Describing Gerrard as a remarkably "low profile" and "humble" man he recalled his skipper's advice ahead of his return to Old Trafford.

"You are one of the best in the world, go out there and show it, and do not think about the other things," was the advice given to him by Gerrard, and he says he will never forget those words.

Regarding the penalty shoot-out victory over Cardiff, he explained that some people had asked if he was nervous.

But he revealed that he had felt a cramp in his right leg when celebrating Dirk Kuyt's goal and Kenny Dalglish had told him he would only take a penalty if there was a sixth spot kick.

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Chelsea move closer to signing Brazil's Oscar for £25m

• Midfielder underwent medical on Tuesday evening
• Brazil playmaker to join club after Olympics

Chelsea are expected to conclude their protracted pursuit of the Brazil midfielder Oscar after the Internacional player underwent a medical at the club on Tuesday. The European champions had an initial bid of £20m turned down by the Porto Alegre club but a fee of £25m is understood to have been accepted in principle with personal terms still to be discussed.

Oscar, who has been capped six times at senior level, flew into London on Tuesday with the Brazil team to prepare for the Olympic Games but travelled straight from Heathrow to New Malden in south-west London where Chelsea had arranged for his medical to take place.

The attacking midfielder, who revels in a free No10 playmaker role, had been a target for Real Madrid, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur but Chelsea have won the chase and he will join his compatriots Ramires and David Luiz at Stamford Bridge after a short holiday at the conclusion of the Olympic football tournament. Oscar joined Internacional from São Paulo in 2009 after reneging on his contract over a dispute about unpaid wages.

The 20-year-old piqued the interest of the leading European clubs during last year's Fifa Under-20 World Cup in Colombia. He scored a hat-trick in the final, including the extra-time winner in Brazil's 3-2 defeat of Portugal.

Only two days ago, when he joined up with the Olympic squad in Rio de Janeiro, Oscar told supporters of Internacional that he had decided to stay at the club but later on Monday Giovanni Luigi, the team's president, said that he was willing to sell if Chelsea increased their offer to meet his valuation.

Chelsea supporters should get their first glimpse of their latest signing on Friday when Oscar lines up with the Brazil team against Stuart Pearce's Great Britain side in a warm-up match at The Riverside. Read More

SFA wants more details about Rangers' directors and investors

• Footballing body wants 'further supplementary information'
• Chief executive meeting Uefa to agree debt settlement

The Scottish Football Association will seek more information from Sevco Scotland on the identity and propriety of its investors and directors as talks continue on its application to take over Rangers' membership.

Sevco board members, including the chairman, Malcolm Murray, are meeting the SFA on Tuesday to discuss issues surrounding its application, including the possibility of accepting sanctions such as a transfer embargo.

The SFA received an information pack from Sevco on 29 June, seven days after the company submitted a letter of application to take the place of Rangers after buying the club's assets for £5.5m. But they are still looking for answers.

The SFA banned the Rangers owner Craig Whyte from Scottish football for life after he was ruled unfit to hold an official role in the game and subsequently changed its approach to the matter. In a question and answer session posted on its website the SFA tackled the issue surrounding the fit and proper person report for the new owners and the identity of the main investors and directors.

The governing body said: "The Scottish FA has received private and confidential documentation from Sevco Scotland Ltd relating to the above. We have asked Sevco to provide further supplementary information and will consider that information this week.

"Under new Scottish FA rules it is a requirement of the outgoing club directors to conduct a full investigation under the fit and proper guidelines. Given Rangers FC's insolvency event, it has been incumbent on the administrators, Duff and Phelps, to carry out the necessary checks on the proposed new directors, as well as our own investigations."

Charles Green, chief executive of the Rangers newco, will not attend the meeting as he has set off to meet Uefa officials in an attempt to agree a repayment settlement for the old club's football debts of about £3m. Read More

Vincent Kompany hamstring scare as City draw with Dresden

• Vincent Kompany taken off but injury not serious
• Roberto Mancini fields strong XI in 0-0 draw

Vincent Kompany limped out of Manchester City's 0-0 friendly draw with Dynamo Dresden in Austria on Tuesday evening clutching a hamstring but the Belgian was not seriously injured.

The captain was replaced by Karim Rekik on 68 minutes after Roberto Mancini had fielded a strong XI in City's second match of their pre-season training camp. Kompany, Kolo and Yaya Touré, Aleksandar Kolarov, Pablo Zabaleta, Sergio Agüero and Carlos Tevez all featured but the Premier League champions are still searching for their rhythm and again failed to score, having lost 1-0 to Al Hilal last week in the opening game in Innsbruck.

