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• VIDEO: Fans pick dream deadline day buys

  31-01-2016 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  YouTube fan channels pick their dream signing, realistic signing and a player who they would like to see leave on transfer deadline day.
  
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• 'Morgan should be Wales full-back'

  31-01-2016 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Matthew Morgan should start as Wales' full-back against Ireland in the Six Nations, says former captain Gareth Thomas.
  
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• Chris Jordan fires timely reminder with all-action display in England's warm-up rout

  31-01-2016 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chris Jordan is ready to come in from the cold of a South African tour spent on the sidelines to play a leading all-round role in England’s one-day challenge.
  
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• Illness forces Konta out of Fed Cup

  31-01-2016 23:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australian Open semi-finalist Johanna Konta pulls out of the GB team for this week's Fed Cup in Israel with illness.
  
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• Scott Sharp's ESM team wins Rolex as Corvettes thrill crowd

  31-01-2016 23:51
  
  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — One by one the top contenders in the Rolex 24 at Daytona fell victim to the bumps and breaks of a twice-around-the-clock endurance race.
  
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• Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo scores hat-trick in demolition of Espanyol

  31-01-2016 23:49
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo hit yet another hat-trick for Real Madrid who swept aside Espanyol 6-0 in a ruthless attacking display in La Liga on Sunday. Related: Barcelona hold off nine-man Atlético Madrid to climb clear in La LigaContinue reading...
  
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• MK Dons 1-5 Chelsea: Oscar nets hat-trick and Eden Hazard finally breaks his duck as Blues run riot in one-sided FA Cup clash

  31-01-2016 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATT BARLOW AT STADIUM mk: Chelsea eased into the fifth round of the FA Cup amid an avalanche of goals and wasted chances in their one-sided 5-1 victory over MK Dons.
  
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• Guus Hiddink labels Chelsea's FA Cup tie with Manchester City an 'early final' as giants drawn together in the 5th round

  31-01-2016 23:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Guus Hiddink described Chelsea’s tie with Manchester City as an early FA Cup final after the Barclays Premier League giants were drawn together in the fifth round on Sunday.
  
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• Milan take the derby honours with 3-0 win over Internazionale

  31-01-2016 23:42
  
  Milan stormed to a 3-0 win in a frenzied derby against Internazionale, who missed a penalty when they were trailing 1-0 and had their coach, Roberto Mancini, sent off on Sunday.The Inter substitute Mauro Icardi, dropped from the starting line-up after being publicly criticised by Mancini last week, hit his spot-kick against the post minutes after coming on as he squandered a chance to cancel out Alex’s first-half opener. Continue reading...
  
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• The making of England head coach Eddie Jones: He got racial abuse at school but would never let it stop him

  31-01-2016 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NIK SIMON EXCLUSIVE: It was in the late 1980s when Eddie Jones, a young Asian in white, middle-class Sydney, worked as an unpaid teacher to save Australia’s first multi-national school.
  
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• Leicester are already champions of sticking it to the big boys... now I hope they keep on defying the odds to win the Premier League

  31-01-2016 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MARTIN SAMUEL: It would be wonderful if, 12 years since their historic ‘Invincible’ season, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal team could win the League again. But not quite as good as Leicester doing it.
  
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• Angelique Kerber makes good on pre-tournament vow after defeating Serena Williams in Australian Open final

  31-01-2016 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As Angelique Kerber walked to Melbourne Park alongside the Yarra three weeks ago, memories came flooding back of the moments American Jim Courier dived in the river in celebration
  
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• Kim wins in Bahamas as Hull fades

  31-01-2016 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Charley Hull drops down the field to finish joint eighth as Kim Hyo-joo wins the LPGA event in the Bahamas
  
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• Chris Robshaw wants to right England's World Cup wrongs with Eddie Jones: I had to go on to win some silverware 

  31-01-2016 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS FOY: Despite everything he has been through, Chris Robshaw never considered giving up on England, in search of a quieter life. He still has unfinished business.
  
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• England may call for Manu Tuilagi if they lose Six Nations opener against Scotland, says Leicester boss Richard Cockerill  

  31-01-2016 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS FOY'S GAINLINE: Richard Cockerill claimed Manu Tuilagi could still play in the RBS 6 Nations. The England centre missed Leicester’s 19-18 win at Gloucester with a hamstring strain.
  
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• Trainer Willie Mullins upbeat over Gold Cup hope Djakadam despite heavy fall

  31-01-2016 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Willie Mullins remains optimistic Djakadam will line up in the Cheltenham Gold Cup despite the 2015 runner-up needing significant stitching for a cut suffered when falling at Prestbury Park.
  
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• Robin Goodfellow's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Monday, February 1

  31-01-2016 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail racing expert Robin Goodfellow gives his hottest selections ahead of Monday's racing atPlumpton, Wolverhampton and Kempton.
  
