ENGLAND: Premiership
: Bolton 0-4 Man Utd
: Sheffield Utd 0-2 Chelsea
BBC Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho said a fan who threw a plastic water bottle at Frank Lampard during Saturday's 2-0 win over Sheffield United should be jailed. The incident happened late in the game as the England midfielder went to take a corner at the Blades' Kop end. Mourinho told the Daily Mail: "If we can catch him and send him home or get him to spend a night in jail, that would be perfect. But it wouldn't be fair to punish the club or 30,000 fans."
Lampard attempted to play down the incident, saying: "It was only a plastic water bottle and there are no hard feelings for me. I know it's not something you want to see but if it had landed on me I might have felt different. There was quite good banter in the far corner and nothing nasty aimed at me."
: Arsenal 1-1 Everton (1st Half Action)
: Arsenal 1-1 Everton (Arsenal Goal)
: Liverpool 3-1 Aston Villa ('Pool Goals)
: Liverpool 3-1 Aston Villa (Villa Goal)
: Fulham 0-1 Wigan
: Newcastle 0-0 Charlton
: Portsmouth 3-1 Reading (1st Pompey Goal)
: Portsmouth 3-1 Reading (2nd Pompey Goal)
: Portsmouth 3-1 Reading (3rd Pompey Goal)
: West Ham 2-1 Blackburn (1st Hammers Goal)
: West Ham 2-1 Blackburn (2nd Hammers Goal)
: West Ham 2-1 Blackburn (Blackburn Goal)
: Premiership Standings
Some Premiership players are being treated for a double addiction to gambling and pornography. There is growing evidence that the lifestyle of the modern-day wealthy footballer is unhealthy, unmanageable and out of control. Too much money and insufficient “life skills” to use their free time constructively are being blamed by experts and players : Secret Vices
ENGLAND: Championship
: Leeds 2-0 Southend (only Leeds' 2nd)
: Cardiff 2-2 Derby
: Burnley 3-2 Preston
: Birmingham 2-0 West Brom
: Clochester 2-0 Southampton
: Hull 0-1 Sunderland
: Stoke 5-0 Norwich
: QPR 1-1 Leicester
: Barnsley 0-1 Coventry
: Crystal Palace 0-1 Plymouth
: Wolves 2-2 Sheffield Wednesday
: Championship Standings
SCOTLAND: SPL
: Kilmarnock 1-2 Celtic
: SPL Standings
USA: MLS PLay-Offs
: New England Revolution 2-1 Chicago Fire (2-2 on aggregate; Revs win on pens.)
: FC Dallas 2- 3 Colorado Rapids (3-3 on aggregate; Rapids win on pens.)
Former World Cup winner Youri Djorkaeff has announced his retirement. The ex-Bolton and Blackburn striker, who played in France's 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 winning teams, ended his career with the New York Red Bulls. "I felt that the time had come to call it a day," said the 38-year-old. "Physically I am still on top of my game but mentally it's more difficult." He said the World Cup win was his biggest achievement and added: "There was something magical about the team."
There are only four members of that France side - Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry, David Trezeguet and Liliam Thuram - who are still playing international football for Les Bleus. Djorkaeff began his career at Grenoble and moved to the Premiership in 2002 when he joined Bolton, where he scored 20 league goals. After a brief spell at Blackburn, the former Inter Milan player joined the New York Red Bulls in April 2005 for a single season. Djorkaeff was not able to play against DC United in the second leg of the MLS Eastern Conference semi-finals because of an ankle injury. DC United advanced to the final with a 2-1 aggregate score, signalling the end of the Frenchman's career: "I have no regrets and achieved all I wanted to achieve in my career playing in all the top leagues of Europe," said Djorkaeff. The Lyon-born player won 82 caps for France and scored 28 international goals.
GERMANY: Bundesliga
: Bayern Munich 2-0 Eintracht Frankfurt
: Bayern Munich 2-0 Eintracht Frankfurt
: Bundesliga Standings
BELGIUM: Jupiler League
: Weekend Round-Up
: Jupiler Standings
PORTUGAL: Superliga
: Porto 3-2 Benfica
: Superliga Standings
FRANCE: Ligue 1
: Nice 2-1 Marseille
: Ligue 1 Standings
BBC Nice have launched an investigation after a homemade firebomb thrown from the crowd injured a fireman during Sunday's 2-1 win over Marseille. The fireman lost two fingers when he tried to pick up the bomb, thrown by Marseille fans, and the match was suspended for five minutes. Nice security boss Andre Boch said: "He thought it was a flare and picked it up but it exploded in his hands. We are looking at television footage to identify those who threw the bomb."
Marseille fans were detained for two hours after the match, while police sniffer dogs were used to search them. The volunteer fireman was taken to a hospital that specialises in hand injuries. Boch said he was determined to find the fans responsible but admitted the bombs were very hard to detect.
"In the past four years there have been strong measures to prevent people from bringing these bombs into the stadium," he added. "But they are only five centimetres in diameter and therefore are very hard to detect."
Marseille chairman Pape Diouf condemned the incident, saying: "Defeat is part of the game but what I will remember from this evening is this image of violence, which I strongly condemn."
SPAIN: La Liga
: Gimnastic 1-3 Real Madrid
: Barcelona 3-0 Recreativo
: Racing Santander 1-0 Valencia
: Celta Vigo 1-2 Sevilla
: Athletico Madrid 0-1 Real Zaragoza
: Osasuna 1-1 Athletic Bilbao
: Real Betis 0-1 Mallorca
: Getafe 2-0 Deportivo La Coruna
: Real Sociedad 0-1 Villareal
: Levante 0-0 Espanyol
: La Liga Standings
ITALY: Serie A
: Fiorentina 2-3 Palermo
: AC Milan 3-4 Inter Milan
: Serie A Standings
ITALY: Serie B
: Juventus 1-0 Frosinone
: Albinoleffe 1-0 Napoli
: Serie B Standings
"You can call it The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Sentences'. On July 4, Stefano Palazzi, the Italian FA’s prosecutor in the influence-peddling scandal that soiled Serie A over the past two seasons, called for harsh penalties. He wanted Juventus to be relegated to Serie C and slapped with a six-point penalty, while Fiorentina, Lazio and AC Milan were to be sent down to Serie B, with penalties of 15 points for the first two and three for the Rossoneri.
Ten days later, the Italian FA’s tribunal issued its sentences. Juventus avoided Serie C but were relegated to Serie B with a 30-point penalty. Fiorentina and Lazio were also sent down to Serie B with penalties of 12 and seven points respectively. And Milan remained in Serie A, albeit with a 15-point penalty.
On July 25, in what should have been the second and final sentence on appeal, Juventus had their penalty reduced to 17 points. Fiorentina, Lazio and Milan remained in Serie A, with penalties of 19, 11 and eight points respectively. That should have been that. Except that a number of the clubs involved were unhappy with the sentences and threatened to sue the Italian FA in a civil court. Enter Fifa... : Italian Authorities Compromised By FIFA
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