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Shocking footage, below, shows hooligans using bar stools and pool cues to attack each other - after watching a FRIENDLY football match. The louts were drinking at a pub following a pre-season friendly between Stoke City FC and Burton Albion FC. CCTV captured the moment Potters fans started attacking each other in the Locomotive pub in Burton-on-Trent, Staffs., on July 16 last year. At one stage a man is seen being dragged to the floor by three men before being...

The match every Premier League fans has been waiting for takes place this Sunday – as the two Manchester clubs face off at Old Trafford in a hugely important game, after the Merseyside Derby where Liverpool take on Everton under new manager Sam Allardyce. Meanwhile champions Chelsea travel across London to take on West Ham, Spurs have a must win game at home to Stoke, while the Gunners will be looking to bounce back away to the Saints. At the...

Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The Week 1 review is here, Week 2 transfers & preview here, Week 3 preview here, Week 4 preview here, Week 5 preview here, Week 6 preview here, Week 7 preview here, Week 8 preview here, Week 9 preview here, Week 10 preview here, Week 11 preview here. Week 12 preview here. Week 13 preview here. Week 14 preview here. Well, that was more like it. Week 14 saw a return to something approaching our...

A determined couple have been hailed Britain's most hardcore football fans after refusing to miss a single game since 1999 - clocking up 1,000 CONSECUTIVE matches. Scunthorpe United fans Richard and Tracey Bailey have watched every game since witnessing The Iron see out a goalless draw to Cambridge almost 20 years ago. Tracey, 46, said the devoted couple have spent about £60,000 on games in their 18-year continuous quest. They have only come close to missing one fixture after an...

England’s Ashes defence lies in tatters after only two Tests of the five Test series, buried beneath the incompetence of their batting. This is a batting unit devoid of backbone, talent and intelligence. Collapse after miserable collapse is being endured leaving this series Down Under with an air of recent inevitability – the Australians will go on and win 5-0. Let’s take a look at the protagonists: Alastair Cook, in his last 25 Test innings, has managed only one century...

Football legend John McGovern is flogging his treasured Championship winning medals at auction - to help pay for his CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. The former midfielder - who was known as Brian Clough's go-to player - is most famous for captaining the Nottingham Forest side that twice won the European Cup. But now he is selling his 1972 Division One winners medal in order to fund Christmas presents for his friends and family this year. John McGovern The medal, which McGovern won...

The boss of an ethnically-diverse under 11s football team has told how his players are regularly racially abused - by opposition players. Youngsters playing for non-league FC Peterborough have even been taunted by rivals who mimick planes crashing into buildings, club members have said. Zeeshan Ali, 25 FC Peterborough who was assaulted during a football match. Now bosses of the club which has many Asian youngsters have also blasted local football authorities who they claim are not taking action against...

Miles Reucroft is undertaking a different way of playing the ever popular Fantasy Football this season. To understand his methodology, read part one here. The Week 1 review is here, Week 2 transfers & preview here, Week 3 preview here, Week 4 preview here, Week 5 preview here, Week 6 preview here, Week 7 preview here, Week 8 preview here, Week 9 preview here, Week 10 preview here, Week 11 preview here. Week 12 preview here. Week 13 preview here.  It’s been a busy, if disappointing, week at FC Fakin’ Run Aboutabit. We went into last weekend...

Laurie Cunningham is again gracing Leyton after today's unveiling of a bronze statue of the legendary forward, close to the club’s Matchroom Stadium. He rose to prominence in the 1970s, at a time when racism was prevalent in the game and very few black players played professionally in England. Those who did face appalling levels of racism. Cunningham made his debut for Orient in 1974, paving the way for black sportsmen and women across the country. In 1977, he moved...