England's Danny Welbeck puts 'no limits' on his improvement

Euro 2012 Group G qualifier: Montenegro v England

• Venue: City Stadium, Podgorica
• Date: Friday, 7 October
• Kick-off: 2000 BST
• Coverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live and online; text commentary on BBC Sport website and mobiles; watch live on Sky Sports 1

No 'club hatred' in England camp - Welbeck

Manchester United's Danny Welbeck insists he is putting "no limits" on his progress as he joined the England squad for their decisive Euro 2012 qualifier in Montenegro.

Welbeck has flourished after returning to Old Trafford from a loan spell at Sunderland last season, scoring five goals as United stand at the top of the Premier League table.
The 20-year-old striker is an outsider for selection in Podgorica, with England requiring a point from Friday's meeting with Montenegro to confirm their place in Poland and Ukraine next summer.
England coach Fabio Capello is, however, a confirmed admirer and Welbeck wants to build on the good impression he has created for club and country.
He said: "I just want to keep on improving because there is no limits. When I went on loan to Sunderland, just getting minutes in the Premier League and playing week in week out with the big boys was a really big step for me and I loved my time there."

Welbeck added: "You don't want to put a limit on anything. You don't want to be happy with where you're at. The main ones like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo score goals, break records and carry on breaking them. They don't want to stop.
"I just want to keep on improving. I'm only 20 years of age, so playing week in week out with these players at United and coming here to train with the best players in the nation is just a big buzz and I don't want to stop there.
"I'm confident in my own ability and once I get on the pitch I feel at home. I've always been brought up to play the game and not the occasion. At Manchester United they've always drilled that into us. You've got to win but win and enjoy yourself as well.
"That mentality about not getting over-awed by anything has just been drilled into me."
Welbeck looks to United team-mate Wayne Rooney, with him in the England squad, for guidance and also to Old Trafford's elder statesman Michael Owen and Ryan Giggs.

 
Welbeck has found the net five times this season for Manchester United 
 
He said: "Growing up I just always loved Ryan Giggs and fortunately I have had the chance to be playing with him. He's my role model but there are players you look at and you take positives from their game and try and put it into yours. I really loved watching Thierry Henry - although not against United.
"I didn't think I would play with Ryan Giggs but I was alongside him in attack against Basel last week and the way he's going he might still be playing when I've finished."
And Welbeck said: "Wayne Rooney is a great professional, good for giving advice on and off the pitch. He talks you through games and training as well. I'm pleased to be playing with any striker at United and I hope it's likewise.
"Michael Owen is good for giving advice as are all the professionals. I'm learning from the best. Michael terrorised the world stage with England at a young age and Wayne Rooney is one of the best footballer's in the world.
"They are so easy to talk to. I'm always watching them in training and how they act around the dressing room and in their circle."

Everton to take 'firm action' against fans who threw missiles

 

Missiles appeared to be hurled at Carroll as he celebrated his opening goal 

 

Everton have vowed to take "firm action" against any fan found guilty of throwing missiles at Liverpool players in Saturday's Merseyside derby.

Objects appeared to be thrown from the crowd at Andy Carroll, Craig Bellamy and Luis Suarez in the second half.
"This behaviour is totally unacceptable and will be rightly condemned by all right-thinking Evertonians," said director of communications Ian Ross.
Everton are working with police to examine video footage of the match.
The Football Association are waiting for referee Martin Atkinson's official match report before deciding on what action they will take.

If we can identify any supporter who threw anything - and we mean anything - on to the pitch on Saturday we will take immediate firm and far-reaching action.

Ian Ross Everton director of communications

 

Everton had midfielder Jack Rodwell controversially sent off - a decision they have appealed against - before Liverpool won the 216th Merseyside derby 2-0 with goals from Andy Carroll and Suarez.
Items including plastic bottles and what is thought to have been a coin were hurled onto the pitch during the closing minutes of the game.
Mr Ross added: "We are fully aware of the incidents which occurred during Saturday's derby game.
"We are currently working with Merseyside Police on collating and analysing all available CCTV footage of the incidents.
"If we can identify any supporter who threw anything - and we mean anything - on to the pitch on Saturday we will take immediate firm and far-reaching action."

Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle

 
Ba made it four goals in two games for Newcastle 
 

Newcastle made it their best start to a season in 17 years with victory over Wolves at Molineux.

Demba Ba scored his fourth goal in two games when he headed in Yohan Cabaye's corner at the near post.
Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.

Poor decisions cost us - McCarthy

Steven Fletcher headed in for Wolves late on, who were denied a penalty and what appeared to be a legitimate equaliser in stoppage time.
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy will rightly be aggrieved by those two decisions.
The first was made by referee Mark Halsey who judged Steven Taylor's foul on Jamie O'Hara to have been outside the area when it was inside, and the second was made by the assistant referee who deemed Adam Hammill's cross to have gone behind before it was headed back for Kevin Doyle to net.
McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.
In contrast, the Newcastle juggernaut rolls on.

DID YOU KNOW?

• Newcastle are unbeaten in their last 10 PL games. The previous time they went 10 games unbeaten in the top flight was August 1997.

The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.
Another surprise is that Newcastle have the meanest defence in all four leagues and they did their utmost to preserve the tag at Molineux.
Young Dutch keeper Tim Krul saw his value rocket up with a sensational display.
He dived low to stop O'Hara's free-kick from swinging in before twice saving from Doyle. But his Hollywood moment came in the second half when his double save denied Fletcher and Hammill.
For all of Newcastle's braveheart efforts, Wolves were also guilty of profligacy with Fletcher and Doyle wasting chances when in good positions.
The visitors attacking unit played their part too.

Newcastle were lucky admits Pardew

They looked pacy and powerful in attack and opened the scoring when Ba scored his fourth goal in two games when he headed in Cabaye's corner from the left.
Newcastle extended their advantage seven minutes before half-time when Gutierrez went on a mazy run before slotting in.
Minutes later Wolves were denied a penalty which could have brought them back into the game.
Fletcher did give his side hope with three minutes remaining when he scored from Hammill's cross, but another dubious decision denied them a deserved equaliser.
It was Hammill again who swung the ball to the far post which was nodded back by Matt Jarvis for Doyle to covert. The Wolves players ran away to celebrate only for the party to be halted by the assistant's flag.
Wolves manager Mick McCarthy:
"Bad decisions have cost us, but poor defending has cost us first and foremost.
"When you're having a tough time you need the right decisions to go your way. It doesn't help our cause does it?
"We were wasteful in front of goal and had enough chances in the second half to win the game."
On the decision not to award a penalty: "I spoke to Mark [referee Halsey] and he said he didn't want to guess. It didn't require a guess because it was in the area.
"I could just point fingers at everyone else but we conceded poor goals."
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew:
"We were lucky today. Wolves were very, very good and off the back of two home defeats they weren't going to give in.
"Perhaps deserved a point at the very least. In the first half we showed we had quality in this team and in the second half we showed we had the spirit to hang on.
"We've been better than that and controlled the game much better in other matches. Today we had good fortune and did play well at times."

Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool

 
Jubilant Liverpool players congratulate Andy Carroll (second right) after the opening goal 
 

Liverpool's £58m strikeforce of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scored the goals that settled the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park - but Everton were left complaining bitterly about Jack Rodwell's controversial early red card.

Rodwell was sent off by referee Martin Atkinson - who has shown 15 red cards since the start of last season - after 23 minutes for what appeared to be a legitimate challenge on Suarez.
Everton had started well but were then forced to mount a rearguard action with 10 men following Rodwell's dismissal.
The hosts survived when goalkeeper Tim Howard saved Dirk Kuyt's penalty late in the first half after Phil Jagielka felled Suarez.

