Manchester United are interested in signing Paul Pogba but there is no deal imminent for the France midfielder.

Speculation has been rife about a world record £100m transfer from Juventus, but BBC Sport has been told no moves have yet been made.
United have not had any discussions with Juventus.
Furthermore Pogba, 23, is on Euro 2016 duty with France and does not want anything to distract his preparations for Sunday's final against Portugal.
Juventus have refused to comment on the speculation around the player, whose contract runs to 2019.
The Italian champions have not given up hope of persuading Pogba, who has won four Serie A titles with the Turin club, to sign an extension.
It has been claimed that Champions League winners Real Madrid are his preferred destination.
Pogba spent three years at Manchester United, but made just seven appearances before moving to Italy in 2012.
At the time, manager Sir Alex Ferguson's relationship with the player's agent - Mino Raiola - had broken down.
But the Italian has already helped broker the moves of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan to United this summer.


Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez says she has been granted a passport after years of being denied the right to travel abroad.

Ms Sanchez, who has criticised the Cuban government in her prize-winning blog Generation Y, announced the development on her Twitter account.
However, she said she was disappointed that her fellow activist, Angel Moya, was still denied a passport.
The move comes after Cuba eased travel restrictions for its citizens.
Ms Sanchez, 37, rose to prominence when she wrote about life in Cuba, emailing her blog entries to friends abroad to publish online.
Her writing led to her arrest last October as she prepared to cover the trial of politician Angel Carromero.
"Incredible! They called my house to tell me that my passport was ready. They just gave it to me," Sanchez tweeted.
"Now the only thing left is to be able to board that plane."
She added: "I am both happy and sad; on the one hand, I have my documents to be able to travel, but many of my friends like Angel Moya, are not going to be allowed."
Ms Sanchez has said she was denied the right to travel 20 times under Cuba's old travel law and doubted she would get a passport under the new ones.
Cuba recently ended the need for exit permits, meaning a passport is the only document needed to travel abroad.
Queues outside Havana's immigration offices have grown longer than ever as Cubans rushed to apply for their first passport.
Havana imposed the restrictions soon after the 1959 revolution to halt a mass exodus of the island's most talented people to the US.
The move was widely criticised outside the island, and much complained about within.
Correspondents say that by making it easier to travel, the authorities are gambling that more Cubans will work and study abroad then bring their money and expertise back to the island.
Some restrictions, however, do remain in place.
The new travel law refers to "preserving the qualified workforce" which officials say includes athletes and "vital" professionals as well as Communist Party leaders.


Heathrow cannot charge Crossrail for using its track to travel to the airport, a High Court judge has ruled.

The airport spent £1bn building the five-mile line 20 years ago to connect the hub to the Great Western track.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) previously decided Heathrow could not charge trains for using the line, which it said would cost about £42m a year.
The airport applied for a judicial review claiming the ORR did not have the power to reach that decision.
The west London airport also claimed the ORR's ruling was irrational.
But, Mr Justice Ouseley said on Friday the challenge had failed on all grounds.
A Heathrow spokesman said: "We are disappointed with today's ruling and are considering our next steps.
"Both Heathrow and Network Rail agree that track access charges must be fair to encourage future private investment in the rail network."
It added it was "committed to increasing sustainable public transport to the airport".
An ORR spokeswoman said: "We welcome this judgment and we will now work with all the affected parties to enable Crossrail services to start running as scheduled into the airport."
Four Crossrail trains an hour will run between Paddington and Heathrow terminals 2 to 4, replacing Heathrow Connect trains from May 2018.
A spokesperson for the railway regulator said the airport had proposed each train should be charged historical build costs of £597 per use and an operational expenditure charge of £138 per use.
But Heathrow said the investment recovery charge would be £460.09 per train between 2019 and 2028.


South Korea's biggest shipping group Hanjin is set to enter receivership after its creditors refused to provide further funding to the indebted firm.

Hanjin's board unanimously agreed to make the court filing at a meeting on Wednesday, a company spokesman said.
It faces a cash shortage after failing to persuade key lenders to reschedule debt under a new restructuring plan.
Shares of Hanjin remain suspended in Seoul after plunging by as much as 29% on Tuesday.
Hanjin, which is also the world's seventh-largest container line, has been unprofitable for four of the last five years.
Hanjin may get some financial relief courtesy of rival Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM).
Shares of HMM jumped by as much as 22% after Korea's financial regulator said the firm may buy some of Hanjin's assets.
However HMM hasn't been spared from the woes bedevilling the sector. It recently announced a reorganisation plan too.
South Korea's shipping and shipbuilding industry is one of the hardest-hit by a prolonged downturn in global trade.
A drop in orders has led to overcapacity and depressed freight rates, as well as an increase in debts.
"Korean shipping companies have suffered large losses largely because charter rates on leased vessels were fixed in 2010 at a high level while actual shipping rates have fallen," Nomura analyst Young Sun Kwon said.
The South Korean government is now looking to undertake a painful reorganisation of the entire industry, which will require major retrenchments.
The ongoing restructuring is one of several reasons why we expect growth to be weak this year and next, Krystal Tan from Capital Economics said.
"The loss of tens of thousands of jobs certainly won't help economic sentiment," she added.
"But it is a relatively small number when set against the 26m people in employment in Korea so we're not likely to see a big spike in the unemployment rate."


Newport County boss Mike Flynn says Saturday's crucial game with Notts County will unite the city.

The Exiles were 11 points adrift of safety in League Two when Flynn took charge, but will secure their great escape with victory at Rodney Parade.
The club have sold all 7,500 tickets for the match and Flynn believes his players can conclude their miraculous recovery.
"I've been calm this week. We were dead and buried when I took over," he said.
Newport are bidding to retain their Football League status after four seasons in League Two, having waited 25-years to return to League Two after the club went out of business in 1989.
A period where they could not even find a home in Newport followed, leading to a spell playing in Gloucester, where County earned their 'Exiles' nickname.
Flynn says completing an amazing recovery from relegation would be the perfect reward for Newport's loyal fanbase and insists he is not thinking about the alternative.
Newport are two points ahead of rivals Hartlepool and will survive as long as Pools do not win against title-chasing Doncaster Rovers.
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"Selling over 7000 tickets is unbelievable. I've always said the support at this club is amazing, especially since I've been back at the club," he told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"They've been through the mill over the years, the years in Moreton-on-the-Marsh and reforming and getting back to the Football League after 25-years.
"They've been there through thick and thin and we want to all come together and do them proud on Saturday.
"The game is crucial. The community is coming together, it is huge. Football deserves to be in Newport and losing our status would not be great.
"I think it can be the biggest party in Newport for a long time.
"Considering how many people had written us off. We've made people believe again and we've put smiles on faces. We have surprised people.
"I won't think about the Conference, I am very positive and so are my players."
Flynn says he will follow the Hartlepool score as events at Victoria Park could influence his tactics.
"I will follow the Hartlepool score on Saturday, because of the permutations, what is happening in that game might influence what we do in terms of substitutions," he explained.
"Someone will keep an eye on it for me, it won't be me, I'll be focusing on us.
"But the Hartlepool result could influence my substitutions, for example."
Flynn, a former Newport player and someone born and bred in the city, is desperate to remain at his hometown club.
He agreed to become caretaker boss until the end of the season, but having wiped out an 11-point deficit at the bottom of League Two in just seven games, it would come as a huge surprise if he does not remain in charge.
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"I will sit down with the board, regardless of the outcome. The club needs stability and of course, regardless of what happens, I would like to stay on," he said.
"It's my first shot at management and I am ready to stay, hopefully the board will feel the same.
"I am either going to be the saviour of the club or the person who took us down. But I knew the stakes when I agreed to take over... and I am sure we will stay up on Saturday."


Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry has died aged 90, police in the US state of Missouri report.

The singer was found unresponsive at lunchtime on Saturday, St Charles County police said.
Berry's seven-decade career boasted a string of hits, including classics Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny B. Goode.
He received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 1984 and was among the first inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
In a statement on Facebook, the St Charles County Police Department said they were called to reports of an unresponsive man at 12:40 local time (17:40 GMT).
"Unfortunately, the 90-year-old man could not be revived and was pronounced deceased at 1:26pm," the statement continued.
"The St. Charles County Police Department sadly confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry."
High-profile musicians were quick to pay tribute to Berry's talent and influence.
Motown legends The Jacksons tweeted: "Chuck Berry merged blues & swing into the phenomenon of early rock'n'roll. In music, he cast one of the longest shadows. Thank You Chuck."
Singer-songwriter Huey Lewis described him as "maybe the most important figure in all of rock and roll".
"His music and influence will last forever," he added.
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr quoted one of Berry's own lyrics on Twitter, saying: "Just let me hear some of that rock 'n' roll music any old way you use it."
"I am playing I'm talking about you," he wrote.
Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones covered Berry's songs, as did the Beach Boys and scores of other acts - including Elvis.
"If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name," John Lennon once said, "you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones said that Berry "lit up our teenage years and blew life into our dreams".
Singer Bruce Springsteen called him "a giant for the ages".
The novelist Stephen King noted that Berry had a long life for a consummate rock'n'roller, tweeting: "Chuck Berry died. This breaks my heart, but 90 years old ain't bad for rock and roll. Johnny B. Goode forever."
Berry was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1926, and had his first hit, Maybellene, in 1955.
Last year, he announced he would be releasing his first album in nearly four decades. He dedicated it to his wife of 68 years,  Themetta "Toddy".


Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez has confirmed that he has a break clause in his contract should they be relegated from the Premier League this season.

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The Magpies are second-bottom, one point from safety with 10 games left.
When asked about the clause, the Spaniard, 55, said: "Some people can see this as special, but it's normal.
"I am trying to stay in the Premier League and if I have a compromise for the future, it's because I am convinced that we will do well. I want to stay."
Benitez, who was appointed on Friday after the sacking of Steve McClaren, believes he has enough quality to survive in the top flight.
"I am convinced we will [stay up]," he said on Saturday in his first news conference as Newcastle boss.
"I am here because I believe these players are good enough."
Benitez hailed the "positive atmosphere" he found at St James' Park and praised the squad for their attitude in training.
"At the first moment, we wanted to train," he said. "Credit to the players on their day off - they wanted to train. It was a great atmosphere."
His first game in charge is Monday's Premier League trip to leaders Leicester.
The former Liverpool boss revealed he had already sought advice on the club from Newcastle greats Alan Shearer and Peter Beardsley, who is the club's under-21 coach.
"They know the city and the fans - the passion," he said.
"They know this is a massive club and, if you do things in the right way and you can stay in the Premier League, you can build and try to be a hero for the city, if we can achieve something."


Hull KR head of rugby Jamie Peacock is unsure if half-back Albert Kelly will remain at the club in 2017.

Kelly, 25, returned late from a trip home to Australia and was dropped for Saturday's Qualifiers loss to Leigh.
Peacock said talks are "ongoing" about resolving the disciplinary issue and whether he will face London on Sunday.
Asked if Kelly had a future at the club next season, Peacock told BBC's Super League Show: "It's all down to Albert. At the moment, it's all up in the air."
Kelly has been an influential figure for Hull KR since joining at the start of 2015, helping the Robins to last season's Challenge Cup final.
A win over Leigh would have put Rovers second in the Qualifiers table, but a 25-18 home defeat left them fourth and battling to preserve their Super League status for next season.
Former England captain Peacock continued: "It was a difficult decision to make because at times Albert has played very well for us this year, and just the enormity of the game.
"But you show compassion and give someone time to go home, and they stay longer and hamper your preparation for potentially the biggest game of our year so far - you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere.
"It's disappointing for me, but his actions end up letting the club, the players and the fans down because he wants to do something outside what we're trying to do as a club."
Meanwhile, stand-off Maurice Blair will miss the game against London after being allowed to return home to Australia to attend the funeral of his brother.


If you aren't sick of the sight of chocolate eggs after Easter - this is the video clip for you.

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It's the world's largest handmade Easter egg, which has just been put together in Argentina.
Standing eight and a half metres tall, it measured about the same as two double decker buses.
50,000 people turned up to see it, after about 8,000kg of chocolate was used to make the massive sweet treat.


Experts have begun checking whether businesses which took advantage of a lucrative green energy scheme have been defrauding the system.

A whistle-blower claimed some clients intended to earn hundreds of thousands of pounds in subsidies.
The plan involved installing wood boilers to heat empty buildings.
Auditors said the scheme, which had been over generous and open to potential fraud, left taxpayers with a bill of at least Â£150m over five years.
The Department of the Economy said it had no plans to publish an internal review of how the scheme had been run.
The review was commissioned by the department and the regulator, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), which helped administer the programme in Northern Ireland.
A separate independent audit has been commissioned by the economy minister, Simon Hamilton.
It is expected to report in the Autumn.
The renewable heat incentive scheme was introduced to encourage firms to switch from oil or gas to wood burning boilers.
It was part of a Northern Ireland Executive initiative to meet renewables targets.
A Northern Ireland Audit Office report in July 2016 found it had been overly generous and not properly controlled or monitored.
There was no cap on the subsidy payments. The more heat you generated, the greater the subsidy you were paid.
More than 2,000 applications for the subsidy have now been reviewed. A percentage of them are now being visited and checked.
Any abuse of the scheme could lead to disqualification or potential prosecution. Participants will have to prove they installed the wood boilers to replace existing forms of heat.
It has been claimed that some were put in for the sole purpose of claiming the subsidy.


Chancellor George Osborne was joined by celebrities as he hosted a Christmas party for seriously ill children at 11 Downing Street.

Pop stars Pixie Lott, Geri Halliwell and Professor Green were among the famous names at the annual party hosted by the Starlight charity.
EastEnders actor Jake Wood and pop group McBusted also joined in.
Starlight grants wishes for ill children and provides entertainment for them when they are in hospital.
Its website says its work is "aimed at distracting children from the pain, fear and isolation they can often feel as a result of their illnesses".


An Iraqi parliamentary panel has called for former PM Nouri Maliki to face trial over the fall of the northern city of Mosul to Islamic State.

More than 30 other officials including former Mosul governor Athil al-Nujaifi were also blamed in the report.
The militants seized Mosul in a sweep across north and west Iraq last year.
Mr Maliki, a Shia, is seen as having fanned sectarian tensions, leading to a growth of discontent in those mainly Sunni Arab areas captured by IS.
Hours earlier, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi cleared the way for a court martial of military commanders who abandoned their posts as another city, Ramadi, fell to IS in May this year.
The moves come as the current government continues a major campaign to combat corruption and mismanagement.
On Sunday Mr Abadi announced he was cutting eleven ministerial posts, reducing the size of the cabinet by a third.
Iraqis have staged regular protests in recent weeks against corruption and incompetence triggered by power shortages during a heatwave.
The report on Mosul was approved by 16 of the parliamentary committee's 24 members, and will be submitted to a vote by the whole chamber on Monday, MPs said.
"No-one is above the law and accountability to the people," said parliament speaker Salim al-Jaburi in a statement.
"The judiciary will punish perpetrators and delinquents."
Other officials mentioned in the report include:
The fall of Mosul shook not just Iraq but the whole world, immediately transforming IS into the biggest threat in the Middle East.
When Ramadi fell four months ago, the effect was not quite so earth-shaking but it all but killed off hopes of a much touted Iraqi counter-offensive to win back Mosul this year.
In both devastating defeats, the Iraqi army was seen to have collapsed, despite its vastly greater numbers.
Parliament is due to vote on the Mosul report - days after approving sweeping anti-corruption reforms proposed by Mr Maliki's successor, Haider al-Abadi.
A key aim of all this is to bolster Mr Abadi's position as the battle against IS falters - but the moves will all also bring him into direct conflict with Mr Maliki, who will lose his vice-presidential post as part of the reforms.
IS captured Mosul on 10 June last year as they swept through a broad swathe of Iraq to the north and west of Baghdad.
Resistance from Iraqi security forces collapsed almost immediately, leaving large amounts of weapons and equipment in the hands of the militants.


Cyclist Luke Rowe will race in the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire for Team Sky alongside fellow Welshman Owain Doull.

The 27-year-old will also be joined by world points race champion Jon Dibben in the line-up for the three-day race.
It is the third time the event has been run and this year's edition will start on 28 April in Bridlington.
The 194.5km final stage of the 2017 race will begin in Bradford before coming to its conclusion in Fox Valley, Sheffield on Sunday, 30 April.


Danny Rose scored the winner as Tottenham came from behind to beat Burnley in controversial circumstances in the Premier League.

Substitute Moussa Sissoko was given only a yellow card for a high, late tackle on Stephen Ward, before putting Rose through on goal in the next move, as the full-back smashed home at the near post.
"It was a blind challenge, a high challenge and simply a red card," said Burnley boss Sean Dyche.
Spurs were punished for a sloppy start as they failed to clear the ball, allowing Ashley Barnes to poke in the opener.
Prior to the goal, Dele Alli had struck the post from close range, before the midfielder restored parity by converting Kyle Walker's low cross.
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Burnley will rightly feel aggrieved as they were hanging on for an away point, with Spurs struggling to break their defence down in the second half until Sissoko's intervention.
Dyche added: "I don't want go on about the referee but Sissoko has to go off and he sets up the second goal - obviously I am very disappointed about that."
As referee Kevin Friend saw the incident and took action, no retrospective disciplinary case can be brought against the Frenchman by the Football Association.
Despite falling behind, Mauricio Pochettino's side dominated a match in which they had 30 shots at goal, forcing Burnley goalkeeper Tom Heaton into seven saves.
The England international stopped well from Harry Kane and Victor Wanyama, and dived full stretch to his left to keep out Christian Eriksen's drive.
Tottenham continued to pressurise their opponents down the flanks, and it was the home side's two full-backs who proved to be the difference.
Walker got forward to provide the assist for Alli's equaliser, while Rose - who put in more crosses than any other player on the pitch - found himself in the opposition area for the second goal.
Rose told BBC Sport: "The gaffer does not like us both being high up the pitch at the same time but we changed that today. The manager got his tactics spot on."
Victory leaves Spurs in fifth place in the table, but only one point behind rivals Arsenal, who lost 2-1 at Manchester City.
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The Clarets got off to a good start and scored their first away goal of the season from open play courtesy of Barnes' opportunistic strike after haphazard Tottenham defending.
But the loss means they have picked up just one point from eight games on their travels this term.
More worryingly for Dyche's side will be their inability to create chances, with striker Andre Gray's effort straight at Hugo Lloris their only other shot on target.
The Lancashire side are just three points above the relegation zone and have important home games coming up against Middlesbrough and Sunderland.
England full-back Walker's tireless running saw him make 76 sprints at a top speed of 33.33 km/h - better than any other team-mate. His 87 touches on the ball and five key passes was more than any other player on the pitch, while also contributing three tackles.
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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "In the Premier League it is very hard to win games. Today we knew Burnley are a team that fights a lot, run a lot and every ball they are ready to challenge.
"The team played in a very good way and we fully deserved the victory. I am pleased for that. It was a very difficult game."
Burnley boss Sean Dyche: "It is very cruel. We were very good today. A lot has been made of our away form but first half we were excellent and in the second we were at least decent against a top side."
Tottenham travel to face Southampton on 28 December (kick-off 19:45 GMT), while Burnley host Middlesbrough on Boxing Day (15:00 GMT).
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, Burnley 1.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, Burnley 1.
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Matthew Lowton (Burnley).
Offside, Burnley. Michael Kightly tries a through ball, but Andre Gray is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.
Corner,  Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Matthew Lowton.
Corner,  Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Matthew Lowton.
Corner,  Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Tom Heaton.
Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ben Davies.
Corner,  Burnley. Conceded by Eric Dier.
Substitution, Burnley. Steven Defour replaces Dean Marney.
Substitution, Burnley. Michael Kightly replaces George Boyd.
Attempt missed. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jeff Hendrick (Burnley).
Substitution, Burnley. Sam Vokes replaces Ashley Barnes.
Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Kyle Walker with a cross.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Ben Davies replaces Danny Rose because of an injury.
Delay in match Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko following a fast break.
Foul by Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Scott Arfield (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Son Heung-Min replaces Dele Alli.
Foul by Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur).
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal!  Tottenham Hotspur 2, Burnley 1. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Moussa Sissoko.
Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur).
Stephen Ward (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Attempt blocked. Scott Arfield (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Jeff Hendrick (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Danny Rose.


