Spurs employ science to get Vertonghen fit

Brendan Rodgers believes his Liverpool side face a stiff test of their credentials in the coming weeks.

Hull fans’ group ’City Til We Die’ has challenged club owner Assem Allam over his continued plans to change the side’s name, telling him they believe the Football Association will take a dim view of any move.

With his media duties completed yesterday, Giovanni Trapattoni sat sipping a cup of tea at a Dublin Airport hotel watching in admiration at Mayo’s second-half destruction of Tyrone.

Hull owner Assem Allam has confirmed the club will be formally renamed Hull City Tigers from the start of the new season.