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Salford Red Devils today became the only Super League club to fail to reach the requirements for a category 1 standard academy system.

Oldham Athletic manager Darren Kelly has called the League One table ‘false’, and insisted his side will be on the front foot against Bradford City at Boundary Park on Saturday.

Rochdale make the short trip to Fleetwood’s Highbury stadium on Saturday with a fully fit and refreshed squad after not having a midweek game for the first time this season.

The link between non-league football and the current Syrian refugee crisis may not be immediately obvious, but then FC United of Manchester have never been a football club that unthinkingly conforms to the norm.

Dina Asher-Smith is the fastest woman over 100m and 200m in British history and appears to hold Great Britain’s best chance of picking up a first female sprint medal since 1960 at the Olympic Games next year.

Tyson Fury has taken to Twitter and Periscope to once again claim that he is going to knock out multi-belt Heavyweight World Champion Wladimir Klitschko, when the duo meet in Dusseldorf on October 24.

Great Britain’s gold rush in the Velodrome in 2012 may seem impossible to live up to in Rio next year, but six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy insists there is every reason to expect a repeat performance.

The transfer window, complete with its deadline day denouement extravaganza, reached new levels of absurdity this year, with over £870million spent in the Premier League alone.

MM takes an in-depth look into where the money went this summer transfer window for both Manchester United and Manchester City, and what fans from both teams can now expect from the year to come.

England one-day international skipper Eoin Morgan is backing powerful opener Alex Hales to take his limited-overs form into the Test arena this winter.

Three-time world squash champion Nick Matthew has praised Manchester medical staff ahead of his AJ Bell British Squash Grand Prix title defence as he recovers from minor knee surgery.