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Joel Ward: Swansea City are close to signing the former Crystal Palace captain

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🚀 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Ward will also offer Vitor Matos an option at centre-back, with Kaylan Kessie having been a back-up to Ben Cabango and Cameron Burgess this season with summer signing Ricardo Santos making just one substitute appearance.Ward spent 13 seasons playing for Palace in the Premier League after helping the Eagles win promotion from the Championship in the 2012-13 season, his first year at the club after joining from Portsmouth.He played 364 matches with Crystal Palace, scoring six goals, but he played on only three occasions last…

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More than the result – Are FA Cup upsets still ‘magical’?

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Available for over a yearThe FA Cup Third Round is where some of English football's biggest clubs face off against teams of modest means. This weekend, for example, FA Cup champions Crystal Palace travel to Macclesfield of the National League North – a team ranked five divisions and 117 places below them in the English league system. Meanwhile, fan-owned club Exeter City visit the plush surroundings of Manchester City's Etihad Stadium, while Shrewsbury Town, struggling to stay in the Football League, head to Premier League…

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FA Cup: Wrexham’s wish finally comes true as the match against Nottingham Forest awaits

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🔥 Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Wrexham boast a rich FA Cup heritage, with their 2-1 win over Arsenal in 1992 still standing as one of the greatest shocks in the competition's history.They reached the quarter-finals in 1973–74, 1977–78 and 1996–97 and beat top-flight opponents including Ipswich Town, Newcastle United, West Ham United and Middlesbrough over the years.The scale of the task ahead of two-time champions Forest will not be lost on Parkinson and his team at all, especially as the club enters the FA Cup at the third round for…

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Algeria apologizes for the statue of Lumumba from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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✨ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AFP/Getty ImagesMichel Ngcuka Mboladinga won the hearts of Africa Cup of Nations fans with his Lumumba statueThe Algerian Football Federation apologized to the Congolese fan who became one of the stars of the African Cup of Nations held in Morocco.Michel Ngcuka Mboladinga supported the Democratic Republic of the Congo by donning the uniform of the country's revered first leader Patrice Lumumba and remaining consistent throughout each match.He stood on a pedestal with his right arm raised - just like the famous Lumumba statue in the…

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Katie Robinson: Striker rejoins Bristol City from Aston Villa

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Bristol City Ladies have re-signed striker Katie Robinson on a two-and-a-half year deal for an undisclosed fee.Robinson began her career in the club's academy and made her debut in 2018, joining the first team as a teenager. She signed for Brighton two years later, scoring 10 goals in 68 appearances, before joining Women's Super League side Aston Villa and more recently Everton on loan. The 23-year-old won the first of five England caps in November 2022 in a 1-1 friendly draw with Norway and…

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Football Daily – The Debrief: Arsenal misses the chance to advance by eight points as Liverpool draw

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🚀 Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Available for 6 daysSteve Crossman joined Stephen Warnock, Andros Townsend, Michael Brown and Alistair Bruce-Paul in their reaction to Arsenal's 0-0 draw against Liverpool. Arsenal is six points away at the top of the standings, while Liverpool remains in fourth place, eight points behind third-placed Aston Villa. Listen to Mikel Arteta and Liverpool coach Arne Slott who was asked about the incident when Gabriel Martinelli tried to push Connor Bradley off the field after he suffered the injury. The panel also discusses Manchester United and…

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Gabriel Martinelli: Arne Slott defends Arsenal’s winger

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Liverpool Manager Arne Sloat described Gabriel Martinelli as a "nice guy" and defended the team Arsenal A winger after trying to push the injured Connor Bradley off the field.Northern Ireland international Bradley fell awkwardly near the touchline as he chased the ball in stoppage time during Thursday's goalless Premier League draw, falling to the ground and immediately grabbing his knee.Martinelli then dropped the ball onto the Liverpool defender before shoving him in the back in an attempt to clear him off the playing surface to…

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Arsenal 0-0 Liverpool: Arne Sloat’s side must find a lead in the Premier League as they run out of chances

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It was yet LiverpoolFollowing the team's 4-1 defeat to PSV Eindhoven at Anfield last November, Steven Gerrard said his old club continues to "bleed".Liverpool suffered their ninth defeat in 12 games on the night, but Liverpool have stemmed the agonizing flow and are now unbeaten in 10 games since being embarrassed by the Dutch champions.Thanks to a spirited display in Thursday's goalless draw against leaders Arsenal, Arne Slott's side became the first visiting team to pick up a Premier League point at the Emirates Stadium…

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Former Premier League referee David Coote has been sentenced for abusing a child’s image

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Asha PatelandLaura Hammond,NottinghamReuters/Peter ChiburaDavid Coote returned to Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing on ThursdayFormer Premier League referee David Coote has been given a suspended prison sentence after a child abuse video was found on his laptop.The video, which showed a 15-year-old boy wearing a school uniform, was found on a device recovered by police in February last year.Coote, of Woodhill, Collingham, Nottinghamshire, admitted a charge of making an indecent image of a child in relation to the Category A video, the most serious type, at…

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Jose Mourinho: Benfica players remain at the training field after Braga

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Jose Mourinho took his players to stay at Benfica's training ground after their loss to Braga in the League Cup semi-final, and the Portuguese coach said he hoped they would not sleep and think too much instead.Benfica lost Wednesday's match 3-1 and ended the match with ten men after former Manchester City defender Nicolas Otamendi was sent off.Mourinho, who was appointed coach in September, suggested his players would remain at the club's training base in Seixale for the foreseeable future.Mourinho said in a press conference…

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