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Saturday, 14 April 2012 09:45:00 Europe/London

19:00 BST

14/04/2012

...And that’s me done for the day. Thanks for following our coverage throughout the afternoon, and be sure to stick around to follow live minute-by-minute updates on Real Madrid v Sporting. Cheerio!

18:59 BST

14/04/2012

...Wolves, Blackburn and QPR failed to ease their relegation worries. Wolves drew away to Sunderland, Blackburn were convincingly beaten by Swansea and QPR lost against West Brom...

18:56 BST

14/04/2012

...All Italian matches this weekend have been postponed following the tragic death of Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini in a Serie B game this afternoon...

18:54 BST

14/04/2012

...Manchester City have closed the gap on Manchester United at the top of the Premier League table to just two points after Carlos Tevez and Sergio Aguero tore Norwich to shreds in a 6-1 win for Roberto Mancini’s men at Carrow Road...

18:52 BST

14/04/2012

Right, quickfire recap of the day’s events before we call it a day. Liverpool are through to the final of the FA Cup after second-half goals from Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll cancelled out Nikica Jelavic’s opener for Everton...

18:49 BST

14/04/2012

Sunderland manager Martin O’Neill: “We did not do enough to win the game and it was frustrating in that sense. We had little moments here and there but not for any prolonged periods of the game. We should do more. I know that it has been a great effort by the players and I keep reminding myself about the bigger picture but overall we should be able to do better. It’s very nice of him to say [chairman Ellis Short to praise him before the game] but we just got a reality check. Those are the words I am probably searching for. Get a grip on things. We have done really fine but we have to keep it going, keep the momentum going and don’t let it drop and today we did not create enough and that is frustrating.”

18:46 BST

14/04/2012

There we all are having a nice chat about whether Arsenal would be happy with Edin Dzeko - and BANG!... Jack Harrison weighs in to diss my main man Andy C: “Depends if Arsenal fans would be willing to accept the Bosnian Andy Carroll.” At least I think he's 'dissing him'. Ayodeji Ojo chips in, too: “Would we b happy with that? Hell yeah. All day long. Excellent bakup to RVP. I think he'll b a better signing compared to Podolski.”

18:42 BST

14/04/2012

Joe Broster on Twitter: “I wouldn't mind, he is a brilliant player just hasn't had enough time to shine!”

18:40 BST

14/04/2012

Toby Marshall on Twitter: “have Arsenal ever bought a lanky striker with a bad goal to game ratio before? Oh. Maybe then?”

18:38 BST

14/04/2012

Edin Dzeko to Arsenal? Really? Would Arsenal fans be happy with that? My answer, despite not being an Arsenal fan, would be a stern NO. Arsene Wenger tends to play just the one main striker, Robin van Persie, with tippy-tappy/quick players around him. The thought of Dzeko being a tippy-tappy or quick player is frightening, quite frankly, and I very much doubt the Bosnian would be happy to take the Marouane Chamakh role and play second fiddle to Van Persie.

18:33 BST

14/04/2012

Darian Thanos on Twitter: “I think balotelli will stay and grow by learning from tevez. But there is no future for Dzeko, I want Arsenal to buy him.”

18:29 BST

14/04/2012

Quotes from Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish in an interview with ESPN for you now, with the Scot admitting he would handle the Luis Suarez racism row “completely differently” if something like that ever happened again. He says: "I wouldn't say publicly what I would do differently but I know what I would do differently. I would address that. If I have done something wrong I am not shy in saying I have done something wrong. If I can do something better I will try and do it better. Everybody can look at themselves, whether they are good, bad or indifferent and say, 'I could do things much better'. That is what I will try to do. I would certainly hope not to do things any worse." Read it in full right here.

18:25 BST

14/04/2012

Brian Alhwayek on Twitter: “Either way, Mario was heading for the exit. He is too volatile to be in a club that wants to be taken seriously.”

18:22 BST

14/04/2012

Jack Harrison on Twitter: “Probs leaves him in his garage, making a superhero costume modeled around the # 45 and a sky blue turbo-charged hovercraft to drive.”

18:19 BST

14/04/2012

Sticking with Manchester City, has the Carlos Tevez-Sergio Aguero combo edged Mario Balotelli closer to a summer exit from the Etihad? As always, find us right here - @GoalUK. Right now. Do it.

18:16 BST

14/04/2012

More from Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers: “[I’m] absolutely delighted for the players and supporters. They’ve been outstanding all season and to arrive at this level and have a little blip in the last few games… like I say, it’s a massive credit to how well they’ve done. We’ve lost games against Everton, Newcastle and Tottenham but our performance level has been good, but QPR disappointed us because it wasn’t really us, but I can understand that, for a club like ourselves to come out of the Championship and come so close to securing our status here as a Barclays Premier League club, I can understand maybe if we subconsciously took our mind off it a wee bit.”

18:12 BST

14/04/2012

Sachin Agarwala on Twitter: “guess mancini has taken a lesson out of guardiola's book..it has worked for him!”

18:09 BST

14/04/2012

Nobody agrees with me on Andy Carroll, which is a great shame for both myself and the big man, so let’s move on to the title race. Manchester City - are they out of it? They’re just two points behind Manchester United but Roberto Mancini is adamant his side are out of the running. “You’re now two points off top,” a reporter began saying to him earlier. Mancini’s response? “No. Five points!”

18:04 BST

14/04/2012

Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers on whether his side are celebrating safety: “No, not really. Not until it’s mathematically safe. Once you arrive at 39 points as a newly promoted team at the middle of March, the finish line is very close so maybe that was something the players were subconsciously aware of, but certainly from today they were absolutely incredible. We’ve got 42 points but we don’t want to finish on that, we’ve got four more games to go and our only concentration now is to recover well and look to Bolton next week.”

18:01 BST

14/04/2012

West Brom manager Roy Hodgson on Graham Dorrans: "It was a marvellous strike and he deserves a lot of credit, he’s had a long period of time out and every time he’s looked like getting back in the team he’s had to drop out again. I think it was a flying week for him, and he settles the game for us. We’re delighted with that and we’re delighted with him."

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