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- February 28
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- Schalke's friendly in Russia called off because of bad weather... three weeks early
- Fenerbahce's Fernandao banned after pelvic thrusting towards Besiktas fans
- How Cologne have got through SEVEN different kits in the Bundesliga and Europa League this season
- 12 footballers forever living in the shadow of their more successful siblings
- World Cup fans will be allowed to bring prescription marijuana, cocaine and heroin into Russia
- Quiz! Name the top three players with the most minutes for EVERY Premier League club this season
- Zorya Luhansk's Iury scores brilliant bicycle kick, mocks racists with monkey celebration
- 10 of football's most amusing protests: sit-downs, hunger strikes... and a deckchair
- História da malandragem no futebol: 20 momentos sujos pelo mundo
- 18 players who LOVE scoring against one club
- 9 managers who could replace Arsene Wenger at Arsenal
- Ex-Newcastle defender Steven Taylor helps Peterborough groundstaff clear snowy pitch – and save victory
- Greatest individual seasons: Andy Cole brings the goals to Newcastle (1993/94)
- February 27
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- Duisburg goalkeeper Mark Flekken to auction off famous water bottle for charity following high-profile blunder
- When the FA Cup third round lasted 66 DAYS: 261 postponements, snow drifts... and flame-throwers
- Billericay owner Glenn Tamplin reinstates himself as manager... days after demoting himself
- Non-League side Bracknell sack their joint-managers via email
- Freddy Adu grabs assist on Las Vegas Lights debut... against D.C. United
- 9 players who went AWOL after being refused transfers
- Quiz! Can you name the 50 club sides that Harry Kane has scored against?
- Usain Bolt to make his football debut in UNICEF Soccer Aid match
- February 26
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- Celtic's Scott Brown celebrates getting fouled in the Scottish Premiership
- Olympiakos manager Oscar Garcia hit by receipt roll, Greek Superleague match postponed
- Watch: Ex-Chelsea, Newcastle star Demba Ba fires home rocket in Turkey
- 10 Premier League flops with incredible YouTube highlight reels
- Besiktas' Ricardo Quaresma curls home beautiful, trademark 'trivela' goal
- Watch: Duisburg goalkeeper forgets he's playing football, concedes comical goal
- Quiz! Can you name the 26 top-scoring substitutes currently active in the Premier League?
- French third division match delivers two absolutely unbelievable goals
- February 25
- February 24
- February 23
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- In Colombia, Vladimir Hernandez humiliates three defenders before bagging a glorious chip
- Year Zero: The making of Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Ajax, 2002/03)
- Wildly optimistic Arsenal fan reckons this is rock bottom
- Shelbourne release new kit remembering their 16-year-old star Izzy Dezu
- Quiz! Can you name the last 30 players to score in a League Cup final?
- Watch: Al-Ittihad's Khaled El-Ghandour converts a fantastic bicycle kick in the Egyptian Premier League
- Lorenzo Insigne claims RB Leipzig assistant was blowing kisses at him during Napoli's Europa League exit
- Watch: Sporting's Bruno Fernandes fires in a ferocious dipper in the Europa League
- Premier League and League Cup final preview: What will and won't happen this weekend
- February 22
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- Leeds postpone new crest release until the 2019/20 season
- The 7 fiercest club rivalries to be created in the Champions League
- Billericay manager Glenn Tamplin threatens to sack himself if his team lose at the weekend
- Ecuadorian Under-20 player uses the corner flag to fend off angry River Plate opponents
- 11 great players - and the teams they struggled to score against
- Queen of the South's back-up goalkeeper is hit by a runaway cow
- Revealed! 16 average footballers with absolutely incredible medal collections
- Watch: Leganes goalkeeper gets booked for diving against Real Madrid
- Ranked! 11 of the most remarkable saves that even David de Gea would be proud of
- Watch: Shakhtar Donetsk's Fred hits a magnificent free-kick against Roma in the Champions League
- Quiz! Can you name the top 25 Premier League scorers from countries that have NEVER appeared at a World Cup?
