Manchester United's Wayne Rooney has won four Premier League titles and improved Liverpool will challenge for the Premier League title in the new season.

Liverpool, who finished sixth last term and have signed midfield trio Jordan Henderson, Charlie Adam and Stewart Downing during the summer and they are have made some really good signings, said Rooney and i am sure they will be fighting harder than they ever have done to be up there. They will think they have a chance of winning the title.

Rooney will be aiming to collect a 5th Premier League winners' medal this season with United, but he wants to kick-off the season with a victory over FA Cup winners Manchester City in the Community Shield at Wembley on 7 August and When you play at a club like Manchester United and the goal is to win all the competitions, said the England international.

The 25-year-old also said United's summer signings have made him feel like a relative veteran at the club and the United have bought 20-year-old goalkeeper David De Gea and teenage defender Phil Jones from Blackburn, as well as Ashley Young from Aston Villa and the have been a lot of changes this summer and when you look around the dressing room now, suddenly it's a lot younger place.

Suspended former Fifa presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam and he was suspended by Fifa on 29 May and he expects Fifa to find him guilty

Fifa's ethics committee has begun a two-day hearing to rule on the claims the Qatari tried to a bribe Caribbean delegates to vote for him as president and it seems likely that Fifa has already made its decision weeks ago and he wrote in a blog of the none of us should be surprised if a guilty verdict is returned.

Bin Hammam 62 pulled out of the presidential race in a wake of the allegations and was provisionally suspended on 29 May and he want you all to know that my legal team and Ii can remain confident that the case and the evidence presented against me are weak and unsubstantiated. They are flimsy and will not stand up to scrutiny in any court of law that has been clear throughout this process and it remains to be so.

Bin Hammam and former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner were suspended when a leaked report revealed 4 Caribbean Football Union of the associations were either offered money or saw the offence occur, during a meeting in May and it is alleged bribes of US$40,000 were paid or offered to each of the 25 associations who attended the meeting.

George Boateng to join Hasselbaink at Nottingham Forest have confirmed the appointment.

Nottingham Forest have confirmed the appointment of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as first-team coach and are also set to wrap up the signing of George Boateng and the Former Chelsea striker Hasselbaink, 39, has now put pen to paper but midfielder Boateng, 35, still needs to pass a medical before his move is finalised.

Former Netherlands international Boateng has a wealth of Premier League experience having played 14 consecutive seasons in the England's top flight Boateng first joined Coventry and has also played for Aston Villa and Hull as well as Boro and he was at Skoda Xanthi in Greece last season and has been training with Forest.

Hasselbaink enjoyed a goal laden career in England most of the notably with Chelsea where he scored 88 goals during a 4 season stint from 2000 to 2004 and Hasslebaink retired in 2008 and had a spell working as part of McClaren's coaching team while the former England boss was FC Twente boss.

Club career for a Born in Nkawkaw, Ghana, after playing 70 games for Dutch giants Feyenoord Rotterdam, Boateng completed a £220,000 move to a Coventry City in 1998 and Under the management of Gordon Strachan and he proved himself to be a solid defensive midfielder for helping the attacking Dublin Huckerby Coventry side of 1998 finish eleventh in a Premier League and enjoy mid table stability.

Carlos Tevez still wants to leave Manchester City and Tevez scored 23 goals for Manchester City last season

Carlos Tevez still determined to leave Manchester City and is not "overly worried" by the collapse of his move to Corinthians, says his representative and the Brazilian side pulled out of a £40m move for the 27-year-old on Wednesday.

This is Carlos Tevez we are talking about, one of the best players in the world and We are not overly worried and he wants to leave but is still a City player at the moment and we will of course respect that the Joorabchian said he expects there to be interest from other clubs in the striker for the signed a five-year deal with City in July 2009.

Kia Joorabchian said, in the end this came down to small details, to haggling over a relatively small amount of money.

The City thought they had agreed a deal with Corinthians for the Argentine and the Sao Paulo based outfit had to pull out because they could not finalise the transfer before the close in the international transfer window at 0400 BST on Thursday.

Tevez has previously had spells with Manchester United and West Ham and has said he wants to leave City to spend more time with his daughters and he submitted a transfer request last December before withdrawing it and helping City finish third in the Premier League table.

Neymar ready for Real Agent and the Santos star said to be close to Madrid agreement and Neymar Could be set to agree a move to Europe after all

Neymar's on-off transfer saga appears to be back on after his agent claimed the Santos star is ready to join Real Madrid and the yesterday Neymar announced he would be staying at Santos for the foreseeable future and the Brazilian teenage sensation is now said to be on the verge of agreeing a deal with Real Madrid.

