Cameron Jerome's equaliser rescued a point for managerless Norwich as they were held by struggling Blackburn.

The Canaries, who sacked boss Alex Neil on Friday, had to play with 10 men for 69 minutes after Mitchell Dijks was sent off for fouling Marvin Emnes.
Jerome's close-range finish had given the hosts the lead but Lucas Joao fired in from six yards to make it 1-1.
The Portugal international then headed Rovers in front before Jerome struck from inside the box late on.
City had failed to win in their last five games under Neil and that record has continued against a Blackburn side that are 22nd in the Championship table.
But the draw has seen the Canaries close the gap on the top six from nine to eight points while Rovers have now gone five games unbeaten since Tony Mowbray was appointed their manager on 22 February.
Jerome put Norwich ahead early on when he slid the ball past keeper Jason Steele, who had half blocked an attempt by Josh Murphy.
Despite Dijks' sending off soon after, it took until midway through the second half for Blackburn to strike back.
Substitute Joao put the visitors back on level terms in the 73rd minute as he converted from Connor Mahoney's cross before then giving them the lead as he headed in from Danny Graham's delivery.
But Jerome joined the Portugal international in claiming a brace as he latched on to Murphy's pass to make it 2-2 at full time.
Norwich caretaker manager Alan Irvine told BBC Radio Norfolk: "We made a decent start, getting ahead but then the sending off changes all our plans.
"But despite going 2-1 down and a little spell when we wobbled, the lads showed great character to play as they did with 10 men for so long.
"There was no question it was a red card. It was a mis-timed tackle but I don't think it was malicious."
Blackburn boss Tony Mowbray told BBC Radio Lancashire: "The frustration is that we only ended up with a point after being in total control.
"There was a lot of good positive stuff in that we were in in control of the game and weren't overly threatened by a Norwich team that was in the Premier League last year but we let ourselves down in the last 10 minutes after going in front.
"The game should have been won at 2-1, there should have been no way back, they couldn't get over the half-way line but we allowed them to score."
Match ends, Norwich City 2, Blackburn Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Norwich City 2, Blackburn Rovers 2.
Attempt missed. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Steven Whittaker.
Attempt blocked. Jonny Howson (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Bennett.
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers).
Yanic Wildschut (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cameron Jerome (Norwich City).
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Alexander Tettey (Norwich City).
Attempt missed. Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Elliott Bennett with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jason Lowe.
Attempt missed. Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Danny Graham.
Corner,  Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Cameron Jerome.
Alexander Tettey (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alexander Tettey (Norwich City).
Attempt missed. Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Hope Akpan.
Goal!  Norwich City 2, Blackburn Rovers 2. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jacob Murphy.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Jason Lowe tries a through ball, but Derrick Williams is caught offside.
Goal!  Norwich City 1, Blackburn Rovers 2. Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Danny Graham with a cross.
Offside, Norwich City. Cameron Jerome tries a through ball, but Ivo Pinto is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ivo Pinto.
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for dangerous play.
Dangerous play by Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers).
Michael McGovern (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jacob Murphy (Norwich City).
Goal!  Norwich City 1, Blackburn Rovers 1. Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Connor Mahoney with a cross.
Attempt missed. Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Derrick Williams with a cross.
Substitution, Norwich City. Jacob Murphy replaces Josh Murphy.
Substitution, Norwich City. Yanic Wildschut replaces Wes Hoolahan.
Connor Mahoney (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Steven Whittaker (Norwich City).
Attempt missed. Marvin Emnes (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Derrick Williams with a cross.
Attempt missed. Lucas João (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Elliott Bennett with a cross.
Foul by Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers).
Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.


Raymond Fitzpatrick's injury-time penalty gave Championship side Lurgan Celtic a shock Irish Cup quarter-final win over 10-man Portadown.

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Aaron Haire headed the minnows in front before Ports forward Mark McAllister was red-carded after an off-the-ball incident on 32 minutes.
Shea Conaty's superb strike made it 2-0 but the hosts fought back with goals from Marcio Soares and Sean Mackle.
Fitzpatrick netted the winner to set up a semi-final against Linfield.
Ronnie McFall resigned as Portadown manager just minutes after the final whistle, bringing his almost 30-year reign at Shamrock park to an end.
Haire and Conaty came back to haunt their former club with the former Ports pair scoring the opening two goals.
It was a spirited fightback from the Premiership side with Soares firing into the bottom corner before Mackle nodded in from close range to equalise.
Despite being a player down Portadown were now the dominant side but Celtic had the final say thanks to Fitzpatrick's spot-kick after Chris Casement tripped Haire.
It will be Lurgan Celtic's first semi-final appearance and they will take on the Blues at Windsor Park on Friday, 1 April.
Lurgan Celtic boss Colin Malone said: "It's unbelievable - it was a real rollercoaster ride and we're delighted.
"I'm so proud of the lads and delighted for everyone involved with the club.
"We look forward to facing Linfield and we'll go up there and give it our best."


Most of the newspapers lead on Alex Salmond's announcement that he will stand down as Scotland's first minister after the country rejected independence.

The Scotsman writes that Mr Salmond led his party "from a minority movement into an election-winning political machine". The newspaper says there is "little doubt" Mr Salmond's deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, is favourite to succeed him as leader. David Torrance, analysing the impact of Mr Salmond on Scottish politics, says he is "perhaps the most significant politician to emerge from Scotland in the past three decades".
In coverage of the referendum result, political correspondent Scott Macnab writes that "women and older voters were the secret weapon" that helped the "No" campaign win.
The Herald runs with a quote from Mr Salmond's speech, in which he said "the dream shall never die", on its front page. The paper describes the announcement as "dramatic" and speculates that local government minister Derek Mackay and Humza Yousaf, the minister for external affairs, may also stand for the leadership. Columnist Iain Macwhirther writes of the resignation that Mr Salmond "was astute enough to realise that his time had finally come."
The newspaper also writes that there is anger in the Labour party over plans to restrict what Scottish MPs can vote on at Westminster. And it has a pullout of analysis and results from Thursday's vote.
The Daily Record, on its front page, describes Mr Salmond as "beaten but unbowed", running with a picture of the first minister with his wife Moira after they left his official home in Edinburgh, Bute House. The paper's political editor David Clegg says Mr Salmond "took the cause of Scottish nationalism to unimaginable victories" before Friday's "agonising defeat". Among tributes in the paper is one from Colin and Chris Weir, the euromillions winners who donated large sums to the "Yes" campaign.
The paper also carries a pledge from Labour leader Ed Miliband that he will deliver more powers for Holyrood.
The Scottish Sun splashes with a mocked up Looney Tunes image, with the headline "Nats all folks". The paper says Mr Salmond was "close to tears" during the announcement, which came after a "crushing referendum defeat". The paper, in its editorial, describes the first minister as "true colossus". And in a personal tribute, Ms Sturgeon says the "personal debt of gratitude" she owes Mr Salmond "is immeasurable".
The paper also covers trouble in Glasgow's George Square on Friday night, saying hundreds of unionists clashed with police and "Yes" supporters.
The Courier runs with the headline "Salmond steps down", The Express says he fell on his sword and The Daily Telegraph writes that the First Minister decided to "throw in the towel".
A number of the UK papers cover the result of the referendum too. Proposed changes to government across the UK following the referendum result are also causing controversy. The Times says that there is deadlock in moves towards further devolution,  while The Independent describes the United Kingdom as "disunited".
The Guardian writes that the battle for new powers has now moved to England, with Labour and the Conservatives differing over who should vote on English laws.


Residents of a town whose council tax levy was increased overnight by 400% have passed a vote of no confidence in their town council.

A parish poll was held on Thursday after Desborough Town Council decided to increase its annual tax levy from Â£19.10 to Â£96.98.
More than 2,200 residents voted, a turn out of 27% and the vote was passed by a majority 95% .
Voters also called for more public consultation over future tax increases.
Kevin O'Brien, who proposed the motion, said he was delighted with the result, but said it was "quite a sad situation that we had to resort to a town poll to get the message across".
"The community has come together as a whole and we've made it very, very clear we're unhappy with what's going on currently," he added after the result.
"We want them [the council] to come to us and talk."
The poll does not have a legal impact on the council but those who voted hope it will encourage the council to consult with them before deciding on tax increases.
Analysis by Tom Barton, BBC political reporter
A parish poll is an official vote - a mini referendum that allows local people to express their anger (or satisfaction) with a decision taken by their Town or Parish Council.
And, although it doesn't hold the legal weight of a full referendum, it can still send a powerful message to local councillors.
And yesterday the message from the voters of Desborough was one of dissatisfaction with the Town Council's approach to increasing their council tax bills.
The Council may point out that only 27% of people voted - but 95% of those who did said they had no confidence in the Town Council.
To put it another way - in the five hours from 4pm to 9pm yesterday one person in every four in Desborough left their house, went to a local polling station, and put a cross next to a box marked "no confidence". That will be food for thought for those running the Council.
The chairman of Desborough Town Council, Councillor Allan Matthews, said he will not stand down after the vote of no confidence.
"We've been elected on a four-year programme and we are staying for the four years... If it is the voters' wish that we don't get elected next time then that's their decision.
"We have said in our manifesto what we are going to do, and we are going to carry it out.  And I think we have the support of the majority of the people in the town."
He said there would be no change to the tax hike and said the money will be spent on additional car parking spaces in the town and some improvement facilities for children.


