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In 2014, Great Britain and England rugby league international Sam Burgess agreed to join Aviva Premiership side Bath on a three-year deal.

Could Brendan Rodgers be the next manager of Newcastle United? BBC Sport takes a look at the latest gossip surrounding the club.

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Fly-half Francois Trinh-Duc is back in France's Six Nations squad for the match against Wales in Cardiff after a lengthy absence.

The Montpellier playmaker was not chosen by Philippe Saint-Andre for the World Cup last year, while injury kept him out of the reckoning for new coach Guy Noves for the first two games of this year's Six Nations.

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Sam Clarke: Dad refused to let us leave Villa Park early on Sunday. We'd driven four hours and he was keen to get his money's worth.

You will no doubt be aware of that absolutely hilarious tradition at football clubs whereby new signings are required to sing a song as an initiation. Well, Scotland striker Steven Fletcher did this after joining Marseille on loan from Sunderland...

Northern Ireland will host Belarus at Windsor Park on Friday 27 May in their final home fixture before Euro 2016.

Michael O'Neill's team are then scheduled to travel to Austria for a week-long training camp before a June 4 friendly with Slovakia, who have also qualified for the competition.

Their opening fixture at the Euros is against Poland in Nice on 12 June.

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Club statements are usually pretty dry affairs, with an irritating habit of capitalising the word 'club'. Well, this one, external from Dundee United does the latter but there is nothing dull about it. 

Chairman Stephen Thompson takes man, ball and a huge gash out of the pitch with a ferocious upbraiding of the club's players and, by implication, manager Mixu Paatelainen after Tuesday's defeat by Motherwell left the club 13 points adrift at the bottom of the Scottish Premiership.

It concludes "the squad now have 13 matches to preserve the club’s Premiership status and redeem their own professional reputations”. Ooft.

Chris Freeman: My son won a tennis tournament and his opponent's Dad shouted at his son, "after all that coaching I paid for!".

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“At Manchester United I won the Champions League and I didn’t speak with [Rio] Ferdinand, [Ryan] Giggs or [Paul] Scholes. We said hello to each other and that was it," Cristiano Ronaldo said at a press conference yesterday.

Manchester Evening News, external have reported Rio Ferdinand's reaction:

"He's gone off me!" the former Manchester United defender laughed.

"He used to live next door to me. Unbelievable." Ferdinand joked Ronaldo 'didn't like my cooking'.

"I actually used to take the mick out of him in the changing rooms, I think he's got the hump. He used to come in in tight jeans and we used to murder him. He didn't get it."

Richard Conway
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent

BBC Sport understands The FA have agreed to support Gianni Infantino for the Fifa presidency following a board meeting.  

A formal announcement is expected later on Wednesday

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Remember, you can follow the snooker action here from 13:00 GMT for day three of the Welsh Open or watch on BBC Two Wales.

Sam Kinsley: Talking about pushy parents.Would never pull out of a tackle with Dad watching. Would be walking home.

George Davidson: Made my three-year-old son a great dribbler by only ever touching ball with feet. Mum picked it up and he realised hands are far easier.

Ethan Mroz-Davies: The second tryout for the football team was on the same day as maths club... Haven't used Pythagoras theory since.

London Irish have agreed a long-term deal to sign Leicester Tigers back Tommy Bellfrom next season.

Bell, 23, can play at either fly-half or full-back and has scored 72 points in 10 appearances in all competitions for the Tigers this season.

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Juan Martin del Potro has returned to professional tennis with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over American Denis Kudla in the first round of the Delray Beach Open.

The Argentine was playing his first ATP match in 11 months following a wrist injury that sidelined him after a first-round loss in Miami last March.

The 27-year-old del Potro has undergone surgery four times - once on his right wrist and three on his left - since defeating Roger Federer to win the 2009 US Open. He played just four matches last year and 10 in 2014.

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Greg Dyke hopes to push through Football Association reforms in what would be one of his final acts as chairman.

The 68-year-old is scheduled to stand down from his position in the summer.

His proposals, which have been approved by a majority of the FA Board, are to be discussed today at Wembley.

"What the board wants to achieve is to change the make-up of the council particularly so that it more accurately reflects society in the second decade of the 21st century," Dyke said.

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany posted this video on his Facebook page to thank fans for their support during his injury-hit season.

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Greg Rutherford has pulled out of Saturday's Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix because of an injury.

The Olympic and world long jump champion said he made the decision after suffering a "small muscle tear".

Rutherford - who broke the British indoor record with a leap of 8.26m in Albuquerque earlier this month - said : "I was planning on competing in Albuquerque again last Friday, but decided not to jump due to some minor pain I've felt during my warm-up routine.

"Unfortunately I'm still dealing with this and, while it hasn't been any easy decision, I have to withdraw from this week's Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix."

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Nottingham Forest midfielder Chris Cohensigns a one-year contract extension with the Championship club.

The 28-year-old, who returned in January after more than year out with a knee injury, has made more than 250 appearances for Forest.

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Norwegian midfielder Kristoffer Ajer agrees a deal to join Celtic on a four-year deal in June.