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• FC United of Manchester 0-1 Benfica B: Diogo Goncalves scores winner as 4,232 fans pack Broadhurst Park to the rafters

  29-05-2015 23:54
  
  This was arguably the night when FC United of Manchester effectively ceased to be a protest club. Their first proper match at a ground to call their own, packed to the rafters by 4,232 fans.
  
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• Rory McIlroy misses the cut at the Irish Open for third successive year as Padraig Harrington keeps in touch with the leaders

  29-05-2015 23:34
  
  The next time Rory McIlroy makes a beeline towards the stars with invitations for the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, some of them might start running. Royal County Down hasn't exactly been kind to them this year.
  
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• Ana Ivanovic has new Bastian of hope as she looks to win first Grand Slam title since French Open in 2008 

  29-05-2015 23:34
  
  Ana Ivanovic has been searching for inspiration ever since she won the French Open seven years ago — a Grand Slam feat she has never managed to repeat.
  
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• Stiliyan Petrov interview: 'To be able to play again is something you can't describe'

  29-05-2015 23:30
  
  Stiliyan Petrov is sitting in a pub, talking about cup finals. For the man who led out Aston Villa when they last played in a Wembley showpiece, there is plenty to discuss, with his old club preparing to face Arsenal in the FA Cup. But there is a different final – played out far beyond the media glare – to reflect on first.
  
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• Speedy Hector Bellerin rewards Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger for show of faith

  29-05-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THIS TIME last year Hector Bellerin was watching from the stands at Wembley as Arsenal lifted the FA Cup in that dramatic final against Hull.
  
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• 'Proud' Jimmy Anderson sets new milestone as England battle against bad weather

  29-05-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IT was typical of Jimmy Anderson not to dwell too long on the milestone rather just get his head down and set off immediately for the next.
  
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• Kell Brook remains humble as he moves towards boxing stardom

  29-05-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  KELL BROOK is on the brink of becoming a boxing superstar as he prepares to headline his first pay-per-view card tonight.
  
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• Jessica Ennis-Hill confident of retaining her Olympic crown ahead of heptathlon comeback

  29-05-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  JESSICA Ennis-Hill, golden girl of 2012, thinks she can top her triumph in London by retaining her Olympic crown in Rio.
  
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• Hector Bellerin: How saying no to Barcelona paid off for Bellerin - and Arsenal

  29-05-2015 23:30
  
  While Arsenal play the FA Cup final, Barcelona will be preparing to meet Athletic Bilbao later in the day for the Copa del Rey. Next Saturday, it is the Champions League final, when they hope to complete a treble.
  
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• Feisty Farrell to square up against foxy Ford in Twickenham showdown for Aviva Premiership

  29-05-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A decade-long battle waged on the rugby league fields of the north-west and the rugby union pitches of the south-east shifts to Twickenham today as England’s two premier No 10s – George Ford and Owen Farrell – come face to face in the Premiership final.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: UEFA plot political war as Sepp Blatter wins FIFA presidential vote

  29-05-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SEPP BLATTER last night won his battle to remain as President of FIFA when Prince Ali Bin Hussain withdrew from the contest after losing the first round of voting.
  
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• Dylan Hartley left to rue head-butt after being thrown out of the England World Cup squad

  29-05-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DYLAN HARTLEY was “devastated” after being thrown out of the England World Cup squad yesterday for the head-butt on Jamie George in last weekend’s Premiership semifinal.
  
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• Aston Villa vs Arsenal: Stiliyan Petrov - 'To be able to play again is something you can't describe'

  29-05-2015 23:30
  
  Stiliyan Petrov is sitting in a pub, talking about cup finals. For the man who led out Aston Villa when they last played in a Wembley showpiece, there is plenty to discuss, with his old club preparing to face Arsenal in the FA Cup. But there is a different final – played out far beyond the media glare – to reflect on first.
  
