What you missed while Cleveland was finally winning something…
- Your midweek Premier League roundup: Wigan 1-1 Stoke City, Fulham 3-0 Burnley, Portsmouth 1-1 Sunderland, Manchester City 2-0 Bolton.
- Rafa Benitez has defended Arsene Wenger against claims that he’s a sore loser. I don’t know who wins at these mind games, but I know for sure that my sanity always loses.
- Arsene Wenger has blamed his inability to sign players on budget restrictions.
- Birmingham City manager Alex McLeish has thanked West Ham owners David Gold and David Sullivan for making his team talk easier; the pair have said they want West Ham to “thrash” Birmingham tonight.
- Barcelona “flatly deny” that they’ve reached any kind of agreement with Cesc Fabregas that would bring him back to the Camp Nou this summer.
- Standard Liege striker Milan Jovanovic’s “on-again, off-again” free transfer to Liverpool is now on again.
- Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon claims that Cristiano Ronaldo rejected a move to Barcelona in favor of coming to Real Madrid.
- China stunned South Korea by beating them 3-0 in the East Asian Championship; this result gives China a pretty good shot at winning the four-team tournament.
- Ruud Gullit wants the Dutch National Team to forget about “Total Football” and instead concentrate on winning ugly; Dirk Kuyt and Ruud van Nistelrooy thought they were already doing that.
- Finally, Unprofessional Foul has chronicled all the different missteps of John Terry’s career into one easy-to-find post.
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Looks like Pompey aren’t quite out of the financial woods yet, check the BBC’s football homepage…