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On Saturday all eyes may be on Wembley and the Champions League Final, but don't forget we've still got nine live CH4 races

Today’s top football news includes the latest on the money circus that is Manchester City.

We’re counting down the days now to the 2013 Champions League Final so what better way to celebrate the fact there are no British teams on display by reminiscing about the days when British teams were good in the Champions League. Err, that would be last year…

It was a great week of golf with Graeme McDowell back on the winner’s circuit after a superb victory in the Volvo World Match Play! He came in at odds of 17/2 so there were a fair few G-Mac backers out there. However across the pond it was finally time for the man, the myth, the legend, Sang Moon Bae romped home to a two shot victory over Keegan Bradley at staggering odds of 150/1!

Will he or won’t he? Could he or couldn’t he? Does he or doesn’t he? It will be a summer shrouded in debate and all sorts of ongoings in the transfer market as a host of players look set to switch allegiances in what should be one of the most action-packed off-seasons for a very long time!

Spurs manager Andre Villas Boas has made a big deal out of Gareth Bale in recent weeks, saying that he was going to use Bale as bait - not literally - to attract big names from around Europe to head to Tottenham. The two spanners in the works were a) Tottenham not qualifying for the Champions League, and b) Bale's miserly wages.

It’s all over for another season, but the Premier League sure did end with a bang on Sunday as a massive 36 goals were scored across all the matches.

It has been another long season but the final day of the football season is here… sob sob.

By now you may or may not have heard about the pig’s head incident at Stoke City on Friday involving Kenwyne Jones, Glenn Whelan and, err, a pig's head. If you are not aware of it, this is what reportedly happened.

Stan: I’m backing the nags today James. I’ve a feeling today could be my day. I’ve got four horses lined up that are going to win me enough money to buy a racehorse of my very own.

James: I can’t imagine you as a racehorse owner Stan. You seem more of a greyhound man to me.

Stan: Dogs, horses, I love them all James. I am an animal lover – and an animal as a lover…

The first Group 1 race of the season in Britain, the Lockinge Stakes, takes place at Newbury today and it really does look a wide-open contest. Could this be the race in which Farhh breaks his Group 1 duck?

To end an already emotional week in football - sexy, tattooed, pants wearing David Beckham has announced that he is retiring from football at the end of the season. 

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

More Controversy For Twitter

With Cavalryman out of the Yorkshire Cup due to the ground, Francois Doumen's Top Trip is the favourite with StanJames.com for the highlight on the final day of the Dante meeting at York.

Libertarian sprang a 33/1 shock in the Dante at York this afternoon with Elaine Burke's charge denting some lofty reputations on the Knavesmire.

The aptly named ‘Believe in me’ is the UK’s Eurovision Song Contest 2013 entry sung by 80’s songstress Bonnie Tyler. It’s aptly named because, well, nobody really does believe in her.

Dalkala is the favourite for the Middleton Stakes at York but StanJames.com are happy to oppose the French raider this afternoon.

Liber Nauticus won the Musidora for Sir Michael Stoute with StanJames.com cutting her to 7/2 for the Oaks at the end of the month.

Ferdinand Is Out Of International Action

This week the Volvo World Match Play Championship gets underway, but not from its usual Finca Cortesin Golf Course in Casares, Southern Spain. This year the tournament will be held in Bulgaria opening up areas of geographical interest for the sponsors businesses.