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The Fiver | The return of a faintly preposterous cockney footballing dinosaur | Barry Glendenning

Click here to have the Fiver sent to your inbox every weekday at 5pm, or if your usual copy has stopped arriving GUESS WHO'S F***ING BACK YOU C****? With the cricket and tennis delayed by rain, the golf and football not on until later and not much else going on, there was a point late on Sunday…

Conferations Cup: Andrea Pirlo scores against Mexico on 100th Italy appearance - video

The Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo says he felt 'lucky' to have scored a goal on his 100th appearance for his country        

Luis Suárez: Spain will win Confederations Cup - video

Luis Suárez says Spain are his favourites to win this year's Confederations Cup after Uruguay's 2-1 defeat to the current world and European champions        

Football quiz: Joe Kinnear

Today's questions contain a few deleted expletives Paul Campbell        

The week in sport – in pictures

From the Tour of Switzerland to slacklining in Naples, we pick the best images from a week in sport        

Socceroos' last-gasp heartbreak – a brief history

Between 1974 and 2006 Australia's World Cup qualification efforts ended in tears seven times out of seven. It got increasingly cruel as the 1990s rolled agonisingly on 1989 v Israel Until Israel were admitted to European qualifying they were regular opponents for the Socceroos. In the final…

Australia 1-1 New Zealand (Australia win on pens) | Women's football match report

• Australia 1-1 New Zealand (Australia win on pens) The Matildas beat New Zealand on penalties in an international friendly to claim the Centenary Cup, the match finishing without a period of extra time to fit in with ABC television scheduling. The sides were locked at 1-1 at the end of the…

Mata ignoring Chelsea exit reports

• 'Nobody at Chelsea has told me that Mourinho wants me out' • Spanish international adds: 'I'm very happy with Chelsea' Juan Mata insists he has not been told he is surplus to requirements under the new Chelsea manager José Mourinho and is ignoring stories to the contrary. The…

Lionel Messi overtakes Maradona's Argentina tally with hat-trick

• Argentina record 4-0 away victory over Guatemala • Messi now third behind Batistuta and Crespo on list Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick to help a second-string Argentina record an easy 4-0 away win over Guatemala in a friendly and overtake Diego Maradona's international goals tally.…