Tottenham 0 Manchester City 2

An NHS consultant in Britain was asked to use a dessert spoon instead of a proper surgical instrument for hip replacement operations, a tribunal heard yesterday.

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.

Wolverhampton 3 Rochdale 1

Leeds 2 Middlesbrough 3

Don Givens will ask the Football Association of Ireland to write to UEFA to complain about the performance of the referee after his Republic Under-21 team drew 1-1 with Georgia.

Georgia U21s 1 Republic of Ireland 21s 1

Everton 3 Fulham 1

Celtic managed to hold on for the three Bank of Scotland Premier League points at Firhill – despite a spirited display from Partick.

Joe Cole and Rufus Brevett will not face criminal charges following the incidents after West Ham’s Premiership game with Bolton at the Reebok Stadium on April 19.

Republic of Ireland 2 Albania 1

Tiger Woods’ grip on his one remaining major is hanging by a thread after a day he will want to forget at Olympia Fields near Chicago.

Nicolas Jeanjean is out of the Heineken Cup final – but Toulouse are confident they can ride his loss in their all-French Dublin showdown with Perpignan on 24 May.

South African full-back Percy Montgomery’s career could be in ruins after he was sent off for pushing a touch judge in Newport’s Welsh Premier League clash with Swansea last night.

Celtic defender Joos Valgaeren believes retaining the league championship would be a more satisfying achievement than lifting the UEFA Cup.

Celtic’s thrilling season ended in more tears today having been pipped to the championship by Rangers on goal difference despite a courageous final day display.

Bobo Balde claimed that Celtic were still a better side than FC Porto despite the defeat to the Portuguese champions in the UEFA Cup final.

Celtic 2 FC Porto 3 AET

England 32 Australia 31

Newcastle United 2 Southampton 1