Maccabi Tel Aviv 0 Chelsea 4: Chelsea’s Champions League fate will go to the final group game after a 4-0 win over 10-man Maccabi Tel Aviv earned successive victories for the first time in two months.

The pressure on Jose Mourinho cranked up another notch as holders Chelsea crashed out of the Capital One Cup with a 5-4 loss on penalties at 10-man Stoke following a 1-1 draw after 120 minutes.

Walsall 1 Chelsea 4: Chelsea continued to rebuild their season as they eased past Walsall in the Capital One Cup.

The Republic of Ireland U19 side suffered a heart-breaking loss to hosts Germany in their UEFA U19 Championships Elite Qualifying Round encounter in Sandhausen today.

Africa Cup of Nations: Ivory Coast 0 Ghana 0 (Ivory Coast win 9-8 on penalties).

Ghana 3 Equatorial Guinea 0

Ireland U19 1 Serbia U19 3

Oscar Pistorius vomited in the dock and retched repeatedly and loudly at his murder trial as he heard graphic details of the injuries sustained by the girlfriend he shot, including a head wound that was probably instantly fatal, according to the pathologist who performed her autopsy.

Oscar Pistorius has vomited in the dock at his murder trial as he heard graphic details of the injuries sustained by the girlfriend he fatally shot.

The chief prosecutor in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius has asked the judge to bar broadcasting of what he says will be graphic evidence from the expert who carried out the post-mortem examination on Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead by her athlete boyfriend.

A security guard who said he spoke with Oscar Pistorius soon after the fatal shooting of Reeva Steenkamp was questioned by the amputee athlete’s defence today about his recollection of events that night.

A security guard who says he spoke with Oscar Pistorius soon after the fatal shooting of Reeva Steenkamp was continuing to give evidence at the double-amputee athlete’s murder trial today.

Oscar Pistorius told a concerned security guard on the phone that everything was “fine” after neighbours reported gunshots coming from his house the night he shot dead his girlfriend, his murder trial has heard.

Three points against Romania in today’s Uefa Championship U21 qualifier is the birthday present of choice for Ireland winger Sean Murray.

Ireland U19 0 Slovenia U19 3

Republic of Ireland U19 2 Slovakia U19 2

Ireland U19 manager Paul Doolin wants Uefa chiefs in Serbia next week to protect his players from anything like the racism England were subjected to last October.

Luxembourg U19 2 Ireland U19 5

Ireland U17 3 Azerbaijan U17 0

The first African-born player to captain Ireland, Cameroon native Noe Baba, will lead out the Under-17s tonight against Azerbaijan in his new home of Castlebar (6pm).

Edna O’Brien’s 1960 novel The Country Girls was banned. Now she has adapted it for the stage, she tells Carl Dixon

One of Ireland’s brightest young soccer stars has spoken out about the racist abuse he suffers playing with his home club in Mayo.

THE in-form Kerryroad Baba can land a competitive Barry’s Tea Open 750 Stakes final at Curraheen Park tonight.

Indian Hindu holy man Sathya Sai Baba, considered a living god by followers, has died. He was 86.

Saints and Sinners

MANAGER Liam Buckley’s pre-match wish of keeping it tight and hoping to score first never materialised as Sporting Fingal bowed out of Europe at Dalymount Park last night.

A STOPPAGE-time Maritimo winner may have broken Sporting Fingal hearts, but manager Liam Buckley praised his players, insisting this tie is still very much in the melting pot.

NOT exactly impressed by the local media placing the tag of ‘David versus Goliath’ on the tie, Sporting Fingal manager Liam Buckley will hope that his extensive preparation will give his side every chance as the club makes its European debut at the Estadio da Madeira tonight.

George Moore was left dreaming of big midsummer targets for Bogside Theatre after the classy mare outclassed her rivals at Catterick.

Coach Michael Bradley has named the Ireland team to play the Barbarians in Kingsholm, Gloucester next Tuesday in their summer tour warm up game.

DOZENS of filthy and exhausted children, some as young as 12 months, cowered in a Nigerian police station yesterday after being discovered packed into a fishmonger’s truck, possibly to be sold into slavery.

CHELSEA assistant manager Steve Clarke has warned England’s top clubs that no one else is leaving Stamford Bridge during the current transfer window.

AZERBAIJAN’S long-serving president Haydar Aliyev collapsed while delivering a televised speech yesterday, briefly revived, but fell again.

JUST when you thought Michael Jackson could not get any more bizarre, a new report says the singer hired an African voodoo chief to put a death curse on Steven Spielberg and David Geffen.

MANCHESTER UNITED manager Alex Ferguson yesterday confirmed that David Beckham would be fit to face Chelsea in tonight’s Worthington Cup.

KEITH GLEESON is fortunate he is available to play for Ireland against world champions Australia at Lansdowne Road on Saturday.