As City are only eight days into their pre-season and Mancini's Euro 2012 contingent are not in Austria he will not be concerned. But the Italian is already reminding the squad of the difficulty of retaining the title. "We did a good job for the last two years and I hope we can do a better one in the next five," he told CityTV.

"But we cannot rest or start thinking that because we won the title that we are the best. It is more difficult to win the title when you are defending champions. We start again as if from nothing. We must forget that we won the title. Every team will want to beat us and we must work harder than ever.

"I think there are four or five teams that can challenge but now, before the transfer window is closed, I think United and Chelsea will challenge us for the title."

There has been speculation that his four mainline strikers – Tevez, Agüero, Mario Balotelli and Edin Dzeko – may be the subject of bids during the summer, with the latter the most likely to leave as City monitor Robin van Persie's situation at Arsenal.

Mancini said: "I think such speculation is normal – we have four top strikers and all the other teams in Europe would like strikers like them." Of Tevez, he added: "After January last year the problems with Carlos were finished. He came back to Manchester and his behaviour was good. He played a lot of games and scored important goals that helped us win the title. Now he has started the pre-season training very well." Read More

Knowledge archive special: Who on earth are Real Goth FC?

The Knowledge is taking a well-earned break in the buildup to and during the Olympics, but you can still send your questions to knowledge@guardian.co.uk or on Twitter

"While randomly trawling the web this afternoon I discovered that a Norwich-based club called Gothic FC existed in the 1960s and 70s," mused Pete Green in December 2007. "Presumably they didn't all wear black, but does anyone know why they were called that or anything else about them?"

You've got us stumped on Gothic FC Pete - we can't tell you anything beyond the fact non-league Norwich United borrowed their Heartsease Lane ground for a stint while looking for a new ground in the late 1980s. We're guessing they must have had a fondness for pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses. We did, however, stumble across the appalling Real Goth FC, a team of goth musicians, who play a team of locals twice a year in the sunny seaside resort of Whitby, home to Europe's largest biannual goth festival. And yes, the kit is all black, the club crest is inspired by the Sisters of Mercy logo, though make-up is generally removed before kick-off.

According to Philip Oltermann's article in the Guardian's Weekend magazine, "the match tradition started in 2004, when Mike Uwins, guitarist for Manuskript, got talking to a reporter from the Whitby Gazette. With their white face paint and bolted belts, Uwins admits, goths might have looked intimidating to the residents of Whitby - football changed that. 'The first match was a horribly drunken performance on our behalf. We lost 1-10, but once you've kicked lumps out of each other on the pitch, it's much easier to start a conversation.' Nowadays pubs in Whitby carry signs reading 'Goths Welcome'.

"In April 2004, however, relations between goths and locals suffered a minor setback. Jim Moyle remembers: 'One of our players, Geoff, went for a high ball and clashed heads with the Whitby player. He left two teeth in his opponent's forehead. Given Whitby's Dracula connection, you can imagine the headlines.'"

The goths won a seven-goal thriller 4-3 in this year's October fixture, though from pictures of the event there seems to be a disappointing lack of hair, tattoos and piercings, and a rather unwieldy 22-man Real Goth squad. They must have a rotation policy.

THREE-VER PITCH

"As a young boy I am sure I saw advertised on Eurosport a pre-season friendly in Italy involving three teams and a pitch specifically designed to accommodate all of them at the same time," wrote John Quinn in October 2007. "I missed said extravaganza, but does anyone out there have any more details?"

It is probably the Trofeo Birra Moretti that you're thinking of, John, and it has run as the August curtain-raiser to the Italian season every year since 1997. Disappointingly, though it would no doubt have been exciting, the Cup has never hosted three teams on the same pitch at the same time. Instead, the game is split into three 45-minute periods in which three Serie A teams play against each other - one on one - in a round-robin format. Draws are settled by a penalty shoot-out meaning there are three points for a win, two for a penalty win but none for a loss.

Chosen by invitation, this year Inter (who have played in every tournament), Juventus and Napoli battled it out at Naples' San Paolo Stadium, with Inter the runaway, undefeated winners. While technically a pre-season warm-up, the 'game' is treated as competitive and features full, rather than reserve, teams. Juventus, with five titles under their belts, are the Cup's most successful team, followed by Inter, who've won three times.

BOXING NOT-SO-CLEVER

"I vaguely remember waking up on Boxing Day morning a couple of years ago (with a massive hangover) and seeing a caption on Football Focus with an old list of Boxing Day fixtures and an awful lot of goals. Was it something to do with the DTs or did this really happen?" asked Ken Davro back in 2000.

