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Wayne Rooney puts himself forward for the England captaincy

MirrorFootball — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:37:21 GMT

But United striker still thinks Gerrard would be a better choice

Prime Minister planning racism in football summit

MirrorFootball — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:30:13 GMT

Reports claim David Cameron wants to tackle problem blighting the beautiful game

Transfer news, rumours and gossip from Sunday's papers

Football Spy — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:52:13 GMT

United and City want Gaitan, Sessegnon considers Paris match and Red Bulls block Henry extension

EXCLUSIVE: Redknapp WILL lead England out at Euro 2012

Paul Smith — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:30:52 GMT

Spurs boss will see out the season to get club back in Champions League

Fulham 2-1 Stoke: Sunday Mirror match report

Julian Bennetts — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:30:11 GMT

Pavel Pogrebnyak scores on his debut for Cottagers

Will Juan Sebastian Veron's football career have a fairytale ending?

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:07:22 GMT

For the new season, MirrorFootball is teaming up with some of the blogosphere's best new writers to bring you even more great football reads every single day. Saturday is South America day, and here's Valderramarama's Ed Malyon with his take on the week's big issues in Argentina. *** This weekend sees the return of the Argentina Primera division as the Clausura 2012 kicks off. Boca Juniors strolled to the Apertura title before Christmas but the second short-tournament of the season promises t...

Transfer news, rumours and gossip from Saturday's papers

Football Spy — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:15:47 GMT

Sneijder admits United link, Arsenal and Spurs want same defender and Liverpool look at Anderlecht hitman

What are the odds Suarez and Evra swap shirts at the final whistle? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:06 GMT

The FA reckon Luis Suarez and Patrice Evra should shake hands when they come face to face on Saturday, because even boxers touch gloves before they beat the living daylights out of each other. In Audley Harrison’s case, it was the only meaningful shot he landed. Shaking isn’t compulsory, but it is encouraged by those grey men at the Football Association, particularly at the urinals. The FA have asked the two players to draw a line under their unsavoury spat and are hoping to return to some so...

EXCLUSIVE: Racist abuse drives Micah Richards to quit Twitter

John Cross — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:45:34 GMT

Police are called in over messages to Man City and England defender

Redknapp's up for "aggro" of the England job

Martin Lipton — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:35:22 GMT

Spurs boss confirms succeeding Capello would be the "ultimate" in management

Redknapp: I can handle ANYTHING after tax-trial ordeal

Martin Lipton — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:33:29 GMT

Stress of last five years have been horrendous says Tottenham boss tipped to be new England manager

City's Barry backed to captain England (by City's manager)

David McDonnell — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:31:48 GMT

Midfielder has the intelligence and quality to replace Terry says Mancini

Pulis: Why I'm sending video nasty to the FA

MirrorFootball — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:30:04 GMT

Potters boss wants explanation of why some tackles earn red cards and some don't

Fulham to unleash Pogrebnyak on Stoke (and sub-editors)

MirrorFootball — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:30:04 GMT

Russian striker can help us deal with Potters' power says Jol

3PM Extra: Joe Hart's fart, when mascots attack and Turkish team's bus collides with express train

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:38:05 GMT

Presenting quality football videos from the interweb, daily at 3pm. Here's today's collection:

1) We missed this one when it went up so props to Who Ate All The Pies for digging it up again. We're not sure what we like most about this excellent Manchester City vid: the post-modern take on the 'I love...' format; the fact they've got Noel Gallagher in talking about farting; or the look on Vincent Kompany's face. Brilliant.

Fulham vs Stoke team news: Huth suspended for Potters, Pogrebnyak could make debut

MirrorFootball — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:54:51 GMT

Cameron Jerome and Matthew Etherington should be fit

Premier League team news round-up

MirrorFootball — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:20:29 GMT

Get all the squad news ahead of every Premier League match this weekend

Simon Bird's Premier League previews and predictions (Week 25)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:09:42 GMT

'Arry'll put a smile on those poor England boys' faces. Yeah, 'Arry's a man manager. Arm round the shoulder type of bloke. Salt of the erf. One of us, working class boy done good. We can enjoy watching England again, can't we? Three pie, three mash and a slosh of liquor, please. We are 12 hours into the Harry Redknapp love in and it's nauseating already. Players, pundits, reporters all clamouring to heap love and praise on the Spurs boss. Arm round the shoulder? Ask Darren Bent about that. Th...

Redknapp rules out combining Spurs job with England role

Martin Lipton — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:17:00 GMT

But Spurs boss says managing England is "the ultimate job"

Transfer news, rumours and gossip from Friday's papers

Football Spy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:07:13 GMT

Real Madrid eye £30m move for Man City star, Sneijder on Russian club's radar and Juve want United youngster

Why do Rooney and co want Redknapp to succeed Capello? He'll make playing for England fun again

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:53 GMT

Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand have already taken to Twitter to say Harry Redknapp is the man they’d like as next England manager. And there is a feeling among the players that he has the character to unify a dressing room in danger of becoming split on racial lines. There is also a degree of weariness about the thought of another foreign manager taking control. Many of them had great respect for Fabio Capello, partly because of all he had achieved in a glorious club career in Italy and Spain...

