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Mercedes' Nico Rosberg's poured cold water on claims he engineered a mistake in Sunday's Italian Grand Prix to allow team-mate Lewis Hamilton to win.

Speaking in his video blog posted on Twitter, external, Rosberg said: "It was just a disappointing day. I messed up.

"Lewis was quick and so I had to step up my game a bit and try and get a little bit extra out of it.

"I locked-up. I could've made the corner, but the risk was so big."

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Another look back at previous opening European Championship qualifying matches, and for the Euro 2004 campaign, Sven-Goran Erikson's team were in Group Seven with Turkey, Slovakia, Macedonia and Liechtenstein.

They began with a 2-1 win in Slovakia in October 2002 as goals from David Beckham (above) and Michael Owen overturned an early lead for the home side, and went on to win the group.

Here's what you've been saying on the BBC Sport Facebook, external page as we ask is England's match later against Switzerland win-or-bust for Roy Hodgson?

Jonathan Shaw: Fed up with people just blaming Roy. Our players are not good enough yet and they need time.

Michael Keohane: True that he hasn't got a great crop of players, but his coaching is 19th century. Give G Neville the job. He knows what it takes to succeed and he knows from personal experience how make the best of your ability as a player.

Tony Hardwick: Needs to look at his training regime he has damaged 2 players already.. doesn't help himself, them, their club or indeed England.

A slight error in The Times today has seen League One Yeovil pick up a tremendous away win against Hungary.

The club appeared where Northern Ireland should have in today's classified pages.

But the Glovers have tweeted, external: We have just landed back at Yeovil International Airport after our win over Hungary #YTFC

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Emma Pooley, the 2008 Olympic silver medallist and 2010 road time-trial world cycling champion, won the duathlon World Championships, a month after retiring as a professional cyclist.

Over 190-km (10km run/150km on the bike/30km run), Pooley won in six hours 47 minutes 27 seconds, more than 30 minutes ahead of second placed Eva Nystrom of Sweden.

Keighley are considering taking legal action against the Rugby Football League after claiming its decision to not punish Batley for fielding an ineligible player has led to their relegation from the Championship.

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Arsenal's Lukas Podolski says retiring from international football has "never crossed his mind".

The 29-year-old was a second-half substitution in Germany's 2-1 win over Scotland in Dortmund on Sunday.

Fellow internationals Philipp Lahm, Per Mertesacker and Miroslav Klose all decided to hang up their boots after lifting the World Cup in the summer, but Podolski said: "I'm still as hungry as ever.

"My next big goal is the European Championship. I still enjoy playing for Germany and it's a pleasure to be part of it all."

Some of your BBC Sport Facebook, external comments as we assess how important tonight's match is for Roy Hodgson's England in Switzerland:

Tony Row: Sack him he's had too many chances, if anything England are worse under him.

Julian Kingsley: Whilst I think he should have gone after the World Cup, no point after tonight. This is on paper their toughest game out of 10 in the group.

Owen Hamilton: Going on how well Scotland did to only lost 2-1 to Germany, I think if England played Scotland tomorrow, Scotland would win.

Another unusual golf line next and the European Tour have announced that the first player to make a hole-in-one on the 15th hole at this week's KLM Open at the Kennemer Golf & Country Club will win a trip into space, external courtesy of XCOR Space Expeditions.

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Here's a picture you will not have been expecting to see today. From the @rydercup, external Twitter feed: "The #RyderCupTrophyTour continues it's tour of Scotland stopping in Machrihanish. It visits the Isle of Harris later."

Phil McNulty
BBC chief football writer in Basel

"Raheem Sterling's rapid development with Liverpool and England makes him manager Roy Hodgson's key player in many people's eyes in Basel for the opening Euro 2016 qualifier at 19:45 BST.

