West Ham's Michail Antonio crashed his Lamborghini into a bin shed of a family home dressed as a snowman on Christmas Day, sources have confirmed to ESPN.

Antonio played a full part in West Ham's 2-1 defeat to Crystal Palace on Boxing Day, hours after the incident in Balham, South London.

The 29-year-old was unhurt after the crash on Wednesday evening and a source told ESPN that no alcohol was involved.

A statement from Metropolitan Police read: "Police were called to Nightingale Lane, Balham, at 18.36hrs on Wednesday, 25 December to reports of a car crashed into a garden. Officers attended.

"A Lamborghini car was found at the scene. It was reported that it had left the road and crashed into a road sign and a garden wall.

"The driver did not require hospital treatment. There were no other reported injuries. There is no police investigation."

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Earlier on Christmas Day, Antonio posted a video on Instagram dressed as a snowman, with the caption: "Michail AnSnownio Man! Merry Christmas everyone."

A source has told ESPN that there is no West Ham investigation into the incident.

MANCHESTER -- Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said it is not fair to expect players to face two games in three days but believes his Manchester United team have an advantage over the rest of the Premier League because of their age.

United will kick off against Burnley at Turf Moor on Saturday just 48 hours after beating Newcastle 4-1 at Old Trafford on Thursday and despite reservations about the schedule, Solskjaer insists his young side should be able to cope.

"I don't think it is fair on the boys at all," Solskjaer said.

"I don't think it is fair to be expected to perform at the best of your level, both mentally and physically, 48 hours after you have played.

"But I think we are in the best position to perform on Saturday. The game [against Newcastle] was over after 45 minutes and we are young.

"We have a great chance against Burnley to perform at the best level because our boys do, when you are 23, which is the average age of the outfield starting players today, that will make it easier for us to recover than Burnley I think.

"They played until the end against Everton. We were done after 45 minutes and used the second half as recovery. But it is not fair, especially when a game at Watford has just gone and there will be a game New Year's Day."

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Victory over Newcastle eased the pressure on Solskjaer following the dire 2-0 defeat to Watford at Vicarage Road and the United manager is adamant he will not change the way his team plays.

"I think it has been told in quite certain terms what kind of team we are," he said.

"They know when we are at our best. We can't play tippy-tappy football. We can't, at this moment in time, play like [Manchester] City. It is only City that can do that. We have to show more energy, drive, urgency and selflessness in every single game. That is the way we have to play at the moment."

MANCHESTER -- Forget Tottenham and Manchester City -- this is the type of performance Manchester United need to keep churning out if Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is going to prove a success at Old Trafford.

Possession, goals and points. It sounds so simple -- it was under Sir Alex Ferguson -- but as Solskjaer has found out this season, it is harder than it looks. For the first time since March, United won a Premier League home game having had more of the ball. They converted 74% possession into four goals, and except for a shaky opening 20 minutes, they were too much for Newcastle in a 4-1 victory Thursday. The result leaves United just four points off the top four -- probably closer than they deserve given their tumultuous start to the season.

Solskjaer used his programme notes to ask for a "positive response" after the nightmare at Watford and, eventually, he got it. It took Newcastle taking the lead to trigger it, after Matthew Longstaff had scored his second professional goal, and second against United following his winner at St. James' Park in October.

Solskjaer wrote that his team had been "raring to go" against Newcastle, but it didn't look that way when Fred gave the ball away in midfield, Joelinton held off Harry Maguire and Longstaff feinted past Luke Shaw to score.

The response was impressive. By the time the players headed off to shelter from the Manchester rain at half-time, United had turned it around and led 3-1.

Anthony Martial got the first after a deft lay-off from Andreas Pereira, Mason Greenwood scored with a fierce, left-footed rocket from the edge of the box which cannoned in off the underside of the bar and Marcus Rashford added a third with a back-post header.

For the first time in more than a year, United had scored three times in the first half of a league game. They weren't done, either, as Martial got his second six minutes after the restart -- gifted by Sean Longstaff's woeful back pass -- and the game was over as a contest.