Chelsea and Barcelona have also been chasing the 19-year-old and it will be seems Real have won the race and are willing to pay Neymar's €45million get out clause and there is nothing else to discuss and the only thing left is for Real Madrid to pay up his agent and the Wagner Ribeiro told Marca and if they do, Santos have nothing to do apart from pick up their share of the transfer fee.

Neymar just has to decide when to come to Real Madrid and because he wants to play in a Club World Cup and the Santos are set to play in the competition for the first time in December after Neymar helped them win the Copa Libertadores last month.

Brazilian outfit will come up against UEFA Champions League winners Barca in the Japan and the Spanish giants look unable to make a move for Neymar of this summer having allocated this summer's transfer budget towards signing Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas and Udinese winger Alexis Sanchez and the Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has openly declared his wish for an additional striker and may be willing to wait until after the Club World Cup for Neymar to arrive at the Bernabeu.

Carlos Tevez's move from Man City to Corinthians is off and he has fallen through because the Brazilian club pulled out.

City thought a £40m deal had been agreed for the Argentine striker after he told in the Premier League outfit he wanted to return to South America and the Corinthians said there was not enough time to sign the the 27-year-old before the Brazilian transfer window closes at 04:00 BST on Thursday.

Corinthians still want Tevez and hinted an agreement can be reached in January and it had appeared that the former West Ham forward had got his wish in a transfer but then the statement for a Corinthians said that the board of Sporting Club Corinthians hereby officially announce the impossibility of hiring the Argentine striker Carlos Tevez.

Carlos Tevez saga carrier for a 12 December 2010 - Tevez says he is going to leave Man City ,20 December 2010 - Withdraws transfer request and commits future to club,16 May 2011 - Says he will only stay at club if solution found to "family issues",8 June 2011 - Tevez says he will never return to "small and wet" Manchester and the 4 July - Confirms he is going to leave Manchester City.

Tevez who is contracted to City until 2014 and he has been a key player for the club since arriving from the neighbours Manchester United in 2009 and he helped Mancini's side to FA Cup success and the Champions League qualification in a 2010/2011 campaign Tevez scored 43 Premier League goals in his two seasons at City and highest total of any player in the top division.

Northern Ireland defender Stephen Craigan Steps down from international duty.

Northern Ireland defender Stephen Craigan quits for a Centre-half steps down after eight years.

The 34-year-old Motherwell captain made his debut against Finland in 2003 and last played for his country in the Euro 2012 qualifier against Slovenia in March and the Craigan captained Northern Ireland five times and the earned 54 caps during his international career playing in famous triumphs over Spain in 2005 and England in 2006.

The centre back said it has been a wonderful journey and I have loved every minute playing for my country and it has been a great privilege playing in front of the Green and White Army who have been amazing during my time with the team and I would like to thank everyone for their support and wish (manager) Nigel (Worthington) and the team all the very best in the up and coming Euro 2012 qualifiers."

International career for a Stephen Craigan is Motherwell's record cap holder having received for the 54 caps for Northern Ireland and he played in their 1/0 victory against England in September 2005 and the 3/2 win over Spain a year later and he captained his country on their end of season tour in the 2010 against Turkey and Chile and continued as captain against Montenegro on 11 August 2010.

5 year deal for Aston Villa sign Shay Given from Manchester City and Shay Given played second fiddle to Joe Hart for Man City last season

The 35-year-old has signed a 5 year contract at Villa Park after the clubs agreed an undisclosed fee and the New Villa boss Alex McLeish targeted the former Newcastle man after Brad Friedel moved to Tottenham.

Shay Given career for a Republic of Ireland's most capped player with 113 appearances,Was on the bench for Manchester City's FA Cup win over Stoke in May - his only honour and the Has made over 400 Premier League starts.

The Irish international will make his Villa debut for a friendly against Walsall on the Thursday and he is McLeish's first signing since taking over at Villa Park and the former Birmingham manager believes Given will have a major impact at the club.

Shay has come here with something of a point to prove and that won't do him any harm at a all McLeish said for a everybody who has watched him perform over many years in a Premier League will know his pedigree so we believe we have secured the services of one of the best goalkeepers in the business.

International career for he did not become a regular first team player for Blackburn Rovers Given's performances while on loan at the Swindon and Sunderland led to him being called up to a Republic of the Ireland squad in 1996 and he made his debut for the national team on 27 March 1996 in a game against Russia and although Ireland failed to qualify for the 1998 World Cup or Euro 2000.

Cabaye for a newcastle midfielder refused entry visa for pre-season tour of USA

Unhappy hat-trick for Magpies for a Cabaye becomes third player to be denied US entry visa prior to the club's pre-season tour 25-year-old Frenchman a £4.8million arrival from Lille, did not join rest of the travelling party when they headed across Atlantic on Sunday and like Joey Barton and Nile Ranger is to miss out on the trip.

