Leeds United, external: Leeds can confirm that defender Giuseppe Bellusci has been cleared of using racist remarks on October 21 and will face no ban

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini on the Premier League title race: "Other teams will drop points. The last two times this team has won the title, they've come from behind.

"It was not a good January for us but I believe that the game against Chelsea can be the switch for our performances."

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini begins with some team news. He says: "We have no injuries, we have a full squad for tomorrow. Mangala and Nasri are fine and will be in the squad.

"Samir is important for the team but we cannot just think that because he can play we will win."

Get ready for another host of news conferences from Premier League managers starting very soon. We will be hearing from Manchester City, West Brom, Newcastle, Swansea, Stoke, Burnley, Chelsea and Manchester United in the next three hours. As always, we will have all the best quotes here so stay with us.

And as we write that, Manuel Pellegrini is in position...

The next man to feature in our vote to find the best all-rounder in one-day international cricket is India's Kapil Dev.

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He was one of the quartet of players - along with Ian Botham, Imran Khan and Richard Hadlee - who vied for the unofficial title of world's best all-rounder in the 1980s. The finest pace bowler to come out of India, Kapil captained them to World Cup glory in 1983, a tournament in which he scored a savage 175 in a total of 266 against Zimbabwe.

ODIs: 225; Runs: 3,783; Average: 23.79

Wickets: 253; Average: 27.45; Economy rate: 3.71

Vote for your favourite on the right-hand side of this page now.

Here are some of the videos you will want to see on the BBC Sport website right now.

Football: BBC Sport reports on the crowd trouble which overshadowed the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final between Ghana and hosts Equatorial Guinea.

Rugby union: BBC Sport looks ahead to the opening fixture of the 2015 Six Nations, when Wales host England.

Rugby union: BBC Sport looks back at 10 of the greatest tries from the Five and Six Nations before the 2015 competition begins this weekend.

Skiing: American Bode Miller crashes out of the men's Super G race as Hannes Reichelt makes it double gold for Austria at the 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships in Colorado.

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Lee Westwood and Alejandro Canizares share the lead on 11-under-par at the halfway stage of the the Maybank Malaysian Open.

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Westwood, the defending champion, started the day level with Graeme McDowell on six under and registered his first birdie on four in Kuala Lumpur.

McDowell shot one over and finds himself back in eighth. Tommy Fleetwood, who started the day in third, but a nightmare score of seven over saw him finish the day back in 64th and two over par, just above the cut line.

AFC Wimbledon captain Alan Bennett has had his contract terminated by mutual consent and re-signed for League of Ireland Premier side Cork City.

The 31-year old centre-back made 71 appearances for Wimbledon after signing for the League Two club in 2013.

Bennett, who started his career with Cork before joining Reading in 2006, said: "It's sad for me to leave, but I'm going to head home to finish my playing career with my hometown club and that's something I've always wanted to do."

The next contender to be picked as all-rounder in our all-time best one-day international team is England legend Sir Ian Botham.

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England's greatest all-rounder played in three World Cups and helped them reach two finals - 13 years apart. He batted in every position in the top seven, and only four Englishmen have taken more ODI wickets, despite Botham not having played since 1992.

ODIs: 116; Runs: 2,113; Average: 23.21; Strike rate: 79.10

Wickets: 145; Average: 28.54; Economy rate: 3.96

You can vote on the right-hand side of this page right now.

Middlesex have signed New Zealand international James Franklin on an initial two-year contract.

The 34-year-old is set to qualify as a non-overseas player through his Irish ancestry, subject to approval from the England and Wales Cricket Board.

All-rounder Franklin has played 31 Tests for New Zealand, as well as appearing in 110 one-day internationals and 38 Twenty20 internationals. His deal at Lord's has the option of being extended into a third year.

World champion Marc Marquez showed why he is still a force to be reckoned with as he led the pack for two out of three days of pre-season MotoGP winter testing at Malaysia's Sepang circuit.

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The new season officially starts in Qatar on March 29 and Malaysia will host the penultimate leg of the championship on October 25.

We want to know what you think the greatest rivalries in sport are.

