Everton

More from Everton's Roberto Martinez.

"I encourage Romelu Lukaku to keep working hard and make a massive, massive impact in the game.

"The hardest thing to do is scoring goals and this season we have found an interesting run of form of certain players.

"As a football club we have done incredibly well to assemble this squad. It has taken a lot of work and a lot of scouting."

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Jose Mourinho on Gary Neville's appointment at Valencia:

"I wish him well. There is always a first day for a manager, if he wants to be a manager he has to go through a first day.

"He is a very good player, a very good pundit, now he has to prove he is a good manager.

"On the bench you cannot stop the tape or touch the screen and make movements good."

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Jose Mourinho on Gary Cahill's new contract: 

"It is good for the club. He likes to be here and is an important player for us - one of the 14 or 15 who are always involved.

"He is an international player representing Chelsea and I think everyone is happy.

"Our recent clean sheets have been good clean sheets, not lucky ones, with good discipline and defence."

Everton

More from Everton boss Roberto Martinez.

"Crystal Palace are a team with a really good mentality. They have very good pace and power and are difficult to stop - they are dynamic.

"We want to play the football our fans enjoy and love and then get a win at the end of it.

"December is the most significant month in the Premier League in terms of competing for 15 points."

Chelsea

More from Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.

"Diego Costa is selected. He has been very good, it has been a good week for him. I didn't ask him how he found being dropped, but he trained very well and that is what matters to me.

"There are no questions for me. He is one of the players who always tries, I don't need a reaction from him."

On photos of Diego Costa leaving a nightclub at 3am:

"The paparazzi had a problem with their memory card. There were 25 players there and only three of them were pictures of.

"It was a free night for them, we chose a week without three matches when they could train and rest. They consult me about the best time to do it and I said a time from Christmas which is busy. I think they need that and they were good in training next day."

Everton

Everton boss Roberto Martinez is talking to the media:

On being drawn against Manchester City in the League Cup semi-final.

"We didn't expect an easy draw. We are excited, we feel good and are confident of enjoying it.

"We all felt the expectation could work both ways - either positive or be cagey. I thought our team showed a real enjoyment of what we could achieve.

"We haven't won a cup for a long time and we want to achieve as much as we can."

Chelsea

"John Terry, Ramires and Falcao are all still out, but Thibaut Courtois is selected in the squad," says Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.

"We feel better, we feel safe. He was our goalkeeper all last season and was fundamental for us."

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A British astronaut will attempt to become the first man to run a marathon in space, as part of his 173-day mission to the International Space Station. 

Tim Peake will run a digital version of next year's London Marathon on a treadmill as the ISS orbits the earth, at the same time as more than 37,000 people run in the race on the ground. 

To combat weightlessness, Peake will wear a harness that tethers him to the treadmill as he runs. He will watch a video of the London course on a big screen in front of him. 

Gary Neville may be the new Valencia boss but that won't stop him from dashing back to England today...

The former Manchester United manager and now Salford City owner will be watching his side in tonight's FA Cup second round tie at home to Hartlepool.

You can watch it live on BBC One and listen on BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra.

Salford to Old Trafford in the third round? What a story that would be...

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Bournemouth

Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe hopes that his side's battling 3-3 draw at home to Everton on Saturday can spur them on against Chelsea this weekend.

"You hope a result like that can really boost the confidence and the belief of the players. It certainly helps to build momentum," he said. 

"What we are looking to do now is to turn our performances into wins."

Bournemouth are 18th - two points away from safety. 

British Sailing Team’s 470 Olympic campaigner Elliot Willis has been diagnosed with bowel cancer. 

Willis, 32, campaigns alongside 2012 silver medallist Luke Patience, with the world number two-ranked pair among the first athletes in any sport to be selected to Team GB for the Rio 2016 Games.

He said: “It’s still my dream to win Olympic gold but right now my focus and energy needs to be on getting better. 

"My health is my number one concern and I will take advice and recommendations of the medical professionals as they establish the right course of treatment for me.” 

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"Marcos Rojo’s dislocated shoulder has taken Manchester United’s injury list to seven, which is sure to be a concern to manager Louis van Gaal after a much improved fitness record in the early part of this season.

"A lack of goals is sure to be a worry too, despite having the best defensive record in the Premier League.

"His side have scored just seven goals in their last nine games in all competitions, and may need to convert their chances against a West Ham side that have already won at Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City this season."

We will bring you what Van Gaal has to say at his news conference soon...

Liverpool

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Borussia Dortmund have denied reports saying that 26-year-old defender Neven Subotic will be Jurgen Klopp's first signing as Liverpool manager.

Subotic worked with Klopp at Mainz as well as Dortmund, but signed a contract extension to stay at the Signal Iduna Park until 2018 in May.

"We are still in the first half of the season. From our end, there are no considerations with regard to releasing him," Zorc told Bild, according to a report by Talksport., external

"But we will discuss the situation with regards to his contract with him eventually, of course."

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Charlie sheen: I scored 6 in a game, scored 1 from tight angle, fell on back 4 the gazza. No1 sprayed the water! 

Vix: Scored from the sideline near the corner flag for letchworth u16s. Felt like Roberto Carlos. Was a bit blustery that day though. 

Matt Davis: Scored from my own crease in u16s ice hockey game. I was the keeper.

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Queens Park Rangers are set to name Burton Albion managerJimmy Floyd Hasselbainkas their new boss.

BBC Radio Derby reports that the 43-year-old Dutchman is taking training at the Championship club today.

Neil Warnock has been in interim charge at Loftus Road since Chris Ramsey parted company with Rangers on 4 November.

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Competing as a jump jockey at the Cheltenham Festival will be like winning the Olympics, says former sprint cyclist Victoria Pendleton.

The double Olympic champion, 35, retired from cycling after London 2012.

She is now training as a jockey with a view to riding in next March's amateur Foxhunters' Chase at Cheltenham.

"Making it to Cheltenham in such a short space of time could be the hardest thing I've ever done," Pendleton said.