John Murray
BBC Radio 5 live commentator

Wayne Rooney is the greatest in terms of being top of the list. Geoff Hurst is the greatest because of what he did in the World Cup final for England. But purely in terms of being the greatest striker my hunch - and it can be no more than that because I never saw him play live - is that it is Jimmy Greaves. 

Quite apart from his ratio of 44 goals in 57 appearances for England just look up his astonishing scoring record at club level, listen to anyone who did see him play, and consider that barring injury earlier in the tournament he would probably have been playing at Wembley on his country's greatest footballing day in 1966.

When League of Ireland side Longford Town tweeted the scoreline in their Leinster Senior Cup quarter-final against Shamrock Rovers on Tuesday night, it caused Pat Flynn to panic...as it seemed the defender had "forgotten" about the game..

Despite the match having kicked-off, he seemed determined to make it to the ground to play and appeared to tweet his journey...

He even got into a Twitter exchange with Shamrock Rovers, joking that he had stopped for a bite to eat on the way.

He never made it to Longford, as they lost the tie 1-0.

But it looks like it was just an elaborate wind-up , externalby Flynn, who was reportedly injured for the game.

Mark Footitt took the only wicket to fall as Essex had the better of the first morning against Derbyshire at Derby.

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The left-arm paceman, who is hoping for a place in England's squad to face Pakistan in the UAE, bowled Nick Browne, his 64th Championship wicket of the season.

But teenager Dan Lawrence batted through the opening session for 43 not out, with Tom Westley on 17 at lunch.

Listen to live commentary on today's games here.

Calum Reeves: Without injury it would be Owen. He's is the only English person to win the Ballon d'Or in his generation...at the age of 21.

Ian:  If Rooney didn't play for Manchester United then the haters would be far less in numbers, jealousy is such a bad trait.

Mark Abbott:  Englands greatest attacker has to be William the conqueror - played one - scored one - veni, vidi, vici.

Croatia have sacked coach Niko Kovac after the country's hopes of reaching Euro 2016 suffered a setback following a 0-0 draw in Azerbaijan and a 2-0 defeat in Norway.

"The Croatian Football Association's (HNS) executive board reached a unanimous decision to terminate our contract with Niko Kovac and his entire staff," said the organisation's president Davor Suker.

"We will interview his potential successors in the next 10 days or so and come up with a candidate at the next HNS executive board meeting on 21 Sept."

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BBC London 94.9's Kevin Hand at Lord's:

"Yorkshire are close to wrapping up their defence of the County Championship title, having reduced their nearest rivals to 92-7 at lunch on day one. 

"With only five points required to seal the crown, Ryan Sidebottom got the visitors off to the perfect start taking three wickets in the opening over.

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"The toss was always going to be crucial given the 10:30 start times in September, with a greenish tinge to the pitch and leaden skies over the capital."

Listen to live commentary on today's games here.

BBC Radio Wales Sport's Nick Webb at Cardiff:

"Kent made a positive start after winning the toss, with a century stand between club captain Rob Key (61 not out) and South African newcomer Sean Dickson.

"Both played attacking shots after Michael Hogan removed Daniel Bell-Drummond in the second over, but Dickson fell to David Lloyd for 59 in the over before lunch."

Follow today's County Championship action in our dedicated live text commentary, where you can also listen to ball-by-ball radio coverage of all five games.

Lewis Gwynne: Messi 48 goals 104 caps. Ronaldo 55 goals 120 caps. Rooney 50 goals 107 caps. And everyone is trying to put him down. 

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John Tatman: Until he turns up in Euro's & World Cups without getting sent off & mouthing at fans he's not a great.

Carl Scott: Let's nor forget Bobby was a midfielder so it just shows how poor our strikers have been since the days of Greaves/Lineker to even get close to it

Birmingham City have signed former Aston Villa defender Shane Lowry on a deal until the end of the season.

The 26-year-old was a free agent after leaving Leyton Orient in the summer.

Luke Skidmore: David Nugent. 1 cap, 1 goal. Jimmy who?

Matthew Davies: Heskey has got to be up there!  

Emmet Curran: Henry VIII

Something tells me you're not taking this seriously folks are you?

Radio 5 live is well worth listening to at 21:00 BST.

Ahead of the 2015 Rugby World Cup, former England coach Sir Clive Woodward gives a unique insight into the dramatic final victory against Australia in 2003.

