THE PREMIER League’s best will face Milan’s finest at the San Siro in the last 16 of the Champions’ League after yesterday’s draw at UEFA headquarters in Switzerland.

ALEX FERGUSON is set to limit his January recruitment campaign to one African striker, after ruling out another move for Henrik Larsson.

IT WAS a question that had been posed a million times before and perhaps never will be fully answered but Shane Long couldn’t help quizzing the Sunderland contingent of the Republic squad anyway. “Roy Keane,” he found himself asking. “Just what is he really like?”

ROY KEANE has admitted that the abuse he suffered as a player almost drove him to “do an Eric Cantona”.

LIVERPOOL manager Rafael Benitez knows his side must return to winning ways at home to Portsmouth today as they seek to maintain a credible challenge for the Barclays Premier League title.

FOUR Manchester United fans were jailed in Italy yesterday for their part in a fight with rival football supporters.

WE quote him all the time but many people don’t seem to realise that Neil Armstrong went all the way to the moon only to fluff his lines.

THE NEW Premiership campaign will twice deliver key clashes between the “big four” clubs over one weekend.

REAL MADRID coach Fabio Capello has admitted he would welcome the possibility of David Beckham remaining with the club beyond the end of this season.

FOOTBALL-CRAZY Irish fans spent more than €12 million last year to see their heroes in action in the Premiership.

CORK’S Liverpool FC supporters’ club secretary John O’Sullivan knows why more people are crossing the Irish Sea to watch his beloved team play their iconic style of football.

ARSENE WENGER faces a hectic schedule when he returns to work at Arsenal next week — with assurances over the future of captain Thierry Henry top of the agenda.

MANCHESTER UNITED chief executive David Gill has admitted the club may sign a new striker this summer.

ROY KEANE admits he has finally started to enjoy management after being thrown in at the deep-end last August when he agreed to become the boss of Sunderland.

ROY KEANE admits he has finally started to enjoy management after being thrown in at the deep end last August when he agreed to become the boss of Sunderland.

JOSE MOURINHO yesterday called on his Manchester United counterpart Alex Ferguson to help make Saturday’s FA Cup final a classic one.

TREVOR BROOKING believes Michael Ballack’s presence at Chelsea has dulled Frank Lampard’s predatory instincts and claims the Germany midfielder has been a flop at Stamford Bridge.

ALEX FERGUSON has revealed he knew record-breaker Ryan Giggs was ‘a certainty’ to make it when he first saw him as a 13-year-old.

ENGLAND’S top four clubs in the Premier League are in a financial league of their own and earned at least £14 million more than fifth-place Tottenham from television cash and prize money in the 2006-07 season.

MANCHESTER UNITED manager Alex Ferguson has set his Barclays Premiership champions the task of conquering Europe next season.