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• Arsenal vs Aston Villa - FA Cup final preview: Arsene Wenger has chance to make history at Wembley - but is more interested in the future

  29-05-2015 23:30
  Arsène Wenger does not know where his FA Cup winners’ medals are. He has five – by Saturday night it could be six – and yet the medals themselves mean almost nothing to him. He is, as he loves to point out, a forward-looking manager, interested only in the next game and the next season, rather than what has happened before.
  
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• Arsenal vs Aston Villa - FA Cup final: Gabriel Agbonlahor hoping to banish memories of last Villa final at Wembley

  29-05-2015 23:30
  Gabriel Agbonlahor has not forgotten the bitter disappointment of Aston Villa’s League Cup final defeat in 2010. What he does not remember, though, is what happened to his runners-up medal that day.
  
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• FC United of Manchester 0-1 Benfica B: Diogo Goncalves scores the winner as 4,232 Mancunians pack to the rafters to watch first proper match at their own ground

  29-05-2015 23:22
  
  This was arguably the night when FC United of Manchester effectively ceased to be a protest club. Their first proper match at a ground to call their own, packed to the rafters by 4,232 fans.
  
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• JAMIE CARRAGHER: Real Madrid was always the job Rafa Benitez dreamed of... he used to tell me how much the club meant to him at Liverpool

  29-05-2015 23:16
  
  JAMIE CARRAGHER: A life’s ambition has been realised for Rafa Benitez, who will become Real Madrid’s next manager.
  When he started out in management, this was the job he always dreamed of.
  
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• FC United of Manchester 0-1 Benfica B: Diogo Goncalves scores the winner as 4,232 Mancunian fans pack the stadium to watch first proper match at their own ground

  29-05-2015 23:16
  
  This was arguably the night when FC United of Manchester effectively ceased to be a protest club. Their first proper match at a ground to call their own, packed to the rafters by 4,232 fans.
  
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• FIFA ELECTION CRISIS: Sepp Blatter turns presidential battle into war

  29-05-2015 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IF Sepp Blatter thinks he has had a fight on his hands over the last two days just to keep his grasping hands on the FIFA presidential hot seat, it is as nothing compared to the war he now faces in the coming weeks.
  
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• Jonas Gutierrez released by Newcastle: Defender leaves club just week after helping stave off Premier League relegation

  29-05-2015 23:06
  Newcastle have announced they are releasing Jonas Gutierrez, less than a week after he helped the club stave off relegation from the Barclays Premier League.
  
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• Jonas Gutierrez hits out at Newcastle owner Mike Ashley after being released by the club

  29-05-2015 22:58
  
  Newcastle United have confirmed that duo Jonas Gutierrez and Ryan Taylor will not be offered new deals and will leave the club when their contracts end on June 30.
  
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• Gary Lineker slams 'revolting' FIFA after Sepp Blatter wins election

  29-05-2015 22:58
  
  Social media has been almost unanimous in its fury after Sepp Blatter (pictured) secured his fifth term as FIFA president, with Gary Lineker branding football's governing body a 'revolting organisation'.
  
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• James Anderson reveals pride at becoming the first Englishman to take 400 Test wickets after day one against New Zealand 

  29-05-2015 22:49
  
  Jimmy Anderson spoke of his pride after becoming the first Englishman to claim 400 Test wickets on the opening day of the second Test against New Zealand at Headingley.
  
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• Inverness boss John Hughes in Scottish Cup sponsor snub

  29-05-2015 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  INVERNESS manager John Hughes is facing an SFA rap after snubbing Scottish Cup sponsors William Hill with a Hampden no-show yesterday.
  
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• Lee Selby counting on the spirit of his older brother Michael to inspire him to world title

  29-05-2015 22:39
  
  Lee Selby will get a crack at a world title at the O2 Arena on Saturday night. The 28 year old lost his older brother Michael in 2008 and still carries his spirit with him.
  
