Winning at the Britannia Stadium is difficult. It’s difficult for Stoke City because they’re not actually very good, and it’s difficult for the visiting team because Stoke generally refuses to play football, instead indulging in how I imagine Calvinball would look if Calvin was about three times as tall and a thirtieth as bright and Hobbes was even more prone to violent assault. Yes, that …

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Newcastle United Vs. Stoke City, 2011 Premier League: Magpies Earn 3-1 Win

Lionel Messi is by far the best footballer of our generation. His talent and skills are the stuff legends are made of. But will he end up becoming the greatest player of all time, surpassing the likes of Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbaur, Pelé, Ronaldo Fenomeno, Zinedine Zidane and his boyhood hero, Diego Maradona? It’s looking like he will.

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FC Barcelona: 4 Things Lionel Messi Must Accomplish To Become the Greatest Ever

Demba Ba gives Stoke a taste of what they missed out on with a hat-trick as Newcastle move within a point of Manchester United.

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Stoke City 1 Newcastle United 3: match report

MILAN (Reuters) – AC Milan and Italy forward Antonio Cassano, in hospital after being struck down with an undiagnosed illness on Saturday, has shown a “marked improvement”, the Serie A champions said Monday.

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Two defeats in two games (away to Queen’s Park Rangers 1-0 and at home to Arsenal 3-5) has left Chelsea FC further behind the Manchester duo and tonight Newcastle United could claim third spot in the English Premier League.

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Crisis at Chelsea, Inter in free-fall

AC Milan and Italy forward Antonio Cassano, in hospital after being struck down with an undiagnosed illness on Saturday, has shown a ‘marked improvement’, the Serie A champions have announced.

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AC Milan striker Cassano on the mend after hospital dash as club deny he’d suffered a stroke

Newcastle striker Demba Ba gave Stoke a taste of what they missed out on with a hat-trick as the Magpies won 3-1 to move within a point of second-placed Manchester United.

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Stoke City 1-3 Newcastle United

Celtic full-back Mark Wilson and Hibernian defender Paul Hanlon are being watched by Fulham.

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Fulham target Wilson and Hanlon

Where : San Mames, Bilbao When : Sunday, Nov. 6, 2:00 p.m. ET Watch : Sport.TV2, SuperSport HD 2   Athletic Bilbao Injuries (via Donbest.com) 10/29/11 MF Pablo Orbaiz Ankle “?” Sunday vs. Sporting Gijon. 10/25/11 MF Carlos Gurpegi Leg out indefinitely

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Athletic Bilbao V Barcelona: Start Time and Schedule

The word “entertainment” may not have been the first West Ham fans thought of when Sam Allardyce became their manager but it was the one he uttered after his side kept the pressure on leaders Southampton with a thrilling win. Leicester had their academy chief Jon Rudkin and the coach Mike Stowell in charge following Sven-Goran Eriksson’s departure on Tuesday but, despite battling back into the …

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West Ham United 3-2 Leicester City

Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp admits his side must beat Greece’s Olympiakos on Tuesday to keep any hopes alive of reaching the knock-out stages of the Champions League.

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Piraeus are Dortmund’s last chance, admits Klopp

Greuther Fürth lost only their second match of the season against a determined and well organised Eintracht Braunschweig side, relinquishing top spot for the first time in over two months. Mike Büskens’ men squandered several opportunities to score, but the visitors deserved their 3-1 victory in Monday night’s game that rounded off Matchday 13.

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Fürth defeated by superb Braunschweig

Mario Götze admits Borussia Dortmund are in for another early European exit unless they can cut out their mistakes. “We have played games which have infuriated us,” he said.

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Götze fears groundhog day for Dortmund

Mario Been wants KRC Genk to take a positive approach against a Chelsea FC team that beat them 5-0 a fortnight ago but have since suffered a domestic slump.