- February 21
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- Racing Club's new signing gets crest razored into his head after three games
- 9 football players who went on the run when their transfer requests were turned down
- Millwall release outrageously over-produced video of their steward dropping a sponsor board
- Watch: A Russian commentator sings 'Will Grigg's on Fire' after the striker's goal against Man City
- Voters for the 2026 World Cup are now allowed to publicly back bids
- Independiente bring along a sorcerer to help them win the Recopa Sudamericana
- RB Leipzig build a special smoking area for Napoli manager Maurizio Sarri
- Jaw-dropping press conferences: from punch-ups over Pele to Roy Keane hanging up
- February 20
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- Groningen offer season ticket holders two free tickets each to try and fill up the stadium
- 11 big-club rejects who really proved their old employers wrong
- Watch: Ex-Chelsea star Oscar bags a beauty in the Asian Champions League
- Philippe Coutinho's house has been robbed in Barcelona
- 12 great players - and the teams that they struggled to score against
- Didier Drogba's son Isaac joins Guingamp 16 years after his father did the same
- Watch: Kaizer Chiefs' reserves shamelessly showboat to see out their match
- Quiz! Can you name the 31 Champions League clubs that Lionel Messi has scored against?
- February 19
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- A German football fan loses 127 tickets for Bayern Munich v Besiktas after leaving them on his car roof
- Watch: Inter Milan's Andrea Ranocchia scores a ridiculously unlucky own goal in Serie A
- Ranked! Liverpool’s top 10 strikers of the Premier League era
- Watch: Marek Hamsik gets booked for breaking a corner flag celebrating his 'goal' before it's disallowed
- The 7 fiercest club rivalries to be created in the Champions League
- Win! A pair of Premier League tickets for Manchester United vs Watford
- One Witham fan attends their match at Grays Athletic, sings for the whole game
- West Brom players trying to get arrested to avoid playing for West Brom, police realise
- Watch: PSG's Neymar pulls off some delicious skills against Strasbourg
- Watch: Brazilian derby abandoned after NINE men get sent off
- February 17
- February 16
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- Joe Thompson: "Cancer felt like a snake wrapping around my neck... I was determined to win"
- Atletico Tucuman's Cristian Villagra is donating his bone marrow to his brother who has leukemia
- Revealed! The average age of European champions since 2009/10
- Hector Bellerin doesn't really like ArsenalFanTV
- Watch: Newcastle Jets' Andrew Nabbout bends in a screamer with the outside of his boot
- Revealed! 16 average footballers with absolutely incredible medal collections
- Self-titled "chubby Harry Kane" is becoming very popular on social media
- Ranked! Which Premier League club has employed the most managers since 1992?
- Lyon's Memphis Depay adds another thunderbolt to his record in Europa League action
- Watch: Sporting Lisbon's Marcos Acuna produces one of the filthiest assists of the season
- February 15
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- Hibernian player donates testimonial money to charity in memory of teenage club-mate
- Watch: Djaniny Tavares of Santos scores a wonderful goal
- Ranked! All 20 Premier League clubs by set-piece goals conceded
- Revealed! The 20 best free-kick takers in European football
- Spurs planning “much more heartbreaking Champions League exit than that” club reassures fans
- Meet Ostersund: Sweden's miracle club with an English manager now aiming to upset Arsenal in the Europa League
- February 14
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- Watch: Cambodian midfielder scores a ridiculous own goal in a 9-0 defeat in the AFC Cup
- Ranked! Every Liverpool manager of the Premier League era from worst to best
- Watch: Matty Taylor rolls back the years with a rocket for Swindon against Wycombe
- Quiz! Can you name the Premier League's 22 best score and assist partnerships for 2017/18?
