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Anelka facing long ban if guilty
Oxford United 0-3 Charlton Athletic | FA Cup third-round replay report
Espanyol 0-1 Real Madrid | Copa del Rey first leg match report
Gus Poyet: Sunderland's Old Trafford fixture feels like 'a strange game'
Roma 1-0 Juventus | Coppa Italia match report
West Ham 0-3 Man City (0-9 on agg)
Bayern Munich's Dante says he is transfer target for Manchester United
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Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic banned for three matches
Graham Turner steps down as manager of League One club Shrewsbury Town
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There's more at stake for West Brom in Nicolas Anelka case than points | Daniel Taylor
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Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:50 PM PST

• Racially aggravated offence gets five-game minimum
• West Brom tell player he must pay his own legal fees

Nicolas Anelka is facing a substantial ban as the Football Association set about appointing a QC to oversee a three-man disciplinary panel to rule on his quenelle salute and whether, if there are antisemitic connotations, it should warrant a longer punishment than those meted out to Luis Suárez and John Terry for previous offences.

Anelka is expected to contest the FA's charge despite being informed by West Bromwich Albion that he will have to pay his own legal fees if he intends to fight the case. The FA's findings have been delivered in a 34-page report charging him with making a gesture that was "abusive and/or indecent and/or insulting and/or improper".

The FA has taken extensive legal advice, as well as guidance from France, before concluding that Anelka's goal celebration at West Ham United on 28 December ought to be a matter for disciplinary action. Around 99% of the FA's cases are subsequently proven and, unless Anelka is the exception, he can also expect a heavy fine for his show of support for Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, the comedian who brought the gesture to prominence and is now banned from public appearances in France.

If the case is proved, a minimum five-game ban would automatically follow because of the new FA guidelines surrounding Rule E3, when the alleged offence is aggravated by "a reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or religion or belief". It would also go against Anelka that he has not offered any form of apology, or an admission that he was in the wrong copying a gesture that has become synonymous with antisemitism.

Approaching 35, Anelka would not get the benefit of the doubt that might be afforded to a much younger player. Suárez was banned for eight matches for racially abusing Patrice Evra, and Terry was suspended for four matches because of his comments to Anton Ferdinand, and in both cases there is a feeling among senior FA figures that the punishments were too lenient.

Anelka has until 6pm on Thursday to respond to the charge, although there is a chance he might ask for an extension to that deadline. After that the FA is determined to hold the case within the next few weeks, acutely aware of the criticism from the anti-racism group Kick It Out that it has taken too long reaching this stage. There is still, however, the possibility of an appeal dragging it later into what is almost certainly going to be Anelka's final season in English football.

Dieudonné has been prosecuted by the French government for insulting the memory of Holocaust victims, and Anelka's quenelle has already led to West Brom's shirt sponsors, Zoopla, co-owned by the Jewish businessman Alex Chesterman, announcing that it will not renew its £3m-a-year agreement this summer.

"If Nicolas Anelka is found guilty of a racial offence, then he deserves everything he gets," Alan Cleverley, the secretary of the West Bromwich Albion Official Supporters Club, said. "It sounds as if he did it on purpose because he knew the match was being shown live in France. If the book gets thrown at him, I've got no sympathy whatsoever."

Anelka has received support, however, from Romelu Lukaku. "He's been my idol since I was a kid; he still is," Lukaku, on loan from Chelsea, told Everton's website. "I think he shouldn't be banned for that. He was supporting a stand-up comedian in France. We don't have to make such a big deal about it. He's an adult. … I hope he doesn't get suspended because he's a player people want to see on the pitch."

Everton later removed the interview and their director of communications, Alan Myers, said: "It is the player's opinion and not the opinion held by the club. The last thing we want to do is cause offence to anyone."

Kick It Out remains unhappy that the FA has taken almost a month to charge Anelka. A statement said: "The FA has previously demonstrated its commitment to taking effective and swift action to deal with all forms of abusive conduct in football, and has spent a longer time than desirable in order to give careful consideration to the allegations made in this case.

"Kick It Out awaits Anelka's response to the charge before making any further comment. The campaign hopes that this matter can now be quickly concluded."

Daniel Taylor

Oxford United 0-3 Charlton Athletic | FA Cup third-round replay report

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:43 PM PST

The French striker Yann Kermorgant scored twice as the Championship side Charlton Athletic eased to a 3-0 win over League Two Oxford United at the Kassam Stadium to book an FA Cup fourth-round trip to Huddersfield.

Kermorgant, whose late equaliser at The Valley last week earned the Addicks a replay after they had trailed 2-0, struck his first in the 35th minute with a fine drive. Simon Church laid the ball off to him 20 yards out and his sweet left-footed shot was too powerful for the goalkeeper Ryan Clarke, who could only divert the ball high into the net.

Oxford, unbeaten away in the league this season but with indifferent form at home, were still trying to recover from that goal when Chris Powell's team struck again on their next attack in the 38th minute. Church raced forward following a slip by Michael Raynes and, after drawing Clarke, he squared it for Danny Green to knock in from three yards.

Oxford played with more urgency at the start of the second half and Josh Ruffels went close to pulling one back with a header.

But Kermorgant sealed Charlton's first win of 2014 with a brilliant 25-yard free-kick curled into the top corner on 58 minutes.

Espanyol 0-1 Real Madrid | Copa del Rey first leg match report

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:41 PM PST

Real Madrid continued their winning start to the new year with Karim Benzema giving them a 1-0 victory in their Copa del Rey quarter-final first leg away to Espanyol on Tuesday.

