These are difficult times for Mick McCarthy but Ipswich eased the pressure on their beleaguered manager by claiming a 2-1 Championship win at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.

IRISH soccer goalkeeper Emma Byrne, 34, is enjoying married life but is still adjusting to her new surname: Bignot.

Oldham 3 Liverpool 2

FOR a young man who has to go back to his schoolboy days to try to remember the last time he contested a cup final, James Chambers seems remarkably unfazed about the prospect of playing in front of what will be the biggest crowd of his career in the battle of the Rovers at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday.