' miracles here over the years, people will think back to 1981 when famously bob willis skated to england to an unlikely victory, they are going to need something similar now if they are to keep their hopes of regaining the ashes alive. the guys we have selected we believe are good enough to do thejob. and i still selected we believe are good enough to do the job. and i still believe they are from the facts are you only have to look at some of the stats to know they can do better as a group. and that is the challenge for them. and that is the challenge for them. and that is the challenge for them. and that comes around through some guts and skill. 6th february 2016 — a date that might not mean much to you. well that's the last time aston villa won a premier league game. until tonight. following relegation, three years in the championship, and two defeats to start this season, that barren run came to an end against everton. 2—0 the final score. nick parrott reports.

so far this season, aston villa have failed to deliver. this is a plea heard by those watching on tv and the players in the pitch. despite effo rts the players in the pitch. despite efforts in dominating the opening 20 minutes the home side survived a penalty claim before answering the call. wesley became their record signing in the summer, this was the start of his pay backjust a couple of minutes later the brazilian could have got his second for the club. it win for everton would see them lea pfrog win for everton would see them leapfrog local rivals liverpool to go top of the league for the first time in12 go top of the league for the first time in 12 years. but for shots like that and passes like this it did not look likely. manager marco silva with work to do. his tactical changes and substitutions did not pay off, alex had chances on his first appearance since johnny from arsenal but could not make them count. another good fellow substitute theo walcott. and were struck and added time to secure the first point of the season and leave

everton wondering where they went wrong. i hope to continue like this, the last two games for me were very difficult, but now i have to continue like this. i don't only scoring a goal of playing a big part ofa scoring a goal of playing a big part of a lot of hard work is thatjust as important to you as creating goals as well scoring them? of course, have to help my team—mate. tonight i'm very happy. concerning about the goals we did not score, we did not capitalise niches to be created and we should have scored more. we created so many chances to score against palace and did not score. we have to keep working hard to score more goals.

bury football club has told the bbc in the last hour that the club has been sold. for months now, uncertainty has surrounded their future, matches postponed and protests held. now — with the threat of expulsion from the football league looming at midnight — is there some light at the end of the tunnel. bbc radio manchester's mike minay has more on this. mike — you've spoken to steve dale this evening — what has he told you. steve has told me that the club has been sold at the 11th hour, barry of course by midnight was in potential of losing a football the club and the club that is so vital to the community. steve has texted me saying it has been sold and it has been agreed a deal with some any company called at cnn analytics, as headed by henry newman and rory campbell, they are a football analytics company and we know from thatis analytics company and we know from that is that this deal, although agreed in principle, rely solely on

the esl agreeing an extension to the deadline in order to get it done, but at the last minute questions will be asked and so fans will be concerned as to why and how we have got to the stage in a very last—minute barry have been saved two of the important thing tonight asi two of the important thing tonight as i have been confirmed by secondary as i have been confirmed by secondary source as i have been confirmed by secondary source close to the leading party that they have sold the club tonight or lease agreed in principle a deal to sell the football club. just remind us how we got to this stage, and how the clock was allowed to take down as you described, to the 11th hour. so, in principle we started back in december 2018 when steve took control of the club from there he unearthed all these financial difficulties, the club laid with debt and he agreed about the volu nta ry debt and he agreed about the voluntary agreement however they refused to accept that without seeing proof of being sold from steve. he will argue differently that he did try to get the proof of

what was there and they will argue differently. the suspended barry's first six games of the season up to and including this saturday. the pressure was on, they released a deadline saying very phased withdrawal from football league. if this proof of funds or the sale of the club was not agreed at the time tha nkfully the club was not agreed at the time thankfully that deadline was midnightand thankfully that deadline was midnight and from that perspective we have got to 11 o'clock tonight and had the good news from steve and and had the good news from steve and a secondary source to the club has been sold. you have been speaking with fans over the last few weeks about this, how do you think that news is going to be received by them? providing everything goes through, the fans of the relieved andi through, the fans of the relieved and i know at five o'clock this evening the club and the esl saying the deadline still exist by midnight and it would not have a club, they have been gathering outside all day and i'm sure as you have seen the former director of the club chaining

herself to a drain pipe and there has been a coffin outside as well. very frustrating times and very sad times for barry but they have managed now to sell the club and i think fans managed now to sell the club and i thinkfans in managed now to sell the club and i think fans in the morning if they could sleep at all would be very excited when they wake up that there is potential future for the barry football clu b is potential future for the barry football club in the football league. two nil down inside half an hour, greenock morton completed a fine comeback to beat partick thistle in the scottish championship. three goals in eight second half minutes turn the game around, brian mclean's late header won it. manager david hopkin praised their heart and bottle. they climb to second after three games. partick remain winless they here's a few other headlines for you this friday. the scottish rfu have named jim mallinder as their new performance director. the former northampton and sale coach had been in charge of nurturing england's young players through the system for the last year.

mallinder said he was really impressed with the setup in scotland. rangers have been ordered to close part of ibrox for next week's europa league play—off second leg against legia warsaw. uefa has ruled some of their fans were guilty of "racist behaviour" — a charge which incorporates sectarian singing during the europa league first round. the us open has confirmed carlos ramos will not umpire any matches involving serena or venus williams at this year's championships. ramos penalised serena williams a point and then a game for her outburst in last year's final against naomi 0saka. england suffered a humiliating 8—nil defeat to the netherlands in their eurohockey semi final. the world champions were always favourites in antwerp but the manner of england's defeat will raise serious questions just a year out from the olympics — that's if great britain even qualify. david mcdaid was watching if england had hopes of winning this

tournament here for a third time in their history, those hopes were very swiftly extinguished by a very, very good dutch side. three heavens are up good dutch side. three heavens are up at half and very much the pic. the final scrolling could have been even heavier we have let you have further back in the record books to find a defeat as bad as this one. not a good night to be in england player. i was this probably the lowest point in my career so far, tough want to swallow. and my god we have got some work to do as a team. anything that will now test the bronze medal match here on sunday and is the captain says they're going to have to put this defeat tonight behind them pretty quickly. we all know we can do a lot better than that, we have shown against germany that we can. and like i said before there's no we will want to leave here without that, we have got to find something within ourselves andl to find something within ourselves and i believe that we have good a

good performance whether it's against germany or others, that's what we have got to focus on now. the winners of the tournament also qualify their nation for next year's took olympics and with those results mean for both england and's men and women is that they will both have to play a double—header in the autumn to secure great britain's place the next yea r‘s to secure great britain's place the next year's games. standing between holland and an 18th european title are germany. they beat spain thanks to this short corner in the very last minute. that final takes place on sunday. to golf's most lucrative tournament next. the tour championship in atlanta where more than 12 million pounds is available for the winner. even eighth place becomes an instant millionaire. rory mcilroy started the day nine under par. a bogey and a birdie in his front nine has kept him there — only he's now slipped four shots behind the two leaders. justin thomas and brooks koepka head the field although play was suspended about an hour ago due to lightning in atlanta. 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 olivia utley who's deputy editor of the news website the article — and the guardian columnist dawn foster. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. world leaders are to hold emergency talks this weekend on the wildfires engulfing the amazon rainforest — that's on the front page of the guardian. the ‘i' leads with the prime minister borisjohnson calling on action from the g7 members to tackle the amazon fires. borisjohnson will lay down his red lines for a post—brexit trade agreement with america when he meets the president at the g7 this weekend, that's according to the telegraph.