Benzema's goal meant Real have come out on top in each of their six games since Christmas, a burst of form that has seen them close the gap to one point behind Barcelona and Atlético Madrid at the top of La Liga.

Espanyol have a good record against Real in the cup and knocked them out the last time the pair met in the 1999-2000 season but Carlo Ancelotti's side put themselves in the driving seat with this win.

Nine days after Madrid eked out a 1-0 victory at Espanyol's Cornella-El Prat Stadium in the league, the visitors were again limited to the narrowest of winning margins despite dominating the first half, when Cristiano Ronaldo hit the post before Benzema headed home in the 25th minute.

The second half was more evenly matched and Espanyol's Sergio García came close to an equaliser before the Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas denied Jhon Córdoba in a one-on-one seven minutes from the end. It was a spirited display from Espanyol but it will take something special for them to turn the tie around at the Bernabéu.

The winners could play the holders, Atlético Madrid, in the semi-finals if they come through their tie with Athletic Bilbao while Barça, on the other side of the draw, face Levante.

Gus Poyet: Sunderland's Old Trafford fixture feels like 'a strange game'

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:30 PM PST

• Manchester United looking at a 'must win' fixture
• But relegation zone Sunderland have 2-1 first-leg lead

Gus Poyet described Wednesday night's fixture at Old Trafford as "quite a strange game". Sunderland's manager gave the distinct impression that he harbours mixed feelings about a Capital One Cup semi-final second leg staged at a time when his struggling side remain stuck in the Premier League's relegation zone.

His players hold a fragile 2-1 lead from the first leg but Poyet knows that reaching Wembley and slipping into the Championship would not only constitute a most unwanted double but appear to be a case of rank incompetence. The alternative scenario involves Sunderland exposing Manchester United's current frailties before, bolstered by their impending big final date with Manchester City, potentially shooting up the table.

"In normal conditions, if Manchester United were in the top four and we were mid-table it would probably be a bigger game for us," Poyet acknowledged. "It would be massive and a unique opportunity. Now because of where we are in the League, it makes it quite strange. But both teams have a chance to change the course of their season."

The Uruguayan will be fascinated to see how United react to the stress of what he said "might be a must-win game" for David Moyes. "Even a goal down everybody in the world will be expecting them to win at home," he said. "But there's more pressure on them.

"David took the most difficult job in the world. After Sir Alex Ferguson left it was always going to be the most difficult job. It's a big change. It's not like changing managers at any other club. I hope David's given time to turn things round; he deserves that for what he did at Everton.

"If somebody needs to win this game it's Manchester United but for us it's a great opportunity and I wouldn't like to give it away cheaply. If we don't make it I want it to be because Manchester United were very good not because we gave them it. We can't aim for 0-0; we need to try to score a goal."

Poyet is never quite sure what sort of football his infuriatingly inconsistent side will produce. Last Saturday, a week after an impressive 4-1 win at Fulham, Sunderland were appalling for an hour at home to Southampton but ended up, semi-miraculously, rallying from 2-0 down to force a draw.

"If we start like we did the other day, it could be over after 20 minutes," Poyet said. "Against Southampton we were not playing as a team, not reading the game, not aware of our surroundings and not reacting. We were second best at everything, technically, tactically, mentally, physically, reactions, speed. There was so much difference between the teams it was scary. But somehow we got out of it."

The 9,000 supporters streaming south-west across the Pennines on Wednesday will expect an infinitely better performance. "That 9,000 are going just confirms things for me," Poyet said. "It confirms how big football is for this city and these fans. I'm feeling that every day here. They deserve something to cheer about."

The Uruguayan spoke with the authority of a man who has conducted extensive market research. "I am living in Sunderland and, because I can't cook, I go to restaurants all the time and I meet people every day and I know how much this club means to them.

"People talk about Wembley and how important it is to win this game and they don't want to know about the league. I'm the one bringing the league into the equation. They just want to go to Wembley.

"There's no better connection for a player and supporters than to win trophies. Celebration brings people together and then you feel for the club in a different way. I would like my players to have that feeling. I want these players to remember this club from the inside."

He also wants Sunderland to beat Stoke at the Stadium of Light on Wednesday week. "It will be easy to motivate the players for the semi-final," Poyet said. "The one that will be different is Stoke."

In recent weeks balancing League and cup priorities has been further complicated by his possession of only one senior fit goalkeeper. Now, though, Vito Mannone has an understudy to replace the injured Keiren Westwood after Almería, the Spanish club, rescinded Oscar Ustari's contract, allowing the 27-year-old Argentina keeper to sign for Sunderland until the end of the season.

Louise Taylor

Roma 1-0 Juventus | Coppa Italia match report

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:27 PM PST

Gervinho scored a late winner as Roma beat the Serie A leaders, Juventus, 1-0 in the Coppa Italia quarter-finals on Tuesday night in the Stadio Olimpico.

The Ivory Coast international acrobatically finished Kevin Strootman's cross after a well-worked move with Miralem Pjanic.

It was a match between the top two sides in the league. Roma lost 3-0 in the league to Juventus earlier this month.

Roma started well and had two good opportunities inside the opening 11 minutes but first the new signing Radja Nainggolan and then Alessandro Florenzi fired wide.

Juventus players and staff called furiously for a red card for Mehdi Benatia when he dragged down Sebastian Giovinco as the forward was trying to race on to Andrea Pirlo's long ball. However, Benatia escaped with a booking.

Roma face either Napoli or Lazio in the two-legged semi-final.

