Arsenal 2 Aston Villa 0

MUNSTER’S Heineken Cup final with Biarritz is going to be a cat and mouse affair where drawing first blood could be the decisive factor, according to former Reds skipper Jim Williams.

Carbery Rangers 0-10 Cill na Martra 0-5

Glanmire 1-8 Castletownbere 1-7

OFFICIALS of the eircom League are not expected to enquire into the circumstances surrounding the post-match row between Cork City manager Pat Dolan and Shelbourne’s Pat Fenlon at Turner’s Cross on Monday unless there is a reference to it in one of the match officials’ reports.

Castres 58 Harlequins 13

Liverpool 1 Man Utd 0

Kerry 2-11 Roscommon 0-4

WATERFORD’S unbeaten run in Division 1A of the Allianz Hurling League came to a grinding halt before 6,000 people at windswept Walsh Park yesterday.

THE Turkish Football Federation has condemned the treatment of its national side in Saturday’s World Cup playoff against Switzerland, fuelling tensions for the return leg in Istanbul tomorrow night.

TAX avoidance and evasion are two knacks of creative accountancy which most people — at least those of us unfortunately unencumbered by a few spare hundred thousand — believed would not rear their embarrassed heads again for a long time.

KILKENNY centre-forward Henry Shefflin has taken to calling Croke Park The Theatre of Dreams, and so it was for the Leinster champions yesterday as they put the nightmare of last year’s All-Ireland semi-final loss to Galway well and truly behind them.

FINN HARPS will look to their dynamic young striker Kevin McHugh to help take them into the semi-final of the FAI Carlsberg Cup when they play Cork City at Turner’s Cross today (7.45pm).

NOTHING will convince England that South African referee Jonathan Kaplan didn’t cost them yesterday’s thrilling RBS 6 Nations game at Lansdowne Road.

THOUSANDS of anti-war protesters cheered last night as an effigy of President George W Bush was toppled as part of a huge demonstration against his controversial visit to Britain.

The football landscape, like its political counterpart, is changing rapidly in Iraq since the fall of Saddam earlier this year. Erik Kirschbaum reports from Baghdad.

Hibernian 0 Rangers 1

FURIOUS Manchester United will launch a vigorous defence of under-fire duo Ryan Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo.

THE State’s stubborn refusal to cover the legal costs of the McBrearty family, the whistle blowers in the Donegal garda scandal, is perplexing.