The battle between two of Mick McCarthy’s former sharp-shooters, Robbie Keane and Steven Fletcher, could prove decisive in Friday’s Euro 2016 Group D tie at Celtic Park.

Manchester United keeper David de Gea claims other players are ready to step into the breach to fill the void left by Wayne Rooney’s three-match suspension.

Depeche Mode are always "moaning through life".

Sunderland owner Ellis Short has identified his number one target for the vacant manager’s job at the Stadium of Light after dispensing with the services of Martin O’Neill.

WOLVES manager Mick McCarthy has hailed the return of Matt Jarvis to top form but questioned why there has been such a big inquest into the winger’s dip in standards.

Wolves striker Steve Fletcher has returned to training, but manager Mick McCarthy will make a late decision on whether to recall him for Sunday’s crunch clash with Wigan at Molineux.

Wolves striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake will today undergo a scan to determine the extent of the hamstring problem he suffered during Saturday’s home clash with Everton.

Injured Wolves striker Kevin Doyle is backing Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Steven Fletcher to provide the quality in his absence to keep Mick McCarthy’s side in the Barclays Premier League.

Wigan defender Steven Caldwell felt referee Martin Atkinson’s crucial decisions were influenced by the huge Old Trafford crowd in Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Manchester United.

OLD TRAFFORD has witnessed Champions League heroics, Premier League titles and countless trophy parades but it saved its loudest roar for last night when Wayne Rooney’s injury time goal sent Alex Ferguson’s side to the much-maligned Carling Cup final, bursting Manchester City’s expensively assembled bubble.

THERE are two schools of thought about why Alex Ferguson has so far failed to dip into the £80 million (€94m) banked by the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid last summer.

SO, apparently it’s all hail ‘TSP’, as Fletcher is known to many a so-called Top Red – it stands for ‘The Scottish Player’, and speaks Macbethishly of a long-gone time when his name would not be willingly uttered.

Paul Scholes has admitted no words of sympathy from him could ever make Darren Fletcher feel better about missing the Champions League final.

ONE game shouldn’t make or break a season, let alone a three minute spell when everything seems to collapse around you.