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On This Day in Sport (10 March 2010): 1947: The fourth-wicket partnership between Gulzar Mahomed and Vijay Hazare produced 577 runs in Baroda, India, against Holkar - setting a world record in first-class cricket. 1992: David O'Leary played his 700th game for Arsenal, a record for the north London club. 2001: Roy Essandoh swept second division Wycombe into the FA Cup semi-finals with a stoppage-time headed winner against Leicester at Filbert Street. 2004: Greg Rusedski was cleared of taking the performance-enhancing drug nandrolone by an independent anti-doping tribunal after successfully arguing any excess levels in his system were as a result of an approved supplement given to him by trainers. 2005: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was fined £5,000 by the Football Association for accusing Manchester United players of diving and cheating, while the club were also hit with a #15,000 punishment after a brawl at Blackburn. Headlines (10 March) : Wenger tells young Gunners to focus Arsene Wenger has called on his young Arsenal side to focus on eliminating their own "weak moments" rather than get obsessed with the chance of revenge against Manchester United or Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Blues boss backing Benitez Birmingham manager Alex McLeish paid tribute to Christian Benitez after he inspired his side to a 2-1 triumph at Portsmouth last night. Bent to the rescue for Bruce Steve Bruce was a relieved man after seeing Darren Bent fire Sunderland to a first Barclays Premier League win of 2010. Onions ruled out of opener England bowler Graham Onions has been ruled out of the first Test against Bangladesh with a back injury. Klitschko brothers keen to face Haye Vitali Klitschko will defend his WBC heavyweight title against London-based Pole Albert Sosnowski on May 29 - and then flip a coin with brother Wladimir to decide who fights Britain's David Haye. Pulis in the dark over line-up Stoke manager Tony Pulis could be forced to field an understrength side against Burnley on Wednesday night at Turf Moor. De Luca out to seize on chance Nick De Luca spent Scotland's last Calcutta Cup win "schmoozing" the prawn sandwich brigade at Murrayfield. Leonardo ducks Beckham issue AC Milan coach Leonardo is not promising David Beckham a place in his starting line-up at Old Trafford on Wednesday night even though he is aware what a big occasion it is for the former Manchester United favourite. Youngs stunned to get on the bench Rookie scrum-half Ben Youngs admitted no one could have been more surprised than him to discover he was on the England bench for Saturday's Calcutta Cup showdown with Scotland. Delve facing Super 15 dilemma Recalled Wales forward Gareth Delve is weighing up the possibility of joining England castaway Danny Cipriani in Australia next season. International Results Roundup Dateline 09 March 2010 FOOTBALL UEFA Champions League Second Round 2nd Leg Arsenal 5 FC Porto 0 Arsenal won 6-2 on aggregate Fiorentina 3 Bayern Munich 2 Bayern Munich won on away goals Barclays Premier League Portsmouth 1 Birmingham 2 Sunderland 4 Bolton 0 Scottish Premier Kilmarnock 0 Rangers 2 St Mirren 0 Motherwell 0 Coca-Cola Championship Crystal Palace 0 Bristol City 1 Ipswich 2 Cardiff 0 Peterborough 1 Sheff Utd 0 Preston 1 Doncaster 1 QPR 2 Plymouth 0 Watford 0 Swansea 1 West Brom 1 Sheff Wed 0 TENNIS ITF France F4 Futures Men's 1st rd: Kenny De Schepper (Fra) bt (4) Izak Van Der Merwe (Rsa) 6-2 6-3, Romain Jouan (Fra) bt Olivier Patience (Fra) 4-6 6-3 6-3 Tak Khunn Wang (Fra) bt Clement Reix (Fra) 7-5 6-3 Denis Matsukevitch (Rus) bt (8) Raven Klaasen (Rsa) 6-2 ret Thomas Dupre (Fra) bt Maxime Bonami (Fra) 6-3 6-3 (2) Yannick Mertens (Bel) bt Francois-Arthur Vibert (Fra) 6-4 6-4 CYCLING William Bonnet raced to victory on stage two of the Paris-Nice into Limoges. The Frenchman took the win for the Bbox Bouygues Telecom team on the 201.5-kilometre trek from Contres after getting the better of Peter Sagan (Liquigas) in a drag to the line.