London, Jan. 26: England football star David Beckham will decide in the next two weeks whether he wants to join Italian football club A C Milan permanently.

According to The Times, Beckham, who is currently on a three-month loan to Milan, is due to return to the Los Angeles Galaxy in March.

Sources at A C Milan said that he has made such an impact at San Siro that Milan is keen to keep him.

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London, Jan. 25 : A Kuwaiti consortium has pulled OUT of negotiations to buy the Liverpool Football Club for a reported one billion pounds, delivering a body blow to co-owner Tom Hicks, who had been at the forefront of bringing the Kuwaitis to the table.

At inauguration of a swimming pool at the Sports Authority of India (SAI), Eastern Centre on Friday, on the 112th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the Union Sports Minister, Dr. M. S. Gill explained that Football is not only a world's sport but it is the people's game.

Dr. Gill laid stress on the requirement to strengthen the infrastructure for the sport to develop.

London, Jan. 23: Former England football star Paul Gascoigne's shambolic depiction as a drunken wreck with abusive tantrums on TV this month sparked bad memories for Imraan Ladak, the chairman of the Kettering Football Club.

The Kettering chairman gave Gazza his last job in football in October 2005 after being part of a consortium that bought the Rockingham Road club and installed the volatile England legend as boss.

London  - A German consortium is poised to mount a takeover bid for Chelsea, according to reports in the British media on Friday.

Dr Sulaiman al Fahim, who represented Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Mansour in his 200 million-pound (274 million dollars) takeover of Manchester City in August, is understood to be working on the deal with Switzerland-based private equity firm Falcon Equity.

Chelsea is currently owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who is said to have lost a large part of his fortune in the global economic crisis.