There is also a Premier League game tonight, with Swansea entertaining a Liverpool side that are chasing a top-four finish and who have not lost a league match in 2015.

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South Africa coach Russell Domingo has expressed his sympathy for the England cricket team after their disappointing exit from the World Cup.

"I'm a little bit surprised [at their exit] because I think they've got a really good side on paper," he said before the quarter-finals where his side face Sri Lanka on Wednesday.

"They've got some seriously good players in that particular side. It just didn't go for them. It's the small margins you face in this competition, so you've got to feel for them."

A 15-year-old boy from the Salisbury area, has been arrested on suspicion of sending a racist tweet aimed at Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck.

The post was made after Welbeck netted the winning goal during the FA Cup quarter-final clash against his former club Manchester United on 9 March.

Wiltshire Police said the teenager was arrested on suspicion of racial abuse and released on bail until 13 April.

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Toulouse back-rower Louis Picamoles has been recalled to the France squad for their Six Nations game against England at Twickenham on Saturday.

The 28-year-old won the last of his 44 caps against Australia in June 2014 before missing the build-up to the Six Nations tournament through injury.

Picamoles will take over from Racing Metro's Wenceslas Lauret who has a thigh injury.

Coach Philippe Saint-Andre added that there were injury concerns over fly-halves Camille Lopez (knee) and Jules Plisson (nose) and prop Eddy Ben Arous (triceps), who would all undergo medical tests.

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World number one and world champion Mark Selby is into the second round of World Grand Prix snooker tournament in Llandudno after beating Michael Holt 4-1.

An independent FA arbitration panel has ruled that Hull City's proposed name change is not going to happen this season, but have not dismissed it happening in the future.

Owner Assem Allam has threatened to sell the club if he is not allowed to change the 111-year-old name from Hull City to Hull Tigers.

However, according to an FA statement, the club "remains able to pursue a playing name change for the season 2015-16", although the application would need to be re-submitted.

We've all got to grounds and wondered 'why is he playing'. Well, Reading fans who travelled to Watford on Saturday may have been a bit surprised to see their team for their Championship match.

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Reading's side featured NINE changes. And they promptly got embarrassed, losing 4-1. But that defeat will be forgotten about tonight if they win at home against League One Bradford City in an FA Cup quarter-final replay.

A Wembley semi-final against Arsenal awaits the winners.

Live coverage is available on BBC One from 19:30 GMT and also on BBC Radio 5 live.

There are also a couple of big matches tonight, one in the Premier League and one in the FA Cup. Time to have a look at those games a bit more closely.

England striker Karen Carney says becoming the first woman inducted into Birmingham City's Hall of Fame is a "big step" for the game.

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The 27-year-old, who is the youngest England international of either sex to earn 100 caps, was added to the Hall of Fame before Birmingham's draw with Huddersfield.

"It's crazy how far the women's game has developed and how accepting people have been over the last 10 years. People have really taken it on board and given women's football a fair chance," she said.

"It is different to the men and everyone has accepted that, but it can still be loved, and it is still football - there is nothing different, there is still lot of passion and excitement there. It is nice that women's football is being acknowledged in that respect."

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Ethiopian great Kenenisa Bekele has pulled out of next month's London Marathon because of an Achilles tendon injury.

The multiple Olympic and World track champion had been scheduled to make his debut in the London race which takes place on 26 April but he picked up the injury while competing in January's Dubai Marathon.

Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai, the two-time New York Marathon winner, has been added to the field for the men's race which already features current marathon record-holder Dennis Kimetto and former record-holder and defending champion Wilson Kipsang.

Paul Dobson from Sunderland fanzine 'A Love Supreme' said Poyet had not been popular among some of the club's fans for a long period.

Dobson told BBC Radio 5 live: "A few people had turned against him quite a while ago and I can understand that.

"Given the results at QPR and Bradford, many managers would have gone after those two games." The writing was on the wall after Saturday, there was very little chance of him seeing the week out."

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Ipswich striker Freddie Sears expects the race for promotion play-off places in the Championship to go to the final day of the season.

"Losing at Middlesbrough was tough, but at the start of the season we'd have taken being seventh with nine games left," said Sears, before Ipswich's game against Bolton on Tuesday.

"The key is winning our mini-league with Brentford, Wolves and Forest. Realistically finishing in the top two might be a little out of reach now, but I think the race to get into the play-offs will go to the final day."

