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Headlines (20 September) :
Gough doubts Flintoff has England future
Darren Gough believes Andrew Flintoff's England career
is over.
Nugent double draws praise from Coyle
Burnley manager Owen Coyle hailed his match-winner
David Nugent after the on-loan striker came off the bench to sink
Sunderland with a late double.
Potter pleased with defensive improvement
St Helens coach Mick Potter hailed his team's
defensive efforts as they moved to within 80 minutes of a fourth
successive Grand Final appearance with a 15-2 win over Huddersfield.
O'Neill backs Agbonlahor for England
Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill believes it will be
difficult to leave Gabriel Agbonlahor out of England's World Cup
squad if he maintains his current form.
Megson bemoans 'lack of determination'
Bolton manager Gary Megson took a sideswipe at his
defenders after the 1-1 draw against Stoke at the Reebok Stadium.
O'Connor comes off sick bed to score
Birmingham manager Alex McLeish revealed match-winner
Garry O'Connor almost missed Saturday's 1-0 win at Hull through illness.
Wenger defends Eboue against 'cheat' charges
Arsene Wenger was forced to defend midfielder Emmanuel
Eboue after another cheating row brewed during Arsenal's Barclays
Premier League victory Wigan.
Walters delights in play-off win
Catalans coach Kevin Walters felt his side answered
their detractors after they beat Wakefield 25-16 in the engage Super
League elimination play-off to secure a trip to Huddersfield next Friday.
Benitez: More to come from Torres
Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez insisted two-goal hero
Fernando Torres could become even better after the Reds edged a
five-goal thriller 3-2 over West Ham at Upton Park.
Mayweather back with stylish victory
Floyd Mayweather returned to the ring for the first
time in more than 20 months with an impressive unanimous points
victory over Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 19 September 2009
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Arsenal 4 Wigan 0 Aston Villa 2 Portsmouth 0 Bolton 1
Stoke 1 Burnley 3 Sunderland 1 Hull 0 Birmingham 1 West Ham 2
Liverpool 3
Scottish Premier
Aberdeen 1 St Mirren 0 Dundee Utd 0 Motherwell 1
Hamilton 0 Falkirk 0 Hibernian 3 St Johnstone 0 Kilmarnock 0 Rangers 0
Coca-Cola Championship
Barnsley 0 Swansea 0 Bristol City 1 Scunthorpe 1
Cardiff 0 QPR 2 Crystal Palace 1 Derby 0 Doncaster 3 Ipswich 3
Middlesbrough 0 West Brom 5 Newcastle 3 Plymouth 1 Nottm Forest 0
Blackpool 1 Peterborough 3 Reading 2 Preston 3 Coventry 2 Watford 3
Leicester 3
CRICKET
Sussex v Yorkshire Hove
LV County Championship - Division One Yorkshire beat
Sussex by 156 runs. Bonus points: Sussex 7 , Yorkshire 6
Somerset v Worcestershire Taunton
LV County Championship - Division One Match Drawn
Bonus points: Somerset 4 , Worcestershire 8
Glamorgan v Gloucestershire The SWALEC Stadium
LV County Championship - Division Two Match Drawn
Bonus points: Glamorgan 8 , Gloucestershire 5
Hampshire v Nottinghamshire The Rose Bowl
NatWest Pro40 - Division One Hampshire beat
Nottinghamshire by 142 runs.
Middlesex v Northamptonshire Uxbridge
NatWest Pro40 - Division Two Middlesex beat
Northamptonshire by 78 runs.
RUGBY UNION
Tri-Nations Series
New Zealand (16) 33 Australia (6) 6
Guinness Premiership
Gloucester (14) 14 Northampton (19) 27 Harlequins (6)
9 Saracens (6) 22 Leicester (12) 15 Newcastle (3) 6
The Magners League
Scarlets (10) 20 Munster (10) 22
RUGBY LEAGUE
Super League Elimination Playoff
Wakefield (2) 16 Catalans Dragons (16) 25
Super League Qualifying Playoff
St Helens (14) 15 Huddersfield (2) 2
National Conference League Premier Division
Hull Dockers 42 York Acorn 14 Ince Rose Bridge 22
Wigan St Patricks 12 Leigh MR 20 Siddal 18 Oulton Raiders 8 East Hull
10 Skirlaugh 20 Leigh East 10 Widnes St Maries 18 West Hull 10 Wigan
St Judes 50 Wath Brow Hornets 20
GOLF
Austrian Open
Collated third round scores from the European Tour's
Austrian Golf Open at Fontana GC in Vienna, Austria (Gbr & Irl
unless stated, par 71):
196 Benn Barham 63 66 67 199 Soren Hansen (Den) 67 67
65 200 Richard Green (Aus) 65 66 69 201 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 69 67
65 203 Brett Rumford (Aus) 64 71 68, Richard Bland 68 70 65 204
Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 65 70 69, David Howell 69 69 66, Scott
Drummond 64 68 72, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 68 65 71, David Drysdale 69 68
