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Oluwashina Okeleji
BBC Sport

Defending champions Ivory Coast have been given extra financial support for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals.

The Ivorian government has approved a near €6 million euros (£5.1m) budget for the team's campaign in Gabon.

It is an increase of €600,000 euros (£507,000) from the last finals in Equatorial Guinea two years ago.

Ivory Coast kick off their tournament against Togo on 16 January, before facing DR Congo and Morocco in the group stage.

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has hinted that his current role could be his last job.

Speaking to NBC following Monday's 2-1 win over Burnley, Guardiola said the "process of my goodbye has already started".

"I will be at Manchester for the next three seasons, maybe more," he said.

"I will not be on the bench until I am 60 or 65 years old."

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Joey Barton is back in action. The midfielder played 90 minutes as Burnley's development squad beat Fleetwood Town 1-0 today. , external

The 34-year-old, who has agreed a contract with the Clarets until the end of the season, has the threat of a ban hanging over him after being charged with misconduct by the FA.

Alistair Bruce-Ball
MOTD commentator

Bournemouth host Arsenal tonight. Here is Match of the Day commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball's preview of the game...

"Scorpion pun alert! The football world continues to marvel at Olivier Giroud's remarkable goal, but will there be a sting in the tail for Arsenal on the south coast?

"Bournemouth are having an excellent season. At the half-way stage they were 10 points clear of the relegation zone after their 3-0 win at Swansea, they'd won as many home games as Manchester City and Manchester United and were actually a little unlucky to lose 3-1 at the Emirates Stadium at the end of November.

"But if Arsenal harbour serious hopes of hauling in Chelsea, then they need to win this game and probably their next three league games before facing Antonio Conte's side on 4 February."

Richard Todd: England win 6 Nations, England win Ashes, Arsenal Champs League, McIlroy The Open, Hamilton F1 Champ, Kent Div 2 Champs.

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South Africa are well on top against Sri Lanka in the second Test between the sides at Cape Town. Having scored 392 in their own first innings, Proteas have just dismissed the tourists for 110.

Seamer Vernon Philander has passed a personal milestone, reaching 150 Test wickets in the process of taking 4-27. He has taken those in just 39 Tests and is now eighth on the overall wicket-takers list for SA.

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Dundee manager and former Scotland midfielder Paul Hartley insists the national team have players coming through that can boost their results. 

Some more on the news that Bradford Bulls have been liquidated.

The RLF has met to determine "how the future of professional Rugby League in Bradford can move forward in 2017."

"The Board were most mindful of the planning already undertaken by all other clubs in the competition structure, the season tickets already purchased and the players and staff who will now be seeking employment in and around the sport in 2017," a statement said., external

"Accordingly the Board has agreed that the wider interests of the sport is best satisfied if it offers a place in the Kingstone Press Championship to any new club in Bradford and that such a club start the 2017 season on minus twelve points." 

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British number four Aljaz Bedene reached the second round of the Chennai Open with a 6-3 6-3 win over Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.

The 27-year-old needed just one hour and 15 minutes to beat the unseeded Spaniard.

Bedene, who reached round three of the French Open last year, hit seven aces against the former world number 23.

He will now face Slovakia's Martin Klizan, ranked 66 places above Bedene in the world rankings at 35.

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Stoke haven't won in five games, Watford have one win from their last seven. They meet tonight at the Britannia Stadium.

Stoke forward Marko Arnautovic is available after serving a three-match suspension.

Ramadan Sobhi and Wilfried Bony are likely to miss out because of the Africa Cup of Nations, while Jonathan Walters is doubtful with a knee injury.

Juan Zuniga and Nordin Amrabat have joined Watford's lengthy injury list after suffering ankle and leg injuries respectively on Sunday.

However, Hornets defender Miguel Britos returns after a one-match ban.

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So, what makes a sport a sport? Is it athletic prowess? Supreme skill? Does sitting in a car or riding on a horse count? The latest BBC iWonder guide attempts to settle this very debate.

If you like darts, you may want to have a read, which you can do by clicking here.

Ross McKenzie: Northern Ireland to make the play offs for Russia 2018. I'd even say they could make it there if the draw is kind!  

Paralympic athlete and disabilities campaigner Anne Wafula Strike MBE was forced to wet herself on a CrossCountry train because it didn't have a working disabled toilet.

Despite her embarrassment, she has decided to go public in the hope it will bring change for disabled people.

The wheelchair racer, 47, represented Kenya - the country of her birth - at the Athens 2004 Paralympics, but has since switched nationalities.

Antonio Conte on the Premier League: "This type of game gives you motivation. Now I think every team want to stop our run, not just Tottenham. If you see the table, we have only five points more than second place from Liverpool and seven points from Manchester City. The league is open. This is only the first game of the second part of the season.

"This league is very tough. In every game you can lose points. It is important to stay focused in every game, whether you play Tottenham or another game."

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Sam Allardyce goes in search of his first win as Crystal Palace boss tonight when they host bottom club Swansea in a full-on relegation six-pointer.

Crystal Palace will have Damien Delaney available again after he missed the loss to Arsenal due to suspension.

Wilfried Zaha has been given special dispensation to play before going to the Africa Cup of Nations with Ivory Coast.

Swansea's Wayne Routledge will be checked after he missed the defeat to Bournemouth due to a mouth abscess.

Fernando Llorente is also a doubt after picking up a knock, but Jefferson Montero is definitely absent.

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Antonio Conte on visiting White Hart Lane as Chelsea manager: "I have never played at White Hart Lane but I was at Tottenham v Fiorentina two years ago. It was a good atmosphere.

"The most important thing is to improve your formation and your ideas, your tactical systems. Only through work can you improve. It is important to continue to work. We have space to improve with our system and I hope to continue this way."

Antonio Conte on the make up of his squad: "I like to have my players in good form and then to make the best choice for the game. It is a good problem. Now, we have Pedro, Willian, Hazard and Costa in good form and in good shape. 

"I have to decide the starting XI but I think you win the game in 90 minutes and it is important to have all my players available and in good form.

"There are some positions that, if we are able to find the right solution, it is important to take that solution. This championship is long. Also, I know the difficulty of the market and finding the right player. But we are talking about this."

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Terrible news for Bradford Bulls. After years of financial problems, the club have been liquidated. The club was placed in administration for a third time back in November...

David Cole: Chelsea to win the league, Utd to finish above City Referee's to keep ruining the league with their ego's and self importance

John Louis: Sunderland to survive on goal difference - because their troubling rival concedes 6 goals in the last day.