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Blackburn Rovers boss Gary Bowyer says he may need to tweak his line-up ahead of the visit of Blackpool on Saturday.

Rovers scored a last-minute equaliser at Cardiff on Tuesday to add to wins over Stoke in the FA Cup and Rotherham in the league in the last eight days.

Manager Gary Bowyer told BBC Radio Lancashire: "It is a squad game and we might need to freshen it up.

"We had three massive efforts and I might need to tweak it here and there, but we will see how people recover."

Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff says lessons have been learned about the fierce rivalry between team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.

The pair clashed on occasions last year as they battled for the world title, won by Hamilton at the final race.

"The team never expected it to be any different but we've learned a lot from last year," said Wolff.

"We've learned from working with each other, analysing mistakes, and we will be trying to do things better in 2015."

Liverpool winger Raheem Sterling faces a fitness test ahead of their Europa League last-32 meeting with Besiktas.

Sterling, 20, has missed two games with a foot injury but could return, while captain Steven Gerrard (hamstring) and Lucas Leiva (thigh) are out.

Lazar Markovic will miss the Anfield meeting as he begins a four-match ban.

Besiktas striker Demba Ba will face Liverpool for the first time since scoring for Chelsea last year in a win which damaged the Reds' title hopes.

Ronny Deila reckons the Europa League meeting with Inter Milan will show how much progress his Celtic side have made this season.

After a tough start to life as manager, Deila has guided Celtic to an excellent run of form in which they have won their last eight games.

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But he knows Thursday's date with Inter will be a major test.

"We will get a lot of answers tomorrow - how good are Celtic right now and how good are we individually," said Deila.

Spanish side Eibar have appealed to FIFA to be granted international clearance to sign Liverpool defender Rafa Paez on loan until the end of the season.

After the clubs reached an agreement last month, FIFA blocked the transfer of the 20-year-old to the Primera Division side because of an administrative mistake.

The Spanish central defender played the 2013-14 campaign with the Liverpool reserves and was sent on a season-long loan to Serie B side Bologna last summer, where he made eight league appearances.

MK Dons have come through the most important moment of their promotion campaign, says boss Karl Robinson.

The Dons held on to win 1-0 at Colchester on Tuesday - their first victory in four games - to move up to second in League One.

Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio: "It was massive. I can't understate it.

"This was big. I want people to believe. I said towards the end, this is the biggest 10 minutes I'll have to manage this season."

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Charlton Athletic supporters are to hold a public meeting on Wednesday in an attempt to find out the long-term strategy of Belgian owner Roland Duchatelet.

Charlton have had four managers since Duchatelet bought the club in January 2014, and are 18th in the Championship under current boss Guy Luzon.

When Duchatelet took over the Addicks he added the south-east London side to a network of clubs around Europe, including Belgian side Standard Liege, from whom Charlton have signed nine players.

"The aim is to engage Roland in conversation and find out what is going on," Addicks fan Steve Clarke told BBC London 94.9. "He rarely visits London or comes to The Valley and has resisted all attempts by us to have any dialogue.

Force India say they are confident their car for the new Formula 1 season will make its debut at the final test in Barcelona later this month.

Due to supplier and cash-flow issues, Force India were forced to skip the first test in Jerez as the VJM08 was not ready.

For the second test - which starts at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya on Thursday - the Silverstone-based team will use last year's car.

However, they are set to finally hit the track with the new car at the test that commences next Thursday (26 February).

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Football writer Philippe Auclair believes Kurt Zouma has the potential to replicate Marcel Desailly's success and status at Chelsea.

"From a French perspective I can tell you we are very excited about what is happening with Kurt Zouma at Chelsea," Auclair told BBC Radio 5 live.

"If there is one player Kurt Zouma is basing his game on, it is Marcel Desailly."

Liverpool striker Rickie Lambert has revealed he came "very close" to signing for Aston Villa on transfer deadline day - only to pull out at the last minute in a bid to try and win a regular starting berth at Anfield.

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Lambert - who has scored only three goals in 26 appearances since joining from Southampton for £4m last summer - agreed terms on a two-and-a- half-year deal with Villa, only to pull out.

