IAN LADYMAN: If you were to ask Liverpool fans whether they would prefer to lift the Carabao Cup at Wembley or the Club World Cup in Doha on Saturday, many would plump for the former.

IAN LADYMAN: People at City have moved mountains to give Guardiola the environment he demanded at the Etihad. If he walks as soon as the wind changes, it would not say great things.

IAN LADYMAN: Common sense gives Lampard at least one more season. Common sense says a young, bright manager is given opportunity to plan properly in a way that few of his predecessors were.

IAN LADYMAN: Football has a bigger heart and much greater intelligence than many may think and during this tricky time we are beginning to see it but the game needs to do more to publicise it.

INSIDE TRACK - NEIL ASHTON: There are moments when Falcao sets off on those delayed runs in the bright red shirt and it all comes flooding back. This could have been just the start.

Manchester United are counting the cost of having Falcao on loan, with the striker having collected over £3m in wages since his last shot on target

MIKE KEEGAN: Edinson Cavani's slumbering Champions League performance against Barcelona may well have put to bed any chance of him making a switch to Manchester United.

Radamel Falcao may well be wondering why he isn't getting better with age after the misfiring Manchester United striker was spotted in a wine shop in Cheshire following their 3-0 defeat by Everton.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is considering signing Monaco striker Radamel Falcao this summer, but the Manchester United flop is just one of five forwards on his summer shortlist.

The Copa America in Chile, which kicks-off on Thursday night, will serve as the perfect shop window for players keen on a move this summer. Here's 10 of them

The former Chelsea and Manchester United flop started for the principality side and equalised from close range after Emenike had given the Turkish outfit the lead in the third round qualifying tie.

The Ballon d’Or pays tribute to the best player of the past year and competition is fierce. Sportsmail takes a look at those nominated and how their performances have compared over the year.

No trophies are handed out in December but one of football's biggest personal accolades is about to go on the line in Paris. Here Sportsmail gives you a lowdown to the 2017 Ballon d'Or.

The retired actress, 47, sported a new shorter hairstyle as she stepped out for a spot of grocery shopping in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, just a month after welcoming daughter Raddix.

Spencer Shaw, who is now a Preaching Minister at a church in Oklahoma, posted a tweet of his prediction from Mahomes' high school year book, and it's gone viral with over 2,000 retweets.

She wowed audiences with a breathtaking Super Bowl halftime performance that included pole-dancing and political statements on Sunday evening.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's daughter Emme Maribel Muniz, 11, stole the Super Bowl halftime show after she joined the stage with her mom on Sunday in Miami.

A California man was shot dead by a gang member during an argument at a Super Bowl party after the suspect mistook a San Francisco 49ers flag for a rival gang's colors. 

Don Jr., 42, and Kimberly, 50, watched the game from a private box on Sunday. During the halftime show, Don filmed Kimberly dancing to Hips Don't Lie by Shakira and a track by Jennifer Lopez.

Christian evangelist Franklin Graham (left) slammed Pepsi's Super Bowl halftime show and the NFL for 'showing young girls that sexual exploitation of women is okay'.

The Hustlers star, who was flanked by fiance Alex Rodriguez, 44, clarified that the sentiment the performance was a smash was not coming from her directly, but had come from other people.

'Let's show the world what two little Latin girls can do,' exclaimed Jennifer Lopez to Shakira on her Instagram page before their Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.

Cardi B may be living it up at the Super Bowl and attending parties, but she's out here proving she's just from Bronx. The rapper took to her Instagram to share her head-to-toe purple evening look.

Wild videos making their rounds on social media show various strippers trying to discretely scoop money off of the floor at the Miami Dome on late Monday night into Tuesday morning.

Shakira has taken to YouTube to share a dance tutorial for the Champeta dance choreography she and a large group of backup dancers displayed during Sunday's performance.

After incredible performances at the Grammy Awards and Super Bowl, Demi Lovato announced she's going to host her own talk show and have frank conversations.

After stunning viewers with her transcendent Super Bowl show, Jennifer Lopez returned to the gym in Miami on Thursday for the first time since the 2020 halftime performance that wowed viewers worldwide.

The rapper, whose real name is Austin Richard Post, had just played a concert at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Jennifer Lopez shed some happy tears while talking about Super Bowl Halftime Show on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 'I got emotional because we worked so hard.'

On Thursday the 50-year-old siren posed in leopard print undies and a matching jacket to announce she has kicked off a new shoe line called JLO Jennifer Lopez which is available at DWS.

Brady, 42, posted a snap of himself and Bündchen, 39, smiling at each other as they worked their upper bodies. She also took to her story with the photo, which he originally captioned: '#nodaysoff.'

Shakira and J-Lo performed the much-hyped half-time show at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida, in front of a star-studded crowd earlier this month. But it drew some 1,300 complaints.

The model, who rose to fame after starring in a Carls Jr. Superbowl ad in 2015, wore surgical gloves on Tuesday while shopping at Erewhon in Los Angeles.

Angela Gore, surrounded by her children, cried silently as an inquest heard how her husband's body was found kneeling forward in the stairwell at Westfield Bondi Junction in early 2017.

Bernard 'Butch' Gore was found dead in Sydney's Westfield Bondi Junction in January 2017 after he failed to meet his wife outside Woolworths, as planned, three weeks earlier.

The suburbs most directly at risk of fire are near the bushland areas around the city such as Hornsby in the north, Penrith in the west and Camden and Sutherland in the south.

DOMINIC LAWSON: Florence Widdicombe opened a pack of Tesco charity Christmas cards and found on one a note from a prisoner in China declaring that he had been forced to do this work.

The trio joined the likes of Sam Smith, Emma Stone, Haim, Lily Collins, Jaime Winstone, Judge Rinder and Greg Rutherford at the sell-out event.

The 19-year-old wonderkid took Portugal's Primeira Liga by storm last season, scoring 15 goals and producing seven assists as Benfica lifted the title ahead of Porto.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: The FA face multi-million pound losses if they are forced to cancel games or stage them behind closed doors due to the coronavirus crisis.

For reasons buried in the mists of time, the Blackburn Rovers club photographer once asked Fergus Suter to pose next to a huge bearskin, though, as ever, he did not seem terribly fazed.

TOM COLLOMOSSE: At his best, Ben Chilwell is one of the finest attacking full-backs in the country yet he has displayed a far more important quality during Leicester's season - an ability to learn quickly.

Three Lions fans may not be able to cheer on their manager and players in the Euros this summer but they can take a trip down memory lane to summer of '96 via the ITV Hub and ITV 4.

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Having given up £1million of his salary, England manager Gareth Southgate must have been rather surprised to end up as the villain on Sunday.

Euro 2020 was postponed until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic but fans can tune in to watch one of the Three Lions' most famous tournaments on ITV from May 11.

Reading have come from 2-0 down to defeat Championship rivals Cardiff City on penalties to progress to the fifth round of the FA Cup.

SAMI MOKBEL AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: Chelsea reached the FA Cup quarter-finals following a 2-0 victory over Liverpool. Sportsmail rates the performances of both teams.

Billy Gilmour's man of the match performance for Chelsea in their FA Cup win over Liverpool has seen calls grow louder to insert him straight into the next Scotland line-up. 

Tim Krul had Spurs' penalty takers and the directions they would shoot listed on his water bottle ahead of Norwich's shock win on spot kicks in the FA Cup on Wednesday night.

Jan Vertonghen admits Tottenham must address the problem of goals they concede if they are to salvage something from their disastrous season after crashing out of the FA Cup on Wednesday.