We're not doctors, so our lawyers have advised us to make no comment about the floating spots in front of your eyes. But we can help you with the Boxing Day thing.

On December 26 1963, an amazing 66 goals were scored in the old First Division, leaving some teams wishing there had been a repeat of the previous season's Big Freeze (which had wiped out nearly all the football between Boxing Day and March). Here are the classifieds:

Blackpool 1 - 5 Chelsea

Burnley 6 - 1 Man Utd

Fulham 10 - 1 Ipswich

Leicester 2- 0 Everton

Liverpool 6- 1 Stoke

Nottm Forest 3 - 3 Sheff Utd

WBA 4 - 4 Tottenham

Sheff Wed 3- 0 Bolton

Wolves 3 - 3 Aston Villa

West Ham 2 - 8 Blackburn

If that wasn't weird enough, the results two days later - when many of the teams played the "return leg" - beggar belief. West Ham, who had lost 8-2 at home to Blackburn, won 3-1 at Ewood Park. Manchester United, fresh from a 6-1 thrashing at Burnley, turned the tables at Old Trafford with a 5-1 win.

And poor Ipswich, who had clearly been on the Christmas Day pop, avenged their 10-1 defeat by Fulham with a 4-2 victory over the Cottagers at Portman Road. Much good the two points did them, mind you: they finished bottom.

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London legacy: Hackney's mayor 'delighted' as media centres' preferred bidder is named

The legacy corporation has settled on a potential tenant after speculation that press and broadcast buildings might be demolished instead

The board of the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) has today made some big decisions. Another shortlist has been produced in the tortured struggle to fill the Olympic stadium with viable users after the Games. There are four names on it: West Ham United FC (again); Leyton Orient FC; Intelligent Transport Services in association with Formula One; and Burnley FC's UCFB College of Football Business. Intriguing.

Three possible developers of Chobham Manor, the first of the five park neighbourhoods to be built after the Games, have also been selected, although European Union rules prevent these from being named for a few days. But perhaps the greatest relief surrounds the choice of a preferred potential inhabitant of the park's press centre and international broadcast centre (IBC) after all the world's sports journos have left the scene.

The successful candidate is, as expected, the data store operator and digital developer iCITY. It was the only one remaining from an original shortlist of three after the withdrawal last week of UK Fashion Hub following reports that iCITY had it in the bag. However, there had been speculation that new LLDC chair Daniel Moylan, who was appointed by his follow Conservative politician Boris Johnson in May, would seek instead to have the IBC demolished and the land sold for housing.

I understand that this has always been unlikely to find favour with the board: numbers had been crunched and provided the wrong answer. Moreover, Mayor Johnson's advisers have seemed to have remained supportive of the job-creation option.

That's all just as well, because a demolition outcome would have been a hammer blow to Hackney Council, which has the two buildings within its borders and has fought a seven-year battle to ensure they are transformed into centres for creative and digital industry employment. The iCITY bid anticipates creating 4,600 jobs directly on the site with a further 2,000 resulting from a local supply chain, shops and cafes, based on a report by Oxford Economics.

Hackney's Labour executive mayor Jules Pipe, a member of the LLDC board, describes himself as "a very, very happy man." He wouldn't say that his "seven-year slog" is over just yet, but he can now dare to dream about the finish line.

The borough's most palpable piece of potential legacy has endured many vicissitudes. Pipe has had to fight off suggestions that the media space should end up somewhere else, with perhaps half of it migrating to Salford. Then there was the torment of the BBC thinking it might move its EastEnders operation to the Lea-side, then deciding after all that it would not. "All those ups and down," sighs Pipe. "We're so delighted that a strong bidder wants to take up the whole space."

A large part of the IBC will be a data store, the sort of thing (I'm told, being dense about these things) that you might drive past on a motorway without noticing. However, the rest of it and the smaller press centre is earmarked for "start-up businesses, established global companies, investors and social enterprises," and hosting "media studios, a university, a digital academy and a new business incubator to develop a technology cluster of international significance."

Pipe has always said he's looking for a full range of employment opportunities from the high end to entry level and all points in between. He points out that Hackney is now producing plenty of the well-qualified school-leavers needed to secure the more desirable situations vacant. The chief executive of iCITY, Gavin Poole, promises "a sustainable legacy for the local community."

