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• Newcastle's Karl Darlow says penalty stop against Crystal Palace was 'most important I've made'

  01-05-2016 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As Darlow himself admits, his penalty save to deny Crystal Palace's Yohan Cabaye on Saturday could well prove to be the moment which keeps his team in the Premier League.
  
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• Mark Noble is a top player, he could help England, says Slaven Bilic

  01-05-2016 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The West Ham captain has enjoyed his best season and scored twice in a comfortable 2-0 win at West Brom on Saturday, which keeps his side in the hunt for a Champions League place.
  
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• James DeGale wants London homecoming after setting up unification bout with Badou Jack

  01-05-2016 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James DeGale was booked for winning a war. Badou Jack boo-hooed about boxing a draw. Not to worry unduly. These gentlemen now stand to make a tidy fortune by fighting each other.
  
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• Everton's results would leave any set of fans disgruntled, says Tom Cleverley

  01-05-2016 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Having waited since the final whistle, the irate band of protesters on the Gwladys Street unleashed their anger. 'Get out of our club,' they bellowed. 'Roberto Martinez, get out of our club!'
  
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• Alex Neil doesn't care who turns out to be Norwich's hero, as long as the Canaries avoid relegation from the Premier League 

  01-05-2016 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When you're two points adrift of safety in the Premier League with two games of the season remaining, it's not a good idea to be fussy about your side's potential match-winners.
  
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• Arsenal fans and their relationship with Arsene Wenger is like watching a teenage break-up... some want a clean break but others want to give it one more try

  01-05-2016 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JAMIE REDKNAPP: I’ve covered the last three Arsenal matches and it's like watching a teenage break-up. Some want a clean break from Arsene Wenger but there’s still love there
  
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• Brad Keselowski wins crazy crash-fest at Talladega

  01-05-2016 23:53
  
  TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Brad Keselowski won a demolition derby at Talladega Superspeedway, where multiple wrecks caused two cars to go airborne and led to millions of dollars in damage to race teams.
  
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• Radwanska, Kerber have 1st-round exits in Madrid

  01-05-2016 23:46
  MADRID (AP) — Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska and second-seeded Angelique Kerber were upset in the opening round of the Madrid Masters on Sunday.
  
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• No title for Leicester yet as Manchester United hold Foxes to a draw at Old Trafford... but fans know they'll soon be partying 

  01-05-2016 23:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  That'll do for now, duck. As the perspiring hordes squeezed themselves out of the Friary pub in Leicester city centre on Sunday afternoon, that was the prevailing mood among locals.
  
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• Leicester are on the brink of the Premier League title... here's what Claudio Ranieri's side need to overcome the final hurdle 

  01-05-2016 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With a total of 77 points, Claudio Ranieri's side are on the brink of sealing the title with two games remaining this season. Sportsmail explains what Leicester need to become champions.
  
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• Dimitrov suffers racket-smashing meltdown in Istanbul final

  01-05-2016 23:42
  Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov smashed three rackets on his way to losing the Istanbul Open final to Argentine Diego Schwartzman on Sunday. Second seed Dimitrov was one set ahead and 5-2 up in the second before Schwartzman, the world number 87, fought back to win the his first ATP title 6-7(5) 7-6(4) 6-0. "I let myself down, I let my team down, I let my family down with that behaviour," Dimitrov told reporters.
  
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• Watford’s Troy Deeney delighted after late double prolongs Aston Villa pain

  01-05-2016 23:30
  
  • Boyhood Birmingham fan says scoring twice ‘was a nice feeling’
  • Villa have lost 11 games on the trot – an unwanted club recordTroy Deeney could scarcely hide his delight after the Watford captain’s two late goals sank relegated Aston Villa 3-2. The boyhood Birmingham fan wrote in his programme notes he took no pleasure in their city rivals’ plight but you would not have known it after watching the striker celebrate a 90th-minute equaliser, followed by a
  
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• Watford boss Quique Sanchez Flores baffled by plans to fire him: 'I know what I deserve'

  01-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores believes he has earned the right to keep his job amid his club’s plans to replace him. Flores said: 'I think I have enough of a CV to justify something.'
  
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• Sean Dyche calls on his Burnley side to finish off the job by clinching Premier League return with victory over QPR 

  01-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Burnley boss Sean Dyche has urged his players to get across the finishing line and clinch a £200million promotion to the Premier League with victory over QPR at Turf Moor on Monday.
  
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• Robin Goodfellow's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Monday, May 1

  01-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail racing expert Robin Goodfellow gives his hottest selections ahead of Monday's meetings at Beverley, Windsor and Warwick.
  
