Sir Alex Ferguson's 1,500th and final match in charge as Manchester United manager ended in enthralling fashion as West Bromwich Albion fought back to draw 5-5 at the Hawthorns.

Romelu Lukaku hit a hat-trick as Baggies rallied from 2-5 down to score three goals in five minutes for a sensational...

Sir Alex Ferguson received a hairdryer cake from long suffering daily newspaper reporters on Friday after his last press conference as Manchester United manager.

Ferguson will take charge of United for the 1500th and final time at West Bromwich Albion on Sunday, and with the Barclays Premier League title won...

Arsenal are in "advanced talks" to sign Auxerre striker Yaya Sanogo, manager Arsène Wenger confirmed.

The 20-year-old France Under-21 international has scored eight goals in seven Ligue 2 games this season, with four of his appearances coming from the substitutes' bench.

Sanogo was linked with Arsenal earlier this year and...

Sir Bradley Wiggins has withdrawn from the Giro d'Italia on Team Sky's medical advice.

Wiggins, who has been suffering from a cold and chest infection, was visibly below par in yesterday's rain-hit 12th stage from Longarone to Treviso, which was won by his compatriot Mark Cavendish.

The 2012 Tour de...

The swelling throng could have been for a pop group, but even at the height of Britpop in January 1997 David Beckham was a one-man boy band.

Two months before the 21-year-old began dating Victoria Adams, Beckham was making waves. On the opening day of the season he...

Panorama will broadcast unseen footage from the Hillsborough disaster in their investigation "Hillsborough: How They Buried The Truth".

The hour-long programme, which will be aired at 9pm on Monday 20 May on BBC1, will detail British football's worst disaster, when 96 Liverpool fans died during the Reds' 1989 FA Cup...

Loïc Rémy, the Queens Park Rangers striker, has been arrested on suspicion of rape this morning.

The French forward was taken into custody in west London along with his cousin and a friend.

A woman in her 30s made a complaint to the police after she visited Remy, 26, at...

Elmer Bernstein's The Great Escape theme, adopted by England fans in the 90s and then more pertinently by West Bromwich Albion in 2005, was supposed to be the theme of Wigan's season again. Forget "I'm a Believer", the club has evaded the drop on the final day on two out...

Rio Ferdinand, a member of three England World Cup squads, has announced his retirement from international football.

The Manchester United defender's decision finally brings his deteriorating relationship with the national side to an end, after he opted against playing in the March World Cup qualifiers in San Marino and Montenegro.

Sir Alex Ferguson's replacement as Manchester United manager, David Moyes, has given Wayne Rooney hope for his Old Trafford future despite the striker requesting a transfer.

Ferguson said on Sunday Rooney "wasn't keen to play" for the Barclays Premier League champions in their win against Swansea City, as...

Wigan Athletic winger Callum McManaman has been named in Stuart Pearce's England Under-21 squad for the European Championship in Israel.

One of two uncapped members of the 23-man party, McManaman was the deserved man of the match in the weekend's FA Cup final and has enjoyed a rich vein of...

The reports had re-emerged overnight but Roberto Mancini, the soil pouring onto his coffin, let alone the final nail being hammered in, was determined not to rest in peace.

"The people, Vicky [Kloss, club press officer], the other people who work for the press [office], I don't know why they...

A Fenerbahçe fan was stabbed to death by two Galatasaray supporters after the Istanbul derby on Sunday, Turkish reports claim.

According to the AP, Turkey's state-run news agency Anadolu Agency says 20-year-old Burak Yildirim was fatally stabbed while on his way back home from the game late yesterday evening.

The...

Sir Alex Ferguson's confirmation that Wayne Rooney has handed in a transfer request is the latest chapter in the pair's uneasy relationship at Manchester United.

Rooney has now asked to leave the Barclays Premier League champions twice in three seasons and was omitted from the matchday squad for Ferguson's final...

Roberto Mancini will be sacked as Manchester City manager this week, with Málaga coach Manuel Pellegrini likely to succeed him at Eastlands.

Having suffered the biggest FA Cup final shock since 1988 after Wigan Athletic beat City on Saturday, Mancini delivered a bizarre press conference performance in which...

Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has handed in a transfer request.

The outgoing United manager saw his team beat Swansea City in his last match at Old Trafford, with Rooney excluded from the matchday squad.

Asked by Sky Sports' Geoff Shreeves why Rooney was left...

Sir Alex Ferguson bid farewell to Old Trafford for the final time on Manchester United's coronation day, as they received the Barclays Premier League trophy 20 days after they regained their title.

On his 1,499th match in charge of the Red Devils, Ferguson lifted his 13th league championship in 20...

"He nearly killed me. He forgets I'm 71," Sir Alex Ferguson said of Robin van Persie's bear hug at Stoke City in April after the Manchester United striker had ended a 10-match goal drought.

Few players have celebrated goals with Ferguson. Ruud van Nistelrooy once got a high-five...

Paul Scholes' second retirement, announced whilst all the attention was on Wigan Athletic's magical FA Cup win, was typical of the man. In his statement, he said "playing football is all I have ever wanted to do", which he stated when he first retired in 2011. The Manchester United legend...

"Sorry for the wait. We're not used to celebrating," Roberto Martínez announced as he nestled into his chair an FA Cup winner. Whereas most managers fresh from lifting silverware for the first time would sup from a glass of champagne, Martínez opted for a hot beverage.

The Spaniard was adamant...