Cabaye's absenc which it is understood relates to the minor issue which has now been resolved and it will come for a blow to manager Alan Pardew and had hoped to assimilate his new signings in the squad during their time in America and the Pardew insisted last Thursday that Barton of the application was rejected because of his spell behind bars for assault, would slip seamlessly back into the first-team squad on their return.

He, like Ranger, who was convicted for his part in a street robbery as a 15 year old and it will instead join the development squad when they head for their training camp in Holland later this week he will now also go to Holland is a another facing a frustrating wait to resume training with his new team mates with he and fellow new arrivals Demba Ba, Sylvain Marveaux and Mehdi Abeid having only started work on Tyneside the week before last.

International career for the Cabaye is a former French youth international having represented his nation internationally at the  under-16,under-18,under-19,under-20, and under-21 level and he earned his 1st call up at the international level in October 2001 and he was called up to the under-16 team to play in the Tournoi du Val-de-Marne.

Tevez scored 20 league goals for Manchester City last season and Corinthians yet to agree deal for Man City's Carlos Tevez

Brazilian club Corinthians say they have not yet struck a deal to sign Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez On Sunday and the City boss Roberto Mancini claimed a deal had been reached for the 27-year-old of the only personal terms still to be agreed.

But a Corinthians statement for aWe would like to clarify to the public that City did not accept our offer and City sent a counter-proposal in the early hours and this will be analysed by Corinthians and £39m bid from the Brazilians was rejected last week speaking from Vancouver over the weekend where his team are on a pre-season tour of the City boss Roberto Mancini said a deal had been agreed.

Trevez saga timeline for a 12 December 2010 - Tevez says he is going to leave Manchester City,20 December 2010 - withdraws transfer request and commits future to club,16 May 2011 - says he will only stay at club if solution found to "family issues",8 June 2011 - Tevez says he will never return to "small and wet" Manchester,4 July - confirms he is going to leave Manchester City and the 18 July - City boss Roberto Mancini says club have agreed deal, but Corinthians' statement disputes.

A English club have asked for changes in the form of payment and on the value of the transfer to a Manchester City has also insisted that Tevez would have to give up a pending amount with them and the Lastly our president Andres Sanchez informs us that for the time being there does not exist anything concrete for he played Argentine international Tevez joint top scorer in the Premier League last season with 20 goals.

Republic recall for James McCarthy and the Trapattoni expecting tough test against Croatia

James McCarthy has been recalled to the Republic of Ireland squad for a friendly date with Croatia and the Scotland-born Wigan midfielder has won three caps for his adopted country but was at the centre of confusion when he pulled out of May's Carling Nations Cup fixtures and a Euro 2012 qualifier against Macedonia amid conflicting reports over an ankle injury.

He was assured by manager Giovanni Trapattoni that he still has a future with the Republic, though and he returns along with Stoke pair Marc Wilson and Jonathan Walters who also pulled out of the games and the 10th August encounter in the Dublin and Wolves striker Kevin Doyle is also named in a 32-man squad, his first call-up since suffering a knee ligament injury against Macedonia in March, which also ruled him out of much of his club's ultimately successful relegation battle.

International career for the age 15 McCarthy opted to play for the Republic of Ireland and he was eligible through his family links to Gweedore, County Donegal and he made a promise to his dying grandfather to do so the McCarthy also claimed that he would have played for the Scotland if they had offered him an international call-up first.

Early life for a McCarthy was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland and he is the youngest child of Willie and Marie McCarthy and is a alumnus of St Margaret Mary's Secondary School in Castlemilk and he grew up supporting Celtic and would later try out for their youth teams was turned down due to the large number of players the club had already taken on.

Charles N'Zogbia Played 38 Games For Wigan Last Season, Scoring 10 Goals And He Has Made Almost 250 Appearances in English Football, With Wigan and Former Club Newcastle United.

Aston Villa have made a bid to sign Wigan Athletic winger Charles N'Zogbia, BBC Sport understands and the New manager Alex McLeish is keen on the Frenchman to replace Stewart Downing of the is in talks with Liverpool after the clubs agreed a fee on Tuesday.

Charles N'Zogbia 25, has made almost 250 appearances in English football with Wigan and former club Newcastle United and the McLeish was on the verge of signing N'Zogbia last August for  the Scot was in charge of Birmingham City and the transfer broke down over personal terms.

N'Zogbia at a glance for a born May 1986 in Harfleur,France and Signed by Sir Bobby Robson for Newcastle in 2004,Joined Wigan in January 2009,Made France debut in August 2010 and the Scored nine Premier League goals in 2010/11 as Wigan avoided relegation.

International career for a N'Zogbia played twice for the France under 16 national side in 2002. In the summer of 2006, he was selected for the France under 21 and 24-man provisional squad for the European Under-21 Football Championship in Portugal.