Porto shocked Bayern Munich to take a first-leg lead in an entertaining Champions League quarter-final tie.

The Portuguese side went ahead early on through a Ricardo Quaresma penalty, after Manuel Neuer tripped striker Jackson Martinez in the box.
Winger Quaresma then dispossessed Dante before running through on goal and calmly slotting a second into the net.
Thiago pulled a goal back for Bayern, but Martinez grabbed a brilliant third. The return leg takes place on 21 April.
Porto hold a significant advantage in the tie as they aim to reach their first semi-final since winning the competition in 2004 under Jose Mourinho.
Their performance was built on hard work and pressure, before moving the ball quickly to the front, but they were helped by shambolic defending from Bayern.
The Germans - who boasted an 11-game unbeaten run in Portugal - managed to claim an away goal, but missed key players including wingers Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben, as well as midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger.
Porto boss Julen Lopetegui and Bayern's Pep Guardiola played together at Barcelona in the 1990s, and 48-year-old Lopetegui's tactics were spot on at Estadio do Dragao.
The ex-Real Madrid Castilla man deployed a high-intensity pressing game, giving his former team-mate's side little time on the ball.
And it worked instantly as Bayern went behind after three minutes. Midfielder Xabi Alonso was caught in possession by the returning Martinez - playing after six weeks out with a groin injury - who attempted to round goalkeeper Neuer but was brought down.
The German received only a yellow card, as the Colombian front man had been running away from goal, and Quaresma dispatched the penalty.
Minutes later, former Barcelona and Inter Milan man Quaresma doubled the lead after nicking the ball from Dante, before keeping his composure to stroke home.
The visitors reduced the deficit through Thiago, who swept home Jerome Boateng's cross, but Martinez's beautifully taken third with instant control and cool finish - after the ball sailed over Boateng's head - leaves the five-time winners with much to do in the second leg.
Porto manager Julen Lopetegui: "It was fundamental that we tried our best to impose ourselves on Bayern and not give them a chance to settle.
"We are facing one of the strongest Bayern teams in history. The hardest part will be in Munich.
"We will need to produce a perfect performance in Germany next week to progress."
Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola: "There's still another leg. We're a bit upset but we have six days to analyse it.
"We have players who were out a long time with injuries - their legs don't last very long,"
"It's a tough result to take into the second leg, but we'll give it a go."


Triple Paralympic medallist Ollie Hynd has said it will be strange not competing against his brother Sam at the Rio Games in September.

Ollie, 21, clinched silver in the 400m freestyle S8 at London 2012 with older brother Sam winning bronze.
Sam retired from swimming in 2014.
"As much as we both had an intense rivalry and we both wanted to beat each other, I wouldn't have been able to achieve what I did in London without him," Ollie told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"It was weird having us both racing against each other, but now it's the opposite of not seeing him in the pool room before the race and having that familiar face around."
Sam, 24, set a world record when he won gold in the 400m freestyle S8 at Beijing in 2008 and Ollie credits his brother's experience as a help in him winning three medals in London.
"I was only 17 in London and it was all kind of new to me," he explained. "Having Sam there was a massive help.
"He had been to Beijing and done it before but now I'm stepping out on my own and proving myself."
UK Sport has set a target of at least 121 medals at Rio 2016.
Hynd spends an average of four hours per day in the pool and wants to return from Brazil with gold medals.
As well as his silver medal, the Mansfield-born athlete also won gold in the SM8 200m individual medley and 100m backstroke bronze at London 2012.
"On average I have nine sessions in the water and two sessions in the gym per week," he said. "Which adds up to 50,000 metres swimming per week.
"I would be lying if I said I wouldn't be disappointed if I didn't win gold. I'm going out there to win as many events as possible."


JK Rowling feels "fully vindicated and her reputation restored" after the Daily Mail's apology to the author was read out in London's High Court.

A 2013 article suggested Rowling had told a false "sob story" about being stigmatised by churchgoers in the '90s.
The Mail printed an apology and paid substantial damages to Rowling in May 2014, but challenged Rowling's right to give a court statement about the case.
Last week the Court of Appeal dismissed the newspaper's objections.
It paved the way for Thursday's unilateral statement, which was read out by solicitor Keith Schilling on behalf of Rowling, as part of the libel settlement.
During her successful libel case, the author said the newspaper's story was "premised on a false picture" of an article she had written 10 days earlier for single parents' charity Gingerbread.
The two-page statement reiterated that Rowling "did not at any point criticise or complain about her treatment at the hands of fellow churchgoers.
"She had in fact spoken about her time working at the local church with immense gratitude."
Mr Schilling said: "Following publication of the article, the claimant, through her solicitors, wrote to the defendant requesting only that the online article be removed and a sufficient apology published.
"The defendant refused to remove the article or apologise and denied that the article was even capable of defaming the claimant for several months."
The statement concluded the newspaper allegations left the author "understandably distressed" but she was now happy to bring her libel proceedings to a close.


A nurse who left a syringe full of drugs on a patient's bed and gave another patient the wrong medicine has been struck off.

Ide Warren worked for the Mid Essex Hospital Trust as a staff nurse in 2011 and 2012.
She was suspended from practise in 2012 after admitting eight charges.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has now removed her name from its register after finding she would pose "a significant risk to patients".
The council heard Ms Warren, who now lives in Northern Ireland, wanted to come off the register "voluntarily" and said because of her current state of health "it is highly unlikely she will be able to address the issues with her practice".
Ms Warren worked first as a healthcare assistant and then as a staff nurse at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford between March 2011 and February 2012.
The panel was told how she left a syringe of morphine on a patient's bed before signing to say the drug had been administered and also gave antibiotics to a man which was intended for a female patient.
Other charges she admitted included trying to give insulin to someone who was already being given the hormone and leaving a patient on a bed pan in a wet bed for 20 minutes.
The hospital previously said Ms Warren ceased working at the Chelmsford-based Broomfield Hospital in February 2012 and was "continually supervised" once concerns had been raised.


The US House of Representatives has voted to keep restrictions on US citizens travelling to Cuba, despite a recent thaw in relations.

The Republican-controlled chamber rejected proposals to allow regular scheduled flights to the island.
It also said a rule should remain requiring Americans to get a special licence before going to Cuba.
The House was voting on a transport funding bill which has provisions related to Cuba.
President Barack Obama has threatened to veto the bill.
New rules issued by the Obama administration in January were aimed at easing travel restrictions to Cuba and allowing scheduled flights for the first time.
But Republican Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart said the White House was wrong to lift the restrictions.
He said it would mean flights landing at an airport that was partially owned by US interests when it was seized by the Cuban government.
"What you are saying is, 'It's OK to do business on property that was stolen from Americans'," said Mr Diaz-Balart, a Cuban-American.
The thaw in relations between the US and Cuba was announced late last year in simultaneous televised speeches by President Obama and his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro.
President Obama, a Democrat, used his executive powers to ease the embargo that has existed for more than 50 years, defying hardline critics.
However, the issue is caught in a battle between Republicans who control Congress and the White House.


"A lot of people stop me on the street and say 'I am a fan of another team but if Leicester win the title I am very happy'", says Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri.

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Of course, there are a few exceptions, but most of us football fans are rooting for Leicester, aren't we?
If they do cling to top spot over the remaining 14 games of the season it will be the most romantic tale since, well, Norwich almost did it a generation ago in 1992-93.
There's plenty of love for the East Midlands outfit right now. It might be because, as a nation, we love a plucky underdog. It might be because we love their top striker's rags-to-riches story, rising from non-league to international football stardom in just a few seasons.
In fact, there are plenty of reasons to keep on hoping that Leicester can triumph over the league's big clubs. Here are some of them:
Listen - Leicester players have "points to prove"
If Leicester do win the title, "it gives everyone hope" says BBC Sport pundit and tactical expert Pat Nevin.
Since the Premier League began, only Blackburn Rovers have managed to take the title away from either Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea or Manchester City.
Where Rovers were funded by Jack Walker's relative wealth, Leicester have built a team spirit with pizza for clean sheets and champagne on reaching 40 points.
Former Chelsea winger Nevin said he would not "fall over in surprise" if Leicester do go on to win the league - and that their success would "be the start of the change - that any number of teams can win it".
"For a long time, it has been three of four teams that could win it, and no one else," Nevin said. "But if Leicester win, it gives everyone hope."
Come on, admit it, you all doubted the appointment of 'The Tinkerman' in the summer.
Gary did.
How could the amenable Italian improve a team which had just won seven of its last nine games to achieve one of the great escapes of Premier League history?
"I think Ranieri often gets overlooked, because it is extraordinary what he has done," said Nevin. "Some of it must be down to the technical knowledge of the manager.
"He has got a group of players to work in a structure. A large part of that was to understand the capabilities of the group and find a methodology. He came in and looked at what fits best. He put round pegs in round holes."
Now if they can just cling on to first place...
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Take note Louis van Gaal: Leicester's achievements this season are based on an anti-possession 'philosophy'.
They have scored the most goals (5) from the most shots (13) after counter-attacks - and have the league's second-highest shot conversion rate at 18%.
And in 13 of their 14 Premier League victories this season, they have had less possession than the opposition - as little as 30% in their 2-1 win over West Ham in August and only 36% in Tuesday's win over Liverpool at the King Power Stadium.
"The pace, the way they play, they are brilliant on the counterattack and know when to press plus their energy levels are fantastic," added Nevin.
"If your best weapons are incredibly quick players, then there is no point in having all the possession and playing deep as it will make it harder for them to run into space."
"That is out-rageous!" exclaimed BBC Radio Leicester's Ian Stringer as Jamie Vardy fizzed a 30-yarder over Simon Mignolet and into the top corner during Tuesday's 2-0 win over Liverpool. "That is a goal you would expect a team who are going to win the league to score."
There was more. "Watch it again, watch it again and watch it again," demanded Stringer - Vardy's goal momentarily making the BBC man either forget he was on the radio, or provoking a passionate plug for that evening's Match of the Day.
BBC Radio Leicester's sports editor Jason Bourne on why Leicester can win the league:
1. A winning mentality. This is a team that have lost just just twice in the Premier League this season. They're beating some very good teams with relative ease. They look like a top-four team, and maybe more.
2. Style of play. They're playing some very attractive football with skill and guile. It's a pleasure to watch - and some of the best football from a Leicester City side that I've ever seen.
3. Claudio Ranieri. This man didn't change a great deal when he took over from Nigel Pearson, but now you're seeing his team and his stamp on Leicester City in a big way. He's a man who a lot of pundits thought would be the first manager to be sacked this season. He's proved a lot of people wrong.
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4. The fans. They have been outstanding at the King Power Stadium. Their noise brings an almighty energy to the team. It's cliched to say they're the 12th man but it's true. If you're walking out of the tunnel to that wall of noise, it's going to give you a massive lift in any game.
5. They're good enough. The bottom line is that Leicester City are good enough. They've shown they have the passion and energy to outwork teams but they've also showed they have very good players in the side. Everyone from the defence to the midfield and attack. It's a team of good, good players who are capable of making history this season.
BBC Sportsday asked for responses to #WhenIDidALeicester and readers were very quick - and very funny - with their examples of exceeding expectations.
Here are some of the best:


At least 21 London tower blocks rated as a high fire risk by local councils were not visited by firefighters last year - despite flawed visits being a factor in the fatal Lakanal House fire.

Familiarisation visits are carried out by firefighters on high risk blocks so firefighters can learn the layout.
The data was not used properly at Lakanal House, where six people died.
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) said its judgement of what is high risk differed from that of council inspectors.
A three-week-old baby was among the victims of the blaze at Lakanal House in Camberwell in July 2009.
The inquest into the deaths found that information gathered by the LFB during prior familiarisation visits to the tower was not passed on to firefighters at the scene.
This meant they did not know where emergency exits were and may have incorrectly advised those who died to stay in their flats.
Coroner Frances Kirkham wrote in a letter to the LFB: "Gathering of operational knowledge has little value unless it can be stored, disseminated, accessed and updated when most needed at incidents when the use can save valuable time and inform critical command decisions."
Freedom of Information requests sent by BBC London have now revealed that many tower blocks rated as high risk by local authorities received no visits at all from the LFB last year.
The BBC does not have a list of which tower blocks the LFB itself rates as high risk.
Of London's 114 tower blocks rated high risk by local councils, just four received the four annual familiarisation visits the LFB's own guidelines say the riskiest buildings should have.
The research showed 21 of the buildings received no visits whatsoever.
According to the LFB's Freedom of Information response, three have not had any familiarisation visits since 2008.
LFB regulations say that even the lowest-risk buildings should be visited every one to two years.
Harriet Harman, MP for Camberwell and Peckham, described it as "totally unsatisfactory".
She went on: "It is the LFB's responsibility to do these visits and it seems they are just not doing them.
"And clearly nobody is checking up on them to make sure they are taking place.
"The whole thing needs looking into and I will be raising it with both the London Fire Authority and the government because there are questions that need to be answered."
For 16 of the high risk tower blocks on the council list, the LFB was unable to say whether they had been visited at all, because no data was recorded in fire stations' logs.
Fire safety expert and chartered surveyor Arnold Tarling said the lack of visits meant if a fire did occur at one of the buildings firefighters would be "going down there blind".
He added: "It is entirely unacceptable.
"Over time buildings change and I would expect that firefighters carry out at least one inspection per year."
A spokesman for the Department of Communities and Local Government said: "Our guidance on identifying and visiting high risk buildings is clear.
"London Fire Brigade and London authorities need to work together to ensure that this guidance is adhered to and necessary visits take place."
The LFB said that since the Lakanal fire it had now put in place mobile computers on fire engines which would ensure familiarisation visit data was available on the scene of fires.
Responding to the BBC's investigation, the Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson said: "The way in which a local authority would [judge] a block as being high risk might be different to the way a fire service does it.
"They might decide that given the layout of the building, the height of the building, the way it's designed, it's sufficient to record that information and put it on a mobile data terminal - and not necessary to go back and visit very frequently."
He continued: "I'm pleased there's only a very small minority that according to your information didn't have any visits.
"But my requirement would be that there are no buildings which haven't had any visits and I will be picking up on those stations and making sure they're done as soon as possible."


Immigrants from the EU working in Wales will not be thrown out of the country post-Brexit, a senior Welsh Conservative has said.

David Davies said there were too many "scare stories" suggesting people would be removed.
The status of EU citizens working in the UK is likely to be top of the agenda in formal Brexit talks.
Labour's Eluned Morgan said that EU migrants contribute "far far more" than they take out across the UK.
Speaking on the BBC One's Wales Report programme, Mr Davies said: "There's no threat whatsoever to law-abiding, hard working Polish, Hungarian, other EU citizens who come over here to work."
The Brexit campaigner said: "I'm afraid there's too many scare stories being put out there.
"We're not going to stop people from moving around or throw people out of the country."
Ms Morgan said: "I think what we have to understand is that economically, migrants from the EU contribute far-far more than they take out across the United Kingdom.
"They contribute about £6bn which is what is paying for people's pensions and schools and hospitals."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said earlier this week the issue was "settled" after last year's referendum, but declined in a BBC interview to say the UK would definitely leave if he became Prime Minister.
Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth claimed the Conservatives were responsible for "scare stories" about the "negative effects that these immigrants from the EU have".
He said EU migrants are "clearly net contributors to our economy".
UKIP AM Caroline Jones said that since 2010 Theresa May had promised to bring the levels of immigration down to the tens of thousands of people per year.
"Instead of that two million people since 2010 have entered the UK. So that commitment hasn't worked, has it," she said.
The Liberal Democrats' Eluned Parrott said: "I think what's really really sad in all of this is that there are human beings here, individual human beings who's own status feels threatened.
"People who are doctors, they're nurses, they're translators, they are people working in really useful jobs for our society who feel like they're not wanted."
The Wales Report, BBC One, Wednesday, 22:45 BST


All the data on some of the tablets and phones seized as evidence is being wiped out, remotely, while they are in police custody, the BBC has learned.

Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Durham police all told BBC News handsets had been remotely "wiped".
And Dorset police said this had happened to six of the seized devices it had in custody, within one year.
The technology used was designed to allow owners to remove sensitive data from their phones if they are stolen.
"If a device has a signal, in theory it is possible to wipe it remotely," said Ken Munro, a digital forensics expert with Pen Test Partners.
A spokeswoman for Dorset police told the BBC: "There were six incidents, but we don't know how people wiped them.
"We have cases where phones get seized, and they are not necessarily taken from an arrested person - but we don't know the details of these cases as there is not a reason to keep records of this," she added.
A spokeswoman for Derbyshire police confirmed that the force had had one incident of a device being remotely wiped while in police custody.
"We can't share many details about it, but the case concerned romance fraud, and a phone involved with the investigation was remotely wiped," she said.
"It did not impact upon the investigation, and we went on to secure a conviction," she added.
Meanwhile Cleveland police told the BBC that it too had had a case of a phone that had been wiped but it was not clear "whether it was wiped prior to coming into police hands".
Asked whether the police felt that the issue had damaged their investigation, the spokeswoman said: "We don't know because we don't know what was on the phone."
Other police forces affected by the issue include:
Mr Munro, who analyses hundreds of laptops, tablets, phones and other devices for corporate clients, said: "When we seize a device for digital forensics, we put it immediately into a radio-frequency shielded bag, which prevents any signals from getting through.
"If we can't get to the scene within an hour, we tell the client to pop it in a microwave oven.
"The microwave is reasonably effective as a shield against mobile or tablet signals - just don't turn it on."
SecureDrives, which develops hard drives for the military,  is releasing one next year that can be physically destroyed just by sending a text message.
The hard drive -which will cost more than Â£1,000 - is also immune to the radio-frequency blocking bags.
"The hard drive is constantly looking for GSM [Global System for Mobile Communications] signals, if it is starved of them it it would destroy itself. It would see such a bag as a threat," said James Little, head of sales at SecureDrives.


An investigation is to be launched after liquid accelerant was poured through the letterbox of a Cardiff home and set on fire.

Emergency services were called to a house in the Llanrumney area of the city just after 01:30 BST on Wednesday.
People in the house were able to put out the fire themselves, but two needed treatment by paramedics, fire officers said.
Fire investigation officers and police will examine the scene later.


A Ceredigion photographer has won an international competition with a series of pictures taken in Borth.

Swiss-born Mira Andres, of Aberystwyth, will get Â£1,000 and exhibit at Swansea's Elysium Gallery after winning the ESPY International Award 2015.
The University of South Wales graduate was recognised for her composition, The Black Crows of Borth.
It was inspired by the women who once walked the coastal path to Aberystwyth to sell herring and cockles.
Ms Andres, 28, who works as a freelance photographer and designer, said: "I'm very honoured and pleased to have won and I'm looking forward to exhibiting more of this work."
She was chosen as winner by judges Helen Sear and Peter Finnemore, two leading Welsh artists who have represented Wales at the Venice Biennale exhibition.