New England manager 'must heal squad splits'

John Cross & Jeremy Armstrong — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:50 GMT

John Terry had angry exchange with another player at Three Lions training reveals insider

FA want Redknapp on his Tottenham wages

John Cross & Jeremy Armstrong — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:41 GMT

Spurs boss would be paid £4million a year to lead England - £2m less than Capello got

'Arry for England: All the latest news, opinion and features

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:02:02 GMT

Everything you need to know in one handy place

EXCLUSIVE: Jermain Defoe on the magic of Redknapp

Darren Lewis — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:09 GMT

'Some people just have an aura that inspires you to perform' says Spurs and England striker

EXCLUSIVE: Capello gagged by worried FA

John Cross — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:06 GMT

Terms of manager's £1.5m pay-off prevent him criticising England

EXCLUSIVE: Spurs to charge FA £5m for Redknapp

John Cross — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:02 GMT

Wembley chiefs want to appoint Tottenham boss next week but will have to pay a big transfer fee

Why having a Football Association chairman with balls gives England hope for the future

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:56 GMT

For a man who just shot the sheriff, David Bernstein looked thoroughly unruffled. The FA chairman was matter-of-fact when he talked about the departure of Fabio Capello the previous night. There was nothing complicated about it, he suggested. No agonising. No dithering. And certainly no regrets. He, and the FA’s general secretary Alex Horne, had told Capello they were not impressed with his dissenting comments about stripping John Terry of the England captaincy. Capello had taken umbrage...

England squad to be given code of conduct

John Cross — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:53 GMT

Terry free to play in Euros - but planned new rules will block selection of anyone awaiting criminal charges

Spurs on a loser if Redknapp goes - Hughton

James Nursey — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:36 GMT

Tottenham hero says old club will be victims if 'Arry takes England job

FA want England boss who'll fire up players and fans

Martin Lipton — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:24 GMT

Capello replacement will be more cheerleader than tactical wizard

Bernstein: We want Moore from England's captain

Martin Lipton — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:16 GMT

FA chief harks back to Sir Bobby in explaining why Terry had to be stripped of armband

McCarthy: Why I admire Fabio for quitting

John Percy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:16 GMT

England boss praised by Wolves chief for resigning over captaincy row

New England boss will have to do it the Spanish way

John Cross — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:09 GMT

FA chiefs want to copy world champions and build coaching structure that will outlast changes in manager

Eriksson ready to be Redknapp's Svengali

John Cross — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:07 GMT

Harry can come to me for advice on managing England says Swede

Pardew: Give next England boss directions to the North-East

Simon Bird — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:00:03 GMT

Capello last visited the region to watch a match in August 2009

Refs have got it in for City claims Vieira

David McDonnell — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:31:23 GMT

"Anything we do will be amplified" says Blues exec over Kompany and Balotelli bans

What are the odds England win a trophy under their next boss? Derek McGovern's Bets of the Day

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:00:12 GMT

There is no doubt Harry Redknapp, hot favourite for the England job, has an amazingly consistent track record. Huntingdon, Plumpton, Taunton – he’s backed losers at pretty much every track. We learned from his tax evasion trial that the second-most lucrative job in football is Redknapp’s accountant. The first is Redknapp’s turf accountant. ’Arry’s odds to replace Fabio Capello drifted on Thursday after he said his only focus was Spurs, possibly how to extricate himself from his contract there...

Capello 'could claim constructive dismissal'

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:03:26 GMT

Law expert says FA may not be in clear even though England boss quit

Capello resigns: All the latest news, reaction, analysis and opinion

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:59:13 GMT

Everything you need to know in one handy place

Allardyce on England: It's time for Redknapp

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:07 GMT

Tottenham boss the "obvious" choice for top job says West Ham manager

Wenger: It's a big blow for England and sad for Capello

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:28:19 GMT

Arsenal manager also rules himself out of taking over national team

Redknapp will make England players believe - Di Canio

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:02:35 GMT

West Ham legend backs his old Hammers boss for national-team job... and says Capello was right to quit

Hughes warns: Managing club and country at same time doesn't work - I've tried it

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:51:07 GMT

QPR boss who juggled Blackburn and Wales duty casts doubt on Redknapp combining England role with leading Tottenham

AVB: England boss chaos isn't Chelsea's fault

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:53:35 GMT

Court decided to delay Terry trial until after Euro 2012 says Blues manager

Bernstein denies Capello was forced out

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:44:55 GMT

FA inists "there was no ultimatum" before England boss resigned

3PM Extra: Insanely awful own goal, 12th man takes it too seriously and the Anfield cat gets immortalised in music

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:00:52 GMT

Presenting quality football videos from the interweb, daily at 3pm. Here's today's collection:

1) Monday's game of 'cat and Scouse' of Anfield featuring a now famous feline pitch invader has inspired an annoyingly catchy tune by bandwagon jumpers Vom Vorton. Try listening to it without finding yourself singing 'Stop the match, there's a cat on the pitch' in your head at least once afterwards...

Capello statement: Ex-England boss in 'special thanks' to fans

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:27:16 GMT

"They've always supported the team and me in our job," says Italian

Capello 'felt betrayed' - Italian press react to Fabio quitting England

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:45:54 GMT

Papers already speculating he could join Inter Milan, Juventus or even Manchester United

FA chairman: Capello replacement 'won't definitely be English'

MirrorFootball — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:50:44 GMT

"There's a preference for an English person or a British person but in the end we want the best person," says Bernstein