"I spoke to my agent, my wife, to Aston Villa and it was close. It was very close. It was touch and go. We agreed everything," he told the Liverpool Echo, external.

"But in the end there just wasn't enough time to say 'yes'. It was nothing negative towards Aston Villa, it's a great club. I just didn't think it was right for me to leave here just six months into my Liverpool career. I didn't want to go."

Harlequins wing Charlie Walker has signed a new two-year contract with the Premiership club.

The 22-year-old swapped Leicester's academy for The Stoop before making his senior debut in 2011, and has now committed himself to the London club until 2017.

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Chris Slegg, BBC London Sport: "Archway Sheet Metal Works v Tottenham. Judge Mr Justice Dove says he hopes to reach his decision regarding the validity of the Compulsory Purchase Order this Friday. He will read this out at 09:30 GMT.

"Archway Sheet Metal Works are appealing against the CPO. They are the last business Spurs need to move from the site of their intended new stadium."

Northampton Saints have signed Sale lock Michael Paterson for next season.

The 29-year-old New Zealand-born forward was in the England squad to tour his native country last summer, but has yet to earn a Test cap.

Paterson would have been in contention for a Six Nations place, had he not been ruled out by knee surgery.

"I'm looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead and continuing the development of my rugby in such a highly competitive team," he said., external

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Former Blackburn and West Ham striker Benni McCarthy says Algerian winger Yacine Brahimi can go on to become a "great player".

McCarthy won the Champions League under Jose Mourinho in 2004 with Porto, who take on Basel in the Champions League on Wednesday night.

"He's got so many powerful weapons in his locker," McCarthy told BBC World Service Sport.

"He's very skilful, he's great one-on-one, he's also a very confident young player so hopefully he can keep his feet on the ground and take whatever opportunities there are to take to play in the biggest stages of the Champions League and grow as a player."

Scottish Rugby say they will appeal against the two-week suspension of stand-off Finn Russell for a challenge on Wales' Dan Biggar.

Russell was yellow-carded for the challenge in Sunday's 26-23 defeat by Wales, and a Six Nations disciplinary committee deemed it "reckless".

An SRU spokesperson said: "We are disappointed by the outcome of today's discipline committee meeting, and subsequent suspension of stand-off Finn Russell.

"Following the arrival of the written sanction later this week, we intend to appeal."

Captain Michael Clarke will return to the Australia side for Saturday's World Cup match against Bangladesh after recovering from hamstring surgery, coach Darren Lehmann has revealed.

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"Yeah, he's playing mate," Lehmann told reporters in typically Aussie fashion when he was asked whether the 33-year-old would be involved.

Clarke's race to be fit has been something of a soap opera in Australia. He played his first match for the team in two months last week in a warm-up against United Arab Emirates and hit 64.

Charlotte Carpenter is set to join an elite band of officials after becoming the first Fifa-accredited female football referee from Wales.

The 26-year-old from Abercynon is usually seen in the Welsh League, but she is now on the list of international referees and is working her way up the officiating ladder. She could eventually referee at the Women's World Cup and Women's Champions League.

Sport Wales cameras followed her for the day as she took charge of the Swansea City Ladies v Cardiff Met LFC FAW Women's Cup quarter-final.

Injured cricketer Matt Prior has found a novel way to keep himself occupied while his England team-mates compete in the World Cup.

The wicketkeeper has set up a road cycling team, external, backed by a British supermarket chain, with the not inconsiderable aim of eventually entering said team, One Pro Cycling, in little known race the Tour de France.

In the meantime, the team will compete in this season's UCI Continental tour, two levels below the World Tour that includes Le Tour.

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Manager Mauricio Pochettino says he is not worried by Tottenham's workload as they prepare to face Fiorentina in the last 32 of the Europa League in the first of six games in 17 days.

"It's a good sign we are in all competitions. I am happy," he said. "All the squad are fit and we are in a very good way.

"It's important to manage the squad and always analyse after the games each case and each player and after to be clever and select the best player to play in each game."