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  • Dear Jeremy work and careers advice: have your say

    Dear Jeremy work and careers advice: have your say

    At the start of each week, we publish the problems that will feature in this Saturday’s Dear Jeremy advice column in the Guardian Work supplement, so readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights. Here are this week’s …

     
  • Didier Drogba will go where he is offered the most money says agent

    Didier Drogba will go where he is offered the most money says agent

    Didier Drogba’s agent has revealed the striker has snubbed Chelsea’s offer of a one-year contract extension and vowed to “go where he is offered the most money” after turning down a loan move to Milan. The 33-year-old Ivory Coast striker looks set to walk away from Stamford Bridge for nothing …

     
  • Blackburn forfeited Cardiff game to focus on league, says Steve Kean

    Blackburn forfeited Cardiff game to focus on league, says Steve Kean

    Blackburn Rovers “forfeited” their Carling Cup quarter-final against Cardiff City to concentrate on turning around their Premier League fortunes, according to the club’s under-fire manager Steve Kean. Blackburn lost 2-0 at Cardiff after Kean made five changes and opted not to risk defenders Chris Samba, Martin Olsson and Michel Salgado. …

     
  • Exhibition tells how Charles Dickens was spooked by ghost tale doppelganger

    Exhibition tells how Charles Dickens was spooked by ghost tale doppelganger

    The spirits which terrorise and ultimately reform Scrooge in A Christmas Carol may have been due to a nightmare brought on, as the miser put it, by “an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese”. Now a new exhibition at the British Library marking the …

     
  • Steve Bruce sacked by Sunderland

    Steve Bruce sacked by Sunderland

    Sunderland have parted company with their manager, Steve Bruce, after chairman, Ellis Short, described results this season as “simply not good enough”. Last Saturday’s home defeat to Wigan left Sunderland 16th in the Premier League, just two points above the relegation zone. Bruce had insisted he had no intention of …

     
  • Power shifts from Barcelona to Madrid in more ways than one

    Power shifts from Barcelona to Madrid in more ways than one

    Mariano Rajoy hasn’t even set foot inside Moncloa and already something is changing. This is a new era; power has changed hands – in parliament and on the pitch. That, at least, is the theory. They say you shouldn’t mix football and politics but in Spain it often seems impossible …

     
 
 
 
 
 

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