Bearsted golfer Matt Ford says retaining his European Tour card was an emotional moment.

The 37-year-old tied for seventh place at the Hong Kong Open at the weekend, securing a top-110 finish in the Race to Dubai and his card for 2016.
This year was Ford's first on the European Tour, having come through Qualifying School last year.
"I was very emotional afterwards. It is hard to stop it when you have been pushing it back for so long," he said.
Ford had started the week 118th in the Race to Dubai, and says he had doubts about whether he would be able to remain on the Tour.
"I was always in a good position but the thoughts build as the week goes on," Ford told BBC Radio Kent.
"You have to accept you are nervous and the mind will wander. It was heightened even more as you know what it means.
"People asked me whether, on the 18th green, I knew what the scenario was and what I needed to do.
"It was the last hole of the year so there was no comeback. I had to keep those thoughts at bay and focus on the single shot in front of me and that's what I'm most proud of."
Ford's best result this year came when he finished second at the Africa Open in March, and he believes he can capitalise further in 2016.
"I can pick and choose which events I play," he said. "I am pretty much guaranteed nearly all the big events and it is huge from that point.
"My game is suited to certain courses so I can make sure I am ready for those tournaments."


A former soldier who spent 23 years sleeping rough in London has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for helping the homeless.

Jimmy Carlson, 64, from Islington, north London, has been appointed OBE for helping to improve services.
The former alcoholic became homeless after he was discharged from the Army.
Doctor Daniel Moynihan, who runs 13 academies across London, has been knighted, while Emma Colyer has been appointed MBE for charity work.
Mr Carlson served with the Royal Pioneer Corps (RPC) - which later became part of the Royal Logistic Corps - for five years.
When he was discharged in 1973, he became an alcoholic and lived rough on the streets and in hostels until 1996 when he stopped drinking.
Since then he has worked with Groundswell, a self-help organisation for the homeless, and has also helped to bring homeless people together with government ministers.
Mr Carlson has also raised £100,000 for The Haven, a club where people in recovery from substance misuse can meet in an alcohol and drug-free environment.
He said he was humbled to receive the honour.
"I have been to the very bottom and never would have imagined this day then.
"Lots of people have helped me on the way and I can only hope that my story can inspire others - the same way I have been helped."
He added: "My message is, 'never give up on anyone'. You would have walked over me in the street 15 years ago and thought I was a lost cause, just another drunk.
"However, I picked myself up and turned my life around and I have gone on to make a decent contribution to my community."
Metropolitan Police PC Mark Edwards, who helped raise more than £350,000 for terminally ill children, has been appointed an MBE.
PC Edwards ran a series of marathons in New York and took on other challenges to help raise money for Jack Brown, the seven-year-old son of two of his colleagues, who needed specialist treatment in New York.
Jack, who suffered from neuroblastoma, died in 2009, but the officer has continued to raise funds for children with cancer.
He said: "When my wife told me I'd got an MBE I nearly fell off my chair. This award is for the whole team who has helped raise the money - not just me."
A 74-year-old woman, Jane Warwick, also received an MBE for what the Met described as her "tireless work alongside police" in Lambeth to help set up a firearms and knives amnesty in 1995, which was "incredibly successful".
Others honoured include Ruth Owen, from the Victoria-based charity Whizz Kidz, who has been appointed OBE; Paul Elliot MBE now becomes a CBE for services to equality and diversity in football while Maxine Room, principal of Lewisham College, is appointed CBE for her work in education.


Millions of Sri Lankans have voted in an unexpectedly close election that pits President Mahinda Rajapaksa against one of his former allies.

Mr Rajapaksa, in office since 2005, called the election two years early with analysts predicting an easy win.
But many voters have since rallied behind the challenger, former health minister Maithripala Sirisena.
There were armed policemen at every polling station because of concerns the vote would not be peaceful and free.
Mr Rajapaksa rode a wave of popularity after the civil war ended in 2009 but he now faces claims of cronyism.
His relatives fill many of the most powerful and influential positions in the country, and critics accuse him of running the state like a family business.
Analysts say Mr Sirisena appears to have capitalised on this perception, making gains among Sinhalese who usually vote for Mr Rajapaksa.
Mr Sirisena is also expected to win most of the vote from the ethnic minorities that make up about 30% of Sri Lanka's population.
There has been a steady stream of voters at the polling booth I'm at in Colombo.
Azeez Hanifa, 50, came to vote with his wife and mother. He wants the end of corruption and what he calls "monarch rule".
His 74-year-old mother says she remembers the country in turbulent times and wants peace.
It's the first time undergraduate student Harintha Tillekaratne has voted in a presidential election. He wants more economic development and better quality education.
It's expected that the voter turnout will be high. So far, election day has been relatively peaceful.
Mr Rajapaksa, however, remains hugely popular with many in the Sinhalese majority.
Casting his ballot in his constituency on Thursday, the president said he was confident he would be given the leadership of the country for the third time.
"We will have a resounding victory. That is very clear. From tomorrow, we will start implementing our manifesto," he told reporters according to the AFP news agency.
He has presided over a period of impressive economic growth and still has political capital from being the leader who brought an end to the war.
Sri Lanka is split along ethnic lines and Tamil rebels launched a campaign for a separate state in 1972.
The Rajapaksa government crushed the rebellion, but only after a bloody conflict had killed thousands of people.
Both sides in the 26-year civil war have been accused of atrocities.
The government has always denied allegations that many thousands of civilians were killed during the army's final assault on Tamil Tiger rebels.
The run-up to the current election - the second presidential poll since the war ended - was marred by violence and allegations of intimidation.
On Wednesday, an opposition activist died a day after being shot while organising a rally.
Voters in the Tamil-dominated northern city of Jaffna said there was a loud bang as polling stations opened, with some reports claiming a grenade had been thrown.
But observers said that voting had been broadly peaceful across the island.
Mr Rajapaksa was last elected in 2010 when he defeated his former army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was later jailed on charges of implicating the government in war crimes.
Polling stations opened at 07:00 (01:30 GMT) on Thursday, and results are expected on Friday.


Mamadou Sore of Burkina Faso has been chosen by officials at the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) as the tournament's top mascot.

1 February 2017 Last updated at 17:01 GMT
His elaborate outfit even extends to a motorbike done up as a stallion, reflecting the team's nickname The Stallions.
Burkina Faso have made the semi-finals and face Egypt on Wednesday 2 February at 19:00 GMT.


Middlesex's push for victory against Hampshire was dented as poor weather meant just 17 overs were bowled on day three at Merchant Taylors' School.

Rain meant play began at 16:00 BST, with the visitors 62-3 and trailing the hosts' first-innings total by 274 runs.
Tim Murtagh quickly removed Liam Dawson, with the Hampshire batsman caught at gully by Sam Robson for 23.
The away side edged to 100-4 with Jimmy Adams 47 not out, before bad light brought play to an end at 17:05 BST.


Glory, Britney Spears' latest release, has been beaten to the top of the UK album chart by the 35th studio album from US music veteran Barbra Streisand.

Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, a collection of show tune duets featuring Hugh Jackman, Jamie Foxx and others, is her seventh number one album in the UK.
Encore recorded 20,000 combined sales, the Official Charts Company said.
In the singles chart, The Chainsmokers go top with Closer, the DJ duo's collaboration with US singer Halsey.
The Chainsmokers, aka Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, said they were "beyond grateful at all the support from our UK fans".
"As a relatively new artist, it means a lot to us and gives us a lot of confidence in the music we have coming up," they said,
DJ Snake and Justin Bieber's Let Me Love You remains at two for the fourth straight week, one place above last week's number one record.
After five unassailable weeks in pole position, Cold Water - from Major Lazer and featuring Justin Bieber and MÃ˜ - drops to number three.
Calum Scott's Dancing On My Own and Twenty One Pilots' Heathens are non-movers at four and five respectively.
Twenty One Pilots occupy the same spot in the album chart, thanks to the US duo's fourth album Blurryface jumping six places to five.
The remainder of the top five is made up of Frank Ocean's Blonde at three, and Dolly Parton's Pure and Simple at four.
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Barcelona have appointed Ernesto Valverde as their head coach on a two-year deal, with an option for a third.

