With Bournemouth's fairytale rise to the Premier League dominating the headlines today, we're continuing our look at other success stories from these shores and beyond...

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With just 27,000 inhabitants (making it the smallest population for any catchment area with a professional football team in Spain's top two divisions), the Basque town of Eibar has no right to expect a football team amongst the elite. But that is exactly what they have got, and deservedly so. In 2013-14, they overcame the odds and a host of clubs whose budget dwarfs their own to achieve a second successive promotion to reach La Liga for the first time in its 74-year history.

The club had to raise over 1.7m euros, more than four times their capital, to enter Spain's top flight. But with five games to go in their debut season, Gaizka Garitano's side are two points above the relegation zone and in with a shout of extending their fairytale stay.

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Trainer Willie Mullins is being tipped to dominated the five-day Punchestown Festival which begins in Ireland this afternoon.

The opening race at 15:40 is named in memory of the local punting priest Father Sean Breen, with the Mullins-trained Champagne Fever favourite for the feature race - the Boylesports Champion Chase - at 17:30.

You can check out all the latest going, non-runners and results on the BBC Sport website.

Lee Parkinson: Completely agree with protests ,@HullCity cashing in on it being @LFC if you're in @premierleague should be same price for all.

Iwan Jones: What if an amateur club charged £9 rather £3 when playing a team with bigger support, nobody would pay and rightly so?

Rick Kay: If Hull are charging £50 for the Liverpool game, how much do they charge to fans of big clubs?

Jockey Richie McGrath has been cleared of corruption after a British Horseracing Authority disciplinary hearing.

Conspiracy charges against the rider, who won the Scottish Grand National in 2003 on Ryalux, have been dismissed.

He was found in breach of a much less serious rule regarding the schooling of horses in public, which normally carries a suspension of somewhere between 10 and 18 days.

Good news for Stuart Bingham, who holds his nerve to edge a very tight second frame of his World Snooker Championship quarter-final with Ronnie O'Sullivan.

O'Sullivan - who raced through the opener to go ahead - looked like nicking the second after hitting back following a break of 64 by Bingham. But a couple of missed pots by the Rocket cost him and Bingham eventually sunk brown and blue to claim the frame and level the match.

Long way to go yet - it's best of 25 - but given the way Ronnie began, you sense that was an important frame for Bingham to win. All square, game on.

And a little more from Massimo Cellino, courtesy of the Yorkshire Evening Post, external.

The Leeds owner has played down claims that he wants Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink to be the club's next head coach, dismissing the link as "just more talk."

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Burton have already secured promotion from League Two under one-time Leeds striker Hasselbaink, while current Elland Road manager Neil Redfearn's contract ends after the clash with Rotherham at the weekend.

Asked about Hasselbaink, Cellino said: "It's just more talk. Forget it."

Massimo Cellino has been given permission by the Football League to attend Leeds' final game of the season at Elland Road against Rotherham.

Cellino's ban from having any executive influence at Leeds does not expire until 3 May but the Football League has confirmed it has authorised Cellino to attend as long as he does so as a spectator.

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When asked if he would be at the game, 58-year-old told Yorkshire Evening Post, external: "I don't know. I haven't decided. The Football League say I'm allowed to go but I don't know what I'll do.

"I need a clear head and I need to start again with everything next week. I'm not decided."

Cellino lost his appeal against the League's decision to disqualify him as club owner in January following his conviction for tax evasion in Italy.

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers says he respects the rights of Reds supporters to protest against the £50 price of a ticket for tonight's Premier League match at Hull.

Rodgers said: "Like everything in modern football, I respect the supporters' right to protest. I don't know so much about it but supporters nowadays have to work very hard to get the money to go to football games."

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Here's a round-up of what's happened in the sporting world so far today...

Cricket: Nottinghamshire batsman James Taylor has been named England captain for the one-day international against Ireland in May.

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Snooker: Ronnie O'Sullivan begins his World Snooker Championship quarter-final with a 114 clearance and leads 1-0.

Football: Former Manchester United goalkeeper Mark Bosnich has pleaded guilty to reckless driving after hitting and injuring a cyclist with his car in Sydney.

The Russian government will bring in tough restrictions on the number of foreign players in the country's top soccer league in order to develop home-grown players for the 2018 World Cup.

Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko says he will "cut back on foreign players in a very tough way", reports Russian agency R-Sport,

His comments come after a bill allowing the sports ministry to limit foreign players in team sports passed the first of three readings in the lower house of parliament last week.

Current Russian league rules allow clubs to field up to seven foreigners at any time, which Mutko said was crowding out Russian talent.

