Wigan Athletic celebrated their escape from relegation by coming from behind to win 3-2 at home to relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers.

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Wigan celebrate survival

Ajax finished a remarkable title-winning season with a 14th consecutive Eredivisie win while Excelsior’s relegation was confirmed on the final day of the regular season.

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Ajax finish with a win, Excelsior relegated

FC Cologne tumbled into the German second division yesterday as Hertha Berlin grabbed the lifeline of a relegation playoff and champions Borussia Dortmund thumped Freiburg 4-0 to set a Bundesliga season points record.

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Cologne relegated as Borussia Dortmund raises the wonder-bar in German league

MILAN (AP) — Lecce is on the verge of relegation after losing 1-0 at home to Fiorentina in Serie A on Saturday as new coach Vincenzo Guerini won his first game in charge of the Tuscan side.

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Italy: Lecce nears relegation with defeat

MILAN (AP) — Lecce is on the verge of relegation after losing 1-0 at home to Fiorentina in Serie A on Saturday as new coach Vincenzo Guerini won his first game in charge of the Tuscan side.

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Lecce nears relegation after Fiorentina loss

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Lukas Podolski’s last Bundesliga job is to save his beloved Cologne from relegation before he departs for Arsenal. At the same time, Hertha Berlin needs to beat Hoffenheim and hope for Bayern Munich not to lose in Cologne to avoid the drop.

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Berlin or Cologne to be relegated from Bundesliga

Aston Villa remain in the thick of the Premier League relegation battle after a 0-0 draw with West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns.

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Football: West Brom 0 : Aston Villa 0

Italian police are investigating a dozen Genoa fans after a spate of match violence which will see the relegation-threatened Serie A side play two of their remaining four league games in an empty stadium.

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Police probe 12 ultras for Genoa-Siena violence

BLACKBURN Rovers’ relegation battle is getting a bit hairy – with fans growing a ‘Givet beard for survival’.

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Blackburn Rovers fans urged to grow a 'Givet beard' for survival

Atalanta and Cagliari took giant steps toward avoiding relegation by beating Chievo Verona and Catania respectively in Tuesday’s games.

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Atalanta moves closer to avoiding relegation

It’s crunch time for Aston Villa who are facing the very real prospect of relegation from the English Premier League for the first time in 25 years if they lose to Bolton Wanderers on Wednesday morning.

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Football: Crunch time for Aston Villa

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Athletic Bilbao pushed last-place Racing Santander toward near-certain relegation from the Spanish league on Sunday with a 1-0 away win through an early goal from Gaizka Toquero.

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Spain: Bilbao has Racing nearing drop

Blackburn Rovers became further entrenched in the relegation zone after suffering a 3-0 defeat at Swansea City on Saturday.

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Football: Swansea 3 : Blackburn 0

Munich – While Schalke and Dortmund fight it out for local pride in the Revierderby on Saturday afternoon, four more crucial games will be taking place at the bottom which will shape the relegation battle to come.

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Make or break at the bottom

QPR’s poor away form continues as they lose narrowly to West Brom to remain just two points clear of the relegation zone.

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West Brom 1-0 QPR

The Rossoneri will be confident of picking up full points as they resume their title chase when the relegation-threatened Ligurians visit on Saturday afternoon

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AC Milan – Genoa Preview: Allegri's side aiming to go top of Serie A by defeating struggling Grifone

West Brom banished fears of relegation from the Barclays Premier League and pushed Blackburn closer to the drop via Martin Olsson’s own goal and second-half efforts from Marc-Antoine Fortune and Liam Ridgewell at the Hawthorns.

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West Brom 3-0 Blackburn Rovers

A pivotal match in this season’s English Premier League relegation battle will take place at Molineux on Saturday when Wolverhampton Wanderers host Bolton Wanderers.

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Benjamin Stambouli has been watched by Aston Villa Football Club recently. It looks certain that Alex McLeish has seen off any lingering fears of relegation at Villa Park this season, and attention has now turned to next term.

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Stambouli on Aston Villa radar

SC Freiburg and FC Augsburg came out on top in Saturday’s lower-table tussles, hauling vanquished opponents Hamburger SV and 1. FSV Mainz 05 back into the midst of the relegation dogfight in the process.

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Big wins for Freiburg and Augsburg

Racing Santander have sacked coach Juan Jose Gonzalez as they seek to boost their chances of avoiding relegation from La Liga, the Spanish club said on Wednesday.

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Struggling Racing Santander sack coach Gonzalez

David Dunn’s late header gives Blackburn a vital point in their relegation fight and keeps Aston Villa perched just above the Premier League drop zone.

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Blackburn 1-1 Aston Villa

THE last thing a club locked in a relegation battle needs is the prospect of losing one its key players, but that is the very real possibility facing Wigan Athletic this week.

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Wigan head to Arsenal more in hope than expectation

Having gone through relegation with Newcastle United and dropped out of the international fold, Argentinian defender Fabricio Coloccini is on the up again in the north-east and spoke frankly to FIFA.com about his career thus far.

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Coloccini: I've never regretted staying

Real Sociedad put some breathing space between themselves and the La Liga relegation zone thanks to a 2-0 win over Sevilla on Monday.

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Vital win for Real Sociedad

Munich – 1. FSV Mainz play host to SC Freiburg in what has the makings of a classic relegation dogfight on Sunday afternoon.

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Another week, another six-pointer

Bolton manager Owen Coyle is in encouraged by his side’s recent form as a 3-1 home win over Liverpool moves the Trotters out of the Premier League relegation zone.

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Bolton form encourages Coyle

Bolton remain stranded in the Premier League relegation zone after losing 2-0 against revitalised Newcastle at the Reebok Stadium on Monday.

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Football: Bolton in trouble as Newcastle get back on track

Bobby Zamora is a January target for Sunderland Football Club. New Black Cats boss Martin O’Neill is eager to land a new striker in the New Year, as he looks to push the Wearside club away from the relegation zone.

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£8million Zamora in Sunderland sights

OWEN COYLE admits the run of defeats leading up to Bolton’s relegation showdown at Blackburn Rovers tonight have been killing him inside.

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