A campaign has started to raise funds for a memorial for women who worked at munitions factories in World War II.

The campaign is being led by Stoke-on-Trent South Labour MP Rob Flello, whose constituency neighbours the site of one the factories.
The 20,000 workers at ROF Swynnerton became known as the Swynnerton Roses. Across the UK, about 1.5 million women worked in similar factories.
Mr Flello said "recognition was long overdue".
"Every day these women were putting their lives on the line for this country, producing the bullets and shells that were needed on the front-line," he said.
"We've recognised the Bevan Boys, the Land Girls and so forth but we've never recognised the munitions workers and it's about time we put that right."
In 2009, a tree was planted at the National Memorial Arboretum, near Alrewas in Staffordshire, in honour of the Swynnerton Roses.
Mr Flello said their work and the work of the other women required a more "significant memorial" within the arboretum.
Iris Aplin and Mary Taylor, who both worked at the Swynnerton factory, said their work should be remembered.
"Everybody accepted the work because there was a war on and we were intent on helping our troops to win it, but it should be recognised," said 90-year-old Mrs Aplin.
Mrs Taylor, also 90, said: "It was women at work which helped to win the war and because it was troops that were on the front-line, munitions workers have been overlooked."
The factory the women worked in remained open until 1958.
The site is now owned by the Army and is used as a training base.


Rolf Harris fed his "appetite" by groping women and girls in public places, a jury has been told.

The former entertainer acted "under the noses" of other people, prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said in his closing speech at Southwark Crown Court.
Mr Harris, 86, denies seven indecent assaults and one sexual assault on victims aged between 12 and 42, from 1971 to 2004.
His lawyer said there was "something significantly wrong" with each claim.
Mr Harris is currently serving a prison sentence for indecent assault on four females.
Until late last week, he followed the trial via a video-link from jail.
For the latest hearing, he sat in the dock in a navy suit, light blue striped shirt and dark blue and red tie.
Mr Rees said: "It is striking that so many of the allegations involve Mr Harris getting away with a sly, quick grope right under the noses of people who did not notice.
"We suggest that Mr Harris was very good at getting away with it."
He said the previous convictions showed Mr Harris "has a propensity and appetite for indecently assaulting females".
Mr Harris did not give evidence in his defence at the trial.
His lawyer said he would not have been able to add to the police statement in which he denied all the allegations, and had little recollection of events he is said to have attended.
Closing the defence case, Stephen Vullo QC suggested Mr Harris would not have put so much effort into clearing his name if guilty.
He paid for investigators to search for evidence in the UK, France and his native Australia, said the barrister.
"He must know, mustn't he, if he is a sexual predator?" said Mr Vullo.
"Why, then, has he paid for his own investigation?"
He added: "We say quite simply that there is something significantly wrong with each of the complainants' cases."
The defence closing speech will continue on Wednesday.


Stevenage have signed forward Josh McQuoid on loan from League Two rivals Luton Town until the end of the season.

The 27-year-old joined the Hatters in the summer of 2015 following his release by Bournemouth and has since scored seven goals in 42 appearances.
But just three of those have come in the league this season and the Northern Ireland international has joined a Boro side 15th in the table.
McQuoid has found the net 22 times in 197 career league appearances.
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Two men have been arrested by police over an alleged sexual assault on a woman at a Dublin nightclub.

The incident reportedly happened in a private room in a VIP area of the Wright Venue in the early hours of last Saturday morning.
Security staff intervened after monitoring CCTV images at the nightclub, which is in the Swords area of the city.
The men were arrested and detained at Coolock garda (police) station.
They were later released without charge and a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.


President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has urged an end to Africa's illegal ivory trade, saying it means death for elephants and death for tourism.

He is hosting a summit of African leaders, business people and scientists in Nanyuki, central Kenya, to discuss how to save elephants from extinction.
Experts warn Africa's elephants could be extinct within decades.
Appetite for ivory in Asia is fuelling demand, the main trafficking route being via the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
The sale of ivory, even in legal domestic markets, increased risks to the animals, Mr Kenyatta told the Giants Club summit.
"The future of the African elephant and rhino is far from secure so long as demand for their products continues to exist," the president said.
"There is convincing evidence that poaching is aided by international criminal syndicates; it fuels corruption, it undermines the rule of law as well as security and even provides funding for other transnational crime."
Poaching, he added, was a "direct threat" to efforts to achieve social economic development in the region.
The ivory is getting through because people are prepared to pay for it. Stopping the men with arrows and the corrupt officials is just one part  of the solution - the other is destroying the hunger for ivory.
The love of ivory goes back millennia. Its pure, translucent beauty and the ease with which a tusk can be carved into intricate sculptures have given it a lasting value throughout the ages.
Tackling demand and destroying the market are both important but there are also ways of making elephants more valuable alive than dead.
In the parks and game reserves of Africa, close encounters with the most remarkable animals on the planet lie in wait - you just need time, patience and a good eye.
Alastair's report in depth
The presidents of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, and Gabon, Ali Bongo, were also at the conference.
After the summit ends on Saturday, Mr Kenyatta will help set fire to more than 100 tonnes of ivory.
That is nearly the entire stock of ivory confiscated by Kenya, amounting to the tusks of more than 6,700 elephants.
The patron of the summit, UK-based newspaper proprietor Evgeny Lebedev, told BBC News it was aimed at raising funds for conservation and coming up with strategies to tackle conflicts between the animals and people.
"Very possibly by 2025, these magnificent creatures will be completely extinct," he said.
Researchers say Africa has only a 10th of the population of elephants it had nearly a century ago.
The continent is home to between 450,000 to 500,000 elephants but more than 30,000 are killed every year for their tusks. Tanzania lost 65% of its elephant population in the last five years.
Experts say rhino horn can fetch as much as $60,000 (Â£41,000) per kg, more than gold or cocaine.
The Kenyan ivory has been piled into a dozen giant pyres.
It will be seven times the size of any stockpile destruction so far, and represents about 5% of global ivory stores.
Some 1.35 tonnes of rhino horn will also be burned.
The street value of the ivory to be destroyed is estimated at more than $100m (Â£70m), and rhino horn at $80m.
Does burning actually destroy ivory?
"We don't believe there is any intrinsic value in ivory, and therefore we're going to burn all our stockpiles and demonstrate to the world that ivory is only valuable on elephants," said Kitili Mbathi, director general of the Kenya Wildlife Service.


Japan's nuclear agency has upgraded the severity level of a radioactive water leak at the Fukushima plant from one to three on an international scale.

Highly radioactive water was found to be leaking from a storage tank into the ground at the plant on Monday.
It was first classified as a level one incident on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (Ines).
But Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority proposes elevating it to level three on the seven-point scale.
Japanese reports say it is a provisional move that had to be confirmed with the IAEA, the UN's nuclear agency.
This week is the first time that Japan has declared an event on the Ines scale since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The move was announced in a document on the agency's website and was subsequently approved at a weekly meeting of the regulatory body.
Shares of plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) fell as much as 13% to 537 yen as investors worried about the impact of the development.
The March 2011 tsunami knocked out cooling systems to the reactors at the plant, three of which melted down.
Water is now being pumped in to cool the reactors but this means that a large amount of contaminated water has to be stored on site.
Source: IAEA website
There have been leaks of water in the past but this one is being seen as the most serious to date, because of the volume - 300 tonnes of radioactive water, according to Tepco - and high levels of radioactivity in the water.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said it feared the disaster was "in some respects" beyond Tepco's ability to cope.
"We should assume that what has happened once could happen again, and prepare for more," watchdog chairman Shunichi Tanaka told a news conference. "We are in a situation where there is no time to waste."
He said Tepco had failed to spot the leak for days - maybe weeks - despite patrols that are supposed to check each storage tank twice every day. Workers had also left a tap open in the safety barrier that surrounds the base of the leaking storage tank.
That had allowed highly toxic water to trickle away into the ground. Latest reports from the plant suggest some of it may already have reached the nearby Pacific Ocean.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says it all adds to the impression that the clean-up operation is riddled with complacency and incompetence.
A puddle of the contaminated water was emitting 100 millisieverts an hour of radiation, Kyodo news agency said earlier this week.
Masayuki Ono, general manager of Tepco, told Reuters news agency: "One hundred millisieverts per hour is equivalent to the limit for accumulated exposure over five years for nuclear workers; so it can be said that we found a radiation level strong enough to give someone a five-year dose of radiation within one hour."
Teams of workers at the plant have surrounded the leaking tank with sandbags and have been attempting to suck up large puddles of radioactive water.
But our correspondent says it is a difficult and dangerous job. The water is so radioactive that teams must be constantly rotated and it is clear that most of the toxic water has already disappeared into the ground.
Under the Ines, events have seven categories starting with Level 0 ("without safety significance") and Levels 1-3 denoting "incidents" while Levels 4-7 denote "accidents".
The triple meltdown at Fukushima two years ago was classed as a level 7 incident, one of only two nuclear events ever rated that highly - along with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union.


The parents of a nine-year-old girl who was killed in a horse-riding accident while out with a Gloucestershire hunt have paid tribute to her.