N'Zogbia started out in English football at Newcastle United following his 2004 move from Le Havre and he has moved to Wigan in January 2009 after falling out of favour at St James' Park and was voted player of the season by players and fans in the 2009/10 season. 

England exit for Baldini and Capello's right-hand man to join Roma after Euro qualifiers.

England general manager Franco Baldini will leave his post after the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign to join Roma and Baldini, Fabio Capello's right hand man with the 3 Lions is the best English speaker of the Italian regime and has been used for the main contact with the players and he will join the Serie A side in the either October or November of this year.

Capello has long confirmed his own intention to step down when his contract expires after the Euro 2012 finals next summer and the Baldini has been allowed to relinquish his duties prior to the finals in Poland and Ukraine although there remains a possibility he could return for the tournament and should England qualify.

Full agreement for a england currently top qualifying Group G on goal difference from the  Montenegro with 3 games in the campaign remaining for the away to Bulgaria and at home to Wales in September before and what is likely to be the crucial trip to Podgorica in October.

It is important to make clear that Franco will continue in his current role on a full time basis until either October or November 2011 for depending for the England's progress in a qualifying group and he will not commence his work with Roma until after this time and the Franco has taken this decision with the full agreement of England manager Fabio Capello for at this time for still to be decided if Franco will return to work with Fabio and the England team for their February friendly and the European Championships (subject to qualification).

Vieira Hangs Up His Boots And The Former Gunners Star Takes Up New Role At City And Vieira Has Retiring From Playing To Take Up New Role At Manchester City.

Patrick Vieira has retired as a player to take up a new role of a football development executive at Manchester City and the 35-year-old has been handed the new role at City after deciding to hang up his boots after an illustrious career.

Vieira spent 18 months at City after arriving from Inter Milan in January 2010, but he struggled to hold down a regular place in Roberto Mancini's side and the former Arsenal star played a bit-part role last season and the most of his Premier League appearances coming off the bench and he was not offered a new deal when his contract expired earlier this summer.

He has chosen to extend his time with Manchester City in this new capacity and the Senegal born star won three Premier League titles and four FA Cups during a a glittering 9 year spell at the Arsenal and Vieira, who won 107 caps for France, was a member of the 1998 World Cup winning side and the Euro 2000 winning squad for Les Bleus.

International career for a Vieira chose to make his debut for France in 1997 against the Netherlands. He was part of the France squad in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and he came on as a substitute in the final against Brazil, and set up Emmanuel Petit for France's 3rd goal in a 3/0 win and he, with the rest of the squad and received Knight of Legion honneur France's highest decoration in a 1998.

Bhoys end on a high and the Brown goal gives Celtic win over Melbourne and Brown Scored The Winner for Celtic in Final Match Down Under

Celtic ended their three-match tour of Australia on a high note following a 1-0 win over Melbourne Victory at Ammi Park and the second half goal from substitute Scott Brown was enough to give manager Neil Lennon's side their second victory Down Under.

The Parkhead club, skippered by the Greece striker Georgios Samaras as a tribute to the big Greek community in the city, were worthy winners in what was another highly competitive friendly match and had it not been for home goalkeeper Tando Velaphi and the margin of victory for Lennon's side would have been greater.

Daniel Allsopp passed up two decent chances of the including a near post header with which he should have opened the scoring and Celtic responded positively again with Kris Commons picking out McCourt at the far post with a wonderful delivery but the former Derry City player was unable to keep his header down.

Lennon's side dominated the closing stages and Striker Gary Hooper's low cross was almost turned into his own net by Adrian Leijer, before Anthony Stokes on for McCourt drove into the side netting and the Hooper was then unable to get on to the end of Samaras' inviting pass which would have surely resulted in a goal had he connected.

Inter Milan deny receiving offer for Wesley Sneijder and He Was Helped the Netherlands to the 2010 World Cup final in South Africa

Inter Milan technical director Marco Branca insists the Italian club have not received any official offers for Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder and the Premier League champions Manchester United have been strongly linked with a move for the 27-year-old, but Inter are adamant he is not available.

Wesley Sneijder at a glance born in Utrecht in June 1984,Won respected Johan Cruyff Award (best young player in the Netherlands) with Ajax in 2004,Known for being comfortable passing the ball with both feet,Mixed time with Real Madrid, who he joined in 2007 for 27m Euros,Man of the match for his national team in six out of eleven games at Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup and Scored as Inter knock Barcelona out on their way to winning the 2010 Champions League.

Branca, insists that no official offers have been received and also denied reports in the Italian press that a meeting between the agent of the Sneijder who is under contract with Inter until June 2015 and his current club was scheduled this week and the There are no meetings planned, he said and We don't sell by force.

Sneijder currently in pre season training with Inter joined from Real Madrid in 2009 and the helped the Nerazzurri to a Champions League, Serie A and Coppa Italia treble in his first season and he is also being linked with big spending Spanish side Malaga.