"Sterling's pace and running ability drew lavish praise from captain Wayne Rooney when he addressed the media ahead of Monday's first Euro 2016 qualifier, likening the youngster to the outstanding former Arsenal and Netherlands winger Marc Overmars.

"Rooney said: "I sat him down before the World Cup and showed him videos of Marc Overmars. He reminded me of him. I think he has the potential to be as good as Overmars. He's a young lad but the potential he's shown is incredible. He'll be a massive player for use for the next 10 to 15 years and - unfortunately - for Liverpool."

West Brom hope to use a behind-closed-doors Under-21 friendly, external against Hull on Tuesday to help increase the fitness levels of several of their summer signings, possibly including former Manchester City defender Joleon Lescott, who is yet to play for club after suffering calf and knee injuries during pre-season, and has been in the US for rehabilitation.

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Here is another vote you can get involved in. Now that England's home international programme is over, Test Match Special are asking you to vote for your Champagne Moment of the cricketing summer.

Possible nominations include a first wicket for India's Pankaj Singh, Tuffers ringing the Lord's bell, an under pressure Alastair Cook taking his first test wicket or Sri Lanka's amazing Headingley Test Match win.

You can submit your nominations on the Test Match Special Facebook page., external

We heard earlier that former Manchester United boss David Moyes doesn't think we've seen the best of Wayne Rooney yet, while Jamie Carragher in the Daily Mail, external says Rooney may already be on a downward curve.

So who's right? Have we seen the best of Wayne Rooney or is there more to come from the England skipper?

You can vote on the right hand-side of this page. The vote closes at 14:00 BST and we'll announce the result soon after. Here are the full terms and conditions.

How's your premiership rugby union knowledge?

Today's A Question of Sport Teaser asks which six players have scored more than one try on the opening weekend of the premiership season?

Answers to come later this afternoon.....

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Continuing our look back at previous England opening matches in European Championship qualifying campaigns. In Euro 2008 qualifying, England opened with a 5-0 win over Andorra at Old Trafford in September 2006. Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe both scored twice and Steven Gerrard was also on the scoresheet. We all remember how that campaign ended for coach Steve McClaren though don't we?

A selection of your comments from the BBC Sport Google+ page, external as we ask for your thoughts on Roy Hodgson's England ahead of the opening Euro 2016 qualifier in Switzerland at 19:45 BST.

Robert A Burrows: Give Roy Hodgson a break. Need more players for England. Play for their premier clubs week in and out. Money destroyed teams. Clubs not giving English player their chance.

Karl Darkins: The players are just not good enough at the moment - not Roy's fault.

Ben Miller: All England can ever hope for under the current circumstance and arrangement is to qualify for the finals and then at the finals, maybe getting through to the quarter finals. To expect anything else is insane.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Safe to say that Portugal's surprise 1-0 Euro 2016 qualifying home defeat to Albania, who are ranked 70 in the world, has not gone down well with the Portuguese media.

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'Shame' screams the headline in the popular sports tabloid Record,, external which adds that the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo did not justify 'such incompetence'.

The paper reports that Portugal manager Paulo Bento also came in for criticism, with fans displaying white handkerchiefs towards the former Sorting Lisbon boss.

It adds: "Nani, Joao Moutinho and Fabio Coentrao were the least bad."

In his pre-recorded interview played to delegates at Soccerex, external in Manchester - Fifa president Sepp Blatter has spoken of introducing a possible video review system for coaches and managers.

"They would have the right in each half, once or twice, to challenge a refereeing decision, but only when the game is stopped," he said.

"There must be a television monitor for the referee and the coach to then go look at, and then the referee may change his mind, as is the case in tennis for instance."

Blatter said the system could be trialled as soon as next year in Fifa's under-20 World Cup in New Zealand., external

The BBC's Get Inspired Unsung Hero award for 2014 has been launched today, aimed at those at grass roots levels who help run sports and activities but never receive much in the way of recognition.

Details of how to vote can be found on the Get Inspired section of the BBC website.