“These two have battled many times over the course of three centuries.”

Keith Costigan is still on Dublin time, having just returned to Los Angeles from a trip home.

Liverpool are to allow unprecedented behind-the-scenes dressing-room access to American broadcaster FOX Soccer for a six-part documentary.

EMBATTLED FIFA president Sepp Blatter yesterday appeared to stand by his suggestion that racism on the pitch should be settled by a handshake.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter today appeared to stand by his suggestion that racism on the pitch should be settled by a handshake and defended his record on tackling discrimination.