PSV Eindhoven have won their first trophy of the season, beating Feyenoord Rotterdam for the Super Cup on Saturday.

Brede Hangeland inflicted a significant early dent in Arsenal´s title hopes as his goal earned Fulham a surprise 1-0 win on Saturday.

Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko will rejoin AC Milan subject to a medical, the Premier League club confirmed on Saturday.

Saturday´s French first division programme was overshadowed by a coach crash which left two Marseille fans dead and four seriously injured.

Rafa Benitez believes Steven Gerrard´s ferocious will to win can fire Liverpool´s Premier League title challenge after the England midfielder clinched a 2-1 win over Middlesbrough.

Arsene Wenger demanded a "big improvement" from Arsenal after watching their title challenge suffer an early knock in a 1-0 defeat at Fulham on Saturday.

Alex McLeish promised there is more to come from Birmingham after his side maintained their perfect start to the Championship campaign with a third successive win.

Film fans of a certain age will always see the three Star Wars movies made in the seventies and eighties as the definitive trilogy and not the one which kicked off in 1999 with ‘The Phantom Menace.’ There can be little debate about that. Not so about South Korean star Lee Chun-soo who has been more of a phantom than a menace over the past year. No other player that originates from the Land of the Morning Calm provokes such debate and divides opinions. Over the past few years his career recalls the words of a certain Jedi Master Yoda who said upon meeting Luke Skywalker: "This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. What he was doing.” Lee always seems to know where he would like to play in the future but is often less sure about the place where he plies his trade at any given moment. Around 18 months ago, the 2002 and 2006 World Cup star told his K-League club Ulsan Hyundai Horang-I that unless they helped him move to Europe, he would go on strike. The attacker soon got his wish and the only strikes on his mind were those that came from boots left and right. Joining former European Champions Feyenoord on the last day of the summer 2007 transfer window seemed to be exactly the move Lee wanted –almost. Talking to the Korean version of 442 before his departure, he announced that he wanted to use Feyenoord as a stepping stone to England. Within a couple of months, he was back home in South Korea, homesick and disillusioned with life in the Netherlands and reportedly telling friends in the media that he wanted to come home to the K-league. After his short sojourn in Seoul, he returned to Rotterdam. Lee failed to shine and an ankle operation ended his season, and as it turned out, his Dutch adventure, early. There is little likelihood he will go back. Suwon Samsung Bluewings paid $800,000 for a year-long loan for the 2005 K-League player of the Year. Few can imagine Lee swapping the blue shirt for the red and white one once again next summer. It was Lee’s second unsuccessful sojourn in Europe after an 18-month spell in Spain after the 2002 World Cup with Real Sociedad and Numancia. After rejoining Ulsan in 2005, Lee quite reasonably pointed out that he hadn’t been ready for the challenge. Next time would be different. It wasn’t really. A third opportunity in the west may be out of reach for Lee. It is a matter of debate as to whether this is good for the Millenium Kid but it is no bad thing for Korean and Asian football. From 2005, when he almost won the K-League title on his own for Ulsan to 2006 when he single-handedly destroyed Japanese opposition in the A3 Champions Cup to the beautiful winning strike against European champions Greece in 2007, Lee was one of the most exciting and complete talents in Asia. Now joining South Korea’s star-studded league leaders Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Lee will have the platform to shine once again as the club challenges for another league title and next year, perhaps a tilt at a third Asian championship. Whether that will be enough for Lee remains to be seen but he still has a lot of football ahead. copyright: John Duerden & Soccerphile Bet with Bet 365 World Soccer News Soccer betting tips Soccer Books & DVDs Tags Soccer News soccer football J-League K-League Betting

ROME (SW) – Lazio coach Delio Rossi has said that he would like to sign Hernan Crespo from Inter Milan before the transfer window ends in a few days time.

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez will be hoping that a new sense of harmony at Anfield will provide a boost on the pitch against Middlesbrough on Saturday.

LONDON (SW) - It is highly unlikely that Newcastle United midfielder Joey Barton will play for Newcastle United seeing that he is still awaiting a hearing with the English FA regarding an incident last season when he assaulted former team mate Ousmane Dabo when they were both playing for Manchester City.

Arsene Wenger has always maintained his commitment to blooding young talent at Arsenal is non-negotiable, but there are times when even the dearest principles have to be sacrificed.

Football superstar Lionel Messi rewarded Argentina in gold for fighting for his right to be at the Olympics when he set up the winning goal in their 1-0 triumph over Nigeria in the men´s final on Saturday.

Tens of thousands of Bayern Munich fans will be accompanying their team on Saturday to Borussia Dortmund, whose coach Jurgen Klopp urged home supporters to get behind their players.

Real Madrid said Saturday it would not keep Chelsea target Robinho if the Brazilian striker is determined to leave the Spanish champions.

Diego Maradona claimed on Saturday it was "inhuman" to play the Olympic Games men´s football final in temperatures recorded at a sizzling 42 degrees Celsius.

Dimitar Berbatov was left out of Tottenham´s squad for their Premier League clash against Sunderland on Saturday as boss Juande Ramos finally lost patience with the unsettled striker.

Georgios Samaras scored twice as Celtic went top of the Scottish Premier League table on goal difference at Parkhead on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Falkirk.

The future of Barcelona´s embattled president, Joan Laporta is on the line Sunday when the club holds a general assembly at which some 3,000 influential club members will decide whether he should continue.

Barcelona´s Icelandic international Eidur Gudjohnsen, who had been expected to be dropped when Pep Guardiola took over in July, said Saturday he was confident of staying at the club.