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Rooney will decide later this week whether to launch an appeal against the three-match ban, which stunned Ferguson, who labelled the striker's challenge in Montenegro "silly but not seriously dangerous".

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

The striker's oft-reiterated declarations of regional devotion proved horribly hollow as he scarpered for the A1 southbound at the first flutter of Gérard Houllier's eyelashes.

Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor 2011

The United striker's two-game ban has been served and he will return for Tuesday's trip to Newcastle.

FA await referee's report on Wembley bust-up involving Mario Balotelli 2011

Although he urged patience and understanding for Fernando Torres in the wake of the £50m striker's latest anonymous display, he suggested that Didier Drogba would return in his place for Saturday's Premier League fixture at Newcastle United.

André Villas-Boas says Chelsea's form has made Stamford Bridge anxious 2011

As the Birtles goal drought wore aridly on through the winter and into parched spring, pop stars from Midge Ure to Mungo Jerry grouped together and recorded a charity record to raise money to alleviate the striker's suffering.

Global warming to blame for Fernando Torres goal drought | Harry Pearson 2011

The goalkeeper, Brian Murphy, parried the striker's shot from the right-hand side of the box but Akpa Akpro reacted fastest to tap the rebound into the net from seven yards.

QPR 0-2 Rochdale | Carling Cup match report 2011

PARIS Karim Benzema was left out of France's preliminary World Cup squad on Tuesday, with coach Raymond Domenech saying it's because of the Real Madrid striker's unimpressive season, not any alleged involvement in a sex scandal.

Benzema left out of France's World Cup squad 2010

Henry stayed two more years, during which Arsenal failed to regain the title and lost to Barcelona in a European Cup final on which the French striker's influence was nonexistent.

Arsène Wenger's real blind spot is the Arsenal captaincy | Richard Williams 2011

Now Tevez, still advised by Joorabchian although he no longer owns the striker's rights, says he wants away from the rainy city with too few restaurants and wishes to be closer to his family in Argentina.

Carlos Tevez: The billionaires' fight over his ownership revealed | David Conn 2011

Ferguson also had another slight dig at Rooney's agent, Paul Stretford, when asked if United's hopes of a treble were a convincing retort to claims the squad was on the wane, aired at the time of the striker's contract dispute last year.

Sir Alex Ferguson preys on Manchester City's Wembley novices 2011