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It was a very good weekend for Liverpool, and a pretty good weekend for the Premier League. It’s one round of games, and blips and quirks do happen. But that three of the top four on Saturday morning could lose […]

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Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has lost his appeal against a five-game stadium ban. The 57-year-old was found guilty of improper conduct for spitting on the floor as the match officials walked past following Forest’s 1-0 Premier League defeat by

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Dani Olmo scored twice, with a Raphinha strike in between, as Barcelona beat Espanyol 3-1 in the city derby on Sunday. The Spain international says he’s got good memories of this particular fixture even from his days as a La

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Weston-super-Mare’s ground, the Optima Stadium, holds around 3,500 fans. It was last packed to the rafters when Doncaster Rovers arrived a decade ago, a convincing defeat hardly dampening the night’s magnitude. Had the clock stopped at 90 minutes in their

Man Utd legend Paul Scholes insists Marcus Rashford was attempting to make a “goal look better” as he missed a key chance against Chelsea. The Red Devils took the lead on Sunday evening through a Bruno Fernandes penalty in the