Twice before, Dublin-born England cricket captain Eoin Morgan has faced the media before a one-day international against Ireland.

Watford 1 Everton 1: Heurelho Gomes lauded a “great result” for Watford after they ended their run of four successive Barclays Premier League defeats with a 1-1 draw against Everton at Vicarage Road.

Oxford boss Michael Appleton saluted a “magnificent” performance after Kemar Roofe sent Swansea tumbling out of the FA Cup.

Ronald Koeman has revealed he expected his Southampton team would have a “difficult” season, having watched them surpass expectations and finish seventh in the Premier League in 2014-15.

Vice-captain Kevin O’Brien has been named in the Ireland squad to tour Zimbabwe and Namibia in October.

West Brom 1, Stoke City 0:

Check out the starting line-ups for all of tonight's matches.

Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren start for Liverpool against former club Southampton today.

The team news for tonight's Premier League games.

West Brom 0 Tottenham 3: Harry Kane has no intention of easing up as he continues to plunder the goals for Tottenham.

Arsenal have Kieran Gibbs back in their first XI and record signing Mesut Ozil on the bench for the Barclays Premier League clash with Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.

Jack Rodwell was handed only his fourth start of the season as Manchester City hosted Championship side Watford in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Prison officer Sam Bailey has been crowned the UK’s 10th ‘X Factor’ winner after the public picked her over teenager Nicholas McDonald in the final show of the series.

A four-year-old mauled to death by a pet dog in Britain has been described by neighbours as a happy, sweet little girl.

Manchester United 4 Norwich 0

Chelsea 2 - Aston Villa 1

Juan Mata and Demba Ba start for Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea in tonight’s Premier League clash with Aston Villa.

Summer signing Nicolas Anelka was included in West Brom’s starting line-up for their Barclays Premier League opening-day clash with Southampton at the Hawthorns.

Wigan 2 Swansea 3

Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez, on his first return to Anfield in opposition, named ex-Reds striker Fernando Torres in Chelsea’s team.

Portuguese midfielder Daniel Carrico was given his Reading debut against West Brom after completing a £600,000 move from Sporting Lisbon.

Reading 5 Arsenal 7

Australia rotated their seamers for the RSA Challenge match against Ireland at Stormont, with Brett Lee, Pat Cummins and Ben Hilfenhaus drafted into the side.

The weather may be in danger of ruining Ireland’s RSA Challenge match against Australia but wicketkeeper Gary Wilson believes if the match does go ahead, adverse conditions could favour the hosts.

Everton assistant boss Steve Round insists Liverpool are favourites for Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final despite the Toffees ensuring they will go into the clash as the top Merseyside club in the Premier League after a thumping 4-0 win over Sunderland yesterday.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is confident the FA will ensure their Wembley FA Cup semi-final does not clash with the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini rang the changes at Sunderland as his side attempted to establish a three-point lead at the top of the Barclays Premier League.

Fernando Torres started his first Barclays Premier League game for almost two months and Chelsea’s defensive injury problems also eased for today’s west London derby with Fulham.

FULHAM succeeded where their west London neighbours Chelsea failed twice in recent weeks, beating Liverpool and putting a major dent in the Reds’ title ambitions.

SUNDERLAND assistant boss Eric Black launched a stout defence of manager Steve Bruce after seeing his side cruise past Stoke to claim their first win of the season yesterday.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND striker Leon Best struck twice to fire Newcastle into the Premier League’s top six but Magpies boss Alan Pardew is desperate to add to his squad before the transfer window closes.

Alan Pardew handed Leon Best the task of finding the goals to extend Newcastle’s unbeaten start to the Barclays Premier League season against Fulham.

CRICKET IRELAND chief executive Warren Deutrom admits the board are putting in place contingency plans should coach Phil Simmons quit before the end of the year.

WOLVES cruised into the fourth round of the FA Cup after brushing aside Doncaster’s relatively feeble challenge last night.

Manchester City's Adam Johnson has been recalled to the Manchester City line-up for this afternoon’s visit of Birmingham.

Bolton striker Ivan Klasnic was forced to miss this afternoon’s Barclays Premier League clash with Birmingham after failing a late fitness test on a thigh injury.

Portsmouth boss Avram Grant made five changes to his starting XI for the Barclays Premier League clash against Sunderland at Fratton Park.

CONFUSION surrounded the immediate future of Robinho last night in the wake of Manchester City’s progression to the FA Cup fifth round at the expense of Championship side Scunthorpe.

Robinho was named in the Manchester City starting line-up for today’s FA Cup fourth round trip to Scunthorpe amid mounting speculation it would be his last appearance for the club.

MIDFIELDER Barry Ferguson’s first goal for Birmingham was sufficient to seal victory over Nottingham Forest last night in an FA Cup third-round replay at St Andrews and clinch a visit to Everton.

Aston Villa boss Martin O’Neill handed the 11 men who won away at Manchester United on Saturday the chance to follow up the feat at Sunderland.

Full-back Andy Wilkinson returned to Stoke’s starting line-up as manager Tony Pulis was forced into making a change in defence for the visit of bottom side Portsmouth.

NEWCASTLE climbed back to the top of the Coca-Cola Championship last night but needed a lucky own goal from Sheffield United skipper Chris Morgan to do so.

Two-time former winner Mark Williams claimed he will be the man the world’s elite players will want to avoid in Wednesday’s World Championship draw after clinching his Crucible place.

LEICESTERSHIRE chairman Neil Davidson has called for England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke to resign over the body’s close links with Allen Stanford.

AMIDST the self-congratulatory back-slapping, Andy Reid posed an awkward question that might just have made his Sunderland team-mates stop and think as they sped from the Stadium of Light to their Christmas party in Leeds.

Ireland have named an unchanged squad for their forthcoming Friends Provident Trophy games this weekend.

PORTUGUESE detectives arrived in Britiain to sit in on interviews with the so-called Tapas Seven.

KEVIN PHILLIPS’ 21st goal of the season cancelled out Greg Halford’s first for Charlton to keep West Brom in the hunt for automatic promotion from the Coca-Cola Championship.