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Fans with long memories may disagree but West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic believes their last-gasp, extra-time win over Liverpool on Tuesday will go down as one of the London club's greatest triumphs.

Indian women's hockey team continued its rampagning form and thrashed a hapless Sri Lanka 12-1 to register its second consecutive win in the 12th South Asian Games on Monday.

India currently have 139 points, according to the FIFA's latest rankings list.

Carroll is fit to face Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday after recovering from the hamstring injury he suffered against Bournemouth last month, but new signing Sam Byram has been ruled out for a week.

Napoli maintained their two-point advantage at the top of Serie with a 2-0 victory at Lazio on Wednesday in a game suspended due to racist chanting as Juventus beat Genoa 1-0 to break a club record for consecutive league wins in a single season.

The former England defender has failed to win eight league matches since being appointed manager of the La Liga club last month.

The tour which is one of the many international exposure tours planned for the Indian eves ahead of the upcoming Summer Olympics in Rio will see Ritu Rani lead the team with assistance from Deepika.

Mumbai will rely a lot on their skipper Australian Matthew Swann, while Ranchi have stars like skipper Ashley Jackson of New Zealand, Britain forward Barry Middleton and local stars Sandeep Singh and Manpreet Singh, for their clash in Mumbai on Wednesday.

The team was picked after a national camp which took place in Shillong from January 17-30.

The Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) on Monday said Messi was keen to meet Murtaza as soon as possible, though no date or venue has so far been finalised.

Higuain scored again as Napoli came from behind to beat Empoli 5-1 and restore their two-point lead at the top of Serie A.

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, owner of Leicester City, owns a travel company named King Power which is aiming for revenues of 85 billion baht ($2.4 billion) in 2016, a 25 percent increase from 68 billion baht last year.

It is just a matter of time before a steadily improving Tottenham Hotspur start challenging for the biggest honours in club football, captain Hugo Lloris said.

Milner said the change of manager, from Brendan Rodgers to Klopp, has been difficult but believes the Merseyside club can lay foundations for further success by winning the Wembly contest against his former club.

Balotelli, who has missed three months of the season due to a groin injury, scored the penalty that scraped a 1-0 win for Milan over Alessandria in the first leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final on Tuesday. Sixth-placed Milan play local rivals Inter on Su...

Mohun Bagan packed a punch in a 3-1 drubbing of Singaporean heavyweights Tampines Rovers to become the first Indian club to win a match in the AFC Champions League qualifier.