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Been backing Genk to match Chelsea

Italian news agency ANSA reported Monday that AC Milan striker Antonio Cassano suffered a mini stroke on his return from Rome this weekend. Cassano has remained at the Policlinico facility where he was taken for tests after falling ill on Milan’s plane following the team’s 3-2 victory over Roma on Saturday.

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Report: AC Milan’s Cassano had a mini stroke

FC Viktoria Plzeň boss Pavel Vrba wants “at least a point” against FC Barcelona, with visiting coach Josep Guardiola keen to mark his 200th game in charge with qualification.

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Vrba wants Plzeň to at least match Barcelona

Bosnia are convinced their Euro 2012 playoff against Portugal will be extremely tight, coach Safet Susic said after naming his 23-man squad.

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Euro 2012 – Bosnia squad ready for ‘tight’ game

Liverpool FC’s 2-0 win against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthrorns this weekend was the first win for Kenny Dalglish as a manager against Roy Hodgson. Coming off an extremely disappointing point against Norwich in their last League outing, the Reds needed to re-establish themselves as contenders for the Champions League places this season and this they did with plenty left in the tank …

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Liverpool FC : 5 Things Kenny Dalglish and the Reds Learnt from Beating WBA

Liverpool FC’s 2-0 win against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthrorns this weekend was the first win for Kenny Dalglish as a manager against Roy Hodgson. Coming off an extremely disappointing point against Norwich in their last League outing, the Reds needed to re-establish themselves as contenders for the Champions League places this season, and this they did with plenty left in the tank …

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Liverpool FC: 5 Things Kenny Dalglish and the Reds Learned from Beating WBA

Senegalese striker El-Hadji Diouf, released by Blackburn Rovers this summer, explains that he’s moved to struggling Championship side Doncaster Rovers for the “challenge”.

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Doncaster ‘challenge’ draws Diouf

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is confident that contract negotiations will not affect Robin van Persie’s outstanding form, as his team prepares for Tuesday’s Champions League match-up with French side Marseille.

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Contract talks won’t dull Van Persie’s edge – Wenger

Michael Zorc has described Borussia Dortmund’s Champions League clash with Olympiacos as “the most important game of the season”.

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Zorc: Crunch time for Dortmund

By Clemente Lisi – NEW YORK, NY (Oct 31, 2011) US Soccer Players — The journey of how Jay DeMerit rose from a pub player to starting at the last World Cup is coming to a theater near you. After spending the year successfully raising money to secure the rights to use footage of DeMerit playing in England and at the World Cup, the documentary “Rise & Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story” will be shown…

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Rise Shine Hits Theaters

Liverpool are well equipped to cope with the loss to injury of the likes of Steven Gerrard and Jamie Callagher, striker Andy Carroll believes.

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Liverpool can cope with missing stars: Carroll

Estonia coach Tarmo Rüütli has welcomed back midfielder Andrei Sidorenkov and forward Vladimir Voskoboinikov to his 22-man squad for their play-off against the Republic of Ireland.

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Sidorenkov, Voskoboinikov bolster Estonia squad

AC Milan striker Antonio Cassano is said to be on the mend after a mystery illness confined him to hospital for the last two nights.

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Milan ease fears over Cassano mystery illness

Match facts ahead of the Champions League Group B fixture between Internazionale and Lille at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza.

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Champions League – Match facts: Internazionale v Lille

Inter Milan and Juventus have been fined by Italian sports justice authorities for the behaviour of their fans during the pair’s Serie A clash on Saturday.

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Inter, Juventus both fined for fans’ misbehaviour

AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng has been banned for two matches for insulting a match official while his coach Massimiliano Allegri was fined 5,000-euros.

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AC Milan’s Boateng banned and Allegri fined

Villarreal CF will be without Cristian Zapata, Cani, Marco Ruben and Marcos Senna for their Group A meeting with Manchester City FC, while Javier Camuñas is doubtful.

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Four ruled out as Villarreal suffer further setback