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- January 31
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- January transfer news LIVE: Window closed! Late deals trickling in...
- Liverpool's Nathaniel Clyne appears in dreadful American reality TV show
- A plague of locusts threaten the 2018 World Cup
- Knocked-out Moreirense goalkeeper discovers in post-match interview that VAR saved his clean sheet
- 13 players whose career paths were truly bizarre
- 9 signings who couldn't handle the culture shock abroad
- Neymar performs perfect playground trick on Rennes defender
- 10 player homecomings that lived up to the hype
- Match these, Aubameyang: 10 sensational goals from Premier League debutants
- January 30
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- Desperate Chelsea confirm they will sign 10 short men to make Michy Batshuayi look bigger
- Turkish amateur club complete a January transfer using Bitcoin
- Quiz! Can you name the 37 players with 10+ goals across Europe’s top five leagues this season?
- Watch: Japanese second division team's fans give incredible welcome to new players in amphitheatre
- Ranked! The 14 best January deadline-day signings
- Ranked! Real Madrid’s 22 Premier League signings, from blunders to wonders
- Watch: Usain Bolt prepares for Borussia Dortmund trial by training with South African club
- Revealed! The 20 best free-kick takers in European football
- Steve McManaman: Liverpool need new striker to compete for Premier League title
- January 29
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- Watch: Freiburg's Nils Petersen scored a spectacular lob at Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga
- Ranked! The 10 World Cup teams with the highest market value
- Gennaro Gattuso allows his AC Milan players to slap him following victory against Lazio
- Watch: Crawley's Jimmy Smith scores a calamitous own goal with his face against Accrington
- 8 major transfers that we think could still happen this week
- Classificadas! As 50 melhores camisas de futebol… da HISTÓRIA
- The Portuguese League Cup final had the weirdest opening ceremony you will see
- Where are they now? Paul Pogba’s first Manchester United team, September 2011
- Quiz! Can you name the 30 current Premier League players with the highest offside counts?
- Watch: Benevento goalkeeper Vid Belec sees red after karate kicking M'Baye Niang
- January 27
- January 26
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- Ranked! How much has your Premier League club spent on January signings since 2006/07?
- Watch: In Lithuania, a futsal player slips to score a stupidly lucky goal
- Ranked! The 10 clubs with the most academy graduates playing in the Premier League
- Ex-Chelsea winger Florent Malouda signs to play football in Luxembourg
- 10 major World Cup injustices that VAR would have changed
- Teddy Sheringham is sacked by Indian Super League side ATK after just 10 games
- Where are they now? Paul Pogba’s first Manchester United team, September 2011
- January 25
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- Crewe fans get revenge on their own club's Twitter account
- The 13 best-ever Premier League loanees
- BOTN Classic: Seagulls 'optimistic' over sardine chances
- Watch: 'Spanish Stoichkov' embarrasses two defenders before curling in a stunner
- What’s in it for Manchester United to offer Jose Mourinho a new contract now?
- Vitesse aren't giving Sunderland wantaway Jack Rodwell a trial after all
- Jose Mourinho threatens Alexis Sanchez’s dogs to test his loyalty
- Ranked! The 20 clubs with the most foreign signings
- Quiz! How many of the 114 current Premier League players who’ve been to a World Cup can you name?
- In Saudi Arabia, Mark Clattenburg halts play due to calls for prayer
- January 24
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- Watch: Lionel Messi is dominant even on Japanese gameshows
- FourFourTwo’s definitive guide to the new signing welcome interview
- Leeds get dog abuse after revealing deeply unpopular new crest
- Where are they now? Harry Kane's Tottenham debut, August 2011
- Notts County goalkeeper gives away ridiculous penalty, red card for losing goal in added time
- Manchester City players scared they may now be expected to drink Carabao
- Ranked! The 10 clubs who sell the most replica shirts
- Watch: Antoine Griezmann scores gorgeous dipping half-volley in Copa del Rey
- January 23
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- "A disgrace": Fury as Brisbane Roar shirt numbers peel off in horror Asian Champions League tie
- Huddersfield's chairman Dean Hoyle to sleep at the club's stadium for a night
- Revealed! Which managers give the most game-time to young players?
