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PREMIER LEAGUE
West Ham gave their Premier League survival hopes a major boost last night, while denting the Champions League ambitions of Chelsea.
Andriy Yarmolenko’s last minute strike gave David Moyes’ side a 3-2 win over Chelsea at the London Stadium.
Goals from Tomas Soucek and Michail Antonio had previously seen the Hammers lead, with Willian scoring twice for Chelsea.
That result sees West Ham climb up to 16th, three points clear of the relegation zone.
Chelsea remain fourth in the table, after their first defeat since football's resumption.
There is now a scrap emerging for Champions League football, with just three points separating third from sixth.
That's after Leicester were beaten 2-1 against Everton.
They're now winless in four games since the restart, but remain in third.
Norwich are six points from safety with six games to play after a 4-nil loss at Arsenal.
While Bournemouth are second-from-bottom after a 4-1 defeat at home to Newcastle.
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PL TONIGHT
Liverpool will receive a guard of honour at the Etihad tonight.
The newly-crowned Premier League champions face the side they deposed - Manchester City.
This evening’s other game is at Bramall Lane and sees Sheffield United entertain Tottenham.
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CHAMPIONSHIP
West Brom are just a point off the top of the Championship this morning.
They cut the gap on leaders Leeds with a 3-nil victory at Sheffield Wednesday.
Derby County are within a point of the play off places following a 1-nil win at Preston.
Fourth placed Nottingham Forest strengthened their promotion hopes by beating Bristol City by the same scoreline.
Struggling Huddersfield had a much needed 3-nil victory at Birmingham.
New Middlesbrough boss Neil Warnock looks to make it back-to-back wins since taking charge later when his side go to Hull.
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GAELIC GAMES - GPA ON TRAINING
The Gaelic Players Association have written to county boards across the country asking them to stop any unauthorised inter-county training sessions.
Despite the suspension of inter-county activity until September 14th, anecdotal evidence suggests many counties have been in breach of the rules.
The players' association have also written to county boards, saying rules around inter-county training are "clear and unambiguous".
However they have called for their members to be insured in the event of any unauthorised sessions, and have asked for players to be released to their counties once their club championship commitments have been completed.
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17 September 2019; Katie Taylor and promoter Eddie Hearn during a press conference at the Principal Hotel in Manchester. Katie Taylor will bid to become a two-weight World Champion when she meets Christina Linardatou for the WBO Super-Lightweight World title at Manchester Arena on Saturday November 2. Photo by Dave Thompson / Matchroom Boxing via SportsfileBOXING - HEARN
Eddie Hearn says Amanda Serrano is shying away from a ‘legacy fight’ with Katie Taylor.
A Twitter spat is ongoing regarding the fight purse, which Hearn says has been engineered by Serrano’s management.
The Matchroom promoter claims Serrano wanted to appear on a reality show in Puerto Rico rather than fight Taylor next month.
Hearn says an agreement is close for a rematch with Delfine Persoon instead.
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MAN UTD LOANS
Manchester United duo Chris Smalling and Alexis Sanchez have had extensions to their loan spells in Italy.
Smalling will stay with Roma until the end of the season, while Sanchez will see out the campaign at Inter.
The current Serie A term is due to finish in early August. Ashley Young, Alexis Sanchez and Christian Eriksen all scored and set up goals as Inter Milan thrashed Brescia 6-0 yesterday to remain third in Serie A.
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GOLF - PGA TOUR
Waterford’s Seamus Power is in action at the latest event on the PGA Tour from today.
The Rocket Mortgage Classic gets underway in Detroit later this morning.
American Chad Campbell was one of a number of competitors to withdraw from the event due to coronavirus.
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RACING
There’s a seven-race card at Sligo this evening with the first off at 4.10.
Meanwhile, an eight-race card at Bellewstown gets underway at 1.
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