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• Arsenal vs Aston Villa: Tim Sherwood must play a game of two halves for Aston Villa to cause an FA Cup final upset

  29-05-2015 22:25
  Arsenal are the clear favourites to lift the FA Cup but the pronounced pattern of their games this season points very clearly to a way in which Aston Villa can beat them at Wembley.
  
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• James Anderson 400 Test wickets: England bowler can go on to reach 500, says Matt Prior

  29-05-2015 22:18
  
  As James Anderson celebrated another milestone in a marvellous career, Matt Prior, the man who shared many of his wickets, backed his former team-mate to claim at least another 100.
  
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• Outside Edge: Not even boundaries galore and hipster beards can elevate T20 above fast-food status

  29-05-2015 22:16
  
  Three days after one of the great Test matches of recent years, Lord’s returned to domestic duties on Thursday to host a NatWest Twenty20 Blast match between Middlesex and Kent.
  
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• Jessica Ennis-Hill: Coming back is one of my toughest challenges say Olympic gold medallist ahead of heptathlon in Götzis

  29-05-2015 22:13
  
  There could hardly be a more picturesque setting in which to launch a comeback than Götzis, nestling in the Austrian Alps, a ski jump away from the Swiss border. Into this bucolic landscape, home to the weekend’s Hypo-Meeting, parachutes Jessica Ennis-Hill for her first appearance in the heptathlon since winning Olympic gold in London and the subsequent birth of her son, Reggie, 10 months ago.
  
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• World Triathlon Series: Brownlees say farewell to Hyde Park and join women in the 'factory of champions'

  29-05-2015 22:10
  
  It was the setting as much as the story that made London’s Olympic triathlon. The swimming in the Serpentine, the cycling along The Mall; Alistair Brownlee wrapped a Union flag around himself  as he finished the race in Hyde Park.
  
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• Bath v Saracens - Premiership final preview: England rivals go head to head in enticing final at Twickenham

  29-05-2015 22:06
  Bath v SaracensSaturday, 2.30pmThe velvet glove and the iron fist; the unstoppable force against the immovable object; the struggle between good and evil. This afternoon’s Premiership final can be characterised in any number of ways, some of them just a little over the top, but this much can be said without fear of contradiction: the conditions are set fair for a rugby classic.
  
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• Kyle Eastmond interview: Convert back at the heart of Bath holy trinity ahead of Premiership final with Saracens

  29-05-2015 22:02
  It has been quite a journey: on the rocks one year, rock and roll rugby royalty the next. Kyle Eastmond does not have the foggiest idea where the road may end, but the direction of travel is clearer than it was 12 months ago and if the Bath centre produces one of his command performances in the Aviva Premiership final at Twickenham, he could yet force the England hierarchy into a radical rethink over midfield selection policy ahead of the World Cup in a little over three months’ time.
  
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• Figo: Football loses with Sepp win

  29-05-2015 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Luis Figo insists "football has lost" after Sepp Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term as FIFA presidentdespite widespread calls for him to s
  
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• Blatter battered but not beaten

  29-05-2015 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sepp Blatter was voted in for four more years as FIFA president - but only after his rival inflicted a "bloody nose" onthe 79-year-old.
  
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• French Open 2015: Struggling Maria Sharapova fights tears as she sees off Samantha Stosur

  29-05-2015 21:59
  
  It was only a third-round match but Maria Sharapova appeared to be on the brink of tears as she completed a  6-3, 6-4 win over Australia’s Samantha Stosur at the French Open in Paris on Friday.
  
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• Andy Murray vs Nick Kyrgios: 'Cool' Australian admits Murray has been like a mentor - but will put that to one side at the French Open

  29-05-2015 21:57
  He wears an earring, sports the sort of haircut you would find at the edgiest nightclubs in town and told a magazine last week that he did not believe in abstaining from sex the night before a big match.
  
