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Paul Pogba has hit back at spectators who booed France and Denmark players before, during and after the first goalless draw of the World Cup on Tuesday.

Paul Pogba has hit back at spectators who booed France and Denmark players before, during and after the first goalless draw of the World Cup on Tuesday.

Rochdale manager Keith Hill celebrated his team’s FA Cup draw with Tottenham - and defended the right of Dele Alli to win the penalty that almost shattered the hosts’ hopes.

Premier League football highlights will continue to be shown on Match of the Day after the BBC announced it has agreed a new three-year deal.

It takes a strong man to come back from adversity to succeed again after being mercilessly mocked for failing at the highest level, but it takes a very special kind of man to do that without any trace of bitterness, anger or regret.

Football autobiographies tend to set their stall out early doors.

Lego said it has "no plans" for future free giveaways in The Daily Mail following a campaign calling on advertisers to boycott newspapers that promoted "demonisation and division" during the Brexit debate.

For all the superlatives rightly thrown in the direction of Joe Schmidt’s team the past couple of days, one aspect of Soldier Field has probably still not been fully appreciated.

A poster mocking the apparent ages of child refugees entering the UK was pinned up in Parliament.

The Cork-native has claimed that bosses are keen to see him axed, either him or Match of the Day host, Gary Lineker.

So Leicester lost away at newly promoted Hull, and this weekend we were the better side in a 0-0 draw with Arsenal. Had it not been for a couple of questionable penalty decisions that didn’t go Leicester’s way from referee Mark Clattenburg, most fans would have been delighted to have taken a point from the mighty Arsenal. So we only drew with Arsenal. Only!

“He has something really big going on now,” Quinny warned us, as Big Sam gyrated provocatively across the Stadium of Light pitch, yanking off his jacket and threatening, for a terrifying moment, a celebratory full monty.

Lionel Messi spoke for the great and the good of world soccer, not to mention millions of grassroots fans, when he acclaimed Leicester City’s extraordinary Premier League triumph by tweeting: “The reason why we all love football. Congratulations”.

Gary Lineker believes the Premier League still does not attract the best players in the world despite the bumper new television deal.

Gary Lineker has backed Wayne Rooney to amass plenty more England goals between now and the end of his international career and hopes that he can lead the country to the 2018 World Cup.

Gary Lineker has been unveiled as the face of BT Sport’s coverage of the Champions League from next season.

Benfica youngster Romario Baldé produced perhaps the worst ‘Panenka’ of all time in the Uefa Youth League.

Nigel Pearson has escaped punishment for appearing to throttle James McArthur but has been reminded of his responsibilities by the Football Association, it is understood.

Arsenal v Leicester: Tonight: Leicester boss Nigel Pearson has rounded on Match of the Day pundits after his scuffle with James McArthur.

Leicester manager Nigel Pearson will lead his team into tomorrow’s clash with Arsenal after holding on to his job.

Gary Lineker has criticised supporters who booed Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

Gary Lineker thinks England manager Roy Hodgson got his tactics completely wrong at the World Cup.

Your daily spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

Thomas Hitzlsperger’s announcement he is gay has been described as “an important sign of our time” by Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski.

Tim Sherwood is to take charge of Tottenham in an interim role after Spurs sacked Andre Villas-Boas as manager.

Fabio Capello, Glenn Hoddle and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino have emerged as contenders for the vacant Tottenham manager’s position after Spurs sacked Andre Villas-Boas yesterday.

Gary Lineker has said his decision to leave Twitter was because “it tends to take over”.

The day before the day of days. Soon, that protracted qualification tournament held in London last summer will have produced an overall winner.

John Giles was astonished by remarks from Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker regarding the punditry style of RTÉ’s soccer analysts.

There can surely only be a few striking days to Christmessi now.

Gary Lineker says Eamon Dunphy and John Giles couldn’t get away with the type of punditry they do on RTÉ if they were working in England.

The scene in Gary Lineker’s Dublin hotel room is much as you’d expect: a hole kicked angrily in the television screen, Hell’s Angels wandering about, Keith Richards passed out in a corner and the main man himself, a bloody scar of unknown origin snaking down the side of his face, screaming at his terrified handlers in between swigs of Wild Turkey straight from the neck.

The Olympics have given the Twitter trolls an outlet. But the big names are fighting back, says Noelle McCarthy

When you really stop and think about it, Giovanni Trapattoni’s comments on Monday night were pretty startling.

They tell me that Kaiser Chiefs had been set to share the billing with Aslan at Shamrock Rovers’ ground later this month.

STUTTGART, June 12, 1988. Ray Houghton’s goal. Packie Bonner defying Gary Lineker and everything else England could throw at him. The full-time scoreboard reading ‘England 0 Rep of Ireland 1. And, beneath it, the Green Army going positively bonkers.

With less than a week to go, we are still mired, rear wheels spinning, in nostalgia.