 

Rodwell red card was wrong - Moyes

But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.
And Suarez took advantage of a misunderstanding between Leighton Baines and Sylvain Distin to add a second with eight minutes left.
Everton boss David Moyes will be frustrated at the turn of events that halted his side's early momentum - but counterpart Kenny Dalglish will happily take victory on his return to Goodison Park as Liverpool manager, the place where his first spell in charge ended more than 20 years ago.
Tim Cahill was fit for Everton after suffering a shin injury at Manchester City last week - and his value was illustrated as he was swiftly into his stride and unsettling the Liverpool defence.
It was Suarez, however, who had the first chance. Jagielka's sliced clearance found Kuyt, but Suarez could only head his cross tamely into the arms of Howard.

Merseyside derby red cards

• 1 October 2011 - Jack Rodwell
• 6 February 2010 - Sotiros Kyrgiakos & Steven Pienaar
• 4 February 2009 - Lucas
• 27 September 2008 - Tim Cahill
• 20 October 2007 - Tony Hibbert & Phil Neville
• 25 March 2006 - Steven Gerrard & Andy van der Meyde
• 28 December 2005 - Phil Neville & Mikel Arteta
• 20 March 2005 - Milan Baros
• 19 April 2003 - David Weir & Gary Naysmith
• 16 April 2001 - Igor Biscan
• 29 October 2000 - Thomas Gravesen
• 27 September 1999 - Sander Westerveld, Francis Jeffers & Steven Gerrard

As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.
Everton defender Distin then demonstrated neat footwork to evade a succession of challenges inside the area before sending a rising, angled effort narrowly off target.
The game was engulfed in controversy when Rodwell appeared to win the ball cleanly in a midfield challenge with Suarez. The tackle drew an angry response from Liverpool's players- Lucas in particular as Suarez writhed in agony - but it was an obvious injustice when the England Under-21 midfielder was shown the red card.
As half-time approached with Everton desperate to get into the dressing room and regroup, Liverpool were awarded a penalty for Jagielka's rash challenge on Suarez. This time there was no disputing Atkinson's decision, but Howard rescued Everton by diving low to his left to keep out Kuyt's spot-kick.
At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.

Dalglish didn't see Rodwell red card

Little had been seen of £35m man Carroll until just after the restart when he twice rose powerfully to meet corners, forcing Louis Saha to clear acrobatically off the line and Howard to save low at his post.
Saha had been in lively mood after he was restored to the side and gave Reina an anxious moment with a low effort from distance that flashed just wide.
It was the signal for Dalglish to contemplate changes and they came after 66 minutes when Adam and the subdued Stewart Downing were replaced by Steven Gerrard and Craig Bellamy.
Liverpool had hardly been placing Everton under relentless pressure, but they finally forced their way through with 20 minutes left. Bellamy played in Jose Enrique, and when Kuyt ducked under his cross Carroll forced home from eight yards.
Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.
The striker's celebrations in front of the Gwladys Street end were interrupted by a number of bottles being thrown on to the pitch but Liverpool remained in command to collect three points in comfort, with Kuyt striking the woodwork in the closing seconds.

Norwich City striker James Vaughan out for months with knee injury

 

Vaughan's three appearances for Norwich have all come from the bench 

 

Norwich City manager Paul Lambert says striker James Vaughan will be out for "three or four" months after suffering a knee injury.

The 23-year-old hobbled out of Monday's 2-1 win over Sunderland, just 10 minutes after coming off the bench.
"He's going to be out for about 16 weeks or so, it's a blow for him and us," Lambert told BBC Radio Norfolk.
The Scot also confirmed midfielder Korey Smith will be out until next year with an ankle injury.

VAUGHAN IN THE WARS

• September 2005: Operation to fix knee ligament injury while at Everton
• April 2007: Suffers severed artery in leg
• August 2007: Dislocates shoulder
• March 2008: Undergoes knee surgery
• November 2008: Has more work done on troublesome knee
• October 2009: Loan spell at Derby cut short by injury
• May 2011: Ruled out of the start of Norwich's season with knee injury
• September 2011: Receives plastic surgery on cut lip
• September 2011: Has another knee injury after hobbling out win over Sunderland

Meanwhile, defender Zak Whitbread will not recover from a hamstring problem in time to feature at Manchester United on Saturday.
Vaughan, who has made three appearances for Norwich since joining from Everton in May, said on social networking site Twitter: "So not good news on my knee, I will be out for a few months!
"I'm absolutely gutted but I will work hard and make sure I come back stronger!"
Lambert added: "He had an operation the other day, his meniscus [cartilage in the knee] has been repaired.
"He was shattered the other night and you can understand why, because he battled really hard to come back and every injury he's getting seems to be a long one."
Injuries blighted Vaughan's time at Goodison Park, restricting him to only eight Premier League starts in six years.
He was forced to miss the start of the current campaign with a separate knee injury and has had three previous operations across both of the joints.

Dalglish returns to where he left off

The last time Kenny Dalglish stood in the Goodison Park dugout as Liverpool manager, he knew he was only days away from leaving a job that would ultimately take 20 years to get back.
Dalglish watched impassively as Liverpool carelessly cast aside the lead four times to draw in an FA Cup fifth-round replay at Everton that has taken its place in Merseyside derby folklore for events on and off the pitch.
It was Wednesday, 20 February 1991. Dalglish had already made up his mind to quit and events at Goodison Park - where he later admitted his trademark decisiveness deserted him during the game - only confirmed the decision in his own mind.
The next morning, broken by the pressures of an entire career spent dealing with the stresses of football at elite levels with Celtic and Liverpool - and the burden of guiding the Anfield club through the tragedy of Hillsborough and its emotional aftermath - he informed then chairman Noel White and chief executive Peter Robinson of his decision to resign.
Dalglish confirmed his departure at a press conference on the Friday morning and it appeared an iconic Liverpool figure had concluded his career at the club where he won eight league titles as player and manager, claimed the European Cup three times and won the Double in his first season as player-manager.

Kenny Dalglish will return to where his first spell at Liverpool ended.

On Saturday, refreshed, rejuvenated and leading the club into a new era of optimism under the ownership of Fenway Sports Group with a squad he has expensively restructured, Dalglish returns to the place where his first spell at Liverpool ended.
Dalglish's delight at being back at the helm since succeeding Roy Hodgson is rarely disguised but it would be no surprise if his mind drifts back a couple of decades when he walks up the tunnel at Goodison Park.
He has been back to Everton as manager with Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United of course but Merseyside derbies are different and Dalglish's story within the fixture provides an historical context.
Jan Molby played in that fateful game. Indeed Dalglish later confessed his hesitation about whether to move the Dane back from midfield into defence that night helped to confirm his decision to leave.
Molby recalls: "The build-up to the game was normal. We spent our time in our hotel and there was no suggestion Kenny was considering his future.
"It was a crazy game and we couldn't believe how we didn't win it. We gave away some terrible goals and, when we got back to the dressing room, there was an altercation between [goalkeeper] Bruce Grobbelaar and [coach] Ronnie Moran over one of them.
"Kenny didn't get involved but he rarely did over things like that. He was very quiet but you assumed that it was just disappointment at drawing a game we should have won, not any indication there was something wrong.
"We had a day off on the Thursday and I remember we arrived at Anfield on the Friday as we were leaving early to train on Luton's plastic pitch. The whole place was alive with activity and the girl on the reception said she thought we were about to announce a major signing.
"When it became clear Kenny Dalglish was resigning it was total shock and disbelief around the whole club. The players were stunned, the whole club was in shock.
"If we had been told John Barnes had been sold we could have taken that in because that's football but Kenny leaving Liverpool was something else altogether. He was one of the greatest figures in the club's history and was in charge of a team at the top of the league and in the FA Cup. Nothing was broken.
"When the full reasons came out we totally understood. If he was not well he needed time to recover and he felt the best way to do that was to leave management - absolutely the right decision in his own best interests. He had made so many decisions in Liverpool's best interests that he was right to make one in his own if he was concerned about his health."
Even now, the day Dalglish left is remembered as if it was only an instant ago by those of us covering Merseyside football at the time.
As a reporter on the local morning newspaper, I recall taking a phone call from chief executive Robinson, the great Liverpool administrator, summoning us to Anfield with the words: "I know you joke about holding the back page but this time you should hold the front as well. It's quite sensational."
Dalglish, full of emotion at leaving the club he and his family grew to be an integral part of, made his announcement in Anfield's Bob Paisley Suite before driving his white Mercedes out of The Shankly Gates. It seemed he was now as much a part of Liverpool's past as his legendary predecessors.
Now he is back and attempting to write another chapter in his Liverpool story but, even in the sadness of his departure on that Friday, he was still keen to jealously guard the club's reputation.
Hearing on the Merseyside rumour mill - always fertile ground for gross misinformation - that he had actually left after a row with Liverpool's hierarchy, another more surprising call came into the newspaper office early on that Friday evening.