Former Barca forward Valverde announced last week that he was leaving Athletic Bilbao after four years in charge.
He replaces Luis Enrique, who revealed in March that he would leave the club - who finished second in La Liga - at the end of his three-year contract.
Enrique led Barcelona to the treble in his first season, the domestic double in 2016 and the Copa del Rey this year.
They beat Alaves 3-1 in Sunday's final - his last match in charge.
Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu praised 53-year-old Valverde's "ability, judgement, knowledge and experience", adding: "He promotes young players and he plays the Barca way."
Valverde's presentation as Barca's new coach will take place on Thursday.
Andy West, BBC Spanish football writer
In many ways, Ernesto Valverde's appointment at Barcelona makes perfect sense.
His task is to instil a convincing collective structure into a team too often over-reliant on Lionel Messi recently, and especially to address the defensive vulnerabilities which saw Barca concede 10 goals in this season's Champions League trips to Juventus, PSG and Manchester City.
And Valverde has the credentials to be successful. He is an experienced and intelligent coach with good organisational and communication skills, implementing a fast-paced style of play which earned the regular approval of the most important figure in the club's history, his former manager Johan Cruyff.
Despite those plus points, however, Valverde will receive little more than a lukewarm welcome from many fans, who are sceptical of his abilities to master the internal politics inherent at such a huge club.
There are fears that his understated personality will see him become a 'yes man' to an increasingly unpopular board of directors, lacking the strength of character to reinvigorate a team who have been treading water for too long.
When Luis Enrique announced his decision to resign, a poll over the identity of the new coach by newspaper Mundo Deportivo saw Valverde receive just 8.4% of the votes (Jorge Sampaoli came first), so it's clear his arrival is not being universally acclaimed.
It doesn't help that his final season in Bilbao yielded a pretty disappointing seventh-place finish and an embarrassing Europa League exit against Cypriot minnows Apoel Nicosia.
If he doesn't make a good start, patience will be in short supply.
Valverde, who was born in the Spanish region of Extremadura but raised in the Basque Country, started his playing career as a forward with local sides Alaves and Sestao, before spending two years with Espanyol.
He joined Barcelona in 1988, at the age of 24, and scored eight goals in 22 matches in two injury-hit seasons with the club.
From there he went to Athletic Bilbao, the club his career is most strongly linked with, scoring 44 goals in 170 matches over six years. He ended his playing career with one season at Mallorca. He was capped once for Spain, playing 19 minutes at the end of a Euro 92 qualifier against Iceland.
Immediately after his 1997 retirement, he moved back to Athletic as a youth-team coach, eventually becoming first-team boss in the 2003-04 season. After leading them to fifth and ninth place in two seasons in charge, he left the club.
A year later he took over Espanyol and led them to the Uefa Cup final in his first of two seasons as manager.
He then went to Olympiakos, leading them to a Greek league and cup double, before leaving for a year at Valencia.
Valverde went back to Olympiakos for another two seasons, winning the league twice and the cup once before leaving again.
After returning to Athletic in 2013, he said: "Sequels are never any good. Well, the Godfather II was quite good."
In his first season back at the club - who can only sign players with links to the Basque region - he led them to fourth place in La Liga and a Champions League spot.
There were top-seven finishes for the next three seasons, including seventh this term, and a run to the 2014-15 Copa del Rey final. They beat Barcelona 5-1 on aggregate in the 2015 Spanish Super Cup.
Barcelona have not brought through many youngsters in recent years. Rafinha and Sergi Roberto are the only two youth products younger than 28 who are regulars in the squad.
But Valverde - who has favoured a 4-2-3-1 formation - has plenty of experience giving young players a chance. As Athletic cannot buy non-Basque players, he often had to look to his youth team for players.
Defender Aymeric Laporte and winger Inaki Williams, who have both been linked with big-money moves to English clubs, became first-team regulars under Valverde. Right-back Inigo Lekue has been named in the Spain squad since his 2015 debut.
Valverde will also try to bring some defensive solidity to the club - he has often balanced defence and attack well. In 2009, Olympiakos conceded only 14 league goals on their way to the Greek title. Athletic never conceded more than 45 goals in a La Liga season during his second spell in charge.
Earlier this week, after Valverde left Athletic, and it was widely expected he would join Barcelona, Barca defender Gerard Pique said: "Ernesto has done a great job at Athletic the past few years. He played here for Barcelona as a player and I think he could be a good option, as could others."
During the season, Williams said: "He would be a good coach [for Barca], but we want him to remain at Athletic. He's brilliant, a great coach.
"He's done a great job. He's made history at the club - he's the coach with the most games. He has the final word and whatever happens I will be pleased for him."
Valverde is not your typical football manager.
While playing for Barcelona, he studied photography at the Institut d'Estudis Fotografics de Catalunya. In 2012, he released a book of artistic black and white pictures, called Medio Tiempo, which translates as Half-Time.
He also ran an exhibition of his pictures that summer in Greece, where he was managing Olympiakos.
"These are photographs that show a world that is not a home, neither a house or a country, with spaces such as hotels, planes, buses, football fields, touristic areas and, in general, lonely places or places where anyone could have that feeling. So lonely seem to be the people portrayed by him," read Bernardo Atxaga's prologue to the book.
Johan Cruyff writing in La Vanguardia newspaper, January 2007, while Valverde was managing Espanyol.
"His players might play well or not, sometimes they win and other times they don't, but they always go onto the pitch with a dream. Valverde always gives fans reasons to be proud of their team."
Lionel Messi on Facebook: "Wishing you the best of luck in the next stage of your life, Luis Enrique. Thank you for everything in the last few years."
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The producer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is among the nominees at this year's The Stage awards.

Sonia Friedman is shortlisted for producer of the year - an award she won at the event in both 2016 and 2015.
Her other recent credits include Dreamgirls, Funny Girl and 1984.
Kenny Wax, who produced The Play That Goes Wrong, and Fiery Angel, which produced the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company West End season, are also nominated in the category.
Winners are decided by the senior editorial team at The Stage, the theatre publication established in 1880.
Sir Matthew Bourne's New Adventures is nominated for the international award this year, alongside the Graeae Theatre Company and the Big in Belgium season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Alistair Smith, print editor of The Stage and chair of the judging panel, said: "Our exceptional shortlist this year is a blend of big and small, established and new.
"The Stage Awards are the only theatre awards that celebrate the whole stunning spectrum of theatre, encompassing London, regional, fringe and international work."
The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool, the Tara Theatre in London and the King's Cross Theatre are all nominated for theatre building of the year.
Two new categories have been introduced this year - the innovation award and the sustainability award.
Nominees for the innovation award include The New Diorama Theatre, international touring company Complicite and theatre company Les Enfants Terribles.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony on 27 January at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
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Compensation has been reduced for more than 400 sex abuse victims in Britain who later committed criminal offences, the BBC has learnt.

Offences for which lower compensation was awarded included ones involving drink, drugs or violence.
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority said statutory guidance obliged it to reduce or refuse awards if victims had unspent convictions.
A leading child abuse lawyer called for a review of the "scandalous" approach.
Alan Collins said civil case judges increasingly took the opposite view, and accepted that abuse could have a lifelong effect, with addictions being a possible consequence.
Since 2010, CICA - an executive agency sponsored by the Ministry of Justice - has awarded compensation to 12,665 people who were sexually abused as children, or as adults lacking mental capacity.
But some 438 people have had their government-funded compensation reduced because they had committed criminal offences themselves, the BBC learned after a series of Freedom of Information requests.
Of the 27 cases where compensation was reduced between June 2014 and June 2015, half were for drink, drugs, theft or property offences. Eight involved violence against people.
CICA would not say how many applications by such victims had been rejected.
"The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme has always asked that awards are reduced or refused if the victim had unspent convictions," it said in a statement.
The Ministry of Justice said the refusal or reduction of an awarded payment reflected the fact the individual "may have caused distress, loss or injury to another person, and cost the taxpayer money through a police investigation or court proceedings".
It said there were no plans to review the scheme.
Odette Tovey, a Sheffield-based legal representative for several grooming victims whose applications have been rejected by CICA, said: "The crimes committed against the victims far outweigh the crimes that these victims committed."
Some of these had been abused for many years, from their early teens, added Ms Tovey, and CICA was their only route to potential compensation.
Ms Tovey said CICA needed to take into consideration that victims' crimes "were as a result of mental health problems developed because of the period of abuse they went through".
Victims could be eligible for compensation of Â£27,000 if no deductions were made, said Ms Tovey.
The average award after CICA compensation reduction was Â£8,423.
Jane was groomed and abused for more than four years after running away from her South Yorkshire home at the age of 15.
She was given drugs and alcohol and forced to have sex with men she did not know.
A lead witness at her abuser's trial, Jane was turned down for compensation because she has unspent convictions for theft and assault - offences which took place before the trial took place and when she says she was addicted to so-called legal highs.
She has since given up drugs, has married, and is pregnant with her first child.
Jane - not her real name - has paid back the money she stole and says she feels remorse for her actions, but says they should not negate her compensation.
She told the BBC: "I've hurt someone else, they didn't expect to be hurt, they didn't deserve to be hurt, I just hurt them so I could get money.
"I've been told by a couple of people that they received about Â£15,000, and that makes me really angry - because while the main witnesses haven't received anything, the others have."


