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Football: Chelsea, Arsenal crash to surprise defeats

Referee pulls out gun

WATCH: Match in Brazil turns ugly as referee explodes in anger after assault by player.

NZF 'move forward' from eligibility saga

Football: Rooney keeping eyes on title

If there was an indicator of it being business as usual at Manchester United after returning to the top of the English Premier League for the first time in 2 years, the lack of fanfare said it....

De Jong resigns over Olympic saga

Two months after overseeing one of the most costly administrative errors in New Zealand sport, NZF's High Performance Director Fred de Jong has resigned.

Football: Wellington draw final warm-up

The Wellington Phoenix rounded out their A-League preparations with a draw against Auckland City at Westpac Stadium yesterday.

Powerbrokers caught up

The Fifa scandal has engulfed Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini with Swiss prosecutors investigating an illegal US$2 million payment from Blatter to the former French midfielder.

City still has the X-factor

Ramon Tribulietx is locked in to guide Auckland City for another season - but agents touting players the Spaniard might want to sign.

Arsene Wenger: I could have been a rugby star

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger loves rugby and says he could have been a star at the game.

Football: Fifa suspend Jerome Valcke

Not enough fields for top football club

The football club that was last year the toast of NZ with its historic international success says it has had to turn away youngsters because of a lack of playing fields.

Football: Ronaldo ends goal 'crisis'

Goalscoring great Cristiano Ronaldo silences his many doubters with five strikes against rivals Espanyol.

Bonevacia leads Phoenix to pre-season win

Mourinho denies feeling strain after Chelsea's woeful start

Jose Mourinho denied last night that he was feeling the strain of Chelsea's disastrous start to the English Premier League football season.

Watch: Benteke's wonder goal

FIFA: What led to Dempsey's decision?

Michael Brown interviewed Charlie Dempsey in 2003 about his infamous World Cup vote abstention.

NZF saga: Players exempted

New Zealand Football have won some exemptions for players to turn out for national teams but the threat of major Fifa sanctions are still possible.

I have proof of bribe, says top writer

A world-renowned investigator says he's got the documents to back the allegation former Oceania football boss Charlie Dempsey took a US$250,000 bribe.