Harry for England, Newcastle ‘spurred’ and woeful Wolves

FOOTBALL – Stuart Pearce, 50, who has been U21 boss since 2007, is England’s caretaker-manager and will be in charge for the friendly against Holland at the end of the month.

Meanwhile Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney all say that Harry Redknapp is the man for the job long term.

Here, here. And what a week it was for ‘our’ Harry – cleared of tax evasion, he then saw his Spurs team batter Newcastle 5-0 to record their biggest win of 2011-12.

Louis Saha who netted twice in 20 games for Everton earlier this season, scored twice in 20 minutes for Spurs who remain third in the Division.

Elsewhere, arrogant Luis Suarez was described as a ‘disgrace’ by many people for not shaking hands with Manchester United’s Patrice Evra before Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford.

And his manager, Kenny Dalglish, didn’t help matters either! Suarez apologised for his behaviour 24 hours later – too late, mate!

Wayne Rooney celebrated his 500th appearance at club and international level (and his 350th for United) with a brace for the Reds.

Suarez netted for the visitors. Manchester City retained top spot (1-0 winners at Aston Villa)…

Inconsistent Chelsea, for whom Fernando Torres hasn’t scored in 19 games, lost 2-0 at Everton…

Sub Thierry Henry bagged his 229th Arsenal goal in his farewell appearance to seal a last-gasp 2-1 victory at Sunderland….

Norwich won 3-2 at Swansea to go eighth… and three relegation battles ended Blackburn 3 QPR 2, Bolton 1 Wigan 2 and Wolves 1 WBA 5; Peter Odemwingie scored the Baggies’ first hat-trick against Wolves in 60 years and 5-1 was Albion’s biggest win at Molineux since 1962.

Wolves subsequently sacked manager Mick McCarthy after losing to West Brom. In the SPL, Celtic (1-0 victors over Inverness CT) lead Rangers (4-1 winners at Dunfermline) by four points…

Zambia beat the Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties to win the Africa Cup of Nations…

Ex-Newcastle, Spurs and Aston Villa star David Ginola, has suffered broken ribs after a skiing accident in the Alps…

Champions League returned this week (details via your TV)… and it’s FA Cup 5th round this weekend. RUGBY – England made it two wins out of two by beating Italy 19-15 in Rome…

Wales crushed Scotland 27-13 in Cardiff (with Leigh Halfpenny scoring 22 points)… but the France-Ireland game in Paris was the first 5/6 Nations clash to be ‘frozen’ off in 25 years.

Welshman Bradley Davies has been banned for seven weeks for a ‘dangerous’ tackle while Ireland’s Stephen Ferris has been cleared of a similar offence in the same game.

In the Aviva Championship, Exeter stunned Leicester 19-11 and there were wins for leaders Harlequins, second-placed Saracens and lowly Bath and Gloucester.

Sonny Williams, a New Zealand World Cup winner last year, has changed sports – he’s now his country’s heavyweight boxing champion.

GOLF – Spain’s Rafael Cabrera-Bello beat Lee Westwood and Stephen Gallacher by one shot to win the Dubai Desert Classic.

HORSE RACING – Josh Gifford, ex-jockey who trained 1981 Grand National winner Aldaniti (Bob Champion) has died, aged 70.

BOXING – Amir Khan’s re-match with Lamont Peterson is in Las Vegas on 19 May.

CRICKET – England’s first cricketer to be convicted of match-fixing, Mervyn Westfield (formerly of Essex) will be sentenced at the Old Bailey today…

India’s Yuvraj Singh has been diagnosed with cancer. Under treatment in America, he said “Tough times don’t last, tough men do”…

And the Pakistan-England ODI series started on Thursday.

TENNIS – Andy and Jamie Murray could pair up in the men’s doubles at the Olympics. “I’d love to play with Andy and it would be great to win gold in front of home supporters” said Jamie.

CYCLING – Tour de France winners and drug abusers Jan Ullrich (Germany) and Alberto Contandor (Spain) have been banned from event cycling for two years.

DID YOU KNOW? Steve Davis was world snooker champion six times in the 1980s…

Kieran Fallon was flat race champion jockey six times between 1997-2003… and Real Madrid won the European Cup six times in ten years, 1956-66.

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