Summary

  • Build-up to international week, including Scotland v England

  • Latest news from football's summer transfer window

  • FT: Brazil 0-1 Argentina

  • French Open updates

  • GET INVOLVED: Your sporting cabinet government

  1. get involved

    Get Involved - Your sporting cabinetpublished at 09:01 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    #bbcsportsday or text 81111

    The Roscoe: Sporting defence minister? Easy. Stuart Pearce.

    Stuart PearceImage source, Getty Images

    Yeah we can't argue with that...

    Any other suggestions?

  2. get involved

    Get Involved - Your sporting cabinetpublished at 08:50 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    #bbcsportsday or text 81111

    Cabinet roomImage source, Getty Images

    We are jumping on the politics bandwagon here today...

    We would like you to come up with sporting figures to fill the following positions...

    • Sporting home secretary
    • Sporting foreign secretary
    • Sporting defence secretary
    • Sporting justice secretary
    • Sporting health secretary
    • Sporting education secretary
    • Sporting Prime Minister

    Send us your suggestions for one or all of these and give your reason for your choice...

    Use #bbcsportsday but feel free to use a few more characters to explain your reason in a text to 81111 - don't forget to put your name on the message!

  3. Postpublished at 08:49 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    Fancy getting involved in our discussion topic today?

    Here it comes....

  4. football

    On this daypublished at 08:39 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    Football

    1997: England were crowned winners of Le Tournoi after a 3-3 draw between Italy and Brazil.

    Graeme Le SauxImage source, Getty Images
  5. 'The history boys'published at 08:29 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    The Daily Telegraph

    Ahh the headline used any time the "youth" of sport reach a milestone victory.

    We at BBC Sport are guilty of it too. I am on a mission to stamp it out of our rhetoric. Join my campaign*.

    #MakeHistoryBoysHistory

    (*Not an actual campaign)

    The Daily TelegraphImage source, The Daily Telegraph
  6. Young Lions keeping a nation's spirits high...published at 08:23 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    The Times

    In other news, yesterday, the England Under-20 side reached the World Cup final after beating Italy 3-1 and will face Venezuela, who beat Uruguay, in Sunday's final in South Korea (kick-off 11:00 BST).

    Read our match report here...

    As the Times have said, this is England's first world cup final since 1966...

    The TimesImage source, The Times
  7. Bye Bayern Alexis...published at 08:18 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    Daily Mirror

    The Daily Mirror have said Bayern Munich will offer Arsenal's Chile forward Alexis Sanchez £350,000 a week as they look to beat Manchester City to his signature.

    Read this and other footy rumours in our gossip column...

    Daily MirrorImage source, Daily Mirror
  8. 'Costa's KO'published at 08:13 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    The Daily Star

    The Daily Star say 'Costa has played his last game for Chelsea...'

    They also have said AC Milan are already in talks to buy the 28-year-old, who is apparently valued at £40 million.

    The Sun say however, that Costa has pleaded with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich to save his career at Stamford Bridge.

    The Daily StarImage source, The Daily Star
  9. 'Texts cost £10m'published at 08:08 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    The Sun

    The Sun seem to have plucked the figure "£10 million" from somewhere as to how much it will cost Chelsea in potential transfer cash.

    They have even mocked up a text exchange between Conte and Costa.

    "UR OUT CU L8R"...

    Does anyone use "text language" anymore - unless still have to save "credit"...

    The SunImage source, The Sun
  10. Postpublished at 08:06 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    For context, this is the moment Costa told the press of the text exchange...

    Media caption,

    Diego Costa: Conte doesn't want me at Chelsea

  11. 'Costa's text leak puts Chelsea in transfer limbo'published at 08:04 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    The Guardian

    According to many of the papers today, including The Guardian, Chelsea boss Antonio Conte's decision to get rid of his top-scorer by text, and Diego Costa going public on the private exchange, has shocked the Chelsea board and is set to cost the club millions...

    The GuardianImage source, The Guardian
  12. Postpublished at 08:02 British Summer Time 9 June 2017

    These, we would imagine, were somewhat of an afterthought for news editors at midnight...

  13. Fri - yay!published at 08:00

    Morning all.

    We realise a lot of you will be glued to the BBC News coverage of the General Election result but we will be bringing you the day's sports news anyway.

    Sadly, we don't have Jeremy Vine totting up potential football transfers stood on a virtual pitch, but we do have Saj and I - Libby, to keep you informed and somewhat entertained until 17:00 BST.

    Shall we have a look at this morning's back pages?