at the top level of english football now seems inevitable, asjoe lynskey reports. for more than a century at old trafford, they've looked for ways to keep up with demand. they were one of the first clubs to build a roof ona of the first clubs to build a roof on a stand without pillars, so every united supporter had a clear view. now, this club wants in on the latest idea. this is rail seating, a new way to watch football standing up. already, it's in use across europe. dortmund are one team in germany who get extra noise by design. but in the uk, standing has a more painful history. it was one of the factors behind the hillsboro disaster. it led to football grounds in the top divisions going all cedar. but such as football culture,

some fans continued to stand, and four years ago, celtic were the first british team to trial rail seats. west bromwich tried to be the first premier league safe standards, that idea was vetoed by ministers. but under tight regulations, some clu bs but under tight regulations, some clubs have made it work. and that's led the government to change its approach. now, they say football grounds that incorporate barriers can have a positive impact on supporters safety. i think everybody who has actually seen a real seat understands standing behind a seed that has an integrated waist high rail is a lot safer than what a lot of fans do right now which is standing behind seats that come halfway up to their sins, so what united want to do is increase the safety of fans who are already standing in some areas of the stadium. nearly 75,000 come to old trafford for home games. 1500 of those could soon watch from rail seats. united say it makes things safer in a part of a ground where

they persistently stand. so, as one of the worlds biggest clubs looks to the future, now football waits to see if more will follow. joe linsky, bbc news. lovely shop. right, it's been a big night of championship football, and leeds united's tricky run continues. they've drawn 1—1 with brentford tonight. leeds were ten points clear of third back in december, but have picked upjust ten points from their last 11 games. brentford could have gone above leeds with a win, and they took the lead at griffin park through said benrama. leeds though were the better side for most of the match and got the equaliser. leeds stay second — but fulham could got above them if they win at millwall tomorrow. there were five other games tonight. big win for charlton too. they beat notthingham forest 1—0, who move down to fifth below brentford. as for charlton, that pulls them now two points from the relegation zone. all the results and reaction from the efl are on the bbc sport website.

there was one game in the scottish premiership tonight, and a comfortable evening for aberdeen. they beat hamilton 3—1, that's their first win of the year. curtis main with the pick of the goals. aberdeen are up to third, hamilton are just a point off the bottom. manchester city's premier league game with west ham has been re—arranged for the 19th february. severe weather brought about by storm keira forced it to be postponed on sunday. manchester city have agreed anyone unable to attend will be able to secure a refund upon the return of their original match tickets. west ham are offering free travel for all fans wishing to attend. with the tour of south africa drawing to a close, england's cricketers are starting to look ahead to next month and their tour of sri lanka. they've named their squad for the tour today — some big names miss out, and some familiar faces come back in. with all the details here's ben croucher.

now, england's tour in south africa isn't over yet. bringing you their first t20 and sports day tomorrow, but they are off to sri lanka next month, and the test squad has been announced today. the notable emissions are these three, james anderson, johnny and condition in the in and for that friendly or for fast bowlers, and will focus on recovering from a cracked but my cracked rib. johnny has been in poor form, he's also left out. moen remains unavailable for selection. so who is back in? well, keeton jennings, the opening batsman, he comes into the fold. england seemed to have a couple of reliable openers and the injured worry burns, jennings is a good player, crucial in sri lanka, and after much clamour, ben vokes, the wicketkeeper is recalled, he was in goods

leading run square in sri lanka last year, and could well replacejoss butler as wicketkeeper, here is the squad then, the usual suspects as you would suspect. joe gently keeps his place in the squad, three spinners for sri lanka, mark wood is england's bowler with jeffrey archer injured, but in tough conditions, he knows it could be a challenge. we have a great backroom staff and management team who do little tricks with iced towels and come off the field, helping with 12 men, freshening them up. even if i do not play, they will have a key role in making sure the lads are fully prepared on the field and raring to go because it is a hot place. he talked about the rotation of fast bowlers, he would like to have three. and almost rotate test match by test match, how do you feel about that? i'm fine with that if that is what the main man once. i'm fine with that if that is what the main man wants. i love playing for spoons, it makes it fun for me,

he isjust as mad as i am. but if that's the way it is going be, it has been well documented about my injuries. and things i've had over the years. if it was may be one test where you give it your all and then rest and come back, that works for me. at the end of the day ,it is about england winning games and if that is the best way for us to win i am all for it. is that really the best way for you? one test match on, one test match off, is that the best? history will probably say that is the best, but i was pleased to back it up here on this tour, two good games where i managed to produce the goods over two matches, so that's something i have not been able to do before. that was especially pleasing. keeping my pace high as well. but sri lanka, that might have to be the case where it can be gruelling for fast bowlers, keep each other freshen going, keep that competitive edge in training. so if we can keep that friendly competitiveness going, it will only benefit the team. we all want to go faster than each

other. let's take a look at some of the other stories grabbing the headlines. dai young is stepping back from his role as director of rugby at wasps. their form has been patchy in recent months — they're ninth in the premiership, and out of europe. young hasn't said how long he'll be out of the role. lee blackett comes in as interim head coach. kyren wilson made his second career 1—4—7 break, as he beat jackson page in the opening round of the welsh open snooker. his maximum came in the very first frame. ronnie o'sullivan took little over an hour to book his place in the second round in cardiff. he had four 50 plus breaks in a comfortable win over, zhang, shan, kang. over, zhang shan kang. mark allen and ricky walden also won today. sport climbing is one of the newest sports that we'll be watching at the olympics in tokyo this summer, and it's also one where team gb have a realistic medal

chance of winning a medal. hauna coxsey has today been confirmed as their first olympic athlete in the sport, and she'll head out to tokyo to fulfil a dream that she never knew could actually become a reality. stuart pollitt reports. she spent years taking her sport to new heights. today shauna coxsey meets the pinnacle. it is such an incredible privilege to be this first gb climber to go to the olympics, it's so strange to say that out loud and amazing! growing up the olympics were always out of reach for shawna. i started climbing when i was full so i would watch the olympic games. —— four. it was so inspiring but i also felt disconnected because my sport was not part of that, so to be here talking about the games my sport which will be represented and i will be there too, it is so crazy! for the sport of climbing, one of five new ones in tokyo, the games represent a big opportunity.

