Aston Villa manager, Tim Sherwood, has urged his players to beat the drop - and then nurture a winning mentality. Sherwood believes successive battles with relegation have affected confidence levels.

The biggest names in  British athletics will line up at the Sainsbury’s Birmingham Grand Prix on June 7 when Mo Farah will be joined by the likes of Olympic, European and Commonwealth long jump champion Greg Rutherford and world and former Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu as well as a raft of other British stars.

University of Birmingham Sport (UBSport) will be hosting their International Rules – Gaelic Football v Aussie Rules, to be played on Saturday, June 13.

Kyle Hogg will be holding a special evening to celebrate his career at Emirates Old Trafford after Lancashire Lightning’s first NatWest T20 Blast game this summer.

A 52-strong Great Britain & Northern Ireland under 20 team has been selected to compete at the Loughborough International Athletics (LIA) on Sunday May 17 at the Paula Radcliffe Stadium.

After resuming 107 ahead, at 39-5, at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, England were bowled out for 123, leaving the hosts with a target of 192. At one stage, they were 80-4 before Darren Bravo and Jermaine Blackwood shared 108.