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England beat West Indies in Barbados Tony Matthews
International Sports A former football player and the world’s most prolific author of football books (more than 100 published), Tony is also the sports reporter for Spectrum Radio and lives in the Cabrera mountains.
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From Back Page SLC final and Real Madrid, 1-0 winners at Malaga courtesy of Ronaldo’s 25th League goal of the season, still La Liga, ahead of Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. * In the Sochi Winter Paralympics, GB won six medals with Jade Etherington assisted by Caroline Powell, claiming four (three silver and one bronze). Kirsty Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans won GB’s firstever gold while the curling team took bronze. This was GB’s best medal haul since collecting 10 in 1984. * Following Champions League exits of Arsenal and Manchester City, it left Chelsea (1-1 with Galatasaray) and Manchester
Messi sets new Barca scoring record THE prolific Argentine forward Lionel Messi has erased Paulino Alcantara’s name from the record books when his hat-trick in a 7-0 La Liga win over Osasuna last weekend, made him Barcelona’s record scorer of all-time. Messi’s goal-tally now stands at 371 goals in 452 appearances Philippino-born Alcantara netted 369 times in 357 games for the Nou camp club between 1912 and 1927. The 26-year-old Messi has been in sublime form in 2013-14, netting 18 times in 21 La Liga encounters and the prolific attacker’s next objective is to become the top marksman in the history of the Champions League. That honour is currently in the possession of Real Madrid icon Raul Gonzalez, who has scored 71 goals against Messi’s 67. United (2-0 down to Olympiakos) flying the British flag at the start of this week. Meanwhile Tottenham, trailing 3-1, have it all to do in Portugal tonight against Benfica in the second leg of their last 16 Europa League tie. This weekend in the PL, it’s Chelsea-Arsenal, Cardiff-Liverpool and Manchester City-Fulham followed next Tuesday by the Manchester derby. And on
Sunday Real Madrid play Barcelona in La Liga. Big games. * In cricket, England (165-6) beat the West Indies (160-7) in their last 20/20 game in Barbados. Sussex all-rounder Chris Jordan hit four sixes in the last over, took 3-39 and held a brilliant catch. The 20/20 World Cup has started in Bangladesh. England play New Zealand on Saturday while Aussie bowler
LIONEL MESSI: Been in sublime form. Mitchell Johnson is out injured. SHORTS • 235,125 spectators attended the recent Cheltenham Festival - a record 67,814 on Gold Cup day. • WBA have sacked Nicolas
Anelka for gross misconduct. • A record 80,000 Wembley crowd will watch the re-match between boxers Carl Froch and George Groves in May. • Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer in the Indian Wells tennis final. Flavia Pennetta (Italy) defeated Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) in the women’s event. • Mo Farah came second in last week’s New York half-marathon. • GB golfer Charley Hull (17) won the women’s LM Cup in Morocco. • Asked to donate a shirt and boots to raise money so that a young boy could brain operation, Cristiano Ronaldo did just that and also paid €50,000 for the operation itself. Absolutely great. • Exeter Chiefs beat Northampton Saints 15-8 in Rugby’s Anglo-Welsh Cup final. • Shaun Murphy won snooker’s Haikou World Cup in China. • Castleford made it five wins out of five with a 19-16 victory over Hull in Rugby’s Super League.