LondonLampard joins flight to Serbia for treatment
LONDON (Reuters) - Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has flown to Serbia for treatment on the torn thigh muscle he suffered training with England ahead of last weekend's friendly with Brazil, British media reported on Saturday.
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Failure to land Barry haunts Benitez as Man City loom
LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez will get a close-up of the missing piece of his jigsaw puzzle on Saturday when Gareth Barry runs out for Manchester City at Anfield for a match with huge implications for both clubs.
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Federer says football needs to introduce video technology
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - World number one tennis player Roger Federer believes his friend Thierry Henry should not be villified for the handball which helped France edge past Ireland into the World Cup finals on Wednesday.
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 | Dara O Briain on Henry's misdemeanour
Thierry Henry's left hand was so fast four Swedish men could not see it help to stop Ireland from qualifying for the World CupA quiet week for Irish football, then, the highlight of which for me was probably when I was on BBC's Newsnight accepting David Ginola's apologies from an embarrassed Fren...
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Arsenal fullback Gibbs suffers foot injury
LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Arsenal left back Kieran Gibbs was taken to hospital for an x-ray after hobbling off with a foot injury in the 21st minute of England's goalless European under-21 Championship qualifier in Lithuania on Tuesday.
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Henry says World Cup playoff would be fair
LONDON (Reuters) - France captain Thierry Henry has agreed a replay against Ireland would be the fairest solution to the controversy surrounding the teams' World Cup playoff.
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If Torres goes then I go, says Liverpool's Benitez
LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez would quit the club if he was ever forced to sell Spain striker Fernando Torres, but he remains confident of keeping his prize forward.
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London caught in match-fixing raids
A Europe-wide investigation into "the biggest match-fixing scandal that European football has ever seen" led to an initial 17 arrests yesterday during raids in four countries, including England, and the seizure of around £900,000 in cash suspected of being gained by illegal means.
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Henry Says France-Ireland Game Should Be Replayed
LONDON (AP) -- Thierry Henry denied Friday that he was a cheat but said the ''fairest solution'' would be to replay the France-Ireland World Cup playoff that was decided by his hand ball.
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 | Tottenham Hotspur v Wigan Athletic
Tottenham begin the weekend in the top four and, having never lost to the Latics at White Hart Lane, will be confident of ending Sunday evening there even if they would like to produce a more convincing performance than that mustered in beating Sunderland before the international break. Wigan are...
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Brazil have edge over Spain, says Capello
LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Brazil, rather than Spain, will set the standard at next year's World Cup finals according to Fabio Capello whose England team made little impression on the five-times champions in a 1-0 defeat in Doha on Saturday.
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 | Frank Lampard follows Robin van Persie to see 'placenta therapist'
Lampard travels for 'placenta treatment' in Serbia
Arsène Wenger supports alternative therapiesFrank Lampard has become the latest Premier League player to visit the Serbian doctor Marijana Kovacevic as he tries to speed his recovery from the thigh tear suffered while on England ...
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 | Zigic ends Korea streak
Serbia picked up a morale-boosting win over their fellow South Africa 2010 qualifiers in London, the goal coming via the imposing Valencia front-man.
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