Southend United have issued a complaint to the Football League over ticket prices at Oldham Athletic for Tuesday night's League One match.

Shrimpers fans are being asked to pay £22 but entry for home supporters is only £5 if bought in advance. , external

"I'm upset by the situation and I've made the Football League aware of it," Southend CEO Steve Kavanagh said.

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Batsman Ian Bell will be a "huge addition" for Warwickshire next summer if he is unable to regain his place in England's Test squad, according to director of cricket Dougie Brown.

The 33-year-old, who has played 118 Tests, was left out of the squad for the forthcoming tour to South Africa.

"I've spoken to him and he's incredibly positive," Brown told BBC Sport. "It looks like he's going to play a significant part for us next season."

Former Mansfield and Torquay boss Paul Cox has become manager of Barrow on a three-and-a-half year deal following the departure of Darren Edmondson.

Cox takes over from Edmondson, who left by mutual consent after Saturday's 3-1 National League defeat by Dover, and inherits a side in 16th place. 

The 43-year-old left Torquay in September after just three months. 

"His record spanning a number of leagues, chairmen and budgets is consistent," owner Paul Casson said.

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WillLionel Messistart Barcelona's Champions League match with Roma on Tuesday? 

Well, we don't know yet. ManagerLuis Enrique wouldn't say.

What he did say, though, was that Messi "seemed in very good shape" after coming on in Saturday's 4-0 win at Real Madrid.

"All that is needed now is to charge his batteries," he added, giving rise to the rumour that Messiis in fact a PlayStation character.

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England seem to have taken inspiration from Jos Buttler's innings last week - they're motoring along quickly at 137-4 after 14 overs, having been put in to bat by UAE in Abu Dhabi. 

Jason Roy scored 59, Alex Hales 40. 

The only place for full coverage is on 5 live sports extra. 

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There is a 20:00 GMT kick-off in the Premier League tonight let's not forget - Crystal Palace welcome Sunderland to Selhurst Park. 

Can Sam Allardyce get the Black Cats back on track?

Gary Rose will be bringing you live text commentary from 18:30 GMT.

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Lydia Ko is a wealthier 18-year-old than most.

The teenager has won the $1m Race to the CME Globe title for the second year in a row.

New Zealander Ko finished joint seventh in the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship in Naples which was enough to net her the title.

"Every emotion went through me. I'm happy that the season is over and I can relax now," she said.

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Dundee United have signed former West Ham and Borussia Dortmund player Guy Demel. 

The powerful 34-year-old has signed until the end of the season and has been brought in as a defensive midfielder.

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There’ll have been thousands of Liverpool fans drooling over Saturday’s 4-1 win at Manchester City, and rightly so, it was a great performance.

The question now is can Jurgen Klopp’s men replicate that sort of form at Anfield?

Breaking teams down at home has been problematic for over a season – the domination of chances and possession is clearly there, but the ruthlessness in front of goal hasn’t.

But with Roberto Firmino now amongst the goals, and with Daniel Sturridge on the way back, Klopp will have more attacking options that’s for sure – but the away formation that didn’t include an out and out striker has worked wonders again – as it did at Chelsea.

Food for thought with Bordeaux and Swansea arriving over the next few days.

Leeds goalkeeper Charlie Horton has left the club to deal with a private family matter back home in America.

The USA Under-23 international has had his contract terminated just over five months since joining the club on a free transfer from Cardiff.

"I've had to leave because of a private family matter back home," Horton said. "For me there is only one thing which comes before this football club - my family. That is the sole reason I'm going home."

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You may recall, if you've a good memory, that earlier we set you this teaser... Since 1995 who are the 8 men to be ATP year-end World Number One?  

Well, it's time for the answers... Agassi, Djokovic, Federer, Hewitt, Kuerten, Nadal, Roddick and Sampras...

Well done to all those who got it.

Our man in Haifa, Conor McNamara, asked Jose Mourinho about his old adversary, Rafa Benitez. 

Benitez's future is in doubt, with Real Madrid announcing a press conference later on Monday. 

But it seems that Mourinho isn't going to say much on his former club. 

"I left Chelsea in September 2007. I was waiting 8 months to work again when I went to Inter. During that period, I gave zero interviews - not one word about other clubs in trouble. I closed my mouth for 8 months", he said.

"In this moment, I see so many people speaking, especially about clubs in trouble. It's amazing the lack of respect, the lack of ethics. 

"If I speak about Real Madrid, I speak when they are winning. Not when they are losing. So for me, words about the Clasico? Zero."

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No commentary box for the TMS team today, but they're on air for England's warmup T20 match against UAE. 

The England side is: Hales, Roy, Vince, Morgan, Billings, Ali, Rashid, Jordan, Plunkett, Parry, Topley. 

UAE win the toss and bowl.

Full commentary on 5 live sports extra. 

Diego Costa has struggled to replicate his stellar form of last season but Mourinho isn't taking the bait on a question about the league's current star striker Jamie Vardy. 

"I don't want to anaylse the boy because if I do he will get my words and you will put them into different a perspective about wanting to sign him and I don't want to sign," he said.

"But a super striker like Ruud van Nistelrooy did something historical in the Premier League and Vardy has the chance to go over it."

Jose is in quite good spirits today. By that, we mean he's not shot a journalist a moody look and refused to answer a question.

"We know we had bad results for a significant period of time and we need to keep getting results for our happiness, pride and for the people that support us – the Chelsea fans," he says.

Not quite Churchillian but not far off...

Mourinho is asked about security concerns. It is fair to say he doesn't have any, or at least that's what he is saying in public.

"The best way is to focus on football and happiness sit gives you. Leave security questions to the people that kow more than we do," said the Chelsea boss.

"We can only focus on playing. I didn’t hear a single problem inside of the squad.

"I have everybody without fears, just wanting to come. I even have a player that tomorrow his wife can have a baby and he is here to play because he knows how important it is for me.

"We are very focused on what we need to do."

More from Jose Mourinho on how his team are looking: "We did well against Norwich and in previous matches where we lost, so we need to try and keep our levels the same.

"I like the confidence the team showed against Norwich, under the pressure of needing a result. My players are confident, and are getting their confidence back and hopefully tomorrow we  can do more."

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Jose says Chelsea have no fresh fitness concerns going into Tuesday's match.

Mourinho recently said the chance of Chelsea retaining their title was now "mission impossible" but what of current leaders Leicester?

"I'm happy for Claudio Ranieri, somebody who when he joined Leicester all the bets were he'd be the first one to be sacked and now he's top of the league," he said.

"But I don't think Ranieri and the Leicester players will be insulted if I say I don't believe they are going to be champions.

"I hope that they feel more my compliments as they are doing amazingly well and deserve all the respect for what they're doing."