West Ham 0-3 Man City (0-9 on agg)

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:07 PM PST

Sam Allardyce had mused after West Ham United's Capital One Cup quarter-final win at Tottenham Hotspur, in the knowledge that it would be Manchester City next, that the competition's format had a flaw. "It is a shame," the West Ham manager said, "that the semi-final could not be over one leg." He suggested that West Ham might have a chance were that one-off tie at Upton Park.

The events here did little to strengthen the hypothesis. Yes, this semi-final was already over, after the mauling that City had dished out in the first leg, but the manner in which they strolled to victory on the night suggested that they would have been happy to play West Ham whenever and wherever.

City looked sharp even as they played within themselves and the only question, from the moment that Álvaro Negredo nodded them into an early lead, concerned the number of goals that they would deign to score: how severely they would punish West Ham. An utter rout appeared to be on for them but City settled on the three, and nine overall, with Sergio Agüero and Negredo, again, doing the damage. Such is their confidence, they will surely hope that Manchester United, rather than Sunderland, provide the opposition in the Wembley final.

Gallows humour framed the occasion. West Ham boasted only one hat-trick in the team and that was Roger Johnson with his three relegations. Forget City's quest for the quadruple, the defender is on for his own version. A local bookmaker had advertised the return on a 7-0 West Ham victory in his window: the keys to the shop. "Being realistic," wrote Sam Allardyce in his programme notes, with glorious understatement "we are unlikely to overturn our first-leg deficit."

West Ham, and only West Ham, had been in this situation before. In 1990, they crashed to a then League Cup semi-final record 6-0 loss to Oldham Athletic. A line for the historians: they won the return leg 3-0.

Manuel Pellegrini had made eight changes to the lineup that beat Cardiff City on Saturday to extend City's unbeaten run in all competitions to 17 matches but he was able to include Agüero from the off for the first time since mid-December. Arguably the Premier League's most lethal striker was not exactly what West Ham wanted to see.

It took precisely two minutes and 36 seconds for the East End dream to die. Perhaps it was Agüero's presence inside the penalty area that brought on James Tomkins' brain-fade. Either way, the West Ham centre-half drifted away from Negredo and another of the league's most lethal strikers headed Marcos Lopes's left-wing cross past the exposed Jussi Jaaskelainen.

Upton Park featured swaths of empty seats. Tickets were still pricey and the real surprise was that so many turned up for the most hopeless cause in memory. Cup semi-final fever had hardly gripped. There was ironic calls of "Ole!" when West Ham strung a few passes together on 21 minutes.

There were spiky moments, including when Agüero stamped into a tackle on Tomkins in the 31st minute and caught his opponent's ankle. It would have hurt and Agüero was booked.

City's second came after another burst from Lopes, the 18-year-old Brazilian-born Portuguese winger. The ball broke to Agüero, who did not look the favourite to get past Razvan Rat and Matt Taylor but he did, with the defending best described as hapless. He tapped past Jaaskelainen as though on the training ground. The lively Agüero had earlier been denied from distance by the goalkeeper.

Allardyce wanted Tomkins and the captain, Kevin Nolan, who returned after one and four match bans respectively, not to mention Carroll, to benefit in terms of match fitness. Nolan had the ball in the net in the sixth minute only to be correctly pulled back for offside while Carroll put himself about, particularly in the air. He sent one first-half header, from Mohamed Diamé's cross, over the crossbar.

It was always the plan to withdraw Carroll at half-time, as Allardyce eases him back after his well-documented foot problems but he lost Joe Cole to a muscular injury to reinforce the impression that West Ham cannot get through any game without picking up an injury.

Joe Cole actually came out for the second-half but Stewart Downing, his replacement, began to strip after only 45 seconds. More worrying for Allardyce was the sight of Diamé being taken off on a stretcher in the last minute with his right leg in a protective splint following a tackle. West Ham sought the most hollow of consolation goals and there were flashes from Ravel Morrison of his beautiful touch and mazy dribbling skills. He had two decent appeals for penalties while the substitute Carlton Cole twice went close.

Yet the evening was summed up by Diamé running at Carlton Cole inside the City area and neither player changing directions and, shortly afterwards, Negredo running in between Johnson and Taylor as though they did not exist before stretching to scoop past Jaaskelainen.

"Nine-nil in your cup final," taunted the City fans. West Ham wanted to pep confidence and restore pride. They failed.

David Hytner

Bayern Munich's Dante says he is transfer target for Manchester United

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 02:01 PM PST

• 'I'm thankful for the Manchester United interest,' says Dante
• But defender's agent denies that player is in talks with club

The Bayern Munich defender, Dante, has revealed that he is a target for Manchester United in the current window as David Moyes seeks high-quality players to rebuild his squad.

Dante, who is 30 and won last season's Champions League, told Fox Sports Brazil: "I'm thankful for the Manchester United interest. It will all be sorted out by the end of the month. We have to wait until 31 January because there is a lot going on."

However, with Dante in contract negotiations with Bayern, his agent hinted that the Brazilian might be using United as leverage. "There is no way that is going to happen. There is no agreement with Manchester United. He is not going to leave Bayern in the window," Marcus Marin said.

"At the moment Bayern are the only people we have spoken to anyway because we are talking over a new contract. We are still waiting for an answer from them and, although things happen very quickly in football, until that situation changes, we cannot speak to anyone else anyway.

"Dante is at a crucial stage of his career, so he needs to think about one last big contract. He has had a brilliant year and won several medals so we know how important the next few months will be. We are hoping that something can be resolved before the World Cup."

