On the training pitches of Clayton Wood some nine years ago, there would be the sight of a Spanish striker putting in extra sessions of finishing after other Stoke City players had gone in for lunch. Joselu, their £5.75 million signing from Hannover 96, could not get in the team but as one team-mate says “he was happy to be a footballer”.
Jürgen Klopp’s farewell party will attract a gallery of Liverpudlian celebrities as the club prepares for a memorable send-off after a glorious nine-year reign.
Billy Vunipola has been given a formal warning by the Rugby Football Union after he was tasered and arrested in Majorca at the end of April.