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The Football Association have decided to appeal against the three-match ban that threatens to rule Wayne Rooney out of the entire Euro 2012 group phase.

"We received written reasons for the red card on Tuesday afternoon and we were given until midnight (on Friday) to respond."

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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini and Arsenal striker Robin van Persie are the winners of the Barclays Premier League awards for October.Mancini is Manager of the Month after leading City to four straight wins, with his team averaging over four goals a game

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In total, City netted an incredible 17 goals during October, in what has been an extraordinarily goal-heavy start to the Premier League season.

Meanwhile, van Persie has won the Player of the Month award after an electrifying month that saw him score seven goals in three games, taking him to 28 goals in 27 games in the Premier League during 2011, and helping Arsenal up to seventh place in the table.

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Arsene Wenger has taken a significant step towards spending a chunk of Arsenal’s £50million transfer fund on Borussia Dortmund wonderkid Mario Goetze.

Wenger views the Germany international as one of the brightest creative talents in Europe and is willing to smash the club’s current transfer record - the £15million paid to Zenit St Petersburg for Andrey Arshavin - to land Goetze