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• Victoria Pendleton denied first victory in photo-finish at Milborne St Andrew

  31-01-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dual Olympic track cycling champion Victoria Pendleton came within a head of her first victory as an amateur jockey when beaten in a photo-finish on Sunday.
  
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• Ross County end 10-man Celtic's treble dream

  31-01-2016 23:31
  (Reuters) - Celtic's hopes of a claiming a domestic treble this season were dashed when they suffered a 3-1 defeat by Ross County in the League Cup semi-final at Hampden Park on Sunday. Celtic's Efe Ambrose was sent off for a professional foul after 13 minutes and Leigh Griffiths missed a penalty late on as Celtic lost for the first time since mid-December, bringing their five-match winning run in cup and league to an end. Celtic took the lead in the first minute when Gary Mackay-Steven prodded
  
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• Boot on the other foot for Reading's Brian McDermott as he sets sights on a second consecutive FA Cup semi-final for the club

  31-01-2016 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Reading manager Brian McDermott made clear his plans for this year's FA Cup as his team picked apart League One Walsall. McDermott's side ran out comfortable winners.
  
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• Tommy Elphick turns thoughts to Harry Arter after Bournemouth march on

  31-01-2016 23:30
  
  • Eddie Howe’s side come back to beat Portsmouth 2-1 in FA Cup fourth round
  • Arter rested but Elphick says whole squad behind grieving team-mateTommy Elphick paid tribute to his team-mate Harry Arter after the midfielder spoke publicly for the first time since his fiancee gave birth to their stillborn daughter. In an interview with the Guardian last week, Arter revealed how, just two days later, he had given an emotional team talk before his man-of-the-match performance in the 2
  
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• Saido Berahino has right attitude but he’s not fit, says West Brom’s Pulis

  31-01-2016 23:30
  
  • Berahino scores twice in FA Cup draw with Peterborough on return to side
  • Newcastle bid £21m for striker but that falls short of West Brom valuationTony Pulis hopes his only transfer business before the close of play at 11pm on Monday is incoming rather than outgoing at West Bromwich Albion but the manager has warned against unrealistic expectations if Saido Berahino remains after the striker marked his return with two goals. Related: West Bromwich Albion sign Sandro on loan f
  
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• Reinvigorated Paul Lambert reflects after improved Blackburn display

  31-01-2016 23:30
  
  • ‘It was great meeting different people and enjoying my life,’ says Lambert
  • The Scot spent time with Real Madrid and Bayern Munich on time offThe clean-shaven, spectacle free and suspiciously jocular Paul Lambert who faced the press after Blackburn’s win over Oxford United could scarcely have been further removed from the dour, defensive and irritable version of the Scot who left Aston Villa 12 months ago. So much so, he was asked if he had made a conscious decisio
  
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• Leyton Orient’s Kevin Nolan admits to hurt after Cambridge defeat | Jeremy Alexander

  31-01-2016 23:30
  
  Orient’s player-manager suffered his first reverse since taking charge after winning his two previous gamesReality caught up with Kevin Nolan on Saturday. Appointed by Leyton Orient as player-manager nine days previously, he had supervised two wins. Just as significant were two clean sheets. Orient had managed only one in 21 League Two games and gone 11 without one. Now they reverted to type and lost 3-1 at home to Cambridge United.“If it had been the first game, I could have taken i
  
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• Jürgen Klopp hails Liverpool youngsters but remains mindful of task in hand

  31-01-2016 23:30
  
  • Klopp says he is enjoying precious time with Liverpool youngsters
  • Liverpool manager reiterates ‘Premier League is main tournament’Jürgen Klopp’s exasperation was understandable. A replay against West Ham United ruined plans for a first full week of training since before Christmas and, should Liverpool triumph at Upton Park, the Capital One Cup final will bring February to a close after eight games in 27 days.January had nine in 29. And there is the small matt
  
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• John Terry to leave Chelsea as one of the club’s toughest and best

  31-01-2016 23:27
  
  Defender captained Blues to their first league title in 50 years but suffered the crushing blow of missing their 2012 Champions League triumph in MunichMany will just shrug and mutter good riddance. They will point to the controversies which cost John Terry his captaincy of England, twice, and to that depressing day in October 2011 when rival centre-halves tangled at Loftus Road, arguing and eyeballing each other, and what might have been a playground squabble amid the frenzy of a derby erupted
  
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• Is it the right time for Terry to go?

  31-01-2016 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  He may have been a divisive character outside of Stamford Bridge but will Chelsea regret allowing John Terry to leave this summer?
  
