Football in 2014: 10 memorable moments
Paul Wilson on the best, worst and most controversial moments in football this year
Premier League: Chelsea players ran and played the most at the World Cup
Toby Moses: Premier League stars played a combined total of more than 16 days of football during their summer break, covering 2489.9km of Brazilian turf in the search for glory. It’s not much of a holiday
Louis van Gaal: I want to make my Manchester United team like Holland
Louis van Gaal will officially arrive at Manchester United on Wednesday and says he wants the club to ‘sing from the same hymn sheet’ like his Holland squad
Football transfer rumours: Wesley Sneijder to Manchester United?
Paul Pogba to Chelsea? | Enner Valencia to West Ham? | Micah Richards to Newcastle?
Louis van Gaal to officially join Manchester United after Holland exit
The Holland coach will officially join up with his new club next week after Saturday’s World Cup third-place play-off against Brazil
British executive of Match arrested in illegal ticket sales investigation
A senior executive with the official World Cup corporate hospitality provider was arrested in a Rio de Janeiro hotel on Monday as part of a Brazilian police investigation into illegal ticket sales
DeAndre Yedlin linked to Roma and Liverpool after World Cup success
Seattle Sounders defender impressed in Brazil and Roma have established links with Major League Soccer
Arturo Vidal a £40m target for Louis van Gaal at Manchester United
The Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal is wanted by the new Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal, who is not likely to be put off by the £40m asking price
Diego Maradona against Belgium: the real story behind the famous image
Jonny Weeks: It is one of the most iconic sports photographs of all time but have we been duped into liking that photo of Maradona?
Louis van Gaal cares only about winning, not about Dutch ideology
Jonathan Wilson: The World Cup has highlighted the ability of an older, wiser Louis van Gaal to compromise on his principles to Holland’s benefit
Manchester United were offered Colombia’s James Rodríguez for £5m
Colombia’s much-heralded playmaker was touted to Old Trafford as a teenager, only for Sir Alex Ferguson to pursue other options
Diego Lugano: barbaric Luis Suárez ban breaches player’s human rights
The Uruguay captain, Diego Lugano, has described Luis Suárez’s four-month Fifa ban as an act of ‘barbarity’ that breaches the player’s human rights
Luis Suárez bite defence: I lost balance and hit my teeth against Chiellini
Luis Suárez has written to Fifa claiming that he did not deliberately bite Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini and that he simply fell over
Mexico’s Javier Hernández happy to meet Louis van Gaal and Holland
Mexico’s next game against Holland will pit Javier Hernández against his new club manager Louis van Gaal and team-mate Robin van Persie