IF A list of Premier League managers wanting to stick the knife into Arsenal’s title hopes had to form an orderly queue, Tony Pulis would have been all elbows and clambering over his peers to be at the front.

ROY KEANE has revealed his biggest mistake as Ipswich boss was accepting the role before meeting chief executive Simon Clegg and admitted the job wasn’t the right one for him.

ALEX FERGUSON is a phenomenon. Close to his 12th English title, in his fourth Champions League final, 25 seasons at the same club.

TOTTENHAM’S hugely enjoyable flirtation with the big time, which began a year ago with a 1-0 victory at Eastlands to qualify for the Champions League for the first time, is in danger of ending at exactly the same venue tomorrow.

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ALEX FERGUSON has confirmed a record 19th league title would be an important step in the history of Manchester United.

IT’S almost as if Manchester United didn’t see them coming.

ARSENE WENGER maintains he will “have nothing special to say” to Aaron Ramsey as the Arsenal midfielder prepares to return to Stoke for the first time since his injury nightmare at the Britannia Stadium.

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ARMAGH captain Steven McDonnell said the GAA would do itself a disservice if it decided to change the start time of the county’s Ulster SFC quarter-final against Down on May 28 so as not to clash with the Champions League final.

MANCHESTER UNITED defender John O’Shea is determined to end Chelsea’s title hopes just like they did their Champions League dreams.

ROBERTO MANCINI and Carlos Tevez could be on an FA Cup collision course.

BAYERN MUNICH are not desperate to sign Manuel Neuer and will happily wait until he becomes a free agent in 2012 if Schalke do not drop their asking price, according to Bayern’s director of sport Christian Nerlinger.

A €3.5 MILLION settlement was approved without admission of liability by the High Court in the case of a teenage boy who was brain damaged at birth.

IF Roman Abramovich is looking for scapegoats for Chelsea’s disappointing season and a painful Champions League defeat against Manchester United — and of course he is — then maybe it is time to look in the mirror and consider his own part in the way the club has disintegrated over the last 12 months.

SCHALKE will face Manchester United in the Champions League semi-final after beating Inter Milan for the second time in eight days last night.