Your daily, spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.

I’m not going to even debate whether our first goal should have stood or not as the Cardiff keeper shouldn’t have even been on the pitch after handling the ball outside his area.

The age old adage that you should be careful what you wish for is certainly holding true for Darren Clarke, just eight months after what was described as an “unseemly” politicking for the Ryder Cup captaincy.

IT’S almost 40 years since Michael D Higgins became a member of the Oireachtas.

AN UNUSUALLY thoughtful film amid the brainless bluster of the summer’s blockbuster fare, The Conspirator (12A) stars Robin Wright as Mary Surratt, the woman who was accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War.

THE catastrophe that has engulfed Japan could also make or break its prime minister, Naoto Kan.

Lope De Vega romped away with the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) at Chantilly today to follow up his victory in the French 2000 Guineas.

Ruth Carr has her horses in cracking form and she sent out her fifth winner in six days when completing a double with the tough and consistent sprinters Moheebb and Red Cape at Ripon today.

WHEN the French, voting in large numbers, rejected the European constitution (the Lisbon Treaty in readable form), the then president of the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker, along with José Manuel Barroso, called for the ratification process to continue.

HEALTH MINISTER Mary Harney will face a Dáil motion of no confidence from Labour tomorrow but make no mistake about it, this is a challenge to Mr Ahern’s authority to continue as Taoiseach.

David Chapman’s admirable sprinter Quito has been retired after returning sore from his last run in the July Cup at Newmarket.

The organisers of the Tour de France have criticised cycling’s world governing body over doping controls, describing the UCI as “incompetent”.

Frankie Dettori’s dream run continued as he secured his third Classic in the space of eight days when partnering West Wind to victory in the Prix de Diane Hermes (French Oaks) at Chantilly yesterday.

Players’ union executive Mick McGuire was today accused of telling lies by denying he had anything to do with Crystal Palace manager Iain Dowie’s move to rivals Charlton.

CRAZY VOLUME, with a run under her belt, should prove hard to beat in the Irish Stallion Farms' EBF Fillies Maiden at Tipperary this evening.

Nottingham racegoers can look forward to what should prove an informative renewal of the Victoria Antiques Conditions Stakes at Colwick Park tomorrow.

Racing Post Trophy winner Palace Episode heads a field of six declared for the totesport Dante Stakes at York tomorrow.

Racing Post Trophy winner Palace Episode has been supplemented for the Derby at a cost of £8,000 (€11,500).

Kieren Fallon and Aidan O’Brien continued in top form as they teamed up to take the John Smith’s Cup with favourite Mullins Bay at a packed York today.

JOHN OXX’S once-raced Laudable can get us away to the perfect start by taking the opening Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Gowran Park this evening.

Machiavellian, one of Europe’s leading stallions and sire of two Dubai World Cup winners, has been put down at the age of 17.

DENMARK’S fine wing play and Sweden’s gifted strikers should determine the result of tonight’s Group C decider, being played in the rarefied atmosphere of Italian-generated conspiracy theories.

MARK JOHNSTON has issued an upbeat report on star filly Attraction who is currently sidelined with a fractured pedal bone.

HARTSHEAD can land a first career success in the Tote Bookmakers Series Handicap at Hamilton.

Right Approach, the English Queen’s possible Vodafone Derby contender, could make his seasonal reappearance at Sandown on Friday.