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Headlines (20 April) :
Alguero wants Blues move
Atletico Madrid striker Sergio Aguero angles for
summer move to Chelsea and says Man City are 'not ready' for title challenge
Jimenez fancies Celtic job
Former Sevilla boss Manolo Jimenez reveals he would
"love" to manage Celtic. "They are the Real Madrid or
Barcelona of Scotland," he opines.
Rocky road trip for Rafa
Liverpool set off for Madid today assessing their
travel plans by the hour. Benitez refuses to give up on fourth after
routine win over West Ham.
Toon bag title, Pilgrims are down
Newcastle win 2-0 at Home Park to claim the
Championship title, sending Plymouth down to Division One
Ronnie gets a rocket for rudeness
Ronnie O'Sullivan is warned for making a rude gesture
as he takes a 7-2 lead over Liang Wenbo at the World Championship
Durham secure big name duo
Durham have splashed out on South Africa's Albie
Morkel and Kiwi Ross Taylor for this summer's Twenty20 campaign.
Fu shocked by Gould
Qualifier Martin Gould causes the first shock of the
World Championship after beating Marco Fu 10-9 in Sheffield
Delph blow for Villa
Aston Villa midfielder Fabian Delph is ruled out for
up to eight months after suffering a ruptured anterior cruciate
ligament in training |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 19
April 2010
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Liverpool 3 West Ham 0
Coca-Cola Championship
Plymouth 0 Newcastle 2
Scottish Division One
Partick 0 Raith 0
TENNIS
ATP Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell
1st rd:
Thiemo De Bakker (Ned) bt Alejandro Falla (Col) 6-1 6-0
Jan Hajek (Cze) bt Potito Starace (Ita) 6-1 6-4
Eduardo Schwank (Arg) bt Fabio Fognini (Ita) 6-1 6-3
(13) Thomaz Bellucci (Bra) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Fin)
6-4 6-4
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa) bt Christophe Rochus
(Bel) 5-7 6-1 6-3
Juan Ignacio Chela (Arg) bt Filip Krajinovic (Ser) 6-1 6-4
(15) Nicolas Almagro (Spa) bt Santiago Ventura (Spa)
6-1 6-2
Pablo Cuevas (Uru) bt Horacio Zeballos (Arg) 7-6 (7-2) 6-2
Oscar Hernandez (Spa) bt Illya Marchenko (Ukr) 6-7
(2-7) 6-2 6-4
Marcel Granollers (Spa) bt Lukasz Kubot (Pol) 6-4 6-3
Simon Greul (Ger) bt Pere Riba (Spa) 6-4 6-4
Richard Gasquet (Fra) bt Igor Andreev (Rus) 7-6 (7-5) 6-4
ATHLETICS
Kenyan Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot and Teyba Erkesso, of
Ethiopia, were the respective men's and women's winners in the 114th
Boston Marathon. The latest Cheruiyot on the block, Robert Kiprono
followed four-time race winner Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, 10 years
his senior, on to the Boston honour roll. The 21-year-old smashed his
namesake's four-year-old men's course record of two hours seven
minutes and 14 seconds by clocking 2hrs 5mins 32secs in perfect
conditions on Patriots' Day in Massachusetts. |