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Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney will have a testimonial next season after a campaign by supporters to honour the England striker's long service to the club. Rooney will play in a testimonial match for a Manchester United XI against a yet-to-be-named opponent at Old Trafford on August 3, 2016. Details of the players and managers who will be involved on the day are expected to be revealed over the next few weeks. The 30-year-old has vowed to donate all the profits from the match to the NSPCC, Alder Hey Childrens' Hospital, Claire House Hospice, and the Manchester United Foundation through the newly-formed Wayne Rooney foundation. Rooney's representatives said United awarded the England captain a testimonial following a meeting between "like-minded individuals and Manchester United fans" who wrote to executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward asking that a testimonial be awarded following the player's 11-year spell at the club. "I w

Manchester United are a frustrating team to defend against, Crystal Palace defender Brede Hangeland has said ahead of Saturday's Premier League encounter with Louis van Gaal's side. Palace have gone off the boil after a promising start to the campaign, losing four of their last six league games, but still occupy a respectable seventh place in the table. Alan Pardew's team go into the match looking to snap a three game losing streak, but have never beaten United in the Premier League before. "They're a top club and are very hard to face ... but it'll be tough for them as well to come to Selhurst Park," Hangeland told the club website (www.cpfc.co.uk). "They keep the ball more than almost any other team in the league and that can be frustrating if you're defending against them but if you break on them you can be dangerous. "It will be interesting to see how that goes." The former Fulham defender, who has made eig

Being dropped by former manager Brendan Rodgers at the start of the season filled Liverpool's Alberto Moreno with "rage", the defender said, adding that he felt the Northern Irishman did not trust him as much as new boss Jurgen Klopp. Moreno did not start any of Liverpool's first five games of the season under Rodgers, with 18-year-old Joe Gomez preferred over the Spaniard. The 23-year-old has since put in a series of impressive displays under Klopp and credits the German with having a positive impact at Anfield. "I think that it has been a 100 percent change. Everything is totally different," Moreno was quoted as saying by British media. "He (Klopp) spoke to all the players and ... he told us we all started from zero. I do feel he trusts me, he spends a lot of time with me. "The fact he has spent so much time with me, I think, shows up in good performances on the field. "I just get the impression that he (Klopp) really

Jose Mourinho is optimistic that his Chelsea side can turn their season around ahead of the Barclays Premier League champions’ meeting with Liverpool this weekend. The Blues have picked up 13 points from the first 10 matches of their title defence and suffered a midweek penalty shoot-out defeat to Stoke City in the League Cup, a competition they won last season. Chelsea, who sit 15th in the BPL, have won one of their last seven matches in all competitions but Mourinho feels his team can take heart from their performance at the Britannia Stadium. "It's difficult - but it's more difficult when you play very badly and lose, than playing well and losing," the former Real Madrid boss said. "They go home with sadness but with a positive feeling. How can [Eden] Hazard, or Oscar, or [John-Obi] Mikel, or John Terry, to say some names - I could say everyone - how can they go home with a lack of confidence? "They played well, they didn't mak

USM Alger chase a first ever African Champions League title and a chance to confirm Algeria's rise to the top of the continent's game when they host TP Mazembe Englebert in the first leg of the final on Saturday. USMA will seek to emulate the achievement of compatriots Entente Setif last year in winning Africa's top club prize at a time when Algeria are the continent's top-ranked country, reached the second round of the World Cup in Brazil and are enjoying a massive renaissance after years in the doldrums. But USMA are up against an experienced foe in the club from the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who have won four previous titles and in the last six editions of the Champions League have got to the final four on four occasions, winning twice. The financial muscle of the copper-rich Katanga province, whose governor Moise Katumbi is also the club president, has seen Mazembe assemble a multi-national squad of players from various other African