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On This Day in Sport (13 April 2011):

1936: Joe Payne set a Football League record by scoring 10 goals for Luton in a Division Three (South) match against Bristol Rovers.
1980: Seve Ballesteros became the youngest winner of the US Masters at the age of 23 years and four days.
1986: Ayrton Senna, in a Lotus, beat Britain's Nigel Mansell to win the Spanish Grand Prix by just 14 hundredths of a second.
1999: Kevin Phillips scored four as Sunderland clinched promotion to the Premiership with a 5-2 victory over Bury.
2000: Rugby league legend Shaun Edwards, the most decorated player in the game's history, announced his retirement after a 17-year career with Wigan and Great Britain following a succession of knee and head injuries.
2002: First Division champions Manchester City signed former Denmark international and Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel from Aston Villa.
2003: Paula Radcliffe smashed the women's marathon record - becoming the first woman to run under two hours 16 minutes - with a successful defence of her London Marathon title.
2004: Roy Keane announced he would return to play for the Republic of Ireland - having quit international football after his highly-publicised bust-up with former international manager Mick McCarthy at the 2002 World Cup finals..
2010 Manchester City's Emmanuel Adebayor announces his retirement from international football, citing the attack on the Togo team bus as the reason for his decision

Headlines (13 April) :

Fergie: Chelsea are 'obsessed'
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is "obsessed" with winning the Champions League.
Saints swoop for Hohaia
St Helens have signed New Zealand international and World Cup winner Lance Hohaia as a direct replacement for rugby union-bound Kyle Eastmond.
Broad signs new Notts deal
England seamer Stuart Broad has signed a new three-year contract with his county side Nottinghamshire.
Tevez blow as Mancini owns up
Carlos Tevez is set to miss Manchester City's FA Cup semi-final derby, while his manager Roberto Mancini admits he "made a mistake" on Monday.
Carroll joy after Anfield brace
Andy Carroll was left beaming after his first goals for Liverpool helped them to an emphatic 3-0 win at home to Manchester City on Monday.
Nine-week ban for Sale's Cueto
Sale's Mark Cueto has been banned for nine weeks after pleading guilty to "making contact with the eye or eye area" of a Northampton player.
RFU issues warning to Foden
The RFU have warned England international Ben Foden as to his future conduct after he received a police caution for causing criminal damage.
Lancashire win, draw for Durham
Lancashire beat Sussex by an innings and 55 runs in LV=County Championship Division One on Monday, while Hampshire drew with Durham.
Khan refuses to fight on SS3
Amir Khan has lost "a big lump sum" by apparently refusing to lower himself to fighting on Sky Sports 3 this Saturday.
Tsonga fightback stuns Monaco
Home favourite Jo-Wilfried Tsonga had to come from a set down to get the better of Juan Monaco at the Monte Carlo Masters on Monday.

International Results Roundup

Dateline 12 April 2011

FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Liverpool 3 Man City 0
TENNIS
ATP Monte Carlo Rolex Masters
1st rd:
Florian Mayer (Ger) bt (10) Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) 6-3 2-6 6-3
(11) Viktor Troicki (Ser) bt Jean-Rene Lisnard (Mon) 7-6 (7-4) 6-1
Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spa) bt Santiago Giraldo (Col) 7-6 (7-4) 7-5
Olivier Rochus (Bel) bt Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) 6-4 5-7 7-5
(9) Nicolas Almagro (Spa) bt Marcel Granollers (Spa) 6-3 6-3
Tommy Robredo (Spa) bt Ivan Dodig (Cro) 6-4 6-2
(13) Richard Gasquet (Fra) bt Denis Istomin (Uzb) 5-7 6-3 6-4
Frederico Gil (Por) bt Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) 6-1 6-3
Radek Stepanek (Cze) bt Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) 3-6 6-1 7-6 (9-7)
Robin Haase (Ned) bt Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) 7-5 4-6 6-4
(15) Marin Cilic (Cro) bt Filippo Volandri (Ita) 6-2 6-1
(12) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) bt Juan Monaco (Arg) 4-6 6-3 6-2
Jarkko Nieminen (Fin) bt Julien Benneteau (Fra) 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-3)