'Cheat' Ngog saves point as Liverpool falter again
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Shilton's record set to survive
It has long been an ambition of David Beckham to break Peter Shilton's record of 125 caps for England and no other player has got so close. However, if Beckham has done the maths he will know that in order to do so he will have to play in every England game after Saturday, right up to the World Cup final in South Africa on 11 July 2010.
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Desperate England turn to Doran-Jones
The last thing England need ahead of a Test match against Argentina, the most powerful scrummaging side in world rugby, is a zero-option situation in the tight-head prop department, so confirmation that the new cornerstone of the red-rose pack, David Wilson of Bath, is doubtful for this weekend's meeting with the South Americans at Twickenham amounts to a selectorial catastrophe. The cupboard is utterly bare – Old Mother Hubbard would have considered herself better off than the national manager Martin Johnson – hence the decision to summon Paul Doran-Jones of Gloucester, whose Premiership career is precisely 266 minutes old.
South Africa A to provide first real test
England will enter, albeit briefly, Twenty20 mode today. Although the shortest form of the game is threatening the takeover of Planet Cricket, it remains the infrequently visiting cousin in the international arena.
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