PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN 2-2 MANCHESTER CITY - MARTIN SAMUEL AT THE PARC DES PRINCES: He was a great centre half, Laurent Blanc. Manuel Pellegrini played the position with distinction in Chile, too. No wonder what went on left both men looking rather pained. It was a finer evening for Pellegrini. A relatively high-scoring away draw at this stage of the Champions League is a very creditable feat indeed. Yet as defensive error piled upon defensive error, both managers threw tortured shapes on the sidelines.

MIKE DICKSON INTERVIEW: County cricket may have receded from public consciousness in recent decades, but it still has the capacity to throw up some remarkable happenings. One such came at the end of last season when brothers Tom and Sam Curran pulled off the singular feat of taking all 10 wickets between them in an innings when Surrey played Northamptonshire. Sam being just 17 and still a schoolboy made it all the more exceptional. During the 2016 season, which starts on Sunday, English cricket will occasionally divert its attention from the national team to monitor their progress.

Jurgen Klopp thinks that a victory for Liverpool over his former club Borussia Dortmund could single them out as one of the favourites to win the Europa League. The Reds face Dortmund in the first-leg of their quarter-final tie on Thursday night at the Westfalenstadion.  Klopp, who managed Dortmund to two Bundesliga titles, said at his pre-match press conference: 'They are in a better moment but we've had lot of good moments in our season.' 

Liverpool midfielder James Milner admits their Europa League quarter-final against Borussia Dortmund is worthy of a grander stage. 'I think it is two top teams with great European history - put the tie in the Champions League and it wouldn't look out of place,' he said.

Have you ever imagined what Arsenal players Petr Cech, Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck would get up to on a road trip? The trio have appeared in an advert for Europcar, an official partner of the club, which follows them on an imaginary journey to an away game.

Gary Player kicked his right leg into the air, hugged his granddaughter Alex and grandson Paul and received congratulations from playing competitors Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson. No, this was not the 1978 Masters, when Player won his third and final Green Jacket with a one-shot victory over Watson and was four better than Nicklaus. This was the Par-3 contest on the eve of the 2016 Masters, when the 80-year-old South African fired a hole-in-one at the 115-yard seventh hole, one of a record nine aces made by the field on Wednesday to shatter the old mark of five.

Deborah Stokes (top right), the mother of England cricketer Ben, was put live on air without her permission after calling Radio Hauraki to complain about them bad-mouthing her son. Breakfast show hosts Matt Heath and Jeremy Wells (bottom right) had been mocking the bowler (left) after he was smashed for four consecutive sixes in the final over by Carlos Brathwaite as the West Indies dramatically claimed the World T20 trophy in Kolkata.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is making sure his players a primed for the title race run-in with double training sessions. However it seems the soaring Spurs squad are relishing the extra workout, joking around as they rested up ahead of facing Manchester United at White Hart Lane on Sunday. Tottenham are currently seven points behind Premier League leaders Leicester before hosting Louis van Gaal's side knowing only a victory will suffice. 

Rangers secured promotion back to the Scottish Premiership and end their four-year exile on Tuesday night with a memorable 1-0 victory against Dumbarton in front of home support. The Ibrox outfit have battled back from liquidation in 2012, which saw them demoted to the basement of Scottish football, and secure a return to the top-flight under the stewardship of manager Mark Warburton this season.  During their journey in joining Celtic and Co back in the Scottish Premiership, Rangers have used 68 players - but can you name them all? 

Jason Day thought his first Masters would be his last. His spirit was crushed, his passion for the game eroded by the kind of frustration one might not expect the world's number one golfer to endure. Sat on his motor home with his wife and his support staff here at Augusta National, he actually wondered if his career was over. 'Golf is a very, very frustrating game,' he said on Tuesday with a nice balance of laughter and sincerity. 'It really is. I can sympathize with everyone in this room that's played golf. It's a very difficult game at times, and especially as a professional.

JEFF POWELL: Nigel Benn put his son Conor through a full-blooded sparring session in Australia before granting permission for him to come to London for his professional debut in London's O2 Arena this Saturday night. Benn Jnr sustained a busted nose and bleeding from the mouth as his father tested his boys ambition to follow him into the ring. 'Conor showed that he has got all of me in him and then some,' said Nigel. 'The first time we went at it I did batter him. He learns quick. The second time he hit me hard a few times to the head. It had to be serious if he wanted to do this and I ended up asking him "how can you beat up your 52-year-old father?"' 

Manny Pacquiao has arrived in Las Vegas ahead of what is expected to be his final ever professional fight against long-time rival Timothy Bradley on Saturday.  The 37-year-old Filipino boxer will be hoping to end his career on a high by defeating his American opponent during their third showdown at the MGM Grand.  The two fighters go into this weekend's meeting with a victory apiece during their previous fights, with Pacquiao exacting revenge on Bradley in their most recent bout in April 2014.

MARTIN KEOWN: I think Arsene Wenger's first thought when he saw the headlines about Jack Wilshere would have been: 'Not again.' Wenger is a manager who places so much importance in trust and care. He really does care for his players - they are like sons to him. That's why this will hurt. He has allowed Jack a certain level of trust but that is being stretched to the limit again. Jack is only doing what most young men do but he is a professional footballer and that means things are different. Nobody is saying he can't go out and let his hair down but you have to know when and where it's appropriate. You have to visualise the headlines and keep your head down.