SPORTING NEWS OF THE WEEK 3

• Tottenham lose first leg of first Champions League game 3-2, after being 3-0 down after 28 minutes away from home against the Swiss outfit, Young Boys. Roman Pavlyuchenko scored a brilliant second after Bassong got Spurs on the board.

• Babel gives Liverpool a 1-0 advantage of Trabzonspor in Europa League with the away leg next Thursday.

• Aston Villa draw 1-1 with Rapid Vienna away in their Europa League opener, with youngster Roy Bannan scoring after another youngster, Mark Albrighton set him up.

• Alastair Cook gives his Test career a much needed kick-start with 110 in the 2nd innings of the 3rd Test versus Pakistan as England lose at the Oval after a collapse with England falling from 194-3 to 222 all out following Cook’s dismissal as well as having been 94/7 in the first innings.

England 233 (Prior 84*) Wahab 5-63
Pakistan 308 (Ali 92*) Swann 4-68
England 222 (Cook 110) Amir 5-52
Pakistan 148/6 (Butt 46) Swann 3-50
Pakistan win by 4 wickets.

• William Gallas secures North London switch from Arsenal to Tottenham
• French International defender Squillaci comes to Arsenal for rumoured fee of £6.5million.
• Algerian defender Haliche moves to Fulham.
• ·Mario Balotelli makes his long awaited move to Man City history with supposed £24million bid.
• Liverpool misfit Alberto Aquilani is sent on loan to Juventus with a permanent deal to the Old Lady looking on the cards.
• Craig Bellamy makes eventual shock move to Cardiff after too many personal differences with City see him left out in the cold.

• Roger Federer wins in Cincinatti in the run up to the US Open after beating Mardy Fish in the final.

• New Zealand defeat South Africa in a thriller of a rugby match in front of 95,000 at Soccer City, the All Blacks win narrowly 29-22 to break Bok hearts.

• Theo Walcott and Andy Carroll grab hat-tricks in the Premier League as Newcastle, Arsenal and Chelsea all beat Aston Villa, Blackpool and Wigan 6-0 respectively.