A social worker who wrote a letter to garda whistle blower Sgt Maurice McCabe in December 2015 containing false allegations of sexual abuse has denied she was "a puppet of the gardaí".

Celtic cruised through to the Scottish League Cup final with a 2-0 win over Rangers at Hampden Park on a day when the gulf between the two traditional rivals was laid bare.

Leinster's Champions Cup odyssey is at an end but not before they took back-to-back defending champions Toulon to extra time on French soil in a tight encounter in Marseille.

Chelsea 3 Shakhtar Donetsk 2

Tottenham suffered their biggest home defeat of Andre Villas-Boas’ reign as West Ham ran riot with a stunning second-half display at White Hart Lane.

Arsenal 1 Tottenham 0

Republic of Ireland 2 Austria 2

A police fitness test in the UK should be scrapped because it favours overweight “blobby bobbies” over higher quality female officers, says a leading occupational health expert.

Roy Keane has warned Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho he would be “knocked out” if he tried to shake hands before the final whistle in Sunday league football.

Newcastle 1 Norwich 0

Celtic 0 Kilmarnock 1

Newcastle 1 Club Brugge 0

Hearts 0 Celtic 4

Hearts 0 Tottenham 5

Bayer Leverkusen 2 Chelsea 1

Alex Ferguson has questioned whether assistant referee John Flynn should ever be appointed to a Premier League match again after his penalty blunder cost Manchester United victory over Newcastle at Old Trafford this afternoon.

Chelsea 3 Wolves 0

Blackburn 0 Wigan 1

St Mirren 0 Celtic 1

Newcastle 2 Wigan 2