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• Everton set to finalise personal terms with Lokomotiv’s Oumar Niasse

  31-01-2016 23:24
  
  • Striker due to undertake medical on Monday before £13.5m transfer
  • Niasse was voted Russian Premier League’s player of 2015
  Oumar Niasse is due at Everton on Monday morning to undertake a medical and finalise his personal terms on a £13.5m transfer from Lokomotiv Moscow. The Senegal striker has long dreamed of a move to the Premier League and he is now within touching distance of it. Related: Everton’s Koné and Pienaar suffer alleged racial abuse at Ca
  
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• Gordon Reid may have been miles from home but familiar voices spurned him to Australian Open glory after brutal match 

  31-01-2016 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scotsman Gordon Reid may have won his first Grand Slam wheelchair singles title more than 10,000 miles from his hometown of Helensburgh – but the 24-year-old could hear plenty of familiar
  
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• Norwich bring in Chelsea striker Bamford on loan

  31-01-2016 23:18
  Norwich City have signed Chelsea striker Patrick Bamford on loan until the end of the season as they bid to stay in the Premier League, the club said on Sunday. The 22-year-old moves to Carrow Road following a loan spell with Crystal Palace, where he made six league appearances. Bamford spent last season on loan at second-tier Middlesbrough, scoring 17 times in 38 league matches, and was named as the Championship Player of the Year.
  
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• Snedeker closes with 69, then waits to see if it's enough

  31-01-2016 23:16
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Brandt Snedeker closed with a 3-under 69 on Sunday in raging weather at Torrey Pines, and then had to wait to see if it would be enough to win the Farmers Insurance Open.
  
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• Jamie Murray best doubles player in the world says British Davis Cup Captain Leon Smith after Australian Open triumph 

  31-01-2016 23:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jamie Murray will arrive back at his Wimbledon home not exactly fresh from his Australian Open triumph, but basking in his status as the world's number two player. Yet that may not accurately
  
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• Dunne’s California dreams dashed by nightmare start

  31-01-2016 23:12
  
  When it’s too tough for most, however, it’s just right for Shane Lowry.
  
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• Sport may need its own Untouchables to root out the bad guys | Sean Ingle

  31-01-2016 23:08
  
  Better oversight and more funding are essential, and the police need to get more involved, but perhaps world sport needs its own team of investigatorsRemember that scene from The Untouchables when Sean Connery tells Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness how to bring down the bad guys? “You wanna know how to get Capone?” he asks. “They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue, that’s how you get Capone. Now do you wa
  
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• Milan thump Inter after Icardi fluffs penalty

  31-01-2016 23:06
  AC Milan stormed to a 3-0 win in a frenzied derby against Inter Milan who missed a penalty when they were trailing 1-0 and had coach Roberto Mancini sent off on Sunday. Inter substitute Mauro Icardi, dropped from the starting line-up after being publicly criticised by Mancini last week, hit his spot kick against the post minutes after coming on as he squandered a chance to cancel out Alex's first-half opener. Carlos Bacca and M'baye Niang quickly compounded Icardi's misery as they scored two mor
  
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• Telusa Veainu proves pivotal at the heart of Leicester’s revival

  31-01-2016 23:01
  
  • Gloucester 18-19 Leicester• Tongan provided the platform for Tigers’ slender victoryThe Premiership season will this weekend reach its halfway stage and an early contender for player of the season is Leicester’s Telusa Veainu whose seventh try of the campaign, as well as being the highlight of a slow-burning match, created the platform for the Tigers to plunder victory in the closing minutes. Related: Logovi’i Mulipola strikes late as Leicester come back at Gloucest
  
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• Top players are attracted to Watford, says Quique Sánchez Flores

  31-01-2016 23:00
  
  • Watford manager believes signings signal growing stature of club
  • Flores says fans can dream of FA Cup glory after late fourth-round winThe signing of Mario Suárez from Fiorentina shows the perception of Watford has changed, said Quique Sánchez Flores. “It means Watford is doing something really good, top players like Nordin Amrabat and Mario Suárez want to come now,” the Watford manager said, after seeing Odion Ighalo’s late strike send his mu
  
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• Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham talent provide template for success

  31-01-2016 23:00
  
  • Spurs youth to the fore in comfortable 4-1 win at Colchester
  • Tottenham well placed to mount serious challenge for title and FA CupTottenham’s transformation under Mauricio Pochettino has resulted in a convincing challenge on three fronts but equally telling is the way in which they can be held up as a role model to those lower down. Victory was rarely in doubt during a good-natured lunchtime in Essex but the lasting impression was that the visitors, for so long dogged by ques
  
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• Manuel Pellegrini to drop Iheanacho despite hat-trick against Aston Villa

