Watkins saw his World Cup dreams suffer a big blow on Friday when he was left out of Thomas Tuchel’s squad.

City have a chance to win the first major trophy of the season on Sunday as they face Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final

With Manchester United drawing and Liverpool losing, Chelsea had the chance to go fourth.

Elsewhere James Abankwah plays the full match as Watford keep a clean sheet away at Leicester.

The Reds’ hopes of returning to European football’s premier club competition next season suffered another blow after a Danny Welbeck double inflicted their 10th loss of a dismal title defence.

All the Icelander will require when the squad holds their first training session on Monday is honesty

Patrick Kielty was joined on Friday evening by Mary Black, along with her daughter Róisín and son Danny, Colleen Rooney and Jason McAteer

The first piece of silverware of the season will be handed out at Wembley on Sunday.

The singer, who performed with the De Dannan group, died at home on Monday at the age of 72

Sure, have a contract, Heimir. What could possibly go wrong?

Parrott’s goal and assist in AZ Alkmaar’s 4-0 Conference League destruction of Sparta Prague underlined why the Czechia boss has branded the Ireland striker a killer.

No place for Trent Alexander-Arnold or Luke Shaw.

Meanwhile, Ismaila Sarr booked Crystal Palace a Conference League quarter-final meeting with Fiorentina with the extra-time winner in their 2-1 victory at nine-man AEK Larnaca to settle the tie by the same score on aggregate

Coleman’s inactivity at Everton convinced the Ireland manager to drop his captain for the start of the campaign but the 37-year-old started all four qualifiers upon his recall, culminating in November’s late victory over Hungary

Setting the tone in Prague will be an Icelandic gaffer whose demeanour could hardly be more different to the cliched depictions of Irish sides that traded for so long on emotion

Paul Dunlea also includes Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock and a production of West Side Story in his selections 

Iran’s participation at the finals has been cast into doubt after the United States and Israel launched air strikes on the country at the end of February

Relentless rain, rising participation and limited facilities leave GAA clubs scrambling for space, accelerating demand for all-weather pitches

Brendan O'Brien and John Fallon react to the news that the Boys in Green manager is staying on and set up a huge week for Irish football.

Hallgrimsson confirmed the news on Thursday in a press conference announcing a 25-man squad for next Thursday’s World Cup play-off away to Czechia.