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With the transfer window closed until January, Impact Sport looks at their top transfer signings of the summer. Andre Ayew – Marseille to Swansea City (Free) Who would have thought that Swansea City would have been able to replace Wilfried Bony less than six months after losing him to...

“Sorry, Sir.” That’s what Ireland captain Paul O’Connell said to the referee after enquiring about one of his decisions against Wales last weekend. Three days earlier 9 Chelsea players had surrounded the referee against PSG, demanding that Zlatan Ibrahimovic be sent off. So what can football learn from rugby?...

This is an obituary that has been a few weeks in the making. With Manchester City’s departure last night, it was finally confirmed that there will be no English clubs in the quarter finals of this year’s Champions League. It’s the second time in three years this has occurred...

A friend of mine once commented, ‘I just love watching goals being scored’. A simple pleasure, it has to be said. Though in his way he was right; football would be a pretty joyless vocation if we didn’t see the ball disturb the net with at least a degree...

Dan Zeqiri returns for the second of his weekly Wednesday columns. This week: how narratives come to be established in football… Applying crude reductionism and offering simplistic reasons to explain the results of football matches is nothing new, I’m sure. However, in the social media age, this habit seems...

First and foremost I would like to thank James Hirst and John Mastrini for filling in for me over the last fortnight with a Five-Way each. I hope the experience hasn’t left a bitter taste in their mouth after they fell foul to some of the season’s biggest shocks...

Fresh Faces returns from our own international break to take a look at two more of the Premier League’s new arrivals for the 2014/15 season, this time casting a judgemental eye towards Alexis Sánchez and Diego Costa. Both new forwards arrived in London to lead the lines of their...