An early second-half blitz when Leinster were down to 14 men left last year’s Celtic League champions on the verge of crashing out of this season’s competition.

Arsenal 2 Bolton 1

Blackburn 2 Chelsea 3

Aston Villa 2 Charlton 0

Cheltenham pulled off arguably the shock result of the Worthington Cup first round by dumping Norwich out of the Worthington Cup.

Middlesbrough 3 Sunderland 0

Middlesbrough manager Steve McClaren has warned his side about the menace posed by Blackburn strike duo Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke ahead of tomorrow’s showdown at the Riverside Stadium.

Ipswich stormed back into the UEFA Cup tonight with an emphatic 8-1 thrashing of Luxembourg part-timers Avenir Beggen at Portman Road.

Birmingham 3 Aston Villa 0

Bobby Robson returned to the scene of his worst moment in football – and then vowed to forget all about it.

Birmingham City 0 Newcastle 2

Celtic 5 Kilmarnock 0

St. Patrick's Athletic 1 Shamrock Rovers 2

Fame Academy winner David Sneddon was left feeling let down after pranksters deflated the tyres on his car, it emerged today.

Freddie Kanoute grabbed a Premiership lifeline for West Ham with his 80th-minute winner against Manchester City at Maine Road.

Rangers 1 Celtic 2

Six people died when an American-held ammunition dump near Baghdad which held 80 Iraqi missiles exploded today, showering nearby homes with warheads, rockets and mortars.

Luis Boa Morte rescued a valuable point to nudge Fulham closer to guaranteed Premiership survival and put a dent in Chelsea’s Champions League hopes.

Rangers enjoyed one of their best days of the past three years after Austin McCann’s sensational last-minute winner further dented Celtic’s hopes of retaining the title.

Jay Jay Okocha produced a moment of magic today to steer Bolton closer to safety and West Ham closer to the Nationwide League.