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On This Day in Sport (21 October 2011):

1990: Twenty-one Arsenal and Manchester United players were involved in a mass brawl which resulted in both clubs being fined £50,000 and a deduction of two points for Arsenal and one point for United.
1996: Newcastle gave champions Manchester United their biggest defeat in 12 years, beating them 5-0 at St James' Park. But it was the Red Devils who went on to win the Premiership title, with the Magpies in second place.
2003: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was handed a two-match touchline ban and fined £10,000 after being charged with misconduct by the Football Association, following a verbal attack on referee Jeff Winter.
2004: Formula One's contract recognition board refused to ratify Jenson Button's move from BAR to Williams. He was forced to stay with BAR, and after an about-turn Button spent most of the 2005 season trying to extricate himself from an agreement with Williams.
2005: UK Sport announced that a footballer - who they did not name - had tested positive for cocaine and was serving a six-month suspension.

Headlines (21 October) :

Roo could be London 2012 hero
Wayne Rooney could yet play for Great Britain at the Olympic Games in London next summer.
Harry chuffed to see Pav score
Harry Redknapp was delighted to see Roman Pavlyuchenko net the winner in Tottenham's 1-0 Europa League Group A win over Rubin Kazan.
Donald and Simpson set for duel
Luke Donald and Webb Simpson have set up the prospect of a riveting end to the PGA Tour money list race in Florida this weekend.
Dhoni: England must be nicer
England were unable to do themselves justice as they succumbed to a series defeat by India - yet they stood accused of graver sins than that.
Hopkins regains world title
Bernard Hopkins has regained the WBC light-heavyweight title he lost against Chad Dawson after it was changed to a technical draw.
Shaky start for McGowan
Ross McGowan failed to pick up where he left off when the Castello Masters resumed in Spain on Friday.
Parra: Players hurt by criticism
Morgan Parra has claimed Franc have been stung by the criticism surrounding their appearance in Sunday's World Cup final against New Zealand.
Wheldon funeral on Saturday
The funeral of British IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon will be held in Florida on Saturday, series organisers have confirmed.
Keothavong claims Ivanovic scalp
Britain's Anne Keothavong claimed one of the biggest scalps of her career when she knocked Ana Ivanovic out of the Luxembourg Open.
Taylor powers past Nicholson
Phil Taylor claimed Championship League Darts glory for a second time, following up his nine-darter with a 6-1 defeat of Paul Nicholson.

International Results Roundup

Dateline 20 October 2011

FOOTBALL
Europa League
Group A
PAOK Salonika 2 Shamrock Rovers 1 Tottenham 1 Rubin Kazan 0
Group B
Hannover 96 2 FC Copenhagen 2 Standard Liege 0 Vorskla 0
Group C
Hapoel Tel-Aviv 0 PSV 1 Rapid Bucuresti 0 Legia Warsaw 1
Group D
FC Zurich 1 Lazio 1 Sporting 2 FC Vaslui 0
Group E
Dynamo Kiev 1 Besiktas 0 Stoke 3 Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0
Group F
Athletic Bilbao 2 SV Red Bull Salzburg 2 Slovan Bratislava 0 PSG 0
Group G
AZ 2 FK Austria Vienna 2 Malmo FF 1 FC Metalist Kharkiv 4
Group H
Club Brugge 1 Birmingham 2 Maribor 1 Braga 1
Group I
Rennes 1 Celtic 1 Udinese 2 Atletico Madrid 0
Group J
AEK 0 Schalke 04 5 Maccabi Haifa 5 Steaua Bucuresti 0
Group K
Odense BK 1 FC Twente 4 Wisla Krakow 1 Fulham 0
Group L
Lokomotiv Moscow 3 AEK Athens 1 SK Sturm Graz 0 Anderlecht 2
CRICKET
Pakistan v Sri Lanka Test Series : First Test at Abu Dhabi
Pakistan 511 - 6 dec 174.4 ovs Sri Lanka 197 all out 74.1 ovs 177 - 3 57.2 ovs In Progress
Bangladesh v West Indies Test Series : First Test at Chittagong
Bangladesh 223 - 3 78 ovs In Progress
India v England Punjab Cricket Assocn. Stadium, Mohali One Day Int Third Match
India beat England by 5 wickets.
GOLF
Castello Masters Collated first-round scores, Club de Campo del Mediterraneo, Castellon, Valencia, Spain(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 71):
64 Ross McGowan 66 Richard McEvoy, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 67 Anthony Wall, Gary Orr, Sergio Garcia (Spa), Danny Willett, George Coetzee (Rsa), Thongchai Jaidee (Tha), Michael Hoey 68 Thomas Aiken (Rsa), Niclas Fasth (Swe), Robert Coles, Marcel Siem (Ger), Steven O'Hara, Mark Foster 69 Damien McGrane, James Kingston (Rsa), Scott Strange (Aus), Matteo Manassero (Ita), Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Mark Brown (Nzl), Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Alexander Noren (Swe), Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa), Gregory Havret (Fra)
TENNIS
ATP Kremlin Cup
Men's 2nd rd:
Jeremy Chardy (Fra) bt (3) Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukr) 6-3 7-6 (8-6)
Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) bt (7) Gilles Muller (Lux) 7-6 (7-4) 6-3
(6) Dmitry Tursunov (Rus) bt Julien Benneteau (Fra) 6-3 7-6 (7-1)
(1) Janko Tipsarevic (Ser) bt Igor Kunitsyn (Rus) 6-7 (5-7) 6-1 6-0
WTA Kremlin Cup
2nd rd:
Elena Vesnina (Rus) bt Ekaterina Ivanova (Rus) 6-3 6-4
(8) Dominika Cibulkova (Svk) bt Klara Zakopalova (Cze) 7-6 (7-5) 6-2
(3) Marion Bartoli (Fra) bt Ksenia Pervak (Rus) 6-1 6-1
(6) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) bt Tsvetana Pironkova (Bul) 7-5 7-5
ATP Tour If Stockholm Open
2nd rd:
Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) bt (4) Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) 6-2 5-7 6-1
Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) bt (3) Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) 6-3 6-4
Tobias Kamke (Ger) bt Sebastian Rieschick (Ger) 6-3 6-1
(1) Gael Monfils (Fra) bt Bernard Tomic (Aus) 6-4 6-7 (4-7) 6-4
David Nalbandian (Arg) bt (7) Ivan Dodig (Cro) 6-1 6-1