It said everything about the way the second half went that United were able to play the final 25 minutes without Rashford or Martial as Solskjaer turned his attention to negotiating the packed festive fixture schedule.

"It is not fair to ask players to play two games in three days, but we just have to get on with it, we are young and mentally strong and that means we will be ready," Solskjaer said afterward.

After the miserable defeat to Newcastle nearly three months ago, United responded by taking a point off Liverpool. A dire home draw with Aston Villa was followed by back-to-back victories over Tottenham and City, which in turn was followed by a draw with Everton. Will the real Man United please stand up?

If nothing else, Solskjaer has developed a knack of picking up a result when he needs one most. Consistency, though, remains a problem, and until this United team can string a run of victories together, it is impossible to say they have turned a corner. At the moment, they are team capable of beating anyone but also losing to anyone.

It will please Solskjaer that this win was achieved having had the bulk of possession. Not since Watford were beaten at Old Trafford on Mar. 30 have United won a league game at home having enjoyed more of the ball. They are a team who are better without it -- as Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester City learned the hard way. It is when they are charged with dominating a game that they struggle.

Solskjaer admitted before the game he was concerned about "breaking Newcastle down," but he needn't have worried. United found Steve Bruce's side -- who arrived third in the form table behind only Liverpool and Leicester -- in the Christmas spirit of giving, with Martin Dubravka, Fabian Schar and the elder Longstaff all making horrendous mistakes that led directly to goals.

"After going 1-0 down, we made them make mistakes and we capitalised really well," Solskjaer said.

Next up are Burnley on Saturday, and they are unlikely to be so accommodating.

At minimum it was a productive day for United. Solskjaer got his response after the defeat to Watford, as the front three put four in the net, Paul Pogba got another 45 minutes as he nears full fitness, and United remained unbeaten at home on Boxing Day since 1978.

It will mean a lot more if they can build on this performance against Burnley, but this is a team who are unbeaten against the top six while managing just one win against the bottom five. The way United have gone this season, what will happen at Turf Moor is anyone's guess.

Matt Taylor has left his role as Scotland assistant to join Australia, with former Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy named as his replacement.

Taylor had worked beside head coach Gregor Townsend since taking up a dual role as defence coach with Glasgow Warriors and Scotland in 2012.

Tandy has been Super Rugby side Waratahs' defence coach.

Former France prop Pieter de Villiers has also joined the Scotland set-up as scrum coach from Stade Francais.

More to follow.

Between getting publicly roasted by Ricky Ponting for his first-innings dismissal in Perth after being set, widely discussed as a possible omission from the Boxing Day Test should Australia play a fifth bowler, and then corralled by New Zealand over the course of a grinding stand with Steven Smith that looked like it was digging a hole as much as building a platform, Travis Head was due for a helping hand of some sort.

Fortunately for him, it arrived in the shape of his captain Tim Paine's enterprising 79, an innings that provided the 25-year-old with enough breathing room to forge a second Test century in front of a big December 27 crowd at the MCG, and go some way towards demonstrating that he is adding the ruthless side to his batting that Ponting had implored him to think about after driving a catch to cover when the visitors had appeared to be at his mercy in the west.

Head's attitude to Perth had been that of a realist, combining annoyance at his dismissal with more constructive thoughts about how well he had been able to start the innings. Looking better balanced at the crease in Melbourne, and also bolstered by some calm counsel from coach Justin Langer, Head was able to deliver the sort of score needed by both himself and the team, even if he spent more than 40 balls in the 90s to get there.

"I'm a little bit unconventional and happy to do that, as long as I have a really sound game plan around what I need to do" Travis Head

"Disappointment at not getting a big score but also the positivity of getting a good start," Head said of the Perth experience. "I've been really happy with how I've been starting innings over the last few months, especially this season, so it was about making sure I go on. I was more disappointed getting out in the second innings and looking back to how my week panned out - probably even more frustrated after my second innings about the first innings. But it was nice to go out last night, get us into stumps and then start my innings how I'd like and how I have been. Going on with it was nice.

