Football

Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart and Arjen Robben have been left out of the Netherlands squad for next week's friendly against Italy.

The former England captain, who has been training with Premier League club Arsenal in a bid to retain his fitness,

Wayne Rooney struck both goals for Manchester United as they recovered from conceding an early goal.

Brendan Rodgers said, Liverpool's "soft" young players must work harder or they risk ending up playing in the same league as Oldham Athletic.

National Football League's Dallas Cowboys are second on the list, worth $2.1 billion.

Hazard was sent off Wednesday for kicking a ball boy in the 79th minute of the League Cup semifinal match against Swansea.

Villa broke his leg during the Club World Cup last year but returned to training on Monday.

Henderson, Suarez, Sturridge, and Gerrard scored for the Reds as they left behind the disappointments of their loss against Man United last weekend.

In other big matches, United travel to Tottenham on Sunday and City host Fulham on Saturday.

An early goal by Radamel Falcao helped Atletico Madrid to a 2-0 home win against Real Betis.

Demba Ba and Hazard gave Chelsea a comfortable half-time lead before the third-place side experienced their second consecutive home setback.

However, the iconic Kolkata club has been fined Rs 2 crore and will resume their season on zero points.

Messi scored one goal and set up two more to steer Barcelona to a 3-1 win at Malaga.

Argentina forward Lionel Messi, who collected a record fourth consecutive FIFA Ballon d'Or award on Monday, is available.

City have sent back 912 of the 3,000 tickets they were allocated for Sunday's league clash at Arsenal.

The Portuguese forward was non-committal over Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng's decision to walk off the pitch over racist insults.