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Sport News 24/7 Was the Fourth Round a classic in the annals of FA Cup history? Two non-league sides made it into the Fifth Round hat for the first time this century and lower league sides were toppling their supposed superiors across the board. Magic of the Cup, innit? Not is all as it seems. Mostly owing to the fixture layout, the Fourth Round was also witness to sides making sweeping changes to their usual starting XIs. There are bigger...

Sport News 24/7 A couple have set up a football team for children with special needs and disabilities who have been turned away from other clubs – called REJECTS FC. Jay Dooley, 43, and wife Tracy, 34, set up the side after getting sick of seeing their 10-year-old son Harrison never being picked for his school squad. The footy-mad youngster was born with a hole in his heart and a blood disorder which means he is increasingly tired as his...

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has bagged himself another title - this time as Doctor of Arts after receiving an honorary university degree. The 65-year-old accepted the accolade from De Montfort University in Leicester for his Premier League winning achievement with the Foxes. In front of an audience of hundreds of fellow graduates The Tinkerman - wearing a cap and orange gown - collected his degree yesterday afternoon (Wed). After receiving a standing ovation, he told the ceremony: "I thank...

Hear the term ‘teenage driver’ and the first things that pop into your head are quite possibly a ‘Nissan Micra’ and ‘sky high insurance premiums’, but one 18 year old from Bishops Stortford is demonstrating that a lack of years is no barrier to driving talent. Not only is Callum Ilott’s tender age belying his success as a multiple karting champion but, unlike so many other drivers in motorsport whose fathers also competed, Ilott’s unorthodox journey didn’t start with watching...

Given the amount of money BT invested in securing live sports rights it all seemed a little too good to be true that it could offer the privilege of viewing it effectively for free. Signing up for BT's competitively priced broadband package would give you access to Premier League games, the Champions League and a plethora of other live sports coverage. But as many of us suspected, the offer was too good to be true. BT has today announced sweeping...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @rgdewinter  @davidjdewinter Sports Editor David de Winter and TLE Sports columnist Richard de Winter talk British success at the Australian Open, discuss England's ongoing one-day series in India, preview the semi-finals at The Masters snooker and take a peek at the upcoming RBS 6 Nations.

Sport News 24/7 A football coach whose girls' team hasn't lost a match for three seasons on the trot is calling for more girls to take up the sport - because the boys' teams are too afraid to play them. Stuart Henley's nine and ten-year-old players have scored 110 goals in seven matches and have conceded just four - setting a new season record. But Stuart and his under-10s team are "gutted" that boys' teams sometimes refuse to play against...

Sport News 24/7 Most Sunday league footballers have come up against a team who have brought in a 'ringer' - but this is ridiculous ... Amateurs invited to play at Cuitat Esportiva FC, Barcelona's training ground, were stunned when they were joined by mysterious midfielder 'Roberto Da Silva' - who was actually football legend Rivaldo. The former Brazil and Barca playmaker was disguised with prosthetic make-up, a wig and a beard for the competition winners' game set up by Betfair....

British racing jockeys, trainers, officials and fans alike were saddened and surprised to hear news of Kempton Park’s closure. The historic south-west London course is set to be bulldozed and sold to developers in order to find an investment programme for racecourses elsewhere. The closure is part of a Jockey Club (JC) plan which aims to spend a staggering £500 million on British racing across the next decade. With the closure of the much-loved Kempton Park brings great change. The...