- 10 major World Cup injustices that VAR would have changed
- UEFA Nations League explained: how does it work?
- Ex-Liverpool striker David N'Gog signs for... Ross County
- Striker celebrates Copa Libertadores goal by getting into a car
- Quiz! Can you name all 20 Belgians to play in the Premier League this season?
- January 22
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- Swansea 1 Liverpool 0: Conclusions from the Liberty Stadium
- Watch: Referee high-fives Los Yebenes player after awarding them a contentious goal
- Watch: Turkish striker intentionally misses penalty after defender handballs for presumed offside
- Ranked! The 15 European clubs with the most debt
- Ranked! The 17 weirdest club badges in football
- The 12 best football innovations of the '90s – from fantasy football to the best ever FIFA
- Watch: Nabil Fekir and Memphis Depay both score stunners in victory over PSG
- Watch: Cristiano Ronaldo checks out his facial injury on a mobile phone
- Watch: Lugo goalkeeper smacks home 60-yard goal to down Sporting Gijon
- January 21
- January 20
- January 19
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- I-League goalkeeper makes sensationally bad blunder for Shillong Lajong
- Where are they now? The Spurs team from Harry Kane's first start, August 2011
- Brighton could be looking to buy Danish top-tier club Lyngby Boldklub
- Crewe tease "major transfer news" before announcing young star has left
- Premier League preview: What (definitely) will and won't happen this weekend
- Henrikh Mkhitaryan warned off Arsenal by vision of future self
- January 18
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- Official! The 16 lowest-scoring forwards in Premier League history
- Manchester United release a co-branded tractor
- 10 players whose reputations were ruined after moving to England
- The 15 biggest title-winning margins in English top-flight history
- Watch: Ruben Sobrino of Alaves fires in fierce piledriver at Valencia in the Copa del Rey
- Watch: Neymar skips by four players to score excellent solo goal against Dijon
- Quiz! Can you name the top 30 current Premier League players with the most headed goals?
- Billericay manager Glenn Tamplin stranded in Mauritius due to Cyclone Berguitta
- January 17
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- Polokwane City player scores the perfect knuckleball free-kick
- Arsenal offend Aubameyang by discussing very personal terms
- Sean Dyche used to eat live worms, according to former team-mate
- 8 players who were bigger than the club (or thought they were, anyway)
- Ranked! The 20 best Premier League kits of the '90s
- Watch: Ex-West Ham star Dimitri Payet's glorious dummy injures Strasbourg goalkeeper
- Revealed! Every Premier League club's longest-serving player
- Watch: Mario Balotelli pulls out classic celebration after scoring twice against Monaco
- Kit clash in Reading's FA Cup tie results in a half-time strip change
- 15 current Premier League stars who were signed for £1 million or under
- January 16
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- Walcott’s Arsenal career sums up a disappointing era – but his departure now has to mean something
- 9 times clubs REALLY regretted letting a star join their rivals
- Brentford fans make their 40-year-old mate a matchday mascot on his stag
- 5 reasons why Liverpool really are building a side to challenge for the Premier League title next season
- Journalists 'conned' by fake WhatsApp number spreading Riyad Mahrez transfer rumours
- Ranked! The 12 most disappointing Premier League transfers of the season
- Watch: Estoril led Porto through brilliant free-kick – but match was abandoned thanks to crumbling stand
- Carlos Tevez calls his seven months in China "a holiday"
- Lambert disgusted by Stoke’s lack of ambition in appointing him
- January 15
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- Louis van Gaal admits spite in turning down Belgium job to keep Manchester United pay-off
- Old hand or fresh face? The managerial conundrum that's never going away
- 7 Championship stars with serious potential to shine in the Premier League
- Ranked! 13 of the worst club-record signings
- Ask A Silly Question, Cyrille Regis: "The daft thing is, my real name isn’t actually Cyrille..."
