FOOTBALL

PREMIER LEAGUE

LONDON: Aston Villa 0 Manchester United 1 (Ryan Giggs 41) Bolton Wanderers 0 Blackburn Rovers 1 (Paul Dickov 6) Charlton Athletic 2 (Talal El Karkouri 82, Hermann Hreidarsson 85) Everton 0 Fulham 2 (Sylvain Legwinski 34, Tomasz Radzinski 90) Birmingham City 3 (Emile Heskey 25, Darren Carter 41, Robbie Savage 53) Liverpool 1 (Florent Sinama Pongolle 44 ) Southampton 0 Manchester City 1 (Nicolas Anelka 32) West Bromwich Albion 1 (Richard Dunne 85-own goal) Middlesbrough 2 (Joseph Desire-Job 52, 54) Norwich 0 Portsmouth 0 Chelsea 2 (Arjen Robben 79, Joe Cole 90) Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Jermain Defoe 54) Crystal Palace 1 (Andrew Johnson 79).

CHESS

ASIAN JUNIOR MEET

BIKANER, Round IX (Boys): Arun Prasad (7) drew G N Gopal (6) Deepan Chakravarthy (6) drew Samakov Nurdin (Kyr, 5.5) Abhijeet Gupta (5.5) drew T.U. Navin Kanna (5.5) S. Poobesh Anand (5.5) drew G Rohit (5.5) Arghyadip Das (6) bt Anton Filippov (Uzb, 4.5) Soumitra Mujumdar (4.5) lost to M R Venkatesh (5.5) Mehdi Hasan (4) lost to Akshayraj Kore (5.5) Nguyen Van Huy (Vie, 5) bt Amanov Mesgen (Tkm, 4) Bahodir Kholmirzaev (Uzb, 4.5) drew K Nikhilesh Kumar (4).

Girls: Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vie, 8) bt Y Prathiba (5) Mary Ann Gomes (5) drew D Harika (7.5) Bahar Hallaeva (Tkm, 4.5) lost to Soumya Swaminathan (7) N Raghavi (4.5) lost to Kruttika Nadig (5.5) Saheli Nath (5.5) bt Amruta Mokal (4.5) Nabeela Farheen Syed (4) lost to Siti Zulaikha (Mas, 5) P Priya (4) lost to J E Kavitha (5) N Sandhya (5) bt Maya Kurbanova (Tkm, 4) Janyl Tilenbaeva (Kyr, 4) drew Irina Gevorgyan (Uzb, 4).

For the book

The Bombay Hockey Association has decided to provide insurance cover worth Rs 25,000 to players and umpires who are to feature in the matches organised by it. A total of 1,500 persons will be covered under the policy, BHA secretary, Commander Kehar Singh (Rtd) said.