Woodward watches the final back and records his thoughts and emotions as the drama unfolded. He explains the reasons why certain decisions were made and the planning and execution of the winning drop goal by Jonny Wilkinson.

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The 2015 World Cup kicks off in nine days' time, on Friday, 18 September, when England take on Fiji at Twickenham.

The first Team GB athletes to be officially selected for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have been announced today.

A total of eight athletes have been selected across six of the 10 sailing events, the British Olympic Association has announced.

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London 2012 silver medallists Hannah Mills (pictured) and Saskia Clark are paired together again in the 470 Women’s class while Luke Patience, who also won silver three years ago, teams up with two-time World Champion Elliot Willis in the 470 Men’s event.

London 2012 Olympian Alison Young returns in the Laser Radial, while 2015 Laser world champion Nick Thompson earns his first Olympic appearance to round off the first wave of sailing selections for Rio.

Bryony Shaw and Giles Scott have also been selected.

Here's an interesting one... The MLS is in talks with the Premier League over setting up an Anglo-American Cup that would involve the winners of the English top flight and the FA Cup.

MLS commissioner Don Garber believes popularity in football grows in the United States when the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool cross the Atlantic for pre-season tours.

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Over the last two years all three clubs have participated in the International Champions Cup but Garber is hoping to create a more formal competition in which the most successful English teams compete - possibly every year. 

"We have been talking to the Premier League," Garber said. "I would love to find a way that we could play our cup champion and our league champion against an FA Cup and league champion in a tournament and play it in New York City every year."

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The Asian Football Confederation's president has condemned the crowd trouble which forced a World Cup qualifier between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia to be suspended three minutes before full-time.

The visiting Saudi Arabia team were leading 2-1 in the Group A Asian qualifier when play was stopped after fans launched flares and fireworks on to the pitch.

"This sort of behaviour is deplored by all those who seek to protect the best interests of football in Asia and help us in our aim to be the game's leading confederation," said AFC president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.

Fifa has yet to announce any sanctions following the incident.

Simon Richardson: Let's have a stat in Rooney's favour. Most clearances from corners by a striker? I bet he comes out ahead of Lineker et al.

Michael Johnson: A fit Michael Owen hands down. Would be on 60+ goals 150+caps and won England a major trophy if he'd never had injury problems.  

Mark Slater: Sir Tom Finney was the best 76 games 30 goals and NO yellow cards never mind a red , True Gentleman.

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Dan Walker
BBC Sport presenter

Do we measure goals by their quantity or their weight? Geoff Hurst scored the most important goals in England's history and Gary Lineker has a golden boot to his name. Having said that, scoring 50 goals to break a record that has stood for nearly 50 years is something Mr Rooney can be rightly proud of. 

As well as you lot, we've been asking our BBC experts to give us their opinion on England's greatest ever striker.

We'll be dropping them in as the day goes on, starting with this chap...

The BBC and NFL have agreed a new two-year rights deal to include live coverage of all three International Series game at Wembley as well as the league’s world-famous showpiece event, the Super Bowl.

The new deal also includes a weekly highlights show on BBC Two and online, ‘The Road to the Super Bowl’, which will run from the final Wembley game at the start of November until the climax of the season in February.    

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The NFL will celebrate its 50th Super Bowl next year, an event as famous for its legendary half-time entertainment as the action on the field. Super Bowl 50 takes place in San Francisco on 7 February 2016 and will be live on BBC TV, radio and online.

BBC Sport director Barbara Slater said: “NFL has a growing fan base in the UK and I’m delighted that the BBC can bring it free-to-air for our audience."     

The vote has closed and the results are in.

Drum-roll please...

You have voted Gary Lineker the greatest England attacker of all time (33% of the vote), with Jimmy Greaves second (24%) and Sir Bobby Charlton third (17%).

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Record-breaker Wayne Rooney was behind Alan Shearer, in fifth.

Thanks to all who voted - and keep tweeting to #bbcsportsday and posting at the BBC Match of the Day Facebook page about your all-time favourite forwards.

Ricky Rees: Shearer, 13 goals in 11 games plus he scored against the top European teams, outside the box as well as inside poaching. Complete package.

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Shabtai Libby: Levy Rooney is top class. If we had that quality in every position we could have trophies.

Matt Hedges: Shearer was always my favourite. Bullied defenders.