A man convicted of involvement in the 1993 Mumbai blasts has died of a heart attack, one day after prosecutors asked a court to sentence him to death.

Mustafa Dossa was found guilty of transporting weapons to Mumbai.
The explosions killed 257 people, and were allegedly to avenge the killing of Muslims in riots a few months earlier.
The blasts targeted a dozen sites, including the Bombay Stock Exchange, the offices of national carrier Air India and a luxury hotel.
Indian media reports say Dossa was admitted to the jail hospital ward after he complained of severe chest pain early on Wednesday.
Indian prosecutors had argued that Dossa was one of the "brains" behind the attack and was even more culpable than Yakub Memon, who was hanged for his role in the blasts in 2015, the PTI news agency said.
He was found guilty earlier this month, but the court had not pronounced a sentence.
Dossa, along with six others, was tried separately for his role in the blasts.
The seven men were arrested between 2003 and 2010 and tried separately from Memon as they were arrested towards the end of his trial.
A court found six of them guilty of criminal conspiracy and murder. One man was acquitted.


A student at a top US university whose six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015 was widely criticised for being too lenient has been released from prison.

Brock Turner, 21, who was a swimming champion, assaulted the woman outside a Stanford University fraternity house.
He was freed from the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose, California, after serving three months.
Inmates in California typically serve 50% of their sentences before release.
Turner, who left the jail without commenting to journalists, apparently intends to return to Ohio to live with his parents.
Under the terms of his release, he faces three years of supervised probation and will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
The local sheriff's office in Ohio said Turner would be treated "no differently than any other sex offender we monitor".
The former swimmer's sentence prompted an outcry, with critics saying the judge had been overly lenient and sex assaults on US campuses were not being treated seriously enough.
Prosecutors had demanded a sentence of six years in state prison.
Judge Aaron Persky, who handed down the sentence, expressed concern about the impact of prison on Turner. In his decision, he said positive character references and Turner's remorse and lack of previous criminal record were mitigating factors.
Turner's father, Dan, also sparked outrage during the case, saying his son should not have been jailed for "20 minutes of action".
Two witnesses said they had seen him sexually assaulting the woman, who was lying on the ground unconscious.
The victim, referred to by the pseudonym Emily Doe, released her victim impact statement publicly. It was read by millions, and praised by US Vice President Joe Biden.
She criticised Turner for not admitting the crime and putting her and her family through an "invasive" and "aggressive" trial.
Later, she expressed disappointment at the "gentle" sentence her attacker received.
California attorney general Kamala Harris added her voice to the criticism, questioning whether the facts "merit that kind of mitigation".
Protesters have called for the recall of Judge Persky, who last month asked to be assigned to the court's civil division.
Earlier this week, legislators in California closed a loophole in sexual assault cases, whereby more lenient sentences could be issued if the victim did not resist.
In California, the use of force in a sexual assault results in a mandatory prison sentence. In cases where no force is used - when the victim is unable to defend themselves - no mandatory sentence exists.
State assembly members voted unanimously to amend the law, and prevent the use of probation in such cases. The bill has been passed to Governor Jerry Brown for approval, but has not yet been signed into law.


A white supremacist has been sentenced to death for the racially motivated killings of nine black people at a South Carolina church.

Dylann Roof was convicted last month of 33 federal charges, including hate crimes, after opening fire on a Bible study group in 2015.
He remained unrepentant and had told the jury: "I felt like I had to do it and I still feel like I had to do it."
The jurors deliberated for nearly three hours before reaching their verdict.
The massacre shocked the nation and reignited a debate about race relations and the flying of the Confederate flag.
Roof told police he wanted to start a race war and he was photographed holding the battle flag, which to many is a symbol of hate.
The tragedy led to the flag being removed from the South Carolina statehouse, where it had flown for 50 years.
Earlier on Tuesday, Roof addressed the jury, saying: "I don't know what good it would do anyway" if they spared his life.
The judge will issue a formal sentence on Wednesday morning.
After the sentence was announced, the 22-year-old killer stood and requested to be appointed new lawyers and to file for a retrial.
US District Judge Richard Gergel replied that he was "strongly disinclined" and instructed Roof to think about it overnight.
Nearly two dozen friends and relatives of those gunned down at the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston testified during the sentencing phase about how Roof's crimes have affected their lives.
But none of them had appealed to the jury to return a death sentence.


A 15-year-old girl died and two children were taken to hospital after a car struck a tree in Hampshire.

It happened at about 20:45 GMT on Hordle Lane, near Hordle, involving a Mercedes E350 Sport convertible.
A passenger in the car, a 15-year-old girl from Surrey, died at the scene. An eight-year-old and 10-year-old were taken to Southampton General Hospital.
The 34-year-old driver, from Hordle, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.


Warwickshire director of cricket Dougie Brown has left Edgbaston after 27 years' service to the club, as both player and coach.

The 46-year-old Scot was appointed in January 2013, succeeding Ashley Giles, when he became coach of England's limited-overs teams.
Under Brown's leadership, the Bears won two trophies, the T20 Blast in 2014 and One-Day Cup last month.
But they only avoided relegation in their final County Championship game.
Brown's departure by 'mutual consent' after four seasons in the job ends an association going back to when he first joined the playing staff, making his debut as a Second XI player in July 1989.
His job has not been made easy over the past two years by the dressing-room complications brought on by the enforced early retirement of captain Jim Troughton in 2014 and the decline of Ian Bell's England career.
This culminated in a sequence of captaincy changes, which saw Varun Chopra appointed, only to then stand down and consequently return to Essex after Bell became county skipper.
"The club has a very proud history of challenging for silverware and, despite winning the One-Day Cup this season, failure to qualify for the T20 Blast quarter finals and narrowly avoiding relegation from Division One of the County Championship on the last day of the season is not where the club should be," said Brown, in a statement.
"It is, therefore, the right time for me to agree to step down from my role as Director of Cricket.
Bears chief executive Neil Snowball added: "Dougie is a true Bear, having served the club with great distinction as a player, coach and director of cricket."
Former Warwickshire boss Ashley Giles is among the list of candidates to succeed Brown, according to the BBC's Pat Murphy.
Giles has been in charge of Lancashire for the last two years, but still lives in the Midlands.
Another possibility is ex-England team director Andy Flower, who lives in Stratford and works in a high-ranking coaching capacity for the ECB at Loughborough.
But no announcement is expected soon and the process of finding a successor could roll into November, as historical precedent suggests that Warwickshire will not rush into any new appointment.
When Giles left in November 2012, it was a month and a half before Brown was appointed.
by BBC WM's Richard Wilford
"Dougie Brown has been at the heart of Warwickshire cricket for three decades as a player, coach and director of cricket.
"He is one of the last links to the Bob Woolmer/Dermot Reeve era at Edgbaston, and has consistently set high standards for himself and the county, filling the trophy cabinet along the way.
"The summer was a difficult one for Brown's Bears despite their Royal London One-Day Cup triumph at Lord's last month.
"Their form in the County Championship was sketchy at best. Nonetheless, this is not a decision either Warwickshire or Dougie will have taken lightly."
•Having first represented Warwickshire's second XI in July 1989, Brown made his first-class debut in April 1992.
•He played 197 first-class matches in his 15 years with the Bears, making 8,066 runs at 30.50, as well as taking 515 wickets.
•Brown also hit 4,096 runs in 263 one-day matches, taking 309 wickets.
•Dual international, having represented both England (9 caps) and Scotland (30 caps). He also coached Namibia at the 2003 World Cup.


Perhaps the warning signs were there for tennis player Maria Sharapova before she failed a drugs test for using meldonium.

The substance was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) list of prohibited substances on 1 January 2016, with five-time Grand Slam champion Sharapova failing a test at the Australian Open later that month.
However, meldonium, which is thought to improve an athlete's stamina and endurance, featured on Wada's watch list in 2015 - meaning it was not banned but was being monitored "in order to detect patterns of misuse in sport".
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For a substance to be added to Wada's prohibited list involves a three-stage consultation process, which lasts several months and includes input from Wada experts, its health, medical and research committee (HMRC) and its executive committee.
According to Wada, a substance may be "considered" for the prohibited list if it meets two of the following three criteria:
A substance can be added to the prohibited list without first featuring on the watch list.
Meldonium - or mildronate as it was known to 28-year-old Russian Sharapova - is no longer on the 2016 watch list, but several other substances remain on it.
Some are monitored only during competition, some outside of competition and some both in and out of competition.
Stimulants
Narcotics
Glucocorticoids - anti-inflammatories
Telmisartan - used for high blood pressure


Russia has said it does not accept the findings of a UN-led investigation that concluded Syria's government had used chemical weapons against civilians.

