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David Moyes will be handed the opportunity to rebuild Sunderland next season, even if they are relegated to the Championship. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images
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Lincoln City manager Danny Cowley has told his squad not to think of the bigger picture but to play nine games of 10-minutes within the 90 minute match against Arsenal. Photograph: Gary Calton for the Guardian
Lincoln’s Danny Cowley: ‘We Have One-in-1,000 Chance at Arsenal but We Can Do it’
Danny Cowley takes a deep breath and anticipates the moment when he will lead the first non-league football club in 103 years into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. “Facing Arsenal at the Emirates?” the Lincoln City manager says quietly just after eight o’clock at...Caption:
‘When Cazorla plays as he can it is hard to think of a Premier League midfielder who can control a game with such persuasive craft and urgency.’ Illustration: Gary Neill for the Guardian
Absence of Santi Cazorla, Arsenal’s Penfold-ish Skill-goblin, Adds to Sense of Loss
English football has always had a thing about leadership. What is it exactly? How loud should it be? How many layers of bandage should be entwined around its blood-caked temples? More to the point, without it who will keep the men in check, prevent them from fleeing...Caption:
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has hastened the end of Wayne Rooney’s Manchester United career by scoring 24 goals and counting in a role the former England captain was unable to make work. Photograph: Dan Mullan/Getty Images
How Manchester United Became the Zlatan Ibrahimovic Show
f all the friends of Wayne Rooney quoted anonymously in the media are to be believed, the striker has not been making much of a secret of the fact that he is unhappy with his present position in the pecking order at Manchester United. It is not difficult to see why....Caption:
England’s Wayne Rooney . (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)