Wayne Rooney owes a debt of gratitude to Cristiano Ronaldo for ensuring he did not shoulder the blame for England’s World Cup exit in Gelsenkirchen.

Former Ukrainian prime miister Pavlo Lazarenko was jailed for nine years and fined £5.3m (€7.8m) for money laundering, wire fraud and extortion.

Leeds boss Terry Venables is demanding his players get into “the winning habit” as he targets an Elland Road knockout on his long-overdue return to Europe.