67, Markus Brier (Aut) 68 67 69, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 71 67 66,
Pablo Martin (Spa) 66 68 70
Albertsons Boise Open
Collated third-round scores from the Nationwide Tour's
Albertsons Boise Open Presented by Kraft at Hillcrest Country Club,
Boise, Idaho (Par: 71)
199 Blake Adams 63 65 71 201 Jonas Blixt 69 64 68,
Fran Quinn 68 65 68 202 Roger Tambellini 70 68 64, Ron Whittaker 69
69 64 203 Craig Bowden 70 65 68, Andrew Buckle 69 68 66, Lucas Lee 70
69 64 204 Chris Baryla 67 68 69, Michael Clark II 69 68 67, Tom
Gillis 73 66 65, Bradley Iles 68 67 69, Won Joon Lee 68 68 68, Brian
Smock 71 66 67, Tjaart Van der Walt 68 67 69
Greater Hickory Classic
Collated second-round scores from the Champions Tour's
Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn Golf & Spa Club in Conover,
North Carolina (USA unless stated, par 72):
133 Jay Haas 62 71, Nick Price (Zim) 66 67 135 Gil
Morgan 65 70, Andy Bean 67 68, Russ Cochran 67 68 136 Gene Jones 68
68, Jeff Sluman 67 69, Joe Ozaki (Jpn) 70 66, David Frost (Rsa) 68
68, Fred Funk 69 67, Hal Sutton 67 69, Bob Tway 69 67, Lonnie Nielsen
68 68, Mark McNulty (Irl) 67 69 137 Jim Thorpe 68 69, Brad Bryant 70
67, Dan Forsman 67 70, Scott Simpson 70 67, Olin Browne 70 67, Larry
Nelson 69 68, Bobby Wadkins 67 70, Tim Simpson 70 67
LPGA World Championship
Collated third-round scores from the LPGA Tour Samsung
World Championship in Torrey Pines GC in San Diego, California (USA
unless stated, par 72):
201 Na Yeon Choi (Kor) 71 67 63 203 Jiyai Shin (Kor)
66 69 68 204 Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 68 68 68 208 Paula Creamer 69 69 70,
Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 67 69 72 211 Yani Tseng (Tai) 75 66 70, Cristie
Kerr 72 66 73 212 Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 67 70 75 213 Brittany
Lincicome 70 70 73, Suzann Pettersen (Nor) 71 72 70
TENNIS
Davis Cup World Group semi-finals
Croatia v Czech Republic 3rd Rubber: Tomas Berdych
(Cze) & Radek Stepanek (Cze) bt Marin Cilic (Cro) & Lovro
Zovko (Cro) 6-1 6-3 6-4 Czech Republic beat Croatia 3-0
Spain v Israel 3rd Rubber: Feliciano Lopez (Spa) &
Tommy Robredo (Spa) bt Jonathan Erlich (Isr) & Andy Ram (Isr) 7-6
(8-6) 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 6-2 Spain beat Israel 3-0
World Group play-offs
Belgium v Ukraine 3rd Rubber: Sergiy Stakhovsky &
Sergei Bubka (Ukr) bt Olivier Rochus & Xavier Malisse (Bel) 7-6
(7-5) 3-6 6-4 7-6 (7-4) Belgium lead Ukraine 2-1
Italy v Switzerland
3rd Rubber: Simone Bolleli & Potito Starace (Ita)
bt Marco Chiudinelli & Stanislas Wawrinka (Sui) 6-2 6-4 7-6 (7-3)
Switzerland lead Italy 2-1
South Africa v India
3rd Rubber: Wesley Moodie & Jeff Coetzee (Rsa) bt
Mahesh Bhupathi & Rohan Bopanna (Ind) 6-3 3-6 4-0ret India lead
South Africa 2-1
Netherlands v France
3rd Rubber: Michael Llodra & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
(Fra) bt Igor Sijsling & Thiemo de Bakker (Ned) 6-3 3-6 7-6 (7-2)
6-4 France lead Netherlands 2-1]
Serbia v Uzbekistan
3rd Rubber: Nenad Zimonjic & Janko Tipsarevic
(Srb) bt Denis Istomin & Farrukh Dustov (Uxb) 6-2 6-3 6-2 Serbia
beat Uzbekistan 3-0
Sweden v Romania
3rd Rubber: Robin Soderling & Robert Lindstedt
(Swe) bt Victor Hanescu & Horia Tecau (Rou) 6-1 7-6 (9-7) 7-6
(7-5) Sweden lead Romania 2-1
Brazil v Ecuador
3rd Rubber: Giovanni Lapentti & Nicolas Lapentti
(Ecu) bt Andre Sa & Marcelo Mello (Bra) 3-6 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-4.
Ecuador lead Brazil 2-1
Chile v Austria
3rd Rubber: Jurgen Melzer & Julian Knowle (Aut) bt
Paul Capdeville & Nicolas Massu (Chi) 6-2 6-4 6-3 Chile lead
Austria 2-1
Euro-Africa Zone I relegation play-off
Great Britain v Poland
3rd Rubber: Mariusz Fyrstenberg (Pol) & Marcin
Matkowski (Pol) bt Ross Hutchins (Gbr) & Andy Murray (Gbr) 7-5
3-6 6-3 6-2 Poland lead Great Britain 2-1
ATHLETICS
Haile Gebrselassie won the real-Berlin Marathon for
the fourth year in succession on Sunday morning in an unofficial time
of two hours six minutes eight seconds. The Ethiopian made a brave
attempt to break the world record of 2hrs 3mins 59secs he set in last
year's race and paid the penalty for his ferocious efforts in the
early stages.
EQUESTRIAN
Carl Hester won his 50th national dressage title today
as he continued to dominate classes at Stoneleigh Park in
Warwickshire. The British rider, a European team silver medalist in
Windsor last month, took the grand prix section on Liebling II, and
then the intermediate I freestyle category with Uthopia |
