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Manchester City fans’ dreams of seeing Lionel Messi at the Etihad stadium next season have been dashed after the Barcelona striker penned a new deal today.

On the agenda this week, the team discuss Roy Hodgson’s 30-man England World Cup squad and the end of the Barclays Premier League season.

After scrapping their way through 2012-13, many had Sale Sharks down to struggle again with some rating them as favourites for relegation. But they showed the doubters how wrong they were.

While a frustrating back problem may have ruled him out of competing, London 2012 champion Jonnie Peacock knows just how important this weekend’s BT Great CityGames is to Paralympic athletes.

Lancashire all-rounder Tom Smith hopes his side have ‘the X Factor’ in their bid to reach the T20 finals day for the first time in three years.

Ahead of the Great City Games in Manchester this weekend, British hopefuls such as Richard Kilty and Greg Rutherford have given their views on the unique event.

Sale Sharks fly-half Danny Cipriani has the chance to end his five-year drought of international rugby after being selected in a 20-man training squad ahead of this summer’s tour to New Zealand.

World Cup holders’ squad is littered with talented superstars that currently call Manchester home, including David De Gea, Juan Mata, David Silva, Jesus Navas and Alvaro Negredo

United fell at the final hurdle in their bid to retain the title as Chelsea came from behind to triumph 2-1 in front of Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and 13,000 other spectators at Old Trafford

As part of the tour for telecommunications company SingTel, the Premier League duo have been taking part in a number of challenges ranging from a crash-course in Singlish, Colloquial Singaporean English, to showing off their best football tricks

Nasri left out of France World Cup squad four years after South Africa heartache