FIFA's tame disciplinary court's judgment on the signing of Gael Kakuta is an attack not just on Chelsea but on the entire Premier League. It has Michel Platini's fingerprints all over it.
Read full article...Football: It was over before it really began. After 11 minutes Arsenal were finished and there's a lesson here for Chelsea facing a trio of Barcelona forwards every bit as quick as Cristiano Ronaldo
Football: How could Chelsea, doing what they did in the Nou Camp, perform so badly against also-rans like Spurs and Everton?
Football: I have two problems with the FA Cup semi-finals; they shouldn't have been at Wembley, and the pitch is awful
Football: Just as Sir Alex Ferguson was snarling "pathetic" at questions about Cristiano Ronaldo going to Real Madrid, Lazio were attacking United for stealing Federico Macheda
Football: Are Arsenal about to fall victim to a foreign predator after Danny Fiszman sold a third of his shares to American investtor Stan Kroenke?
Football: Manchester United should resist the temptation to turn a drama into a crisis
Football: Do the Football Association and the Premier League think it's all over, now that West Ham have settled with Sheffield United over the Carlos Tevez affair?
Football: The Mumbai attacks mean any game between India and Pakistan will be full of tension, or worse
Cricket: The Pakistan public love cricket and depriving them of watching their team compete anywhere is an effective way of making clear what a pariah Pakistan is becoming because of its tolerance of the Islamic fundamentalism that breeds terror
Football: It's never over till it's over, of course. But most of us know despite there being a dozen games to go, the Premier League is under lock and key in Sir Alex Ferguson's trophy cabinet, even if Manchester United play as badly as they did against Blackburn at the weekend.
Lord’s has been left embarrassed by its association with Sir Allen Stanford — but the chairman of the ECB should not be allowed to resign
Cricket: Sir Allen Stanford's public humiliation is a serious blow to the credibility of the England Cricket Board, and particularly to their newly re-elected chairman Giles Clarke
Football: Now that the dust has settled, do I feel any better about the removal of Big Phil Scolari than I did yesterday? No I do not
Football: The idea Big Phil was to blame is a nonsense — an absent landlord, yes men and the players must also share the guilt
The unseemly scramble we witnessed at the end of the transfer window is not the way football should do its business
Is the FA Cup in terminal decline? It's hard not to think so, when not only the Big Four but other Premier League sides make it clear that League survival is far more important to them
Hats off to Kaka. He may be a bit weird but his decision to snub £500,000 a week in order to stay loyal to the club that made him is a shining beacon of hope in the amoral darkness of professional football
May the force be with Chelsea at Southend tonight because on Sunday's evidence the FA Cup looks the only piece of silverware they have the remotest chance of winning this season
News that William Hill have suspended betting on Luiz Felipe Scolari's future at Chelsea following a rush of bets he's the next Premier League manager for the chop is not at all surprising
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