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Ranked! The top 18 footballers who became politicians
Some may be desperate to keep politics out of football, but the two disciplines have always mixed...
FourFourTwo's 100 best foreign Premier League players ever: 100-91
Premier League Sure, football didn't begin in 1992, but there's little doubting what a major yardstick it is for English football. Since then the Premier League has welcomed players from 105 countries outside of the British Isles, so many of whom have influenced more than just results on the pitch. Here, we begin our celebration of them
Ronaldo, Higuita, Arshavin and the vainest players of all-time
Cristiano Ronaldo Many say footballers are a pampered bunch, but some take things to another level. Jon Spurling picks out eight stars just as likely to appear in the fashion pages as the sport ones...
Ten years on: What I learned from being part of Arsenal’s deal for Andrey Arshavin
Arsenal It was the transfer that so nearly never was: a decade ago, the Gunners needed a meteorological miracle to sign the Russian dynamo. Somehow, they got it – as Jonny Blain, who helped work on the deal, recalls...
Arshavin: Some sports impossible without doping
Andrey Arshavin Andrey Arshavin believes sports such as swimming and cycling are rife with cheating, in comments that have attracted attention in Russia.
Don't panic! The Premier League's best Deadline Day XI
Transfer news The dramatic final day of the winter window is often associated with ill-advised, last-ditch lunges but it's possible to get value, as Max McLean points out...
