That's it from Sportsday but don't worry, our colleagues, pals, acquaintances, besties on the highly slick football desk are taking over with live coverage of the aforementioned  League Cup fixtures. 

Have a great evening and we will see you tomorrow bright and early for Thursday morning's back pages and if you are lucky, more dog pictures... 

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Here are your fixtures for this evening....

Have your say on any of these matches using #bbcfootball

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Ahead of this evening's match, here are some stats and facts you can memorise and then drop into conversation during the match to impress your peers...

• There have been 12 meetings between the north London rivals in the League Cup, including four semi-finals.
• The most recent League Cup meeting was in the third round in 2010/11 at White Hart Lane. Arsenal won the game 4-1 after extra time.
• Spurs have been eliminated by Premier League opposition in the previous nine years (excluding 2008 when they won the competition).

• Last season's third-round defeat to Southampton was Arsenal's earliest League Cup exit since November 2002, when they lost 3-2 to Sunderland at the same stage.

...If your peers are impressed by any of that, they are very easily impressed...

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No surprise here really but it's a fact....

The Premier League has been ranked fourth for giving football fans value for money while Germany's Bundesliga offers the best quality game for the price, according to a new index.

Part of the reason for the Premier League's ranking compared with the Bundesliga are their respective ticket prices, according to the GoEuro Football Price Index.

England took top spot for the most expensive country to go to a match, with Premier League tickets costing an average of £53.76 a ticket, closely followed by Spain where tickets cost an average of £50.83, and the second-highest average cost for a travelling fan.

Germany's average ticket price is just £23.02, according to the index.

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There are slight concerns that tonight's live episode of Coronation Street may be inturrupted by noises coming from the Capital One Cup match at Old Trafford which is only 0.7 miles away. 

Manchester United v Ipswich kicks off at 20:00 BST.  

If you are going to the match later, whatever you do, DON'T start singing the Eastenders theme tune really loud... and DON'T shout "GET OUTTA MY PUB" at full volume...

That would be awkward.

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Allow us to be self indulgent for a few minutes and look at the best points we, here at Sportsday have brought you today... 

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Earlier, we heard rumours that Carlo Ancelotti had been contacted by Liverpool FC to replace Brendan Rodgers after a poor run of form. 

False alarm...

BBC Sport has now heard there is no truth whatsoever in the suggestion and the club have made no approach to any manager, anywhere, about any possible future vacancy at Anfield.

As you were - carry on Brendan.

Earlier, the Question of Sport team posed this teaser:

Name the only four players to have scored 5 goals in a Premier League game.

And here are the answers: 

Dimitar Berbatov, Andy Cole, Jermain Defoe and Alan Shearer

• Have a big bear hug if you got all four.
• Pat on the back for three.
• Fist bump for two.
• Low five for one.
• If you got none, you're getting nothing... Try harder next time....

We are feeling harsh.

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Paul Pogba's agent has hit back at Sir Alex Ferguson after being blamed for the French international's controversial departure from Manchester United. 

In his newly-published book, 'Leading', legendary former United manager Ferguson says he distrusted Mino Raiola "from the moment I met him" and infers the Dutchman was to blame for orchestrating Pogba's departure for Juventus.

But Raiola has claimed Ferguson still does not know or understand players like Pogba, saying on the Gazzetta dello Sport website: "As an agent, I try to look after my players' interests.

"I'm happy for people to criticise me but he still doesn't understand who Pogba really is and that maybe he quit (United) at the right time."

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Liverpool Echo:, external Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish is auctioning off his 1984 European Cup winner's medal to raise money for charity.

The papers says the sale of the medal will generate a significant sum of cash for the Marina Dalglish Appeal, which helps to raise funds for cancer sufferers and their family.

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On Tuesday, Sir Alex Ferguson says he only worked with four "world-class players" as boss of Manchester United.

Manager for 26 years, the club won the Champions League twice and 13 Premier League titles during his time in charge.

But he says in all that time only Paul Scholes, Eric Cantona, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ryan Giggs could be described as truly "world class".

So who missed the cut?

Newsbeat have put together the Not-good-enough-for-Fergie-XI

Wakefield have lifted the suspension on two of the four players stood down a week ago pending the outcome of internal investigations.

Forward Scott Anderson and threequarter Reece Lyne resumed training on Wednesday and look set to return to the Wildcats team for Sunday's final match of the Super 8s Qualifiers against Sheffield Eagles at Bramall Lane.

Full-back Kevin Locke and scrum-half Tim Smith remain suspended and the subject of a police investigation into a car crash in Hull 10 days ago.

Worcester Warriors have signed experienced former South Africa centre Wynand Olivier on a two-year contract following his release by Montpellier.

Olivier, 32, made three appearances at the 2007 Rugby World Cup when he was part of the Springboks' winning squad.

This seems to be a theme today: Sporting dog pics...

Here's Ireland's Jamie Heaslip posting pictures of his two.... 

Their names are Jay-Z and Bruno.

#Sportsdaydogs

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It's all over at the World Cup in Gloucester and Scotland have prevailed over Japan, running out 45-10 winners.

If that makes it sound one-sided, it wasn't.

It was a close-run thing for a long period and Scotland made an astonishing 80 tackles during a stirring encounter.

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"What time is 3.30 mass?"

Is this the last Yogiism? Hear more about the life and career of baseball great Yogi Berra, who has died aged 90, by listening to Sport Today's interview with former Yankees public relations director Marty Appel.