Football Managers

Roy Keane's side had been beaten three times in succession, a feeling he hadn't tasted for more than a decade. In public he seemed calm. But he admitted, he had not been sleeping much, writes Tim Rich.

Jose Mourinho's first XI beat Chelsea's youth team at Cobham this week but the youngsters did have a decent excuse - they were starring for England in the Under-17s World Cup, writes Henry Winter.

According to West Ham manager Alan Curbishley, the 6-0 defeat at Reading on New Year’s Day, still spurs on the London club.

More questions over Martin Jol's position at Tottenham have been raised by the club's sporting director, Damien Comolli, refusing to discuss the possibility of extending the Dutchman's contract.

The England manager was enthusiastic about his belief that England would reach Euro 2008 and how “big players'' like Frank Lampard would be vital against Israel and Russia. Then his mobile leapt into life. Henry Winter reports.

Martin Smith looks back at a game in October 1966 and a different era for fans and players.

The relationship which exists between the Arsenal board and David Dein, following his decision to sell his shares in the club to one of Russia's richest businessmen, appears to be at a new low, writes David Bond.

Stan Kroenke turned down the opportunity to buy David Dein's 14.85 per cent stake in Arsenal leaving him little option but to seek an alternative buyer in the form of Alisher Usmanov, writes David Bond.

At 59, Walter Smith is now in his fourth decade of European competition, and realises the formidable opposition his club face. But his enthusiasm is such that he speaks of thriving rather than surviving.

Close observers of Ferguson see his eye drawn to a potent candidate to succeed him. One whose popularity among United followers is almost as significant as Roy Keane's, writes Jim White.