McClaren expects movement and the Reds boss believes he is closing on new recruits and he is Working hard to bring in fresh faces

Nottingham Forest boss Steve McClaren is hoping to have positive transfer news to report by the end of the week and the Reds manager has been left frustrated in his efforts so far this summer and with free agent Andy Reid the only new arrival in the City Ground.

With a number of players having headed for the exits, Forest find themselves short on the numbers with the 2011/12 campaign fast approaching and the situation has become alarming enough for McClaren to suggest that he may be forced to miss the club's impending trip to a Portugal as he continues to search for fresh faces.

He is hoping to avoid such an occurrence, with it his intention to be involved in a full pre-season programme, and he believes he could welcome further recruits by Friday and We hope that something will happen in the next two or three days and it is imperative I stay here and hopefully meet players," McClaren told the club's official website.

England After Eriksson announced in January 2006 that he would leave as England manager after the 2006 World Cup finals McClaren also know as (the wally with the brolley) was placed on the Football Association's shortlist to succeed him alongside Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley, Martin O'Neill and Luiz Felipe Scolari and the FA first offered the position to Scolari, but he rejected the offer claiming that the role would mean excessive media intrusion in his life and he was subsequently announced as Eriksson's successor on 4 May 2006 after signing a 4 year contract.

Corinthians make £35m bid for Man City's Carlos Tevez at Old Trafford

Manchester City have received a £35m bid from Brazilian side Corinthians for Carlos Tevez but the offer is likely to be rejected by the Eastlands hierarchy and the Corinthians hope to bring the 27-year-old back to the club where he enjoyed success from 2004-2006 and made their move after Tevez revealed he wanted to leave City to be reunited with his family.

City are considering the 40m Euro offer, but early indications are that Corinthians will need to a increase their bid if they are to the persuade the Eastlands outfit to a sell the striker and who captained them to their first major trophy in 35 years when they won the FA Cup in May and the BBC Sport understands that City will step up their pursuit of Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero once Tevez's future has been settled after opening dialogue with the La Liga side about the Argentina striker.

International career for a he is first came into prominence with Argentina while playing in the FIFA U-17 World Championship and the 2004 Olympic Games, he won the gold medal and scored eight goals (including the winner in the final) in six matches to be the top scorer of the competition.

He was the world's second-highest goalscorer of 2004 in overall international competition with sixteen goals, one fewer than Iran forward Ali Daei and he was called up for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals, and scored his only goal of the tournament in Argentina's 6–0 group stage thrashing of Serbia and Montenegro on 16 June.

Qatar allegations withdrawn and the 'Whistleblower' says she fabricated World Cup corruption allegations

The 'whistleblower' who accused the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid team of corruption has withdrawn her accusations, apologised and said they were fabricated and the are Phaedra Al Majid of a former media officer for Qatar 2022 and has claimed she made up the accusation in order to exact revenge for losing her job.

Al Majid accused Fifa members Issa Hayatou, Jacques Anouma and Amos Adamu of receiving bribes in the order to back the gulf state's bid for the tournament, awarded to them last December ahead of the likes of Australia and the USA and those claims were then repeated in Parliament in a culture, media and sport select committee hearing into the 2018 and 2022 bid process, which also saw England lose out to Russia in the bid to host the 2018 competition.

Al Majid said she never thought her claims would end up in a Parliamentary committee and insisted she has not been put under pressure by the bid team or paid by them for a change her story and i wish to offer a full and formal apology of the fabricated allegations concerning and the Qatar 2022 Fifa World Cup bid committee and Fifa executive committee members Issa Hayatou, Jacques Anouma and Amos Adamu and she said in a statement and the Never, at any time, were any bribes even offered, suggested or paid on behalf of the Qatar 2022 bid during any time in exchange for votes from Issa Hayatou, Jacques Anouma and Amos Adamu.

Arsenal confirm signing of Lille striker Gervinho and the 24-year-old scored 15 goals to help Lille win the French league and Cup double last season.

International career for a Gervinho is the captain for the Ivory Coast Olympic team. In September 2007 he scored along side Metin from the penalty spot to help secure a 3–1 victory over Mali in a Beijing 2008 qualifying game and he was named in the Ivorian senior squad for the first time for the friendlies against Angola and Qatar in November 2007, and was picked for the Ivorian squad for their 2008 African Cup of Nations campaign in Ghana where he was given the number 97 shirt.

He made his competitive debut for the Ivorian team during the 2008 Nations Cup where he made two substitute appearances and On 15 June 2010, Gervinho played his first match in a World Cup and he played 82 minutes of their opening match in Group G against European rivals Portugal and he was voted for man of the match by ITV1 viewers for his contribution during the match.