Jamie Jackson

Manchester City will let Joleon Lescott go if replacement is found

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 01:48 PM PST

• West Ham United and Fulham competing for defender
• Manuel Pellegrini linked to Porto pair and Bayern's Dante

Joleon Lescott will be allowed to leave Manchester City before the end of the transfer window if Manuel Pellegrini can secure a replacement, with West Ham United and Fulham vying to sign the central defender.

A £90,000-a-week offer from West Ham to Lescott that would pay him £70,000 per week, even if the club is relegated, remains on the table and, although it is unclear if Fulham will match those terms, the 31-year-old's future depends on City bringing in a defender.

It is thought City retain an interest in Porto's Eliaquim Mangala and Nicolás Otamendi, plus Bayern Munich's Dante, who is also interesting Manchester United.

Jamie Jackson

West Ham v Manchester City – as it happened | Scott Murray

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 01:37 PM PST

Minute-by-minute report: More misery for West Ham as they were soundly beaten at Upton Park to find themselves on the wrong end of a record 9-0 aggregate thrashing. Scott Murray was watching

Scott Murray

Chelsea prepared to sell Mata to Manchester United for £40m

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 12:48 PM PST

• United must submit record a club bid for Spaniard
• Mata must also indicate he has his heart set on leaving
• Jamie Jackson: where would Mata fit in?
• Poll: what is Juan Mata worth?

Chelsea are prepared to allow Juan Mata to leave for Manchester United this week if the champions submit a club record bid of £40m for his services, though the Spain international must also indicate to José Mourinho that he has his heart set upon a move to Old Trafford.

United have yet to make a formal offer for the 25-year-old, who has found first-team opportunities relatively limited at Stamford Bridge this season under the Portuguese, but the London club anticipate that situation changing. A bid of that size for a player who cost £23.5m from Valencia in 2011 would be considered seriously, though Mourinho would still be given the final say as to whether Mata should be released.

There is an instinctive reluctance at Stamford Bridge to lose their player of the season from each of his two full campaigns at the club, sentiment expressed publicly by Mourinho over recent weeks when the manager has been asked about Mata's immediate future. Yet the Spaniard has completed 90 minutes only three times this season, starting 11 league games, and, with the World Cup to come in the summer, his frustration on the sidelines has been acknowledged sympathetically.

Other clubs have expressed tentative interest in the forward, most notably Paris Saint-Germain, with Atlético Madrid going as far as to seek to take him on loan for six months with an option to make the move permanent in the summer. Yet the prospective deal that would be lodged by United would eclipse all-comers with Mata, who would be cup-tied in Europe this term, favourable to the idea, intent as he is to perform regularly for a prestigious club. David Moyes's side languish 14 points from the Premier League summit and six from the Champions League places, but the club retains its mystique.

Whereas in the past the Chelsea hierarchy have had the final say on outgoing transfers regardless of the manager's opinion, the decision now will rest with Mourinho. The Portuguese could yet block any move, though his stance is likely to be shaped by Mata's attitude. The Spaniard, who is contracted until 2016, would not naturally agitate for a transfer but, if he makes clear his desire to move in talks with the management, the club are expected to yield. Mata is due back at Cobham, with the rest of the Chelsea players, on Wednesday after two days off.

A similar policy was adopted over Kevin De Bruyne this month, with Chelsea's instinct to loan the player to Atletico only for Wolfsburg to bid £18m. The Belgian met key members of the club's hierarchy to make clear his desire to join the Bundesliga club, but it was only once he had confirmed as much in face to face talks with Mourinho that his departure was finally sanctioned. While Mata's would constitute a considerably more significant sale, the same principle will apply.

United, who discovered on Tuesday that captain Nemanja Vidic will be banned for three games after losing his appeal against the red card he was shown in the recent 3-1 defeat at Chelsea, remain resolute that Wayne Rooney, a player Chelsea have coveted since last summer, will not move to Stamford Bridge as part of any prospective deal for Mata. Indeed, their interest in the player represents something of a change in policy given their priority had previously been a left-back and a more classic central midfielder rather than a creative player whose desire is to play as a No10, where Rooney, Shinji Kagawa and Adnan Junuzaj can also operate capably.

Yet their interest reflects an urgency to make a marquee signing – it would eclipse the £30.7m spent on Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur in 2008 – and signal their intent still to secure Champions League qualification this term after recent toils. His arrival would lay down a marker as the club seeks to rebuild its squad with players of similar quality.

Chelsea had originally hoped to review Mata's situation in the summer, conscious as they are that they will struggle to recruit a player of comparable calibre in the remainder of this window and with challenges ahead on three fronts. Indeed, Juan Mata Sr, who acts as the player's agent, had hoped to broker a deal to Barcelona at the end of the campaign, only for United's interest to emerge and prove enticing.

Jamie Jackson

Dominic Fifield

Josep Gombau's possession game starts to pay off for Adelaide United

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 12:42 PM PST

The Catalan coach on clashes with the media, the strength of the A-League and how the Socceroos can beat Spain at the World Cup

Jack Kerr

Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic banned for three matches

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:50 AM PST

• Appeal against Sunday's red card at Stamford Bridge rejected
• The Serb will miss Sunderland, Cardiff and Stoke games

The Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic has been banned for three matches after losing his appeal against his red card against Chelsea, the Football Association has announced.

Vidic's claim for wrongful dismissal was rejected by an independent regulatory commission on Tuesday. He was sent off in United's 3-1 defeat on Sunday for a foul on Eden Hazard.

An FA statement read: "The player's three-match suspension commences with immediate effect."

