Football transfer rumours: Newcastle to snap up Gylfi Sigurdsson?
Today's rumours, 'the new page 338'It's a well-known fact that the 21st century mind has lost its ability to take on brand new concepts. Areas of land can't be described with either reference to their size in relation to Wales or football fields. Popul...
Manchester United v Aston Villa – as it happened | John Ashdown
United take the lead with a controversial penalty, but cruise to a comfortable win against hapless Villa.Afternoon all. Anyone think there's a chance of an upset in this one? Even the slimmest of stick-thin chances? A teeny-tiny nubbin of a chance, scu...
West Ham United 6-0 Brighton and Hove Albion | Championship match report
AC/DC's Highway to Hell was played over the Tannoy pre-match and with West Ham seemingly heading towards the play-offs, that appeared rather apt – any supporter who has suffered the sting of failure in the post-season lottery finds the prospect of Be...
Brighton & Hove Albion 0-1 Reading | Championship match report
Reading's astonishing run continues. Since 1 November, when the Royals lost at Nottingham Forest to drop to 16th in the Championship with a third of the season gone, they have been 15 points better than anyone else in the division. It is an simply rema...
Stoke v Wolves – as it happened | John Ashdown
Stoke come from behind to condemn Wolves to their sixth successive Premier League defeat. Plus: John FarnhamEvening all. Well, that wasn't a bad afternoon for Wolves. OK, Wigan made them sweat at Stamford Bridge, but they might have expected Blackburn ...
Sunderland v Tottenham – as it happened | John Ashdown
Spurs go third after stalemate at the Stadium of Light. Plus: which grounds need outside help to live up to their names?Afternoon all. Pressure. Pres·sure [presh-er] noun, verb, -sured, -sur·ing.noun• the exertion of force upon a surface by an obje...
Swansea City v Newcastle United – as it happened
Papiss Cisse scored twice as Newcastle closed the gap in the race for a Champions League spotAfternoon all. Well, if this is anything like as entertaining as the amuse bouche of today's Easter football feast then we're in for a treat. Reading v Leeds a...
Which players have won trophies while missing body parts? | The Knowledge
Plus: Has anyone scored more than Messi in one season? (2); Champions getting a pasting; and who on earth are Real Goth FC? Send your questions and answers to knowledge@guardian.co.uk and follow us on Twitter"Last week Dean Shiels played for Kilmarnock...
Football transfer rumours: Stephan El Shaarawy to Arsenal? | John Ashdown
Today's fluff is counting to 600 slowlyThe Mill is a keen believer in nominative determinism. Just look at the seven dwarfs – there's no way their mother could have known in the immediate afterglow of birth that the tiny babies she named Dopey, Bashf...
Benfica v Chelsea – live! | John Ashdown
Chelsea take a huge step towards the Champions League semi-final thanks to Salomon Kalou's second-half goalEvening folks. Benfica's Estadio da Luz was the venue for one of my favourite sporting memories. I was in Lisbon back in sepia-tinged days of Dec...
Manchester United v Fulham | John Ashdown
Fulham are denied a late penalty and United go top thanks to Wayne Rooney's first-half goalPreamble: Evening all. How are we? Good, good. Me? I'm fine, thanks for asking. Handily for a man with no pre-prepared preamble, the teams are already in:Man Utd...