Ronnie O'Sullivan is clearly not messing around today.

Frame number one of his quarter-final has passed more quickly than the time it takes to say 'blimey, Ronnie's playing well'.

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The Rocket lived up to his name, potting a long-range red and making a 114 clearance in double-quick time, only halted when he missed a tricky green.

Stuart Bingham has only had one shot so far - the break.

Full coverage here.

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Jon Mairs: Fair ticket prices should be set by the FA. Away end ticket prices should take into account the distance fans have to travel.

Eddie Howe says seeing his Bournemouth side on Match of the Day next season will be 'beyond his wildest dreams'.

After the Cherries sealed promotion (barring a 20-goal swing ... which we have to keep writing despite the fact that there's about as much chance of it happening as there is Jose Mourinho admitting Chelsea are boring), Howe said Saturday nights next season will feel odd.

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"I come from the era where Match of the Day was the only real football programme of my generation," he explained. "Growing up it was what everyone stayed up to watch.

"To see Bournemouth on Match of the Day will be something I never imagined would be possible."

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It is Ronnie time in the snooker World Championship. The Rocket is in the quarter-finals and about to get stuck into his match against fellow Englishman Stuart Bingham. Also this afternoon, England's Barry Hawkins takes on Australian Neil Robertson.

You can follow the action on BBC Two or online. The full schedule is also online, as is a complete run-down of our coverage.

Reigning Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova will play at the Aegon International in Eastbourne in June.

The 25-year-old lost the first match of her return to the WTA Tour last week, after a six-week break for exhaustion.

"From the first round, every match is tough which makes it the perfect warm-up event in the week before Wimbledon," said the Czech, who won her second Wimbledon title last summer.

Here's some news emerging from a press conference held at Wimbledon earlier in the day...

The 2015 Wimbledon singles champions will win £1.88m, an increase of £120,000 on last year - while the overall prize fund at the All England Club will rise from £25m to £26.75m, a 7% increase year on year.

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Courts 14 and 15 will come back into use after being re-laid following development works, bringing the total ground capacity at SW19 to 39,000, compared to 2014's 34,000.

And use of Hawk-Eye has been extended to courts 12 and 18.

That means the technology will be in action on six courts across the championships, which run from 29 June to 12 July.

Rangers and the Scottish Professional Football League could clash over plans to let season ticket holders into play-off matches at Ibrox for nothing.

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The SPFL prohibits clubs from allowing fans free entry to end-of-season games.

With 50% of gate money from each play-off game due to the SPFL, up to three home ties at Ibrox would generate hundreds of thousands of pounds to be shared out among all member clubs.

But allowing around 25,000 fans in for free would greatly diminish that sum.

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Champions League-chasing Liverpool and relegation-threatened Hull face each other in a huge game for their respective aims at the KC Stadium tonight. However, the issue of ticket prices is threatening to overshadow the match, with hundreds of Reds fans expected to boycott the game and protest outside Anfield over Hull's decision to charge £50 for away tickets.

Tickets for the same game last season were £35, while Stoke fans had to pay just £16 to watch their side face Hull at the KC.

We want to know your thoughts on this issue. What do you think of Hull's pricing? Are you backing the protests? What do you think is a fair price for a ticket to watch your team? Send your thoughts via Twitter using the hashtag #bbcsportsday.

With Bournemouth up the Premier League, manager Eddie Howe has been getting the plaudits with even Gary Lineker wondering "whether we've possibly found the English 'special one".

So let's have a quick look at Howe's credentials.

RECORD: Howe took over aged 31 in January 2009 in a season in which the club had been deducted 17 points. He kept them up and then oversaw automatic promotion the following year despite a transfer embargo. After a brief spell at Burnley, he returned to Dean Court to win promotion to the Championship in 2013.

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PERSONALITY: Howe comes across as a humble, easy-going and thoughtful. Behind that is a clearly a very intelligent person who has a talismanic effect on his players. His captain Tommy Elphick has suggested he "deserves a knighthood" for what he has done for the club.

RELATIONSHIPS: Appears to have a very harmonious one with chairman Jeff Mostyn, and hands-off owner Maxim Demin. He has also been open with fan and has been compared to Jurgen Klopp, whose bond with fans and club at Borussia Dortmund was also strong.

TACTICS: Howe's style of play has won almost universal praise. He advocates an attractive, attacking game and the 112 goals in all competitions his team has scored this season underlines that.

He does, of course, have a long way to go before emulating Mourinho, but, at 37, he's certainly made a decent start.