A Wellington football club at the centre of a racism row has today rubbished allegations its players abused opponents of African descent.

Auckland City plan to base themselves in Barcelona ahead of this year's Fifa Club World Cup campaign - with a possible warm-up match against a La Liga team on the agenda.

Arsenal remain focused on Liverpool striker Luis Suarez while North London rivals Tottenham are set to offer Aston Villa £20 million for star striker Christian Benteke.

Our top young soccer players learned the hard way at the Under-20 World Cup in Turkey, losing the pool matches against Uzbekistan, Uruguay and Croatia, having also gone down in three warm-up games.