Water boys escape FA penalty No action will be taken over a half-time clash between Everton's Kevin Mirallas and Arsenal's Jack Wilshere, the Football Association has announced.
Television pictures showed Wilshere reacting furiously to Mirallas after the Belgian appeared to spray the midfielder with his water bottle as the players made their way down the tunnel.
The incident came amid a tense goalless draw between two sides vying for top-four finishes at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night.
Immediately after the incident, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said: "I don’t know about it, but if it was (on television), then very soon everybody will know about it - and I will know about it as well.
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Kehl pens new deal with Dortmund Borussia Dortmund captain Sebastian Kehl has extended his contract with the club until the summer of 2014.
The defensive midfielder had helped to guide his side to two successive Bundesliga championships but Bayern Munich have dethroned Jurgen Klopp's men this season in emphatic style.
Kehl's contract was set to run out at the end of this campaign but this one-year extension ensures that he will remain with the Champions League semi-finalists for another 12 months.
The 33-year-old told BVB's official Twitter account: "BVB, our team, the fans and the city of Dortmund have long since become like a piece of home to me."
The former Freiburg and Hannover player h
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Mourinho leaving, says club president Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has told the president of his son's football club Canillas that he is leaving Spain.
The Portuguese has been linked with a return to Chelsea at the end of the season, with Paris Saint-Germain also touted as another possible destination, and Manuel Alvarez's claims will now add weight to those rumours.
The Canillas chief has pleaded with Real president Florentino Perez to keep Mourinho beyond the end of the campaign and suggested that his departure would have a detrimental effect on La Liga.
"Mourinho told us that next year he won't be able to come and give a talk to the coaches because he won't be here," the Canillas president told COPE Deportes.
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City taking Wigan threat seriously David Platt insists Manchester City's Premier League clash with Wigan on Wednesday is not simply preparation for next month's FA Cup final.
The two sides will come together midweek in the English top flight before competing again on May 11 at Wembley Stadium.
But Roberto Mancini's second-in-command is adamant that each match is a separate incident ahead of Wednesday's clash, citing the amount of football to be played in between.
"It is not a case of because we are playing them tonight, we will know how to play them in the cup final," he told the official FA website.
"Each team has four or five games before then."
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Dede snubs Europe for Cruzeiro Brazil international Dede is on the verge of leaving Vasco da Gama for Cruzeiro, snubbing interest from Chelsea, AC Milan and Liverpool.
Reports from the UK on Wednesday suggested that Chelsea see the 24-year-old as the ideal replacement for John Terry and were willing to spend more than 17 million pounds on the defender, while Milan and Liverpool are closely monitoring his situation, too.
However, Dede looks set to remain in Brazil for the forseeable future, with Cruzeiro confident of landing him.
Cruzeiro, with the support of investment company DIS, are reportedly paying 4.74m pounds for 45 per cent of the player's economical rights.
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Seedorf stars in Botafogo win Former AC Milan star Clarence Seedorf brought back memories of the legendary Garrincha during his side's Carioca clash on Sunday.
Playing for Garrincha's former side Botafogo, the Dutchman scored the opener in his team's 4-1 victory over Nova Iguacu before brilliantly setting up Nicolas Lodeiro for one of his two goals.
Seedorf opened the scoring after 18 minutes of the Group A encounter, and performed a brilliant feat of trickery to help Botafogo increase their advantage.
He sold an Iguacu defender a brilliant feint, conjuring images of Brazil legend Garrincha in his pomp, before delivering a perfect cross for Lodeiro to head home.
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Petrov admits he is lucky to be alive Aston Villa midfielder Stiliyan Petrov believes he is lucky to be alive after being diagnosed with life-threatening leukaemia early last year.
The 33-year-old has been forced to suspend his playing career while undergoing a year-long treatment programme for the disease, which he has now completed.
And after the success of the intensive chemotherapy programme, Petrov has set his sights on returning to normal life.
"I've had my hard moments but I've had good moments as well," the Villa midfielder told the club’s official website.
"I'm lucky because some people with this disease will die very quickly. I'm glad that this hard year is behind me now and I can conc
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