Chris Gayle's autobiography title hints at his reputation as a womaniser

MLS set to announce David Beckham's Miami franchise as a new team

Pressure on Louis van Gaal will rise if United's silverware hopes evaporate

Club sources insist no decision has been made over picking next manager

Manchester United chiefs are desperate not to make a managerial change

The calls for manager Louis van Gaal to be sacked will reach new levels if Manchester United go out of the FA Cup and the Europa League over the next week.

Yet it is understood the owning Glazer family and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward are desperate not to make a change this season.

Appointing Van Gaal's assistant Ryan Giggs as interim manager is regarded as complicating matters because he is not seen as the next permanent boss.

Louis van Gaal looks set to cling on to his job at Manchester United even if their silverware dreams die

Co-chairman Avram Glazer and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward do not want to sack the manager

Club sources insist no decision has been made over the next manager, despite all the reports linking Jose Mourinho with Old Trafford.

Chelsea's severance terms second time around with Mourinho, who signed a four-year contract last August, have been a matter of much speculation.

But he has been paid off in a way agreeable to both sides — probably around one year's wages of £12m — and has been free since leaving Stamford Bridge to take another job if offered.

United insist no decision has been made on a new manager despite rumours about Jose Mourinho

Major League Soccer are expected to announce soon that David Beckham's Miami franchise will join the competition for the 2018 season as the 24th team.

Beckham's group, after numerous problems finding a suitable location for a stadium, have finally acquired a development site in the Overtown district.

Ambitions are such that Lionel Messi, who has a home in Miami, will be the prime target after the 2018 World Cup.

It's possible that Beckham will use a public poll in Miami to decide the name of the team.

David Beckham's Miami franchise look set to join Major League Soccer as a 24th team in 2018

Chris Gayle is making the most of his reputation as a womanising T20 superstar by calling his autobiography Six Machine.

It will be published in June, when the West Indies batsman will be playing for Somerset.

There's a chapter on the 'don't blush, baby' episode last January when Gayle caused outrage by trying to chat up Australian Mel McLaughlin in the middle of an interview.

The book has been ghosted by BBC sports writer Tom Fordyce.

Chris Gayle's reputation for womanising is hinted at in the title of his autobiography Six Machine

Tottenham's tilt at the Premier League title wasn't helped on Thursday night when the plane taking them home following their Europa League defeat by Borussia Dortmund developed technical problems after the team had boarded.

After a 30-minute wait on the Tarmac, the tired Spurs squad had to disembark and return to their Dortmund hotel for another night.

They eventually flew back on Friday lunchtime and travel north on Saturday to face Aston Villa in the Barclays Premier League on Sunday.

Tottenham's players had to stay in Dortmund on Thursday night after a technical issue with their plane

Cram on Coe's shoulder

Steve Cram is doing a special fly-on-the-wall documentary on the attempts by IAAF president Lord Coe to clean up his rotten sport.

BBC athletics commentator Cram has been shadowing Coe in Monaco for the programme, which is due to be broadcast on March 26 before coverage of Mo Farah running in the World Half Marathon Championships.

Cram is known to have been very critical of BBC colleagues making so much effort to expose corruption in his beloved sport.

He is sure to be as positive as he can be about tarnished track and field recovering its reputation on Coe's watch.

Steve Cram (left) is presenting a fly-on-the-wall documentary, shadowing IAAF president Lord Coe (right)

The Great Manchester Run, an annual 10km event which is the largest of its type in Europe, has led to England having to switch the kick-off time of their friendly against Turkey at the Etihad Stadium on May 22 to 5.30pm.

This means the match will clash with the climax of the FA Trophy final at Wembley, which was the last thing the FA National Game wanted as it deflects from the Trophy and Vase double-header on a specially designated non-League day.

The plan had been for the England match to take place between the Wembley finals.

lThe Great Manchester Run has led to England having to switch their Turkey kick-off time in May

The RFU have been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over plans to cut the size of leagues in lower-tier rugby.

The proposal was narrowly passed at the last council meeting but there was uproar over councillors who had no involvement in administering club games voting in favour to sway the decision.

An email from RFU chairman Bill Beaumont to councillors on Friday said the competition review had been shelved. The two-year shambles is understood to have cost the RFU at least £200,000.