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• Roberto Martínez cuts lonely figure while Everton fans make views clear

  01-05-2016 23:30
  
  • ‘It’s not about winning the fans over with talking; it’s about doing it with wins’• Everton supporters not placated by 2-1 win over BournemouthRoberto Martínez may not realise he has talked his way into trouble but even the Everton manager appears to accept he will struggle to talk his way out of it. He has twin audiences to convince and the added difficulty that minds, particularly those of the supporters, already seem to be made up. He may be making a
  
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• Rafael Benítez exudes belief Newcastle can avoid relegation

  01-05-2016 23:30
  
  • Newcastle manager: ‘We’re doing the right things’
  • Goalkeeper Karl Darlow made penalty save on ‘instinct’Rafael Benítez says he finds mind games boring but the worrying thing for Sam Allardyce and Alex Neil is that, right now, he has no need to resort to them.Underpinned by a famously forensic eye for detail, the Spaniard’s aura of calm, good-natured authority is transforming Newcastle United to the point where supporters of Allardyce&rsquo
  
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• Mauricio Pochettino: Tottenham motivation against Chelsea is ‘massive’

  01-05-2016 23:30
  
  • Manager speaks of players being mentally and physically fatigued
  • Spurs have to win to keep title hopes aliveTottenham play at Chelsea on Monday night knowing they must win to keep the Premier League title race going to the penultimate weekend. Anything less will confirm Leicester City as champions.Spurs have not won at Stamford Bridge since February 1990 but Mauricio Pochettino said his players need no extra motivation for a derby match. Continue reading...
  
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• Marouane Fellaini and Robert Huth were always going to come together... they'll be lining up to pull the Belgian's hair now! 

  01-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MARTIN KEOWN: It was no surprise to see Marouane Fellaini and Robert Huth come together on Sunday — they are two of the most physical players in the Premier League.
  
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• Jermain Defoe’s rescue act draws praise from Sunderland’s Sam Allardyce

  01-05-2016 23:30
  
  The striker’s worth was not lost on his manager after the 1-1 draw at Stoke – especially once he had discovered how prolific the 33-year-old has been away from the Stadium of LightThe mood in the Sunderland camp was a mixture of jubilation, relief and defiance in the immediate moments after the final whistle of the 1-1 draw. Tributes were paid to the prolific Jermain Defoe after he broke Stoke City’s resistance with his equaliser in the fourth minute of stoppage time and Sam Al
  
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• Guus Hiddink calls for finishing flourish as Chelsea look set to play big role in title race 

  01-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fallen champions Chelsea can hand the title to Leicester when they face old rivals Tottenham on Monday night if they avoid defeat, even though their own campaign is over.
  
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• Gary Hooper eyeing play-off hat-trick with Sheffield Wednesday as striker looks to complete return to the Premier League 

  01-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ON THE ROAD: The hat-trick Gary Hooper focused on after Sheffield Wednesday secured a Championship play-off spot was not the one he had laid tenuous claim to on the pitch.
  
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• Chelsea would love nothing more than to end Tottenham's title hopes at Stamford Bridge... the Blues loathe Spurs and their rivalry stretches back to the Sixties

  01-05-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATT BARLOW: Chelsea could find a silver lining to their dreadful season if they end Tottenham's title hopes at Stamford Bridge on Monday night. Everyone at Chelsea is rooting for Leicester.
  
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• Arsène Wenger admits he feared worse from Arsenal fans’ protests

  01-05-2016 23:30
  
  Arsenal’s manager received backing over his tenure at the club from his Norwich counterpart Alex Neil and their defender Sébastien BassongArsène Wenger felt it was time for change. After 56 minutes of tedium, during which Arsenal had failed to muster a shot on target, the manager broke from his habit and made what had to be considered as an early, unenforced substitution.The Emirates Stadium crowd responded positively to the sight of Danny Welbeck being stripped and ready but
  
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• Marseille guarantee Ligue 1 status with victory at Angers

  01-05-2016 23:29
  
  • Marseille had gone 11 league games without a win
  • Theyplay Paris Saint-Germain in Cup final on 21 May
  The nine-times Ligue 1 champions Marseille secured their top-flight status with a 1-0 victory at Angers.Marseille, the only French side to have won the Champions League after lifting the trophy in 1993, had gone 11 league games without a win, slipping as low as 16th in the standings with three matches to play. Continue reading...
  
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• Has Kvyat overstepped the Marko?

  01-05-2016 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Did Daniil Kvyat's career at Red Bull just end when he shunted the back of Sebastian Vettel twice in one lap?
  
