Football scores: Follow your team through push alerts

Want to get your team's line-up as it's announced, goals as they go in and the final result as the referee blows his whistle? Push alerts within the BBC Sport app mean you can follow your team's games as they happen, wherever you are.

Available for all English football clubs from the Premier League to the Conference, and the four top divisions in Scotland, push alerts are notifications through to your phone providing crucial match information.
For your favourite team, or as many teams as you like, you can set any combination of alerts covering line-ups, goals, half-time and final results.
You might want to know as every goal goes in for and against your team as well as getting the half-time and full-time scores. Equally, you might only want the line-up and the final result - you choose the level of detail you want, and if you've set alerts for multiple teams you can have different levels of detail for each.
Opening the alert will then take you through to the dedicated match page for that game on the BBC Sport website, from where you can also find our live text commentary and TV and radio coverage where applicable.
To add the alerts, you might need to install the latest update of the app. Once you have installed the latest version from your app store, follow these simple steps.

1. Visit the MyAlerts section of the app from within the menu
2. Select the team or teams you want alerts for and which types of alerts you want
3. Wait for the alerts to arrive - hopefully they're good news!

The alerts are part of a comprehensive offering from within the app, the most recent major update also enabling Chromecast support.
Now, any user with a Chromecast can cast video from within the app to a Chromecast on the same network. Having been out during the game, following the match via alerts and the BBC's live coverage, you can come home to cast manager reaction straight to the TV.
The app is freely available from Google Play  for Android devices, the App Store  for iPhones, and the UK Amazon Kindle Fire Appstore. 
Key features of the app include:

• Push alerts for domestic and international football teams - get line-ups, goals, full-time and more
• Watch live and on-demand video - and cast it to TV through Chromecast
• Home screen displaying the top stories across the world of sport
• Follow all the football live scores, results and news - plus access your club's fixtures for the 2014/15 season
• Customise the app to select your favourite sports and football teams
• Watch major sporting events live or on catch up with on-demand highlights and interviews
• Listen to BBC Radio 5 live and sports extra
• Sections for Football, Formula 1, Cricket, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Tennis, Golf and all the other main sports
• Indexes for UK nations, plus major events
• Daily live text commentaries
• Dedicated pages for every English and Scottish football league club, plus pages for cricket counties, rugby teams and more
• Share stories and results by email and on social networks

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FULL-TIME - Sunderland 1-1 Man Utd

All over. Louis van Gaal's wait for his first win as Manchester United manager continues. Sunderland? They are played two, drawn two.

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Louis van Gaal: Manchester United confidence 'smashed' after defeat

New Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal warned in July that it normally takes three months of indifferent results before his methods bear fruit at a club.

"Every club where I have been, I've struggled for the first three months," he said. "After that, the players know what I want. I am very direct. I say things as they are so you have to adapt to that way of coaching. It's not so easy."

He also dismissed questions that the defeat has made him realise the scale of his task as he looks to take a team that finished seventh last season back into the top four and challenge for the title.
"I have said before that I know how big a job I face here," Van Gaal explained.
"Our wins in the United States and against Valencia meant that the expectation was so high.
"In the first half I saw a lot of my players looking very nervous and making the wrong choices. The players have to get used to that expectation because this is Manchester United and they have to cope with that pressure.
"Of course I am very disappointed to lose - for the players and fans and for myself and my staff.
"But we have to remember this is only one of many games and nobody is champions now. You are the champions in May."

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Angel Di Maria: Man Utd must pay British record fee for Argentine

 

Manchester United will have to pay a British record transfer fee to sign winger Angel Di Maria from Real Madrid.

Real coach Carlo Ancelotti revealed Di Maria, 26, said goodbye to his team-mates ahead of an impending move.
United have been quoted £75m for the Argentine, though they do not expect the final figure to be so high.
However, senior club sources say the fee will "definitely" eclipse the £50m Chelsea paid Liverpool for striker Fernando Torres in 2011.
The Red Devils last broke the British transfer record when they paid Leeds £29.1m for Rio Ferdinand in 2002.
"Di Maria has not trained with us today and he came in to say goodbye to the players and people at the club," said Ancelotti on Sunday.

Biggest transfer fees paid by a British club
2011	Fernando Torres	£50m	Liverpool to Chelsea
2013	Mesut Ozil	£42.4m	Real Madrid to Arsenal
2011	Sergio Aguero	£38m	Atletico Madrid to Manchester City
2014	Juan Mata	£37.1m	Chelsea to Manchester United
2011	Andy Carroll	£35m	Newcastle to Liverpool
2014	Alexis Sanchez	£35m	Barcelona to Arsenal

"There is nothing official yet but it is being sorted out. The decision is his and the club has done what it could to keep him here."
United boss Louis van Gaal is a known admirer of Di Maria, who would become the club's fourth summer signing.
The Old Trafford club have already bought left-back Luke Shaw, midfielder Ander Herrera and Di Maria's Argentina team-mate Marcos Rojo for a combined £72m.
Di Maria was named on the 10-man shortlist for the Fifa player of the tournament at this summer's World Cup, though he injured a thigh in the quarter-final win over Belgium.
He joined Real from Benfica for £36m in 2010, and won La Liga in 2012 and the Champions League last season.
"Personally I don't like it," said former Real president Ramon Calderon. "Normally a club who owns the very good players don't like to sell them."
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