David Beckham and his new Real Madrid team-mates reached the dramatically beautiful Far East outpost of Kunming on today for the first leg of their four-stop summer tour.

Kaunas 0 Celtic 4

Manchester United 4 Bolton 0

Gillingham player-boss Andy Hessenthaler has accused Leeds’ counterpart Terry Venables of snubbing both him and his coaches at the end of tonight’s FA Cup fourth-round replay defeat.

Roscommon 0-11 Tyrone 0-10

West Ham 0 Liverpool 3

Geremi dealt Newcastle’s remote hopes of the Premiership title a potentially fatal blow by snatching the derby honours for Middlesbrough.

The IRFU has announced that Ulster prop forward Justin Fitzpatrick is to be suspended for 10 days.

JP McManus's Janidou is the 7-1 favourite with Paddy Power for the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown.

Fulham 3 Birmingham 1

Southampton 4 Tottenham 0

West Ham 3 Nottingham Forest 2

Steve Stone grabbed an FA Cup lifeline for Portsmouth at Old Trafford this afternoon.

Hearts teenager Graham Weir insists he is not Tynecastle’s new hero after snatching a dramatic derby draw.

Second-half goals from Shefki Kuqi and Adam Proudlock gave Sheffield Wednesday a 2-0 win at Rotherham.

Comic Ali G had a brush with death after a bullet whistled through his hotel suite as two men shot themselves in a double suicide pact in the next room.

Dressed in his pink garb, Dubliner Jim Rock might get a few wolf whistles in Belfast’s Odyssey Arena tomorrow night but he is as hard as they come.

Glenn Roeder let out a huge sigh of relief as West Ham cracked their home hoodoo last night – and immediately challenged his players to turn the victory against Blackburn into the pivotal moment of their season.

Glenn Roeder last night admitted it was “back to the drawing board” for his defence after their 4-2 capitulation against Charlton at The Valley tonight.

Andy Cole has branded recent criticism of former team-mate Ryan Giggs ‘embarrassing’.