Football Association executive director David Davies has welcomed a tribunal’s report, which criticises former secretary Faria Alam for inventing sexual harassment claims.

World champion Shaun Murphy is through to the second of the Preston Grand Prix after a convincing 5-2 victory over Leicester’s Mark Selby.

KEN DOHERTY reached the semi-final of the China Open yesterday with his best performance of the season as his swept away Paul Hunter 5-1.

The Football Association’s board are today sitting in judgment of Sven-Goran Eriksson as they addressed the controversy which has overtaken the English football governing body following his affair with a secretary.

Sven-Goran Eriksson's fate will be decided in his absence today as the Football Association's board finally rules on the unseemly scandal which has bedevilled the governing body over the past few weeks.