The 32-year-old United captain will miss the Capital One Cup semi-final second leg against Sunderland on Wednesday and the Premier League games at home to Cardiff and away to Stoke.

His absence is a blow to David Moyes' struggling side, whose season suffered another setback in their comprehensive defeat by Chelsea, which left them 14 points off the league leaders, Arsenal, and six off the Champions League places.

The Serb will be missed by a defence that has looked particularly vulnerable in recent matches, having conceded nine goals in five games.

Graham Turner steps down as manager of League One club Shrewsbury Town

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:39 AM PST

• Poor run of results prompted Turner to call time
• Manager saddened by having to make decision to go

Graham Turner has quit as manager of the League One strugglers Shrewsbury Town.

The veteran manager, 66, has called time on his second spell at the club with the Shrews a point above the relegation zone following a poor run of results culminating in Saturday's 3-0 defeat against Rotherham.

Turner said: "It's a very sad decision. It's a club that I've really enjoyed working at, it's a club that gave me my first opportunity in management, so I'll always appreciate that and will always be close to the club.

"I just felt it wasn't necessarily just Saturday. I think there's been a sequence of results where for several weeks now I thought I could improve things.

"I thought I was the right man to get the results going and it hasn't materialised, so I felt that there was a need for a decision to be made.

"I don't think we could just carry on in the same vein and that decision I reached was I would step down as team manager of Shrewsbury Town."

Turner returned to the club in June 2010, 26 years after he originally left to take charge at Aston Villa, and guided the Shrews to promotion from League Two in 2012.

Lucas may be out for two months

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:25 AM PST

• Brazil midfielder has damaged ligaments in his right knee
• Coates to leave Liverpool and rejoin Nacional on loan

The Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva is expected to be on the sidelines for up to two months with a knee ligament injury.

It is understood the Brazil midfielder has damaged the medial collateral ligament in his right knee.

Although not as serious as an injury to a cruciate ligament – the 27-year-old ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in November 2011 – it will still keep him out for six to eight weeks, which would take him into March.

Lucas sustained the injury 20 minutes after coming on as a half-time substitute in Saturday's 2-2 draw at home to Aston Villa. He told Brendan Rodgers, Liverpool's manager, he heard "a click" in his right knee following a challenge with Fabian Delph and he subsequently left the ground on crutches, later tweeting: "It is in GOD hands."

Lucas had been left out of the starting line-up as Rodgers opted to play Steven Gerrard in a holding role for the second successive match, allowing him to field a more attacking side with the returning striker Daniel Sturridge accommodated at the Brazilian's expense.

The experiment did not work and Rodgers corrected his mistake at half-time and Lucas's arrival did allow the Reds to regain some control. With Liverpool looking to hold on to fourth place in the Premier League, Rodgers could be tempted to find additional cover in the transfer window as he has been short in the area of defensive midfielders for some time.

He still sees Gerrard as being able to perform that role but most of his other midfield options – Jordan Henderson, Joe Allen and Luis Alberto – are all more offensively minded players.

There's more at stake for West Brom in Nicolas Anelka case than points | Daniel Taylor

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:02 AM PST

The Midlands club's reaction to the quenelle gesture betrays their past as equality pioneers and it underlines that football still signs up for all the initiatives but just does not always mean it

The statue will go up in the centre of West Bromwich on 15 July, the 25th anniversary of Laurie Cunningham's death. It is the work of the Barnsley sculptor Graham Ibbeson, is called The Celebration, and will also show Cyrille Regis and Brendon Batson back in the days when they were known as the Three Degrees and had to base their professional lives around a soundtrack of racial abuse.

"The grounds that really stuck out were Leeds, West Ham, Birmingham, Everton, Tottenham and Chelsea," Regis writes in his 2010 autobiography. "At Spurs they used to sing: 'Who's that up a tree – big Cyrille, big Cyrille.' Three black players in one team was just too much for some supporters." Back at the Hawthorns, the office staff used to dread opening the post. "Laurie copped it worse because he went out with a white lady," Regis remembers. One of the letters had a bullet inside and a warning about what would happen if Cunningham became the first black footballer to play for England.

West Brom's supporters hardly need the history lesson. Their club has been a bastion for equality in sport and life. Or, at least, it has until that moment, 40 minutes into their game at West Ham United last month, when Nicolas Anelka prodded the ball into the net and celebrated with la quenelle – in a game shown live on French television.

The disciplinary charge from the Football Association is both necessary and overdue and it can only be hoped Anelka receives a fittingly long ban for his "special dedication" in support of his friend, the so-called humorist Dieudonné M'bala M'bala. If they are friends, Anelka cannot be unaware of Dieudonné's history, his convictions for antisemitism, his reference to the Holocaust as "memorial pornography", the reasons why he is banned from public appearances in France and the background to a salute that gives his followers just about enough greyness and deniability to squirm their way out of normal legal responses.

Anelka's argument is that it was an innocent gesture but he insults our intelligence by making out he is good enough friends with Dieudonné to dedicate a goal to him, but not good enough to know about the man. Perhaps the FA could bring along some of those charming photos that can be found on the internet of Dieudonné's acolytes performing outside Auschwitz and other places of great sensitivity. Then, perhaps, they could use their powers so we do not have to see Anelka on a football pitch for a long time indeed.

Alan Cleverley, secretary of the West Bromwich Albion Official Supporters Club, summed it up pretty accurately. "It sounds as if he did it on purpose because he knew the match was being shown live in France. If the book gets thrown at him, I've got no sympathy whatsoever."

