Another blow: Cesc Fabregas shows his disappointment after Arsenal s Champions League exit against Liverpool last season

Mark Hughes believes Sunday's defeat to Liverpool revealed obvious frailties that we will work to address in January and he is already reflecting on how he might spend the Arab millions at his disposal.

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Standard Liege, who lost to Liverpool in the Champions League qualifiers, are in the fifth pot despite eliminating Everton out of the competition in the first round last week.

You have to understand that in Britain it is very hard to be universally loved if you are a real winner unless you have battled to get there from an underdogs position or if you do it with a certain flare, style and panache. Back in the 1970's Leeds ....

The winning projects are the King's Cross Central redevelopment in the hinterland of the station, the National Sports Centre in Crystal Palace, Regent Palace Hotel in the West End and the Clore Learning Centre at Hampton Court.

Proposals for a reconstructed Crystal Palace are being discussed by Bromley council.

Perhaps the biggest surprise about Peter Swan, the larger-than-life former Leeds United and Hull City defender, is that it has taken so long for his story to be told in print.

The mark of champions is the ability to blow teams away and make sure the opposition can't cope with you. Liverpool won that game at Manchester City in the space of 25-30 minutes and in that time they could have made the margin of victory even bigger....

But the Denmark international has vowed to make the most of his team-mate's misfortune after the Slovakian was injured in Sunday's win at Manchester City.

& 8220;It& 8217;s important that a club, such as Manchester City and as big as this one, needs to have the profile of European football.

Martin Skrtel may face months out of the game after a scan showed he had damaged his posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee when he fell awkwardly late into the win at Manchester City on Sunday.

The Swiss blasted the super-rich investors willing to buy and part with clubs 'like you would sell a shirt', citing the example of former Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra, who sold up to Abu Dhabi United Group amid allegations of corruption i....

Hughes will not be travelling to Abu Dhabi to discuss potential purchases with the club's chairman Khaldoon al-Mubarak until the November international break. But another bid for Blackburn Rovers' Roque Santa Cruz, for whom City's offer of 15m was r....

After around two hours' sleep, he set off to confront her in Coventry, ignoring friends' pleas to wait until he had sobered up.

McCormick had been drinking all evening at an ex-team-mate s wedding in Bolton and had just two hours sleep when he went to confront girlfriend Naomi Richards in Coventry over allegations on the internet site Facebook that she had cheated on him.

Fabregas, who underlined his importance to Arsenal with a last-minute equaliser in Saturday's 1-1 draw at Sunderland, insisted it was his choice to stay with the Gunners last summer and that he has not abandoned the logic that kept him in north Londo....

McCormick had been drinking all evening at an ex-team-mate s wedding in Bolton and had just two hours sleep when he went to confront girlfriend Naomi Richards in Coventry over allegations on the internet site Facebook that she had cheated on him.

he is definitely a one-off. I remember one game for Hull at Middlesbrough when I got a whack in the eye and had to come off.

Being from Leeds, I particularly enjoyed one at Manchester where me and the missus were sitting in the VIP area surrounded by Manchester United players such as Teddy Sheringham, Paul Scholes and Dennis Irwin.