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  By Joe Mellor Deputy Editor He fought tooth and nail for Liverpool this season, but Barcelona have agreed to sign Suarez for a fee of around £75m. A great deal of money for a man with a chequered disciplinary history, but a fair price for a talent, as great as his. Suarez is leaving for better things and it’s not his fault that Barcelona still represents a bigger club than Liverpool. Perhaps he is still in love with Liverpool...

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay, January 17, 1942) is generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history. At the age of 22 he won the world heavyweight championship in 1964 from Sonny Liston in a stunning upset. Shortly after that bout, Ali joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name. He converted to Sunni Islam in 1975. In 1967, three years after winning the heavyweight title, Ali refused to be conscripted into the U.S. military, citing his...

The Top 10 Twitter pictures from last night's game. Brazil 1 - Germany 7. Let that sink in for a moment. As far as World Cup semi finals go, last night's demolition of Brazil by Germany will go down in the history books as being one of the most shocking results of all time. In under half an hour Germany were five goals to the good with a depleted Brazilian team looking abject and in complete disbelief. The host country's...

  By David de Winter - Sports Writer Saturday sees the start of the 101st edition of the world’s most famous bicycle race, the eponymous Tour de France. And where does this three week lycra-clad epic begin? Paris? Non. Some chic, picturesque village in the south of France? Absolutement non. The Alps or Pyrenees? Of course not. Yorkshire? Mais oui. Quite why the organisers of a French race have decided to hold ‘le grand départ’ in England is beyond me...

At the High Court on May 13th 2009, Fisher Athletic were wound up. The debts had begun to mound and results hadn't been going their way since a player exodus preceded a thrilling season in which Wayne Burnett’s (current Dagenham & Redbridge manager) missed out on the Conference after losing to Hampton & Richmond Borough in the play-offs. Following a meeting it was decided that a supporter’s trust would take charge of club matters moving forward, a trust that reluctantly...

By Stuart Buchanan, Junior Broadcast Executive at 4mediarelations For the football mad amongst us, Friday 27th June 2014 was a day where we all rubbed our eyes, took stock for the first time in two weeks and, once the haze had cleared, asked ‘Where’s the football gone?’ For football-widows and those just generally not interested in watching millionaires battering a sheep’s bladder around a field, the one day’s respite is sweet relief. Today is the first time in two weeks that there...

By Dave De Winter - Sports Writer Wimbledon – the two weeks of the year where it’s OK to be publicly middle-class; where quaffing copious amounts of Pimms and dressing in a polo shirt and chinos isn’t solely for the purposes of an ironic round of pub golf. With all this Uruguayan biting and England being utter sh*t at footy, our second favourite Scot (behind Sean Connery since you ask) has gone into the third tennis Grand Slam of the...

By Joe Mellor Deputy Editor The best players are out there in Brazil playing sexy samba football to excite the world. Most of these superstars are paid handsomely by their clubs, but they are also given huge fees to represent their nations, during the month long tournament. Ronaldo, The 29-year old Portugal superstar, is reportedly earning $490,870 a week, after tax, amounting to a staggering $2,243,997 (USD) to take part in the 32-day event. But how far does this fortune...

England are out of the World Cup with a team that doesn't really contain any "characters," James Milner aside, obvs. Pele famously said he believed Best was the greatest player to ever have graced a football pitch, which is similar to Elvis claiming that Tom Jones was his favourite singer. Of course George Best didn't play for England and sadly his drink problem caused his early demise, but these are still legendary quotes. Remember Maradona good, Pele better...George Best 1. "That's...