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As usual on a Saturday we've been teaming up with The Danny Baker Show on BBC Radio 5 live - and this weekend, we asked you this:

'What sporting lie have you told, and did you get found out?'

Darren in Cleethorpes: Actually, I've never lied about my amazing sporting career. 100m gold medallist by 13, Champions League winner by 19, Wimbledon champ by 24, ICC champ by 28, World Heavyweight champ by 32, F1 world champ by 35. Why would I need to lie with a CV like that??

Join Darren and the rest and let us know your sporting lies by using the hashtag #bbcfootball on social media or texting us (with your name) to 81111.

As anyone who's left the house this morning will know, it's cold out there. Very cold.

And the weather is starting to take effect in Scotland, with games already called off and a pitch inspection arranged for the top-flight game at Tannadice:

Scottish Premiership

Dundee United v Inverness CT - Pitch inspection 11:30 GMT.

Motherwell P-P Kilmarnock - Postponed because of structural damage

Scottish Championship

Livingston P-P Alloa Athletic - Postponed because of snow

Scottish League Two

Albion Rovers P-P East Fife - Postponed because of snow

Berwick Rangers v Montrose - Pitch inspection at 10:45

Elgin City P-P Clyde - Postponed because of a waterlogged pitch

BBC Radio 5 live

The East Midlands meeting between Derby and Nottingham Forest is always a feisty get-together, and there's plenty at stake today.

Derby are unbeaten in their last five games in all competitions, while Forest have not won any of their last eight games in all competitions, losing five.

Commentator Ian Brown is joined by Steve Claridge from 12:15 on BBC Radio 5 live - listen online, on the BBC Sport and iPlayer Radio apps, on digital TV and radio and on 909 and 693 medium-wave.

Former England defender Danny Mills' claim on BBC Radio 5 live that Nottingham Forest boss Stuart Pearce is "not a great coach, not a great tactician and not a great motivator" has certainly got you tapping away on social media. Here's a selection of your thoughts:

Michael Harvey: Good old Danny Mills. There's nothing like kicking a man when he's down.

Paddy Emmerson: Danny Mills wasn't good enough to be a poor man's Stuart Pearce, yet take's a cowardly pop from behind his microphone?

Jonathan Butcher: Mills, don't annoy the red dogs just before our game!

Join the debate on Twitter at #bbcfootball, text us on 81111 (UK only), or drop us a line on the MOTD Facebook or Google+ page.

One here for anyone who has ever dreamed of playing in the FA Cup...

BBC Get Inspired have teamed up with the Football Association and the country's leading small-sided football providers to launch the FA People's Cup, a free knockout competition which will give up to 14,000 teams and more than 100,000 players the chance to play in their version of the FA Cup.

From Sunday League regulars to folk who have only kicked a ball in their back yard, the tournament offers everyone the opportunity to follow in the path of legends on the road to Cup glory.

Sign up for free here, external - and it could also earn you a VIP trip to the FA Cup final.

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Striker Ricardo Vaz Te has had his West Ham contract cancelled by mutual consent. The 28-year-old is best known among Hammers fans for scoring the winner in the 2012 Championship play-off final against Blackpool.

"I will never forget that day at Wembley - it was so special for me and for all of the fans involved," Vaz Te tells West Ham's website., external "That is the kind of moment you don't intend to forget."

Dedication in minus temperatures, eh?

A Bradford fan buying his ticket at Valley Parade, external just now: "The first tickets are being sold. This Bantams fan queued from 10pm last night. Thank you for your amazing support."

Image source, @officialbantams

It's not clear if this chap has just bought his ticket for next Saturday's FA Cup trip to Chelsea or today's League One clash at Yeovil. If it's the latter, it's time he hit the road for his 273-mile trip...

Libby Wain: As a Forest fan, I'm not sure I've ever been more worried about the derby. Could be humiliating...

Daniel Walford: Danny Mills, you've got it spot on about Pearce.

Mr Hind: Danny Mills appears to be very bitter towards Stuart Pearce. Did he put an average defender in his place?

Well, they have crossed paths in the past, Mr Hind. Pearce dropped Mills in 2006 when he was Manchester City manager, as Micah Richards emerged as the club's first-choice right-back. Mills has made it pretty clear that he doesn't think a whole lot of Pearce as a manager.

Danny Mills
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"Actually, he is not a great coach, he's not a great tactician, he's not a great motivator and he struggles with big players who question his authority.

"He is the complete opposite of what you expect. He has that aura around him of a legend but after 10 games or so people start to work him out. He doesn't have the depth of football ability to back it up."

