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• Gordon Strachan turns up pressure on England in World Cup qualifiers

  02-09-2017 23:59
  • Gordon Strachan says England cannot afford to slip up against Slovakia
  • Scotland aim to build on win over Lithuania but must be patient against MaltaDisappointment has surrounded Scotland with such regularity that optimism would seem a strange backdrop. Yet the 3-0 win over Lithuania has fuelled a belief Gordon Strachan’s side may make a late charge towards a World Cup play-off berth.Ticket sales for Monday’s visit of Malta to Hampden Park illustrate that feeling; more t
  
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• Wales 1-0 Austria: Ben Woodburn fires debut winner

  02-09-2017 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LAURIE WHITWELL AT THE CARDIFF CITY STADIUM: Ben Woodburn wrote his name into Welsh football folklore with a magic moment to propel Chris Coleman's side to a vital victory.
  
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• Zara Tindall causes wrong sort of splash at Burghley

  02-09-2017 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Zara Tindall crashed out of the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials on Saturday on a cross-country course designed by her father, Captain Mark Phillips. 
  
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• George Ford opens up about his return to Leicester

  02-09-2017 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  INTERVIEW BY NIK SIMON: It was not quite the ‘welcome home’ reception George Ford was expecting on his first day back at Leicester, four years after leaving the club as a 20-year-old.
  
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• Sterling is symbol of problems a year into Southgate reign

  02-09-2017 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There are some moments which probably only an England manager can fully appreciate. For example, when one of your star players has just had a dog of a half and merits being hooked.
  
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• Paul Nicholls awaits next star as he nears 3,000 winners 

  02-09-2017 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paul Nicholls awaits his next star horse as the 10-time champion jumps trainer nears the incredible mark of 3,000 winners.
  
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• Atletico Madrid want Diego Costa to end Chelsea exile

  02-09-2017 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Atletico Madrid remain confident of sealing a deal for Costa in the next month — but the Spanish club will encourage the striker to make his peace with Chelsea and help the transfer over the line.
  
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• Arsenal star Mesut Ozil hits back at club legends

  02-09-2017 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has posted a lengthy message on his Instagram account calling on former players to 'stop talking and start supporting' following further criticism of his performances.
  
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• STUART BROAD: Lord's Test is do or die, that's good for us

  02-09-2017 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  STUART BROAD: We’re frustrated we lost, and we know we made some serious mistakes, but huge credit must go to West Indies for the way they fought back after Edgbaston.
  
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• Wayne Rooney summoned to a crisis meeting with Koeman

  02-09-2017 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wayne Rooney will be summoned to a crisis meeting with Ronald Koeman this week to be given a humiliating reprimand. The striker was caught up in a drink driving incident recently.
  
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• Ex-Man United coach Tony Coton lifts lid at Old Trafford

  02-09-2017 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It didn’t matter if it was a first-team player on £100,000 a week or an academy kid learning the ropes, he would always deliver a punishment that fitted the crime - and no one was above the law.
  
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• Eric Dier: Tottenham players have no say with huge wages

  02-09-2017 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If Tottenham’s England players are superstitious about their ‘Wembley curse’, they will be glad that England have a different dressing room from their club side.
  
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• Wasps star Elliot Daly set to commit to new contract

  02-09-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 24-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season but is ready to commit his future to the club he joined as a schoolboy. His new deal will take him through to the World Cup.
  
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• Henry Blofeld departs Test Match Special after 47 years

  02-09-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY JONATHAN MCEVOY: The most distinctive voice in British broadcasting, sports or otherwise, will take its leave of the airwaves a week on Monday.
  
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• Harry Kane urges frustrated England supporters to show more patience

  02-09-2017 23:30
  • Striker reminds booing fans: ‘We’re by no means the finished article’
  • Says England can put a big marker down by beating SlovakiaApproaching midnight on Friday night at Malta’s National Stadium in Ta’ Qali and, even in flattering victory, the fallout felt familiar. Plenty of travelling England supporters had left an admittedly remotely positioned arena long before the late flurry of goals that added gloss after all the huff and puff. Players traipsed aw
  
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• Eric Dier says England’s diversity makes club factions a thing of the past

  02-09-2017 23:30
  • Spurs player believes Gareth Southgate’s England are more united force• Latest squad was drawn from 15 different Premier League clubsWembley has been described many times by many different people but Tottenham’s Eric Dier appears to be striving for some sort of award for terse minimalism. “It’s grass and four lines,” the England midfielder says. “I really don’t think it makes too much of a difference.”As a Spurs player Dier has his own
  
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• T20 Blast: Watch the winning moment as Notts Outlaws defeat Birmingham Bears

  02-09-2017 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch the winning moment as Notts Outlaws beat Birmingham Bears by 22 runs to be crowned T20 Blast champions at Edgbaston.
  