The Gunners are currently on a pre-season tour of the far East and manager Arsene Wenger said for a Gervinho has joined. He had a medical on Thursday and the We sent him home for a couple of days because he has a family and children and he did not come [on tour] because he has not had a [training] session yet.

Gervinho, who captained Ivory Coast at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, recently told France Football magazine and i chose Arsenal because it's a young group within which I will be able to integrate easily and i had no hesitation none and they are in a transfer there's always a period of analysis and negotiations.

The Premier League is a notch above and it's maybe have best league in the world and i want to live that sensation and the paris St Germain have also enquired about Gervinho but Lille general manager Frederic Paquet did not want to "strengthen a competitor" by selling to a domestic rival.

Roof Collapse at FC Twente's De Grolsch Veste stadium in on Thursday and Police to investigate collapse

Probe launched after worker is killed in stadium roof tragedy and the Dutch police have launched a criminal investigation into the roof collapse at FC Twente's De Grolsch Veste stadium.

Part of the stadium's roof caved in on Thursday, killing one construction worker and injuring 15 others and the incident occurred while renovation work was being carried out to add a new tier of seating to a stadium and Police have formed a special team of investigators to establish whether any crime led to the collapse at the venue, which is situated on a outskirts of the Enschede.

It was confirmed on Friday that one of the injured is still in critical condition, while six other people remain hospitalised and the investigators are appealing for amateur video to help piece together how the roof suddenly fell is thought Eredivisie side Twente will be forced to play of their upcoming UEFA Champions League qualifying round games at  neighbouring ground.

Vitesse Arnhem's GelreDome and the Veltins Arena, home of Bundesliga side Schalke, both lie around 100km away from Twente's stadium and the Twente chairman Joop Munsterman told AD of the club's relationship with Schalke the two clubs can get along and, in the case of an emergency and they help each other.

Manchester United defender Chris Smalling signs new deal and Smalling made 33 appearances in his first season at Old Trafford

Manchester United defender Chris Smalling has signed a new five-year deal at Old Trafford and he is a 21-year-old, who arrived from Fulham in the summer of 2010, played 16 league games last season as United were crowned champions for the 19th time.

He has new deal will keep him at Old Trafford until the end of the 2015/16 campaign and is a strong display of faith by manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who has already brought in Blackburn defender Phil Jones this summer.

Ferguson added for i am delighted Chris has signed a new contract and Chris has been outstanding since joining us from Fulham last year and he is an extremely talented young defender he's quick, strong and reads the game well and he is a great asset to the team and Smalling, Jones and Jonny Evans will provide back up and competition for Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic at the heart of the United defence next season, with fellow defenders Wes Brown and John O'Shea having both completed moves to Sunderland on Thursday.

Dale tie up Darby loan and the Full back becomes fifth signing since Eyre took charge at Spotland

Rochdale have confirmed the signing of Liverpool defender Stephen Darby on a season long loan deal and he said news paper revealed earlier on Thursday that Dale had won the race to sign Darby for the 2011/12 campaign ahead of several other clubs.

Doncaster Rovers, MK Dons and Oldham Athletic were all keen on Darby, who spent most of last season on loan in League One with Notts County and he is behind Glen Johnson and Martin Kelly in the pecking order at the Liverpool and his move to a Spotland will give the 22-year-old the chance to build up his first team experience.

Darby becomes Dale manager Steve Eyre's fifth signing since he replaced Keith Hill in charge at Spotland last month and eyre has previously added Marc Twaddle,Ashley Grimes,Simon Hackney and Andrew Tutte to his squad ahead of the coming season.

Manchester United's Wes Brown completes Sunderland Move And He Has Four Year Deal With The Black Cats

Sunderland have completed the signing of Manchester United defender Wes Brown for an undisclosed fee and Brown, 31, has agreed a 4 year deal with the Black Cats and who are also chasing for his United colleagues John O'Shea and Darron Gibson.

He has 23 England caps made his United debut in 1998 and went on to make 361 appearances but had slipped down their pecking order of defenders and O'Shea 30, travelled to Sunderland on Thursday for a medical and he has won 2 Champions League titles, five Premier League winners' medals, two FA Cups and two League Cups with the Red Devils.

Brown is expected to be joined at a Stadium of Light by O'Shea and the future of Gibson, 23 is a less clear, with Newcastle also showing an interest and Meanwhile, Sunderland chief executive Steve Walton and marketing and commercial director Lesley Callaghan are both to leave the club.

Brown's Manchester United honours for a Premier League: 1998/99, 2000/01, 2002/03, 2005/06, 2007/08,Champions League: 1998/99, 2007/08,FA Cup: 1998/99, 2003/04,League Cup: 2005/06, 2009/10 and Community Shield: 2003, 2007, 2008.

