Former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O'Hara has played his first 90 minutes in almost a year for non-league Billericay Town.

And what a 90 minutes it was.

Billericay came from 2-0 down to beat Tonbridge Angels 8-3 and win the Ryman League Cup final.

Stoke City

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Stoke manager Mark Hughes: Jack Butland still has some work to do, so he isn't quite in a position to start games, but he is very very close.

"Joe Allen is out this weekend, but hopefully he will be OK for Swansea. Jon Walters has a slight knee problem, and is doubtful.

"Unfortunately we have lost Ibrahim Afellay for a number of weeks - he has gone back to his surgeon in Barcelona and has had an operation."

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That tweet from Dortmund translates as 'Marc Bartra will be fit again in about four weeks' - although that could well be after the end of the season.

The Spanish defender was injured when his side's bus was damaged by explosions in Germany.

The 26-year-old fractured his wrist in the incident, which led to Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final first-leg against Monaco being postponed until Wednesday.

Swansea City

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Swans boss Paul Clement: "Jack Cork isn’t going to be fit and that’s disappointing because he has been a regular. He could be out for two weeks.

"He will be a loss to us, but it is an opportunity for another midfielder. Leon Britton is in contention & Jay Fulton is a possible."

Swansea are 18th in the Premier League and two points shy of safety.

The former Derby boss added: "We can’t focus on anyone else or anything else. We can’t worry about who other teams are playing or what they are doing.

"For us it’s about focusing on the task in hand and that is our game at Watford."

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The shortlists for the PFA Players' Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year were revealed on Thursday.

It generated plenty of debate - particularly around Tottenham's Dele Alli missing out on the senior nomination.

Here's your chance to add the debate by choosing your Premier League team of the year and sharing it.

Click on the link to have a go.

Everton

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The topic of midfielder Ross Barkley took up much of the Everton news conference.

First up... the incident involving Barkley in a Liverpool bar last week.

Koeman said: "It's not what you want to read in the press about your players but it could happen to anyone.

"Wrong time, wrong place. It's no problem for me if you have good behaviour. He didn't drink. Maybe that's the reason I live outside town."

Then on Barkley's contract - the player has one year left on his deal:

"I'm not involved in negotiations but I know board is talking to his agent. Everton is the best place for him.

"I spoke to him recently and he mentioned Champions League. I told him I wanted it also.

"It is not necessary to speak about ambition. The club is going in right direction."

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PFA men's shortlist: 

Eden Hazard

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Harry Kane

N'Golo Kante

Romelu Lukaku 

Alexis Sanchez

Fantasy League top points scorers (Premier League site):

Alexis Sanchez

Romelu Lukaku

Eden Hazard

Dele Alli

Christian Eriksen

Diego Costa

Burnley

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According to Burnley, winger Johann Berg Gudmundsson - out since the FA Cup fifth round defeat by Lincoln City in February - might need another reserve match before he returns to first-team action. Midfielder Steven Defour (hamstring) will be OK for Saturday's match.

Manchester City

Pep Guardiola is asked about his goalkeeper situation, as he continues to switch between Claudio Bravo and Willy Caballero.

He said: "I like both to be involved, I have confidence in both Bravo and Caballero. We will see.

"The last week I decided on Claudio, Saturday I will decide. Depends on the way the opponent plays, what I see in the training sessions."

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Pep Guardiola is asked abut some transfer rumours doing the rounds.

On Arsenal winger Alexis Sanchez he said: "Now is not the time to talk about that."

On Joe Hart, who is on loan at Torino, he added: "At the end of the season we’ll speak. We follow all the players who are on loan."

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Chris Latham speaking on BBC Two:

"I am happy to come away with a medal, finally!

"I wasn't sure that Adrian Teklinski was going to hold on there.

"I was in a decent position most of the time. I followed the Irish rider Felix English and I had a good lead out."

Manchester City

First some team news from Pep Guardiola.

He says his squad is at full fitness, with only Bacary Sagna, Gabriel Jesus and   Ilkay Gundogan the long term absentees.

Guardiola said: "After Chelsea, Vincent Kompany had a little problem in the leg and we didn’t want to take risk, but he was able to play 90 mins at a high level."  

And staying with Leicester for a minute...

Danny Simpson met Brazil and Real Madrid legend Roberto Carlos as the Foxes trained at Real's ground on Thursday morning, following their Champions League defeat.

A nice touch by Leicester...

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Middlesex have become the first county to refuse to support a rule change that would pave the way for a new city-based Twenty20 competition planned for 2020.

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) rules need to be altered to allow the removal of the right of all 18 counties to play in the new tournament.

The changes require the support of 31 out of 41 of the ECB's voting members.

"The financial impact on Middlesex is still very uncertain and contains great risks," chairman Mike O'Farrell said., external

Italian Serie A

AC Milan have been sold to Chinese investors Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux.

The seven-time European champions have been owned by former three-time Italy prime minister Silvio Berlusconi since 1986.

A joint statement by AC Milan's holding company Fininvest and Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux said: "Today Fininvest has completed the sale of the entire stake owned in AC Milan - equal to 99.93% - to Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux.

"The terms of the agreement are the same disclosed in August and reflect of an aggregate evaluation of AC Milan equal to 740m euros (£628m) which includes the club’s indebtedness, equal to 220m (£187m) as of June 30th 2016. 

Hull City

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Hull manager Marco Silva: "It is good news that we have Tom Huddlestone available once again. He is an important player for us and gives another option.

"Omar Elabdellaoui remains unavailable for Saturday. We will make a decision on Harry Maguire and Dieumerci Mbokani on Friday."

On his team's predicament (they are 17th) and the match against Stoke:

"We have only taken one away point - against Manchester United - but I think Stoke is a good chance for us. We must believe.

"We need to pick up points away to stay in the Premier League. It's important to do that. We need to show and prove we can do that." 

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Here's Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez with some team news on the eve of his side's big Championship clash against Leeds United:

"Defender Ciaran Clark is very close. Striker Dwight Gayle was running a bit. He's close. It's a good result We have to be careful with the injury to striker Gayle. It's not a big issue. He won't play against Leeds or Ipswich though."

"Defender DeAndre Yedlin is back in contention for the game with Leeds."  

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Marco Silva is also speaking ahead of his side's crucial game against Stoke, so stay tuned.