It all sounds nicely aligned with the government's Tech City ambitions, although there might be a psychological distance between the Olympic Park and Shoreditch to be bridged. Time will tell. The detail of iCITY's plans will need to be hammered out over the next few months - the LLDC mentions "tough but achievable requirements" - focusing largely on adapting the IBC to make the most productive use of its ample space.

Until all that is taken care of, a demolition scenario cannot be officially ruled out. But Tuesday was the day that it appeared to recede into the distance. Read More

League title is top priority - Ferguson

• 'After disappointment of last year we want to recover the title'
• Chris Smalling and Nemanja Vidic fit for start of season

Sir Alex Ferguson has stated that reclaiming the Premier League title is "priority number one" for Manchester United. The club begin the challenge of overhauling Manchester City when they kick off their campaign at Everton on 20 August, and Ferguson should have his captain, Nemanja Vidic, back from serious knee injury.

United play the opening match of pre-season against AmaZulu in Durban tomorrow and Ferguson said: "After the disappointment of last year we want to recover the title. We either win the title or come second, it's an important part of the history of our club over the last 20 years. We have to recover, as we've done many times. That's our target this year. Priority number one is to win the title back. When Arsenal won the title from us in 1998 we won the treble the next year. Then Chelsea came along and got off to a flyer in the league for the first two years [in 2005 and 2006], so we changed our pre-season a little to make sure we got off to quick starts. Recovery is so important and the same applies this season."

Ferguson is embarking on a tricky pre-season, the challenges of which include negotiating a five-nation tour that covers 22,000 miles – including South Africa, China, Norway, Sweden and Germany – and a squad that is scattered due to injury, rehabilitation and London 2012 commitments. Ryan Giggs, Tom Cleverley, David de Gea and Rafael da Silva are all involved with their respective countries at the Olympics and the manager is likely to be without Jonny Evans because of an ankle injury for the start of the league season.

Ferguson said: "I am not sure he will start the season but he won't be far away." While Darren Fletcher's chronic bowel complaint has left his career in jeopardy, there is better news for Ferguson as Vidic and Chris Smalling, who is recovering from a groin problem, should be available for Everton. "Vidic will start the season, I am sure of that. By the time we get back, we hope he is at the competitive element of his comeback,," Ferguson said. "He [Smalling] is gradually progressing and I expect him to start the season."

Ferguson has a number of his younger players in the squad in South Africa and he compared these, who include Jesse Lingard and Robbie Brady, to United's famous homegrown wave led by David Beckham, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes: "When I first started picking the young players, we played Port Vale in a League Cup game and an MP from Stoke protested to the government, saying we were cheating the public and they wanted their money back," said Ferguson. "Little did she know she was watching perhaps the greatest group of young players to come through at a football club in England. The same applies here."

Despite Ferguson's reported interest in Leighton Baines, the Everton left-back, he did not appear to hint that Patrice Evra's status as first choice is in doubt. "It is an area we're paying attention to. In the last five years Patrice has played an average of 45-50 games, which is phenomenal. I don't know if anybody else has achieved that. He's still a fit lad. He is a fighter and has the same drive and ambition," said Ferguson, who stated that this record led him to allow Fabio to go on loan to Queens Park Rangers. "With him at QPR for a year, we are a little bit short in that department, which is why we are trying Robbie [Brady, an 18-year-old] there because we believe there is the possibility he will develop into a left-back."

Rio Ferdinand made 38 appearances for United last season and the defender is hopeful he can repeat that this campaign after managing to get a chronic back condition under control. "Last season, thanks to the physios and sports science team at United,, I felt I managed my back really well. Long may that continue," he said.I would like to play a similar amount of games this season."

He also refused to call time on his England career despite being overlooked by Roy Hodgson for Euro 2012, a decision called by Jamie Moralee as showing "a total lack of respect". Ferdinand said: "My answer's the same as last season. Manchester United is at the forefront of my mind. It's my club and this is what I love doing. If anything else comes of it, so be it.ends Read More

Dominic Fifield on Andy Carroll

A parting of the ways between the club and their record signing might be best for both parties

Andy Carroll was supposed to be relaxing at a plush Brazilian resort and yet, even as he soaks up the sun and attempts to let those flowing locks down, he must now feel frazzled again. It is only a month since the forward was leaping to meet Steven Gerrard's delivery and thunder a glorious header beyond Andreas Isaksson, an England goal crafted in Liverpool to rouse a vocal minority within Kiev's Olympic Stadium. Back then it appeared a watershed, the moment a player proved he belonged. Now it feels more like a false dawn.