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• Dylan Hartley to miss World Cup: Dropping hooker was inevitable because of front-row safety rules

  29-05-2015 21:50
  Late last year, Dylan Hartley turned his back on a highly lucrative Top 14 contract with the French club Montpellier because he did not feel ready to call time on his international career. Unfortunately, for a man congenitally incapable of turning the other cheek – a deep-seated character weakness that has surfaced once too often for England’s liking – he no longer has a say in his red-rose future.
  
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• Jorge Linares vs Kevin Mitchell: Mitchell so confident a third tilt at world title will deliver

  29-05-2015 21:47
  
  Kevin Mitchell has vowed to deliver on his third attempt at winning a world title as he prepares to get “nasty” against WBC lightweight champion Jorge Linares at the O2 Arena on Saturday night.
  
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• Wenger always focused on future

  29-05-2015 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arsene Wenger will continue to look to the future, rather than reflect on past glories, if Arsenal can win his sixth FA Cup in Saturday's final
  
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• Cathcart eager for more success

  29-05-2015 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Northern Ireland and Watford defender Craig Cathcart has had a memorable past 12 months, but he wants the next year with club and country to be e
  
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• England vs New Zealand: The Kiwis against justify their position as the current darlings of world cricket

  29-05-2015 21:43
  
  After the joyous cricketing smorgasbord of Lord’s, there was the undeniable feeling that Headingley had a tough act to follow – the public’s appetite for free-flowing, helter-skelter cricket had been whetted and they were hungry for more.
  
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• Jonas Gutierrez and Ryan Taylor released by Newcastle after Premier League survival  

  29-05-2015 21:39
  
  Newcastle United have confirmed that duo Jonas Gutierrez and Ryan Taylor will not be offered new deals and will leave the club when their contracts end on June 30.
  
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• 'FIFA members have betrayed the game they are supposed to cherish': Gary Lineker slams 'revolting organisation' as he leads Twitter vitriol at Sepp Blatter's re-election

  29-05-2015 21:39
  
  Social media has been almost unanimous in its fury after Sepp Blatter (pictured) secured his fifth term as FIFA president, with Gary Lineker branding football's governing body a 'revolting organisation'.
  
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• Super League Magic Weekend: Kevin Sinfield fearful of the Wigan hoodoo

  29-05-2015 21:38
  
  Kevin Sinfield, the Leeds captain, is warning his side to prepare for a dangerously wounded Wigan team when they bring down the curtain on the opening day of the Magic Weekend in Newcastle on Saturday.
  
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• Super League Magic Weekend: Stanley Gene hopes Geordies will embrace the Magic of a less familiar game at St James' Park

  29-05-2015 21:36
  Ask Stanley Gene whether he considers himself an adopted Geordie and he manages what, for a Papua New Guinean, is a fair stab at “Why aye, man!”
  
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• Irish Open 2015: Another cut missed but no disaster for Rory McIlroy

  29-05-2015 21:32
  
  This was not a day to go chasing miracles. Neither the course nor the weather would support it and so for the second week in succession Rory McIlroy fell the wrong side of the cut line on this side of the Atlantic to take his leave of the Irish Open.
  
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• Treve back on the Arc trail with smooth success

  29-05-2015 21:29
  
  The dual Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Treve showed all her ability remains intact with a smooth win on her seasonal reappearance on Friday. 
  
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• Athletics must boost its image if the likes of Dina Asher-Smith are to make headlines

  29-05-2015 21:27
  
  Dina Asher-Smith became the fastest British woman in history last weekend when she broke the national 100m record.
  
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• Sepp Blatter and his cronies represent the darkness at the heart of modern sport

  29-05-2015 21:26
  
  MARTIN SAMUEL: It was a speech shot through with irony for those willing to recognise it. Sepp Blatter said he was going to 'fix' FIFA. No, really, he did. And with a straight face, too. 
  
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• Greg Dyke would be 'very surprised' if Sepp Blatter lasts two more years after his re-election as FIFA president 

  29-05-2015 21:24
  
  Football Association chairman Greg Dyke says he would be 'very surprised' if Sepp Blatter was still FIFA president in two years.
  
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