"I think it helped that Tim came out and struck the ball as well as he did. Definitely took a lot of pressure off me, I don't think I changed the way I went about it, especially to [Neil] Wagner, Tim took him on and played exceptionally well and was very positive, plays the pull and hook shots extremely well. That was his game plan and at the other end left-hand/right-hand definitely helped with the momentum and putting pressure back on their bowlers. Exceptional day for Tim as well and he took a lot of pressure off me in the partnership."

The angles of attack chosen by New Zealand were in some ways helpful to Head. Relatively few of their deliveries were actually hitting the stumps, something that was welcome to a batsman who averages a little more than 26 in Tests against balls on line to hit the wickets. "They were exceptional, they had some really good plans to tie me down, the wicket probably plays a factor as well," Head said. "Probably on the slower side and I found it very difficult to drive.

"I took experience from Adelaide's drop-in (pitch), with the thatchiness of the grass and the ball that holds up and over the years they've been difficult to drive, so I can't really recall many cover drives for me over my innings. It was about making sure I was really tight in defence and waiting for a cut shot or one off my pads. A very refined blueprint for me today and credit to New Zealand, at times it was difficult, they stemmed the scoreboard, and it was important for me, like last week, when those periods are difficult, soak it up and then there'll be periods where it breaks open."

As for the long time in the 90s, and the perception that he has often been a player who "looks good but gets out", Head said that both were elements that were evolving with his own, growing maturity in the game. "Over the last couple of years, as I've matured I've been able to get more hundreds," he said. "It was pretty lean early days in my career and I think over the last two or three years I've been able to get big scores and go on with that.

"As I was younger, I think I tried to get through those 90s a bit quicker than I should have, and over time you get more mature and you can relax, and I was happy to do it in ones. Happy to nudge my way there, it probably took a bit longer than I thought, but New Zealand bowled some really good spells where it was very difficult to score, so pretty proud of the fact I was able to keep them out there.

"I think you see the way I bat I can get into some pretty awful positions and I can hit the ball in some pretty weird spots. Come down and see me hit in the nets and it's even worse. Absolutely no care with that, I've had some of my worst net sessions leading into Test matches or games for South Australia (and) then I've come out and played really well. So different guys hit the ball and move in different ways, I'm a little bit unconventional and happy to do that, as long as I have a really sound game plan around what I need to do."

Four years ago, Linda Djougang typed the words 'what is rugby?' into YouTube.

Now, she is preparing to play at Twickenham - one of the sport's biggest stadiums - for the first time.

For the 23-year-old it is another step on a journey that has taken her from Douala, Cameroon to Rush, Ireland - a country she now represents in international rugby.

And Saturday's game at the home of English rugby is a step forward for the women's game too as the match between Harlequins and Djougang's Leinster, will be the first women's club fixture of its kind played at Twickenham.

Arriving in Ireland aged nine and unable to speak English, sport was always a place of solace for Djougang, whose mother tongue is French.

After success in shot put at school, she started studying at Trinity College in Dublin and was looking for a way to meet people. She saw a tag rugby event online and decided to go along, though she did not know what it was.

"I remember going on YouTube and typing in, 'what is rugby?'," she recalls. "I never understood the game. I thought, 'why are they passing the ball backwards?'

"I can't believe I'll be playing at Twickenham. It's mind-blowing. When I'm putting on my jersey, I look at it and think, 'how did I get this far?'"

'I found rugby and felt like I belonged'

By the age of nine Djougang had never left the city of her birth. But, leaving her mother behind, she undertook the flight alone and was met by her father in Ireland.

She describes arriving in Rush, with its different language, culture and food, as "terrifying" but 14 years later the prop is settled in her new home and has represented Ireland on the international stage five times.

"I knew from the moment I arrived in Ireland that it was a massive change," she says.

"It was hard to fit in. I found that very challenging. The moment I found rugby I felt like I belonged somewhere. I felt like this is what I was born to do. I can be myself playing this sport."

Though rugby means so much to Djougang, her family still does not totally understand the sport, with football the game of choice in Cameroon.