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• Two goals by Isco and an Álvaro Morata strike help Spain sink Italy

  02-09-2017 23:00
  Spain are on the way to the World Cup, and it’s going to be fun watching them there. A 3-0 victory over Italy represents a huge step towards Russia 2018; just as significantly, it may represent another step towards Spain being Spain once again. As the final minutes ticked away, the Bernabéu bounced. They had enjoyed this and so had their team. Isco had just been withdrawn to a huge ovation. The man they call “Magic” had twice bamboozled Marco Verratti, first rolling the
  
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• Spain 3-0 Italy: Isco hero as Real Madrid star scores two

  02-09-2017 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PETE JENSON: Chelsea 
  centre-forward Alvaro Morata scored for Spain as they embarrassed Italy in a 3-0 win that all but assures their place in next year’s World Cup finals in Russia.
  
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• Ben Woodburn’s debut scorcher gives Wales vital victory against Austria

  02-09-2017 22:58
  It was one of those pure strikes, the ball slicing through the air as if aided by aerodynamic enhancement, the keeper diving merely to keep up appearances. There was no stopping Ben Woodburn’s first international goal, scored just five minutes after the 17-year-old had made his international debut. It was a timeless moment, a goal that makes you stand up in your seat and shake the person next to you to check what you saw definitely happened.That it also provided Wales with three crucial Wo
  
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• Wales 1 Austria 0: Debutant Woodburn hits stunner to snatch vital victory

  02-09-2017 22:51
  Teenager Ben Woodburn capped a dream debut with the only goal in Wales' victory over Austria.
  
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• London Irish 39-29 Harlequins: Exiles win at Twickenham

  02-09-2017 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WILL KELLEHER AT TWICKENHAM: Premiership new-boys London Irish confidently swept aside Harlequins, making a mockery of early season predictions.
  
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• Ospreys 22-13 Zebre

  02-09-2017 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ospreys claimed their first win in Conference A of the expanded Guinness Pro14, but it was far from convincing against Zebre at the Liberty Stadium.
  
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• Liverpool deny telling Barcelona Philippe Coutinho could go for €200m

  02-09-2017 22:41
  • Barça say ‘after weeks of conversations’ Liverpool set price on deadline day
  • Reds insist position that Brazilian was not for sale never changedLiverpool have denied Barcelona’s claims that they were prepared to sell Philippe Coutinho on Spain’s transfer deadline day for €200m (£183m).The Catalan club had had three bids swiftly rejected for the Brazil midfielder and Liverpool had repeatedly insisted that he was not for sale but, with the 25-
  
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• Spain 3 Italy 0: Incredible Isco puts 2010 winners on brink of World Cup place

  02-09-2017 22:40
  Spain defeated Group G rivals Italy 3-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu, courtesy of goals from Isco and Alvaro Morata.
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo meets superfan ahead of Portugal Hungary

  02-09-2017 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo took time out of his schedule this week to make a special visit to a superfan on the eve of Portugal's clash with Hungary. He will lead his team out on Sunday evening.
  
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• West Ham have bought Fool's Gold - and here's why

  02-09-2017 21:29
  Jason Pettigrove argues that Slaven Bilic's new Hammers might not prove to be the best tools in the box...
  
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• England yet to hit peak under Jones, says Dallaglio

  02-09-2017 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  England are nowhere near hitting their peak yet under Eddie Jones, according to World Cup winner Lawrence Dallaglio.
  
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• Sergio Agüero has been left feeling like a second-class Citizen | Daniel Taylor

  02-09-2017 21:00
  Pep Guardiola’s treatment of the still prolific striker, who is closing in on the Manchester City scoring record, has been mystifyingIt isn’t easy sometimes understanding why Pep Guardiola gives the impression that he is never fully satisfied with Sergio Agüero, and it is even more perplexing when we cannot be too far away from the Argentinian going into the record books as the most prolific scorer in Manchester City’s history.As it stands, Agüero’s 170 goals in
  
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• Fabio Fognini thrown out of US Open over obscene remarks at umpire

  02-09-2017 20:53
  • Italian alleged to have verbally abused female umpire
  • World No1 Karolina Pliskova narrowly avoids shock defeatFabio Fognini was in effect kicked out of the US Open on Saturday, accused of shouting obscenities at a female umpire during his defeat by his fellow Italian Stefano Travaglia, a qualifier who bagled the 22nd seed in the last of four sets in the first round.Fognini, whose legendary volatility had dimmed since his marriage to the retired US Open champion Flavia Pennetta last
  
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• Spain vs Italy, World Cup qualifier LIVE

  02-09-2017 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spain's clash with Italy at the Bernabeu on Saturday night could go a long way to deciding who finishes top of Group G and automatically qualifies for next year's World Cup in Russia.
  
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• Blair Cowan rattles Harlequins to give London Irish a winning return

  02-09-2017 20:42
  • London Irish 39-29 Harlequins
  • Exiles’ power game seals bonus-point victory against disappointing QuinsIt hardly needs saying that there are no easy games in the Premiership, but London Irish have given notice that the old saw will ring truer than ever this season. Not only did they beat Harlequins with a performance of some brutality at the breakdown and just as much wit in the spaces behind, but a bonus-point try at the death gives them the perfect start to their return seas
  
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• Game4Grenfell: Team Ferdinand 2-2 Team Shearer (Pens 5-3)

  02-09-2017 20:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  GERRY COX AT LOFTUS ROAD: Jose Mourinho made a comeback in the most unlikely way when he turned out in goal in a star-studded fund-raising game for the Grenfell disaster victims.
  
