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• Chris Eubank Jr ready to shake off his father's name

  13-02-2018 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The close relationship between father and son has been the topic of discussion, not least by Groves who is defending his WBA belt in this semi-final of the first World Super Series tournament.
  
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• Fresh heartbreak for Christie as she falls in 500m final

  13-02-2018 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN PYEONGCHANG: In that corridor, with hands on knees, she let out a noise of pure devastation. It really was a wretched gut-punch of an evening for Elise Christie.
  
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• Tony Gigot signs new deal with Catalans Dragons

  13-02-2018 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 27-year-old full-back last week overturned a two-year ban imposed by the French Anti-Doping Agency for an 'inappropriate exchange' with a testing officer in 2016.
  
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• Porto boss Sergio Conceicao wary of Liverpool's threat

  13-02-2018 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Porto coach Sergio Conceicao congratulated Carlos Carvalhal on masterminding Swansea's victory over Liverpool but admits facing the Reds in the Champions League is a different prospect.
  
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• Juventus 2-2 Tottenham: Kane and Eriksen lead comeback

  13-02-2018 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MARTIN SAMUEL AT ALLIANZ STADIUM: A bemused silence greeted Chistian Eriksen’s equaliser. The locals hadn’t seen anything like it. Not for a year, or in reality much longer.
  
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• Man City star Kompany happy after Champions League return

  13-02-2018 23:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vincent Kompany made his first Champions League appearance for Manchester City for 650 days against Basle on Tuesday evening, but insists he is simply happy to be playing at any level.
  
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• RFU’s sweetheart deal with blazers

  13-02-2018 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHARLES SALE – SPORTS AGENDA: The plea came from Lucinda Pullinger, the RFU’s head of human resources, after her speech about diversity and inclusion strategy at the council meeting.
  
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• Tottenham will feel more pressure than Juventus - Allegri

  13-02-2018 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Italian champions stormed into a 2-0 lead during Wednesday night's last-16 tie at the Allianz Stadium, courtesy of a Gonzalo Higuain double — first through a volley and then from the spot.
  
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• Rio Ferdinand tears into Tottenham's 'rash' Serge Aurier

  13-02-2018 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rio Ferdinand tore into a 'rash' Serge Aurier after the Tottenham right back gave away a first-half penalty away to Juventus in the Champions League.
  
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• Harry Kane praises Tottenham's character against Juventus

  13-02-2018 23:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spurs went two goals down after just nine minutes but rallied to outplay the Italian champions and drew level in the tie with goals from Kane and Christian Eriksen.
  
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• KIERON DYER: Big Dunc threatened to crack Pistone's skull

  13-02-2018 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  KIERON DYER – EXCLUSIVE: Duncan Ferguson was a scary man. Once, in a five-a-side match, Alessandro Pistone kept making mistakes so Dunc screamed at him.
  
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• KIERON DYER: Craig Bellamy took on Sir Bobby... and lost!

  13-02-2018 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  KIERON DYER – EXCLUSIVE: There was a lot of talk about the brats at Newcastle, but Sir Bobby Robson — the best man-manager I ever worked for — knew how to put us in our place.
  
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• Kieron Dyer: Injury hell left me inconsolable...

  13-02-2018 23:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  KIERON DYER – EXCLUSIVE: Breaking my leg in 2007 was the beginning of a debilitating, dispiriting process that killed my career. It led to the West Ham hierarchy trying to shame me.
  
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• Six Nations: Jones says Georgia's giant scrum 'just the test England needed' as both packs go head to head in west London

  13-02-2018 23:00
  During the open part of the training, the Georgians were seen to splinter the English pack on at least two occasions.
  
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• Six Nations: Eddie Jones accuses World Rugby of undermining officials in rumbling TMO row

  13-02-2018 23:00
  Glenn Newman, the television match official, had ruled that Wales full-back had not clearly grounded the ball during the first half of the NatWest Six Nations match.
  
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• Champagne on ice: the mystery and myths behind Dutch skating success

  13-02-2018 22:59
  Dutch fans take great pleasure in attempts to make sense of their dominance, particularly the frozen-canals theoryNicholas Tomalin reckoned that the three qualities a journalist needs to succeed are rat-like cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability, none of which are much use when you’re trying to tell a salchow from a toe-loop on a tight deadline. During the Winter Olympics it pays to be a quick study, too. Particularly in Britain, where the usual recreational activities
  
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• Christian Eriksen and Harry Kane rescue Tottenham from brink of Champions League exit after early Gonzalo Higuain brace

  13-02-2018 22:39
  Tottenham had Christian Eriksen and Harry Kane to thank after recovering from an awful ten minutes in Turin to earn a priceless draw.
  
