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'Cheat' Ngog saves point as Liverpool falter again

Reds striker accused of diving to win penalty on another bleak night for Benitez

KP is back. But will he get a hero's welcome?

As England's biggest talent (and ego) arrives in South Africa, Stephen Brenkley gauges the mood of the dressing room, from a side that won the Ashes without him

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David Beckham misses this weekend's friendly against Brazil because of LA Galaxy commitments

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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Marat Safin takes his frustration out on yet another racket

Final bow for Safin, the hot-head who smashed 700 rackets

From pulling down his shorts on court, to brawling in Moscow – as Marat Safin plays his final tournament, Paul Newman recalls the bizarre career of a former world No 1

James Lawton: Is Haye one of the greats? Only if you swallow the heavyweight hype

This was an insult of a fight, a dreg of the dregs. How bad was the hype afterwards?

Boxing: Haye hits land of plenty

Caffari and Thompson build on good start

Going into the second night of the double handed Transat Jacques Vabre race from Le Havre to Costa Rica , three of the British teams were 10th, 12th and 13th in the 14-boat Open 60 fleet.

Depressions in store for Transat Jacques Vabre

Kiwis given key vote on final official

The controversial choice of referee for this weekend's Four Nations final is hanging on the vote of the New Zealand jury. Australia are desperate not to be refereed by the English candidate, Steve Ganson, to the extent that they have put the Frenchman, Thierry Alibert, as their second choice after their own man, Shayne Hayne, who would be England's least favoured option.