Manchester City stars Willy Caballero and Dedryck Boyata have swapped the football pitch for the classroom to raise awareness about the dangers of gang culture to children.

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.

Historians have been set the challenge of finding the last resting place of 21-year-old Franciscus Alphonsus Van den Eynde who died in Salford a century ago.

Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany believes his Belgium battlers have what it takes to lift the World Cup.

60% of 1,000 people questioned in the States admitted to being unaware of the England talisman, who has been the face of the national side’s failure at major tournaments for the last decade.

Despite Marc Wilmots’s side winning side 5-1 where goals included a hat-trick from Romelu Lukaku, FIFA have ruled the win as invalid due to Wilmots making too many substitutions in the World Cup warm-up match.

Januzaj, 19, made his Belgium debut on Monday as the Brazil dark horses swept aside Luxembourg 5-1 to warm up nicely for their first World Cup outing since 2002.

Fellaini received a yellow card for an elbow moments before the spitting incident

Guy Verhofstadt was nominated by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe party as a candidate for the presidency of the European commission

Belgium boss Marc Wilmots refuses to negotiate

Marouane Fellaini was due to have wrist surgery