  31-01-2016 23:00
  
  • Manchester City manager will bring back Sergio Agüero for league game
  • Villa manager, Rémi Garde, says some players are not fit enoughManchester City have rarely been accused of economy since the Abu Dhabi millions began to roll in so when Manuel Pellegrini was asked if the club had saved money by employing Kelechi Iheanacho he was momentarily nonplussed. City did have to beat off other leading clubs around Europe to sign the Nigerian for their academy, though the manage
  
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• Chris Robshaw ready for fresh start with Eddie Jones’s England

  31-01-2016 23:00
  
  England’s captain at the World Cup has re-watched the games from that tournament and says he has moved onFor Chris Robshaw everything and nothing has changed. He is still part of England’s squad, still a key part of their back row, still the most loyal of team men. Yet, deep down, he knows he is about to start again at Murrayfield on Saturday, his first Test since last year’s crushing World Cup disappointment. “It is a new chapter,” he says. “Hopefully I will
  
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• Arsène Wenger makes England quip over Arsenal’s in-form Alex Iwobi

  31-01-2016 23:00
  
  • Roy Hodgson ‘can miss Iwobi because he plays for Nigeria now’
  • Burnley lose FA Cup tie 2-1 but hope to sign Tottenham’s Alex PritchardArsène Wenger had time for a lighthearted dig. The England manager, Roy Hodgson, was at the Emirates Stadium to watch Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kieran Gibbs but, according to Wenger, he could cast his eye over one that has got away. “Alex Iwobi is one you can miss because he plays for Nigeria now,” the Arsenal ma
  
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• Milan 3-0 Internazionale: Serie A – as it happened

  31-01-2016 22:59
  
  Mauro Icardi missed a crucial penalty for Inter, and Roberto Mancini was sent to the stands in a breathless derby that was decided by goals from Milan’s Alex, Carlos Bacca and M’Baye Niang 9.55pm GMTWhat a result for the Rossoneri, but it could have been so different. Had Mauri Icardi not scuffed his penalty against the post when the score was 1-0 to Milan, Inter may well have gone on to win this match. Instead, Milan romp to a magnificent win, with Kucka, Honda, Niang, Alex all impr
  
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• Athletes in Rio stay inside, lather on repellent for Zika

  31-01-2016 22:58
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Aline Silva has had the dengue fever twice, and she's not taking any chances with the Zika virus.
  
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• Fulham call off Moussa Dembéle’s £6m move to Tottenham over loan-back

  31-01-2016 22:56
  
  • Spurs wanted striker now but Fulham said he must stay until summer
  • Jordan Rhodes’s move from Blackburn to Middlesbrough also offFulham have angrily called off Moussa Dembélé’s proposed £6m move to Tottenham Hotspur after a row over the centre-forward’s loan-back arrangement.The west London club have insisted all along that Dembélé cannot and will not be allowed to play elsewhere for the remainder of the season given their precario
  
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• Ronaldo hat-trick as Real hit Espanyol for six

  31-01-2016 22:55
  (Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo hit yet another hat-trick for Real Madrid who swept aside Espanyol 6-0 in a ruthless attacking display in La Liga on Sunday. Karim Benzema headed in a whipped cross from James Rodriguez after seven minutes and then Ronaldo won and struck home a penalty. A Rodriguez strike was deflected in after 16 minutes and Ronaldo showed a sublime touch to beat two players and curl a 20 yard shot into the corner before halftime.
  
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• West Ham sign Nigeria striker Emenike on loan

  31-01-2016 22:54
  West Ham United have signed Nigeria's Emmanuel Emenike on loan until the end of the season from Fenerbahce with an option to make the deal permanent, the Premier League club said on Sunday. The 28-year-old striker, who has played 37 times for his country, has scored more than 80 goals at club level, including seven this season on loan at Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates. In 2013 he helped Nigeria win the Africa Cup of Nations, finishing as the tournament’s top scorer with four goals, and
  
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• Real Madrid 6-0 Espanyol: Cristiano Ronaldo scores treble as Zinedine Zidane's side move four points off Barcelona

  31-01-2016 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  RIK SHARMA AT THE BERNABEU:It took just 11 minutes to change the question from if Real Madrid would beat Espanyol, to if they would beat them by more than the six goals.
  
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• NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman signed contract through 2022

  31-01-2016 22:38
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gary Bettman said his relationship with the union has never been better.
  
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• Real Madrid 6-0 Espanyol

  31-01-2016 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo scores a hat-trick as Real Madrid thrash Espanyol to cut the gap between themselves and La Liga leaders Barcelona to four points.
  
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• Matt Kvesic deserved a shot in No 7 shirt for England's Six Nations opener against Scotland, says Steffon Armitage

  31-01-2016 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Matt Kvesic should have been given a shot at openside flanker for England's Six Nations opener against Scotland, according to Toulon flanker Steffon Armitage.
  
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