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Stuart Pearce has come out of retirement at the age of 53 to play for a non-league side dubbed “the worst in the UK”.

Gloucestershire-based Longford AFC, whose entire first team and manager left last summer, play in the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division Two, and have lost all 19 of their games this season.

They scored their first goal of the season on 13 January in a 9-1 defeat by Abbeymead Rovers – with their current goal difference standing at minus 180.

Pearce, who won 78 England caps and retired from professional football in 2002, said he “jumped at the chance” to return to action with the club, in a deal arranged as part of a Direct Line marketing campaign.

“Grassroots is essential to the lifeblood of the game,” said Pearce, who was sacked as manager of Nottingham Forest a year ago. “I’m looking forward to working with manager Nick Dawe and to helping a group of talented young footballers achieve their dreams and, hopefully transform both the dressing room confidence and the on-pitch performance.”

Dawe said Pearce, who will train at the club to build up match fitness before making a first-team debut, would give Longford “the best chance possible to go further than we ever have done before … A year ago we were playing in front of one man and his dog and now, we are set to have hundreds for his debut.”

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Former Premier League player Marcus Bent has been handed a 12-month suspended jail sentence for confronting two police officers with a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife while under the influence of cocaine.

The 37-year-old Bent previously pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and affray at Guildford Crown Court.

Prosecutor Lee Harris said Bent, who played for Everton, Ipswich and Charlton in England’s top league, was “wild with rage” as he confronted officers after calling police to report intruders in his flat. No intruders were discovered, but officers found a small amount of cocaine. The incident occurred on 13 September last year.

Judge Stephen Climie told Bent on Friday he had lost his good character and his self-respect, but praised him for his work with a youth football team.

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3 minutes ago, David Marrio said:

I wouldn't be trusting my kid to be coached by a coked up knife swinging mad man....let alone someone as shit as Marcus Bent <_<

What you got against West Londoners? >_>

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The Cruz Azul coach, Tomás Boy, wants guidelines issued about celebrations after he was sent to the stands for his reaction to his team’s late equaliser in a 3-3 draw with their Mexican championship rivals América.

Boy danced and waved his arms around like a windmill, provoking an angry reaction from the América players, after Joao Rojas snatched a point in stoppage time in the so-called clásico joven (junior derby) on Saturday.

“There ought to be a directive from the referees’ commission listing the permitted celebrations,” Boy was quoted in Record as saying as he walked off the Azteca pitch in Mexico City.

Boy had exchanged angry words with América’s Argentinian striker Dario Benedetto. The home side’s bench confronted the Cruz Azul coach before the referee intervened and showed Boy a red card. Three players, including two from the home side, were sent off during the fiery encounter.

The fixture is the second biggest match of the Liga MX season, after the clásico between América and their arch-rivals, Guadalajara.

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