Football transfer rumours: Chelsea on the hunt for Porto’s Hulk?
Today's hocus-pocus has gone for the boating lookNews International has had a troubled year or so, readers, during which time its reputation has dropped lower than the deep end at the Dead Sea Leisure Centre. So it's good to see the Sun attempting to g...
Fernando Torres is forgiven and anointed as Chelsea’s main target man
The Spain striker receives the assurances he wanted when speaking out after the triumph in MunichFernando Torres need not worry. The Chelsea striker ran the gamut of emotions in the Champions League final on Saturday and he departed the arena in Munich...
Temperatures rise and torch fever begins to grip the nation
Thousands line the route through Swindon, Bristol and Royal Wootton Bassett to see torchbearers including Didier Drogba Time and again they gave the same reason for skipping lessons or ducking out of the office for an hour: this was a once-in-a-lifetim...
Which team have the strangest goal music? | The Knowledge
Plus: why Montpellier are the French Nottingham Forest; Brazil's strangest trophies; and which footballers have gone on to make it big in the NFL? Send your questions and answers to knowledge@guardian.co.uk and follow us on Twitter"Having seen 'goal mu...
Football transfer rumours: Leighton Baines to Manchester United?
Today's bunkum's name is its nameSouth of the border, west of the Sun, there is a little log cabin made of Norwegian wood. Here lived the Mill's beloved aunt, Madame Sosostris. It was to this beloved aunt that the Mill would be sent when the beloved pa...
Emotional Didier Drogba says now is the right time to leave Chelsea
Winning the Champions League provided the striker with the perfect send-off after eight successful yearsIn the end the timing just felt right. Didier Drogba had long since set himself the target of hoisting Chelsea's first European Cup so, in the boist...
The Fiver | An atephobic on a trip to Pompeii | John Ashdown
Click here to have the Fiver sent to your inbox every weekday at 5pm, or if your usual copy has stopped arrivingHISTORICAL PEDANTRYThe Fiver likes Joe Cole for the simple reason that while most English players seem to have about as much desire for expa...
Football transfer rumours: Radamel Falcao to Chelsea? | John Ashdown
Today's fluff needs a holidayChelsea aren't going to rest on their laurels after their Champions League triumph. Like a high jumping nightclub DJ they want to clear the decks. Salomon Kalou, José Bosingwa and Didier Drogba are all heading for pastures...
Harry Redknapp and Daniel Levy to end feuding as Spurs fight predators
Tottenham 'odd couple' seem sure to join forces to keep Gareth Bale and Luka Modric after club miss out on EuropeAfter heart surgery, crown court trauma, on-field stresses and the dance with England, Harry Redknapp might have thought the season had run...
Football transfer rumours: Is Joe Cole heading back to West Ham?
Today's Mill is soaking up the sun. Sort of. Hopefully.Good news Vitamin D fans: according to meteorology gossip website, BBC Weather, Great Britain is about to snap up wantaway heavenly body The Sun. After putting his hat on and coming out to play, th...
Bayern Munich party like it’s 1999 after ‘incomprehensible’ defeat
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge felt losing the Champions League final to Chelsea was more brutal than against Manchester UnitedBayern Munich went straight from the stadium to their end-of-season dinner at the Postpalast event hall but could not escape the Blues...
‘Drogba was dancing on the table’
Roman Abramovich's obsession with winning the Champions League turned into reality after Didier Drogba claimed the spoilsIt was in the bedlam of the away‑team dressing room, as the European Cup was being hoisted between delirious players bouncing for...
