soccer
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Minute-by-minute report: José Mourinho’s United begin their European campaign in Rotterdam. Join Simon Burnton
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The podders look back on the opening round of games in the Champions League. Plus, previews of Liverpool v Chelsea, the rest of the big games in the Premier League, and the secret behind Huddersfield’s success
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What makes Brazil so brilliant at football?
Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton
news
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When Gheorghe Hagi needed a way out of Real Madrid in 1992, he moved to Brescia and became the key player in Mircea Lucescu’s Romanian revolution
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in depth
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Every week for nine months, Simon Di Principe photographed the Sunday league football at Hackney Marshes and found himself immersed in a series of photographs that depicted the Marshes as a footballing league of nations
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world football
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Melbourne Victory are interested in taking advantage of the A-League’s new guest player rule with the signing of former Chelsea star Michael Essien
opinion
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Michel Platini may be banned from football but not from Uefa’s congress, where the election of Aleksander Ceferin may not be the brave new world football hoped for
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Paris Saint-Germain were there for the taking but, despite Alex Iwobi’s quality and Alexis Sánchez’s late equaliser, the Gunners were there but not quite there
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Manchester City enjoyed the spoils after a 2-1 win at Manchester United and David Squires is on hand to look back at the showdown
regulars
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Stéphane Sessègnon to Burnley? | Stefan de Vrij to Chelsea? | Michael Essien to Melbourne Victory?
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Plus: football programme sales and leftovers, Moses Ashikodi’s brief Rangers playing career, and being hauled off swiftly
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Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino accuses his players of a lack of passion following the team’s 2-1 defeat to Monaco in the Champions League on Wednesday night
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Claudio Ranieri says it was important for his Leicester City side to make a winning start to their maiden Champions League campaign as they swept aside Club Brugge with a 3-0 win in Belgium
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Manchester City’s manager speaks at a news conference after a 4-0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Champions League
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Largely unknown prior to the Uefa presidential election campaign, Aleksander Ceferin was voted in to succeed Michel Platini as head of European football’s governing body on Wednesday in Athens, defeating his opponent Michael van Praag 42 votes to 13
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Bayern’s players and staff mark the beginning of Munich’s Oktoberfest festival on Wednesday by dressing up in traditional Bavarian lederhosen and raising a glass of beer each
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Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp thinks that Chelsea striker Diego Costa should be regarded as world-class ahead of the meeting between the two sides in the Premier League this weekend
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Legia Warsaw fans celebrated their return to the Champions League group stages after a 21-year absence with a huge, impressive yet terrifying tifo
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The former Liverpool forward, now 36, shows no sign of stopping and is the driving force behind the team who take on United in the Europa League
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Legia Warsaw fans celebrated their return to the Champions League group stages after a 21-year absence with a huge, impressive yet terrifying tifo
David Luiz is the devil Chelsea know, equally capable of greatness and gaffes
Chelsea Fàbregas remains part of my plans, insists Conte
Liverpool Klopp says team will not target ‘world-class’ Costa