Bonnie Armitage was kicked by a horse while on her pony during a ride with the Cotswold Hunt in Miserden, near Stroud, on Saturday.
In a statement, her parents Nick and Polly described her as a "beautiful, vivacious and compassionate girl".
They said she "touched the hearts of everyone who knew her".
Gloucestershire Police said she suffered serious injuries and was taken by air ambulance to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where she later died.
A source told the Press Association that the girl, from near Wantage, Oxfordshire, was riding slightly behind a bigger horse that kicked her off her pony.
Bonnie's parents said she loved riding and was "never happier than when with her Shetland pony, Lindsay".
They said Lindsay, was "absolutely fine" after the "tragic accident" and that it was not the animal's fault "in any way".
"We will miss her more than we can say, and we greatly value the prayers of so many of our friends," they added.


The co-founder of Twycross Zoo - which was once home to the PG Tips chimps - has died aged 98.

Nathalie Evans was initially a business rival of Molly Badham, both running pet shops in Sutton Coldfield in the 1940s.
After the pair joined forces, they opened a zoo near Tamworth, Staffordshire, before moving to the current site in south Leicestershire.
Twycross said Ms Evans was at the "forefront of modernising the way zoological gardens were run".
Ms Evans, who died earlier this month, and Ms Badham, who died in 2007, gained fame in the 1950s when they allowed their chimpanzees to appear in television adverts for PG Tips tea.
The training of the apes, the last of which died in April, was down to Ms Badham while Ms Evans concentrated on the business side of the operation.
Conservation projects were funded from money from the ads and it also enabled the creation of ape studbooks, used for safe breeding of gibbons and chimps.
She and Ms Badham became "specialists" in the field and their work was acknowledged across the world.
Twycross Zoo is now recognised as the World Primate Centre and has all four types of great ape in its collection.
Ms Evans opened her pet shop with money made from dog breeding.
In the 1940s, she saw her first monkey in the window of her rival Ms Badham's shop and the two began working and living together.
They took in unwanted animals, including a circus lion, at their bungalow in Hints, near Tamworth.
Their collection grew and they established Twycross Zoo in 1963, where Ms Evans worked until she retired at 86.
The zoo said: "[Nathalie Evans] leaves behind a legacy and financial platform from which a new generation of conservationists continue a remarkable woman's lifetime's work.
"Nathalie will be sadly missed throughout the zoo world."


Newport's multi-million pound new shopping centre has opened, in what is seen as a landmark for the city centre's regeneration.

Friars Walk has been years in the planning and the development ground to a halt in the 2008 financial crisis.
Now it is opening with Debenhams as its anchor store and retailers such as Marks and Spencer moving back.
Newport Council lent the developers £90m in a commercial deal to ensure the centre opened on time.
Council leader Bob Bright said there had been a renaissance over the last decade and people "underestimated Newport".
As well as 30 new shops, there will be about a dozen restaurants and an eight-screen Cineworld multiplex cinema.
Welsh fashion designer Julien Macdonald opened the Debenhams store.
Newport Council borrowed £90m at a lower rate of interest and then lent it on to the developers in a "calculated risk" to ensure the project was built.
"Everything in life is risky but we were at an impasse when the developer was unable to raise the funds in the money markets because of the interest rates," said Mr Bright.
"We took the innovative step of using public money to develop Friars Walk."
"We didn't do it blindly, we will make a profit on the financial deal of several million pounds and we have a negotiated agreement where we will participate in the profit when the centre, as I believe it will be, is sold eventually.
"It's a commercial deal with is good for Newport and it will make a profit."
The complex is estimated to create 1,200 jobs within its shops and restaurants.
Queensberry Real Estate started building the development in April last year.
Bob Evans, who runs the Waterloo pub and restaurant near the dock gates, said he hoped it would benefit the whole city.
"It's been really hard but Newport is up and coming now. This is good for Newport, it will bring in lots of people who currently go to Cwmbran or Cardiff to shop and bypass us."
Conservative shadow business minister William Graham's family surveying firm has history going back to 1844 in the city centre.
He added:  "It will provide the impetus for Newport city centre to re-emerge as the both the premier retail district in this region and the centre for social and cultural entertainment".


The BBC has "set a precedent" for other media organisations by publishing a list of links removed from Google searches, the corporation's policy boss has said.

The links were removed as part of the "right to be forgotten" ruling put in place by the European court.
It allows individuals to request certain links do not show up when a person searches their name.
The BBC published a full list of stories that had been removed so far.
It would continue to do so, said David Jordan, head of editorial policy.
"It's impossible to have a meaningful debate if you've not got an idea about what's being de-listed," he said.
He said while it was up to individual media organisations to decide how best to be transparent with audiences over what has been removed, he felt the BBC had taken the lead "without being provocative".
He denied the suggestion that publishing the links was bringing more attention to those who had wanted to be forgotten.
"It doesn't make [the stories] more findable for anybody looking for a name," he said.
"What it does is give a sense of and a flavour of what kind of material is being delisted. That's important."
The European Union Court of Justice ruled last year that search engine links to "irrelevant" and outdated data about a person should be erased on request.
It only affects searches made by users in the European Union.
The decision arose after a Spanish man complained that an auction notice of his repossessed home on Google's search results infringed his privacy.
A removal does not mean it is taken off the internet, nor the search engine as a whole. Instead, it means the specific link will not appear when a search for a person's name is conducted.
Google has described the ruling as "disappointing".
Internet rights campaigners are concerned that the rule amounts to censorship.
Soon after the ruling, Google began informing media organisations whenever a link had been removed from search results - a move which was said to have angered regulators.
Mr Jordan praised the search engine for continuing to keep the media informed, but called for a better consultation system to be put in place.
"We believe that delisting links in this way without consultation, and without the publisher having some input in the discussion, is unfortunate," he said.
After seeking the advice of media organisations, Google implemented an appeal system.
One story that had been removed - about a court case involving members of the Real IRA - was relisted after the BBC appealed against the decision.
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Euro 2016 has been a tournament of great moments, but not great matches.

It has been a month of late goals, excellent refereeing and feverish atmospheres but also cautious football and an unwieldy structure.
I have been involved in tournaments for the BBC since 1974 and while Wales' run to the semi-final and England's utter embarrassment at the hands of Iceland will live long in the memory, Euro 2016 on the whole has not been the best.
The standard of football, the excitement level and the number of great games have certainly not matched those we have seen in previous tournaments, but France have once again made the most of their host status and look like going on to win Sunday's final against Portugal.
While I may not have spent the whole month out in France, I have logged every minute of every match.
I have always kept my own statistics. I have a handwritten record on my shelf of every international game from 1974 onwards. They have come to my aid many times.
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But I won't be delving into my 2016 annual too often.
There were a lot of matches which didn't get going until the second half. The first half-an-hour of most games produced very little, and frankly the goalkeepers didn't come under a lot of sustained pressure.
Of the 50 matches so far, 21 were goalless at half-time, with 21 goals scored before the 30th minute.
Games didn't catch fire until halfway through the second half but conversely, it felt as if there were more goals in the last five minutes and stoppage time than ever before.
There have been 19 goals scored in the 85th minute or later in this tournament, compared to just eight in Poland and Ukraine four years ago.
Caution tended to mean that defenders came out on top. If you admire defending, there was lots of good play to enjoy. Teams did not run with too many games. There was not a 6-0 win anywhere and it was only when Belgium beat Hungary 4-0 in the last 16 and France defeated Iceland 5-2 in the quarter-finals that a big win was chalked up.
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One of the big attractions of Euro 2016 for fans in the British Isles was the chance to see England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all playing in the same competition.
And - England aside - they all justified their presence, with Wales' achievements standing out.
Their run to the last four was fabulous and the main target for them is to go on from here and qualify for the World Cup in Russia in 2018.
In a tournament of few truly memorable matches, beating Belgium 3-1 in the quarter-final was absolutely fantastic and it will resonate for years to come. That win, and England's defeat by Iceland, are without a doubt the standout games of the tournament.
Forward Hal Robson-Kanu - who came here without a club - scored arguably the best individual goal of the competition and that will live long in the memory. A Cruyff turn and cool finish!
Northern Ireland have a very limited squad but my goodness they did the best they could with it. They will always remember their victory over Ukraine. And their fans certainly enjoyed themselves too.
The Republic had that last-minute Robbie Brady goal to beat Italy in another standout moment. Martin O'Neill's squad certainly did themselves justice.
On the whole, the sportsmanship throughout was excellent. There was very little confrontation and the refereeing was also very good.
I don't know if Uefa had given any specific instructions but on the whole the officials really let the games flow. They didn't flash yellow cards early in games and there have only been three sendings-off in 50 matches.
The discipline was very good, which was a real plus for this tournament. The game was largely played in the right spirit.
The England debacle was such a shock and it will take many many years to live that down.
Losing to Iceland was a humiliation. There is no other way to describe it.
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It is made worse by the fact that England had such a poor World Cup in 2014. I didn't think they could sink any lower than being knocked out of the World Cup before everyone at the tournament had played two matches, but my word, the defeat by Iceland was bad.
Nothing went the way it should have done. Conceding a goal in the last minute to Russia was careless, beating Wales with a stoppage-time goal was fortunate, and not defeating Slovakia meant that Roy Hodgson's side ended up in the 'wrong' half of the draw.
Yes, Iceland were the big surprises of the tournament along with Wales. It just goes to show what you can do when you build properly from scratch. What a wonderful foundation they have laid.
But if you could have picked any team in the last 16, you would have wanted to face Iceland. England just fell apart. It will rankle with their supporters for a very long time.
England were embarrassed, for the second competition in a row, and nobody really knows what happens next, least of all the Football Association.
Other nations which may feel they have underachieved include Spain - their era is now over and they must rethink - and Germany, who are not the Germany of old and even missed some penalties.
They were unable to respond to adversity against France in the semi-finals, which is not what we expect from them. There must be question marks over their performance. Italy defended well but were lacking up front and I thought Croatia had a great chance in their side of the draw but failed to take it.
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France have been the best team - regardless of what happens on Sunday - and they have overtaken Spain and Germany as Europe's top side.
I expect them to beat Portugal on Sunday and complete a special treble of tournament wins on home soil.
In 1984 and 1998, I was in France to see them win the European Championship and then the World Cup. They certainly make the most of being hosts.
I should think my commentary on the 1984 semi-final between France and Portugal will get an airing on Sunday. That match was probably among the three or four best games I have ever witnessed. If Sunday's final is anywhere near as good, then we are in for a treat.
Each team has been built around a star in the 'number 10' role. In 1984 there was Michel Platini, in 1998 there was Zinedine Zidane and now they have Antoine Griezmann.
Griezmann is almost certain to finish as the tournament's top scorer with six, and only Platini - with nine in 1984 - has ever managed more in a single Euros.
Platini scored in every game that year and Zidane got two in the 1998 final against Brazil, so Griezmann has still got a bit to do. Let's see what he can do on Sunday!
France have been fine hosts. The atmosphere in the stadiums has been a very big plus point for Euro 2016. Every game was a near sell-out, and it was so vibrant. It is how football should be.
We all came into the tournament rather nervously after the terror attacks in Paris last November but mercifully, as of the moment, there have been no scares and security appears to have been largely good.
There were the problems at England's game against Russia - a very unpromising start - and a few incidents involving supporters with flares inside stadiums but there were no big issues and France largely had it under control.
There were a lot of dull group games at Euro 2016 - and the structure is to blame.
Bringing the number of teams up to 24, and a system where a lot of third-placed teams went through, rather cultivated a philosophy of 'if we get one result, we will qualify'.
Teams came into the competition in cautious mood, knowing that if they didn't make any mistakes, they would be in with a shout of qualifying. Portugal got through with three draws and ended up in the final.
I know you can't predict who will win each group but in the end Uefa produced a system which bunched together too many of the 'big hitters' in the knockout stages. In one half of the draw were Wales, Belgium and Portugal but the other had Germany, France, Italy, England and Spain. It became very unbalanced.
The tournament would have been better if they had been spread around more evenly. We might have ended up with a better quality of game.
Uefa took a gamble extending the competition and there were too many games in the early part.
The smaller tournaments are easier to follow. Both the World Cup and the Euros have now got so outsized. I hope the World Cup doesn't go to 40 teams; that would be impractical.
It would be good to see Uefa bring the Euros back to 16 teams but I think we are too far down the road now to turn back.
I didn't like the complicated permutations, of not knowing who would play who in the last 16. They need to look at that and try to clarify it, do it in a different way.
Motty was speaking to BBC Sport's Tom Rostance.


Police Scotland has received 27 complaints from members of the public since May about its controversial armed policing policy, MSPs heard.

The force backed down from its policy of arming some officers for routine duties following a backlash last year.
Giving evidence at Holyrood, Assistant Chief Constable Bernie Higgins said armed officers were among the best trained in the force.
But he accepted police intelligence could sometimes get it wrong.
Assistant Chief Constable Higgins told Holyrood's justice sub-committee that during a recent incident in Edinburgh two armed officers were confronted with a man wielding a knife.
One was stabbed four times, he said, but the officers did not shoot the attacker because they feared it would put members of the public standing nearby at risk.
Assistant Chief Constable Higgins said in another instance armed officers had comforted an injured pensioner in the street and intervened to prevent street brawls developing further.
But he also confirmed that they had issued fixed penalties for public urination, drinking in the street and breach of the peace.
In October, following pressure from politicians and civic society, Police Scotland said specialist armed police officers in Scotland would in future only be deployed to firearms incidents or where there is a threat to life.
Earlier this month, in front of the same committee, Assistant Chief Constable Higgins said since October 2014 armed officers had "engaged with the public" on 1,644 occasions, including stopping drink-drivers and helping find missing people.
He told MSPs then a review of the policy was currently being undertaken and was close to being finalised.
During Thursday's session, Assistant Chief Constable Higgins also accepted criticism of police intelligence which led to a 91-year-old driver being ordered from his car at gunpoint by four armed officers.
Mr Higgins said: "Based on the information the firearms officers had that time, their actions were entirely appropriate.
"There was criticism of Police Scotland in terms of the intelligence that was held, the information that was held, and how quickly or otherwise that was passed to firearms officers."
Some MSPs raised concerns about armed police seen shopping in supermarkets.
Police Scotland received more than 5,000 complaints since May in total, said Assistant Chief Constable Higgins, ranging from incivility to use of excessive force.


A hot air balloon pilot who crashed, killing 11 people, was a "chronic cannabis user" and probably under the influence of drugs during the flight, an inquest has heard.

The balloon caught fire after hitting power lines east of Wellington, New Zealand, in January 2012.
All those on board died.
The inquest was told that cannabis use may have led to what the coroner called pilot Lance Hopping's "inexplicable actions".
The crash happened in the town of Carterton, in the Wairarapa region, while Mr Hopping was piloting 10 passengers, all from New Zealand.
Many of the victims' families were waiting for them near the crash scene and saw the accident happen.
The inquest in Carterton heard Mr Hopping landed in a field with two major power lines, which coroner Peter Ryan said was an "inherently dangerous environment".
A gust of wind pushed the balloon towards the cables, and Mr Hopping responded by trying to lift it over the top of the power lines, instead of landing.
Mr Ryan said: "It is possible that his judgement and decision-making ability were impaired due to the carry-over effect of having smoked cannabis.
"The likelihood of this scenario is strengthened by the fact that Mr Hopping made a gross error in attempting to out-climb the power line."
The inquest also heard Mr Hopping should not have been working, as his pilot's licence had expired six weeks earlier.
Mr Ryan said balloon operators should face random drug tests in future, and that tour companies should consider employing a second pilot in case the first is incapacitated.
Mr Hopping's family has not responded to the findings.


British number three Naomi Broady won her first WTA Tour main-draw match since April with victory in the Citi Open first round in Washington.

Broady, 26, beat American world number 70 Irina Falconi 6-3 6-4.
World number 84 Broady lost to Elina Svitolina in round one at Wimbledon and had not won on the WTA Tour since the Katowice Open three months ago.
She will face American second seed Sloane Stephens or Japan's Risa Ozaki in round two.


The new series of Doctor Who will see the Time Lord joined by his first openly gay companion.

Bill Potts's sexuality will be revealed pretty much straightaway in her second line of dialogue when the show returns to BBC One on 15 April.
"It shouldn't be a big deal in the 21st Century. It's about time isn't it?" Pearl Mackie, who plays Bill, told the BBC.
"That representation is important, especially on a mainstream show."
She added: "It's important to say people are gay, people are black - there are also aliens in the world as well so watch out for them.
"I remember watching TV as a young mixed race girl not seeing many people who looked like me, so I think being able to visually recognise yourself on screen is important."
"[Being gay] is not the main thing that defines her character - it's something that's part of her and something that she's very happy and very comfortable with."
Gay and bisexual characters have featured in Doctor Who before, such as Captain Jack and River Song, but this is the first time the Doctor's permanent companion has been openly gay.
Although Captain Jack - played by John Barrowman - travelled with the Doctor for a number of episodes, he was not a full-time companion in the traditional sense.
Mackie said it had been "kind of insane" to be the centre of attention since she was announced in the role last April, despite not being seen on screen until this Easter.
"My Twitter follower count went from 400-and-something to 16,500 in about two hours, so that was pretty mental," said the actress, who is taking over from Jenna Coleman as the Doctor's companion.
"But it's been really nice, everyone seems to be really excited. It's sort of like being welcomed into a family and all the fans have been really welcoming."
The actress, who was performing in the West End production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the time she was cast, said the role of Bill was "the biggest job I've ever done".
"Looking at previous alumni, it's only done wonderful things for their careers - Matt Smith is phenomenal in The Crown, Jenna Coleman has just gone on to do Victoria and Billie Piper is doing incredible things," she said.
"For me if I even get to do [a small amount] of those kind of things it would be incredible. It's an amazing platform for me and it opens a lot of doors that wouldn't necessarily have been open before - it's very exciting."
This series of Doctor Who will be Peter Capaldi's last, as the actor is due to hand over the key to the Tardis during this year's Christmas special.
Speculation is mounting over who will take over the role, with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge among the potential candidates.
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The Greek economy unexpectedly shrank in the three months to December, latest figures show.