Fifa ban Concacaf hopeful and Authorities take action against Austin and Warner has vacated his roles with the Concacaf federation and Fifa.

The power struggle to take over for the Fifa vice presidency vacated by a Jack Warner has taken another twist after the world governing body announced and they have again banned Lisle Austin from football related activities and the austin went to court in the Bahamas last week to try to force through his appointment as successor to Jack Warner as president of the Concacaf confederation of countries from north and central America and the Caribbean - a position which includes being a Fifa vice-president.

Austin from Barbados, had been banned by Concacaf and Fifa but the 75-year-old, a long-time ally of Warner's, emerged from the court claiming victory and the Fifa's disciplinary committee have taken further action against him specifically for his decision to go to the civil courts rather than the Court of a Arbitration of Sport.

Fifa's statutes say "recourse to ordinary courts of law is prohibited unless specifically provided for in the Fifa regulations" and the Fifa spokesman said, "We can confirm that he has been provisionally suspended by the disciplinary committee on Monday for lodging a claim in front of the State Court of Bahamas."

Warner announced last month he was quitting football after being provisionally suspended by the Fifa on bribery charges and the alfredo Hawitt from Honduras has assumed the role of acting president of Concacaf.

Liverpool agree deal to buy Blackpool's Charlie Adam and he scored at Anfield last season in a superb captain's display for Blackpool

Liverpool have reached agreement with Blackpool for the transfer of Scottish midfielder Charlie Adam and the Anfield club said Adam, 25, will now travel to Merseyside for a medical and to discuss personal terms.

In the January transfer window the Reds had two bids of the second worth £6.5m rejected by the Seasiders, who were reportedly holding out for £9m and the Liverpool reopened talks at the end of a season for a player who had only 12 months left on his contract.

Adam, who was on the shortlist of the PFA Player of the Year award last season and joined Blackpool from Scottish Premier League club Rangers for the £500,000 in 2009 and he joins Liverpool, he will become manager Kenny Dalglish's second signing since they finished sixth in the Premier League last season.

Roma's Brazilian goalkeeper Alexander Doni could complete a move to Liverpool in a next 36 hours, according to his agent Ovidio Colucci and the clubs reached an agreement over Doni's transfer last month but the keeper rejected Liverpool's first offer, believing it to be too low.

Didi Hamann has been appointed Stockport County manager on a one-year deal and the ex Liverpool midfielder to begin managerial career in non-league

The former Germany international was on a coaching staff at the MK Dons and Leicester last season and has now chosen to begin his managerial career with non-league County and the Cheshire club saw their 105-year run in the Football League end last season as they were relegated from League Two.

The Hatters will be hopeful of bouncing back at the 1st attempt with a new board now in the place and Hamann being named new boss and ray Mathias had initially been told he would be kept on as manager and the County have now turned to Hamann, who was part of Liverpool's 2005 Champions League winning team and the 37 year old still lives in the area after leaving Manchester City in 2009.

Coaching role for a 62 cap international then had a year away from football before returning in a player coach role with MK Dons last season and the former Bayern Munich and Newcastle midfielder made 12 appearances of the League One club before finishing the campaign as Leicester's first-team coach under his former Man City boss Sven Goran Eriksson and he said at a press conference on Tuesday that he is unlikely to play for County next season but refused to rule it out.

Carlos Tevez nets for Man City at Old Trafford

Manchester City are in no rush to meet striker Carlos Tevez's demand to leave Eastlands and are likely to ask in the excess of £40m to consider selling and the BBC Sport understands Tevez's latest request to leave City has left chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak "sanguine" about developments.

The club believe they are in a position of strength over any potential Tevez transfer and are in no mood to plead with the striker to stay and the Tevez is contracted at City until 2014 and spokesman said: "Carlos is a contracted player to Manchester City for another three years and we have had no offers for him."

Tevez, 27 and he asked City for a transfer in the December and while it now seems inevitable he will eventually move on the City are relaxed about the latest twist and are determined he will only leave when in the time and price is right for them.

City boss Roberto Mancini insisted recently that Tevez would stay after a proposed swap deal with Inter Milan for striker Samuel Eto'o fell through of there is still no great shock inside Eastlands after Tevez made his desire to leave public once again and the argentina international wants to be reunited with his family - with Milan believed to be a favoured destination of there is unlikely to be a swift resolution with City determined not to be railroaded into a deal by the player and his advisors.

England have climbed to a joint high for fourth spot in Fifa's latest world rankings

England have climbed to a joint high fourth spot in Fifa's latest world rankings, while Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have also gone upwards and Fabio Capello's England side have moved above Brazil and Argentina in the rankings, despite only reaching the last 16 in last summer's World Cup, and failing to win two of their last three qualifying matches for next summer's European Championship.

