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Cesc Fabregas has used a strong expletive to describe Chelsea's difficult season.

The Premier League champions are just three points above the relegation places.

"The season is ******," the midfielder, 28, told Spanish paper Marca. , external

"The results aren't doing our performances justice. We're playing better but aren't having any luck."

One of the most influential figures in Asian football over the last two decades has been banned for 10 years for bribery by Fifa's ethics committee. 

Ganesh Thapa, president of the All-Nepal FA and a former Asian Football Confederation (AFC) vice-president, is also under investigation by Nepalese authorities accused of embezzling millions of pounds of football development money.

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Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero could be fit to face Liverpool this weekend and is keen to continue building an understanding with the club's record signing Kevin De Bruyne.

"The few chances I’ve had to play alongside him have been encouraging because we started to get an understanding of how each other plays," Aguero - who has been out since October with a hamstring injury - tells Manchester City's website., external

Aguero has six league goals this season, six behind Leicester's Jamie Vardy.

Legendary club figure Johan Cruyff is to stop working as an Ajax advisor amid a power struggle at the club. 

"I quit," he wrote in his column in De Telegraaf., external "For years I have noticed that the core of my vision within Ajax hasn't been implemented."

It follows last week's removal of former Dutch international Wim Jonk as Ajax's head of youth development.

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Who plays up front for England at Euro 2016?

That is the question put to pundits Shay Given, Jason Roberts and Graeme Le Saux on the Focus Forum and that's the question we are asking you today.

Tweet us your views to #bbcsportsday and by all means watch the Focus Forum here to get you thinking.

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Graeme McDowell and Russell Knox were co-leading on 19-under par at the PGA Tour's OHL Classic in Mexico when play was suspended with players in relative darkness.

McDowell is through the 13th hole and Knox a hole back alongside American Jason Bohn, who is two shots off the lead.

Knox is of course going for back-to-back wins after success at the WGC-HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai earlier this month. Play resumes at 13:00 GMT.

Bath's postponed European Championship rugby match against French side Toulon will never be played as there is not a free slot in the calendar, according to the English Premiership side's chairman Bruce Craig. 

The game was scheduled to take place in Toulon on Sunday but was one of five matches called off in the wake of Friday's attacks in Paris.

"We are playing matches right through the 2016 Six Nations championship to get everything fitted in. There are 33 weekends all accounted for and no slack," he told the Independent., external

Martin Roschitz - a journalist at the Stade de France on Friday - told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast about the decision by French players to stay with their German counterparts in the stadium in a show of solidarity.

"The French team wanted to move out but then they saw that the German federation decided to stay and then the players stayed as well," he added.

"Some players know each other from their clubs and when they were together it was something like a community down there and it was very nice to see that.

"But everyone was scared, everyone was thinking just about getting away and that was the same with the French players."

Martin Roschitz, a journalist with German broadcaster NDR, stayed the night in the Stade de France with the French and German players following Friday's attacks on Paris.

He spoke to BBC 5 Live Breakfast this morning about the moment he and his fellow reporters informed the players of what had happened outside the stadium.

"It was quite a strange situation because the players came inside the tunnel to do the normal interviews and we had no questions for them. They felt there was something wrong but they didn’t know anything," he said.

"The only guy who knew something was Jerome Boateng, the German defender, he was substituted in the second half and so he was in the cabin and had a smartphone so he knew exactly what had happened. 

"We told them obviously what happened and team manager Oliver Bierhoff spoke to the players and after that they tried to get in touch with their families, relatives, just to get in touch with them and say everything’s alright."

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Olympic bronze medallist Crista Cullen is named in Great Britain's World League Final squad after ending a three-year break from hockey.  

Cullen, 30, gave up the sport after Britain finished third at London 2012,going to work in wildlife conservation in Kenya.  

The finals take place in Argentina in December.

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Republic of Ireland fans will be hoping they can replicate Hungary's feat in reaching Euro 2016 when they meet Bosnia later.

Hungary overcame Norway 2-1 on Sunday - 3-1 on aggregate - to reach their first major tournament since 1986.

German Bernd Storck has guided the country to the finals in France. Did you know he was the third manager they used in qualifying? Read more on that here.

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Aston Villa's Jack Grealish has offered support to his team-mate Jordan Amavi who has been ruled out for the season.

The 21-year-old was injured during France Under-21s' 1-0 victory over Northern Ireland on Thursday.

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As I'm sure you're aware if you're a football fan, former Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert has been appointed as Blackburn boss.

We expect him to speak to the media at around 10:00 BST so what better time to take a look back at some of his frosty news conferences of days gone by, where icy exchanges with BBC Radio 5 live's Pat Murphy were a regular occurrence.

BBC Radio 5 live have been kind enough to clip a few of them together for you right here.

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The planet's two finest footballers feature prominently in our gossip column today. 

- Lionel Messi is open to leaving Barcelona for a move to the Premier League, with Arsenal his preferred destination. But the 28-year-old forward wants £600,000-a-week.  

- Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, 30, could be playing in his final home El Clasico against Barcelona on Saturday, according to sources close to the Bernabeu club.

Get all your gossip, including news of a new contract for a key Arsenal player, by clicking here.

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The Monday of an international week can sometimes feel a little quiet but today looks pretty hectic with a huge fixture for the Republic of Ireland to come tonight when they meet Bosnia.

The sides are locked at 1-1 ahead of the second leg of their Euro 2016 play-off.

Elsewhere we will see Paul Lambert's first news conference as Blackburn manager at 10:00 GMT, news conferences for the England and France football teams at 14:00 GMT and 17:00 GMT respectively, while boxers Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg are due before the media at 12:30 GMT ahead of their February fight. 

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The Sun leads with an interview, external with ex-Wimbledon striker Alan Cork, who is now a scout for England.

Cork was inside the Stade de France on Friday when three explosions took place outside the ground.

"We felt like fish in a barrel. We were wondering if we would get out of there alive," said Cork.

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The Times leads with news of some French players being unhappy that Tuesday's friendly against England at Wembley will go ahead. The paper states Noel Le Graet - the president of the French football association - took the decision to play the fixture.

Elsewhere Novak Djokovic's win over Kei Nishikori at the at the ATP World Tour Finals is highlighted. 

The Daily Mirror leads with the news that England fans will be encouraged to sing the French national anthem when the teams meet in an international friendly at Wembley on Tuesday.

"The words to La Marseillaise will be displayed on the Wembley big screens which will also display the French motto 'liberty, equality and fraternity'", reports the paper., external

The move follows Friday's Paris attacks.

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The Independent, external leads with a look at some of the sporting tributes paid in the wake of Friday's attacks and says fan safety at Euro 2016 is now more under scrutiny than ever.

The tournament starts on 10 June when France play at the Stade de France - a venue where three explosions took place in Friday's attacks.

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