Arsenal thoroughly demolished FC Porto in Champions League action on Wednesday, posting a 5-0 victory on the strength of a Nicklas Bendtner hat-trick, but the moment of the match came when Samir Nasri danced through Porto's defense before blasting home a goal-of-the-year candidate. Here is Nasri's wonder goal: If you didn't see Arsenal's romp,...
Read more »

Let us first remind ourselves at the outset that if it was not for Miroslav Klose's ridiculously offside goal in the first leg, Bayern would not have progressed to the quarterfinals. This was a game played with great intensity...
Read more »

Arsenal were so effective that they probably deprived themselves of the accolades that should be their due. Porto were made to look feckless. The visitors turned out to be the butt of all the sharp-witted football reeled off by Arsène Wenger's side, but perhaps there ought to be a pause before ridicule starts.Porto were...
Read more »

On a night when Niklas Bendtner came up with a hattrick and Arsenal beat Porto 5 - 0 Samir Nasri came up with this goal......
Read more »

• Claims that unlicensed go-between helped set up 2005 deal• FA investigating, with fines or even points deduction possibleThe Football Association is considering whether Shaun Wright-Phillips and Chelsea could face charges for dealing with an unlicensed agent, Mitchell Thomas, when Wright-Phillips moved to Stamford Bridge from Manchester City in July 2005. The investigation by...
Read more »

• Arsenal manager would welcome all-Premier League semi-final• 'It would be a good chance to show we can do it against them'Arsène Wenger said he would welcome the chance to face Manchester United or Chelsea in the Champions League quarter‑finals, after he watched his Arsenal team book their place in the last eight with...
Read more »

So no cameras or microchips for a while after FIFA shut the door to technology in Zurich. But world soccer's governing body does often sound a trifle fascistic to my ears:"It is the end of the potential use of technology in football,” FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke intoned. “Now it is being stopped...The...
Read more »

Our photographer Tom Jenkins brings you the best of the action from the Emirates as Arsenal booked their place in the quarter-finalsTom Jenkins
Read more »

• Three in court over collapse of ticket agent• Rebecca Adlington's parents among those out of pocketThe Serious Fraud Office will be at the high court today to hear a civil judgment in the case of Rebecca Adlington's missing Olympic tickets. After paying £1,100 to Xclusive, a secondary ticket agent, the double gold medallist's...
Read more »

Today's questions trust no one ...Evan Fanning
Read more »

The winger's £21m move from City to Chelsea in 2005 involved the use of an unlicensed agent, a tribunal has foundThe Football Association is examining whether there are grounds for charging both Shaun Wright-Phillips and Chelsea with using an unlicensed agent, Mitchell Thomas, when Wright-Phillips moved to Chelsea from Manchester City in July 2005....
Read more »

Plus: Team-mates and sworn enemies (2); who's going to fill Rochdale's boots?; and England's Toulon team of 1990. Send your questions and answers to knowledge@guardian.co.uk"Have any football matches been captured on Google Earth?" wondered Roderick Stewart last week. "Who won?"Google's roving helicopter/spy satellite/gigantic flaming all-seeing eye must have been hovering over Bristol on a...
Read more »

After almost four months and 14 Premier League games without a win Sunderland's bleak midwinter finally ended last night. As the thermometer dropped to freezing point it did not exactly seem like spring but Steve Bruce's suddenly relaxed body language was that of a man who has just felt the sun's warmth on his...
Read more »

After giddy success comes Portsmouth's agonising reality check. The optimism whipped up by Saturday's unlikely progress into the FA Cup semi-finals was sucked from the club by a defeat here which leaves them adrift and despairing at the foot of the table. The locals departed with a defiant chorus proclaiming their imminent return to...
Read more »

A stunning strike from Arjen Robben fired Bayern Munich into the quarter-finals of the Champions League at the expense of an unlucky Fiorentina at a wet and windy Stadio Artemio Franchi. The final score after the two legs was 4-4 but Bayern went through on the away goals rule.The Germans, leading 2-1 from the...
Read more »

If West Bromwich Albion go on to win automatic promotion, it is entirely possible that this win, only their second in their last seven matches, will prove to have been the most important of the season.Heavy-legged and lacking in ideasfor the best part of an hour, Roberto Di Matteo's team summoned up a burst...
Read more »

Tomorrow night D.C. United will play a preseason friendly against Santos Laguna at the Nuevo Esadio Corona in Torreon, Mexico. Today the players put in one last physical training session to prepare for Santos. Following practice, some of the players decided to take a few memorable photos in Torreon's city center. Some of the...
Read more »

Preamble:2004 was the Chinese Year of the Monkey. For the United Nations, meanwhile, it was the International Year of Rice (NOT cauliflower or gumbo; nor curds nor whey). And for football it was, undoubtedly, the Year of Shrunken Giants. Thanks to the shortcomings of the erstwhile big boys, Greece were able to become kings...
Read more »