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John McEnerney: McEnroe and Connors. No love lost there, the only thing there was hatred. Amazing battles between those two.

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Tom Sefton: Benn v Eubank (pictured above) was a feisty one.

Claire Downs: My team United and of course Liverpool. But what I also like about our beautiful game is we are sometimes brought together, like today's Munich anniversary, and of course Hillsborough. In times of sadness and tragedy we really are just one big footie family.

Well said Claire.

Some more on the Africa Cup of Nations, where there was crowd trouble during the semi-final between Ghana and hosts Equatorial Guinea.

BBC presenter Piers Edwards wrote on Twitter:, external "This is what I picked up off the pitch (mirror, broken plate, stone - one of 100s). Truly shameful. Why?"

Well, Peterborough defender Gabriel Zakuani, whose DR Congo side are scheduled to play Equatorial Guinea in the play-off for third place on Saturday, has retweeted Piers' message and added:, external "If they're throwing this at players, Equatorial Guinea [some of their supporters], you can have third place. I love football but prefer to live."

Here is the first contender in the all-rounder section of our quest to find the world's greatest one-day international XI.

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A savage, often reckless, hitter for whom playing himself in is an alien concept, Afridi has hit more sixes - 342 - in ODI cricket than any other player and is responsible for two of the six fastest centuries. No other current player has taken more wickets and this will be his fifth World Cup campaign. Occasionally controversial, but never dull to watch.

ODIs: 391; Runs: 7,948; Average: 23.58; Strike rate: 116.79

Wickets: 393; Average: 33.96; Economy rate: 4.62

View the full list of contenders here.

West Brom's hierarchy are furious with Saido Berahino's reported comments about "moving on to bigger things" in an interview which they did not sanction, report the Express and Star, external newspaper.

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The 21-year-old striker, linked with Liverpool and Tottenham, is likely to be fined for his behaviour.

Meanwhile, The Mirror says, external Berahino's team-mates at The Hawthorns are so fed up with his behaviour they have started to ignore him.

England boss Roy Hodgson will join Gary Lineker in the Match of the Day studio when Preston host Manchester United in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

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It is the first time the two teams have met competitively in 43 years - and Hodgson will be at Deepdale on Monday, 16 February to offer his thoughts.

The tie, which kicks off at 19:45 GMT, is being broadcast live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.

It's midday and these are some of the best stories on the BBC Sport website at the moment.

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Football: The Ghana FA says fans could have died as crowd trouble marred the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final with Equatorial Guinea.

Rugby union: Shaun Edwards says England risk being penalised if they use 'league' tactics in Friday's Six Nations opener in Cardiff.

Skiing: Former Olympic and world champion Bode Miller will miss the remainder of the Alpine World Ski Championships after having surgery on a torn hamstring.

Formula 1: Marussia's chances of a Formula 1 return this season have suffered a large setback after Force India rejected their request to use last year's car.

Golf: Tiger Woods has withdrawn from his latest tournament - the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines - because of more back problems.

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It's almost here... the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

And, to mark the competition's opening on the weekend of 14 February, BBC Sport is conducting a vote on the world's greatest one-day international XI. Each day Sportsday live readers will get to vote for the different components which make up the side - opening batsmen, middle-order batsmen, all-rounders, wicketkeepers, pace bowlers and spin bowlers. The contenders have been nominated by the Test Match Special team.

Voting on each category has been taking place on each weekday, with two votes on 9 February. The vote result won't be revealed until the Tuffers & Vaughan show on BBC Radio 5 live on Monday, 9 February and on the BBC Sport website.

The fourth one is live now and we'll profile the contenders during the course of the next 120 minutes. You can vote for one player, with the top one being selected as the team's all-rounder. Terms and conditions are here. Happy voting!

View the full list of contenders here.

Tomorrow's League One fixture between Rochdale and Leyton Orient has been postponed because of a frozen pitch.

An early inspection was carried out at Spotland at 11:00 GMT on Friday to avoid any Orient fans making a needless four-hour trip north.

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French newspaper L'Equipe talks of a financial crisis in French football and asks 'Is Ligue 1 for sale?' The paper says that clubs apart from Paris St-Germain and Monaco are struggling to find financial backers and investment.