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Alexia Putellas: The stats behind Barcelona star’s UEFA Women’s Player of the Year win

Alexia Putellas has been named the UEFA Women’s Player of the Year for the second season in a row.

The Rock: 10 things you didn't know about the WWE legend

We’re all familiar with The Rock as the most electrifying man in WWE, sports and entertainment, but here are 10 things you might not know about “The Great One.”

The Champions League group stage draw promises to deliver highly predictable drama - The Warm-Up

FRIDAY'S BIG STORIES Group Stage Fun Times Ad The balls are out, the draw has been made, and Europe is ready for 96 games of highly intense group stage action. And if you, like the Warm-Up, are incapable of looking at any arrangement of football teams without suddenly being drowned in narrative, then it's an intoxicating time of the season. TransfersRonaldo dropped by Ten Hag in two-hour team meeting – Paper Round10 HOURS AGO Group A! Sure, Liverpool will probably have sorted themselves out by then, but what if they haven't? Would you like to take a wobbly defence and an absent midfield to the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, to the Johan Cruyff Arena, to the Ally McCoist Thunderbowl? And even if last season's finalists are back to something like competence, the fight for second place should be a fun one.

There’s no excuse for it – Craig Gordon hit by a coin during Hearts defeat

Hearts goalkeeper Craig Gordon expressed annoyance at being struck by an object which appeared to be thrown from the FC Zurich support during Thursday’s Europa League play-off showdown at Tynecastle.