Output fell by 0.4% in the final quarter of the year, compared with growth of 0.9% in the third quarter. Analysts had been expecting the growth to continue.
The country is in the throes of difficult bailout talks with international creditors.
Overall, eurozone growth was revised down to 0.4% for the fourth quarter.
An initial estimate had put the growth rate at 0.5%, but the estimate was reduced partly as a result of slower than expected growth in Germany.
However, Germany's 0.4% growth rate in the final quarter of 2016 was still better than the 0.1% rate recorded in the previous three months.
A separate report from the German economy ministry said that rising orders in manufacturing and construction pointed to "solid" growth in the first three months of 2017.
"Economic indicators are pointing to a solid start for the year 2017," it said.
"However, uncertainties remain especially in the trade environment. The outlook for the global economy remains subdued."
The disappointing Greek figures come as fears grow that the debt crisis could resurface.
The country is under pressure to step up economic reforms, including pension cuts and tax rises.
In its latest assessment on the Greek economy, the International Monetary Fund argued that "Greece should deepen and accelerate reforms, which, together with further debt relief, are needed to allow the economy to return to a sustainable growth path".
But the call for more leeway for the country to pay its debts, prompted opposition from the eurozone, which has already given the country significant debt relief and is reluctant to go much further.
The issue will be discussed at a eurozone finance ministers meeting on 20 February. A Greek government spokesman said he was hopeful of agreement.


Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will be "strongly sanctioned" if he tries to stay in power, the UN's regional envoy, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has said.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, along with the US, also urged the Gambian security forces to leave the country's electoral commission office, which was seized on Tuesday.
The army could compromise "sensitive electoral material", Mr Ban said.
Mr Jammeh initially conceded defeat to Adama Barrow before changing his mind.
Mr Ban said taking over the electoral commission building was an "outrageous act of disrespect of the will of the Gambian people and defiance towards the international community at a time when a high-level delegation was in the country to broker a peaceful transfer of power".
The US embassy in Banjul also demanded that security forces withdraw, saying the "unnecessary and unprovoked show of force is seen as a move to subvert the democratic process".
Tuesday also saw Mr Jammeh's party challenge the election in the country's supreme court.
But Mr Ibn Chambas, who visited The Gambia on Tuesday, said the legal process was separate from Mr Jammeh's mandate as president and he had to step down when it ends on 19 January.
"For Mr Jammeh, the end is here and under no circumstances can he continue to be president," he said.
It is also unclear how Mr Jammeh's supreme court challenge can proceed because only one of its seven judges are in post.
Even if the court does consider the case, it is unclear whether it will reach a decision before the end of Mr Jammeh's term in office, a spokesman for The Gambia Bar Association has said.
The head of the Gambian electoral commission, Alieu Momar Njai, has said corrected election results do not change the overall outcome and Mr Barrow was still the winner.
The UN and US intervention comes after the Nigerian, Ghanaian, Liberian and Sierra Leonean leaders on Tuesday failed to convince Mr Jammeh to hand over power.
Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said a deal was not something that could happen in a day and said a report of their discussions would be made on Saturday to a meeting of the West African grouping Ecowas.
However Mr Ibn Chambas said he did not think military intervention to force Mr Jammeh from power would be necessary, after a senior Ecowas official said that a military option would be "conceivable" if diplomacy failed.
"It may not be necessary. Let's cross that bridge when we get there," he said.


Three goals in nine second-half minutes helped Inverness CT to an emphatic win that ensures a seventh-place Premiership finish.

Miles Storey broke the deadlock when he escaped the offside trap and rounded Scott Bain before netting.
Danny Devine tapped home at the back post from a corner before Ross Draper capitalised on Julen Etxabeguren's error to fire home.
Richie Foran added a late penalty after Liam Polworth was tripped.
Dundee knew before kick-off that they needed a win to leapfrog their hosts and finish top of the bottom half of the table.
Both sides named unchanged line-ups, with Danny Williams making his last appearance for the home side before joining Dundee this summer, alongside team-mate James Vincent.
Dundee's Paul McGinn is out of contract this summer and looks likely to depart with a number of sides apparently keen on recruiting him.
If possession won football matches the home side would have been out of sight in the opening quarter.
Iain Vigurs wasted a great chance with a tame free-kick from the edge of the box and two long-range Greg Tansey strikes landed safely in Bain's arms.
Dundee initially struggled to get on the ball but came closest to an opener on the counter when Greg Stewart combined with Kane Hemmings before curling a great effort from outside the box which unluckily clipped the bar.
Rory Loy fired wide, Hemmings fired over with a clear sight of goal and McGinn watched Owain Fon Williams parry his effort clear as the visitors threatened.
But Inverness again took control in the second period with Williams seeing a close-range shot blocked, while another long range effort from Tansey was held easily.
The match needed a moment of inspiration. It arrived when Storey timed his run well to go clear. Despite being forced wide by goalkeeper Bain, the striker found the angle to net his 13th of the season.
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It all fell apart for Dundee. Devine tapped home at the back-post after a corner was flicked on before Etxabeguren inexplicably lost possession on the edge of his own area and Draper fired past the exposed Bain.
It got worse after the home side introduced two popular substitutes. The departing David Raven had a rare outing and Foran came on and scored a convincing penalty after Polworth was tripped by Adam Black.
Dundee were denied a late consolation when Craig Wighton's poke toward goal was superbly saved by Fon Williams.
This was a fifth win in seven games for John Hughes' side, who might wish this was the start of the campaign rather than the end. It was a horrible end for Dundee, who are a better side than this defeat suggests.


Aboriginal dancers travelled across Australia to highlight the "horrifying" levels of domestic violence in Outback indigenous communities.

Dancers from the Rirratjingu clan, carrying clap sticks and spears, their faces painted white, performed outside parliament in Canberra.
The group urged action against a problem that disproportionately affects indigenous women.
Aborigine women are 34 times more likely to be victims than other women.
"We are seeing horrifying rates of family violence in indigenous communities and it is incumbent on all people  - community leaders, political leaders and businesses - to act to drive it down," Rirratjingu elder Bakamumu Marika said.
The group, which travelled from Yirrkala in the Northern Territory, were met by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
He linked arms with lawmakers of various parties, including opposition leader Bill Shorten, as a sign of solidarity.
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Speaking afterwards, Mr Turnbull highlighted stark figures which show the scale of the problem, including that indigenous women were admitted to hospital for domestic assaults 30 times more often than other Australian women.
However, the community around Yirrkala had reduced family violence by 29% in a single year through programmes aimed at fostering respect for women, Mr Turnbull added.
"Your dance is more powerful than the words we can speak here," Mr Turnbull said. "You're using the strength of your culture to seek to stop this violence.
"You're using the power of you dance, your tradition, your culture, to communicate our need, our duty to respect women, and we thank you."
He concluded: "We can and we must do better."
Mr Turnbull later moved a motion in Parliament acknowledging that violence against women was a national issue that required a response from the entire community, as the Rirratjingu people watched from the public gallery.


Kazakstan's deepest unrest since independence from Soviet rule has spread from the oil town where it broke out on Friday to the regional capital.

Protesters rallied in the west Kazakh city of Aktau after two days of violence over an oil-workers' strike in Zhanaozen left 11 dead and many hurt.
Hundreds of people protested outside the mayor's office in Aktau, capital of the oil-producing Mangistau region.
President Nazarbayev has declared a 20-day state of emergency in Zhanaozen.
A long-running industrial dispute by oil workers in the town of Zhanaozen on Friday descended into violence with 10 people killed and 86 injured.
One person died on Saturday and 11 were injured when security forces opened fire in a railway settlement in a nearby village.
Reports of the violence in the region could not be verified independently.
Three Russian journalists deployed to cover events there were briefly arrested on Sunday under the state of emergency. After their release, they left for Aktau.
On Sunday morning, oil workers gathered outside the mayor's office in Aktau, a port of nearly 190,000 people on the Caspian Sea.
Riot police confronted them, cordoning off the area to keep the protesters from drawing a larger crowd, correspondents say.
By Rayhan DemytrieBBC Central Asia correspondent, Almaty
The unrest, which began as Kazakhstan was celebrating the 20th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union, is unprecedented.
Many here are finding it difficult to believe that such unrest could be taking place in their country. Comments on pro-government web sites are talking about an evil plot from the West and drawing parallels with recent protests in Russia. After all, some say, we are not Kyrgyzstan - a poor central Asian neighbour which has been through two revolutions in the past six years.
Kazakhstan prides itself as the regional leader, the most successful and stable country in Central Asia. But the recent violence underlines deep-rooted problems in Kazakh society: lack of democracy, lack of free media, and lack of governmental accountability. Very few media outlets in Kazakhstan have been following the strike in Zhanaozen, the country's longest running industrial dispute.
Ruslan Shakhimov, a former employee of the local oil company Karazhanbasmunai, told the Associated Press news agency he had come out to rally to show "solidarity with those workers killed in Zhanaozen".
"We have no rights, we're being treated like cattle," he said, explaining the workers' indignation.
On Saturday afternoon, protesters blocked the line in the railway settlement of Shetpe, near Zhanaozen, causing delays to passenger and goods trains.
They "made calls to support the participants in the mass unrest in Zhanaozen", prosecutors said in a statement.
After warnings, most of the crowd dispersed but some 50 protesters continued to block the line and police moved in during the evening.
In response, the protesters set fire to a freight locomotive and threw petrol bombs at the wagons, then ran riot in the village, burning a New Year's tree, and smashing shop and car windows.
When police came under attack with petrol bombs and stones, they were forced to use their weapons, the prosecutors said.
Twelve people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds and one of them died.
The  Zhanaozen violence on Friday saw a crowd storm a stage erected for an Independence Day party, smashing sound equipment.
They reportedly later set fire to the city hall, the headquarters of a local oil company, a hotel and dozens of other buildings and vehicles.
Eyewitnesses say police fired on unarmed protesters but the authorities say they were forced to defend themselves.


The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties.

