40-year-old Welch is set to become the first female referee in top-flight history.

It's another busy weekend of top-flight English football action. 

Ireland captain Katie McCabe is named twenty fourth on the list after a fantastic year for both club and country.

Klopp’s team was the youngest in their history by some considerable margin to play a European game with an average age of just 21.9 years and six players aged 20 or under and that showed against the Belgian league leaders.

Liverpool’s top spot was already secure despite a second defeat but the win took Union into the Europa Conference League play-offs.

When he was just six-weeks-old, Finn O'Shea was diagnosed with underdeveloped kidneys

This season alone, United's statistics reflects their slump - 12 defeats and 11 wins in 24 matches.

Tuesday’s lifeless defeat confirmed United’s place at the bottom of a Champions League group many expected them to progress from.

Injuries mean third-choice keeper likely to start.

It is the sixth time they have failed to qualify for the knockout stages and just the second they have finished bottom of the group, the other being in 2005-06.

By the end of Tuesday's Champions League loss, Man Utd had five academy players on the pitch, ages ranged between 17 and 35, in outline evidence of internal good health, in reality another symptom of a machine that wants to function properly but has for so long been made to judder along at half-speed

“This is the level we want to play, the Champions League, so we have to give every effort to get into the top four so next year we are back in the Champions League” said the Dutchman.

A 1-0 defeat at home to Bayern Munich, their 15th goal conceded in six matches, ensured Erik ten Hag’s side finished bottom of Group A even without Copenhagen’s win over Galatasaray.

Sevilla, Europa League champions for the seventh time last season, finished bottom of the group on two points.

A win over the Serie A giants could be enough for the Magpies to extend their stay at Europe’s top table.

Their exit underlines how far they have fallen behind Europe’s elite.

The six nominees are Rory McIlroy, Stuart Broad, Frankie Dettori, Mary Earps, Katrina Johnson-Thompson and Alfie Hewett.

The perennial Bundesliga champions opened Group A with a 4-3 home win against the Red Devils and went on to seal progress to the Champions League knockout phase with two matches to spare.

For Manchester United, the worst-case scenario is that they lose to Bayern and finish bottom of the group with only one win and one draw to their name – leaving them out of Europe all together.

The Old Trafford side face Bayern Munich on Tuesday evening.