Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain admits winning was all that mattered as Arsenal overcame non-league Sutton to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.

Arsenal 1, WestBrom 0: Relief. It’s lucky Arsenal have a hold over West Brom, having only lost once in 12 previous meetings with the Baggies.

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If you’re feeling a bit down today, this might do you good (plus it’s Friday!).

Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce believes Arsenal have passed up a glorious opportunity to win the Barclays Premier League title this season.

Helen Mirren has always eased into typically male roles, and is still doing so at 70, she tells Helen Barlow

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Arsene Wenger thinks Arsenal will be in perfect shape for their crunch clash with Manchester City.

Aston Villa 0 Arsenal 2: Arsene Wenger has hailed a “great week”, after Olivier Giroud scored again and Arsenal followed up Champions League qualification with a climb to the top of the Barclays Premier League by comfortably beating rock-bottom Aston Villa.

Arsene Wenger has refused to rule Alexis Sanchez out of Arsenal’s crunch Premier League clash with Manchester City.

After a week when we beat one of the best teams on the planet and temporarily tasted the rarefied air at the top of the table for the first time in 20 months, it would be easy to get carried away.

Worcester 13 Northampton 12: It wasn’t just a new dawn for English rugby that kicked off at Sixways last night, just six days removed from the World Cup hosts’ disastrous exit. 

Arsenal 2 Stoke 0: Arsene Wenger has a selection problem going into a vital run of early season games. Some might argue the problem is of his own making, but he has to chose between strikers Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud at a time when both need a run of games to increase their goalscoring confidence.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes a complete rethink is needed in the academy set-up to help bring through more traditional old-style English centre-forwards.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger can offer little sympathy for Liverpool having to deal with the loss of Luis Suarez and then Raheem Sterling as he looks to get his own team firing again tonight.

Studio Ghibli, Bourne, and a Cilla Black tribute are among the gems on TV tonight

Former teammates of Jim McCarthy, the Grand Slam-winning Irish rugby international, have paid tribute to their colleague’s dedication to the game, after his death this week at the age of 90.

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Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud are ready to lead Arsenal to another top-four Premier League finish, according to Arsene Wenger.

I was still feeling so devastated following our midweek debacle against Monaco that I was left struggling to muster sufficient enthusiasm to wander around to our encounter with Everton.

Arsenal 2, Everton 0:

Arsenal 2 QPR 1

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Halle Berry wants the child support payments she makes slashed by 80%.

An emotional day ended an emotional year for the Cork camogie team yesterday in Croke Park.

WHEN the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali paraded his pet lobster along the Rue de Rivoli in Paris he must have seemed as exotic as anything — or anyone — led along the promenade in Kinsale.

Sebastian Faulks is surprised his WW1 novel works so well on the stage, says Jo Kerrigan

A gently irreverent and affectionate take on the books is how director Richard Hurst describes Potted Potter – The Unauthorised Harry Experience, a parody of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books that opens at the Everyman next Tuesday, April 22.

Newcastle 0 Arsenal 1

WHAT’S your favourite Christmas tradition? From staying up to watch The Late Late Toy Show to the Finnish custom of visiting the graveyard on Christmas Eve, the history of festive traditions is as long as Santa’s present list. We asked celebrities for their favourites.

Kym Marsh wants a divorce from Jamie Lomas amid allegations she has cheated on him.

Arsene Wenger hailed the efforts of Olivier Giroud after the France striker’s first half goal settled the north London derby in Arsenal’s favour, ensuring Tottenham began life without Gareth Bale with a painful defeat.

Vivien Leigh’s archive — including letters sent to husband Laurence Olivier and diaries written until just before the Gone With The Wind star’s death — have been acquired by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum&.

Trading Leather attempts to come out of his stablemate Dawn Approach’s shadow when he lines-up for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot today.

Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez's wedding only had 60 guests.

Halle Berry has married Olivier Martinez.

He may have been one of cinema’s greatest directors, but Orson Welles’ opinions show how little he thought of some of the biggest stars from the other side of the camera.

Halle Berry claims her daughter is afraid to go to school because of the paparazzi.

Halle Berry is expecting a son with Olivier Martinez.

Aidan O’Brien’s Moth looked an incredibly exciting filly at the Curragh on her reappearance and, on the strength of the performance, connections decided to spend the £30,000 to supplement the filly for tomorrow’s Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.

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