Wigan: players' refund offer is just wrong

Anyone who has suffered and shivered on a wet Wednesday in Grimbsy know football is often ugly, painful and deeply unhappy

Wilson benefits from Bougherra's tardiness

Rangers manager sticks with teenage defender for Champions League tie with Stuttgart after Algeria player returns late from international duty

Smith: ‘Unirea defeat led to soul-searching’

Before facing Suttgart, Rangers manager expresses pleasure with his side’s reaction after humiliation at hands of Romanian side

Er, sorry about last Sunday...

Supporters who endured Wigan's 9-1 thrashing at Spurs to be repaid

TheGame Podcast: the great Thierry Henry debate

Gabriele Marcotti, Patrick Barclay and Matt Dickinson join Phill Jupitus to discuss cheating and the weekend's action

Grimsby appoint Woods as new manager

Former youth team boss charged with saving Blundell Park club from relegation after departure of Mike Newell over a month ago

Ipswich deny Keane will be dismissed

Championship club backs manager despite collecting 13 from 17 matches this season after draw with Sheffield Wednesday

Gerrard optimistic of Champions League progress

Liverpool captain says the club can still turn their season around, despite facing Debrecen without injured striker Fernando Torres

Fabregas: I could end my career at Arsenal

Captain ignores latest link with Barcelona as he prepares for Champions League tie against Standard Liege

Henry considered international retirement

The France captain said the fallout from his blatant handball against Ireland almost led him to stop playing for his country

Beckham has option to buy MLS team

Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder could become the owner of the league's 20th team once his playing career comes to an end

Fuller makes Portsmouth pay penalty

Stoke 1 Portsmouth 0: Jamaican's strike clinches three points after Kevin Prince-Boateng had missed from the spot

City pay the price for their timidity

Liverpool 2 Man City 2: Yossi Benayoun makes Mark Hughes’s wealthy pretenders pay for their lack of ambition at Anfield

Kakuta makes instant impact for Chelsea

Chelsea 4 Wolves 0: Frenchman at the centre of transfer controversy makes impressive debut in Stamford Bridge romp

Heskey helps Villa escape with a point

Burnley 1 Aston Villa 1: it was a measure of how far Owen Coyle’s battlers have come that Villa were delighted with this result

Bullard hits right note for battling Brown

Hull 3 West Ham 3: injury-plagued midfielder's outstanding display at last shows why club paid £5m for his services

Hill shows no sympathy after smash-and-grab

Dag & Redbridge 1 Rochdale 2: leaders dethroned in stunning turnaround which saw visitors score two goals in two minutes

Dods stoops to conquer as United see off Celtic

Dundee United 2 Celtic 1: Craig Levein’s side break ten-year hoodoo with late strikes from Jon Daly and Darren Dods

Rangers ease back to the SPL summit

Rangers 3 Kilmarnock 0: champions make light of the missing Awol Algerian defender Madjid Bougherra and coast to victory at Ibrox

Fifa bans Iraq from international football

The decision, taken after sectarian infighting among the country’s sport officials, deprives Iraqis of one of their few joys

Coca-Cola Championship round-up

Andy King's injury-time goal gave Leicester City a victory over Plymouth that confirmed their status as promotion candidates

Coca-Cola League One round-up

Ten-man Charlton battle back to earn a point at Yeovil while Wycombe end Millwall’s unbeaten home record with a stunning win

Di Matteo seeks Peace talks

West Brom 4 Bristol City 1 The Italian is looking to bolster his squad in January despite impressive start to season