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FOOTBALL EXCLUSIVE: West Ham could be thrown out of the Premiership after being charged with a blatant breach of transfer regulations and allegedly lying to senior Premier League officials...
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1. Gerrard convinced Hammers blundered on Javier
2. FA call on Wenger to explain comments about 'lying linesman'
3. Wenger's persecution complex takes over if you upset Arsenal
4. Why don't the big teams bother to mine this gold?

Football: Sir Alex Ferguson on Friday night told title rival Jose Mourinho to ?button his lip? and warned that his sniping will not derail Manchester United?s Premiership challenge...
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Football: Arsene Wenger is facing what could be his third FA charge of the season, and another hefty fine, after branding an assistant referee a liar in the wake of Sunday?s controversial Carling Cup Final ...
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Football: Chelsea will almost certainly escape a massive fine despite admitting a Football Association charge of failing to control their players...
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Football: Emile Mpenza may have to wait for his Manchester City debut. The Belgian international striker has joined the Blues on a short-term contract, with manager Stuart Pearce hoping he can be the answer to his side's goalscoring misery...
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Football: Craig Bellamy has admitted he 'lost it' with team-mate John Arne Riise during Liverpool's Portugal break when it was alleged he brandished a golf club at the Anfield defender ...
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Football: David Beckham is determined to prove his England career is not over after his 'gut-wrenching' axing from the squad ...
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Rugby League: Stuart Fielden's head and heart have taken so much punishment since he left Bradford in a world record transfer last summer that the verbal barrage he faced on his first return last Saturday really didn?t make much of a difference . . .

Athletics: Colin Jackson is sure Jessica Ennis has what it takes to win Olympic gold for Britain in the 2012 heptathlon, describing her as the Special One . . .

Chief sports writer, PAUL HAYWARD: Nowhere in Arsene Wenger's internal software is there a programme to help him cope with defeat. It was never installed in the vast mental computer that enabled him to find half his back-four in African villages, pinch arguably the game's best young player in Cesc Fabregas from the Barcelona academy and transform the likes of Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira from good to great...
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Football: FIFA were accused of losing touch with reality on Thursday over a proposal to introduce mandatory red cards for players jumping with their arms raised...
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Cricket: Chairman of selectors David Graveney insists England will set off for the start of their World Cup campaign full of confidence where umpires Rudi Koertzen and Asad Rauf will take charge of England's opening match against New Zealand . . .

Tennis: Roger Federer beat Novak Djokovic 6-3 6-7 6-3 to reach the Dubai Open semi-final despite the intervention of Hawkeye, which was being used here for the first time . . .

Football: He has already been accused of losing the dressing room, and now Alan Curbishley is facing claims he let one of the world?s outstanding midfield talents slip through his fingers.If Javier Mascherano?s arrival at West Ham last summer divided opinion, his departure to Liverpool six months later was just as contentious...
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Football: Roy Keane was awarded the Championship manager of the month award on Thursday ? and then described it as 'nonsense'. The Sunderland boss beat his old adversary Mick McCarthy, Leicester manager Rob Kelly and West Brom's Tony Mowbray to the trophy ? his first since taking the reins this season...
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Horse Racing: The totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup lost one of its most interesting runners yesterday when the Michael O?Brien-trained In Compliance was ruled out. The 9-1 shot, unbeaten this season but not seen since defeating current champion War of Attrition in the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown on December 10 . . .

Rugby Union: England's fractured Six Nations campaign suffered another major blow on Thursday when full back Olly Morgan was ruled out for the rest of the season...
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Athletics: Jason Gardener's fastest sprint this weekend may not be his bid to win a fourth European indoor 60metre title. Instead, it could be to his wife?s bedside. Nancy Gardener is expecting the couple?s second child...
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FOOTBALL EXCLUSIVE: How do you succeed Alan Shearer as captain of Newcastle United? It is a question which would haunt most footballers but one which Scott Parker has had to answer every day since Glenn Roeder handed him the task at the end of last season...
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Cricket: Michael Vaughan is confident of making the World Cup - but has confirmed Andrew Flintoff will replace him as captain should he not win his fitness race. That is how Vaughan describes the team that he leads to the Caribbean on Friday . . .

Football: Neil Warnock today entered the Arsene Wenger row about linesmen by claiming they have 'not told the truth' when the Sheffield United manager has appeared before the Football Association in the past ...
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Cricket: Pakistan pace bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif have both been ruled out of the World Cup through injury. Asif has been suffering elbow problems while Shoaib has failed to recover from a knee injury . . .

Golf: England's Paul Casey missed the cut at the Johnnie Walker Classic in Phuket after carding a three-over 75 as Briton Oliver Wilson stormed to the top of the leaderboard . . .
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Wenger's persecution complex takes over if you upset Arsenal
Chief sports witer PAUL HAYWARD: Nowhere in Arsene Wenger's internal software is there a programme to help him cope with defeat. It was never installed in the vast mental computer that enabled him to find half his back-four in African villages, pinch arguably the game's best young player in Cesc Fabregas from the Barcelona academy and transform the likes of Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira from good to great
Beckham: I'll never turn my back on England
David Beckham is determined to prove his England career is not over after his 'gut-wrenching' axing from the squad
Parker's silver lining
FOOTBALL EXCLUSIVE: How do you succeed Alan Shearer as captain of Newcastle United? It is a question which would haunt most footballers but one which Scott Parker has had to answer every day since Glenn Roeder handed him the task at the end of last season
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Darren Gough chose the day after his appointment as Yorkshire captain to announce that he intends to be far from helpful to England?s cause in his new role because of a serious rift with national team coach Duncan Fletcher
The Screamer - It's the talk of football
John Terry is closing in on a return to first team action after he was assessed by a neurological expert at Chelsea?s training ground on Thursday
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