It was Dalglish, sounding relaxed, to tell me that the reasons he had cited for leaving, the increasing pressure that was starting to impact on his health, was simply the truth of the matter. And so it was. There was never a hidden agenda, no secret story that has never been told - there never was.
Molby says: "It was one of the most incredible, memorable days of my career and I am sure he will have a little think when he takes his place in the dugout at Goodison Park because I suppose he might have thought that [it] was the place where his career might be ending.
"If Kenny felt he had to walk away from a club he loved so much, then I suppose he must have wondered if he would come back anywhere else, which he then did so successfully at Blackburn."
Moments of black humour did emerge from the uncertainty - including one involving Dalglish's great friend, double-winning Liverpool captain and now Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen.
Molby says: "A couple of weeks later Alan Hansen came in and told us all he had been appointed player-manager. He told us we would now train on Sundays, we would go through videos time and again after games to see where we were going wrong, told us he was taking the captaincy off Glenn Hysen and giving it to Steve Nicol and that he knew every pub we drank in on the Wirral and in Southport and they were now all out of bounds.
"You can imagine the faces of everyone in the dressing room as he walked out. I bet he was listening at the door to hear what we all thought about him, which wouldn't have been nice, and then came back in a bit later to tell us he was actually retiring from the game and would not be involved with the club at all."
Unlike Hansen, Dalglish has returned to Liverpool and any old ghosts that may be lingering at Goodison Park will have been replaced by a fierce determination to give his Anfield story a happy ending.

Tottenham stadium: Club offered White Hart Lane deal

 

White Hart Lane's current capacity is just over 36,000

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has been offered a deal which could save it £17m, if it stays in north London.

The Greater London Authority (GLA) and Haringey Council have offered to relieve the club of all community infrastructure payments that planners would normally require.
The GLA's £8.5m contribution would fund regeneration in the Tottenham area, rather than the stadium itself.
There is consent for a new stadium on the current White Hart Lane site.
GLA funding for regeneration works associated with the project would come from a £50m regeneration fund to improve areas of London affected by the riots.
Haringey Council, meanwhile, has agreed to scale down a list of community projects it wanted Tottenham to contribute to, saving the club a further £8.5m.
'Final offer' Representatives of the GLA and Haringey Council have urged the club to press ahead with its plans for the venue at Northumberland Park.
The package laid out includes improvements to transport links to and from the area at Tottenham Hale and White Hart Lane stations.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "The club knows there is no more money available from the public purse and I sincerely hope that they accept the offer we have made."
Tottenham wants to become the long-term tenant of the Olympic Stadium after next year's Games.
The club mounted a legal challenge against West Ham's winning bid.
'Critically important' It has won the right to a judicial review which is due to be heard on 17 October.
In 2008, the Northumberland Development Project was launched by Spurs to turn White Hart Lane into a 60,000-seat stadium.

However, soaring costs meant the plan, which involved building a new stadium on the current site, was shelved.

Haringey Council leader Claire Kober said: "It is critically important that Spurs commit to Tottenham to help drive forward regeneration in this very deprived area."
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy confirmed that talks had taken place but said it would be "wholly irresponsible" to announce whether it was proceeding without the necessary agreements.
He added: "The overall scheme requires a complex package of financing of which the correct level and nature of public support is critical."
The club said it has already spent £60m on assembling land and £25m on planning, with the Northumberland scheme likely to cost hundreds of millions of pounds once complete.