Blackburn manager Mark Hughes believes referee Mark Halsey contributed to his side’s downfall for the second time this season.

Rangers utility man Zurab Khizanishvili has signed a two-year contract extension to keep him at Ibrox until 2008.

Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead the revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, died today from what officials said apparently was a gas leak from a heater.

Rangers manager Alex McLeish has told the club’s supporters there is no reason to believe they have seen the last of Jean-Alain Boumsong.