In the UK, two of Baby P’s social workers have lost an appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that they were fairly sacked.

BULGARIA overcame the absence of star striker Dimitar Berbatov and reignited their hopes of World Cup qualification with a hard-fought win over Cyprus in Sofia to claim their first victory in Group Eight yesterday.

About 200 Greek Cypriots blocked access to a British military base today to protest against job outsourcing.

Aigaleo: Sidibe, Papoutsis, Alexopoulos, Psomas, Edusei, Fotakis, Skopeletis, Barkoglou, Chloros, Nikolopoulos, Manousakis. Subs: Kljajevic, Christou, Liapakis, Tsatsos, Makris, Chatsis, Tsagavelis.

Fulham take on Aigaleo in tonight's Intertoto Cup third round second-leg clash.