Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini expects to find out today the severity of Fabian Delph’s hamstring injury after the midfielder left the field on a stretcher during yesterday’s 4-1 pre-season defeat to Real Madrid.

The first of the big European Stadium in Warsaw hosts the Europa League final – with the winners earning a place in next season’s Champions League for the first time.

Check out our guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Aston Villa 2 Bourmemouth 1: FA Cup Fourth Round: Villa Park had been tipped as a likely scene of a surprise yesterday and it did not disappoint. Just not in the way anyone anticipated.

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Boss Paul Lambert defended Aston Villa’s fans after their lowest league gate for 15 years.

ONE unseasonably grey afternoon during this year’s unusually bright summer, the kilometre-long beach near our West Cork home was deserted but for a single figure in the distance, walking along the top level of the tideline.

Fan rings 999 to complain about Man U form

Aston Villa striker Andreas Weimann is poised to miss Saturday’s Barclays Premier League game at home to Cardiff with a hamstring injury.

The widow of murdered garda, Adrian Donohoe, has spoken publicly for the first time about the devastating impact of her husband’s violent death on her family.

A lawsuit against John Travolta relating to an alleged assault has been dismissed.

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A man who filed sexual battery charges against John Travolta has filed papers to dismiss the case.

The masseur who accused John Travolta of sexual assault has admitted he got the date of the alleged attack wrong.

Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish has challenged striker Robbie Keane to become an instant hero, with the outcome of tomorrow’s clash at Wolves set to determine whether he enjoys his 53rd birthday.

Aston Villa midfielder Chris Herd is facing another month out of action with an ankle ligament problem, manager Alex McLeish has confirmed.

TRACING the footsteps of a living legend is dicey business. ‘He was born here’, ‘he grew up there’, ‘he first kicked a ball over there’... all claims made by Rosarinos about their most famous son, Lionel Messi.

Aston Villa midfielder Fabian Delph has signed a new four-year contract tying him to the club until 2015.

A FORMER Army bomb disposal expert tried to murder his pregnant wife by planting a hand grenade in her car after she confronted him about his affair, a court heard yesterday.

Aston Villa midfielder Fabian Delph is on target to return to action in January.

Unless you’re a dedicated fan of exorcism films, with all their familiar clichés, you might decide to give this one a miss … wrong decision: it’s a cut above what you might expect.

RELATIVES of a pregnant woman seriously injured in a car explosion in a quiet village said yesterday she had started her “long road to recovery”.

The unborn child of a pregnant woman who was seriously injured in a car explosion in Britain was unharmed by the blast, doctors believe.

US singer Al Martino who had Britain’s first number one single in 1952 has died aged 82.

A High Court action brought on behalf of a 11-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, who requires constant care and attention as a result of the injuries she sustained during his birth at Monaghan Hospital, has been settled today for €3m.

IT IS the sound of thousands of Roma fans singing in almost perfect harmony which first strikes you when you stand in the Curva Sud in Rome’s Olympic Stadium.

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South Africa claimed a surprise 33-26 victory over New Zealand in Dubai to win the first of this season’s IRB Sevens events.

The most powerful hurricane to hit Bermuda in 50 years slammed into the island chain today, unleashing winds that snapped off palm trees, scoured the coast and tested its vaunted ability to withstand a fierce storm.

Fabian Coulthard, a cousin of Formula One star David, will make his British motor sport debut at Brands Hatch this weekend.

Ipswich defender Fabian Wilnis has handed in a transfer request.