Summary

  • Five League Cup fourth-round ties with Chelsea and Liverpool both in action

  • Chelsea trio Hazard, Costa and Courtois on Ballon d'Or list

  • Trott named in England Lions squad to tour South Africa

  • Nasri set to return for Manchester City

  • GET INVOLVED: Should all sports pay equal prize money for men and women? #bbcprizemoney

  1. Postpublished at 17:59 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    That's it for Sportsday Live on Tuesday. Keep up to date with all of the League Cup action and the FA Cup fourth qualifying round replay results on the BBC Sport website.

    Sportsday Live will return on Wednesday at 08:00 GMT.

  2. League Cup: Liverpool v Swansea (20:00 GMT)published at 17:56 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers will make wholesale changes to the side that drew with Hull on Saturday.

    Rickie Lambert is set to start, while youngster Jordan Rossiter may feature again after scoring in the last round.

    Swansea manager Garry Monk will resist the temptation to rest a host of his first-team players.

    Gerhard Tremmel is expected to replace Lukasz Fabianski in goal and Gylfi Sigurdsson may sit this game out after limping off against Leicester.

  3. Postpublished at 17:53 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    Juliette Ferrington
    BBC Sport

    Shrewsbury

    "Tonight's Shrewsbury matchday programme. Full commentary @bbc5live w/@ConorMcNamaraIE and Phil Brown."

    5 Live Sport gets underway at 19:00 GMT with the build-up to all of this evening's game which gets underway at the Greenhous Meadow from 19:45.

    There will, of course, be updates from all of the other games and you can follow the night's action on the BBC Sport website.

  4. FA county official suspended over sexist remarkpublished at 17:48 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    A senior FA county official has been suspended for four months after telling a female referee "a woman's place is in the kitchen and not on a football field."

    John Cummings, a vice president of the Northumberland County FA, made the comments in March this year to Lucy May, a referee development officer who was attending a referee workshop event when she asked Cummings about the possibility of officiating in the North East Sunday League.

    She alleges Cummings rejected her request saying: "It's nothing against you personally but all the time I'm alive, a woman will never referee in my league". He added that she "wouldn't be able to handle it. A woman's place is in the kitchen and not on a football field."

    An independent FA regulatory commission, led by solicitor and former Blackburn Rovers player Stuart Ripley, concluded that Cummings was guilty of a breach of FA rules relating to "abusive and/or insulting language", aggravated because of a specific reference to gender. Cummings may yet launch an appeal over the decision.

  5. League Cup fourth roundpublished at 17:46 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

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  6. Huth set to miss out for Stokepublished at 17:40 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    Stoke City defender Robert Huth has been ruled out of Wednesday night's League Cup tie against Southampton,, external reports the Stoke Sentinel.

    The German centre-half was expected to be drafted back in, but has suffered a calf strain, which is set to keep him sidelined for a couple of weeks. Marc Wilson should retais his place alongside captain Ryan Shawcross.

  7. League Cup shockspublished at 17:32 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

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    Ray Harford led the Hatters to a famous victory over the defending champions, inspired by Brian Stein's two goals.

  8. Rowett believes Blues can improvepublished at 17:27 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    New Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett says the struggling Championship club can 'regenerate' from the painful ravages of last Saturday's 8-0 record home defeat by Bournemouth.

    "I've not even mentioned the weekend to the players," Rowett told BBC Sport at his introductory Blues press conference.

    "As a player I twice lost 7-1. You can start crying or roll up your sleeves. Sometimes a group of men maybe need to be brought to rock bottom to regroup and regenerate."

  9. League Cup: MK Dons v Sheffield United (19:45 GMT)published at 17:16 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    MK Dons forward Dean Bowditch could return after missing the weekend draw at Doncaster with injury but Danny Green (hamstring) and Lee Hodson (ankle) still need to regain match fitness.

    Sheffield United midfielder Chris Basham is suspended after picking up a fifth yellow card of the season at the weekend.

    However, defender Jay McEveley could start, having been a substitute in the weekend win at Crewe after a shoulder injury.

  10. O'Sullivan wins in Chinapublished at 17:09 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    Five-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan eased into the third round of the International Championship in Chengdu after a 6-1 win over Anthony McGill.

    "I played pretty well, I was playing hard match snooker and didn't take many chances," O'Sullivan said. "When you play more matches that comes automatically, whereas tonight I had to be conscious of not taking on shots to let him in.

    "I have to concentrate hard on every shot and think about the consequences. I was on a roll tonight and wanted to make a century every time I came to the table."

    However, Judd Trump is out after losing 6-5 to Jamie Burnett having battled back from 4-2 down to lead 5-4 before losing the final two frames.

  11. Murray ready for Benneteau testpublished at 17:03 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

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    Andy Murray gets his Paris Masters campaign underway on Wednesday when he takes on Julien Benneteau of France in the second round.

    Murray comes into the match after a gruelling schedule which included him beating Tommy Robredo in last weekend's Valencia Open final. as he chases a place at the end-of-season ATP Tour finals.

    "My expectations this week aren't incredibly high," the Scot told BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller. "I have to try to be realistic and I have played a lot of tennis the last few weeks, but I've recovered well from the tough matches, which I wasn't doing earlier in the year.

    "Nine matches in the space of 11 days is mentally tiring: getting up every day and having to concentrate on new opponents, different tactics, different conditions, it's tough - but that's why it's a great sport and one I enjoy competing in."

  12. League Cup: Liverpool v Swansea (20:00 GMT)published at 16:54 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    Swansea's Bafetimbi Gomis and Marvin EmnesImage source, Twitter/Baf Gomis

    How do you prepare for a League Cup fourth-round tie against Liverpool?

    Well, if you are Swansea strikers Bafetimbi Gomis and Marvin Emnes, you take in a spot of sightseeing with a stroll around the city's Albert Dock before tonight's game at Anfield.

  13. Get involvedpublished at 16:45 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    Chris Allen:, external Cup Shocks? Shrews v Everton 2003. Who will be our Nigel Jemson tonight?

    Gregory P:, external Derby 1-0 M U in 2008. 7 months before Man U were crowned european champs while Derby were declared the worst team in history.

  14. League Cup fourth roundpublished at 16:41 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

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  15. Trott hopes for England returnpublished at 16:36 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    England's Jonathan Trott has been speaking to BBC Sport's Pat Murphy after his first international call-up since leaving the Ashes tour with a "stress-related illness" in November.

    "I still have aspirations to play for England," said the Warwickshire batsman, who has been working with psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters. "If I do play for England again, I've got to earn my place back. I had that mentality playing for Warwickshire this year.

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    "I'm not looking too far ahead. Setting goals to make teams is very dangerous. At the moment I'm just looking forward to going to South Africa.

    "At the age of 33, the ECB could easily have said well, you know, you're done and thanks for what you did, and we're going to go in a different direction, so to get the nod and the call is always pleasing, and gives you hope.

    "Cricket is cruel and kind to you at the same time, so it's a bizarre game, one you definitely love, you question why you do it, but most days it's something you can get a bit of enjoyment out of. I seem to have found myself in a situation where I'm enjoying it again."

  16. Family behind Saints exit - Brownpublished at 16:29 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    Nathan Brown says the pull of a return to Australia with his family was the main reason behind his St Helens exit.

    Brown, 41, won the Grand Final in his final game in charge of Saints, beating Wigan 14-6 at Old Trafford.

    The former St George Illawarra Dragons head coach spent four seasons at Huddersfield, before his two-year stint at Langtree Park.

    "Home is home and after six years away, it's time to take the wife and the family back," said Brown.

  17. League Cup shockspublished at 16:22 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

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    QPR were in the third tier of English football and making their first appearance in a cup final. Their opponents at Wembley were defending champions West Brom.

    The Baggies quickly went 2-0 up but were hauled back by the Hoops, who scored a late winner to lift the cup.

  18. Robertson suffers defeat in Chinapublished at 16:09 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    Former world champion Neil Robertson suffered a 6-5 defeat by world number 71 Joe Swail in the second round of the International Championship in China.

    Australian world number two Robertson led 5-3 but the Northern Ireland man won three successive frames to win the match.

    Shaun Murphy is also out after losing 6-1 to Robert Milkins while England pair Stuart Bingham and Mark Davis and Wales' Michael White and Mark Williams won their second-round encounters to progress to the third round.

  19. Eriksen focussed on Spurs improvementpublished at 16:04 Greenwich Mean Time 28 October 2014

    Christian Eriksen says Tottenham remain a "work in progress" under manager Mauricio Pochettino.

    "As players, we are all trying to adapt to Mauricio's new style of play and we won't know everything straight away," the Denmark international told the Evening Standard., external

    "It is still a work in progress but, hopefully, we won't take too long to get it right. We could have done better in some games. We have had some good results but some disappointing defeats too, although it is easy to forget that we are still working with a new manager.

    "You can already see that we are starting to play the way he wants us to, and the more we work together, the better the results will be. We have been saying that it is important to have a high level of performance in our upcoming games."