progressed to the play—off final, after a 1—1 draw with dundee united. livingstone took the lead through alan lithgow before dundee equalised. but livingstone held on to seal a 4—3 aggregate win. they will face either partick thistle or ross county in the playoff final. let's have a quick look some of today's other sports stories. juventus‘ goalkeeper gianluigi buffon has been charged by uefa over comments he made about the referee after juve‘s champions league defeat to real madrid. buffon was sent off for dissent after michael oliver awarded real a late penalty, which they scored to progress 4—3 on aggregate. it was an eventful start to formula 1 practice ahead of the spanish grand prix. there were some high profile spins including red bull's max verstappen. his teammate daniel ricciardo came in second to mercedes‘ lewis hamilton who finished quickest in second practice. britain's simon yates retained the overall lead at the giro d'italia — with ireland's sam bennett claiming a maiden stage victory. second tier leigh have knocked out super league salford from the challenge cup. the promotion challenging

centurions claimed a 22—10 sixth—round victory at the sports village. the win extended the home sides winning run to 10 matches. today was meant to be a historic one for irish cricket but the rain in dublin had other ideas — delaying the start of their first ever test match. ireland are hosting pakistan at malahide cricket club — the match will make them the 11th nation to play the longest format of the game. but heavy overnight showers with further rain on friday have pushed back the start to tomorrow. seth bennett was there for us. ireland's wait to play test cricket will continue after the weather in dublin proves too poorfor them to bowl that historic first ball. frustration as the rain and wind whipped across this ground at malahide, leaving the ground staff working overtime to try to get any kind of underfoot preparations so the players would be able to get

out on the field. frustration then for all involved, ifiilgfiifig iii? ifiiéf §§§§e§i§§ of cricket ireland. there was a sense of disappointment, but if it was a one—day game it would probably be more disappointing as there is no chance to come back tomorrow. as it is there are still four days left in the game so we have an opportunity to get some very meaningful test cricket. so, yes, really looking on the bright side, glass half full, but that is how we genuinely feel. we would have loved to get the game started today but obviously we couldn't and no point morning now. having to get everyone their money back was something unfortunately we couldn't get complete insurance for but we have to suck it up and get on with it, no point moaning about it.

like everybody else, he will be waiting with baited breath and hoping they finally will get some play here tomorrow on the second day of this first test match against pakistan. conditions not great, but the forecast is much better going forward and tomorrow that historic moment for irish cricket will take place here, at malahide. now, a premier league footballer will, on average, run more than 6 and a half miles during a game. if even the thought of that leaves you exhausted, there may be a new sport to try. walking football was created to help people with mobility and other health issues get active. on sunday the first ever international match will take place — when england take on italy, in brighton. phil mackie joined the over 60s squad training session. there are some old legs out there, but some young hearts too. walking football only began seven years ago. the idea is to provide a sport for people who struggle with mobility and to get older players back into the game. everyone laughs about walking football. come and play and know what it is really like.

everyone makes good friends. and you play with people younger than us, to up to about 80, and it is a great way for them to get out and meet people and be part of the community. and it is a community. it's that good. this is the england over 60s squad, and if you think he looks familiar you might know his older brothers, bobby and jack. to get onto a proper pitch, play with decent players. to be able to hit the ball into the back of the net, oh, the opportunity to do that, surely there isn't anybody in the world who doesn't want to do that. the first ever international walking football match will take place on sunday, and this is the man in charge of england. must be quite nice to say you are the england manager. i can't get used to it,

that of a dream, bit surreal really, but lovely to be able to see it. huge honour. some of these guys played at a reasonably high standard when they were younger. others didn't, but it is a fantastic opportunity for all of them, a dream come true. if you are in your 60s and you finally get to put on an england shirt. how many people over 60 can say, i play for england. it's just out of this world. i'm not an emotional man but when you get past 35, 40, your football career is over, it's gone. but i'm here with all these posh blokes, and they can all play football, and i'm not really outclassed, so how good is that? everyone here wants a place in the team. butjust getting this far has been a victory. phil mackie, bbc news, solihull. now before we leave you tonight, have a look at this. not content with breaking records all over the place in the premier league, manchester city have gone after world records. goalkeeper ederson has been renouned for his exceptionally long

kicks this season so the club got the guinness world records down to the etihad campus to see if he could get his own personal record. the target to beat was 75 metres. did he do it? of course he did! 75 metres 35 centimetres to be precise. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more sport throughout the weekend. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with me are nigel nelson, who's the political editor of both the sunday mirror and sunday people, and the political commentator, jo phillips. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the financial times reports a us private equity giant is entering the social housing market, provoking fears from national housing associations that they will be outbid. neil kinnock warnsjeremy corbyn in the independent he'll commit a "serious evasion of duty" if he does not back plans to keep britain in the single market. the daily mail shows pupils at st luke's primary school in east londonjoining the newspaper's sponsored litter pick up yesterday. the daily mirror focuses on prince philip and the queen's 70 year marriage ahead of the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle next week. "betrayal" says the daily express, referring to british soldiers who face investigation for their role in northern ireland over a0 years ago.