The report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.
The findings echo those in a report published by Duke University last year.
One of the new study's authors said: "We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event."
The last such event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs were wiped out, in all likelihood by a large meteor hitting Earth.
"If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on," said the lead author, Gerardo Ceballos.
The scientists looked at historic rates of extinction for vertebrates - animals with backbones - by assessing fossil records.
They found that the current extinction rate was more than 100 times higher than in periods when Earth was not going through a mass extinction event.
Since 1900, the report says, more than 400 more vertebrates had disappeared.
Such a loss would normally be seen over a period of up to 10,000 years, the scientists say.
The study - published in the Science Advances journal - cites causes such as climate change, pollution and deforestation.
Given the knock-on effect of ecosystems being destroyed, the report says benefits such as pollination by bees could be lost within three human generations.
Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich said: "There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead.
"We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on."
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says at least 50 animals move closer to extinction every year.
Around 41% of all amphibians and 25% of mammals are threatened with extinction, it says.
According to the IUCN, the lemur faces a real struggle to avoid extinction in the wild in the coming years.
The group says that 94% of all lemurs are under threat, with more than a fifth of all lemur species classed as "critically endangered".
As well as seeing their habitat in Madagascar destroyed by illegal logging, lemurs are also regularly hunted for their meat, the IUCN says.
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Last year, a report by Stuart Pimm, a biologist and extinction expert at Duke University in North Carolina, also warned mankind was entering a sixth mass extinction event.
But Mr Pimm's report said the current rate of extinction was more than 1,000 times faster than in the past, not 114, as the new report claims.
The new report's authors said it was still possible to avoid a "dramatic decay of biodiversity" through intensive conservation, but that rapid action was needed.


Falkirk remain in third spot in the championship despite being held by Queen of the South at the Falkirk Stadium.

Stephen Dobbie put the visitors on front before Myles Hippolyte equalised for Falkirk on the stroke of half-time.
The Falkirk winger scored his second of the game before Derek Lyle headed home an equaliser for the Dumfries side.
It brings and end to a run of seven straight defeats for Queens as the Bairns are now five matches unbeaten
After a fairly dismal opening 30 minutes the game burst into action.
Queens top scorer Dobbie was allowed to stride forward towards the home goal. The striker played a one-two with Derek Lyle before clipping the ball into the net from 16-yards out, his 15th goal of the campaign.
Falkirk drew level when James Craigan was bundled to the ground on the edge of the 18-yard box and Hippolyte curled a free-kick around the wall into the bottom corner of the net.
The home side took the lead after a sustained spell of pressure, however there was a fair slice of fortune that came with the goal.
Hippolyte made space on the left hand touchline and sent a deep cross into the box. The ball drifted over the heads of both strikers and defenders and with Queens keeper Lee Robinson rooted to the spot the ball crept into the bottom corner of the net.
However, the visitors would not be denied and Darren Brownlee strode down the right hand side and sent a cross into the box that was met by Derek Lyle, who nodded the ball home from just six yards out.
Falkirk manager Peter Houston: "Maybe we should be grateful for a point given the way we played today. If that is our standard we will be no where near the play-offs.
"In the past two games we have taken four out of six points but quite frankly we have been lucky to get them. Days off will be cancelled. I am not happy tonight. I am going to a Christmas night out tonight - I am as well cancelling it.
"Our standards have dropped since last season. Our consistency levels are no where near as good as they were last season. If other teams are showing more desire and more commitment to win football, matches than us I have to question myself. I am the manager and I will need to change it."
Queen of the South manager Gary Naismith: "The biggest thing today was to try and stop the rot. It can be soul destroying as a player when you are on that type of run. The players today were different class.
"I thought Falkirk had more possession but we were the better team. Our next step is to get the win.
"We wanted to stop the rot now we need to get a win and that today will have given the players a bit of confidence."
Match ends, Falkirk 2, Queen of the South 2.
Second Half ends, Falkirk 2, Queen of the South 2.
Robert McHugh (Falkirk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Robert McHugh (Falkirk).
Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Luca Gasparotto (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Fergusson (Queen of the South).
Foul by Scott Shepherd (Falkirk).
Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Owen Moxon replaces Mark Millar.
Tom Taiwo (Falkirk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Daniel Carmichael (Queen of the South).
Foul by Robert McHugh (Falkirk).
Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David McCracken (Falkirk).
Ross Fergusson (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Ross Fergusson replaces Derek Lyle.
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Daniel Carmichael replaces Grant Anderson.
Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card.
Lee Miller (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andy Dowie (Queen of the South).
Chris Higgins (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card.
Chris Higgins (Queen of the South) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Corner,  Queen of the South. Conceded by Danny Rogers.
Attempt saved. Derek Lyle (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Luca Gasparotto (Falkirk).
Derek Lyle (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Lee Miller (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Millar (Queen of the South).
Myles Hippolyte (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South).
Substitution, Falkirk. Tom Taiwo replaces Mark Kerr.
Lee Miller (Falkirk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South).
Foul by Lee Miller (Falkirk).
Chris Higgins (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Falkirk. Scott Shepherd replaces James Craigen.
Substitution, Falkirk. Robert McHugh replaces John Baird.


Virgil van Dijk and Ryan Bertrand are both likely to return for Southampton after sitting out the midweek FA Cup win over Norwich.

Netherlands defender Van Dijk will have a new centre-back partner after the sale of Jose Fonte to West Ham.
Leicester's Leonardo Ulloa, who handed in a transfer request, has been ruled out with a thigh injury.
The Foxes are without Africa Cup of Nations trio Riyad Mahrez, Islam Slimani and Daniel Amartey.
John Roder: "It was goalless when these two sides met earlier this season, and another 0-0 draw on Sunday has to be a strong possibility.
"Southampton are struggling for goals at St Mary's in the Premier League this season, while Leicester have scored only eight on their travels.
"Leicester's away record this season is in stark contrast to their title-winning campaign. A draw this Sunday would be a good result given the fact they come into the weekend in the bottom six.
"Claude Puel may very well inherit the "Tinkerman" nickname from Claudio Ranieri, for the Saints manager has not yet selected an unchanged side this season."
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Southampton manager Claude Puel: "It's two teams with difficulties in the Premier League, in the same situation. We want a good result and the points. It's important to have good concentration for this.
"They will want to counter-attack against us. We know this game.
"It's a physical game also and it's important to analyse them well, have good concentration and the right attitude, like the last three games."
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "Our goal is to get 40 points as soon as possible. Now we have two away matches and we will try to do our best.
"Sooner or later we will start to win away."
Claude Puel's rotation policy is not working. Meanwhile, Leicester's form remains completely up and down.
The Foxes still have not won away from home, and do not look anything like the team they were last season. I do not see that changing here.
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The safety of Londoners could be put at risk if the government cuts funding for the Metropolitan Police Service, Sadiq Khan has warned.

The mayor said potential changes to the way the national policing budget was divided could force a cut in the number of officers on the streets.
The government is expected to announce how the overall police budget will be allocated between forces in March.
The Home Office said the Met remained "the best funded force in the country".
In December, Sadiq Khan announced he planned to maintain officer numbers at 32,000 as part of his Police and Crime Plan.
However, the mayor said "continued pressures on the police budget" would make keeping the figure "increasingly difficult".
"If the government subjects London's police service to any further cuts, it will become near impossible to maintain the number of police on our streets," he said.
The force has already made Â£600m of savings since 2010 by reducing overtime, cutting managers and selling off 120 buildings.
It will have to make a further Â£400m savings in the next few years.
However, a spokesperson for the Home Office said the Met was well funded and there was "considerable scope to improve efficiency".
"It is vital our police forces are fit to face the challenges of tomorrow, and this government is giving policing the tools to achieve this," the spokesperson said.
The Home Office is currently working out what to award police forces throughout the country.
A public consultation will take place before any funding deal is put in place.


Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been charged with a hit-and-run offence that carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

The 55-year-old is accused of driving the wrong way on a southern California motorway, causing another car to swerve and crash into a concrete wall.
Prosecutors claim Rodman then fled the scene of the crash on 20 July and gave police false information.
He has also been charged with driving without a valid licence.
Rodman's lawyer Paul Meyer, says the incident occurred on a poorly signed exit ramp. He added that Rodman corrected the driving error without the cars touching, stopped and spoke to people in the other car.
The case is scheduled for 20 January.
Rodman won two titles with the Detroit Pistons and then three championships with the famous Chicago Bulls team of the mid-1990s, alongside Michael Jordan.


Two children who died after a "suspicious" house fire were brother and sister, police have said.

The pair - discovered at a property in Hamstead near Birmingham on Friday - have been named as Saros Endris, eight, and his sister Leanor Endris, six.
A post-mortem examination has been carried out but further tests are needed to establish the cause of death.
A man believed by police to be the siblings' father was found with serious injuries in a car about 40 miles away.
He remains in a critical condition after his rescue from the fire-damaged vehicle in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on Friday.
Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths of the children.
Firefighters were called to the property at 03:40 BST on Friday and tackled what they described as a small fire in the hallway.
Despite attempts by crews to resuscitate the children - said by residents to have been carried out of the Holland Road home by a neighbour and laid on the lawn - they could not not be saved.
The children's mother, named by police as Penil Teklehaimamot, 36, was uninjured.
She is being treated as a witness.
Det Insp Justin Spanner of West Midlands Police said the events were "an absolutely tragic set of circumstances" and investigations into "what happened and why" were at an early stage.