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By Haroon Arain  Radamel Falcao's loan move to Manchester United was the major deadline day signing as Premier League summer spending hit a record £835m. The twenty times English champions decided to spend big, breaking the English transfer record. They signed Argentinian winger Angel di maria for £60 million along with English International left back Luke Shaw ,Marcos Rojo and Dany Blind. Their fierce rivals Liverpool saw their controversial main man Luis Suarez,  moving to Spanish giants Barcelona, but replaced him...

Sport News 24/7 By Mike Deverell That might seem like the knee jerkiest of knee jerk reactions. Two draws and one defeat, seven goals scored, including matches against two of last season’s top four, is certainly not disastrous. But for Everton fans it’s the pattern and wider trend that’s starting to look worrying. It started in a disjointed pre-season. The World Cup certainly didn’t help with different players returning at different times, although of course that’s the same for other...

Sport News 24/7 By David Edwards Well we did it – just. For most clubs ‘squeaky bum’ time comes in April, but for Arsenal fans it arrived in August. With a couple of minutes to go against Besiktas, Ba just missed a cross that would have consigned us to Thursday evenings on ITV4, but with a show of resilience and maximum effort from all the players (not always our strongest points) we scraped through for our 17th consecutive year in...

Sport News 24/7 By Cai Davies “The buck stops with me” were the words that Albion chairman Jeremy Peace used to kick off the transfer window this season. Last season was a farce from start to finish; from Nicolas Anelka’s role at the club, the unrest brought by handing a heightened role to director of technical performance Dave McDonough, to the hiring of Pepe Mel without the intention of fully supporting him. The Albion are lucky to still be playing...

Sport News 24/7 By Will Herrmann In the final few games of last season Connor Wickham began to give some evidence that he has the ability to succeed at the top level and his goals went a long way to keeping Sunderland up. Gus Poyet has come out and said that neither Wickham nor Fletcher will be leaving this summer and yet the press are continuing to link Wickham with a move away. Here are three reasons why I wouldn’t...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Writer @davidjdewinter Cricket is a game of fine margins. Matches, even series turn on a crucial decision, an important wicket, a dogged innings or a dropped catch. This is the difference between success and failure. One regularly hears soundbites from cricketers referring to the importance of momentum. It may sound like a cliché but it is true. Start a match, an innings, a series well and the pressure is on the...

Sport News 24/7 By Ian Carroll The good news; we only had one left back on the pitch. That, boys and girls, is progress! The bad news; that left back was Paul Dummett, a man ideally suited to a mid-table third division side (with an injury crisis) It takes a special kind of manager to pick one player for pretty much all of pre-season, then decide that actually, Sadio Haidara isn’t up to the job, and only Dummett will do....

Sport News 24/7 By Richard De Winter @rgdewinter I suppose in some respects QPR’s 1-0 defeat at home to Hull on Saturday was in fact a good result -   Rangers’ last 3 opening home matches in the Premier League have finished: QPR 0-3 Wimbledon (95/96), QPR 0-4 Bolton (11/12), QPR 0-5 Swansea (12/13). Therefore anything less than a 6-0 defeat would have been a triumph. There were other positives to take too: unlike in the above matches the R’s performed...

By Jack Peat  At 5pm on every Saturday for as long as I can remember I have tuned into the radio to hear the voice of James Alexander Gordon. The passing of a man whose dulcet tones have become synonymous with the classified football results will deeply sadden many fans of the sport who, like me, will recall with nostalgia sitting in a car as the hot air blew from the heaters after 90 minutes on the terrace as the...