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On This Day in Sport (01 October 2010):

1936: Duncan Edwards was born. The youngest England football international since the 19th century when he made his debut, aged 18, against Scotland in 1955. He died of injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster in 1958.
1951: The first competitive football match was played under floodlights at The Dell, a reserve contest between Southampton and Tottenham.
1975: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali fought the `Thrilla in Manila' for the world heavyweight title. Defending champion Ali emerged the victor at the end of 14 rounds of unrelenting action.
1998: Former Arsenal boss George Graham became the new manager of Tottenham.
2000: Boxer Audley Harrison grabbed Great Britain's 10th gold medal of the Sydney Olympics when he beat Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov in the super-heavyweight division at Darling Harbour.
2005: Former New Zealand wing Jonah Lomu signed for Cardiff Blues.
2006: Norwich sacked their manager Nigel Worthington.

Headlines (01 October) :

Fabregas faces fitness fight
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits that Cesc Fabregas is struggling to be fit for Sunday's Premier League clash at Chelsea
Rooney could be fit for England
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson tells MUTV that Wayne Rooney could be fit to play for England in their Euro 2012 qualifier with Montenegro
City reveal record losses
Manchester City announce a record loss of £121.3m for the 12 months to May 31, with their wage bill alone exceeding their turnover
Watson sets up Australia
Shane Watson and Ricky Ponting put Australia on course for a big total against India with the visitors reaching 179 for three at tea on day one
Tait sidelined for two months
Australia paceman Shaun Tait will miss the one-day series against India after undergoing elbow surgery on Friday
Hamilton won't change his style
Lewis Hamilton will not change his approach despite back-to-back retirements in Italy and Singapore doing severe damage to his title bid
Respect to be paid to Newton
There will be a minute's silence to remember Terry Newton ahead of Saturday's Grand Final between Wigan and St Helens at Old Trafford

International Results Roundup

Dateline 30 September 2010

FOOTBALL
Europa League
Group A
Lech Poznan 2 SV Red Bull Salzburg 0 Man City 1 Juventus 1
Group B
Atletico Madrid 1 Bayer Leverkusen 1 Rosenborg 2 Aris Salonika 1
Group C
AA Gent 1 Lille 1 Sporting 5 Levski Sofia 0
Group D
PAOK Salonika 1 Dinamo Zagreb 0 Villarreal 2 Club Brugge 1
Group E
BATE 4 AZ 1 FC Sheriff 2 Dynamo Kiev 0
Group F
CSKA Moscow 3 Sparta Prague 0 Palermo 1 Lausanne Sports 0
Group G
Hajduk Split 1 Anderlecht 0 Zenit St Petersburg 4 AEK Athens 2
Group H
Odense BK 1 VfB Stuttgart 2 Young Boys 2 Getafe 0
Group I
FC Metalist Kharkiv 0 PSV 2 Sampdoria 1 Debrecen 0
Group J
Borussia Dortmund 0 Sevilla 1 PSG 2 Karpaty Lviv 0
Group K
FC Utrecht 0 Liverpool 0 Steaua Bucuresti 3 Napoli 3
Group L
CSKA Sofia 0 FC Porto 1
TENNIS
WTA Toray Pan Pacific Open Quarter-final
(8) Victoria Azarenka (Blr) bt Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 6-2 6-1
(5) Francesca Schiavone (Ita) bt Kaia Kanepi (Est) 7-5 4-6 7-5
(1) Caroline Wozniacki (Den) bt (6) Agnieszka Radwanska (Pol) 5-0 ret
(7) Elena Dementieva (Rus) bt (2) Vera Zvonareva (Rus) 7-5 6-2
ATP PTT Thailand Open
2nd rd
Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) bt (7) Viktor Troicki (Ser) 7-6 (7-4) 6-2
Benjamin Becker (Ger) bt (2) Fernando Verdasco (Spa) 6-4 6-4
(1) Rafael Nadal (Spa) bt Ruben Bemelmans (Bel) 6-1 6-4
Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz) bt Olivier Rochus (Bel) 6-4 5-7 6-3
ATP Malaysian Open
2nd rd
(8) Andrey Golubev (Kaz) bt Kevin Anderson (Rsa) 6-4 7-6 (7-4)
(3) Tomas Berdych (Cze) bt Denis Istomin (Uzb) 6-4 6-3
(1) Robin Soderling (Swe) bt Edouard Roger-Vasselin (Fra) 6-0 6-1
(5) David Ferrer (Spa) bt Yuki Bhambri (Ind) 6-2 6-2
CYCLING
David Millar claimed time-trial silver at cycling's World Championships in Melbourne, seven years after a title win he later admitted was achieved with the use of the banned blood booster EPO. Millar, who has become a powerful anti-doping advocate since he was stripped of the 2003 world time-trial gold medal, was the best of the rest behind Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland.