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Prankster Simon Brodkin tried to clamber on Luton Airport-bound bus yesterday with Roy Hodgson’s England squad flying to Miami ahead of World Cup.

As Saracens and Northampton Saints battled it out for Aviva Premiership glory in Saturday’s final, Stockport under-11s also descended on Rugby HQ.

Thousands of people flocked to Congleton Park on Saturday to welcome the Queen’s Baton to Manchester ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

To kick off World Cup month MM has chosen a ‘Manchester 23’ from the players to have impacted on the globe’s biggest sporting event while at clubs in the area.

Hyde FC hope to rise from the ashes of a recent arson attack with a £10,000 social club refurbishment – and have just eight weeks to grab the cash.

Having clawed his way back into the England squad and, thanks to George Ford’s injury, the mercurial Cipriani is in with a real chance of getting the nod from Stuart Lancaster to start at fly half.

The accounts for Championship clubs in 2012/13 revealed Wanderers to have the highest levels of debt, the highest wage bill in the league and to have made the biggest loss before tax.

Nottingham’s Carl Froch is set to do battle once again in a much heated battle with Londoner George Groves in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium

On this date 15 years ago the Blues were facing the prospect of a second season in the third tier of English football as they trailed 2-0 in stoppage time of the Division Two Play-off final against Gillingham at Wembley.

Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff has confirmed he is coming back to play for Lancashire in the Natwest T20 Blast competition.

Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea had no answer to a Santi Cazorla cracker in front of a packed Seville crowd ahead of Spain’s World Cup defence.