Switzerland's Roger Federer beat Czech Republic's Tomas Berdych 6-3 6-3 to reach the Italian Open semi-finals.

Second seed Federer will face either seven-time Rome champion Rafael Nadal or eighth-seeded Stan Wawrinka, who were playing in the night session at the Foro Italico.

Spain's David Ferrer beat David Goffin of Belgium 6-2 4-6 6-3 and will meet the winner of a match between top-ranked Novak Djokovic and fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori.

In the women's draw, second seed Simona Halep routed qualifier Alexandra Dulgheru 6-1, 6-0 in an all-Romanian matchup.

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Dean Marney has signed a contract extension to keep him at relegated Burnley until the summer of 2017.

The Clarets midfielder suffered a cruciate injury against West Bromwich Albion in February and is expected to return to action later this year.

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Great one to start us off from Matthew Birch who tweeted: "Jason Lee at Forest was pretty good."

And who can forget that fruit-based beauty from the Nottingham Forest striker.

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Sunderland manager Dick Advocaat has been speaking to the media before Saturday's crunch relegation game with Leicester City.

"The way they have trained is very positive. Everybody realises one win can save the season and the support of our fans is key," said the Dutchman.

"We have to win. It does not matter what kind of goals you score as long as you score.

"We have to go out with the right attitude and everyone needs to understand their role. Winning is the most important thing."

The Black Cats are two points above the drop zone and one behind their opponents.

Jose Mourinho has responded in fine fashion when asked about his summer transfer plans.

"I expect to be busy walking from my towel in the sand to the water, swim a little bit and be back to the sand again" said the Chelsea manager, an answer which was tweeted , externalby journalist Paul Brown.

We have more from Mourinho's press conference coming up later.

Hopefully by now you've seen our "Gerrard in stickers" piece, showing Liverpool's captain and his unchanging barnet over the past 17 seasons. But while Gerrard has stuck rigidly to his short back and sides, other footballers have been a tad more adventurous. Carlos Valderrama, to name just one.

So what we want to know is, what are your favourite footballing hairstyles from over the years?

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More from Graves: "Ahead of a big, busy summer of cricket, a clear decision needed to be taken. Given the history and the book, the simple fact is that bridges have still not been rebuilt and trust needs to be restored.

"That takes time - as Andrew Strauss made clear this week.

"Kevin was told on Monday and I completely support the decision that was taken. He may not have liked what he heard but it allowed him to look at his opportunities."

Read the statement in full , externalon the ECB website.

Graves on Pietersen: "Despite everything, he can work with us to re-build the relationship and make a further contribution to English cricket. It was important he knew where he stood."

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More from ECB chairman Colin Graves on Pietersen:

"I can see something has been misunderstood around the conversation and in the following debate - and perhaps how that happened.

"What I did stress was that when I took over as chairman I would back those people whose job it was to take decisions on team selection. I stand by that."

ECB chairman Colin Graves has responded to Kevin Pietersens' claims that he was deceived about a possible return to the England side.

Graves said: "In the past few days my integrity has been called into question, something I can't accept.

"I didn't make any promises. There were no guarantees that if he chose to exit his IPL contract, play County cricket and score runs he would be selected for England.

"And I said he should make any decision on his future on that basis."

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Portsmouth have unveiled new manager Paul Cook and he is already setting his sights on getting the club out of League Two.

Cook replaces Andy Awford who was sacked in April after a disappointing season.

"Portsmouth's problems over the past few years have been well documented and my job now is to bring success to this club," said Cook, who left Chesterfield last week.

"You've got to set the bar at promotion, the most important thing is that myself and my staff believe we can achieve it and we do. All the players have a clean slate and it's about moving forward now."

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Wilfried Bony makes his return to the Liberty Stadium after joining Manchester City in January for £28m.

Bony has scored one goal since his move to Manchester.

Pellegrini said: "It's important to have this clear - we didn't bring Bony just for this year.

"We bought him because he's a very good player, an important striker.

"Maybe it was a difficult start for him here mainly because of his injury. Maybe he's not playing the amount of minutes he must play but I'm sure he'll be a very important player next season."

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini says Premier League top scorer Sergio Aguero is happy at the Etihad and questioned why he wasn't in the PFA team of the year.

"We are not a selling team. Sergio is very happy here.

"I don't know the way they choose the PFA team, so I cannot talk about that. All I can say is that Kun must be in every best team."

"When Sergio was coming back from his injury - he took some games to return to his top performance but I always say he is one of the top five players in the world.

"He's improved a lot this season and I think he will continue to improve."

More from Chris Woakes on the Friday Sports Panel on BBC Radio 5 Live.

"I feel sorry for him not playing for England. Many want to see him play again," Woakes said of Kevin Pietersen.

"But at the same time we've got to concentrate on moving forward to a really important summer.

"If he was told he could get a place after scoring Championship runs, I imagine he'd feel a bit aggrieved.

"I hope it doesn't take away the support and the love for English cricket this summer."

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport chief F1 writer

Formula 1 bosses have agreed to bring back refuelling in 2017 as part of a range of measures aimed at making the sport more exciting.

There will also be higher revving and louder engines and changes aimed at making cars "five to six seconds a lap faster", governing body the FIA said.

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England and Warwickshire's Chris Woakes has given his views on the Kevin Pietersen saga on the Friday Sports Panel on BBC Radio 5 Live.

"The good thing is people are talking cricket, but not in the way we want," he said.

"I think trust is crucial. It's not always rosy in a team environment but as long as everyone is going in the right direction, that's the main thing.

"It can be intense. The pressure's on you when you're playing at the highest level of sport. Cricket is individual game within a team sport. Test matches lasting five days makes it more difficult. Trust needs to be strong."

You can listen live to the programme via this link.

Queens Park Rangers will not be barred from the Championship despite being accused of breaching Football League regulations.

QPR are alleged to have spent more on salaries than rules allowed when they were in the division two seasons ago.

The London club have been relegated from the Premier League after just one season back in the top flight.

Former England striker Michael Owen hopes his horse Brown Panther can secure a 12th career victory, at York on Friday.

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The seven-year-old - bred and owned by the ex-Liverpool, Newcastle and Real Madrid forward - is favourite for the Yorkshire Cup (15:15 BST).

Going at the track is now described as Good to Firm, Good in places. You can check out the latest going, non-runners and results on the BBC Sport website.

Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has been talking about his squad before Sunday's game with Swansea.

"Samir Nasri is injured - the rest of the players are fit," he said. "We'll see tomorrow who will start the game.

"We'll see if Vincent Kompany or Yaya Toure can start tomorrow or if we'll stick with the same team that started the last couple of games."

And when asked about Sergio Aguero's future at the Etihad, Pellegrini added: "We are not a selling team. Sergio is very happy here. I think he is one of the top five players in the world. He's improved."

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