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The 21-year-old Orrica-GreenEDGE rider, who was last weekend competing in the National Road Championships in Abergavenney, will line up as one of only four Brits for the Grand Depart of this year’s Tour in Leeds on Saturday.

What is the USA national team doing right and what can jaded European teams like our very own sorry England learn from them?

City lost 2-0 in the midlands on their return to Women’s Super League action last weekend after a mid-season hiatus.

Scot Ferguson ended his 26-year managerial stint at United in 2013 having won a staggering 38 trophies, with Rob Swire by his side from 1991.

Spaniard De Gea has been impressed with the high-profile footballing stars that have recently moved over to the MLS (Major League Soccer), including compatriot David Villa and Brazilian legend Kaka.

The defender, 35, is working for the BBC as a pundit at the World Cup after the club brought his 12-year stint at Old Trafford to an end in May.

Thousands will flock to roadsides in Rochdale and across Yorkshire this weekend as northern England hosts the Grand Départ of the world’s biggest sporting event, featuring 198 riders, 22 teams, plenty of gritted teeth and 3,656 kilometres of racing.

Manchester United and City will jet off to the States in the coming weeks for pre-season tours in preparation for the new Premier League season.

Eight different players from Manchester’s big two have netted a combined ten goals as the competition enters the quarter-final stage – add one more goal from Wigan’s Jean Beausejour and Greater Manchester is comfortably the country’s most dominant region.

Broady and fellow Brit Neal Skupski are the only remaining all British pair in the mixed doubles at the All England Club after winning their third round match with Florin Mergea and Elina Svitolina 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to delight a partisan home crowd on No. 1 court.

MP David Crausby, who has represented Bolton North East since 1997, has re-launched a campaign to change the way grassroots football is funded.