PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Proposals to take the current La Liga table as final and use them to decide European places for next season has sent shockwaves through the Spanish game.

UEFA are reportedly set to present their plans for the Champions League with the tournament being played out from August 7-31 after clubs have completed their domestic campaigns.

Paul Scholes has admitted that he 'miskicked' the ball when he scored his memorable goal for Manchester United against Barcelona in a Champions League semi-final in 2008.

UEFA have opened the door for Celtic to be crowned champions of Scotland with eight games still left to play in the Premiership.

The match has since received a huge amount of scrutiny after a huge crowd of 54,000 - with 3,000 fans arriving from Madrid - were allowed to attend the match, against the advice of the WHO.

Leagues unable to finish will be advised to stage play-off games to determine key positions in the table, which would directly affect sides in the Champions League race.

AHEAD OF THE GAME - MATT HUGHES: Sky Sports and BT Sport will resist pressure to screen for free the 47 Premier League matches they have left this season.

Marco Verratti insists that his Paris Saint-Germain team-mates are not interested in financial gain and expressed his dream of winning the Champions League.

Gary Neville was a shock appointment for the LaLiga side in December 2015, having previously worked as England assistant manager and as a pundit for Sky Sports after retiring.

France prime minister Edouard Philippe announced this week that 'no major sporting events can take place in the country before September' due to the coronavirus pandemic.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Manchester United players are taking legal advice about the salaries they can demand next season if the current campaign is scrapped.

France's Ligue 1 was cancelled earlier this week with Rennes officially being granted third place, meaning they will go into the qualifying round of next season's Champions League.

Giggs won plenty of silverware under Ferguson at Old Trafford including 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League wins, but it is Van Gaal who he claims has shaped his managerial style.

Mark Esper would not explicitly confirm Tuesday if he would resign as Defense Department secretary if Donald Trump instructed him to carry out war crimes.

Dustin Hice (left), 39, filed suit against Don Lemon (right), 53, last August alleging that the CNN star assaulted him at a Hamptons bar. Lemon denies the allegations.

Adam Schiff claimed that Donald Trump engages in 'organized crime speak' after the president took a hit at the Intelligence chairman for his role in the impeachment proceedings.

Backlash from a viral panel discussion forced CNN's Don Lemon to apologize on Tuesday for appearing for 'belittle' Trump supporters. He claims 'he didn't catch everything that was said'.

Morgan described Avennatti as a 'sleazeball' and blamed the anti-Trump coverage of most cable news networks on what he called 'Trump derangement syndrome.'

The Daily Mail editor-at-large, main, appeared on The Talk on Tuesday to praise the royal couple after Megxit, saying Harry and Meghan, inset, 'abandoned' their roles.

'I'm not going to be president of the United States,' Michael Bloomberg told me when I interviewed him for CNN in 2012. 'I'm not going to run for president - for the presidency.'

Elizabeth Warren also has a plan for how Mike Bloomberg can release ex-employees from those non-disclosure agreements he got criticized for during the Democratic debate.

Mike Bloomberg announced that his company would let former female employees out of their NDAs should they want to make public their stories about working for him.

The two sparred verbally when Acosta - who Trump has regularly assailed as 'fake news' was invited to ask a question by the president at his New Delhi press conference wrapping up his India trip.

GameStop has closed all of its 5,700 retail locations to protect customers and employees from possible exposure to COVID-19, reversing a previous policy to try and stay open during the pandemic.

Anthony Fauci said Sunday that officials had to convince Donald Trump not to impose a quarantine on parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut after the U.S. death toll from coronavirus doubled.

Trump has been roundly criticized for using his near-daily White House press briefings to picks fights with journalists and brag about how well his administration has handled America's epidemic.

Johana Medoza Chancay, 40, of New Jersey, who gave birth to her daughter while in a medically induced coma after she contracted COVID-19 says she won't be able to hold her child until July.

Treasure Island (above) said it will adhere to orders from Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak (bottom right). Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman (top right) has demanded lockdown be lifted.

'China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up,' the Microsoft co-founder told CNN on Sunday. Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen in the inset photo.

Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan, who has appeared on The Apprentice alongside the president, slammed Donald Trump for lacking the 'kind of leadership needed in a crisis'.

Trump's Las Vegas hotel has started taking reservations for mid-May, joining Wynn Las Vegas, despite Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak having yet to announce the opening of the state's hotels.

Nancy Pelosi lashed out at a reporter when she was asked about her reaction to the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh compared to her endorsing Joe Biden after he was accused.

Gov. Whitmer, main, argued not 'every claim is equal'. 'I support Joe Biden', she said Sunday on CNN. Tara Reade, bottom inset, alleges Biden, top inset, sexually assaulted her in 1993.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has decried protests staged inside the state's Capitol building last week, saying the event acted as a reminder of some of the most 'awful' parts of US history.

'He is named after my father, who died when I was ten. I hope I can be as good a dad as he was,' the CNN town hall anchor, Anderson Cooper, said on Thursday night.

Stoke striker Saido Berahino has been charged with being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle, police said. The 25-year-old was detained in London's West End on Monday.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: Saido Berahino will play for Nimes in their pre season game against Toulouse today while he waits for his Stoke departure to be finalised.

Aston Villa striker Scott Hogan is in talks to join Championship side Stoke City on a season-long loan. He featured for Villa in pre-season but finds himself down the pecking order at the club.

Millwall have appointed former Stoke City and Derby County boss Gary Rowett as their new manager, following the deaprture of Neil Harris earlier this month.

Preston reacted angrily to widespread reports that Neil was Stoke's favoured choice and that he was ready to take on the challenge of resurrecting the Championship's bottom placed club.

MATT HUGHES - AHEAD OF THE GAME: Stoke City's new manager, Michael O'Neill, may be forced to sell players in January to help club avoid falling foul of EFL's profit and sustainability rules.

EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE KEEGAN: A small section of fans of the home club were heard to sing songs including the words 'f*** the Pope and the IRA' and 'f*** the IRA' a number of times.

JASON MELLOR AT THE RIVERSIDE STADIUM: Lewis Wing added to his collection of stand out strikes to put the brakes on Stoke's bid to climb out of the Championship drop zone.

PETER CROUCH: It's the final Saturday of the decade, so what better time to reflect on the 10 years just gone? I wanted to look back on the highs and lows I've experienced in football.

Excellent strikes form Anthony Knockaert and Harry Arter saw Fulham overcome Aston Villa in the third round of the FA Cup while Watford blew a 3-0 lead at home to Tranmere Rovers.

EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION:David Cotterill is facing legal action from at least seven former team-mates after being accused of cheating them out of a combined total of almost £400,000.

Bowyer was charged following incidents which occurred during and after Charlton's 2-1 defeat to Swansea, when Bowyer's side squandered an early lead and had penalty appeals turned down.

The 19-year-old was diagnosed with the disease in February, immediately undergoing chemotherapy and responding well to treatment before returning to training in September.

Swansea City's highly-rated coach Cameron Toshack is attracting interest from clubs in Portugal and the Championship. The coach has been hailed for developing young players.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY KIERAN GILL: What made Ben Wilmot's winner even more impressive was the England Under-21 international was making his first Championship start for Swansea.