Early Doors - Your morning briefing blog

This morning came proof that David Bentley is the ultimate luxury player. Having joined Tottenham for around £15 million last summer, his value has now been reduced to one game per season. Bentley has been consigned to the scrap heap. Unless, that is, he is playing away against his former club Arsenal. Last season he...More

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There is nothing funny about Marlon King's conviction for sexual assault and ABH on a female student in a Soho nightclub, which saw him jailed for 18 months yesterday. The Wigan player struck the woman with enough force to break her nose after she rejected his "disgusting" advances, in what the prosecution called a...More

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It's a difficult time to be a Rangers fan. The Gers are currently sitting a point behind Celtic in the league (the equivalent of the relegation zone for any other SPL side). The players have all perfected their impressions of cones from the training ground, and proudly display those skills on every Champions League...More

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Arsene Wenger is a man who knows how to celebrate. Following Arsenal's Carling Cup victory over Liverpool (20 team changes from the weekend's teams between them), the Gunners boss added insult to injury for Rafael Benitez with a cheeky double-whammy.Wenger revealed that the Gunners had taken a look at Alberto...More

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Newcastle owner Mike Ashley may have announced that he's not going to sell the club (at least until they get promoted again), but the naming rights for St James' Park are up for grabs. Personally, ED is delighted at the prospect of the ground getting a new name, just to end once and for all...More

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Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has taken the club off the market. For those of you that had forgotten, Ashley had been trying to sell the club after pumping a significant part of his fortune into it yielded only relegation from the Premier League and bile from the Magpies' fans.Last...More

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Swine flu jabs have begun this week, with doctors aiming to give millions of people a vaccine that could help prevent the most deadly pandemic since the end of the First World War. Priority has been given to so-called 'at-risk' groups including pregnant women and the elderly, but Early Doors believes medical authorities are...More

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Gordon Strachan has often made headlines with his pithy quotes (Q: There goes your unbeaten run. Can you handle it? A: No. I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump off a bridge. Yeah, I think I can handle it.") but on his first day...More

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This week's Eurosport-Yahoo! football podcast is now online!Mike Hytner and Sean Fay join Alex Chick to discuss Liverpool's win against Manchester United and why the internet in Hull is a bad idea.Click here to listen to it.That is all....More

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After a week dominated by rubbish beach-ball puns, Liverpool were universally declared to have bounced back with their 2-0 win against Manchester United yesterday. United, inevitably, were flat, and everyone agreed the result breathed new life into the title race. Based on ED's childhood experience of beach balls, the best metaphor it can come...More

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