The Republic of Ireland now know that a win away to Wales tomorrow guarantees them at least a World Cup play-off spot.

Scotland's 2018 World Cup hopes remain alive after a sensational late winner in the victory over 10-man Slovakia at Hampden Park.

Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick as Manchester City stormed to the top of the Premier League with a 6-0 rout of Watford at Vicarage Road.

Scotland remain in the hunt for a World Cup qualification play-off spot.

Sergio Garcia marked his first appearance on European soil since winning the Masters by heading into the second day of the BMW International in third place.

Scotland’s Scott Jamieson and Sweden’s Alexander Bjork share the lead at the halfway stage of the Tshwane Open, but the round of the day belonged to home favourite Thomas Aiken.

Tom Ince fired Derby into the FA Cup fourth round as two quickfire Rams goals stunned West Brom.

Philippe Coutinho and Sadio Mane fired Liverpool to victory over West Brom but a late defensive lapse cost them the chance to go top of the Premier League.

Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal hailed one of the best rounds of his career after claiming the halfway lead in the Spanish Open at a testing Valderrama.

Claudio Ranieri has named Tottenham as title favourites as the Leicester boss moves to ease the pressure off his side.

Chelsea’s search for successive Barclays Premier League wins this season goes on.

Guus Hiddink has vowed to blood youngsters in Chelsea’s pursuit of a top-four finish in the Premier League — and insisted the quest would not be “boring”.

Remi Garde has admitted he could be forced to abandon long-held principles and turn to sports psychologists to dig Aston Villa out of the relegation mire.

West Brom 2 Arsenal 1

The woes continued for Newcastle, Sunderland and Stoke in the Premier League today.

Given the summer he’s had, this seems like a quiet week for Paul Dunne.

With Gibraltar v Ireland on September 4 regarded by many – if not Martin O’Neill – as a foregone conclusion, there will almost be as much interest from Irish supporters in the Georgia v Scotland and Germany v Poland games which also take place in European Championship Group D on the same day.

Spain striker Pedro feels a lack of playing time left him with no choice but to leave Barcelona and make the move to Premier League champions Chelsea.

West Brom 2 Chelsea 3: Jose Mourinho refused to blame Chelsea captain John Terry for his sending-off in the club’s narrow win over West Brom and instead the Paranoid One vowed to continue coaching his players to expect to be reduced to 10 men.

Dustin Johnson admitted an opening 66 in the US PGA Championship was as easy as he made it look, but the hard part will be converting that into an overdue first major title after numerous near misses.

Fit-again Rory McIlroy will not add tournaments to his 2015 schedule in order to make up lost time for his injury-enforced absence this summer.

Tiger Woods was in contention for his first PGA Tour win in two years as he lay in joint third after his second round of the Quicken Loans National.

Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger added his name to the illustrious list of Alstom Open de France champions thanks to a brilliant closing 65 at Le Golf National on Sunday.

Steven Naismith believes Scotland are “definitely on track” for France 2016.

Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths and Dundee ‘keeper Scott Bain have been called up to the Scotland squad for their Euro 2016 qualifier against Ireland at the Aviva Stadium on June 13.

West Brom 3 Chelsea 0: This was an extraordinary evening at The Hawthorns in every sense.

Robin van Persie started his first game in 10 weeks as Manchester United looked to return to winning ways against West Brom.

Boss Brendan Rodgers admits Liverpool must win their last five games to reach the Champions League.

Leicester climbed off the bottom of the Barclays Premier League as a 2-0 home win over Swansea gave them a third successive victory.

FA Cup Round-up: West Brom manager Tony Pulis refused to get carried away after the Baggies trounced Premier League rivals West Ham 4-0 to reach an FA Cup quarter-final.

Reinvigorated striker Brown Ideye inspired West Brom to a 4-0 FA Cup romp against West Ham as the Baggies reached the quarter-finals in style.

West Brom 0 Tottenham 3: Harry Kane has no intention of easing up as he continues to plunder the goals for Tottenham.

Premier League

West Brom are now just four points above the drop zone

Byeong-hun An shot a seven-under-par 65 on day three of the HSBC Abu Dhabi Golf Championship to move into contention.

Martin Kaymer held a one-shot lead in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship after carding a five-under-par 67 on Friday, with Rory McIlroy two shots off the pace after a 66 which included a first career hole in one

Martin Kaymer stretched his lead to five shots at the end of his second round at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.

Chelsea again have outright possession of top spot in the Barclays Premier League following a 2-0 victory over Newcastle at Stamford Bridge.

FA Cup — Saturday review

Blyth Spartans saw their hopes of an FA Cup third-round upset ended by Birmingham’s second-half fightback at Croft Park.

James Morrison insists there is nowhere for the West Brom players to hide as he bids to impress Tony Pulis.

QPR 3 West Brom 2

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