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Wayne Rooney is a Manchester United legend, but tonight the club’s all-time top goalscorer will line up against them for Derby County.

A midfield masterclass from Bruno Fernandes and Fred guided Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Manchester United to the last 16 of the Europa League, crucially against traditionally ‘weaker’ opposition.

Pep Guardiola knows this run in the UEFA Champions League could be last chance saloon for his excellent Manchester City side.

Manchester boxing is firmly back on the map after Tyson Fury’s emphatic seventh round victory over Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

Pep Guardiola was appointed Manchester City manager to win them the European Cup, and this year he comes up against competition masters Real Madrid in the round of 16.

Newly victorious Finn Tapp and girlfriend Paige Turley were crowned winners of the Winter edition of Love Island on Sunday – MM look at four other disciplinary slaps on the wrist for footballers after Tapp was told off by Oxford City.

Tyson Fury said he’d go to London and beat Dereck Chisora in 2011. He said he’d go to Dusseldorf and beat Wladimir Klitschko in 2015. He said he’d go to Los Angeles and beat Deontay Wilder in 2018. And he said he’d go to Las Vegas and beat Wilder again in 2020.

Tyson Fury added the WBC Heavyweight crown to his collection and in doing so became the first boxer in history to win every major world title in the division at some stage of his career.

Today members of the wider football community came together at Manchester’s National Football Museum to celebrate Justin Fashanu’s inauguration into the Football Hall of Fame on what would have been his 59th birthday.

Every sport has its blue riband event, the one in which its very finest proponents take part and where the best of the best can show their class.

Combat sports like MMA have one rule: survival of the fittest. Who do fans wants to see clash in the cage in 2020? Here are five of the biggest potential bouts this year.