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McDermott: 'We do want to go there and win. That is the most important thing.'

McDermott: 'I’d be kidding myself if I said it was just a normal game'

Reading’s path to Monday’s Championship play-off final began in a non-descript portable building at their rural Hampshire training ground.

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Javier Hernandez's popularity at home is such that a big screen will be erected in Mexico City to show tonight's final

White lies and green eyes: The secret story of how 'Little Pea' joined United

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Three years ago Javier Hernandez was stuck in the Chivas reserves. Now, after an undercover trip to Old Trafford, he's a hero, in Mexico and Manchester

Brian Kidd leaps for the ball during United's 4-1 extra-time win over Benfica in 1968

James Lawton: Barça beware: It's deep in the Old Trafford psyche to attack and entertain

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Like almost everybody, Brian Kidd is not impervious to the skills of Barcelona or the belief of many that they are the best thing to happen since the invention of the ball. He does, however, have a question that might serve as the theme of Manchester United's team talk before they walk out at Wembley tonight.

Lee Dixon: If Rooney can rise to the occasion and be United's Messi, they have a chance

Saturday, 28 May 2011

The Weekend Dossier

Uefa's president, Michel Platini, in London yesterday ahead of the Champions League final

Platini tries to limit Fifa damage amid 'some strange days'

Saturday, 28 May 2011

A week ago Michel Platini was favourite to be the next-but-one president of Fifa. Uefa, the confederation of which he is president, had promised to deliver its 53 votes (aside from the Football Association, which will abstain) to the incumbent Sepp Blatter on the understanding that he would ease the passage for Platini to succeed him in 2015.

Flavio Briatore (left) and Bernie Ecclestone have offered reassurances

Neil Warnock: Boardroom upheavals are part and parcel of football life – as is being linked with 50 players

Saturday, 28 May 2011

What I Learnt This Week

Mohamed Bin Hammam, right, and Sepp Blatter, second left, pictured on a visit to Jordan in 2008

Fifa chief under investigation as bribery scandal engulfs football

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Sepp Blatter under pressure after allegations by rival leave leadership ballot in disarray

Blatter is currently running in the election for Fifa president

Blatter to face Fifa ethics committee

Friday, 27 May 2011

Fifa president to answer charges that he knew about alleged cash payments.

Bin Hammam pictured last week on the election trail

Hammam claims 'conspiracy' against him

Friday, 27 May 2011

Mohamed Bin Hammam today claimed there was "increasing evidence of a conspiracy" to stop him running for FIFA president.

<b>Charlton Athletic 2 Leeds United 1, 1987</b><br/> In 1986 the play-off concept was given the green light with the intention of making the football league more interesting. And it was Charlton Athletic and Leeds United who found themselves in the first final. Two-legs couldn't separate the sides so a decider was arranged to take place at Birmingham's St Andrews Stadium. The score at 0-0, the game went into extra time and Billy Bremner's (pictured) Leeds drew first blood through John Sheridan. But the The Whites couldn't hold on and the game was won thanks to a double from Peter Shirtliff in the final minutes. With this enthralling battle, 1987 laid the precedent for the fantastic encounters that were to come.

The greatest play-off finals

Friday, 27 May 2011

Swansea take on Reading this Monday in the all-or-nothing Championship play-off final to determine who will be playing in the Premier League next season.

Nicklas Bendtner blows Arsenal's very real chance of eliminating Barcelona from this year's Champions League in the round of 16 in March

Failure to build on Roman triumph reduces Catalan claims to greatness

Friday, 27 May 2011

James Lawton: Against an Arsenal side largely outplayed and reduced to 10 men, Barcelona only made it through because Nicklas Bendtner missed a simple late chance.

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