Blackburn 2 Man City 2

Full-back Bryn Cunningham will make his 100th Magner's League appearance against Leinster at Ravenhill on Saturday evening (Kick-off 7.35pm.).

Phil Brown revealed he kept his Hull side on the pitch at half-time as a message to the fans after their first-half horror show against Manchester City.

Football officials in the North tonight pledged to combat hooliganism after riot police had to restore order when violence broke out at a St Stephen's Day derby.

Manchester City 5 Hull 1

Middlesbrough 0 Everton 1

Newport Gwent Dragons 19 Cardiff 21

Celtic 2 Villarreal 0

Man City 0 Nottingham Forest 3

Celtic 2 Dundee United 2

Tottenham 3 Wigan 1

Leinster 26 Connacht 18

Glasgow 25 Edinburgh 20

DUBS STARS SENIOR HURLING CHALLENGE MATCH: DUBLIN 1-18 DUBS STARS 3-11

Manchester United duo Anderson and Jonny Evans have been ruled out for three weeks with ankle injuries, manager Alex Ferguson has confirmed.

Manchester United 4 Derby 2 (4-3 on aggregate)

Prime Minister Gordon Brown today hailed the British military’s involvement in Iraq a “success story”.

More than 50 people were rescued from about 30 gondolas after a tower supporting the lift cables partially collapsed at Canada’s Whistler ski resort.

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.

Newcastle 2 Tottenham 1