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• London Irish 39:29 Harlequins as Exiles win at Twickenham

  02-09-2017 20:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The luck of the Irish never came into it for the Exiles at Twickenham as the Premiership new-boys London Irish confidently swept aside Harlequins, making a mockery of early season predictions.
  
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• Georgia 1-1 Republic of Ireland: Kazaishvili earns point

  02-09-2017 20:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JACK GAUGHAN IN TBILISI: The Republic of Ireland were held in Georgia leaving the door ajar for Wales to make up the ground in their quest to qualifying for next year's World Cup.
  
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• Shane Duffy header not enough for Republic of Ireland to see off Georgia

  02-09-2017 20:18
  James McClean admitted it had been a lacklustre Republic of Ireland display as Shane Duffy’s first international goal was enough only to claim a draw in the World Cup qualifier. The result became more disheartening when Wales beat Austria 1-0 later in the day to close the gap on the Irish to two points.Ireland rode their luck after Duffy headed home in the fourth minute and Georgia hit back in determined fashion. They equalised 11 minutes before the break through Valeri Qazaishvili and enj
  
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• Pro14: Ospreys 22-Zebre with Keelan Giles' brace of tries

  02-09-2017 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ospreys claimed their first win in Conference A of the expanded Guinness Pro14, but it was far from convincing against Zebre at the Liberty Stadium.
  
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• Fabio Fognini expelled from US Open for abusing umpire

  02-09-2017 19:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: During his first round singles defeat to Stefano Travaglia he swore and called Swedish umpire Louise Engzell a ‘whore’, among other things.
  
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• Georgia 1 Republic of Ireland 1: Duffy header not enough as O'Neill's men lose ground

  02-09-2017 19:56
  The Republic of Ireland could only draw 1-1 with Georgia in Tbilisi to slip two points off leaders Serbia in Group D.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton on pole position for Italian Grand Prix

  02-09-2017 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  JONATHAN McEVOY AT MONZA: Lewis Hamilton proved himself the ‘Rain Master’ as he emerged from one of the longest qualifying sessions in F1 history to claim the 69th pole of his career.
  
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• Dragons 16-39 Leinster: Bonus point loss on Henson return

  02-09-2017 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gavin Henson's return as a Welsh regional player following a five-year absence ended in a bonus point defeat as Leinster ran out comprehensive 39-16 winners over the Dragons.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton lands record 69th F1 pole position

  02-09-2017 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lewis Hamilton became Formula One's greatest qualifier of all time after taking his 69th pole position at the Italian Grand Prix and eclipsing Michael Schumacher's previous tally.
  
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• Chris Froome sees La Vuelta lead trimmed

  02-09-2017 19:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chris Froome retained the lead in La Vuelta as Bora-Hansgrohe's Rafal Majka soloed to victory on stage 14 from Ecija to Sierra de La Pandera. But his lead was cut by four seconds to 55.
  
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• Manchester United legends 2-2 Barcelona legends (agg 5-3)

  02-09-2017 19:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Manchester United Legends enjoyed a trip down memory lane – and a 2-2 draw with Barcelona Legends - on a day where football did all it could to help those less fortunate.
  
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• Wasps 50-35 Sale: Match report

  02-09-2017 19:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wasps scrum-half Dan Robson scored four tries as his side beat Sale in a superb 12-try opening fixture. The hosts had too much attacking flair for Sale, who were run ragged at times.
  
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• League One round-up: Shrews go joint-top with Peterborough

  02-09-2017 19:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  LEAGUE ONE ROUND_UP: Shrewsbury moved level on points with Peterborough at the top of Sky Bet League One after a 2-1 win at Gillingham.
  
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• Froome retains Vuelta red jersey with strong mountain finish

  02-09-2017 19:31
  (Reuters) - Chris Froome survived the first of two successive mountain finishes on Saturday to hold on to the red jersey in the Vuelta a Espana, coming fourth in Stage 14 and only losing four seconds of his overall lead to nearest challenger Vincenzo Nibali.Polish rider Rafal Majka took the stage by an impressive margin of 27 seconds, picking up his first win at La Vuelta to go with three stage victories at the Tour de France, where he was King of the Mountains in 2014 and 2016.Majka, who came t
  
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• League Two review: Exeter extend their unbeaten start

  02-09-2017 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lee Holmes scored the only goal as Exeter remained top of Sky Bet League Two with a 1-0 success over fellow high-fliers Newport. The Grecians are now unbeaten in five games.
  
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• Nottinghamshire edge Hampshire to make T20 Blast final

  02-09-2017 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  RICHARD GIBSON AT EDGBASTON: Steven Mullaney's canny mid-innings bowling catapulted Nottinghamshire into the final of the NatWest Blast.
  
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