The Us Ryder Cup Team turn to furyk to lead them against europe next year. Its advantage Manchester United and southampton after the first legs of the League Cup Semi finals. Jurgen klopp admitted that southampton deserved their victory tonight. Liverpool were poor at st marys. Klopp will be thankful that they only lost 1 0 and of course that they have that second leg at anfield in a fortnight. Drew savage reports. If you want to know how important a matches, they get the team sheets. 15 players who started tonight it didnt in the fa cup. Neither side are taking a chance when 130 minutes from wembley. 0ne are taking a chance when 130 minutes from wembley. One of the kid then brought in Byjurgen Klopp criticised then filling a wee decide. Foster was tested early on. After a slow start it southampton and the fresh legs of Nathan Redmond onside to beat an unconvincing liverpool defence. Redmond had a Second Chance to beat the young german keen to hang onto his place in the liverpool line up. Better from liverpool in the second half but southampton continued to. Net. Cedric hasnt scored for them yet. This is perhaps why. The liverpool plan wasnt working. Stretch to gain by southampton. 0n plan wasnt working. Stretch to gain by southampton. On another note redmond would have had a hat trick. This it will have more than one call advantage to take to anfield. You can pop has never lost his cup semifinal, so far. Claude makelele is the new Assistant Coach at swansea. The 43 year old frenchman joins Paul Clements backroom team, signing a deal until the end of the season. Makelele worked with clement during his Playing Stint at chelsea and also as a fellow coach at paris st germain. Manchester city have been charged by the Football Association after breaching their anti doping regulations regarding Club Whereabouts for a third time in 12 months. All clubs have to provide, on request, accurate Training Schedules and players overnight addresses. They have until january 19th to respond to the charge. England womens record goal scorer kelly smith has retired. The 38 year old scored 46 goals in 117 appearances for her country. She quit the International Game two years ago. But at club level, smith scored 125 goals for Arsenal Ladies across three spells. She was a Champions League winner in 2007 and also won the fa cup five times. She became the first english professional player when she went to play in the us in 1999. She has been given a Coaching Role with arsenal. I want to see where my Coaching Career goes. I would love to see how fari career goes. I would love to see how far i can develop as a coach and there are those to manage arsenal, there are those to manage arsenal, the club of my heart. Who knows whether it be, but i am at the bottom of my ladder in terms of my Coaching Career and looking forward to seeing how i develop. Sam warburton is expected to stand down as wales captain ahead of the six nations tournament that starts next month. Hes led his country a record 49 times. Its understood that he now wants to concentrate on keeping his place in what has become an increasingly competitive wales back row. Tomos dafydd reports. There is no doubting his commitment, but after six years, Sam Warburtons time as skipper looks like its over. He has injured Injury Troubles recently. The Blues Flanker may want to focus fully on his own form and fitness with the likes Ofjustin Tipuric putting pressure on his place in the back row. It is a burden. There is a lot of extra responsibility within the camp, on the captain, sam has battled injuries over the last few years and i think he will probablyjust want to step back a little bit, focus on his own performance, focus on getting his injuries and contribute as much to the team from a Playing Performance Perspective as he can. Warburton has led his country 49 times, more than the other player. There where world cup campaigns, quarterfinal last round, and semifinalist in 2011. Although that was tinged with personal heartache when he was sent off. There were six nations successes as well. The grand slam in 2012 and the championship the following year. And at 2a, he was the youngest ever captain of the lions. For the successful tour of australia four years ago. His work of the ball and his work rate generally is through the roof. His defensive movement is still high and i know he wants to go into the six nations of the back of some good form and i think he is starting to build that. The replacement for warburton will be announced next tuesday. The drink which will hint is six nations. Alun wynjones is the leading contender, an experienced player having won 105 caps for wales. Singing his heart and leading his country. He stepped up and leading his country. He stepped up to the top job five times before. Captaining wales would put further in the frame as a potential lions skipper. Warren gatland has said he would prefer a National Team captain to lead the tour of new zealand in the summer. Sam warburton is hugely respected in the game. At the age of 28 he would expect to play at the top level for many years to come. One other rugby union line, joe marler will miss at least the first of englands six nations matches, against france. The harlequins prop broke his leg in the warm up before the weekend game against sale. Earlier this week, marlers quins team mate Chris Robshaw was ruled out for the entire tournament. The family of boxer Nick Blackwell has told the bbc hes unable to walk and itll be at least a year before he makes a full recovery. Blackwell had to be placed in an induced coma after suffering a bleed on the skull during a fight with chris eubankjunior last march. He then went on to take part in an unsanctioned sparring session in november, which left him in a coma and with swelling on the brain. Boxer hasan karkardi, who sparred with blackwell, and trainer liam wilkins, who oversaw the session, were suspended by the boxing board of control. Jim furyk will captain the Us Ryder Cup Team at next years event. As a player furyk has played in nine ryder cups. Hes named davis love the third as a vice captain for the 2018 competition which will be held in france at the Albatros Course Of Le Golf Nationaljust outside paris. The United States are the defending champions, but havent won in europe since 1993. It has the teamwork, the corollary, the competition, the passion that brings fans together from Worldwide Andi brings fans together from worldwide and ijust brings fans together from worldwide and i just get brings fans together from worldwide and ijust get chills thinking about all the events that i have been able to participate in and how fortunate i have been and to stand here as the 2018 captain is such an honour. Johanna konta is through to the semi finals of the Sydney International after beating Daria Kasatkina in straight sets. The british number one had to come from behind in the second set to beat the russian world number 26. Konta will play former wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard in the last four. Dan evans came through three sets against Marcel Granollers in their second round match. And qualifying for the australian 0pen starts in a few minutes. Britains laura robson and tara moore are in action overnight. Both would need to win three matches in three days to qualify for the main draw. Qualifying for the Australian Open start in the next couple of minutes. Tarim is playing. She will be playing overnight. She needs to win three matches in three days to qualify for the main draw. That sta rts qualify for the main draw. That starts on monday. Thats all from sportsday. Southampton have ta Ken Southampton have taken a 1 0 lead against liverpool after the first leg of their League Cup Semifinal. The second leg is in a fortnight. Coming up in a moment, the papers