Sam Allardyce has ruled out returning to Crystal Palace after Frank de Boer was sacked just four matches into the Premier League season.

Pep Guardiola has allayed fears over Vincent Kompany's condition and said the Belgian would have a role at Manchester City next season.

Claudio Ranieri hinted someone at the club betrayed him.

Leicester City’s performance psychologist during the fairytale Premier League-winning season believes the Foxes would have won the title anyway had former manager Nigel Pearson been retained.

He was Leicester’s performance psychologist when the Foxes won the miracle Premier League title. But looking in from outside the camp this season, Ken Way reaches past distance covered or pass completion or expected goals for an unusual metric to get to grips with a collapse.

And we’re back again. See Saw, Margery Daw… Forget nursery rhymes, Finnegan’s Wake makes more sense than this team – well, the three pages of it I ever managed to get through, writes Steven Kelly.

Man City 5 Huddersfield 1: Sergio Aguero struck twice as Manchester City came from behind to ease into the FA Cup quarter-finals with a 5-1 win over Sky Bet Championship Huddersfield.

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It was an indigestible week in English football. A man was sacked for eating a pie. And another went after slapping a ban on chicken burgers.

Leicester City could make another attempt to lure Martin O’Neill from the Republic of Ireland hotseat after sacking title-winning boss Claudio Ranieri 

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Pep Guardiola has no doubt goalkeeper Claudio Bravo can establish himself in the Premier League.

Pep Guardiola was irritated on his return to Barcelona by suggestions he tried to poach the Camp Nou’s finest for Manchester City this summer.

Pep Guardiola defended Claudio Bravo after the goalkeeper's troubled debut for Manchester City in the 2-1 derby victory at Manchester United.

Man City made it four wins from as many games in the league and broke Man United's 100% start to the season, but United boss Jose Mourinho was left frustrated with referee Mark Clattenburg.

All of Team Sky’s drivers will take safety refresher courses this winter as part of their response to an embarrassing incident that saw the team bus almost run a cyclist off the road in Wales.

Pep Guardiola believes the challenge of facing Jose Mourinho — and other top managers in the Premier League — can inspire him to reach new heights.

Ian Flanagan, the Cork-born commercial director of Leicester City, allows himself a chuckle when I put him on the spot. 

I don’t think I have ever been more pleased to see the back of a campaign. 

Leicester 3 Everton 1: If in August you had predicted that Leicester City would spend their final home game of the season partying ahead of their coronation as Premier League champions, you would have been politely told where you should take your opinions.

Michael Regan is a photographer with international agency Getty. He has been the official England photographer for 10 years, travelling everywhere with the national team. But this season, with something special building down the road from his home, Getty tended to send this lifelong Leicester fan to the King Power Stadium. Here he selects five of his favourite shots from a year he’ll never forget...

Leicester’s remarkable title victory has brought a sense of fairytale, adventure and wonder to the Premier League, caught the world’s imagination and given fans of clubs outside the elite an opportunity, like Claudio Ranieri, to ‘dream’.

Claudio Ranieri has always been a modest man, as well as a family man.

Mark Selby swept to Crucible glory and gave Leicester a second trophy of the night to toast as he fended off Ding Junhui in the Betfred World Championship final.

Leicester got another lucky break during the week.

Claudio Ranieri has raised the stakes in the battle for the Barclays Premier League title by claiming Leicester's big-spending rivals will now feel the pressure in this most unpredictable of seasons.

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Claudio Ranieri has issued Esteban Cambiasso an ultimatum and insisted Leicester need to know if he will stay.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a messiah.

TV CHEF and author Catherine Fulvio, has a place where she practises her own kind of mindfulness. At the back of her home, Ballyknocken House, Co Wicklow, there is a hill studded with trees. When in need of peace and quiet, she will take 10 minutes out to climb to the top. “I can see the Irish Sea from there and I can see the boats passing — the ferries going back and forth — and you can see the whole farm and everything that is going on in Ballyknocken.”

A teen groom, now a 41-year-old grandfather of three, was among six married men who were ordained deacons at the weekend.

I’ve been around food, and people cooking it, for as long as I can remember.

Alex Ferguson has dismissed the idea Manchester United’s Premier League title rivals would gain a significant advantage if they got dumped out of Europe.

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has set his sights set on European domination on the eve of his side’s latest Champions League campaign — but stressed it is a long-term goal.

Argentina international Claudio Yacob has joined West Brom’s pre-season training camp in Malmo with a view to making a permanent switch to the Hawthorns.

‘JESUS seeks fourth victory over dragon’ is one of those headlines which most journalists can only dream of — except in Portugal, where the dragon is the symbol of Porto and Jorge Jesus is manager of Benfica.

Chef Catherine Fulvio’s Ballyknocken House is very tempting, says Pól Ó Conghaile

Former 'Doctor Who' star David Tennant and his assistant in the show, Catherine Tate, are to appear together on stage for the first time in a new production of 'Much Ado About Nothing'.