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Northern Ireland and Wales will be among the bottom seeds in France next summer, Uefa has confirmed.

England, as expected, join holders Spain, Portugual, Germany, Belgium and hosts France as top seeds. 

Northern Ireland won Group F with 21 points but actually have the lowest Uefa co-efficient of any team still involved and, like Wales, will be pulled from pot four. 

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Australia coach Michael Cheika sayshe sympathises with banned Scottish pair Ross Ford and Jonny Gray who will miss the rest of the World Cup.

The forwards received three-week suspensions on Tuesday for dangerous tackles in Scotland's win over Samoa.

Cheika, whose side face the Scots in the last eight, said: "I haven't seen the incidents but I feel for them."

Ex-Wales international Jonathan Davies has described the tournament's disciplinary hearings as a "disgrace".

Uncapped Sunderland striker Beth Mead says her first England senior call-up has topped off a memorable first season in Women's Super League One. 

The 20-year-old was one of four new faces in the squad for the international friendly tournament in China, that begins next week. 

Mead scored 12 goals for the Lady Black Cats in their debut campaign in WSL 1. 

"Finishing top scorer in WSL 1 and getting in the England squad is a dream come true," Mead said.

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Danny Blind failed to guide star-studded Netherlands to the Euro 2016 finals - in arguably the biggest shock in qualifying - but he says he wants to stay on as coach.

Blind - father of Manchester United midfielder Daley - took over at the start of July after Guus Hiddink left after 10 months in the position.

He lost three of his four matches in charge but says he has "no intention" of stepping down.

"I'm going to carry on with my work because I'm under contract until 2018 and I believe in this team," Blind said.

"I haven't achieved my goal. The aim was to qualify automatically or via the play-offs and I haven't done that.

"Am I the one to blame? I now have to analyse that. The results weren't good."

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BBC Radio 5 Live

Former Netherlands midfielder Arnold Muhren has tried to explain what went wrong for the national team as they failed to qualify for Euro 2016.

Where has it all gone wrong?

"Do you have an hour? We only got 13 points in this group, it’s not good enough. Of the teams who finished above us, Turkey, Czech Republic and Iceland, we only managed to get a draw against Turkey. So that proves that you’re not good enough.

Is the blame being pointed at the manager Danny Blind or more the players?

"It’s a combination of I think. We started with Guus Hiddink, who used to be a very, very good coach at Barcelona and not only for Holland but for other big countries as well. Blind took over. But if you play four games and you’re losing three out of four, it’s not very good. It’s not only the manager. It’s all about a combination of players, managers and technical staff. Everybody is to blame really.

Is it time to strip back and start again?

"I think so. Most of the players at the moment are not good enough. We’ve got a very good squad of younger players coming up but  It’s going to be a while before the Dutch national team is going to be a force in Europe again."

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Bayern Munich's Javi Martinez reveals why he helped some of the refugees who arrived in Munich last month and says he is proud of how the Bavarian capital reacted. 

"It was something which came from me, I could at least coax a smile from these people in what was for them a difficult moment," the Spain international told Munich newspaper AZ. , external

The defensive midfielder went to Munich's central station last month to hand out footballs and Bayern shirts to some of the refugees coming into the city by train. 

"It was worth it, just to see all the children forget everything which was going on around them when they received a ball," he said. "They forgot how it is to see their parents cry or to cry themselves."

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Former Scotland international Kenny Logan described the three-week bans which have ruled hooker Ross Ford and lock Jonny Gray out of the rest of the World Cup as a "sick joke".

Ford and Gray were handed the bans for a clearout of Jack Lam at a ruck during the pool victory over Samoa last Saturday which secured the Scots a quarter-final against Australia.

"This is a sick joke," he told the DailyTelegraph. , external

"Two Scottish players with a perfect disciplinary record get a three-week ban for clearing out a player with no malicious intent at a ruck just because he fell awkwardly. There is no level playing field. This is a shameful decision."

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Scotland forward Josh Strauss has vowed to help his side beat Australia in in quarter-finals in tribute to banned team-mates Ross Ford and Jonny Gray.

Their World Cup is over after receiving three-week bans for their illegal two-man tip-tackle on Samoa's Jack Lam. 

Strauss said: "We are all very disappointed for Ross and Jonny. Being a close group of lads we know each other very well and these are two very determined guys. 

"When I heard it myself, and I can only speak for myself, I was angry. But personally that is good for me. It motivates me. I want to put in a performance for them if I'm selected."

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How will the three home nations perform at Euro 2016?

• Will Northern Ireland continue surprising?
• Will Bale & Ramsey lead Wales to the latter stages?
• Will England shock the world by qualifying from the group stage?

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Wakefield Trinity Wildcats have signed prop Anthony England after Warrington released him from his contract with them a year early.

The 28-year-old has agreed a two-year deal with the Yorkshire club.

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Here's a clip from our colleagues at BBC Radio 5 live that you might want to listen to.

It concerns the tale of an amateur referee, who discovered a brain tumour the size of his fist, after being hit on the head by a football during a game.

Melvyn Scarborough, from Sheffield, had been suffering from chronic tiredness and a lack of balance - which his doctors put down to feeling depressed.

But after agreeing to referee a friendly, he was knocked out by a stray ball and sent to hospital where a CT scan revealed the tumour.

Melvyn said: "They must have thought they'd killed the referee because when I fell down I smashed all my teeth at the bottom".

Listen to the story here.

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Former Ireland scrum-half Peter Stringer says 'there’ll never be another like Paul O’Connell,' after the Ireland captain was forced to retire from international rugby through injury.

O'Connell suffered a serious hamstring injury during his side's 24-9 victory over France at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

"What a captain he has been. He is the first second row I have played with who has been the complete player," Stringer tells BBC Radio 5 live.

Listen to the full clip here.

Israel coach Eli Guttman has resigned after a second unsuccessful qualifying campaign ended with a 3-1 defeat by Belgium that brought an end to their hopes of reaching Euro 2016.  

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Leeds United goalkeeper Ross Turnbull is facing a spell on the sidelines after undergoing surgery on a broken ankle.

The 30-year-old keeper suffered the injury in a behind-closed-doors friendly at the club's Thorp Arch training ground last week.

The club said that the former Chelsea and Middlesbrough man was set for a "long-term absence".