You love your team first. It’s tribal. Except I did love something else. I loved the idea of commentating on my team, on every team. I loved it even more than my team. I ditched the girl next door for the diva on the silver screen. Their media officer was always very reluctant to give me information on the jobs the players did because he felt it was demeaning for me to refer to them as bank clerks and plumbers. But that is what they are, and that's the story of the game. Chelsea star names WWE legend John Cena as the celebrity he'd want to portray him in a movie - but can YOU guess which unlikely Blues player it is? In my lifetime we’ve had the patriotic ones and the foreign ones, we’ve had the special ones and the safe ones. We’ve tried good cops and bad cops, popular choices and professional choices, veterans and rookies, turnips and Swedes. Now we’ve gone for the nice guy. CRAIG HOPE: Eddie Howe shows Newcastle have plenty in reserve with sensational win at Man United... as...

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any improvement in their standard or approach. At some stage, the rights holders have got every right to question whether what we're watching is a competitive football match.I confess I became so disheartened by the inability of true English football lovers like Graham Taylor and Kevin Keegan to make the earth move for me that I rather welcomed the appointment of an outsider in 2000. I thought a different accent, a different angle might just demystify the job. In truth, Sven-Göran Eriksson wooed Nancy and Ulrika rather more than he beguiled me. But we’ll always have Munich. Manny Pacquiao confirms that he is 'working' on a fight with Amir Khan to take place next year... and also hopes to compete at the Paris Olympics Tributes flood in for Bill Kenwright following his death at the age of 78 - as Liverpool, Jamie Carragher and Wayne Rooney salute former Everton chairman Cristiano Ronaldo and Kanye West are among the famous faces in Saudi Arabia for Tyson Fury's Battle of the Baddest against Francis Ngannou

Harry Kane was desperate to play in that game - and nabbed four goals in the first half to take him further towards his goal of becoming England's all-time top scorer. But Tyldesley believes that there is a feeling that managers don't want their players using games like this to make history. Two United goals inside two minutes changed it in 1999. A teenage Evertonian called Rooney twisted the plot in 2002. Three Liverpool goals in less than six minutes changed everything again in 2005. Hello, hello. Former QPR co-owner Tony Fernandes is slammed as 'unprofessional' for getting a half-naked massage during a WORK MEETING Football matters hugely to Tyldesley. He is consumed by his work and so it is understandable that last July he broke his own rule, briefly, and became the story rather than an observer. “I’m being replaced as ITV’s senior football commentator,” Tyldesley explained in an emotional video he released on social media. “I am upset, annoyed, baffled. I’ve done nothing wrong.”It is really important. It affects as many women as men. It's perceived to be an old blokes' disease, but it affects young people too. That's the message, that's how I got involved as a patron of the Bobby Moore Fund - simply because I can talk s**t!' Mohamed Salah calls for humanitarian aid to Gaza IMMEDIATELY as Liverpool star urges the world leaders 'to come together'