The last time England were as high as fourth was in 1997, when they moved up as a result of a decent performance as hosts of Euro 1996 and the Unsurprisingly, Spain continue to top of a charts ahead of the team they beat in the World Cup final, Netherlands, while Germany have moved up a place to 3rd.

England's points total of 1,146 puts them 16 ahead of fifth-placed Brazil, with Italy, Portugal and Croatia next in the list and Mexico have moved up 19 places to claim a place in the top 10, ahead of Argentina who complete the top 10 and the Republic of Ireland have won their last two Euro 2012 qualifiers and that form has helped Giovanni Trapattoni's team climb three places to 31 in the standings.

Scotland and Northern Ireland are also on the up and the Scots are now 61st as a result of a 5 place leap with Nigel Worthington's side one of the countries they moved above one place behind them in 62nd and Wales failure to pick up a single point in their 4 Euro 2012 qualifiers to date means they remain 114th in the rankings, level with the Faroe Islands as a result of the latter's 22-place climb.

England's rise is due to the fact that a matches of the World Cup in South Africa last year now count 50% less towards of the overall ranking and the teams that had a strong World Cup but have not had such good results since, such as Uruguay, have experienced a big drop in ranking of those that did not do so well but have had decent results since then such as England,Italy and France have seen a boost in ranking.

Arsenal and France international defender Gael Clichy is undergoing a medical at Manchester City and he has been a regular in the Arsenal defence in recent seasons.

The 25-year-old full-back who joined the Gunners from French club Cannes in 2003, is out of the contract at a Emirates Stadium next summer and he has reportedly told Arsenal he wanted to leave last month, and had been linked with Liverpool and Roma.

The City are rivals for his signature, with the deal reportedly worth £7m and the arsenal boss Arsene Wenger faces an anxious time with playmaker Cesc Fabregas again being linked with Barcelona and the Midfielder Sami Nasri has also been tipped to leave the club, and is thought to be a target for both City and Manchester United.

The Gunners, who return for pre-season training this week ahead of a tour of Malaysia and China, have been strongly linked with a move for Bolton defender Gary Cahill and Wenger recently claimed that it will be late into pre-season before there is significant movement in the transfer market and the We are in a waiting period, everybody is waiting, said the Arsenal boss in an interview with Alsace TV.

International career for Gael Clichy has earned caps with all of France's youth teams for which he was eligible and he was a late participant at under 15 level under coach Luc Rabat and he made his youth international debut on 13 March 2001 in a 3–0 friendly win over Italy.

Clichy appeared in 10 matches as France attempted to qualify for the 2002 UEFA European Under 17 Football Championship and he made his debut with the team on 19 September 2001 in its opening league match of the season for a 1–0 win over Yugoslavia  for a qualifying for the UEFA-sanctioned tournament.

Uefa president Michel Platini opposes technology for a euro chief reckons additional refs have rid the game of most errors

Michel Platini claims the introduction of technology would be bad for football, suggesting the use of additional referees is sufficient in the bid to rid the game of high-profile errors and he says, does not want to see any change beyond the use of additional referees.

England were denied a clear goal in their World Cup defeat to Germany last summer of a Frank Lampard's drive hit the crossbar and came down a yard over the goal-line before bouncing back into play and that was along with a series of other controversial incidents in international games has led to renewed calls for goal-line technology to be introduced.

Fifa has begun running trials to test of a accuracy of goal-line technology but Platini insists Europe's governing body will strongly oppose any moves for it to be introduced and "In my opinion, technology isn't good for football," he told Spanish newspaper Marca.

International career for Michel Platini having first attracted the attention of a national team selectors in the Coupe Gambardella tournament and Platini was selected for the French junior team but, injuries prevented him from playing and he made his first appearance for a French national selection playing for the French amateur side on 26 September 1973 and the Platini began his military service in summer 1975.

Kenny Dalglish won't discuss targets and the he is not worried about quiet start to the summer

Kenny Dalglish has insisted Liverpool will continue conducting their transfer business in a appropriate manner and will not publicly chase players and he was expected to be movement in and out of the Anfield this summer as Dalglish puts his plans in place for what the club hope will be a more successful 2011/12 campaign.

The Reds have been linked with a large number of players since the end of last season and  apart from signing midfielder Jordan Henderson, have so far been quiet in the market and he has played down suggestions that he should be worried about not bringing in many reinforcements during the early part of the summer.

Pre-season has not started and We don't begin until Monday, but obviously transfers are part of football and you get people moving in and moving out of a dalglish told Sky Sports News after receiving an honorary degree from the University of a Ulster in Northern Ireland and Dalglish Staying quiet on transfer business but does not believe fans should be worried.

We are not going to a speculate on the any players we have or any players anyone else has on there has been plenty of a talk in the newspapers and if you read them and believed them and we'd have a squad of about 300 next year.