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• York City hope to follow Bristol Rovers example and bounce straight back | Jeremy Alexander

  01-05-2016 23:00
  
  Darrell Clarke’s Rovers fell out of the Football League two years ago, came back at the first attempt and are now flying high – that is the template for YorkBristol Rovers went beyond the call of duty at York. Darrell Clarke, their manager, warned them against underestimating City, whose relegation from League Two was confirmed the previous week. The fear was of dead men walking free from anxiety. By the end York were staggering. Rovers showed neither complacency nor compassion in a
  
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• Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini defends team selection at Southampton: 'It was a risk but one we had to take'

  01-05-2016 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ADAM SHERGOLD AT ST MARY’S: Manuel Pellegrini expressed no regrets at fielding a weakened team with one eye on Wednesday night's Champions League semi-final at Real Madrid.
  
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• Van Gaal at eccentric best in 'sex masochism' outburst

  01-05-2016 22:45
  Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal was at his bizarre best again after his team's 1-1 Premier league draw with Leicester City as he complained that a hair-pulling incident during the match was only acceptable in "sex masochism". The United manager's future at Old Trafford may be the subject of intense speculation but his position as the Premier League's entertainer par excellence was enhanced with a comical post-match interview in which he also tugged a reporter's hair. The highlight of th
  
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• Shane Sutton should have been given a 'slap on the wrist', insists ex-British Swimming chief Bill Sweetenham 

  01-05-2016 22:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sutton resigned from his post on Wednesday, one day after being suspended pending an investigation into allegations made against him by athletes including Jess Varnish and Darren Kenny.
  
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• Stephen Curry resumes light shooting on injured right knee

  01-05-2016 22:08
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry has resumed light shooting without movement on his injured right knee with the hopes he can get into scrimmages by later next week, perhaps in time to be ready for Game 3 of the Golden State Warriors' Western Conference semifinals at Portland.
  
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• Mercedes dismiss ‘lunatic’ conspiracy theories after Lewis Hamilton beaten

  01-05-2016 21:55
  
  • ‘The last thing we would do is sabotage Hamilton,’ says Toto Wolff
  • Hamilton ‘proud’ of F1 team despite car being plagued by problemsMercedes took another one-two in Russia – not something that the team, who claimed their last two constructor titles here in Sochi, will be in anyway disappointed with – but this was not quite the well-oiled machine that delivered those titles. Nico Rosberg’s win was, as with his other three this season, delive
  
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• Heat roll past Hornets in Game 7, 106-73

  01-05-2016 21:45
  
  MIAMI (AP) — They needed all 82 games of the regular season to get the opportunity to play Game 7 of the opening round at home, and the Miami Heat took full advantage.
  
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• Leicester’s fans get in the title spirit as Wes Morgan earns draw | Stuart James

  01-05-2016 21:41
  
  Claudio Ranieri’s men found against Manchester United the resilience and never-say-die spirit that has summed up their seasonIn the end the Leicester City supporters decided to have a party anyway. “We’re gonna win the league” seemed to be on a loop in the far corner of the stadium, where just over 3,000 travelling fans were bouncing up and down long after the players had left the pitch. The engraver has not yet been commissioned to start work on the Premier League trophy
  
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• Kvyat and Red Bull apologise to Vettel for crash

  01-05-2016 21:26
  By Alan Baldwin SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat apologised to Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, and braced for criticism, after crashing into the German in a moment of May Day madness at his home Russian Grand Prix on Sunday. Kvyat misjudged his braking point and hit the back of the red car twice on the opening lap to leave Vettel in the wall and fuming. "There was a bit going on," said Kvyat by way of explanation.
  
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• Tyson Fury reveals he plans to retire after Wladimir Klitschko fight saying: 'I just can't be f***** with it'

  01-05-2016 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tyson Fury has revealed he plans to retire immediately after his fight with Wladimir Klitschko. The controversial Fury says 'just can't be f***** anymore' ahead of meeting the Ukranian.
  
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• Nairo Quintana shows threat to Chris Froome with Tour de Romandie victory

  01-05-2016 21:19
  
  • Colombian wins in Switzerland by 19 seconds with Froome trailing in 38th
  • Quintana hoping to be first South American to claim Tour de France
  Nairo Quintana won the Tour de Romandie on Sunday to once again stamp his credentials to become the first South American winner of the Tour de France later this year.The brilliant Colombian prevailed in the six-day race after a rain-soaked final stage won by Orica-GreenEdge’s Swiss rider Michael Albasini in Geneva. Continue reading...
  
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• Laura Robson bows out of Madrid Open as all three British women lose in first round

  01-05-2016 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Laura Robson, who used her protected ranking of 58 to enter the main draw, lost 6-4 6-2 to world No 5 Victoria Azarenka. Johanna Konta and Heather Watson also lost on Sunday.
  
