Despite the fact Manchester City made easy work of their game against Premiership leaders Chelsea and  irrelevant of the class, skill and footballing talent on show, the only real talking point to come out of Saturdays early kick off will be; should Wayne …

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Although this Premier League season has been the most topsy-turvy, dramatic and exciting yet, Football FanCast looks at how it has been overshadowed by the farcical issue of football finances.

Whether it be Portsmouth, Cardiff, Southend, or even Chester City, last year’s recession seems to have hacked down financial structures at every tier within the football league system.

Portsmouth have been …

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Despite a fortnight of Champions League drama, the most intriguing spectacle over the past few weeks has come from Craven Cottage.

Whilst the world was watching the glamorous prospect of Wayne Rooney tearing apart an aging AC Milan backline, the more studious characters of Roy Hodgson and Bobby Zamora displayed once more the art …

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Everton under David Moyes have gone from perennial relegation strugglers to a club capable of challenging for honours whilst mixing it with both the Premier League’s and Europe’s elite. The job the Scot has done down at Goodison is nothing short of wonderful.

A very good judge of character (barring the Andy Van Der Shandy mishap), exceptional …

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In Harry Redknapp’s post match press conference talk seemingly was swayed from our confidence boosting home victory to talk of the injury crisis that we currently have in centre midfield. Harry seemed to suggest that the injury to Huddlestone wasn’t a short term one and Tom will be joining Jenas, who is reportedly having an operation next week, on the treatment table. It leaves us simply with one centre midfielder at …

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The possibility that Joe Cole could leave Stamford Bridge in the summer for free has alerted several Premiership clubs. Cole’s contract expires at the end of the season, meaning he could open up talks with other clubs if he wanted to. For …

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Liverpool have won the race to sign teenage midfielder Raheem Sterling from Championship side Queens Park Rangers.

Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal and Fulham were all reported to be tracking the progress of the 15-year-old …

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Portsmouth could contest the nine-point penalty which looks set to come their way, according to the administrator appointed to the crisis-torn south coast club.

Andrew Andronikou claims there is a "slight chance" that the nine-point penalty, which is automatically handed out when a top-flight club goes into administration, could be avoided.

Pompey became the first club in the Premier League era to …

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Portsmouth manager Avram Grant admitted that he was greatly saddened by the club's off-field plight, following a 2-1 victory at fellow strugglers Burnley.

Goals from Frederic Piquionne and Hassan Yebda gave Pompey the points in East Lancashire, a day after the club were forced to go into administration to avoid a winding-up order.

Grant said after the Turf Moor success:"I'm very proud …

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Arsenal have confirmed that Aaron Ramsey will be out for the rest of the season after fracturing the tibia and fibula in his right leg during Saturday's 3-1 win at Stoke City.

The 19-year-old midfielder was taken to hospital following a 65th minute tackle from Potters defender Ryan Shawcross at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday evening.

Shawcross was sent off following the incident …

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