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In pictures: Maracana stadium reopens

Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium as it reopens after a two-year refurbishment.

SPL roundup: St Johnstone beat Caley to stay in Europa League race

• St Johnstone beat 10-man Inverness 1-0 • Aberdeen give new manager 1-0 win against Kilmarnock Steven MacLean's second-half header gave St Johnstone a 1-0 victory against 10-man Inverness in their Scottish Premier League game at McDiarmid Park that put them firmly back in the race for…

Barnet and Aldershot slide into Conference after AFC Wimbledon win

• Barnet beaten at Northampton, Aldershot by Rotherham • Wimbledon win 2-1 at home to Fleetwood to survive Seven teams were at risk of relegation from the Football League and on a predictably tense final day, in which almost every team appeared to be gripped by nerves in front of goal,…

Newcastle United 0 Liverpool 6 match report: Daniel Sturridge fills gap to pile agony on Alan Pardew

When they stopped counting the goals that inflicted on Newcastle their worst home defeat in a top-flight League game for 87 years, Alan Pardew's future looked more precarious than Luis Suarez's.

Everton 1 Fulham 0 match report: Everton stay in running for Euro place after neat work by Steven Pienaar

With those garish orange boots reflecting off the sun's rays, Dimitar Berbatov clutched at his calf and exited the game. No real point in seeing this one out. And with that, on the 30th minute, Fulham's chances of getting anything at their most dreaded of away grounds vanished.

Southampton 0 West Bromwich Albion 3 match report: Three off as Fortuné completes the set of goal, assist and red card

Robert Madley will not forget his first Premier League match in a hurry. One moment the 27-year-old referee from West Yorkshire was strolling through an end-of-season game notable mainly for West Bromwich Albion's convincing arrest of their slide down the table. The next the elbows and studs were…

Stoke City 1 Norwich City 0 match report: Potters safe, Tony Pulis silent, Canaries still in a flutter

The big screen at the Britannia Stadium was advertising Stoke City's end-of-season awards dinner during yesterday's match. Whoever is tasked with compiling the highlights package for that evening's entertainment will have their work cut out but at least Stoke will be able to raise a glass to…

Wigan Athletic 2 Tottenham Hotspur 2 match report: Both teams lose out in game they had to win

It was being billed as a must-win game for both sides with their differing ambitions. Unfortunately football does not accommodate such a possibility and so, after Tottenham's late equalising goal, there was briefly an air of anti-climax around a previously vibrant stadium.

Manchester City 2 West Ham United 1 match report: Samir Nasri sparkles for City despite Joe Hart's slip-up

Robert Mancini was as good as his word when he talked about tackling Manchester United's monumental ascendancy. "We have five games to recover six or seven points," the Manchester City manager declared on Friday, and in the performance of his team, and Samir Nasri in particular, here was…