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A group of Manchester United supporters have raised £840 to fund an aeroplane to fly over Old Trafford with an anti-David Moyes message. The supporters have put the money together to hire the plane with the order: ‘Wrong One – Moyes Out’ to go overhead during Saturday’s Barclays Premier League home match against Aston Villa. […]

  Manchester City increased the pressure on Premier League leaders Chelsea by disposing of Manchester United with almost embarrassing ease at Old Trafford. Edin Dzeko scored early in each half – the first inside a minute – and Yaya Toure added a third in stoppage time as City moved into second place and within three

After last September’s derby defeat, Manchester United manager David Moyes resorted to boxing metaphors. ‘I can take the punches and I am sure there will be more,’ said Moyes in the wake of a 4-1 loss  at the Etihad Stadium that gave the first indication of how difficult his debut season at United was going

Barcelona will make Lionel Messi the world’s highest-paid player, with the four-time Ballon d’Or winner poised to earn more than £335,000 per week. That is the pledge of club president Josep Maria Bartomeu just two days after the Argentina star’s hat-trick defeated Real Madrid and put Barca back in the title race. ‘We all want

2013-2014 Barclays Premier League Table   Overall   Home   Away     POS   TEAM P W D L F A   W D L F A   W D L F A   GD Pts 1 Chelsea 31 21 6 4 62 23   14 2 0 39 9   7 4 4

When a match is already dubbed El Clasico, where to go for the superlatives? El Magnifico? El Supremo? Nothing seems to do it justice. Suffice to say that, even by the mighty standards of European football’s greatest domestic fixture, this was, well, a classic. It had everything including, ultimately, a winner. Barcelona took the team

Super Eagles outcast, Osaze Odemwingie, was again on target for Stoke City as they saw off Aston Villa in a resounding fashion at the Villa Park on Sunday. The Nigerian scored his fifth goal of the season in the 22nd minute after Christian Benteke had put the hosts ahead in the fifth minute. He lashed