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• Manchester City romp to Basel victory as Guardiola's men take leap to next stage

  13-02-2018 22:36
  Ilkay Gundogan scored in each half as Bernardo Silva and Sergio Aguero also weighed in on Manchester City's latest attacking masterclass.
  
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• Emery insists PSG have 'learnt' from Barcelona humiliation

  13-02-2018 22:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Unai Emery believes Paris Saint Germain's meeting with Real Madrid on Wednesday is the moment the club has been waiting for ever since their humiliation at the hands of Barcelona 12 months ago.
  
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• Spurs U18 0-2 Chelsea U18: Blues head to FA Youth Cup QF

  13-02-2018 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ADAM SHERGOLD AT THE LAMEX STADIUM : Chelsea U18s beat Tottenham U18s 2-0 at the Lamex Stadium to advance to the quarter-finals of the FA Youth Cup on Wednesday evening.
  
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• Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino to make Porto 'suffer'

  13-02-2018 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Brazil international has hit an outstanding vein of form in recent weeks, his efforts epitomised by the goal and the stunning back-heeled assist in Sunday'swin over Southampton.
  
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• Mullins eyes surprise return for star chaser Douvan

  13-02-2018 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Douvan is 'not far away' from returning to action after being entered in the Red Mills Chase at Gowran Park on Saturday.
  
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• Real Madrid: Vinicius Jnr sparks feud with celebration

  13-02-2018 21:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A final planned for Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Stadium is to be moved after host club Botafogo said on Tuesday they would not allow Flamengo to play there after Vinicius Jnr mocked them.
  
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• Weights revealed for 2018 Grand National at Aintree

  13-02-2018 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Treadwell, who landed the 2009 Grand National on 100-1 shot Mon Mome, has announced his retirement on the day the weights for the 2018 Aintree spectacular were announced.
  
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• Klopp dismisses 2005 talk as Liverpool prepare for Porto

  13-02-2018 20:49
  Liverpool's heroics in 2005 could not be further from Jurgen Klopp's mind as he aims to tackle Porto in the last 16 of the Champions League.
  
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• Premier League announce £4.5bn deal for TV rights packages

  13-02-2018 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Premier League have announced the winners of five out of seven packages for TV rights from 2019, with Sky awarded four and BT one.
  
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• Mkhitaryan spoke with Aubameyang over Arsenal moves

  13-02-2018 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mkhitaryan joined Arsenal from Manchester United in a swap deal with Alexis Sanchez, while Aubameyang signed for a club-record fee on deadline day in January.
  
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• Jack Butland dismisses claims he wants to leave Stoke

  13-02-2018 20:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Before this spreads any further, I haven't told the club I want to leave, I'm focused on doing everything I can to keep the club in this division!' Butland posted on Tuesday.
  
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• I wouldn't like to see Neymar in a Real shirt, says Rajoy

  13-02-2018 20:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spain's prime minister and Real Madrid fan Mariano Rajoy has admitted he would prefer Los Blancos not to sign Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain.
  
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• Sky and BT Sport retain grip on Premier League rights but TV frenzy cools

  13-02-2018 19:48
  Sky will host 128 matches starting from the 2019-20 season up to and including 2021-22.The payTV broadcasters Sky and BT Sport have retained their hold on live televised Premier League football, paying £4.464bn to the clubs for the rights to the five main packages of matches from 2019-22.Two minor packages of rights remain to be sold, a new experiment by the Premier League to allow the entire fixture list of 10 matches to be broadcast simultaneously, four times a season.
  
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• Sky and BT Sport pay £4.464bn for first tranche of Premier League TV packages

  13-02-2018 19:48
  Sky will host 128 matches starting from the 2019/20 season up to and including 2021/22.The Premier League has announced details for five of the seven live television packages, with BT Sport and Sky paying a combined £4.464bn.The deal means that Sky will host 128 matches starting from the 2019-20 season up to and including 2021-22, while BT Sport has purchased only one package so far of 32 matches.
  
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• Juventus vs Tottenham LIVE score: Champions League last 16

  13-02-2018 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tottenham Hotspur will be hoping to keep up their fine recent form when they travel to Juventus for the first leg of their last-16 Champions League clash.Follow all the action as it happens.
  