Some of your comments from our story that Sunderland have sacked boss Gus Poyet.

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Stephen Huish: It's simple. Sunderland need an experienced manager who can take the club forward over a sustained period of time. Not recent ex-footballers with no experience and big mouths. The board have always provided money for players. With the players the club have they should not be in this position.

Perpetual Sigh: Paul Lambert's available, I'm sure he'd be happy to enter the managerial revolving door. The result is always the same when clubs bring in someone who gets instant results because the players respond to the fact things are fresh, but are not prepared to show patience during poor form. O'Neill should never have been sacked, Di Canio barely got a chance and Poyet's been let down.

Nutgone: God bless you Gus. This is the act of a club that is desperate for success without spending money.

Here is the Northern Ireland squad in full:

Goalkeepers: Roy Carroll (Notts County), Alan Mannus (St Johnstone), Michael McGovern (Hamilton)

Defenders: Aaron Hughes (Brighton), Chris Baird (West Brom), Gareth McAuley (West Brom), Jonny Evans (Man Utd), Craig Cathcart(Watford), Shane Ferguson (Rangers, loan), Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood), Luke McCullough (Doncaster), Paddy McNair (Man Utd),

Midfielders: Steven Davis (Southampton), Chris Brunt (West Brom), Sammy Clingan (Kilmarnock), Corry Evans (Blackburn), Oliver Norwood (Reading), Ryan McLaughlin (Liverpool), Ben Reeves (MK Dons), Pat McCourt (Notts County, loan), Stuart Dallas (Brentford).

Strikers: Kyle Lafferty (Rizespor, loan), Niall McGinn (Aberdeen), Jamie Ward (Derby County), Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock), Billy McKay (Wigan Athletic), Will Grigg (MK Dons).

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Manchester United defender Paddy McNair is in line to make his Northern Ireland debut this month, having been included in a 27-man squad for matches against Scotland at Hampden Park on 25 March and the Euro 2016 qualifier at home to Finland on 29 March.

The 19-year-old was an unused substitute against Romania in November.

McNair's United team-mate Jonny Evans retains his place in the squad despite his stop-start season taking another turn for the worse with his six-game ban for spitting at Papiss Cisse.

Some more stats for you regarding Sunderland's miserable season. The Black Cats have sacked manager Gus Poyet today.

• The Black Cats have drawn seven games 0-0 this season - no other team has more than four.

• Only Aston Villa (19) have scored fewer goals than Sunderland (23).

• Sunderland have had the fewest number of shots in the campaign (204).

• The Wearsiders have the second worst home record in Premier League this season.

And this is how they stand in the Premier League...

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The Flat Jockeys Championship has been given a revamp for the new season with the champion jockey to be crowned between the Guineas meeting in May and the British Champions Day in October.

Announced by Great British Racing, the changes to the jockeys' championship have been devised to make a title charge less of a grind for its participants, and to "provide a more compelling storyline for new and existing racing fans".

For the first time, the champion jockey will also be rewarded financially, with £25,000 for the winner and there will also be prizes for the runner-up, leading apprentice and jockey of the month.

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Seven stadiums in six cities will be used as soccer venues for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

Rio will host games at the Olympic Stadium and the Maracana while the other games will take place at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, the Mane Garrincha stadium in Brasilia, the Amazonia arena in Manaus, the Fonte Nova arena in Salvador and the Corinthians arena in Sao Paulo.

Sixteen men's sides and 12 women's teams will play 58 matches between 3-20 August 2016 with Brazil chasing their first Olympic gold in the men's competition.

Championship side Wigan have signed Liverpool striker Jerome Sinclair on loan until the end of season.

Sinclair joined the Reds from West Brom aged 14 and made his debut against his old club in September 2012, becoming Liverpool's youngest ever player.

Michael Gray, who made more than 350 appearances for home-town club Sunderland between 1992 and 2004, believes West Ham manager Sam Allardyce would be perfect to replace Gus Poyet as the Black Cats boss.

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Gray told Sky Sports News: "If you're looking long-term, there's only one person out there for me and he's in charge of the club that we're playing at the weekend.

"He's man-made for it. I know he's having contractual talks with West Ham (over) whether he's going to be staying with the club at the end of the season, he would certainly be my choice.

"It's unfortunate that Gus has lost his job, nobody like to see that, but we're all going to be speculating about a new manager and there's only one out there for me to take the reins."