- Saido Berahino turns up ready for Stoke's trip to Manchester United 24 hours early
- Watch: Barcelona's Luis Suarez curls home absolute beauty in La Liga
- Giggs dazzles Welsh FA with presumed credentials
- Quiz! Can you name the three longest-serving players at every Premier League club?
- Watch: The astonishing moment Ligue 1 ref kicks out at Nantes player – then sends him off
- January 14
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- January 12
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- 9 players who Chelsea should look to sign in the January transfer window
- The 12 most memorable football quotes of the 1990s
- Jeff Stelling offers cash to a new owner who will save Hartlepool United
- 10 of the most short-lived transfers ever
- French league suspends goalline technology after blatant errors in the League Cup
- 9 players Arsenal could realistically sign in January
- Ex-Fulham striker Pavel Pogrebnyak skips his own club's game to watch Juventus instead
- Lionel Messi receives hand-painted boots telling his life story
- Saudi Arabia allow women to attend professional football matches for the first time
- 9 players who Liverpool could realistically sign in the January transfer window
- Premier League preview: What will and won't happen this weekend
- January 11
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- They played for both Liverpool and Man City – but who got the better deal?
- The 10 best January transfers you've probably forgotten about
- Quiz! How many of the 67 Premier League managers from the 1990s can you name?
- Football's 14 finest insults: featuring Keane, Cantona... and poor Carlton Palmer
- Bristol City's Josh Brownhill wrote a poem to his idol Wayne Rooney when he was 11 (and it's great)
- Kazuyoshi Miura signs a new contract at Yokohama FC, aged 50
- January 10
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- Romelu Lukaku to seek legal advice after "voodoo message" claims from Everton owner
- Arsenal will have to pay for Coquelin to be taken away, Valencia confirm
- 18 Premier League players who cost less than £1m
- Nottingham Forest's FA Cup hero Eric Lichaj finally gets his dog – and calls it Gunner
- Official! The 16 lowest-scoring forwards in Premier League history
- Watch: Valencia new boy Luciano Vietto nails outrageous lob to complete hat-trick against Las Palmas
- Quiz! Can you name football’s 30 major individual award winners of the 1990s?
- Liverpool's mayor calls on Merseyside Police to investigate Ross Barkley's Chelsea transfer
- Ranked! The 12 most disappointing Premier League transfers of the season
- Villas-Boas withdraws from Dakar Rally after being hospitalised
- January 9
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- Altrincham become first club to offer personalised WhatsApp service for fans
- What the Philippe Coutinho deal says about the current state of Liverpool
- The player most likely to leave EVERY Premier League club in the January transfer window
- Ranked! The 10 best Premier League transfers of 2017/18 (so far)
- Stoke's Moussa Niakate signs, makes debut, grabs assist, gets sent off – all in four hours
- 9 players who Manchester United should sign this January
- Revealed! The 20 footballers with the highest market value
- Player in South Africa receives 5GB of data after being awarded man of the match
- Quiz! Can you name all 18 managers to win the League Cup over the last three decades?
- Kayserispor manager tries his best to style out ungraceful fall into netting
- The player most likely to leave EVERY Premier League club in the January transfer window
- January 8
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- Ranked! The 15 best Premier League goals of the '90s
- Usain Bolt will have Borussia Dortmund trial in March, hopes to sign for Manchester United
- John Terry: “Mourinho knew how to press my buttons. He knew exactly what he was doing”
- Stoke players determined to get relegated anyway
- Andre Villas-Boas places 45th overall after two stages of Dakar Rally
- Quiz! Can you name the 51 players who’ve contributed to at least six Premier League goals this season?