- Watch: Steven Caulker scores a bullet header on his Dundee debut
- Ranked! The 20 greatest Champions League games... EVER
- Botafogo ban Flamengo from their stadium after Vinicius Junior's crybaby celebration
- Ranked! Liverpool’s top 10 strikers of the Premier League era
- Sparta Rotterdam’s Michiel Kramer promises to buy all the club's staff sandwiches if they stay up
- Watch: Animation celebrates great moments in football history – involving Messi, Bergkamp and Moore
- Why Cristiano Ronaldo has been Real Madrid's major problem this season... but he can also be their solution
- February 13
- February 12
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- Non-league side Grays forced to play their right-back in goal after a teamsheet mix-up
- Watch: AEK Athens' Sergio Araujo misses open goal when it was probably already going in
- Watch: Rok Kronaveter shows Slovenia and the world how to score the perfect free-kick
- Ranked! The 16 teams left in the Champions League... and who we think might win it
- Rated! Updated power rankings for the 16 teams left in the Champions League... and who we think might win it
- Bayern Munich's stadium to have a hotel suite overlooking the pitch
- Mark Clattenburg gets hit by a water bottle before jokingly dishing out a yellow card
- Watch: Werder Bremen's Florian Kainz curls in a cracker against Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga
- Quiz! How many of the 25 players to score four or more goals in a Premier League game can you name?
- February 10
- February 9
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- Harry Winks dislikes snakes, Arsenal fan Piers Morgan – and the thought of being buried alive
- Aymeric Laporte's Manchester City transfer fee saves an eighth-tier French club
- Watch: Melbourne Victory's James Troisi bags a rocket in the A-League
- Why Antonio Conte is not to blame for the problems Chelsea are facing
- Watch: Dimitar Berbatov finally gets off the mark in the ISL in his typical classy style
- McClaren: “The weirdest thing Fergie ever made me do as his No.2? Manage the Manchester derby!”
- Las Palmas flop Oussama Tannane didn't realise the La Liga club was on an island
- Ranked! Every Liverpool manager of the Premier League era from worst to best
- Toronto FC's Sebastian Giovinco scores a pinpoint free-kick even with men on both posts
- Premier League preview: What definitely will and won't happen this weekend
- Ranked! The 10 best attacking trios of the 21st century
- Ranked! The 10 best Arsenal-Tottenham games: Gazza, Winterburn and Bentley's beauty
- Watch: Philippe Coutinho combines with Luis Suarez to score his first Barcelona goal
- Watch: Ex-Arsenal, Manchester United striker Robin van Persie scores spectacular first goal back at Feyenoord
- February 8
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- Gennaro Gattuso: "He was really breaking my balls so I lost my temper and stuck a fork in his leg"
- School kids play football with Man United’s Marcus Rashford as part of EA Sports programme
- Las Vegas Lights release a unique neon-themed kit that will divide opinion
- Lionel Messi's incoming third child Ciro sounds like Cristiano Ronaldo in Mandarin
- Ranked! The best World Cup kits released so far
- Watch: Cruz Azul's Martin Rodriguez curls in a stunner in Copa MX
- Quiz! Can you name the 30 current Premier League players with the highest yellow card count?
- Farmers plan to stop Toulouse vs PSG in Ligue 1 from taking place
- Son Heung-min: “I’m too scared to try a special handshake with Pochettino. I just say ‘Hello!’”
- 14 amazing football club badges we wish still existed
- Bundesliga referee eats sweets thrown onto the pitch from Mainz fans in the DFB-Pokal
- Watch: Atletico Mineiro's manager tries to fight a reporter post-match
- Os piores uniformes da temporada européia de 2017/18
- Salah: “From day one back in England I wanted to show what I can do. I think I'm doing well...”
- February 7
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- Ranked! The 11 worst misses in football
- Roda JC demand eight minutes of match be replayed after VAR wrongly interferes
- Nike unveil glorious new Nigeria kit for 2018 World Cup
- Modric: “I’m sorry for the way I left Tottenham. I wish we'd parted in a nicer way”
- Behind the scenes photos of NYCFC's 2018 away kit unveiling
- Conte defends Chelsea’s decision to take winter break this year
- Ederson: “I could play in midfield for Man City… and I can score from free-kicks too!”