It is an important moment for West Brom and it is knowing their background and everything they have stood for, and against, that makes it feel slightly perplexing, troubling even, that they have not been more proactive. They have been put in a horrible, invidious position but so far they have handled this issue with little clarity or eloquence. They could also have made a stand and they chose not to.

The problem in football is there is a culture among the professional clubs of self-preservation, of condemning these kind of incidents unless it actually involves one of their own. If someone of another profession had, say, put an antisemitic message on Twitter, he or she would have been suspended immediately. Yet football operates by its own rules, often in denial, signing up for all the initiatives, just not always meaning it.

A time will surely come when a Premier League club breaks free and acknowledges there is a bigger picture – and more to play for than just league points. But Liverpool did not manage it when Luis Suárez racially abused Patrice Evra and the decision-makers at Anfield tried every last desperate measure to portray him as the victim. Chelsea's admission that John Terry had acted abominably towards Anton Ferdinand came far too late and now we have these bland statements from West Brom and the impression, certainly to begin with, that they did not understand the seriousness of the matter, and their first concern was whether Anelka could still be selected.

Keith Downing, their caretaker manager at the time, should probably be given the benefit of the doubt for his poor response on the day, reacting with indignation to the suggestion that Anelka had done anything wrong and describing it as "absolute rubbish". It is true, after all, that outside of a few fanatics the British audience would not have understood the significance of the quenelle at that point. Downing, nonetheless, would have been much better off saying the club was aware of the allegation, would look into it properly and then comment further.

It is what has happened since then that makes you wonder whether West Brom have blurred their priorities and put more in the fact that Anelka might be able to pinch them a goal or two rather than point 7.1 of their own club charter, which stipulates: "Everyone will be regarded equally irrespective of their race, colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital or family status, age or ethnic origin." How does the quenelle, for everyone to see, fit into that?

West Brom's first statement on the subject almost mentioned in passing that Anelka's salute had "caused offence in some quarters", which was a strange way of putting it. There has not been a hint of an apology and there is no legitimate reason, whatever the relevant people say, why they have to wait until after the FA inquiry before holding their own investigation and taking action themselves.

Anelka did what is alleged. Everyone saw it and he will have to live with the consequences, not that he has particularly done a great deal to argue his innocence anyway. After that, it is over to West Brom and the question is: do they really want this person representing their club?

Daniel Taylor

Manchester United's Fábio da Silva set for loan move to Freiburg

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:32 AM PST

• David Moyes happy to allow Brazilian left-back to go
• Talks with Bundesliga strugglers are at advanced stage

Fábio da Silva could move on loan to the Bundesliga club Freiburg from Manchester United until the end of the season.

Discussions are at an advanced stage and David Moyes is content to allow the left-back to leave as the United manager has Alexander Büttner as cover for Patrice Evra in the position.

Moyes's willingness to allow Fábio to depart also underlines that hopes remain regarding a temporary move for Fábio Coentrão, the Real Madrid left-back, despite resistance from the Spanish club.

Fábio da Silva has managed three appearances this season, with the most recent lasting only four minutes after the Brazilian was sent off having come one as 76th-minute replacement in the 2-1 FA Cup defeat to Swansea City at Old Trafford on 5 January.

Freiburg are 16th in the Bundesliga, occupying a place that at the end of the season would entail a play-off against a side seeking promotion.

Jamie Jackson

Would orange cards, technology and foreign-player quotas help football?

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:29 AM PST

Fifa candidate Jérôme Champagne says he would introduce sin-bins, quotas for foreign players, more technology and only allow captains to talk to referees. Would this improve football?

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Boston Red Sox present World Series trophy to Japanese prime minister – video

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:27 AM PST

Japanese Boston Red Sox pitchers Koji Uehara and Junichi Tazawa present their World Series trophy to the prime minster of Japan

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Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:25 AM PST

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Following a run of nine defeats and one draw from their last 10 games, Oyston summoned Ince to his house for a meeting on Sunday night. The discussions lasted four hours but did not end with Ince being sacked, the chairman apparently waiting until he was safely two days away before breaking the bad news – by text, if Sky Sports News is to be believed.

"Blackpool Football Club can confirm that manager Paul Ince and assistants Alex Rae and Steve Thompson have had their contracts terminated with immediate effect," trumpeted the club in a statement on its website this afternoon. The club have not yet said whether they are seeking a replacement who will be a more serene influence. But the early indications suggest not. "Barry Ferguson will take charge of training when the players return on Thursday," concluded the statement.

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Nicolas Anelka is "considering his options" – both of them – after he was charged by the FA for celebrating a goal.

Ossie Ardiles is in hospital following a car crash in the Falkland Islands. A nurse at the hospital described him as "fine", which sits between "not bad" and "tickedyboo" on the unofficial list of medical conditions that all the hip doctors and nurses are using these days.

Moses Swaibu has been bailed after appearing in court accused of involvement in an alleged match-fixing conspiracy

And appointing staff with football expertise is a bit 2013, grandpa. Progressive soccer outfit Southampton are planning to appoint Ralph Kreuger, a former professional ice hockey player, to their reshaped management structure, and the former table tennis world champion Cai Zhenhua is to become the new president of the Chinese Football Association.

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Sebastián Coates to leave Liverpool and rejoin Nacional on loan

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:25 AM PST

• Coates injured while on international duty for Uruguay
• Rodgers warns Everton they will face different Liverpool

The Liverpool defender Sebastián Coates is set to rejoin former club Nacional on loan as he battles to be fit for this summer's World Cup.

