The Fifth Official

Few of us like Monday but The Fifth Official does, for it brings with it a chance for him to point the finger and laugh. Here he pulls out the pretty, the puzzling and the downright pig-ugly from a week brimming with potential victims.

England: Premier League Final Previews, Predictions, Insanity

The Premier League season is set for a spectacular culmination on Sunday afternoon with matters still to be decided at the top and bottom of the table. Manchester City will be looking to stay one step ahead of their illustrious neighbours Manchester United and win their first top flight title in 44 years. Arsenal, Tottenham and Newcastle, meanwhile, are intent on snaring third place and a guaranteed spot in next year's Champions League. Plus, at the bottom of the table, Bolton and QPR are striving to avoid the fate already suffered by Wolves and Blackburn - relegation to the Championship.

Preview

Steve Wilson: All Set For Dramatic Finale

Premier League Spotlight

Team News

Manchester City vs. Queens Park Rangers: Preview

Paul Merson's Predictions

Lawro's Predictions

Premier League final Sunday: 10 matches, 10 issues on the last day

Martin Rogers: Soccer and religion meet on the pitch, where the English Premier League considers a change

English soccer is poised to change one of its oldest traditions following an awkward moment at the end of Manchester City's dramatic victory at Newcastle on Sunday.

Yaya Toure was presented with a ceremonial magnum of champagne for his man-of-the-match performance in the 2-0 triumph that left City just one win away from clinching its first English Premier League title.

Toure, however, refused to accept the bottle and immediately handed it over to teammate Joleon Lescott.

Toure is a devout Muslim who does not drink alcohol.

"I don't drink because I am a Muslim," Toure told Lescott. "So you keep it."

Italy: Nesta to leave AC Milan, ponders move to MLS

Nesta helped Milan to two Serie A titles and two Champions League trophies. The defender also won the World Cup with Italy in 2006.

England: Henry Winter selects his squad for Euro 2012

Henry's Squad

England: Blackpool advances to Championship playoff final

Blackpool will play West Ham on May 19 at Wembley for a spot in the Premier League after tying 2-2 at Birmingham on Wednesday night in the second leg of their League Championship playoff semifinal to advance on 3-2 aggregate.

The Big Interview: John O'Shea

The 31-year-old faces his old club United for the first time on Sunday and is determined to be on the winning side.

Sunderland will not be an easy ride for Manchester United.

UEFA Europa League: Final Reports

Atlético Madrid 3-0 Athletic Bilbao

Mark Lomas at Arena Nationala

Jonathan Wilson at Arena Nationala

Fans clash with police in Madrid

Rewind to 1995

Blackburn are facing a bleak future with relegation confirmed, but back in 1995 they were involved in one of the great days of sporting drama on the final day of the Premiership season - which could be repeated this year as Manchester City and Manchester United are separated by goal difference with one game to play.

Uli Hesse in Germany

Even though the team was not involved in the two issues that were finally resolved on the last matchday of this season, common decency demands we open this report with new - and old - league champions Borussia Dortmund. That's because their 4-0 victory over Freiburg completed a campaign the likes of which the Bundesliga has not seen before.

MLS Week 9 Power Rankings: Sounders surging, Timbers failing

Pacific Northwest rivals continue to head in opposite directions. That and more after a spirited Week 9 in MLS.

Houston Dynamo have a new home as MLS puts down its roots

Houston Dynamo will play its first game in the new BBVA Compass Stadium on Saturday, signalling the end of a journey that has taken in San Jose, a couple of MLS Cups, and a long term rental. It is a sign too of MLS's journey.

UEFA Europa League: Final Previews

Who: Atlético Madrid vs. Athletic Bilbao

When: 2:45pm EDT

Where: National Arena, Bucharest, Romania

U.S. TV: DirecTV

Preview

Preview II

Mark Lomas: Bucharest anticipates Spanish sizzler

Kevin McCarra: Europa League finalists typify a tournament that makes Thursdays fun

England: Tuesday's Premier League Reports

Liverpool 4 - 1 Chelsea

Henry Winter at Anfield

Richard Jolly at Anfield

Andy Hunter at Anfield

Dave Whelan: 'Roberto Martínez would have been brilliant as England manager so why FA overlooked him I do not know'

There is no doubt in my mind that Roberto Martínez is the best manager I’ve worked with. He has done incredible things at Wigan and it’s a good thing nobody at the Football Association has got enough sense to go for the best manager in the Premier League.

John Brewin: This was how it felt to be City

Champions-elect and deservedly so on the balance of the 2011-12 season, Manchester City are footballing proof that "Money Changes Everything", as Wythenshawe Blue Johnny Marr once entitled a Smiths instrumental. Just don't expect everyone to applaud you when big investment finally pays off. City were once admired throughout the country for the loyalty of their fans, and the sharp gallows humour displayed at Maine Road.

Sid Lowe in Spain

Granada's fury at their defeat was inexcusable but the league organisers do not help ease the concerns of suspicious minds.

Granada lose their bottle and respect by pointing finger at referee.

England: Tuesday's Premier League Preview

Liverpool and Chelsea renew their rivalry in the Premier League on Tuesday just three days after contesting the final of the FA Cup.

Euro 2012: Poland's football hooligan fears

Some Wisla fans sang an anti-Semitic song about the supposed Jewish origins of their rivals and when a Cracovia player left the pitch, fans shouted: "To the gas chambers." When the match ended Wisla players went over to their fans to thank them, some of them making obscene chants about Jews. Beforehand, some Cracovia fans made monkey noises at Wisla's Brazilian player, Cleber, when he was sent off.

Juventus revel in redemption after their first Serie A title since 2003

Juventus coach Antonio Conte gestured to his players from the sideline, holding up three fingers of his right hand and two of his left. "It was like a Pope giving a blessing," wrote La Gazzetta dello Sport, describing the moment Conte informed his players that they were all but champions of Italy for the first time in nine years. It signalled that, crucially, Inter had taken a 3-2 lead through Diego Milito's hat-trick in an enthralling Derby della Madonnina against AC Milan. If the scores remained the same, Juve - who were 2-0 up in their match with Cagliari in Trieste - would seal the scudetto with a week to spare. Shortly afterwards, word got round that there had been another goal at San Siro. Juventus fans have cursed Inter's full-back Douglas Maicon in recent years, but not any more. His shot from outside the box, which made it 4-2 to Inter, was not the one famously heard around the world but it did travel from Milan to Trieste in double quick time and the celebrations really got going.