- Ranked! The 20 best Premier League managers ever – by win percentage
- Danish Superliga club Lyngby could lose their entire squad this week
- Son Heung-min: “In your dreams you can do what you want. I dream of winning the Ballon d’Or”
- Salah: “King of the Kop? I don't know about that. I’m just happy scoring for the club I supported as a kid”
- Banfield player scores ludicrous long-range free-kick in Copa Libertadores
- 10 players who really weren't liked by their team-mates
- Giant Boavista flag prevents overturning of ludicrously offside goal with VAR
- February 6
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- Sean Rigg leaves Newport two days before Tottenham FA Cup replay to become a tattoo artist
- Bristol City U23s go 4-0 up in first 23 minutes, Watford score five in 19 mins... finishes 5-5
- Ranked! The 20 most successful Premier League managers – based on their win percentage
- In the mag: Salah, Son, Ederson exclusives! A week with Nigel Pearson! McClaren One-on-One!
- Ex-Bolton, Liverpool forward El Hadji Diouf is thinking of running for Senegal presidency
- 10 of football's most bizarre goal reactions: fines, fights... and firearms
- Arsenal's Reiss Nelson pulls off lovely skill for U23s goal against Everton
- Ranked! The 10 best attacking trios of the 21st century
- 14 insane injury times: comebacks, own goals and genius
- Colombian side Fortaleza release new kit inspired by emojis
- Al Dhafra defender scores sensational 20-yard own goal
- Tony Adams' demons: "The sweats, hallucinations, terrors... the voices... this is not normal"
- February 5
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- Watch: Bologna and Fiorentina BOTH score goals direct from corners
- 10 of football's most bizarre goal reactions: fines, fights... and firearms
- Ranked! The 20 biggest winter 2018 transfers involving Premier League clubs
- "No, thanks": 8 players who turned down major transfer moves
- Watch: Ayr United goalkeeper makes catastrophic (but hilarious) double blunder
- 11 of the most insane injury times EVER: Bergkamp genius, fight backs and own goals
- Watch: Angel Correa's smashes in glorious winner for Atletico Madrid against Valencia
- Watch: Ex-Liverpool midfielder Suso scores absolute stunner for Milan
- Ranked! The 10 players most likely to replace Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid
- February 3
- February 2
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- Lithuanian club think they've signed 'prolific' ex-QPR forward because of inflated Wiki profile
- Match these, Auba: 10 stars who scored sensational goals on their Premier League debuts
- Why 2018 really is the biggest year in Tottenham's history
- Diego Maradona reportedly denied US visa for anti-Trump comments
- Hertha Berlin are offering one lifetime season ticket – if you're willing to get it tattooed on
- Swansea midfielder Sam Clucas apologises for controversy after porn reference
- Ranked! EVERY Premier League club by their January business
- 5 things that Arsenal’s January transfer window tells us about their future
- Quiz! Can you name the 27 top-scoring English players currently in the Premier League?
- Premier League preview: What (definitely) will and won't happen this weekend
- February 1
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- Hector Bellerin and Mesut Ozil to be guest speakers at the Oxford Union
- PSV send camera crew to greet 'new signing' – who joins Sporting instead
- Dietmar Hamann: "Klopp has to win a trophy – fans won't put up with mediocrity much longer"
- Ranked! EVERY Premier League club by their January transfer business
- 15 outrageous dives that somehow conned referees
- Vasco's Pikachu (!) capitalises on hideous goalkeeping howler in the Copa Libertadores
- Revealed! FIFA 18’s 11 most overpowered players
- Quiz! Can you name the 25 biggest winter 2018 transfers involving Premier League clubs?
- Giresunspor's Dodo takes gloriously pathetic penalty against Fenerbahce
- Brazilian fans turn on their team... by stealing their post-match pizzas
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