A report said last week that chlorine had been used by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on two occasions.
But Russia, a close ally of Mr Assad, told the UN Security Council a number of questions still had to be clarified.
The UK and France, which back the rebellion against the president, called for sanctions to be imposed on Syria.
A September 2013 resolution states that the Security Council will impose measures under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which permits military action, in the event of "any use of chemical weapons by anyone" in Syria.
The resolution, which endorsed the destruction of Syria's declared stockpile of chemical weapons, was adopted a month after hundreds of people were killed when shells filled with the nerve agent sarin were fired at rebel-held suburbs of Damascus.
Western powers said only government forces could have carried out the attack, but Mr Assad and Russia blamed rebels.
In August 2015, following further deadly chemical attacks on rebel-held areas, the Security Council established a Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) to identify those responsible.
The international team of inspectors looked into nine cases in seven towns and determined that the Syrian air force was behind two attacks involving chlorine - in Talmanes on 21 April 2014 and Sarmin on 16 March 2015 - and that jihadist militants from Islamic State (IS) carried out one attack involving sulphur mustard.
Chlorine is a "dual-use chemical". It has many legitimate industrial functions, but its use as a weapon is banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). If high concentrations of the chemical enter the lungs it can cause death.
At a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday, US permanent representative Samantha Power called the JIM report a "landmark" and called for swift action.
"It is the first official independent confirmation of what many of us... have presented substantial evidence of for a long time, and that is a pattern of chemical weapons use by the Syrian regime," she said.
But Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin insisted it was too early to discuss sanctions.
"Clearly there is a smoking gun. We know that chlorine most likely has been used - that was already the finding of the fact-finding mission before - but there are no fingerprints on the gun," he said.
Syria's permanent representative Bashar Jaafari dismissed the report's conclusions, saying they were "totally based on statements made by witnesses presented by the terrorist armed groups" and "lack any physical evidence".


US conservationists and a satellite imagery company have teamed up to use the power of crowdsourcing to halt the spread of destructive invasive plants.

Species such as the Australian tree fern are using up vital water supplies within native forests on Hawaii, home to unique species found nowhere else.
So far, more than 5,000 people have visited the website.
To date, each pixel of the images of the forest has been scrutinised by web users at least 50 times.
"From a biodiversity viewpoint, it is very important that we protect forest resources," explained Trea Menard, director of forest conservation for the US-based The Nature Conservancy (TNC).
"Unfortunately, we have lost a lot of our forests," he told BBC News.
"For example, only about 27% of the forest remains on Kauai and that is an important forest because it is the biodiversity cradle for Hawaii as it is the oldest island.
"The native forest is extremely unique. About 90% of the plants and animals that evolved here do not occur anywhere else in the world, which means they are endemic to Hawaii.
"If they are lost from Hawaii, they are pretty much lost to the planet."
The invasive plants are dramatically reducing the volume of fresh water available for native species.
The Australian tree fern is able to penetrate remote areas of the native forest because it is dispersed via spores carried by the wind, making it difficult to be tracked and located on the ground.
In order to overcome this obstacle, TNC has teamed up with satellite imaging firm DigitalGlobe to call on web users to scan and spot the invasive species in images posted on the web.
The images, provided by Resources Mapping, are aerial photos providing 1cm per pixel.
Luke Barrington, senior manager for DigitalGlobe's crowdsourcing platform, said the high-quality, natural colour images had enabled web users to identify the invasive species.
He explained: "The connectivity of billions of people online is transforming  the way that the globe solves global problems. Millions of people are coming together to solve a problem."
The campaign has been running since June and each pixel of the images available has been accessed by at least 50 users, providing a built-in level of quality control.


A developer says he has had to remortgage his house to pay the £250,000 excavation costs after finding 81 Anglo-Saxon coffins on his land.

Gary Boyce uncovered the 8th Century cemetery six months ago in Great Ryburgh, Norfolk.
He had been carrying out work to build a fishing lake.
Mr Boyce has been given a £90,000 grant from England Heritage, but feels there should be more support for landowners who find themselves in his position.
Landowners are responsible for the initial exploration costs of excavations found on their property, and the cost rises if human remains are discovered and have to be excavated.
Mr Boyce told BBC Inside Out: "History has been changed (by the discovery) but you've seriously got to weigh up the costs. To nearly lose your house, that's massive."
Will Fletcher, inspector of ancient monuments for Norfolk, Suffolk and Bedfordshire for Historic England, said: "We tried to operate as quickly as we could and provide some support to Gary because obviously he was in a very difficult position."
Tim Pestell, the curator of Archaeology at Norwich Castle, said it was an unusual discovery.
"Because the site was so unique, it is nationally significant. Great Ryburgh will go down in the academic textbooks as an example of an early Christian community," he said.
"The landowner got unlucky because it was so wonderful, it wasn't expected. That's why Historic England has put thousands of pounds into rescuing that site."
It is hoped that some of the artefacts will eventually go on display at Norwich Castle along with one of the coffins, after it has been sent to York for conservation.
See the full story on Inside Out BBC ONE East Monday 19:30 GMT.


The UK government is being taken to court in Europe over breaches of EU rules on sewage treatment at a number of sites, including Ballycastle in County Antrim.

The European Commission is taking the case to the European Court of Justice.
It cites 17 places where the authorities are not complying with the regulations.
If the court rules against it, the UK will be forced to comply and could face a fine.
Northern Ireland Water is responsible for sewage treatment in Ballycastle.
The town has a permanent population of around 8,000 people, but summer visitors bring it over 10,000.
Under the regulations it is meant to have secondary treatment of sewage, where microbes are used to treat the effluent.
Ballycastle only has primary treatment works.
That means settling tanks are used to remove the sludge, before the effluent is pumped to sea.
The European Commission says the UK has been aware since 2005 of the need to address the issue.
In a statement, Northern Ireland Water said an upgrade for the Ballycastle works was due to be completed in 2017, at a cost of around Â£10m.
The other places where the UK is in breach include Stranraer in Scotland, where the existing system is also deemed to be inadequate.
In ten other places, where effluent is discharged into sensitive areas like freshwaters and estuaries, the system fails to meet more stringent regulations.
In Gibraltar, which is also on the list, there is no treatment works at all.
The court application will be lodged soon, and it takes around 18 months to get a judgement.


10 January 2017 Last updated at 11:21 GMT
An avid whale watcher has filmed a humpback whale circling a boat off the coast of Moray.
Steve Truluck, a volunteer with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, was about two miles off the coast of Hopeman when the mammal decided to move in for a closer inspection.
Sharing the pictures on social media, Steve said: "Dream come true! Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to be circled by a humpback whale".


Detectives investigating the death of Geordie Shore star Aimee Spencer, who fell from a first floor window in Brighton, have arrested two people.

The 27-year-old model, whose stage name was Carla Mai, died a week after being found critically injured in Chichester Terrace on 11 July.
A man aged 28 from Brighton was held on suspicion of attempted murder, while a woman, also 28, was quizzed over suspected drug offences.
Both were bailed until 5 September.
A Sussex Police spokesman said: "The 27-year-old woman who fell from a window of a Brighton flat has sadly died from her injuries at the Royal Sussex County Hospital on Monday July 18.
"The woman had been in a critical condition since she was discovered having fallen from the first-floor flat window in Chichester Terrace on Monday July 11 at 9.08am."
On Twitter, Daria Spencer wrote: "I can't believe that my sister has left us. She put up a fantastic fight and I will love her forever. Rip."
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The average annual income from a standard annuity has fallen to a record low within three weeks of a major overhaul of the pension system.

The popularity of annuities - bought from a pension pot and guaranteeing a fixed, regular income for life - fell after the the shake-up was announced.
Since 6 April, retirees have been able to do what they wish with their pension pot, but it may be taxed.
Financial data service Moneyfacts said new retirees would be hit by low rates.
Before the pension changes came in those who were retiring could cash in up to 25% of their pension pot as a tax-free lump sum.
They then had two options: reinvest their pension pot - or keep their current investments - and take an income from their funds as they needed. The second option open to them was to take out an annuity.
The changes that have now come into force mean those due to retire now can do whatever they like with 100% of their pension pot, for example invest in property, although they still only receive the first 25% tax free.
After this plan was announced in the 2014 Budget, the sale of annuities plunged. This drop in demand was part of the reason for a 5.7% fall in the average annual income payable from a standard annuity in 2014, according to Moneyfacts.
This year, a further drop has taken the income from standard annuities without guarantees to a record low.
A healthy 65-year-old with a pension pot of £10,000 would be able to swap it for a standard annuity income of £476 a year, down 5.9% since the beginning of the year.
The equivalent person with a £50,000 pension pot would get £2,550, a fall of 6.4% over the same period.
"In many cases, retirees looking for a secure income now face the unenviable position of annuitising at the lowest point in the product's history," said Richard Eagling, head of pensions at Moneyfacts.
"This is particularly unfortunate for those individuals who may have deferred making a choice until the introduction of the pension freedoms but have since decided that an annuity is still the most suitable product for them."


The Scottish FA will review their Scottish Cup draw procedure following the error that forced Monday's quarter-final pairings to be redone.

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Live on television, the draw was declared void when one of the team names popped out of the plastic ball in which it had been contained.
A spokesman for the SFA said they would be happy to discuss an alternative system with its broadcast partners.
Numbered balls are used in draws done for the Scottish League Cup.
The League Cup is run by the Scottish Professional Football League.
Dundee United had been drawn at home to Celtic before the loose team name was discovered.
The re-run resulted in Celtic hosting Morton and trophy holders Inverness CT travelling to either Hibernian or Hearts.
The winners of the Rangers and Kilmarnock replay at Rugby Park will take on Dundee or Dumbarton, while Ross County entertain Dundee United, with the ties to be played over weekend of 5 and 6 March.


Manager Chris Coleman insists Wales are Euro 2016 underdogs in Pool B alongside England, Russia and Saturday's opponents Slovakia.

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Cardiff Blues wing Alex Cuthbert is to miss Wales' three-Test June tour to New Zealand because of injury.

