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Joe Hart and his Manchester City teammates' European dreams will not be realised this season
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

Sorry Arsene, Champions League exertions are no excuse for Arsenal's woeful domestic form

Wenger has described his side as jaded, suffering a lack of sharpness, attributed to the energy expended in ensuring Champions League progress

Maraoune Fellaini celebrates after scoring his goal against Manchester City

Match Report: Roberto Mancini sees the point of dodging bullets

Manchester City 1 Everton 1

Manchester City and Chelsea make it as comfortable as a grey cardigan for leaders Manchester United

Nerves are tightening in the Premiership’s capital city. After Chelsea it was Manchester City’s turn to make the evening as comfortable as possible before leaders Manchester United, who just happen to be the next team in the house of the champions, took the field at Reading.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson claims the Premier League is a two horse race

While league leaders Manchester United are one, who does Ferguson see as the other title contender?

James Milner

Manchester City midfielder James Milner to miss Everton clash

England international limped out of midweek victory over Wigan

Mario Balotelli opens the scoring for Manchester City

Gareth Barry backs Mario Balotelli to rediscover best form for Manchester City

Italian striker scored first goal of the season in midweek

Roberto Mancini will be handed no funds for players in January

Wigan hoping to bring end to Manchester City's unbeaten run

City have not lost in 19 league games

The Sports Matrix: Friday 23 November 2012

Clattenburg cleared by FA and asks for apology

The Sports Matrix: Thursday 22 November 2012

Benitez takes reins as Di Matteo latest to feel Chelsea axe

Manchester City v Real Madrid: Key battles

Manchester City take on Real Madrid on Wednesday in a Champions League Group D match they must win to stand any chance of reaching the knockout stages. Here, Press Association Sport looks at some likely key battles.

The Sports Matrix: Tuesday 20 November 2012

Mancini: Maybe the police can help us stop Ronaldo

Reina not surprised by interest in Luis Suarez

Last week reports emerged speculating Manchester City were poised with a £40million bid

Luis Suarez celebrates scoring for Liverpool

Liverpool chairman Tom Werner rules out sale of Luis Suarez

The Uruguay forward has been linked with a big-money move to Manchester City

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Andrew Mitchell: 'It's no good feeling hard done by'

Andrew Mitchell: 'It's no good feeling hard done by'

In his first interview since 'plebgate', the former Chief Whip opens up just enough to concede that, in politics, you have to take the rough with the smooth
Corruption and the FCO: Blue skies, white sands, dark clouds

Corruption and the FCO: Blue skies, white sands, dark clouds

Special report: Met police call for criminal inquiry into former diplomat's Cayman Islands rule
Fallen angel: Winona Ryder on bouncing back from her decade in the wilderness

Fallen angel: Winona Ryder bounces back

She owned the 1990s... but then she disappeared. Now, Ms Ryder is back with quite the bang in her latest role, as the wife of a notorious real-life Mob hitman.
Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

The director's new film, 'Venus in Fur', is one of the raciest on offer
Rev Richard Coles: 'I don’t have any concerns that God is cross with me for being gay and eventually the Church won’t either'

Rev Richard Coles on the Church and homosexuality

The mellifluous, erudite and witty Coles is the nation's most pop-culture-friendly priest
'Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis': Civil war looms in Iraq

Patrick Cockburn: Civil war looms in Iraq

The governor of Kirkuk - one of the country's most violent but successful provinces - fears the worst
Written on the body: Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials

Written on the body

Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials
Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

The IoS marks the sixtieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reaching the peak of the highest mountain on Earth
A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

Rupert Cornwell: A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

The destructive power of tornadoes will be as nothing once the Great Plains' vast underground water reserve dries up
Every creature's needless death diminshes us all

Philip Hoare: Every creature's needless death diminishes us all

A 60 per cent decline in our national species should alarm us, yet few of us act. But to mind more about animals would reflect well on society
Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground - and the monks at the heart of it

Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground

Six years ago, the world cheered the monks behind Burma’s Saffron Revolution. Now, a horrific new eruption of religious slaughter is being blamed on a 'Buddhist Bin Laden'.
Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

You can’t always depend on the weather – but you can avoid the pitfalls of the British barbecue by preparing an elaborate outdoor feast indoors ahead of time...
The Calvin report: Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance

The Calvin report

Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance
10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

Warren Gatland's squad fly Down Under aiming to do justice to the expectations – and hoping the Wallabies stay in the pub
The Last Word: Golf must end the hypocrisy before its halo slips totally

The Last Word

Golf must end the hypocrisy before its halo slips totally