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On This Day in Sport (20 April 2010): 1887: Count Jules Philippe Albert de Dion won the world's first motor race using mechanical power. He averaged a speed of 37mph (59.5kmh) over the 19.3 mile (31km) course. 1981: Steve Davis won the first of his six world snooker titles by beating Doug Mountjoy 18-12 in the final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. 2001: Manchester United's Teddy Sheringham was voted Football Writers' Association Player of the Year. He was the first English player since Alan Shearer in 1994 to win the award. 2003: Jockey Richard Johnson rode his 1,000th domestic winner, on Quedex at Stratford. 2004: Football pundit Ron Atkinson resigned from ITV Sport after making a racist comment following a Champions League game between Chelsea and Monaco when he thought he was off-air. 2005: Huddersfield half-back Sean Penkywicz and Warrington winger Phil Berry were both banned for two years after testing positive for prohibited substances stanozolol and nandrolone respectively. 2006: Cardiff's Sophia Gardens was awarded an Ashes Test in 2009 at the expense of Old Trafford in a shock decision by the England and Wales Cricket Board. The Oval, Edgbaston, Headingley and Lord's were the other venues named. 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.