Danny Mills
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"He comes in, everyone says, 'wow, it's Stuart Pearce, legend! Psycho' and all of that and he has that instant respect.

"He gets teams going and they buy into all of that. But after a while, players aren't stupid, they're not naive and they start to suss him out."

Danny Mills
BBC Radio 5 live

"I'm not surprised about what has happened for him. Stuart Pearce came into Manchester City and had a fantastic 'honeymoon period' and then went wrong - same with the England Under-21s.

"He starts well but goes off the boil. He is very predictable, his tactics are to get the ball to the left-back and then hit the channels."

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Life isn't much fun at the moment for Stuart Pearce, who is Nottingham Forest's manager these days. His side have plummeted to 13th place after a run of seven league matches without a win, and also went out of the FA Cup at League One Rochdale two weeks ago.

Pearce is under the microscope after such a poor run, and former England defender Danny Mills - who played under him at Manchester City - had some harsh words to say about Forest's manager on BBC Radio 5 live last night. Are you ready for this? Then here goes...

The first game of the day in England is the derby at Derby, where out-of-form Nottingham Forest are the visitors in the Championship.

Ahead of the match, here's a nice blast from the past - Stuart Pearce of Forest and Mark Wright of the Rams battle for the ball circa 1987. Short shorts.

Image source, Empics

Commentary of the 2015 fixture live on BBC Radio 5 live from 12:15 GMT in the company of Steve Claridge and Ian Brown.

Football Focus

BBC Sport brings you comprehensive television coverage of today's action, starting with Football Focus from 12:10 GMT on BBC One, reviewing the week's news and previewing today's matches.

Then from 14:30 you can enjoy Final Score at the top of this page or via the red button on your television. Jason Mohammad takes you around the grounds in the company of Danny Mills and Garth Crooks. The programme switches to BBC One, BBC One Wales and BBC One NI at 16:30, though not in Scotland.

And then that familiar theme tune echoes around living rooms across the land as Match of the Day - Gary Lineker, Ruud Gullit and Phil Neville - arrives on BBC One at 22:25, followed by The Football League Show from 23:50. Enjoy!

Liverpool full-back Jose Enrique posts on Instragram, external after Suso's move to Serie A: Congratulations to my friend Suso for his move to AC Milan. You deserve all the luck in the world. Top player and top person. I'm going to miss you. All the best.

Image source, Daily Telegraph

In today's Daily Telegraph,, external Gary Neville has criticised QPR's player recruitment strategy - or rather, as he feels, the lack of one. The former Manchester United and England full-back wonders if Harry Redknapp's side have the spirit to pull themselves out of relegation trouble.

"Very few of QPR's signings have sell-on value," Neville writes. "Charlie Austin has, but he, with a year to go on his contract, may be playing hard to get. They seem to pick up a lot of players in the twilight of their careers. Even Rio Ferdinand, who is sitting on the bench, must be wondering what the hell he is doing.

"At the other end of the scale, there is rarely a sniff of a young player coming through."

Michael Louw:, external Standing ovation for Defoe at White Hart Lane today. Great servant to the club. I'm just hoping he doesn't cost us three points!

Juan A Tapia Owens:, external Do you think part of the Bony deal included Swansea to win today?

Soccer Pundit:, external One thing I just don't understand about Suso transfer is that it's permanent. Sad, and the wrong decision.

Image source, Guardian

The Guardian, meanwhile, leads off with the story of former Barnsley captain Stephen Dawson,, external who suffered a nine-month ordeal as he was arrested and accused of match fixing, before the case against him was dropped.

"My daughter had kids coming up to her at school saying: 'Your dad's going to jail,'" said Dawson, now at Rochdale. "How do you explain to a seven-year-old that the police made a mistake and they won't be coming back to the house?"

Image source, Getty Images

Jumping back to Louis van Gaal for a moment, there's an interesting piece on the Manchester United manager by Jamie Carragher in today's Daily Mail.

Former Liverpool defender Carragher points out that Van Gaal has collected just as many points (37) from just as many league games (21) as David Moyes had managed last season, but has escaped the criticism heaped on his predecessor.

Carragher writes:, external "There is a reason why Van Gaal is not having his performance - or the performances of his team - scrutinised to the level that Moyes experienced 12 months ago. It comes down to one word: belief."

An appeal from League One, as eighth-placed Rochdale tweet for local help, external ahead of their home game against Crawley: "We have a small team of volunteers taking the snow off the covers, but we need more. Can you help?"

Anybody near Spotland got a shovel and a spare couple of hours?

Image source, @officiallydale