Galatasaray 1 Manchester United 0

Turkey has warned it will retaliate if Syrian aircraft enter its airspace amid a third day of air strikes by Syrian forces against rebels along the border with Turkey.

Ireland U21 manager Noel King is refusing to give up the Euro qualification quest following last night’s defeat to 10-man Turkey.

CROATIA all but guaranteed themselves a place at Euro 2012 after hammering hosts Turkey in the first leg of their play-off at the Ataturk Stadium last night.

IRELAND U21 boss Noel King is adamant his side are still in the mix for reaching the 2013 European Championships after watching them suffer a first competitive loss under his reign in Manisa.

LIVERPOOL manager Roy Hodgson insists he wants to build his team around people like Dirk Kuyt and has no intention of selling him.

Midfielder Joe Cole will make his return to Liverpool’s starting line up this evening as manager Roy Hodgson makes five changes for their Europa League play-off second leg tie at the Huseyin Avni Aker Stadium.

RYAN BABEL handed Liverpool a slender advantage in their Europa League play-off last night but Joe Cole’s miserable week continued.

AS Don Givens pointed out afterwards, the scoreboard reads badly but even so, he will be wondering this morning how Ireland did not manage to eke out a point from an entertaining opening salvo in Group Two of the European Championship qualifying campaign.

Arsenal youngster Aaron Ramsey was drafted into Arsene Wenger’s starting line-up against Fenerbahce among five changes made from the side that lost to Stoke at the weekend.

GERMAN police commandos arrested two Somali -born terror suspects on a KLM aircraft yesterday who are reported to have had links to a group behind a foiled 2007 plot to attack US interests.

Thirty-six employees of a Turkish company that provides ground handling services to British Airways began undergoing precautionary radiation tests, the company said today.

MARTIN JOL hailed Dimitar Berbatov after the Bulgarian striker fired Tottenham to a 2-0 victory over Besiktas.

Police investigating a string of deadly suicide bombings in Istanbul have arrested a man suspected of ordering an attack on the Beth Israel synagogue, police said today.

Ireland 1 Turkey 2

By Selcan Hacaoglu, Ankara