Carroll will wonder at this depressing reversion to type. He had travelled to Euro 2012 propelled by a late-season flurry of form with Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool and with his mood presumably improved further when Brendan Rodgers' appointment back on Merseyside suggested the club was embracing reinvigoration. And yet, even before he has benefited from a training session under the new regime, the 23-year-old is now painfully aware that his days at Anfield are numbered.

A striker who would not appear a natural fit in the style and system Rodgers intends to implement has effectively been rendered available for transfer. There were times last term when he must have felt superfluous, his rhythm lost in an inability to string together a prolonged run of Premier League starts. Even before the new term is underway, life on the periphery merely feels maintained.

The reality as to whether he stays or goes before the new season has descended already into a game or brinkmanship between Liverpool's hierarchy and a string of suitors led by his former employers, Newcastle United. Those at Anfield will only countenance a sale worth £20m. Newcastle, Aston Villa and West Ham would prefer a loan move, possibly with a view to a long-term deal, though their valuations will not match Liverpool's for a player who was bought on impulse and has since mustered 11 goals in 56 games in his 18 months at the club.

This has the makings of one of those all too familiar sagas – they seem more usually to feature Arsenal – that resolves itself only when panic sets in and the transfer deadline is upon us at the end of August. Unless, of course, Carroll ends up being granted an opportunity to impress upon linking up with Liverpool's squad in the United States next week and goes on to persuade the management that he should have a future at the club.

Instinctively compromise feels unlikely. There has already been at least one telephone call between Rodgers and Carroll, during which the player was apparently told "exactly where he stands". On the face of it theirs does feel like an awkward relationship. Much is made of the precise passing routines and possession play demanded by Rodgers at Swansea, which will form the basis of Liverpool's approach next season, and that technique-based system would hardly appear suited to tapping into Carroll's strengths as a line-leader and old school English centre-forward.

Just as integral to the adopted pattern of play will be the pressing required to regain the ball when it is surrendered. While he is imposing in the air and possesses a hammer of a shot, the 6ft 3in forward is not the most mobile on the turf. Rather he has other assets – England have benefited at times from his hold-up play when they have gone more direct, and his impact as a battering presence for his club in scraps against Everton, Blackburn Rovers and Chelsea last season was obvious – but, if the frontline cannot harry and hassle, then gaps will appear behind and the collective suddenly feels lightweight.

Rodgers had spoken of loaning the forward out, suggesting games elsewhere for players on the fringes "can benefit the club in the long term", though it seems unlikely that Carroll would ever return better placed to fit into the manager's favoured approach. The only surprise in his apparent willingness to discard the striker is the lack of an obvious Plan B.

Liverpool are anxious for their new head coach to thrive and concede he will need time to make a proper impact but they will also demand positive results through the inevitable period of adjustment to come. If they are chasing matches while Rodgers is still implementing his preferred style, would the option of casting Carroll into the fray as a battering-ram impact player not be beneficial? The manager seems unconcerned by the issue but others might suggest a player who had just started to show his true capabilities last spring might remain an asset worth utilising.

Carroll, it seems, is resigned to leaving. Where once he was bullish and bolstered by his effective cameos with the national team, now he would apparently favour the thrashing out of a move back home to Tyneside. He understandably needs to feel wanted and there is an irony that, at the time of writing, he would seem far more likely to start England's friendly against Italy in Berne on 15 August than Liverpool's opening Premier League fixture at West Bromwich Albion three days later.

That feels unsatisfactory and, if he has not played consistently and remains a Liverpool player as the transfer deadline passes, his involvement with Roy Hodgson's team in the World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine in September would surely be forfeit. Similarly life on the fringes at Anfield will merely prolong the circus, the questions forever revolving around whether he is to be included from the start against Arsenal, Sunderland or Norwich, or even in an unappealing Capital One Cup tie or Europa League fixture. That will become tiresome, as much for the questioners as the club and their player.

A compromise may have to be reached eventually to sanction another fresh start. Upon signing Carroll in January 2010, John W Henry had shrugged off fears over the size of the £35m fee by stressing that the key had always been Liverpool's ability to prise £15m more from Chelsea to secure Fernando Torres. "Those prices could have been £35m [from Chelsea for Torres] and £20m [to Newcastle for Carroll], 40 and 25 or 50 and 35," he said. "It was ultimately up to Newcastle how much this was all going to cost. They [Newcastle] made a hell of a deal. We felt the same way." At some stage Liverpool will have to accept that blinding deal has now been exposed as a loss. Disappointing as it may be for Carroll to accept, particularly with memories of Kiev still smouldering, a parting of the ways might be best for all. Read More