Cheltenham 2 Stoke 3

Turkey captain Nihat Kahveci admitted it was an “unbelievable feeling” to see his team recover from a two-goal deficit to earn a last-gasp 3-2 win over the Czech Republic in a Group A thriller in Geneva.

Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari admitted he had made a “big mistake” in only making eight changes to his starting line-up after his team lost their final Euro 2008 Group A match 2-0 to Switzerland.

Blackburn 2 Coventry 2

Sunderland boss Roy Keane admitted he was “ashamed” after seeing his side dumped out of the FA Cup by Wigan at the Stadium of Light.

Blackburn 1 Middlesbrough 1

Eoin Reddan has urged his Ireland team-mates to prove their tortuous World Cup was just an aberration by overwhelming Italy on Saturday.

Manchester United 2 Portsmouth 0

Newport Gwent Dragons 32 Glasgow Warriors 22

A second All-Ireland senior club medal, Joe Canning could not hide his delight as Portumna beat Birr by 3-19 to 3-09 in yesterday afternoon's hurling decider at Croke Park.

Manchester City 0 Paris St Germain 0

The South African team hailed the influence of John Smit after their historic 30-28 victory against New Zealand today.

Barack Obama will make history today when he is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States – the first black American to hold the post.

Glasgow 25 Edinburgh 20

A US financial watchdog chief said his agency repeatedly failed for at least a decade to pursue allegations of wrongdoing by Wall Street figure Bernard Madoff, the alleged perpetrator of a $50bn (€35.63bn) pyramid scheme.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald was accused of throwing a Cabinet colleague “under the bus” and of not being “credible”, after denying she had knowledge about a file on a Garda whistleblower.