Captain Andrew Strauss paid tribute to South Africa but admitted England undermined their own cause as the hosts won the third one-day international in Cape Town to level the series.

England have announced that Test squad members Adil Rashid and Liam Plunkett are leaving the one-day international party to instead take part in a four-day England Performance Programme match.

Canterbury City Council has agreed to loan Kent £4million towards the redevelopment of the St Lawrence Ground. The club will meet the full cost.

Dynamo's history against FC Metalurh Zaporizhya dates back to the 1992/1993 season...

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Under current law, sports clubs are required to purchase Performing Right Society licences for the use of music within their venues. The fees from these licences are distributed to composers and recording artists. Clubs have however benefitted from exemptions from

Owing to the power cut that parts of Rugby are currently experiencing, Rugbys' Planning Portal website, the Open Access website, and the Contractor Portal website are unavailable.

Bags with a goodwill message are to be distributed throughout the Rugby area in the run up to Christmas.

People throughout the Rugby area are being given the opportunity to have their say on issues that matter to them at the latest round of community forums.

There are big derbies in Liverpool, Lisbon, Genoa and Belgrade to look forward to while AJ Auxerre search for their eighth successive win as uefa.com previews the weekend's top fixtures in Europe.

Captain Carles Puyol insisted FC Barcelona's Sunday opponents Real Madrid CF were "top of the table for a reason" as the Spanish and European champions bid for a third successive 'El Clásico' win.

Jermain Defoe's five goals in a 9-1 win dazzled England and Kurban Berdyev's dancing shocked Russia, with a stray cat and ill-starred autograph also starring in uefa.com's guide to the last seven days.

Seasoned Panathinaikos FC striker Djibril Cissé can feel passions stirring ahead of his first derby against Olympiacos FC, telling uefa.com: "It's more than football here in Athens - it's a lifestyle."

The designation of Ukraine's remaining UEFA EURO 2012™ host cities, and the choice of venue for the UEFA EURO 2012™ final, are major items on the UEFA Executive Committee agenda next month.

FC Barcelona have received a boost ahead of Sunday's Liga encounter against title rivals Real Madrid CF with the news that Andrés Iniesta, 25, has signed a one-year contract extension.

VfL Wolfsburg striker Obafemi Martins will miss the decisive Group B fixture against Manchester United FC on 8 December after planned winter break surgery on a left shin injury was brought foward.

Three teams are already through, with eight more within a point of joining them as the UEFA Europa League takes centre stage with 16 Matchday 5 fixtures split over Wednesday and Thursday night.

UEFA's HatTrick programme has helped promote grassroots football all around Europe and no more so than in Finland where mini-pitches and football halls are among the benefits reaped from the project.

At the last UEFA European Futsal Championship in November 2007 in Porto. Tomá Neumann's Czech Republic suffered three defeats but having qualified again in dramatic style the coach aims to at least top Group A.

Here Slovenian climber Natalija Gros stars in a short film called Le Tango Vertical in which she goes barefoot deep water soloing.Natalija has climbed F8c+ sport routes and has competed at the highest level.