Malign fate seemed to single out Heinz Flohe. A member of the West Germany squad that won the World Cup in 1974, and a key figure when they reached the European Championship final two years later, his playing career was ended at the age of 31 by a brutal foul and he spent three years in a coma before his death, aged 65.

The Dutchman is targeting new signings at Craven Cottage

The Gunners needed late goals to beat Norwich at the weekend

Right-back scored against Sunderland at the weekend

Right-back is on loan until the end of the season

Norway’s mass murderer urges terror suspect to use her trial to propagate their far-right ideology

Lukas Podolski is improving as a player thanks to his summer switch to Arsenal claims Germany coach Joachim Low.

Olivier Giroud feels Arsenal can play a “very interesting role” in the Barclays Premier League title race.

The German postal service is set to issue a stamp reminding Germans that 2,000 years ago Jesus underwent circumcision as an eight-day-old baby, a ritual religious practice that a German court has controversially banned in part of the country.

You wait for years for a helicopter and then... four come along at once, in Birmingham as in Edinburgh. What a whirl!

Fulham have completed the signing of right-back Sascha Riether on a season-long loan.

Germany’s Jewish and Muslim communities responded with outrage today to a highly controversial court ruling which stipulated that the circumcision of young boys on religious grounds caused bodily harm and infringed a child’s right to physical integrity.