Old rivals Red Star Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb advanced to the Champions League group stage Tuesday after making it through their playoff second-leg games.

ADRIAN KAJUMBA AT CRAVEN COTTAGE: Southampton were left counting the cost of their trip to Fulham after their second round win at Fulham was marred by injury to Nathan Redmond.

First-half strikes from Richard Stearman and Oliver Norwood helped Sheffield United beat Blackburn Rovers to reach the Carabao Cup third round.

MATT BARLOW AT THE MEMORIAL STADIUM: Teenage striker Aaron Connolly marked his first Brighton start with a goal but it was not enough to spare Graham Potter an anxious night.

IAN WHITTELL AT GRESTY ROAD: Two first half goals from Conor Hourihane continued the feelgood factor swirling around Premier League newboys Aston Villa.

KIERAN GILL AT VICARAGE ROAD: Javi Gracia earned himself some breathing space as Watford finally ended their losing streak, with Ismaila Sarr scoring his first goal for the Hornets.

SAMI MOKBEL AT SELHURST PARK: Winning at Old Trafford? No problem. Beating a side 75 places below you in the football pyramid? Problem. Big Problem.

NATHAN SALT AT THE PEOPLE'S PENSION STADIUM: When the teams were read out, Crawley knew there was always a chance they could pull it off. Daniel Farke made 11 changes.

Barcelona stars including Lionel Messi unveiled the new Barcelona B stadium on Tuesday.  Gerard Pique, Sergio Busquets, Sergio Roberto and Frenkie de Jong were also there.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY JEFF POWELL: The most extraordinary maestro the world of boxing has ever seen was born in Ukraine two years after the horrors of Chernobyl.

The Spanish champions are also discussing the possibility of players going in the opposite direction for the Paris St Germain star with Ousmane Dembele among those to be mentioned.

PETE JENSON: Members of Barcelona's board have travelled to Paris to try and settle a deal to bring Neymar back to the Nou Camp. The La Liga giants are preparing a final bid for him.

Barcelona 'are preparing to launch one final bid to sign Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain' as the clock ticks down to European deadline day next week.

JASON GILLESPIE: It is very hard to avoid the conclusion we are now in for one of the classic Ashes series, maybe even up there with 2005 in terms of excitement and drama. It's fantastic.

EXCLUSIVE BY KIERAN GILL: Premier League refereeing chiefs will resist calls for officials to start using their pitch-side monitors for VAR checks as they feel it will slow the game down too much.

UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has claimed he isn't 'scared' to settle his rivalry with Conor McGregor outside of the Octagon.

Germany provided the first installment of live post-lockdown sporting action on Thursday by hosting a dozen races in Hanover. Many jockeys wore face masks while others used transparent plastic visors.

Stars' careers are being put at risk by the imminent resumption of competition, according to a union representing nearly 100,000 athletes. German football has been cleared to resume next week.

Ministers are determined not to see the British Grand Prix postponed or cancelled in its 70th anniversary year and so plans are reportedly being drawn up to 'televise without spectators' there.

French racing has been on hold since March due to the coronavirus crisis, but is set to make a high-profile return with no less than four Group races on the card.

The middleweight was supposed to fight American Uriah Hall in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday after the original bout on April 18 was cancelled due to the pandemic.

It is almost impossible to find a consensus among fight fans over the top 10 knockouts in UFC history given the vast number of spectacular finishes down the years. 

A report suggested a late challenge may be made to the decision to allow racing to return, with France Galop and its trotting equivalent saying they had been in talks regarding resumption plans.

The four-time world champion eventually retired back in November 2012 after his loss to Vyacheslav Senchenko, holding an overall record of 45 wins and three defeats from 48 bouts.

Technical director Paolo Maldini and his son, Daniel, were thought to have been the only coronavirus cases within Serie A outfit AC Milan's camp.

Mr Lavery is an ally of the current Labour leader, and could split senior left-wing party figures, including Mr Corbyn, who are believed to favour Rebecca Long-Bailey.

Speaking of a 'profound volatility' in UK politics over the last 12 months, the former Labour leader slammed the current one following his party's disastrous general election performance.

The display in London, broadcast by the BBC, kicked off with the roar of football anthems but some claimed they could hear Jeremy Corbyn's name being chanted.

Boris Johnson is concerned a 'Labour mole' is operating within Whitehall, say government sources. Confidential Treasury documents were leaked to Labour during the election campaign.

MPs have warned of 'Operation Stop Keir' after a poll of members showed the centrist shadow Brexit secretary well ahead of Corbynista candidates such as Rebecca Long Bailey and Ian Lavery.

A motion believed to have been drawn up by activists in Dulwich says Jeremy Corbyn deserves 'heartfelt gratitude and appreciation' for his 'remarkable contribution'.

Mr Corbyn accused the US president of carrying out 'an extremely serious and dangerous escalation of conflict' after the rocket strike which killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.

The Birmingham Yardley MP said she 'would have absolutely no problem in confronting Donald Trump' as she launched a bid to become the Labour party's next leader this evening.

Labour leadership hopeful Jess Phillips has backtracked after she suggested she would campaign to take the UK back into the European Union if she takes over from Jeremy Corbyn.

The party's business spokesman lavished praise on the outgoing leader during her campaign launch despite him overseeing Labour's worst British election defeat since 1935.

The Parliamentary Labour Party has long been at odds with Mr Corbyn over his policies and attitude to Brexit and her speech on the party's future went down badly according to MPs in the room.

The shadow foreign secretary, an outsider in the leadership race to succeed him, said she had no option but to give him zero after the party suffered its worst defeat in 85 years.

The left-winger, who is trailing sixth and last in the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn, made the suggestion in a campaign speech in London.

PETER HITCHENS: Where political parties combine patriotism, a strong but just welfare state, good education, firm policing and tough defence, they tend to win elections.

Labour's Jess Phillips was forced to suspend her key aide Salma Hamid (pictured) on Friday for posting 'offensive' tweets including a description of Israel as a 'murderer', between 2014 and 2016.

The shadow business secretary hit out at a scatter-gun approach that saw people and resources wasted on seats that were unwinnable, at the expense of marginal seats lost to the Conservatives.

Journalists poring over her policies and private life to glean a better understanding of the would-be leader have, until now, been split over whether to hyphenate her surname.

Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said she would unveil a package of radical constitutional measures if she won the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.

Florence Eshelomi and Abena Oppong-Asare both took their London seats for the first time at December's general election. But they have been left less than impressed so far.

Wigan MP Ms Nandy, who narrowly came third behind Ms Long-Bailey in the first round of the leadership campaign, is said to have impressed Mr McCluskey in a face-to-face meeting.

Labour's membership has reportedly grown by 60,000 people since the party's devastating general election defeat.

The ex-West Bromwich East MP will write The House, a tale of 'ambition and failure, trust and betrayal' after signing up with publisher Little, Brown.

HENRY DEEDES: Andrew Bowie, my boy, you took the words right out of my mouth, calling out across the Commons in your genteel Scots brogue.

Sir Keir Starmer today refused to say whether he is politically closer to Tony Blair or Jeremy Corbyn as he said Labour must learn lessons from its last four general election defeats and not just 2019.

Rebecca Long-Bailey has hinted that she took cannabis during a trip to Amsterdam as she prepares to formally launch her Labour leadership bid this evening.