This can leave the 23-year-old, who has not seen her mother since leaving Douala, feeling stuck between two worlds but she says having her parents at a game one day would be "a dream".

"At home it's football. There's nothing else," she says.

"I tell my mum I'm playing for Leinster and Ireland and she's like, 'honey what's that sport that you play?'

"But she's so proud of me. I feel like I live two different lives where I'm training with the girls and loving it then I have to park it and go home to this other world where nobody understands what I'm doing."

Djougang combines international and provincial rugby with the final year of a degree in general nursing at Trinity.

This means a packed schedule, getting up for 6am gym sessions with the Ireland team, before a day of lectures and more training in the evening.

"I know it will all feel worth it when I step out at Twickenham," she adds.

"It shows young girls that this is the future. We'll be able to go to England and play. We're making history and that's amazing."

'Playing at Twickenham is huge for me'

Saturday will be the first time Harlequins Women - who are top of domestic league Premier 15s - have been involved in 'Big Game 12', with the men's side playing Leicester Tigers in the Premiership before the women's match.

More than 70,000 tickets have been sold for the event so far, but the gates will be opened after the men's match so that people can watch the women's game for free.

Djougang's journey to Twickenham has been a long and winding one, but for Harlequins wing Heather Cowell playing at the south west London ground was perhaps inevitable.

The 23-year-old went to school next door to the stadium and her father is head of ball boys on matchdays.

Cowell's twin brother Cameron played for England sevens and is now at Championship side Doncaster Knights, while her mum and other brother used to work for the Rugby Football Union, English rugby's governing body.

"I definitely know my way round Twickenham," Cowell said.

"I never thought I'd be back there playing rugby. For me personally it's huge because I'm from Twickenham."

Rugby was not the first thing Cowell excelled at - she was junior world champion in tumbling before switching sports at university.

Balancing rugby with training to become an accountant keeps Cowell just as busy as Djougang and like her Irish counterpart the Londoner insists the hard work is all worth it, especially when events like Saturday's game come around.

"There are lots of things to do in my day and I don't have a lot of free time but I don't think I'd have it any other way," she added.

"This game is a great opportunity on such a huge stage. It represents where the game is heading and it's definitely going in the right direction."

BBC Sport launched #ChangeTheGame to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC in 2019, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.

Eastern Michigan quarterback Mike Glass III was ejected with 10 seconds left in Thursday night's Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit after throwing punches at two Pittsburgh players.

Glass smacked Panthers linebacker Cam Bright in the face mask, then hit defensive back Paris Ford across the helmet. He also appeared to make contact with an official as he took the second swipe, with the official crumbling to the ground.

A brief scuffle ensued, and Glass was ejected from the game, a 34-30 Eastern Michigan loss. Eagles cornerback Kevin McGill was also ejected earlier in the contest for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Eastern Michigan head coach Chris Creighton said he was disappointed in Glass and McGill, both seniors.

"Both those guys are incredibly competitive, and they both have put so much into this. This was their last opportunity, and there is absolutely no excuse for any of that," Creighton said. "They're embarrassed by it. They apologized to the team. I'm embarrassed. I apologize to anybody who was watching it and a part of it. Their emotions got the best of both of them."

Glass was 28-of-50 for 311 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. The senior also ran for 83 yards and a score.

Creighton said Glass was "in tears in the locker room" after the game. The senior quarterback took to social media afterward to express his regret, posting in a tweet, "I let God and my family down!"

"I love him 100 percent. And thank god he is highly competitive, but absolutely zero excuse for what happened, and he knows it," Creighton said. "That's not who we want to be, and it would be really too bad if that's what y'all make this out to be tonight."

NEW YORK -- There have been times, after a loss, that Spencer Dinwiddie would shuffle into the middle of a throng of reporters and dissect each mistake the Brooklyn Nets made. There have been times after losses that he scowled, sighed in disappointment and curtly answered questions.

After Thursday's 94-82 loss to the New York Knicks, though, Dinwiddie couldn't help but crack a smile.

"We were really, really bad," Dinwiddie said. "Like laughably bad. We shot really bad. Probably historically bad."

