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Spanish La Liga fixtures and results (18th matchday)

Mancini happy as Ferguson bemoans careless United

Manchester City’s Roberto Mancini was by far the happier manager despite his team’s 3-2 FA Cup defeat by Manchester United on Sunday

Egyptian Premier League fixtures (13th Matchday)

United edge Cup thriller despite 10-man City’s fightback

Wayne Rooney scored twice as Manchester United beat Manchester City 3-2 in a dramatic third round tie at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday in which City played most of the match with 10 men after Vincent Kompany’s early dismissal

Ronaldo criticised after post-goal sulk

Twenty first goal of the season for the Portuguese marred by his reaction to whistling and grumbling from a section of the home fans

Scholes comes out of retirement for Man United

Paul Scholes is coming out of retirement to rejoin Manchester United for the rest of season, starting Sunday in the FA Cup against Manchester City

Messi deserves Ballon d’Or, says Pique

Barcelona defender Gerard Pique says his teammate Lionel Messi deserves to win the Ballon d'Or, saying the Argentine forward has helped turn the Spanish club into 'one of the best in history'

World

Real Madrid takes slim lead into 2nd leg of Copa

Real Madrid and Barcelona are closing in on a quarterfinal matchup in the Copa del Rey

Real’s Mourinho upbeat despite ‘Clasico’ humbling

Spain’s top two go head-to-head in crunch Clasico

Guardiola says Barca feeling pressure of “clasico”

Return of Scholes fails to lift gloom at United

A dramatic FA Cup victory over major rivals and the shock return of Paul Scholes should have been enough to significantly lift spirits at Manchester United over the weekend

QPR midfielder Faurlin out for the season with knee injury

Queens Park Rangers’ Argentine midfielder Alejandro Faurlin, who has played every minute of his team’s Premier League campaign, will miss the rest of the season after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee

Rooney: I’m not to blame for Kompany’s red card

Wayne Rooney says he is not to blame for the red card to Vincent Kompany that helped Manchester United beat Manchester City 3-2 in the FA Cup

Football star Cannavaro says size doesn’t matter

Italian World Cup winning captain Fabio Cannavaro on Monday reassured Cambodia's diminutive players that size was no barrier to success

Espanyol snatches late draw against Barcelona in Catalan derby

Substitute Alvaro Vazquez headed home an 86th-minute equalizer as Espanyol held Barcelona to a 1-1 draw for the defending champions to slip five points behind Spanish leader Real Madrid

Omni Sports

Squash: Shabana pleased to break UK title drought

Egyptian squash star Amr Shabana edges out France’s Gregory Gaultier to clinch World Series title in UK

Tennis: Djokovic, Wozniacki top Australian Open seedings

Caroline Wozniacki and defending champion Novak Djokovic are the top-seeded players at the Australian Open

Squash: Egypt’s Shabana wins World Series

Egypt’s squash star Amr Shabana secures his first ever victory on English soil

Egyptian Football

Da Silva and Abdel-Fadil ready for El-Entag El-Harby match

Return of injured players boosts Ahly squad ahead of El-Entag El-Harby clash, Meteb still missing

Hussein Hamdy says his relationship with Zamalek is over

Zamalek striker stays away from training, claiming that the Cairo giants have failed to meet their financial obligations to him

Egypt FA chairman returns

Samir Zaher had been on leave following surgery

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