the telegraph says the head of the nhs has warned hospital shops to reduce their prices, after a tube of toothpaste was found to cost £8. the times leads with the warning from a united nations expert that theresa may's immigration policies may have made britain a more racist country. and the guardian leads with the same story. we can go to nigel and jo, beginning with the telegraph, hmrc says customs pine is not viable. notjust borisjohnson who thinks the customs partnership is crazy ——

borisjohnson who thinks the customs partnership is crazy -- customs plan. the taxman does as well, the trouble is europe has said no to both brands which are on the table. we are still in this strange situation of arguing amongst ourselves and what the eu says is both are not workable and when you start delving into them, the customs partnership, that means collecting duties on behalf of the eu and some rather complex method of refunding goods which are for british consumption, then you have the other option which seems to be untested technology and at the moment you can see why the eu is worried, that neither of these things look as if they are going to work. but it looks like the tech option is going to be the winner because most of the brexiteers in cabinet say that is the best on offer. another damning

indictment of the chaos that seems to be all around about brexit. hmrc, this is not an official report, somebody said to the telegraph... but also, john major, in his first intervention over the customs arrangements said neither option would work and that a customs union was the only option to solve the ireland border problem because that will cause more problems further down the road. theresa may has split her cabinet almost like it's in a playground, she has set them the task, two groups, to figure out a way forward and that illustrates that she has got to sort this out within her own party and cabinet first and then within her own party before she starts to go shading some sort of consensus with them and the other eu 27 —— to go negotiating.“

you are going to call a referendum, you are going to call a referendum, you might have had a plan about what the outcome would be, but to walk away and leave this mess... theresa may has not got the strength, the majority to bang heads together, to use majority to bang heads together, to use the playground and allergy and it seems like we're not getting anywhere. —— it seems like we're not getting anywhere. — — playground it seems like we're not getting anywhere. —— playground analogy.“ is rather like school, they have been lined up in the playground, you have got two who like what ever planned they are discussing and one who doesn't, and i was told by someone who doesn't, and i was told by someone in number ten that this is stress testing the options but we are back to the same problems, if neither of these are really on the table, we are rather wasting our time. jo is right, if you consult the irish border, brexit falls into place —— if you can solve. until you can do that, there's a problem. the

max option is most likely to give less friction on the border but it won't give a frictionless border. meanwhile you have businesses wanting to know where they stand. this is fine politically, we can waffle on, but if you are running a business and trying to think about your forward plan, how can you possibly work on in this? we have nine months and we are out, we are still no further forward, it seems. nine months until we had to be thinking, the door is right there, we are about to walk out. —— have to be thinking. theresa may has been successful in keeping her party united considering what is at stake and the deep divisions within the party but she can't continue this delaying of the decision—making and we have got the summit next month. absolutely. she hasn't got the strength because she hasn't got the

authority through a majority to impose her will upon people. there is still the same siren voices expecting us to go, that's it, we are out of europe and we can go back to the 1950s. you are suggesting neither of these options are going to work? some say they are both still on the table. maybe a third way is coming through? if there is a third way, that is back to a customs union. that is what i think we could end up with finally, but how that will work i don't know. we can't be a member of the customs union otherwise we haven't left the eu, but the irish border has got to be sorted out, it has got to be as open as it is now, and the only way i can see you can do that asjohn major has said is to have a customs union. now to the independent paper,

sticking with brexit. neil kinnock attacks jeremy corbyn‘s leftist illusion on brexit. neil kinnock has warned jeremy corbyn he is going to make a dereliction of duty. that is all we know about jeremy corbyn's views on brexit. that is very true. pretty accurate. neil kinnock has said, the part jeremy pretty accurate. neil kinnock has said, the partjeremy corbyn is going to expose, working people, it is opposed to protect from the rock slide of hard brexit, and he has dismissed jeremy corbyn's claims that the single market would restrict the uk's ability to intervene ina restrict the uk's ability to intervene in a british industry as being part of an infantile leftist illusion which i think is more damning thana

illusion which i think is more damning than a of duty. —— serious invasion of duty. lord kinnock says, whether you think this is a veiled incitement for mps to rebel, that loyalty is a virtue that in excess fills graveyards, but there hasn't beena fills graveyards, but there hasn't been a lot of rebellion. a lot of, we are not very happy, but we're not going to do it anything about it. the clinic takes a long holiday from politics and then he pops back and throws a bombshell into the labour party —— neil kinnock takes a long holiday. it is a bit like john major, we need these people, john major, we need these people, john major went through the maastricht treaty and he knows what he's talking about an neil kinnock knows about the problems of the labour party. there was the norway option which was back on the table in the referendum