The 25-year old was already out with a heel injury and will be sidelined for 12 weeks after electing to have surgery on a knee problem.
Blues head coach Danny Wilson said: "Alex will be disappointed to miss the end of this season and the chance to go on the summer tour with Wales.
"However, this decision has been taken for his long-term health."
Cuthbert has scored 15 tries in 42 Wales appearances, one for the British and Irish Lions in a Test and 37 in 79 Blues games.
He is out of contract with Blues and the end of the 2015-16 season.
Cuthbert's injury absence means if he does not sign a fresh deal, he may have played his last game for the region.
He turned down offers to leave the Blues before agreeing his current deal in 2012.


Are young black males really more likely to be in prison than in leading universities?

That was the claim of Prime Minister David Cameron at the weekend as he raised his lance at the closed doors of top universities.
"If you're a young black man, you're more likely to be in a prison cell than studying at a top university," wrote Mr Cameron, in an article in the Sunday Times.
The striking headline claim was used as an example to show that "blatant racism" might have diminished, but there were still "under the surface", residual layers of discrimination.
It's a powerful contrast, but is it really the case? It might be the right cause, but is it the right statistic?
Not quite, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), which provides data on the sector for the government and funding agencies.
The comparison, according to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, was based on there being "2,644 young black British men aged 18-25 in prison".
These were contrasted with young male black students in Russell Group universities.
But HESA says that in 2013-14 there were 2,655 black students from the UK, under the age of 25 in this group of leading universities. Among under-30s, the number was higher, 3,040.
The following year, 2014-15, the figures were higher again, with 3,430 male black students under-30 and 3,040 who were under-25.
The Russell Group says there were 4,520 black British male students at their universities in 2013-14 and they were more likely to have a slightly older age profile than white students.
In either case, it would mean there were not more young black men in prison than in these universities.
Downing Street says that HESA is the source for their figure too, but interpret the numbers as 2,315 young black male students in Russell Group universities, lower than HESA's own definitive figure.
Of course none of this takes away from the bigger picture highlighting the lack of black students in top universities.
As Mr Cameron wrote: "It's striking that in 2014, our top university, Oxford, accepted just 27 black men and women out of an intake of more than 2,500."
University admissions might be at record levels, but there are stubborn pockets where opportunities do not seem to be evenly shared.
Poor white boys are among the lowest achievers; youngsters from schools in deprived coastal towns and some northern cities get fewer sought-after places than their counterparts in London.
Private school pupils remain significantly over-represented in Oxford and Cambridge and a report published on Thursday calls for these institutions to have less opaque systems for admissions.
But the claim that young black men are more likely to be in jail than university has a long history of its own - particularly in the US.
It's been used repeatedly in the US as an example of something that's widely believed but isn't true. It's a statistical urban myth, dating back more than a decade.
It makes a hard-hitting connection between two inequalities - the over-representation of young black males in US prisons and their under-representation in higher education.
The power of the image seems to overwhelm any doubts about its authenticity.
As the American Council on Education has put it: "It is a compelling statement. It is also, quite simply, untrue."
And despite numerous debunkings, it still has currency.
A BBC radio programme examined the widespread claim a few years ago, in the US context, concluding that it wasn't currently true and was of uncertain accuracy even when it began to be circulated about 15 years ago.
There were suggestions that in 2000 in the US there was a higher prison than student population for young black men, but even this is disputed, with claims that students in many black-majority colleges had not been counted.
Downing Street are sticking to their figures about the comparison in the UK - and to the greater importance of the issue rather than the numbers.
But don't expect the striking claim - or the underlying argument - to go away any time soon.


A bid has been launched to bar people who live outside of Wales from standing for election to the assembly.

Two former Welsh secretaries, Lord Peter Hain and Paul Murphy, want to change the law to ensure all candidates are on the Wales electoral register.
Lord Hain said being represented by people who live outside the country was "insulting to the people of Wales".
UKIP's assembly group leader AM Neil Hamilton - who lives in Wiltshire - was asked to comment.
Mr Hamilton was elected on the regional list as AM for Mid and West Wales last May.
At the time Mr Hamilton became group leader he said he lived "less than an hour from Cardiff".
"For the time being I'm living where I lived for the last 10 years," he said, adding there was a "big logistical problem to solve" about where he based himself.
Under current rules there is nothing to stop people living outside of Wales standing as a candidate for the assembly.
The proposed amendment says a person may not stand as a candidate unless they are recorded on the Welsh electoral register as "living in Wales".
Lord Hain said the current rules were an "anomaly" in the Government of Wales Act 2006 - which he said he was responsible for as Welsh secretary at the time.
Lord Hain, who moved from London when he was elected as an MP for Neath, did not criticise Mr Hamilton directly, saying he would not "personalise" the issue.
The Assembly's independent Remuneration Board is considering a change in the rules to allow AMs to claim more than Â£8,000 for Cardiff accommodation expenses if they live in England.
The board - which sets pay and expenses - will discuss the responses to a consultation at a meeting in November.


Scot Squad star Darren Connell has been fined for trying to take an offensive weapon with him on holiday.

Connell, who plays Bobby Muir in the BBC comedy, was caught with a knuckleduster as he prepared to fly from Glasgow Airport in November 2015.
He was fined Â£450 for the offence at Paisley Sheriff Court.
Connell, who is from Bishopbriggs, won best Actor at the 2015 Scottish Comedy Awards for his role as the police-pestering character in Scot Squad.
The actor, through his solicitor, claimed he had the weapon on him as he had bought it on a previous jaunt abroad and planned to use it in a sketch but forgot it was in his bag.
A trial had been due to take place but Connell admitted having an offensive weapon on him in the airport.
The 29-year-old, who collected trolleys in Asda for nine years before he found fame, was previously reported as saying Scot Squad had changed his life.


Three women have been rescued after their yacht got into difficulty off the Antrim coast.

They were on their way from Norway to the Carribbean when they experienced problems at about 23:30 BST on Friday.
Their 20ft (6m) yacht was headed for Belfast when they raised the alarm after the engine failed.
Larne RNLI brought the women and their yacht to safety at Larne harbour.
Coxswain Norman Surplus said: "The three women did the right thing and raised the alarm when they got into difficulty.
"Thankfully, all three are safe and well and we would like to wish them a safe onward journey.
'We would encourage anyone visiting the coast this summer to remember to respect the water," he added.
"When sailing, always have a means for calling and signalling for help and ensure everyone onboard knows how to use it. Always check the weather forecast and tide times.
"Make sure someone ashore knows where you are going and who to call if you don't return on time. Learn how to start, run and maintain your engine and always carry tools and spares."


Thousands of people in Chapeco in Brazil have held a vigil for the victims of a plane crash, who included most of the city's football team.

Fans of the Chapecoense team walked from the city centre to the stadium where they prayed and sang. A service was also held in the city's cathedral.
The team were flying to Colombia for the biggest match in their history when their plane went down shortly before landing in Medellin, late on Monday.
Six of the 77 people on board survived.
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It is not clear what brought down the chartered aircraft, but some unconfirmed reports have suggested there was an electrical fault, while others say the plane was low on fuel. Both flight recorders have been recovered.
Crew member Ximena Suarez, who survived the flight, said "the lights went out and I don't remember anything after that".
Some 10,000 people - including family members of the players - gathered in Chapeco's Arena Conda stadium on Tuesday evening, still stunned by the extent of their loss.
Fans wearing the club's green and white colours sang the names of the players and shouted "champions". Families of the players hugged each other on the pitch.
"It is really hard to speak. We always come to the games. We'd come to the stadium and sit right in the same spot," said fan Daniel Marline.
"And we came here today, we sat here, but we know that this weekend, next week, our fighting team won't be here any more in this stadium. It's tough. It's really tough."
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Brazil has begun three days of official mourning, while minute silences have been held at football grounds around the world.
Brazilians doctors have already flown to Colombia in order to identify the bodies, and arrange for them to be brought home. This could happen in the coming days, as the lack of a fire at the crash site has made retrieving and identifying the bodies of the 71 victims relatively easy, emergency workers say.
The team were due to play in the final of the Copa Sudamericana against the Colombian team Atletico Nacional later on Wednesday.
Atletico Nacional has asked fans instead to come to the stadium dressed in white for a candelit vigil. They have also offered to concede the game to ensure Chapecoense are declared the champions.
In other tributes, Brazilian first division football teams have offered to lend players to Chapecoense free of charge for the 2017 season, and asked the league to protect the club from relegation for the next three years.
Leading footballers, from Barcelona stars Lionel Messi and Neymar, to Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, have also paid tribute to the players.
Alongside the football team, there were also 21 journalists on board the doomed flight - including well-known Brazilian commentator and ex-footballer Mario Sergio Pontes de Paiva.
Three of the six survivors are footballers:
As well as Ms Suarez, flight technician Erwin Tumiri and journalist Rafael Henzel also survived.
Mr Tumiri said he had "followed the safety guidelines".
"Many stood up and started shouting. I put the suitcases between my legs and assumed the brace position".
Chapeco's mayor and the manager's son were among four people who had been on the passenger manifest but did not make the flight. "Only God knows why I ended up staying behind," Mayor Luciano Buligon told Brazil's TV Globo.
Hailing from a small city of less than 200,000 inhabitants, Chapecoense football club had become an unlikely success stories in recent years, reaching Brazil's Serie A in 2014 and beating more established teams.
Last week, it became the first Brazilian team in three years to make it to the final of the Copa Sudamericana, South America's second most important club competition, after beating Argentine side San Lorenzo.
Shortly before boarding the flight in Sao Paulo, Chapecoense manager Cadu Gaucho, 36, appeared in a video posted on the team's Facebook site [in Portuguese] describing the trip to Medellin as "the club's most important to date".
One of the founders of the club, Alvadir Pelisser, told BBC Brasil the tragedy had put an "end to everyone's dream". "We were a family, I'm shocked," he added.


