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Two businessmen who stripped a football club of its gate receipts are facing jail after being found guilty of fraud. Stephen Murrall, 49, and Peter Harris, 47, were trying to convince the Football League that they were 'fit and proper persons' to take over struggling Hartlepool United. However, a court heard how £42,453 in gate receipts from two home games went into the pair's company, TMH 2014 Limited, but quickly went back out again. When the League made enquiries, 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.  International breaks are always an interminable bore, punctuated with moments of deep concern for the welfare of your players. You want to get back to the cut and thrust of club football, but you want to get back there with a squad of fit players. We go into game week eight on a real high. A 65...

Sport can be wonderful, passionate, heart wrenching, but often it can simply be funny. So i've put together a top ten sports funniest moments...enjoy 10. Olivier Bernard – A French knockout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LltnTI7MzIM The former Newcastle fullback was minding his own business, when out of nowhere he felt the full force of a Laurent Robert bullet on the side of his head. The way he sways around, dazed, and finally staggers backwards, is a work of pure, comedy genius. 9. Andy...

A former football star has scooped a role as an ice cream van man and is now supplying a housing estate with frozen treats. Ex-Rangers player Bob Malcolm, 36, operates a daily run in the east end of Glasgow with his Spiderman-clad treat wagon. He is thought to have been driving the van for the last few months in a bid to help a family member. Former Rangers player Robert Malcolm selling ice cream in the East End of Glasgow....

The fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup gets underway this weekend with several mouth-watering London ties to get your teeth into. The BBC will broadcast Saturday's early kick-off between St Albans City and Boreham Wood. The Hertfordshire derby, to be played at Clarence Park, sees local rivals St Albans of the sixth tier pitted against Boreham Wood of the fifth tier, with a large crowd expected to turn out just north of the capital. Elsewhere, TV commentator Martin Tyler's club Hampton & Richmond...

World Cup qualification is over, meaning the Premier League returns this weekend with some exciting match ups. Liverpool and Man Utd face off Saturday lunchtime in the weekend’s biggest fixture. The Red Devils have had a great start to the season, but a trip to Anfield will be their toughest challenge yet. Crystal Palace’s struggles only get harder as they take on the champions Chelsea at Selhurst Park, while Man City look to remain unbeaten taking on Stoke at home....

A football team from the slums of India is touring Britain - and are so far undefeated. The fifteen impoverished youngsters from Mumbai are currently on a unique soccer tour of the UK - and haven't lost yet. They are playing against school teams in Britain in a series of games set up by he Oscar Foundation, an organisation for 'social change and awareness'. On Monday they played against a team of fee-paying schoolboys at Beaudesert Park School in Stroud.,...

A new mapping project will combine Ordinance Survey routes with air quality data - to help cyclists avoid pollution hotspots. EarthSense are using Google Earth, along with fixed air pollution sensors, to produce the interactive maps, which will produce forecasts up to three days in advance. The air quality models highlight smoggier areas, often along busy roads, and allow users to identify cleaner air routes, such as through parks or along canal paths. A pollution map of Leicester where bike...

</a ></a >Sport News</a > 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @rgdewinter  @davidjdewinter Richard & David de Winter discuss the Qualification permutations for the 2018 World Cup, including Argentina's crucial match with Ecuador and Portugal's showdown with Switzerland. Also featuring a review of the performances all the home nations including a dissection of England's lacklustre victories over Lithuania and Slovenia.