Not only were the Nets' 82 points a new season low, they also shot just 26.9% from the field (21-for-78) -- the worst shooting percentage by any team since January 2012. The only other team to shoot under 30% in a game this season was the Chicago Bulls, when they shot 29.9 percent in a loss to the Toronto Raptors on Oct. 26.

It gets worse.

According to research by the Elias Sports Bureau, Brooklyn's eight 2-point field goals were the fewest by a team in any game since 1950, when the Fort Wayne Pistons and Minneapolis Lakers each made four field goals. That Lakers-Pistons game became famous for its final score of 19-18.

"We were all searching for our shot," Jarrett Allen said. "We could've moved the ball more, but at the end of the day we were all frustrated."

The game got ugly early on. Brooklyn built a small lead, but then the Knicks went on a 15-2 run and quickly built a double-digit lead over the Nets. At halftime, Brooklyn trailed New York by four. The Knicks came out of the break on a 16-4 run. By the third quarter, the Knicks had a 20-point lead.

New York would lead by as much as 23 points. Asked how it was possible that the Nets allowed a bottom-dwelling team to snuff out any offensive flow, Dinwiddie shrugged.

"Let's go with too much eggnog," he said. "I don't know what else to tell you."

Perhaps rust played a factor. After all, the Nets hadn't played since Dec. 21. The one bright spot for the Nets was they held the Knicks to 94 points -- the third-fewest Brooklyn has allowed in a game this season. Julius Randle led the Knicks with a game-high 33 points. The loss snaps a three-game losing skid for New York.

"They just outplayed us, plain and simple," Atkinson said.

The Nets are about to embark on a tough Western Conference road trip, facing the Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves before returning to Barclays Center.

DALLAS -- The right ankle that Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic sprained two weeks earlier felt fine during his return. His lungs were another story.

"I'm not going to lie, I was pretty tired going to the end of the game," Doncic said after the Mavs' 102-98 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night. "It's different. It's difficult when you're out four or five games. You've got to catch up. It's going to get better."

Doncic had 24 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists in the victory, a relatively mundane performance by the ridiculously high standards the 20-year-old has set this season. He was 9-of-23 from the floor and 1-of-6 from 3-point range in what Mavs coach Rick Carlisle described as "predictably kind of an uneven game."

Doncic suffered the sprain when he stepped on Miami Heat guard Kendrick Nunn's foot while driving to the basket in the opening minutes of the Mavs' Dec. 14 loss. He missed the next four games, traveling with the team on a road trip to Philadelphia and Toronto as he ramped up the workout facet of the recovery process, and he was a full participant in the Mavs' Christmas Eve practice.

There were signs of rust for Doncic early in the game. He committed all three of his turnovers and did not have an assist during the first quarter, but he also scored 10 points in the frame.

Doncic was dominant during the Mavs' 14-7 run to end the first half, accounting for all of Dallas' points by hitting his only 3 of the night and dishing out five assists.

"He had a few challenges early with rhythm and just kind of getting his legs under him," Carlisle said. "Then he got into a great flow as the game went on. Any time you're out for that amount of time and you've been a regular player, playing 33, 34 minutes, when you first come back it's going to hit you pretty quick with wind. But as the game went on, he felt really good."

It was Doncic's league-leading 23rd game this season with at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists, four more than LeBron James. Doncic saw a streak of 20 such games -- longer than anyone other than Oscar Robertson has had in NBA history -- snapped due to the injury.

"He did his thing again tonight," Mavs power forward Kristaps Porzingis said. "It's good to have him back."

While this wasn't Doncic's best performance, it did prompt Spurs coach Gregg Popovich to compare him to an all-time great.

"I hate to say this: He's not Magic Johnson, but it's Magic Johnson-like in the sense that he sees the floor in that same way," said Popovich, who watched Doncic record a 42-point triple-double the previous time the Spurs faced the Mavs. "He's got a real intuitive sense, and you can't teach that. He's just got it and he's great at it. I'm not trying to put the Magic Johnson pressure on him -- he's not ready for that yet -- but he's doing a hell of a job."