The 23-year-old has been sidelined since tearing an anterior cruciate ligament in a knee while on international duty for Uruguay in August. Coates is still continuing his rehabilitation and is already in Montevideo awaiting completion of the move.

Liverpool are prepared to allow the centre-back to continue his rehabilitation in his homeland with a view to him regaining fitness and being able to get some match practice before Brazil.

"It would be beautiful to join Nacional and complete my recovery in Uruguay with my family and friends," the centre-back told Radio El Espectador 810. "The negotiations can be hard sometimes and we have to wait a bit."

Coates joined Liverpool from Nacional in August 2011 in a reported £7m deal but struggled to force his way into the first team. He has made just 24 appearances in that time, half of which have been in the Premier League, and scored two goals.

Cristiano Ronaldo honoured in Portugal – video

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:27 AM PST

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo is presented with one of Portugal's highest honours

Nicolas Anelka should not be banned over 'quenelle', says Romelu Lukaku

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:16 AM PST

• On-loan Everton striker defends Anelka over gesture
• Video interview since removed from Everton's website
• FA charge leaves Anelka facing minimum five-match ban

Everton's on-loan striker Romelu Lukaku has said Nicolas Anelka should not be banned over the quenelle gesture he made during West Bromwich Albion's match against West Ham on 28 December last year.

Lukaku, speaking in a video interview which has since been removed from Everton's website, publicly backed the West Brom forward, saying: "He's been my idol since I was a kid. He still is.

"I think he shouldn't be banned for that. He was supporting a stand-up comedian in France. We don't have to make such a big deal about it. He's an adult. I hope he doesn't get suspended because he's a player people want to see play on the pitch."

Anelka's Football Association charge of making a gesture allegedly aggravated by a reference to "ethnic origin and/or race and/or religion or belief" carries a minimum suspension of five games, though that could be increased. The player has until 6pm on 23 January 2014 to respond.

Anelka made the gesture during a goal celebration against West Ham United last month. The quenelle has antisemitic connotations and has been described by some as an inverted Nazi salute, although Anelka has insisted he was merely showing solidarity with the French comedian Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala, who brought the gesture to prominence, and that it was an anti-establishment gesture lacking any racist intent.

With comment growing on social media, Everton removed the footage when they became aware there was an issue.

"It is the player's opinion and not the opinion held by the football club," Everton's director of communications Alan Myers said.

"We moved quickly to remove any interview that may have been offensive to anyone. The last thing we want to do is cause offence to anyone."

The FA brought in an expert to help decide on whether charges should be brought and has spent several weeks working on the case due to its sensitivity.

A three-man independent regulatory commission will now be appointed to deal with the case – either to decide on the sanction if Anelka admits the charge or to hold a disciplinary hearing if he denies it.

Ince sacked as Blackpool manager

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:42 AM PST

• Barry Ferguson in the running as a replacement
• Supporters felt reputation of the club had been damaged

Eleven, often contradictory, sometimes acrimonious, months filled with deceptive promise and moments of rank indiscipline ended on Tuesday afternoon when Blackpool sacked Paul Ince.

The 46-year-old succeeded Michael Appleton last February and proceeded to guide the team to a mid-table finish but he leaves Blackpool eight points above the Championship relegation zone, having lost nine of their last 10 games and accrued nine red cards so far this season. It seems little wonder that when a key supporters group called for his head on Monday night the club's board swiftly took the hint.

With Alex Rae and Steve Thompson, Ince's assistants also dismissed, Barry Ferguson, the veteran midfielder, will assume caretaker duties while replacements for the former England international are considered. Ferguson, though, remains a strong candidate for the role.

Ince's own managerial career – embracing Macclesfield, MK Dons, Blackburn Rovers and Notts County – has never really quite taken off. Things looked promising when Blackpool began the season brightly and remained in the top four until November but then it started to go awry in December.

Three players were sent off during a defeat at Yeovil, while two more received red cards in the course of a 5-1 demolition by Derby County four days later.

The Seasiders maintained that they did not have a discipline problem but few agreed. It did not help that the Football Association imposed a five-game stadium ban on Ince following his actions after a match with Bournemouth in September.

Unusually, the FA subsequently released the details of Ince's expletive-heavy rant at a fourth official, whom he also physically assaulted after the final whistle, in their report.

A new year brought no upturn in fortunes for Blackpool or their manager, with five loan players returned to their parent clubs and the striker Michael Chopra fined for complaining, via Twitter, that only six players and a fitness coach had attended a training session. Last Saturday's 2-0 defeat by Barnsley, the Championship's bottom club, sparked rumours that Ince would not be in post much longer but talks at the home of Karl Oyston, the club's chairman, on Sunday evening concluded with him being granted a stay of execution.

It was curtailed somewhat abruptly late on Monday night when the Blackpool Supporters Association called for his sacking. In an open letter to Oyston, the BSA said Ince's position was "untenable" and felt he had "damaged the reputation of the club".

"The current manager has damaged the reputation of the club. Blackpool fans feel that the behaviour of Paul Ince, specifically with the incident at Bournemouth, has let them and the club down and is not appropriate for a manager in such a privileged position," wrote the BSA.

"The body language of the players appears to indicate they are unhappy with their current manager. The manager has been known to publicly criticise his players, which causes us to question Paul Ince's ability to motivate and lift his side. Paul Ince, via his tactics, attitude and results has destroyed the morale of Blackpool fans up and down the country."

Oyston was reaching the same conclusion. "It's pretty clear to anyone involved at the club that things aren't good. We are on a horrendous run and we need players," said the chairman only hours before dispensing with Ince's services.

