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Sudden strike turns tide
FC Basel...1 Manchester United...3 In the end, this was Ruud van Nistelrooy's night. The Dutchman rescued Manchester United here in Switzerland just as it had seemed they would begin the Champions League's second phase with the elegance of a hiker with a stone in his boot. p
Johansson denies Euro bids decided
SOCCER/News: UEFA president Lennart Johansson has distanced himself from quotes attributed to him by Swiss newspaper Le Dimanche which implied several of the bids to host the Euro 2008 championship were already effectively out of the running. p
Links to glorious past are rejoined
GOLF/2003 Irish Open: If, at one point during the summer, it was feared the Irish Open was an endangered species, no one at the top table at yesterday's announcement in one of Dublin's plushest hotels - where it was confirmed one of the oldest tournaments on the European Tour would be returning to its spiritual home at Portmarnock under a new sponsor in Nissan Ireland - was betraying any evidence to suggest that its survival was ever anything other than certain. p
Soccer
Shevchenko shocks the champions
AC Milan ... 1 Real Madrid ... 0 A 40th-minute Andriy Shevchenko goal gave AC Milan a 1-0 win over European champions Real Madrid in an outstanding Champions League match yesterday which confirmed the return of the Italian side to the continent's elite. pSlim pickings for Wenger
AS Roma v Arsenal For a while, the trip to Italy has been football's equivalent of a hospital visit. A solicitous tone was mandatory and there was little prospect of the patient leaping off the sickbed. pNewcastle look to bounce back
Newcastle v Inter Milan Ever since Bobby Robson's return in September 1999, coming back has been the Newcastle United theme. Last season's fourth-place finish in the Premiership was built on unlikely comebacks at places like Elland Road and when they entered Europe this season they continued their habit. p
Munster are looking at a long injury list
Munster coach Alan Gaffney will wait for Jeremy Staunton and Anthony Horgan to pass fitness tests before he names his team to play Connacht in the Celtic League quarter-final at Musgrave Park on Friday. pDeal with new backer finalised
A sponsor- as yet unnamed - has been lined up to take over from Lloyds TSB as the backer of the Six Nations Championship. pSouth African gets 23-day ban
South Africa lock Jannes Labuschagne, who was sent off during the Springboks' record 53-3 defeat by England last weekend, will miss the start of the Super 12 season after being suspended yesterday. pEnniscorthy bow out
SCHOOL'S RUGBY: De La Salle, Churchtown, face a Leinster Schools' Senior Cup Section A second-round meeting against Gorey Community College after a 33-14 victory in Naas yesterday, with all their points coming in the first half. p
Dublin ask to use Croke Park
Dublin chairman John Bailey has confirmed the county's intentions to use Croke Park for their opening National Football League game against All-Ireland champions Armagh. Interest in the game, he says, is almost sure to surpass the capacity of the county's ground at Parnell Park. pYoung Ireland's growing in stature
Ian O'Riordan talks to Young Ireland's trainer John Brennan as the club prepare to contest their first Leinster final on Sunday p
Ireland try to tie Aussies down
HOCKEY/World Cup: Ahead of their daunting meeting with the hosts today in their World Cup Pool B game in Perth, Ireland could have done without the defending world and Olympic champions being given a public "blast" by their coach, David Bell. pMedia Puzzle solves my identity crisis
WOMEN'S HOCKEY/World Cup DAY ONE: Flights leave from Singapore for every city in Australia approximately every four and a half seconds. Board plane, hoping it's the right one for Perth, but not entirely certain and too zombied to ask. Arrive. "Welcome to Sydney," says the immigration man. Silence only disturbed by sound of heart-beat reaching near-death levels. "Oh. My. G. . .". "Aw gee, I love doing that to visitors," grins the Perth resident. pCragg gets call-up to Ireland team
ATHLETICS/Cross Country: Athletics Ireland have called Alistair Cragg into the Irish team for the European Cross Country Championships to be held in Medulin, Croatia on December 8th. It will be the first time the South African-born athlete, whose both sets of grandparents are Irish, will run in the green vest since declaring his new allegiance earlier this year. pFuture is high-tech at Ford
FORMULA ONE: The future of the Jaguar Formula One team could be in jeopardy if the latest in a succession of management changes fails to steer it on to a competitive footing after three years of abject disappointment. pGeraghty to partner the Lad
RACING: Barry Geraghty has picked up the coveted ride on Limestone Lad in Sunday's Hattons Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse. Limestone Lad's regular rider, Paul Carberry, has been claimed to ride Scottish Memories in the race for his retaining trainer Noel Meade. pBradley faces disciplinary hearing
RACING: Graham Bradley goes before the Jockey Club today to face a series of charges in a hearing set to last three days. The former top National Hunt jockey will be questioned over his self-confessed passing of privileged information and alleged relationship with suspected drugs smuggler Brian Wright. p
