NIK SIMON: Away from the pitch, Duhan van der Merwe is often found cosying up on the sofa with his two French bulldogs, Ziggy and Moose.
WILL PICKWORTH: When Bromley captain Byron Webster stepped up to the penalty spot at Wembley last May, history beckoned.
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When Patrick Stewart announced it was necessary to undertake a full review of Rangers' football operations, it did not seem unreasonable to expect he would be the man doing the very task.
Pep Guardiola 's side were sent crashing out the Champions League on Wednesday night as a Kylian Mbappe hat-trick wrapped up a 6-3 win on aggregate for Madrid.
Bellingham was booked for a first-half foul on his England team-mate and will miss half of the clash against either Atletico Madrid or Bayer Leverkusen.
James Horncastle, Chris Sutton and Stephen Warnock discuss what could have led to the miscommunication between Atalanta's Ademola Lookman and his manager Gian Piero Gasperini who came out and criticised Lookman for taking and missing the penalty in Atalanta's 3-1 (5-2 on aggregate) loss to Club Brugge in the Champions League Play-offs.
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Stephen Warnock praises the "balance" and "end product" of PSV Eindhoven's Noa Lang after the Dutch winger's impressive performance in PSV's 3-1 (4-3 on aggregate) win over Juventus in the Champions League Play-offs.
Chris Sutton, Stephen Warnock and James Horncastle discuss how Manchester City can recover from another crushing defeat as their 3-1 loss to Real Madrid sends the Premier League champions crashing out of the Champions League Play-offs.
Chris Sutton looks at how a "confident" and "sensational" performance from Celtic in their 1-1 draw against Bayern Munich shows their progression as a club under manager Brendan Rodgers.
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says "nothing is eternal" after his side are knocked out of the Champions League by Real Madrid.
Liverpool boss Arne Slot says it was two points dropped in the Premier League title race after a draw at Aston Villa.
Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappe's goal against Manchester City in the first leg may have come from a scrappy finish but there was nothing fortunate about his hat-trick in the return leg at Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday.
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Manchester City's tame Champions League surrender to Real Madrid marks the end of an era, says BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty.
Juventus were beaten by PSV Eindhoven to complete a miserable week for Italian teams in the competition
The Australian’s invincibility cloak has a few holes in it these days but given his record against England runs in upcoming clashes seem inevitableColdplay’s Chris Martin tells a story about the litmus test of playing stadium gigs. Well, the lavatory test. “When you are singing somewhere like Wembley Arena, you can only really see the outline of the …
There is some certainty now that Guardiola’s greatest City side is formally over after a weak Champions League defeatRage, rage against the dying of the sky blue light. Or, alternately, don’t rage at all. The scoreline read 3-1 by the end, but for long periods on a lovely soft February night at the Bernabéu this felt like an act of extended sporting …
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JACK GAUGHAN: Pep Guardiola admitted a flimsy Manchester City lack physicality against top teams after Kylian Mbappe's hat-trick consigned them to an early Champions League exit.
The Glazers been at the helm at Old Trafford for nearly two decades, though their popularity is at an all time low, largely as a result of the club's woeful financial situation under their stewardship.
The tie was level at 3-3 on aggregate after 90 minutes and went into extra time before Flamingo poached a 98th-minute winner to see the Dutch side advance.