"I've made it clear that we need to be given information by the manager in order to help him," added Oyston. "If we don't get that information, then we are all done for and something has to give. The message is we can't carry on like this, otherwise we'll end up back in League One."

Louise Taylor

Football fans get FFIT through Scottish premiership scheme tackling obesity | Rachel Pugh

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:01 AM PST

St Johnstone fan used to gasp going up stairs – now Football Fans in Training scheme has him climbing mountains

If 26-stone St Johnstone football fan Alastair Christie had been told four years ago that his passion for his Scottish Premiership team would power him to lose nine stone and to conquer 37 of Scotland's highest mountains, he would have responded with a choice expression from the terraces.

But a scheme run by 13 clubs in the Scottish Professional Football League has helped Christie and hundreds more overweight, middle-aged, football fans to get in shape according to research published this week in medical journal, the Lancet and BMC Public Health.

The research by Glasgow University on 747 men who went through the Football Fans in Training (FFIT) programme found that they lost nine times as much weight as those not on it.

The randomised 12-month study from June 2011 of a health programme delivered in a football club setting (possibly a world first) found that as well as losing weight on the 12-week programme, nearly 40% of men in the study maintained a weight loss of at least 5% of their original body weight a year later.

According to the 2011 Scottish health survey, just under two-thirds (64.3%) of adults, aged 16 and over, were classed as overweight or obese. With obesity linked to heart disease, diabetes, stroke, cancer and other health problems, these results couldn't come quickly enough for those working in public health. Men are notoriously difficult to engage in health programmes but one of the outstanding successes of FFIT, according to the research, was that it attracted men from across the socio-economic spectrum.

The formula is simple – organise male-only sessions in Scottish premiership clubs and run it "just like going to the pub but without the beer", capitalising on the men's devotion to their club.

"From what I was – a great, big, heavy, strongman – to being able to climb mountains, and play football with my son Blair, is like night and day," says Christie, 43, a prison officer, who used to gasp climbing the stairs in Perth prison. He heard about the programme from a fellow fan. Club-based recruitment was via websites, in-stadium advertising, and FFIT recruitment staff approaching potentially eligible men on match days. Over the weeks, the 15-strong group at the Perth-based St Johnstone FC turned up in their football shirts to learn about a good diet and how to get fitter, with the help of a coach.

Strong relationships were formed that turned into walking groups, 5-a-side teams and Munro-bagging parties.

"For me, it was the banter between everybody and the coaches that made it possible," says Christie. "It made coming to FFIT fun and not a chore. Doing the programme at McDiarmid Park most definitely spurred me on to change to a healthier lifestyle which I've continued."

Professor Sally Wyke, one of the two principal investigators from the University of Glasgow says: "We now have 'gold standard' evidence that the FFIT programme can help men lose weight and keep it off." Research will now focus on the 60% who did not maintain the weight loss at the 12-month follow-up.

Her team has secured a €6m (£5m) EU grant to develop a similar programme in Portugal, the Netherlands and clubs in the English Premier League.

Fellow researcher Cindy Gray is working with Sale Sharks, an English professional rugby union club, to see if FFIT can work in a rugby context. She is also exploring an equivalent for women.

The FFIT concept has gone into two Scottish prisons – Perth and Castle Huntly, near Dundee – as a result of Christie's success. A PE instructor colleague spotted that the man known as "Big Al" was approaching half his original size and he decided that Al's secret might do some of the prisoners good.

Kevin Fenton, national director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England, is interested in FFIT's success. A quarter of adults in England are obese. "There is growing evidence that physical activity has a key role in preventing cancer, coronary heart disease, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure; therefore getting more men physically active is key to improving the health of the population."

A note of caution is sounded by professor Jason Holford, chairman elect of the UK Association for the Study of Obesity, who says: "The football industry itself – and other sports like rugby – need to take it a stage further and wean themselves off alcohol and junk food sponsorship, as they did with smoking."

Rachel Pugh

Third footballer appears in court over alleged match-fixing conspiracy

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 05:49 AM PST

• Moses Swaibu appears before magistrates in Birmingham
• Former Conference South player granted unconditional bail

A third footballer has appeared in court accused of involvement in an alleged match-fixing conspiracy.

The former Conference South player Moses Swaibu, 24, was granted unconditional bail after making a brief appearance before magistrates in Birmingham.

Swaibu, of Tooley Street, Bermondsey, south London, is the fifth person to be charged with conspiring to defraud bookmakers as part of a National Crime Agency inquiry.

Two men from Singapore and two other Conference South players, Michael Boateng and Hakeem Adelakun, have already appeared in court charged in connection with the international investigation.

Swaibu, who is accused of conspiring to influence the course of unspecified football matches between 1 November and 26 November, was not required to enter a plea at Tuesday's hearing.

Magistrates granted the player unconditional bail to appear alongside his four co-defendants for a plea and case management hearing at Birmingham crown court on 7 March.

Boateng and Adelakun, who have been sacked by Brighton-based Whitehawk FC, were charged with conspiracy to defraud in December.

Boateng, 22, of Davidson Road, Croydon, south London; Adelakun, 22, of Mayfield Crescent, Thornton Heath, south London; and Swaibu are all alleged to have conspired in Manchester and elsewhere with Chann Sankaran and Sanjey Ganeshan.

Ganeshan, 43, of Hougang Avenue, Singapore, and Sankaran, 33, of Hawthorn Road, Hastings, East Sussex, were remanded in custody at an earlier hearing in Cannock, Staffordshire.

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