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Plot thickens as Kevin Pietersen agrees to role in film about England

Kevin Pietersen has become the last key figure to agree to feature in the new film by former ECB digital media editor Barney Douglas on the rise and spectacular fall of one of the greatest England teams.

Pietersen initially refused to take part in The Edge, which will be in cinemas in July, and instead concentrated on Sky's rival The Kevin Pietersen Story which will chart his controversial career

But Douglas has persuaded Pietersen that his film, which will look at the England team who rose to the top of the world Test rankings before their bitter and acrimonious collapse at the 2013-14 Ashes, will not all be about his sacking or, indeed, him.

Meanwhile, Sky's Pietersen special, which will be shown in parts throughout the Ashes this summer, is sure to have credibility and balance because it has been spearheaded by our own Nass er Hussain, who has not been afraid to ask KP and company the big, difficult questions.

Kevin Pietersen (above) will feature in a film by former ECB digital media editor Barney Douglas

Match of the Day is a turn-off for prize-guy P ereira

Manchester United hasn't won anything bigger this season than Andreas Pereira's BBC Goal of the Month award but he was oblivious until informed by enthusiastic club officials making a fuss of him.

The Brazilian, 23, hadn't watched Match of the Day 2 when viewers voted his long-range strike against Southampton the best goal in March last weekend but he was given a hero's reception at the Carrington training ground the next morning.

Meanwhile, Reece Brown, brother of Champions League winner Wes and himself a former United trainee, has been drafted as a new academy coach.

Andreas Pereira won a BBC Goal of the Month award after his screamer against Southampton

New blow for Becks' dream

Just when David Beckham thought his plans to start building a stage for his MLS team were finally moving forward, along with yet another lawsuit to muddy the

The former England captain had an agreement in principle to renovate the home of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, Lockhart Stadium, for his side Inter Miami to make their belated entrance into MLS next year. It is the sixth proposed site for Beckham's team but more legal wrangling is brewing.

Florida-based sports entertainment company FXE Futbol are also interested in the site and argue city bosses violated state laws when evaluating the two bids.

Inter Miami also claim there is an asbestos problem which, they stress, means the whole site needs to be bulldozed.

David Beckham is attempting to secure a home stage for his new MLS franchise in Miami

Sir Mo Farah and the world's fastest marathon runner, Eliud Kipchoge, will do battle in London on Sunday.

It will be interesting to see if Kipchoge is quizzed about Cyrus Rutto, who is also

Earlier this month Rutto, a finalist of the 5,000m at the World Championships in London in 2017, was charged and provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for a violation of his athlete's biological passport.

Kipchoge and Rutto are not in the same training gro up but the case could represent a major blow to Sang, whom Kipchoge credits as 'the best coach in the world'

Paula Radcliffe said she has no problem with her BBC colleague Steve Cram continuing to work for the broadcaster and becoming chairman of UK Athletics.

Radcliffe believes the sport's governing body needs' a chairman who actually cares about the sport 'and will not be afraid to make those tough decisions to make it better'.

In a reference to former chairman Richard Bowker, she added: "We didn't have that with the last (one) and we need to have it."

Paula Radcliffe (above) says Steve Cram can be chairman of UK Athletics and work for the BBC

Sir Dave Brailsford's bid to continue dominating professional cycling has suffered a setback with the loss of key lieutenant Rod Ellingworth, leaving for rivals Bahrain-Merida. Performance director Ellingworth has been at Team Sky since their launch in 2010, but the outfit, soon to become Team INEOS, will lose Ellingworth at the end of the season. One insider said the news was "nuclear" for Brailsford.

Sunderland's Netflix series might have shone a light on haphazard management and a sorry decline to the third tier but it has done wonders for their profile abroad.

The amount of global traffic hitting their website has risen by 35 per cent a month – and by an eye-watering degree in two football hotbeds.

Numbers from America have soared by 254 per cent, while interest from users in Germany has increased by a staggering 520 per cent. Those subtitles must have come in handy.

The MCC have lost £ 4.5 million on a property they bought at 6 Grove End Road in 2014. The £ 8.6 m purchase was strategic to prevent developer Charles Rifkind from buying too many properties on the road, which runs behind Lord's at the pavilion end.

In the MCC's finance report, which has been sent to members and will be discussed at the club's AGM on May 1, it states: 'Number 6 Grove End Road, which had been a strategic purchase by the club in 2014, was reduced in value by £ 4.5m . " But, allowing the downturn in property values, the MCC certainly spent far too much.

The Professional Cricketers' Association have been accused or failing to grasp the seriousness of the crime and the impact on the victim after the former Worcestershire player Alex Hepburn was found guilty of rape.

The PCA said the case served as a 'stark reminder' or the standards they expect.

Katie Russell of Rape Crisis England and Wales, said : "It's regrettable that the PCA in particular did not see fit to acknowledge in its statement the seriousness of these crimes or the distress they can cause."

The PCA did not have to be a constructive response to allegations in court that cricketers took part in 'games' to try and sleep with as many women as possible, but did manage to alert members to a new offer for a hair restoration clinic last week.

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