- German footballer Deniz Naki targeted in attempted assassination
- 10 Premier League transfers we think will happen this month
- 9 players who Arsenal could realistically sign in the January transfer window
- Watch: Neymar finishes off lovely PSG team goal against Rennes
- Ranked! The 10 best Premier League transfers of the 2017/18 season
- Ex-Arsenal star Lukas Podolski opens kebab shop in Cologne, 1,000 people attend opening
- Chris Sutton: I could have left Chelsea within weeks – Leeds tried to sign me
- January 6
- January 5
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- A player in Saudi Arabia has got into trouble... for dabbing
- Fleetwood pub releasing 'Vardy's Return' ale ahead of FA Cup tie with Leicester
- Who is Malcom? Meet the Brazilian winger Arsenal want to replace Alexis Sanchez
- Ranked! The 16 best Premier League players going for free this summer
- Gabriel Paulista: At least one of Sanchez and Ozil will stay at Arsenal
- 9 Premier League transfers we think will happen this month
- Andrei Kanchelskis: I didn't know which Manchester club I was signing for in 1991
- 12 Premier League stars who really need to move this month
- A Cristiano Ronaldo ice sculpture has been unveiled in Russia ahead of the World Cup
- Ranked! The 10 best Premier League stars going for free this summer
- Quiz! Can you name the regular starting XI for EVERY Premier League side this season?
- Mario Balotelli gets mischievous in calling on all-star friends to shame brother after FIFA defeat
- 7 Ligue 1 players who could make an instant impact in the Premier League this January
- January 4
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- Chris Sutton: A Rangers fan tried to run me over once – but these things happen...
- Revealed! The Premier League's 20 most expensive January signings
- 7 Eredivisie players who Premier League clubs should target in the January transfer window
- Watch: Even with VAR, referee gets decision wrong and allows Juventus goal to stand
- Jack Wilshere attributes "fitter, sharper" state to brand new diet
- Quiz! How many of the 54 players to score multiple Premier League hat-tricks can you name?
- Ex-Manchester United forward Diego Forlan has a new club, aged 38
- "Oh God... what have we done?!" The 14 worst January transfers
- 9 players who Tottenham could realistically sign in the January transfer window
- Watch: Ex-Chelsea striker Diego Costa scores his first Atletico Madrid goal five minutes into return
- Falkirk apologise after Dunfermline's Dean Shiels is pelted with fake eyeballs
- Sheffield Wednesday are offering season ticket holders their money back
- January 3
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- David James becomes head coach of ISL side Kerala Blasters
- 8 Premier League stars who urgently need to leave their clubs this month
- The 20 greatest free transfers of all time
- Watch: Sydney's Milos Ninkovic scores silky smooth solo goal in the A-League
- They played for both Tottenham and West Ham - but who got the better deal?
- 6 Bundesliga transfer targets for Premier League clubs – and who they'd suit
- In the mag: '90s special! The ultimate celebration of the decade that saved football
- A dodgy statue of Ex-Chelsea star Michael Essien has been erected in Ghana
- The 20 European footballers who played the most international minutes in 2017
- What EVERY Premier League club is missing – and who they could sign to fix it
- 5 ways Jurgen Klopp can improve Liverpool's squad in January
- Burglars ransack James McClean's home while he plays in West Brom's defeat at West Ham
- Watch: Ryan Sessegnon dazzles as Fulham score FOUR goals in seven minutes against Ipswich
- Preston North End's Kevin O'Connor wins the Irish lottery
- Arsene Wenger vs Chelsea: the Frenchman's record against each Blues boss
- 5 things we’ve learned about Chelsea going into 2018
- January 2
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- Swansea 0 Tottenham 2: Observations from the Liberty Stadium
- PSG's Edinson Cavani reveals which unlikely pastime is key to his goalscoring exploits
- Rwanda FA's sole presidential candidate manages to lose election
- The 13 best Tottenham-West Ham matches of all time
- 8 La Liga stars who Premier League clubs could definitely target this January
- Ranked! The 10 most underrated players of the 2017/18 Premier League
- Emmanuel Adebayor adopts late brother's son, names him Junior Emmanuel
- The all-2017 Premier League table: where did your team finish?
- Forest Green manager and his son both sent off against Wycombe – at the same time
- Quiz! Can you name the 15 players who are the ONLY footballers from their country to score in the Premier League?
- Fluminense's 21-year-old forward out for eight months after being assaulted by rival fans
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