Liverpool fought back to reach the FA Cup fifth round with a 2-1 victory over 10-man Bolton Wanderers to keep alive talismanic captain Steven Gerrard’s hopes of a Wembley swansong.

The Liverpool captain turns 35 on the day of the FA Cup final and Reds supporters had seemingly already penciled a trip to Wembley into their diaries.

The former chairman of Britain's professional footballers' union revealed in a newspaper interview published on Thursday that he tried to take his own life.

Clarke Carlisle, the former head of the Professional Footballers' Association, spent six weeks in hospital after being hit by a lorry near York, northern England, in December.

Jurgen Klopp admits relegation-threatened Borussia Dortmund deserve to be criticised after their own fans jeered their 11th defeat of the season to stay bottom of the Bundesliga.

Dortmund slumped again in Wednesday's 1-0 defeat at home to fourth-placed Augsburg, who played the last 20 minutes with ten men.

Qatar want Bayern Munich head coach Pep Guardiola to lead the country at the 2022 World Cup, according to reports in Germany.

Guardiola’s face adorns the front of Sport Bild on Wednesday morning, with the paper claiming that he could be the subject of a lucrative approach from the Gulf nation.

Hours after being named a suspect in a tax fraud case regarding the signing of Brazil star Neymar, Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu said the club was the victim of an "attack" involving fierce rival Real Madrid and the Spanish state.

Bartomeu said "all this comes from someone who did not want him to come to Barca. Neymar's father said that he had a better offer from Madrid, and that did not go down too well."

Schalke striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar was suspended Monday for the next three Bundesliga games by the German Football Association (DFB), ruling him out until the club's Champions League clash against Real Madrid.

'The Hunter' was shown a straight red for tackling Hanover's Manuel Schmiedebach from behind last Saturday, earning him an automatic one-game ban.

Les Ferdinand was named as Queens Park Rangers' new director of football on Wednesday as the Premier League strugglers continued to seek a replacement for Harry Redknapp following the former manager's resignation.

Redknapp quit QPR, second-bottom in the table, on Tuesday with the 67-year-old Englishman saying impending knee replacement surgery, rather than a reported row over transfer policy, meant it was impossible for him to continue to do the job as he wished.

The 2018 World Cup stadium in the southern Russian city of Rostov is seven months behind schedule and faces a "tight deadline" to be ready in time.

The regional construction ministry says in a statement that the completion date for the 45,000-seat stadium has slipped from May 2017 to that December.

Stephen Curry had 23 points and nine assists as the Golden State Warriors rode a 23-0 spurt in the first half to beat the Sacramento Kings 121-96 on Tuesday.

The Warriors shut down Sacramento for more than seven minutes at the end of the first quarter and start of the second quarter to take an 18-point lead. They went ahead by 20 at the half and 25 in the third quarter before holding off a brief Kings comeback.

Manchester United overcame fourth-tier Cambridge in an FA Cup replay on Tuesday, winning 3-0 less than two weeks after a humbling 0-0 draw.

Juan Mata, Marcos Rojo and second-half substitute James Wilson scored to send United through to a fifth-round match at third-tier Preston.