Harry Redknapp thinks there is "every chance" Birmingham is the last team he will manage.

A former professional footballer is to be sentenced for a sex attack on a young woman as she slept in her bed.

Sunderland have started an internal disciplinary process against Darron Gibson after footage emerged of the midfielder criticising team-mates in a bar.

Uefa U21 European Championship qualifier

Ireland U21 boss Noel King has strenuously denied pursuing Northern Ireland-born players for his squad following allegations made by Michael O’Neill.

In January 2012, John Egan was thrown in at the deep end. He had just joined Crystal Palace on a month’s loan from Sunderland. Dougie Freedman had promised him a couple of games and he was true to his word.

Millwall produced the shock of the day.

Felix Healy is the only Irishman, north or south, to make the leap from domestic leagues to a major international tournament. Brendan O’Brien spoke to him about 1982, the World Cup, balancing his days playing football with nights as a gigging musician and a life less ordinary.

It was a weekend of contrasting emotions for Joe Mason as his equaliser for Cardiff in the 2-1 Championship win over Charlton on Saturday was overshadowed by his part in a diving controversy.

Jermain Defoe’s hat-trick spared Sunderland’s blushes as they defeated Exeter 6-3 in a thrilling Capital One Cup clash last night.

Newcastle head coach Steve McClaren has vowed to field the strongest team he can as he bids to end Newcastle’s 46-year trophy drought against Northampton in the Capital One Cup second round tonight.

How the Irish fared...

Republic of Ireland international David McGoldrick came off the bench to score and send Mick McCarthy’s Ipswich top of the Championship last night.

Now that the dust has settled on the January winter transfer window, a number of clubs hoping to have made the signings that will make the difference for them between now and May.

Deadline Day Moves in Bold

TV presenter Charlie Webster has resigned as a patron of Sheffield United after the club allowed former player and convicted rapist Ched Evans to return for training.

Reports that shamed footballer and convicted rapist Ched Evans is returning to training with his former club has reignited angry calls for Sheffield United to cut all ties with the striker.

Convicted rapist Ched Evans has said he is “ashamed” of his actions – but expressed no remorse for his crime as he continues to protest his innocence.

Footballer Ched Evans is believed to have left prison after serving half of a five-year sentence for raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel.

A League One football club has yet to decide whether convicted rapist Ched Evans will be allowed to play for them again after he is released from prison this week, its manager has said.

With the start of the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign less than a week away, the weekend’s championship action brought some unwelcome news for Republic of Ireland manager Martin O’Neill as Jeff Hendrick suffered a dislocated shoulder in Derby’s 1-1 draw with Mick McCarthy’s Ipswich.

Phil Jones admits Manchester United are still learning Louis van Gaal’s new system but the defender believes their 100% record in pre-season shows they are ready for the new Premier League campaign to start.

Referee Andre Marriner has apologised to Arsenal for his error which saw Kieran Gibbs mistakenly sent off in the 6-0 loss to Barclays Premier League leaders Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Calvin Harris has joined Robbie Williams' soccer team.

Conference side Kidderminster will take on Premier League Sunderland in the FA Cup fourth round after they claimed a 3-2 win over Peterborough in their replay at London Road.

The Premier League big boys have all been kept apart as the draw for the fourth round of the FA Cup was made today.

Walking through the streets of Cork city, Conor Hourihane blends in with the crowd.

Another potentially thrilling clash between Barclays Premier League leaders Arsenal and Tottenham is in the pipeline after the north London rivals were drawn against each other in the FA Cup third round.

So it's official. Two men from opposite ends of Ireland have been tasked with working together to deliver Irish soccer to new heights. In this article Kieran Shannon asks if the Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane combination is destined for success.

Police in the UK have arrested 23 fans after “disorder” following a football match.

Clinton Morrison may be in the twilight of his career, but he still boasts to his younger team-mates about when he played in big games for the Republic of Ireland.

Paul Scholes was happy for his retirement to slip under the radar on the day when Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson also bade farewell to Old Trafford.

Luis Suarez’s name was booed twice at the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year awards.

Sunderland boss Martin O’Neill handed debuts to Adam Johnson and Steven Fletcher in tonight’s Capital One Cup second round clash with League Two Morecambe.

Welsh footballer Ched Evans has lost the first stage of his appeal against his rape conviction, his lawyers said.

He could potentially be sacked by the time the transfer window closes if comments from the club’s global adviser are to be believed but Blackburn manager Steve Kean is on the lookout for a new striker and is looking for players close to these shores.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has made reclaiming the Premier League title “priority number one”.

Three men arrested as part of the investigation into the naming on Twitter of the victim in the Ched Evans rape case have been released on bail, police in Britain said today.

Sheffield United and Wales footballer Ched Evans is to appeal against his conviction for raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room, his lawyers said tonight.

Sheffield United defender Connor Brown has been suspended by the club for comments he made on Twitter following team-mate Ched Evans’s jail sentence for rape.

Sheffield United and Wales’ striker Ched Evans was jailed for five years today after being convicted of raping a woman who was “too drunk to consent” to sex.

A jury in Britain has begun deliberations in the trial of two footballers accused of raping a woman who was “too drunk to consent” to sex.