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• Southampton's Mane man leaves Man City reeling

  01-05-2016 21:15
  Southampton 4 Manchester City 2 Sadio Mane bagged a hat-trick in a vibrant display of attacking football from Southampton that swept aside Manchester City 4-2 and left the visitors facing a scramble to secure Champions League qualification. The defeat three days before their semi-final second leg against Real Madrid left City manager Manuel Pellegini admitting he felt very frustrated. "The best way to prepare is to win but we couldn't do it." The result was never in doubt from the moment Southam
  
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• AC Milan 3-3 Frosinone: Jeremy Menez nets stoppage-time penalty after Liverpool flop Mario Balotelli misses from the spot

  01-05-2016 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AC Milan just about managed to avoid a humiliating home defeat to Serie A strugglers Frosinone on Sunday - but nevertheless lost their grip on sixth place. Milan drew 3-3 at the San Siro.
  
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• Rosberg joins select group but title is the target

  01-05-2016 21:01
  By Alan Baldwin SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Nico Rosberg joined an ultra-select group of Formula One drivers with his seventh win in a row for Mercedes at the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday but the German will remain the odd man out for some time yet. Just one, Rosberg's compatriot Sebastian Vettel, has won more than seven in a row -- nine for Red Bull in 2013 when he won his fourth championship. All, bar Rosberg, were title winners but he is well on the way with a 43-point lead over triple champion
  
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• Leicester champagne on ice, City crash at Southampton

  01-05-2016 21:00
  By Neil Robinson LONDON (Reuters) - Leicester City failed to grasp their first chance to clinch the Premier League title when they drew 1-1 at Manchester United on Sunday but they moved ever closer to a first English top-flight crown. The draw also hit United's hopes of securing a Champions League qualification spot, although Southampton's 4-2 victory over fourth-placed Manchester City kept them in the hunt.
  
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• Southampton 4-2 Manchester City: Sadio Mane hat-trick and Shane Long strike help Saints to victory as Manuel Pellegrini's much-changed side are run ragged before Champions League semi-final

  01-05-2016 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATT BARLOW AT ST MARY'S: Sadio Mane scored a hat-trick as Southampton beat Manchester City to move above Liverpool into seventh place in the Barclays Premier League.
  
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• Back to the drawing board for Thunder against Spurs

  01-05-2016 20:53
  
  There was a possession where LaMarcus Aldridge grabbed a defense rebound, outlet-passed to Manu Ginobili, who then turned and fired a 70-foot strike to Kawhi Leonard for a dunk.
  
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• Eric Cantona and Peter Schmeichel watch Manchester United's draw with Leicester as Old Trafford stars get to meet The King 

  01-05-2016 20:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eric Cantona returned to Old Trafford on Sunday to see if Leicester City would be crowned champions at the ground where he helped Manchester United rule the Premier League two decades ago.
  
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• Manchester City didn't do anything right at Southampton, says Graeme Souness

  01-05-2016 20:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Souness said that the performances of those players brought in to replace Manuel Pellegrini's rested stars proved exactly why they will not be involved in the Bernabeu in midweek.
  
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• 'The place has been thumping': Leicester parties despite agonising wait

  01-05-2016 20:39
  
  Foxes’ draw with Manchester United fails to dampen spirits as east Midlands city prepares to celebrate Premier League title The fairytale ending to Leicester’s tilt at the Premier League title may have to wait a day, a week, or a fortnight. But there was still an unwavering sense of optimism on the city’s streets on Sunday, even after the anticlimatic 1-1 draw with Manchester United, about everyone’s favourite underdogs getting the job done. The crowds crammed into every
  
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• Thomas Voeckler secures Tour de Yorkshire glory with final-stage win in Scarborough

  01-05-2016 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Frenchman and Nicholas Roche engaged in a game of cat and mouse as they headed towards the finish, but it was the veteran Voeckler who timed his move right to take the race win.
  
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• Grigor Dimitrov loses Istanbul Open final after on-court meltdown as THIRD racket smash hands title to Diego Schwartzman 

  01-05-2016 20:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bulgarian world No 29 Dimitrov looked to be cruising to his first title in almost two years at a set and 5-2 up in Sunday's final. But the tide quickly turned as he suffered an astonishing meltdown.
  
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• Adelaide end long wait for A-League title triumph

  01-05-2016 20:30
  (Reuters) - Adelaide United claimed a long-awaited A-League title on Sunday with a nerve-jangling 3-1 win that consigned the Western Sydney Wanderers to a third dose of heartbreak in the Australian championship decider. Roared on by a sell-out Adelaide Oval crowd and inspired by some Latin magic, the home side had to fight off a spirited second-half fightback by the Wanderers, who were playing their third Grand Final in four years. An incisive cross from Argentine midfielder Marcelo Carrusca set
  
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