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And don't forget you can follow all the action from the Welsh Open on the BBC Sport website.

The action starts shortly, at 13:00 GMT, when four matches will begin

The games on this afternoon: Mark Davis (Eng) v Barry Hawkins (Eng), Ding Junhui (Chn) v Matthew Selt (Eng), Mark Selby (Eng) v Fergal O'Brien (Ire) Mark Williams (Wal) v Kurt Maflin (Nor)

Enjoy.

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Want to listen to Ronnie O'Sullivan jousting with BBC Sport reporter Jamie Broughton over whose opinion matters more after the former world number one snubbed the chance of a maximum break and £10,000 prize money at the Welsh Open?

Of course you do. Click right here.  

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Speaking to the Newcastle Chronicle, external about Sunderland's mini-break in Dubai, Sam Allardyce has said the new signings will find it particularly beneficial.

“The trip will give them a really good release from what they’ve found to be extremely difficult, like they all do,” he said.

“They cannot imagine what (the Premier League) going to be like until they go in there.

“And when you see their faces when they come off, they realise then what they’ve come into."

Sivan John: Not that I was forced too but they were just lack of encouragement as they had different opinion about sports.

Laura Hoole: I used to ref under-10 girls football. Parents gave me more abuse than the kids did. One coach/parent said I was a "novelty".

Matt Dann: When watching my son play football, our friends ran on the pitch and yelled at the ref for not giving a foul on their boy. The ref told them to act their age and carried on the game.

Cisse has not played for Newcastle since a 1-1 draw with Aston Villa in December.

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Bolton could make a decision on new ownership before their game against QPR on Saturday, BBC Radio Manchester understands.

It is understood that three parties are interested in buying Wanderers from current owner Eddie Davies.

The Championship club are scheduled to appear in the High Court on Monday over an unpaid tax bill of around £3m.

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Ospreys scrum-half Tom Habberfield has signed a new three-year contract at the Welsh region.

The Wales Under-20 and Sevens international made his Ospreys debut in October 2011 and has scored three tries in 67 appearances.

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Rotherham sign former Charlton, West Brom and Crystal Palace winger Jerome Thomas on a deal until the end of the season.

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In 1968, Jean-Claude Killy of France, one of the greatest skiers of all time, won his third gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Victorious in the downhill, the giant slalom and the slalom, he equalled Toni Sailer's record of winning three gold medals at one Games.

The Sun, external claims Manchester United are planning to overhaul their hierarchy amid concerns over how well they have spent £320m on new players in the past three seasons.

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A little more detail on the story we bought you earlier, about Paris Saint-Germain's Argentine forward Ezequiel Lavezzi signing for Chinese side Hebei China Fortune (see 10:01)

According to press reports. Lavezzi will earn £23.5m over two years.

Which perhaps gives us a clue about why so many players are happy to head to China these days.

"His arrival will make the team's attack more incisive, we look forward to him showing off his brave spirit," said Hebei China Fortune.

Bet he's living in anice house while he's over there.

Speaking to the Liverpool Echo,, external Jurgen Klopp has said it was an 'easy choice' to bring Joel Matip to Liverpool:

“He's 24, he's played around 200 Bundesliga games, he's played Champions League, played Europa League and was a German Cup winner in 2011.

“He's become a really experienced centre-half – tall at 1.98m, but flexible and quick. A perfect header of the ball, he scores four or five goals a season, and is good in the build-up.

"You should watch him on YouTube.”  

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Kyle Shaw: My foster mother made me pick history instead of P.E... no footy just Hitler and Churchill.

A Question of Sport Teaser

Today's teaser, and it's definitely one for basketball fans.

In honour of Michael Jordan, who is celebrating his 53rd birthday today...

Who are the three players to have scored more points in the NBA than Michael Jordan?

Answer later in the day.

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Matteo Darmian is also out of the squad after dislocating his shoulder during the weekend 2-1 defeat at Sunderland.

There are several youngsters in United's travelling party, including Donald Love, Will Keane, Regan Poole, Joe Riley and James Weir.

United squad in full: De Gea, Romero, Love, McNair, Smalling, Blind, Poole, Riley, Carrick, Herrera, Schneiderlin, Lingard, Pereira, Weir, Mata, Memphis, Martial, Keane.

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Wayne Rooney will not feature for Manchester United in Midtjylland tomorrow.

The Reds skipper has not travelled to Denmark for the Europa League tie, with the club saying - rather mysteriously - that "the manager is expected to confirm why his captain has not made the trip during his pre-match press conference at 17:00 GMT".

Watch this space.

BBC Radio 5 Live

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Spain-based journalist Graham Hunter, talking to Radio 5 live about speculation that Atletico Madrid's Diego Simeone will become Chelsea boss in the summer.

“Simeone is a guy of immense talent. The story broke here in Spain in what I'd have to say is an unreliable paper for stories such as 'he has agreed a deal'," said Hunter.

"The fact of the matter is in 2014 when Atletico under Simeone put Chelsea out of the Champions League in the semi-final first contacts were made between Abramovich and Natalia Simeone, Diego's agent.

"He is wanted. Has he done a deal? I doubt it. Would he be the right man? Definitely. Can you bank on seeing him at Chelsea in July? I'm not quite so sure.”

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In 1999, Fulham boss Kevin Keegan agreed to take charge of the England team for four games. He eventually became manager on a permanent basis.

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"Paralympic long jump champion Markus Rehm has a dream of competing at both the Rio Olympics and Paralympics later this year.

The 27-year-old set a world record of 8.40m in winning the T44 long jump event at the IPC World Championships in Doha in October - a distance that would have given him gold ahead of Britain's Greg Rutherford at the 2012 London Olympics.  

But the German single-leg amputee is running out of time to prove that his carbon fibre running blade does not give him an unfair advantage over his Olympic rivals."

So starts a feature by BBC Sport's Elizabeth Hudson, which you can read in full here.

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It's party time at non-league side Bashley FC.

The club has finally picked up its first point of the season - after 26 straight league defeats.