Iraqi forces have paused their advance into Mosul due to poor weather, a month after launching an offensive to retake the city from so-called Islamic State.

A general said clouds were limiting the ability of drones and other aircraft to provide cover, adding that troops would secure areas they had already entered.
IS militants are putting up fierce resistance, using snipers and large numbers of suicide bombers.
A BBC correspondent says that although progress is slow, it is steady.
Mosul, which was captured by IS in June 2014, is the jihadist group's last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
About 50,000 Iraqi security forces personnel, soldiers, police, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen are involved in the offensive.
In the first two weeks of the operation, they advanced rapidly from the east and south-east, seizing outlying towns and villages despite strong resistance.
On 1 November, special forces and army units entered the eastern outskirts of the city at two points and were able to establish footholds there.
Two weeks later, progress towards the centre is slow, reports the BBC's Richard Galpin in Irbil.
IS has not shown any sign of weakening, our correspondent adds, and is using snipers and large numbers of suicide bombers to pin down troops in densely populated areas where manoeuvring armoured vehicles is not easy.
The militants are also reported to be using civilians as human shields.
And forces advancing from the north and south have still not entered the city.
Our correspondent says that unless there is a sudden collapse in the resistance now being put up by IS, the battle for Mosul is likely to continue for weeks.
The UN has warned that in areas retaken by Iraqi forces, civilian infrastructure such as water and power plants, schools and hospitals are damaged and medical services are often unavailable.
Families are going hungry due to lost livelihoods, disrupted food production and supply, and food prices are rising at markets, it said.
Many people are being forced to drink untreated water from wells, while children are going unvaccinated and are unable to go to school.
Almost 59,000 people have been displaced by the fighting, about 26,000 of them children. More than 40,000 have found shelter in formal camps, while 13,000 others have been taken in by host communities or are living in public facilities.
As many as one million people could be at risk in the combat zone itself.


Hamilton Accies manager Martin Canning conceded that the 1-0 win over Inverness CT was a "huge result" in their fight to stay in the Premiership.

Victory moved Accies five points clear of Kilmarnock who occupy 11th place with just eight games remaining.
"Today we've got three points which is a huge three points," said Canning.
"When you start looking to see how many points ahead you are, you start taking your eye off the most important thing which is the 90-minute performance."
It was Hamilton's first win in their last five league games and was timely with Kilmarnock losing against Aberdeen.
"We're fully focused on trying to win as many games as possible and whatever will be will be," continued Canning.
"At this stage of the season it's about points and performances kind of go out of the window.
"Inverness obviously put us under a lot of pressure. Defensively I thought we were reasonably solid. We changed the shape and went to five at the back to give us the extra man there.
"I don't think Michael McGovern has had many saves to make albeit we've been put under a lot of pressure, which means the guys in front of him have been doing their job."
Inverness CT manager John Hughes admitted a top-six finish may be beyond his side with them now five points adrift of sixth place.
Hughes told BBC Scotland: "We need to get back winning games.
"I trust these boys. We've had some strong characters missing.
"The same guys are going back to the well all the time. We need two or three back to take the weight off them."
Hughes felt his side were second best initially but came into the game strongly as time wore on with luck eluding his side when it counted.
He said: "I felt Hamilton maybe shaded it in the first 20 minutes. We had good strikes but you need to work the goalkeeper. Over the bar doesn't score you a goal.
"Second half it was all Inverness and they break on us and the ball ends up in the bottom corner in off the post.
"That's where were at right at this moment in time - us not getting the rub of the green."


Salford Red Devils still have money available in their salary cap to bring in players, says head coach Ian Watson.

The Super League side brought in Josh Jones last week after the centre was released from his short stint in rugby union with Exeter Chiefs.
Jones, 22, became the 10th new signing ahead of the upcoming season.
"Tim Sheens (director of rugby) was always keen on keeping something in the background, keeping your powder dry as he calls it," said Watson.
The 39-year-old told BBC Radio Manchester: "Obviously you like to have your squad in place, but it was also making sure we didn't panic and rush into it.
"We got what we needed to get in. From there we can pick if something becomes available, and luckily for us Josh has become available and we've been able to move on that.
"I believe we still have room in the cap if the situation arrives again now."
One of Salford's new arrivals is half-back Robert Lui, who has joined from NRL premiership winners North Queensland Cowboys on a one-year contract.
Asked what the biggest change has been since his move to England from Australia, Lui said: "To be honest, it's just catching the footy.
"When you're training it's real cold - your hands freeze. When I first came over the first two or three weeks were tough.
"I'm not going to say I'm used to it, it froze over on the weekend when I was playing, but I try not to think about that as this is what I sign up for."


Ross County striker Alex Schalk has signed a new deal to remain with the club next season.

The 23-year-old Dutchman arrived in Dingwall in October following his release from Go Ahead Eagles.
The former Netherlands U21 international has scored eight goals, including a last-minute winner in the League Cup final.
"We're delighted to get that over the line," County manager Jim McIntyre told BBC Scotland.
"Alex has done fantastically well since he's come to the club.
"He realises this has been good for him as well as it has for us. He's at a place where he feels he can grow and keep get better.
"He's got a coaching staff that really believes in him, a good group of team mates as well and he's happy within the club."
Contract talks lasted a number of weeks with County able to secure a deal, despite reported interest in the player from other clubs.
"There's always speculation when players are scoring goals, especially when he scores a winner in a cup final," added McIntyre.
"He had every right just to wait and see what offers were on the table. We just showed how much we wanted him here and we convinced him that this is the right place for him to be for the next year or so."
Schalk's retention is another example of McIntyre completing business early in advance of next season, as he did last term when recruiting a host of new players in an overhaul of the squad.
The former Dunfermline and Queen of the South manager concedes that there will be less activity over the summer.
"It'll certainly be a lot different than what it was last season when I was chasing umpteen players," he said.
"We've got a far more settled squad. There'll be additions but they won't be wholesale."
After achieving County's first major trophy in the League Cup and earning a top six place this term, McIntyre admitted his delight at being one of the nominees for PFA Scotland's Manager of the Year, to be announced on Sunday evening.
"Obviously, I'm very honoured that I've been nominated and it's just a reflection on how well everybody's done at the club," he said.
"There's some fantastic nominees and also ones that haven't been nominated have had great seasons also so I feel very privileged."


A man has spoken of the "total weirdness" of encountering his doppelganger on a flight.

Neil Thomas Douglas boarded a flight on Thursday night and came face-to-face with his lookalike.
Mr Douglas, a photographer from Glasgow, said: "Everyone around us had a laugh, we took a selfie and that was it."
The selfie was posted on Twitter and has been retweeted thousands of times.
The photographer explained that when he boarded the Ryanair flight to Galway via London Stansted there was already someone sitting in his seat.
He said: "There was a dude already on my seat. When the guy looked up, I thought: 'He looks like me'."
But the pair were later to encounter a further coincidence when they checked into the same hotel in Galway.
Mr Douglas added: "Later that night, I went to the pub and again, there was my twin. Total weirdness. We had a laugh and a pint."
The selfie was posted on Twitter by Lee Beattie, director of Wire Media, who wrote: "Guy on right is the husband of my friend. Guy on left is a STRANGER he met on a flight last night!"


Somerset gave their hopes of avoiding relegation a major boost by denting Middlesex's title ambitions with an emphatic innings victory at Lord's.

Seamer Lewis Gregory took a career-best 5-38 as the home side were all out for 164 soon after lunch on day three to lose by an innings and 179 runs.
Somerset skipper Marcus Trescothick held five catches in the innings.
Neil Dexter top scored for Middlesex with 35 not out as they only managed to add 112 to their overnight 52-2.
It was another undistinguished batting effort by the home side, who only mustered 106 in their first innings, having begun the match in third place, 31 points adrift of leaders Yorkshire and 5.5 behind Durham in second.
Sam Robson was first to go, caught by Trescothick at slip off Gregory for 29, but it was the loss of four more wickets for 31 runs, which saw them slump to 116-7 that really ended their hopes of taking the game into the final day.
John Simpson could at least consider himself unlucky when Dexter's firm drive was deflected into the stumps by bowler Craig Meschede and he was run out backing up.
Dexter and James Harris managed to see Middlesex to lunch, but Harris (22) gave a return catch to Gregory, who finished things off by having Tim Murtagh caught and Ravi Patel lbw in his next over.
It was only Somerset's second win in the Championship this summer, their first since beating Derbyshire in June - and their first at the home of cricket for 30 years.
Middlesex director of cricket Angus Fraser:
"It's very upsetting for everyone. We didn't play very well against Derbyshire last week - but to be bowled out twice in a day, in reality in 90 overs on a good pitch, is unacceptable.
"The players know that and the challenge is to ensure it doesn't happen again and that we put in a much better performance next week against Surrey at the Oval.
"It's hard to take as you try to work out what's going on, obviously there's been some poor strokeplay by a number of batsman."
BBC Somerset's Anthony Gibson:
"A fast yorker from Lewis Gregory which scattered Ravi Patel's stumps provided an appropriately emphatic conclusion to a Somerset victory which was as crushing as it was unexpected.
"Skipper Marcus Trescothick couldn't put his finger on the magic ingredient afterwards, but whatever it was, abject Middlesex could certainly do with some of it."
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