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• Basel vs Man City LIVE score - Champions League last 16

  13-02-2018 19:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Manchester City return to the European front in their bid to land a quadruple as Pep Guardiola's team travel to Basle for their last-16 Champions League clash. Follow all action as it happens here.
  
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• North Korea’s cheerleaders: who are Kim Jong Un’s red coats?

  13-02-2018 19:34
  Winter OlympicsWed 14 Feb, AT 13:11North Korea’s cheerleaders: who are Kim Jong Un’s red coats?
  There’s more than meets the eye to the Winter Olympic’s best-drilled cheerleaders
  
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• Leeds fan Warrington hopes for 'big crowd' against Selby

  13-02-2018 19:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Warrington challenges IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby at Elland Road on May 19. He says: 'It will be fantastic if a big crowd of Leeds supporters join the boxing fans for the biggest fight of my life.'
  
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• Eugenie Bouchard in 2018 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

  13-02-2018 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eugenie Bouchard, Sloane Stephens and US gymnast Aly Reisman joined pro-golfer Paige Spiranac in the 2018 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition.
  
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• Wales trio sign national dual deals with Scarlets and WRU

  13-02-2018 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jonathan Davies has taken up a contract option to remain at the Scarlets, Ball has signed his second dual contract at the Llanelli-based region and Gareth Davies has agreed one for the first time.
  
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• Everton's Cenk Tosun 'not bothered' by Allardyce snub

  13-02-2018 19:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Everton striker Cenk Tosun has insisted he was not bothered by Sam Allardyce's decision not to play him in Saturday's 3-1 victory over Crystal Palace as he is focusing on getting fitter.
  
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• Liverpool defender Nathaniel Clyne resumes training

  13-02-2018 19:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been handed a boost after Nathaniel Clyne resumed first team training. Clyne has missed the majority of the season with a back injury.
  
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• Chelsea star Gary Cahill responds after Ryan Mason retires

  13-02-2018 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chelsea defender Gary Cahill has been left 'devastated' after hearing the news that Ryan Mason is to retire from football, saying the consequences of their clash of heads has been 'heartbreaking'.
  
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• Six Nations: England's scrum go face-to-face with Georgia

  13-02-2018 18:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Georgians are spending two days with England during the first fallow week of the NatWest 6 Nations in order to give Eddie Jones' pack set-piece practice.
  
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• Lionel Messi stuns team-mates in Barcelona training

  13-02-2018 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lionel Messi's brilliance never ceases to amaze and the Barcelona forward was at his mesmerising best during training. The club Twitter account posted a video montage of his flicks, tricks and goals.
  
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• Eubank Jnr continues war of words ahead of Groves bout

  13-02-2018 18:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chris Eubank Jnr is being motivated for his biggest fight against George Groves by the memory of his dream of challenging Gennady Golovkin being taken from him.
  
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• WInter Olympics: Team GB skeleton skinsuits draw protests

  13-02-2018 18:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The suits are said to have played a significant part in the exceptional results in training, with Yarnold and Laura Deas going fastest in three of the four women's practices.
  
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• How football coach Barry Bennell groomed and abused boys

  13-02-2018 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 64-year-old, who has previously received three jail sentences for similar offences, was found guilty of 36 charges including indecent assault and rape of boys at Liverpool Crown Court.
  
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• Manchester City eye Sporting Lisbon teen Rafael Leao

  13-02-2018 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 18-year-old has not long broken into Sporting's first team squad but has impressed those around him in the past two months. Now multiple foreign clubs, including City, have taken notice.
  
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• Man Utd's Herrera to miss FA Cup tie with thigh injury

  13-02-2018 18:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Herrera, who was named the club's player of the year last season, has been pushed to the fringes by Nemanja Matic but was being considered for a recall as United's midfield struggles for form.
  
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• Mourinho is ruining Sanchez's fantasy appeal: 10 things we learnt from Gameweek 27

  13-02-2018 18:13
  Jose Mourinho's poor streak at St James's Park continued which means Alexis Sanchez blanked again, but what other fantasy football implications did the results have?
  
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• Perez made threat to Cristiano Ronaldo about Lionel Messi

  13-02-2018 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Real Madrid president Florentino Perez warned Cristiano Ronaldo that he would buy Lionel Messi to replace him if the Portuguese star left for PSG in 2012. 
  
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