MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: It was a witch-hunt, we were glibly informed. The truth would out. Well, now it has and it transpires the witches were real.

MATT HUGHES - SPECIAL REPORT: During the years since Sir Mo Farah missed two drugs tests, his memory does not appear to have improved.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN DOHA: There are growing doubts over Neil Black's future as the performance director of UK Athletics after he refused to rule out resigning after the Alberto Salazar scandal.

EXCLUSIVE: The extent to which Mo Farah's controversial former coach Alberto Salazar left the Briton exposed to potential embarrassment is revealed.

Leading athletes from Team GB have taken the extraordinary step of launching legal action against the British Olympic Association over 'ridiculous' marketing rules.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Sir Mo Farah has put the brakes on his marathon career to target a fifth Olympic 10,000m gold in Tokyo next summer.

Ahmed Farah, 30, was sent to his birthplace by British authorities after he was freed from jail for a knife raid in Southall, West London in 2010. He would now like the chance to return to the UK.

Distance legend Kenenisa Bekele has revealed he will go head to head with Eliud Kipchoge in a fascinating clash of the titans at the London Marathon in April.

Mo Farah will launch his 2020 season in London after confirming he will run the Vitality Big Half on March 1. Sportsmail reported last week that Farah was in talks to run in the capital.

In 2017, Ed Warner noted Dr Rob Chakraverty's sloppy documentation of an injection to Sir Mo Farah had been logged in his annual appraisal. It looks now to be a matter for his permanent record.

Tokyo 2020 organisers have been forced to act in the face of serious warnings over the risk to the athletes in summer temperatures that regular exceed 35 degrees and 80 per cent humidity.

EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The heated marketing row that casts a shadow over Team GB's preparations for the Tokyo Olympics is expected to be resolved next week.

England doctor Rob Chakraverty has left his role with the Football Association with immediate effect after revelations about his involvement with Mo Farah.

Mo Farah insists he will be prepared to race at the rescheduled Olympics next year. The Tokyo Games were postponed last week due to coronavirus.

Northern Ireland's Euro 2020 qualifying hopes survived a scare as substitutes Conor Washington and Josh Magennis scored twice in four minutes to snatch a 2-1 win in Estonia.

The 28-year-old midfielder made the announcement on Monday, wanting to concentrate on his club career with Sheffield United - who are back in the Premier League after a 12-year absence.

There is no place for Lafferty, nor his former Rangers team-mate Gareth McAuley, who is without a club after be released at the end of the season.

Ilkay Gundogan has pulled out of the Germany squad to face Northern Ireland in Belfast on Monday night through illness. The Manchester City midfielder is suffering from a cold.

Paddy McNair is hoping Holland underestimate Northern Ireland in their Euro 2020 qualifier in Rotterdam. Northern Ireland need to win in order to keep their dreams of reaching the finals alive.

There is plenty at stake over the next fortnight with teams on the brink of qualifying for the European Championships in 2020, while some nations hit the road for some eagerly-anticipated friendlies.

With Holland due in Belfast next month, both teams are viewing the double-header as a head-to-head battle for a ticket to Euro 2020, and Koeman is wary of the threat posed by Michael O'Neill's side.

October 13, 1976. Best's career was on the wane. He had turned 30 that summer and come back from his first stint in the US with Los Angeles Aztecs.

The two teams took part in a minute's applause to honour the memory of the Rangers legend who passed away last month following a six-year battle with motor neurone disease.

The Real Madrid man is in line to make his 95th international appearance after a muscle tear ruled him out of the friendly draw with Argentina and qualifying win over Estonia in September.

The Leicester defender is confident his country will remain on track despite O'Neill joining Stoke. But the manager will still take their final Euro 2020 qualifiers against Holland and Germany.

Sportsmail provide you with everything you need to know for Euro 2020 play-offs including when they will begin, how the play-offs work, play-offs format, teams involved and more.

CHRIS WHEELER IN FRANKFURT: A hat-trick from former Arsenal player Serge Gnabry sank Northern Ireland as their Group C campaign ended with a heavy defeat in Frankfurt.

Northern Ireland striker Lafferty finds himself plying his trade around 90km south of Oslo and on the cusp of dragging Sarpborg 08 away from relegation and with another move in mind.

Michael O'Neill has turned his back on a £500,000 Euro 2020 bonus after stepping down as Northern Ireland manager on Wednesday.

Davis has yet to take any steps towards a new career in the technical area. However, the idea of giving up the game when he can no longer dictate play on the pitch is not one he is willing to entertain.

The Korean-born songstress told her Facebook fans on Thursday that she took part in the original series, King of Masked Singer

Dean Ray scored a deal with Sony Music after he was declared the runner-up on  The X Factor Australia in 2014. 

Nicole Scherzinger just made a spectacular comeback performance with the Pussycat Dolls on The X Factor UK. 

Former X Factor Australia stars Jess and Matt Price packed on the PDA in a series of photos shared to Instagram on Friday.

Nicole Scherzinger has defended the Pussycat Dolls'  comeback performance on the UK's The X Factor in November.

Natalie Bassingthwaighte appears to have sustained a nasty injury while in self-isolation with her family.

Darling Brando have amassed a huge fanbase despite largely flying under the radar.

Freddie Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris are set to star in a new reboot of BBC's Top Gear. The Trio told how their series compares to previous shows.

Top Gear has given fans their first look at the all-new presenting lineup, as Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff join forces ahead of the new series' launch on Sunday.

Jeremy Clarkson has been slammed after he complained about a road in Hammersmith, London being closed following a horrific three-car 'street race' crash which killed a man in his 70s. 

A group of cars said to have been racing through west London crashed into the pensioners' car in the early hours of Saturday morning, killing a man in his 70s and seriously injuring his wife.

Avril Child, whose daughter daughter Sarah was killed in a car crash in Birmingham in 2012 criticised the former Top Gear presenter for his 'arrogant' and 'ignorant' remarks.

Paddy todl told how he won't look at what people say about his performance because he will be tempted to answer every negative comment.

Catch-22 is an adaptation of the Joseph Heller novel, the anti-war masterpiece that everyone thinks they have read even if they haven't. (I think I've read it even if I haven't.)

Fearless Zara then climbed behind the wheel of a red Toyota GT86 coupé for the show's Star In A Reasonably Priced Car feature on the test track at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey.

The Queen's eldest granddaughter, 38, can add Top Gear driver to her long list of credentials as she is the first royal to ever take part in the BBC motoring show - that is set to air on Sunday night.

The couple raced each other around a Surrey race track in a Toyota GT86 for the show's A Reasonably Priced Car Segment, with Zara at one stage hurtling off the gravel and onto the grass.

She's a busy mother-of-three who is always on the go.  So Christine McGuinness enjoyed a well-deserved break on a girls' holiday in Majorca over the weekend,

Paddy McGuinness has proudly posted a series of Instagram pictures of his favourite 'meals' - including a bizarre combination of cocktail sausages and a Wagon Wheel biscuit.

Jeremy Clarkson enjoyed some downtime between filming as he sipped on a refreshing glass of wine in Notting Hill, London on Tuesday.