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The Guardian*
  • Arteta ready to take final step to redemption

    They left London in their thousands, full of hope and devotion, heading for Paris in the springtime, yet romantic anticipation lasted all of 18 minutes, which was when Arsenal’s goalkeeper, Jens Lehmann, was sent off in the 2006 Champions League...

  • How Arteta overcame setbacks and boos to defy doubters

    Arteta had just outlined a “hugely impressive” five-year plan to rebuild a club reeling from Arsène Wenger’s departure and Unai Emery’s failed succession. Venkatesham stepped into his car and was driven away with his colleague Huss Fahmy.The...

  • After Tokyo’s COVID Olympics, Paris has been reframed as the Conflict Games

    Lamont Marcell Jacobs’s victory in the men’s 100m could be near Joe Wicks’s home workouts, Mutaz Barshim’s decision to split a high jump gold medal with Gianmarco Tamberi right beside Gal Gadot’s celebrity singalong Imagine. Piece the Games...

  • Ghana, Nigeria struggling beneath the weight of AFCON history

    Having dominated African football in the 1960s and 1970s, the 42-year AFCON drought has left Ghanaians nostalgic for glories past. Anthony Yeboah, a two-time winner of the Bundesliga golden boot, with Eintracht Frankfurt and Hamburg, admits that a...

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