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Follow all the latest action from all the evening’s Premier League games with Tim Hill
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Former Browns great says: ‘What he went through … he got my admiration’ and says he wants to work together to make America a better country
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The Sounders won the championship despite a final to forget – but plenty was worth remembering. Graham Parker reflects on another fascinating MLS year
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Join Tim Hill for updates from a busy top-flight schedule, with Liverpool at Middlesbrough and Man City hosting Watford
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Minute-by-minute report: Join Scott Murray for updates as Manchester United visit Selhurst Park hoping to continue their improved recent form
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Match status / kick off time Match details 1st Middlesbrough0Liverpool01st Sunderland0Chelsea01st West Ham0Burnley0C PalaceMan UtdMan CityWatfordSpursHullStokeSouthamptonWest BromSwanseaPremier League Wed 14 December Match status / kick off time Match details 1st Nottm Forest0Preston01st QPR0Derby01st Wigan0Newcastle0Championship Wed 14 December View all live -
Liverpool’s goalkeeper is free and welcome to say what he wants, even if it does upset Sky Sports’ thin-skinned prefect of punditry
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around the world
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Disciplinary body argued it was hamstrung by a lack of guidelines after a conditional jockey was ruled to have stopped horses in races
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High Bridge, who was bred in the hope that he would win Classics on the Flat, made an impressive winning debut over hurdles at Newbury on Wednesday
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across the country
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Reuland, who also played in the NFL for the 49ers and Colts, dies of brain aneurysm, Baltimore confirm
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Former Ohio State wrestler has world championship gold medal returned to him after it was stolen on Monday night
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regulars
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Gifs that keep on givingGifs that keep on givingThe gifs that keep on giving: Gennady Golovkin, Nico Rosberg and a flying tableFeaturing frisbee players falling over, a surfer landing on his feet, a big hit, a big catch, the greatest fighter in the world and a boxer who is pretending to be angry
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Forgotten storiesForgotten storiesThe forgotten story of … Jeff Hall, the footballer whose death turned tide against polioIt took the sudden passing of the 28-year-old England right-back in 1959 to get typists, secretaries, clerks, schoolboys and the rock’n’roll generation pouring into clinics for inoculation
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video & pictures
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Newly-released web documentary Ballon sur Bitume examines the culture of street football in the suburbs of Paris
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Ronald Koeman laughs off Arsène Wenger’s criticism of referee Mark Clattenburg after Everton defeat Arsenal on Tuesday, ending Arsenal’s run of 14 games unbeaten
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Australian pro surfer Mick Fanning pulls on a thick wetsuit and hood to surf under the stars as the northern lights play above him in Norway
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Lionel Messi meets Murtaza Ahmadi, the six-year-old boy from Afghanistan who was pictured wearing a football shirt made from a plastic bag
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Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Ballon d’Or 2016 to cap a memorable year in which he won the Champions League with Real Madrid and Euro 2016 with Portugal
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Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp attacks Gary and Phil Neville after the pair criticised the recent performances of goalkeeper Loris Karius
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This weekend saw three events which involved racing in and on two of water’s three states. In Windsor, Canada 1,000 of the world’s best swimmers competed at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) whilst in the world of speed skating, Heerenveen in the Netherlands played host to the fourth event in the ISU Long Track World Cup and Shanghai hosted the third event in the ISU Short Track World Cup. We bring you our pick of the best images from these events
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Jubilation abounds on the terraces at The War Memorial Athletic Ground, Stourbridge as the Glassboys fans go wild celebrating Jack Duggan’s late goal which gave the club a 1-0 win over League One Northampton Town. As a result the non-league side have reached the third round of the FA Cup for the first time in their history
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