Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has been fined £10,000 (€18,000) by the Football Association following an incident with Southampton’s Kevin Phillips in December.

Retailers Argos and Littlewoods were today fined a record £22.6m (€33.6m) by the British Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for fixing the price of toys and games made by Hasbro.

Celtic 1 Dunfermline 0

Dublin 1-14, Donegal 1-07 - match report

Everton have sacked manager Walter Smith to bring his four-year reign at Goodison Park to an end, according to newspaper reports.

The secretary of the Tipperary GAA board Michael O'Brien has welcomed the initiation of the anti-doping measures, which were introduced on All-Ireland Final hurling day for the first time.

Ireland strolled to an easy, if lacklustre, 37-3 win over Romania in the friendly in Bucharest.

Reading 0 Wigan 3

FK Rabotnicki 0 Liverpool 2

When Phil Mickelson crashed to a closing 78 in Akron on Sunday the suspicion grew that trying to replace Tiger Woods as world number one was taking its toll.

Celtic 0 Dundee Utd 0

Derry City 0 Cork City 0

THE chief executive of Irish Open sponsors 3 is remaining tight lipped over the venue – and timing – for next year’s event.

VINCE LOMBARDI once reacted to a Green Bay Packer defeat by insisting his side hadn’t lost the game, it was just that they had simply ran out of time.

MARTIN KAYMER has decided not to play the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles next week following his first major victory.

WAS it a moment of everyday courtesy or a tactical calculation worthy of an experienced golfing mind twice his age?