we have to wait how it is received after the games and i am always —— i can't wait. excited to see what will happen because it is so cool to watch and do. shauna coxsey claims a bronze medal. in terms of the impact she has had the gb climbing, it has been phenomenal. she has been a pioneer for the sport, leading the way for women's climbing. her journey to japan started as a three year old watching climbing at home with her dad on tv. she now lives and trains in sheffield, not for the weather, but for the sieve facilities which is using to practice for the three climbing discipline she will complete in tokyo. what are your family feeling? they must be pretty excited. i have a huge family and they are all incredibly supportive. how many have bought tickets? i don't know how many are coming out yet. i think there are a lot

of them coming out. and herfamily are not the only ones who will not want to miss her making history this summer. and before we go, let's have a look at the latest car to be released for the new formula one season...it's the new one from ferrarri, which was revealed on the stage in a glittering ceremony in italy. team boss, mattia binotto says that the car takes design to the "extreme." they are rememeber trying to take this to the next level to try and beat mercedes in this year's championship as rivals mercedes have won the last six world championships. ferrari haven't won the big prize in 131 years. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the editor of the political website, labourlist, sienna rodgers and the deputy leader writer at the sun, olivia utley. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the financial times — like many — reports on the government's thumbs up to hsz. staked his reputation on delivering the project. scrapping the licence fee means a weaker uk' — the bbc chairman will say according to the telegraph. the independent leads with government efforts to deport people to jamaica. so too does the times — saying borisjohnson is furious a court has stopped deportations. the mirror's front page focuses

on the british man thought to have infected 11 others with the coronavirus. so, right. let's start with vi newspaper. this is high—speed north on the way as pm takes hs to gamble. there must be a bit of worry among labour supporters that this is kind of politically quite damaging to labour if a conservative prime ministers seem to be the man who finally delivers this huge project, which labour started 20 years ago. it's been going on for so long, has dick? to there and delay as boris johnson might say about hs—2, and it was quite controversial within the conservative party and also the labour party, there were tonnes of debates, most of the leadership candidates we are seeing now agree with hs two. they want to take it forward , with hs two. they want to take it forward, but kier starmer, who is the front runner at the moment, that's interesting one, because his constituencies, he actually defied the whip to vote against hs—2. it

affects his constituency in terms of houston and kings cross, so what will happen there is interesting in terms of where labour is going to move with it a possible cure starmer relationship. and the interesting the idea of borisjohnson saying the course. the decisions there we have said yes, we are going to pass all of this down to those local leaders in north england, a lot of were labour leaders, so, basically, they're the ones who can get a lot of the flack on deciding how this is implemented. definitely, which is quite clever idea, to pass the buck oi'i quite clever idea, to pass the buck on at this moment. i think it's not really surprising at all that boris johnson is going ahead with this. he's always been kind of obsessed with his legacy and what's going to be left after he's gone. and obviously, a big grand infrastructure project is brilliant. every prime minister loves a grand project. i think boris johnson particularly really loves that sort of thing. on the other hand, i think it surprising that he has decided to irritate the grassroots at such an

early stage command quite a lot of his new mps. so you can use some of these mps who were elected two months ago, already sounding really... to say they are supporting the per minister, which is rare, normally see them queuing to... they w011 normally see them queuing to... they won their seats because of boris johnson. exactly, you get the sense i think that they are not quite coming out and saying, no, we don't wa nt coming out and saying, no, we don't want it, but they are not pulling theirweight behind it want it, but they are not pulling their weight behind it at all. nor is the telegraph, which is quite interesting, who have just been so... interesting, who have just been so... boris johnson, of course, interesting, who have just been so... borisjohnson, of course, a former employer. absolutely. the fa ct former employer. absolutely. the fact that they are not behind it, quite interesting. although, ithink it is quite, i was looking at the all of the quotes from boris johnson, in all of the paper come i think that's fascinating. he is so good at these sort of powerful metaphor about the anatomy of the country and the skeleton of the country and the skeleton of the country and the skeleton of the country and all of this. this will be the spine of england.

this spine of england, exactly. i cannotjust, you this spine of england, exactly. i cannot just, you know, this spine of england, exactly. i cannotjust, you know, the guardian does it for example, peppered with quotes from the per minister, and i think it's quite clever the way he has managed to sort of get his narrative on this. it's his narrative, he is the one that... that could be the success of its you know? if he gets people behind it i'iow know? if he gets people behind it now with that sort of language, just shows the power of a good speech. i think the danger is actual delivery, because we know that boris johnson, he's keen on infrastructure projects, but he has had problems with delivery in the past, with that famous bridge when he was london mayor. so you know, the proof is in the pudding. we will have to see whether costs keeps spiralling. the maximum was making a joke about bridges earlier today, pointing out we have the bridge in london, and no coming up. a bridge to nowhere in scotla nd coming up. a bridge to nowhere in scotland and northern ireland. is kept of reports going on, there are a lot of things that this government does, i think brexit has freed up time, but that much time? we will see, and of course, we will come back to this question in a moment, because about the people who deliver on the question of a

reshuffle, which is imminent. there is talk though