Good job everybody. We got through Monday. Wasn't so bad was it?

Thanks for joining us today. We are off to enjoy West Ham v Newcastle on BBC Radio 5 live while cooking for one... 

*cue the sympathetic pantomime style "awww"..... Thanks to those who obliged. If not, where is your heart?*

If you aren't near the radio, do join us for the live text which will start any minute now.

Have a good evening and join us again tomorrow from 08:00 BST.

Our final Super-sub nomination goes to this guy...

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Nils Mueggenburg: My, along with 80 million other Germans, super-sub player is Mario Goetze.

Scoring the winner in a World Cup final will earn you that accolade, right enough...

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Former England captain Will Carling tells BBC Radio 5 live that the host nation is under 'huge' pressure ahead of the 2015 Rugby World Cup.  

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"Part of the pressure is to deal with it and to stay calm, stay controlled and realise they have got four pool games, there is plenty of time and to start well," added Carling.

"I think there is huge pressure on England being the home World Cup for them and also being in the hardest pool the World Cup has ever seen.

"It’s important they start in a controlled composed way which will give them a lot of confidence.”

The Rugby World Cup starts on Friday.

Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal has been speaking in his Champions League news conference and is joined by new signing and former PSV player, Memphis Depay:

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George Raven: Super sub has to be Bobby Zamora with his play-off final winner against Derby.

Massimiliano Allegri has been full of praise for Manchester City in their Champions League news conference...

Mind games?

The Dallas Cowboys have overtaken Real Madrid as the world's most valuable team, according to Forbes Business Magazine., external

The NFL side are now worth £2.6bn with the La Liga club worth £2.1bn.

The top five are: 

1. Dallas Cowboys (£2.6bn)

2. Real Madrid (£2.1bn)

T3. New England Patriots (£2.07bn) 

T3. New York Yankees (£2.07bn)

5. Barcelona (£2bn)

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Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon are currently giving a news conference at the Etihad ahead of their Champions League opener against Manchester City on Tuesday. 

"We feel we're establishing a platform. We've seen evidence of that but we've been down to 10 men in two of the four games.

"We need the breaks. We need to play better football, create more chances and score more goals and the results will come."

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Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus, himself a goalkeeper, once said that he owed everything he knew about morality to football. 

One policeman clearly thought Millwall centre-half Mel Blyth had a bit to learn in this department...

• West Ham have lost their last three Premier League games at Upton Park, conceding eight goals in the process.
• The Hammers have scored with 22% of their shots this season - a league high.
• They have been shown six red cards in 10 games this season in all competitions, compared to three in 43 matches in 2014-15.
• Newcastle have failed to score in their last three Premier League matches (lost two, drew one)
• The Magpies have not won any of their last nine away games in the league (lost seven, drew two)

But we are obviously all for the fans enjoying the museums. Good, clean fun.

Derby captain Chris Baird is expected to miss two games after being knocked unconscious in a clash of heads during their win over Preston.

The 33-year-old needed 11 minutes of treatment, but was later given the all-clear after scans.

"Every day the doctor is checking on his symptoms. Every day he has to show he is symptom-free, so it is a day-by-day process," said boss Paul Clement.

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Our sneaky wee pals at CBBC have hidden the ball amongst this weekend's action. Can you guess where it is?

Play the game now (and as usual, do not underestimate the difficulty of this quiz...)

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Andy Carroll is in contention for West Ham after recovering from a knee injury, but Alex Song, who has rejoined on loan, is out with an ankle problem. The Hammers' trio of new signings, Victor Moses, Michail Antonio and Nikica Jelavic, are all available.

Newcastle will be without striker Aleksandar Mitrovic, who is serving a three-match suspension. Defender Paul Dummett is also out after suffering a setback in his recovery from a hamstring injury.

Jonathan Pearce
BBC football commentator

Upton Park has been blanketed with sentimentality as it enters the final season. The players have looked stifled by it all, starting with defeats by Bournemouth and Leicester like shuffling sleepwalkers.

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But the old ground really wakes up under floodlights. Now West Ham's home form might match their away successes.

With just one goal in eight away league games, Newcastle lack potency. They've averaged just over 30% of possession in their last three games.

If West Ham start well, the visitors might not see enough of the ball to get back into it.

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Jannick OMeara: Oliver Bierhoff taking three mins to equalise, then bang in the golden goal for Germany v Czech Republic in the Euro '96 final. What a hero!  

Ian Cheeseman
BBC Radio Manchester's City commentator

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How quickly things change in football. A week ago, Manchester City had Sergio Aguero fully fit with Wilfried Bony and Kelechi Iheanacho in reserve, but going into their first Champions League game against Juventus, Aguero is injured and Iheanacho, the hero at Crystal Palace, was not registered in the European squad.

On the other hand, the return of David Silva and Raheem Sterling is a huge boost and, although Manuel Pellegrini would not confirm that Kevin De Bruyne will start against the Italians, it looks likely that he will.

"We have to start picking up points at home, and I'm very confident because our reactions in the second halves of both games were good, and if we can do it from the start and cut out the silly mistakes, we will be alright."