22 Tuesday, September 19, 2017 SPORTS SPORTS Tuesday, September 19, 2017 23 2017 Rooney hit by Premier league 2018 Table two-year ban Points played Bale Stockport, United Kingdom when driving a woman’s black 1 Man City 13 5 ormer England captain Volkswagen Beetle at around 1 Man Utd 13 5 Wayne Rooney was 2:00 am (0100 GMT) on F 3 Chelsea 10 5 British cyclist marks yesterday banned from September 1 and later arrested 5 driving for two years and and bailed. 4 Newcastle 9 ordered to perform 100 hours Stockport Magistrates’ 5 Tottenham 8 5 strikes of unpaid community work Court was told a breathalyser 6 Huddersfield 8 5 after pleading guilty to drink- test showed Rooney’s alcohol 7 Burnley 8 5 driving. level was 104 microgrammes 8 Liverpool 8 5 The Everton striker in 100 millilitres of breath. The apologised for an “unforgivable drink-drive limit in England 9 Southampton 8 5 record-breaking ride 9 West Brom 8 5 Paris “I am quite looking forward before flying on to Anchorage lack of judgement” following and Wales is 35 microgrammes British cyclist set a new to not getting up at half- in Alaska. in vital his sentencing by a court in per 100 millilitres of breath. 11 Watford 8 5 world record yesterday past three every morning,” His trans-American northern England for being Rooney, 31, was banned 12 Arsenal 7 5 Aby travelling around the Beaumont joked as he set out journey ended in Halifax in nearly three times over the from driving for two years and 13 Stoke 5 5 globe in 79 days -- beating in the dark on the 180-km Canada, where he boarded a drink-drive limit while his ordered to perform 100 hours the fictional exploits of Phileas final stretch in the Loire valley flight for Lisbon. pregnant wife and their three of unpaid work as part of a 14 Swansea 5 5 Fogg by a day. southwest of Paris. Beaumont said being the sons were on holiday. 12-month community order. 15 Leicester 4 5 Scottish adventurer Mark fastest man to cycle round Madrid He was stopped by police (AFP) 16 Brighton 4 5 Beaumont rode into Paris 78 Childhood dream the world has been his dream 17 West Ham 4 5 days, 14 hours and 14 minutes Beaumont set out from Paris since childhood. after he set off from the on July 2 and crossed Europe, This is “the culmination 18 Everton 4 5 French capital, smashing the Russia and Mongolia before of me as a 12-year-old boy 19 Bournemouth 3 5 previous record of 123 days arriving in Beijing. pedalling across Scotland 22 20 Crystal Palace 0 5 for a round-the-world bike From there he flew to Perth years ago and going on lots victory Last match trip. in western Australia and of adventures, going further Won Drawn Lost Arriving in evening rush crossed the country as well every time,” he told his Real Madrid’s Champions League (C1) hour traffic under light as neighbouring New Zealand followers on Twitter. (AFP) forward Gareth Bale (C) celebrates his C1 Preliminary round drizzle, the 34-year-old rode Europa League team’s third goal with Wayne Rooney leaves after attending Stockport Magsitrates the last cobbled mile to the Court in Stockport yesterday Relegation Arc de Triomphe with a Casemiro (R) and 20-strong entourage on Borja Mayoral wheels, including a man in a top hat on a penny-farthing Madrid but the most important thing Crazy 60 seconds bicycle. areth Bale responded in was to get the three points However, the visitors’ joy Goal-hungry Man Some 50 supporters were British cyclist Mark Beaumont (C) poses for pictures with Guinness World Records certificates Gstyle to his critics with a for the team, get back on lasted just nine minutes as at the monument to greet after arriving at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris fine finish as Real Madrid got track and get back to winning Rodrigues levelled thanks to him, including his tearful dream come true”. Beaumont to conclude he World in 80 Days”. back to winning ways with a ways,” Bale told Spanish TV a blunder from Keylor Navas. City can still improve wife Nicci and his daughters A Guinness World Records simply had to have the title Although Beaumont was 3-1 win at Real Sociedad on station Movistar. Rodrigues fired Alvaro Harriet, four, and Willa, one. judge was on hand to present back. “I have taken myself able to fly over the Atlantic Sunday. “I just have to try to keep Odriozola’s cross towards “I doubt I’ll ever do anything him with his two framed beyond anything I have ever and Pacific oceans, he did the Borja Mayoral rewarded my head down and keep goal on the volley, but the London like it again,” said Beaumont, records -- he also beat the done physically and mentally,” rest with his own muscles. a bright start by Real with working hard and that’s all Real ‘keeper should have ep Guardiola says his free-scoring describing the journey as previous time for the farthest he said. He spent 16 hours a day in his first Madrid goal before I can do. made a comfortable stop PManchester City side can still improve -- “definitely the longest two- distance cycled in a month -- the saddle for 76 days to cover Sociedad’s Kevin Rodrigues “I can’t control what goes rather than letting the ball in a chilling message to Premier League rivals and-a-half months of my life”. while he was still in the saddle. 3.30 am starts the 29,000 kilometres (18,000 scored at both ends to give on, I can only control how slip under his grasp. -- but is refusing to get carried away by their Bouncing his grinning Beaumont had held the Fogg took 80 days to complete miles), getting up at 3.30 am the visitors a 2-1 half-time hard I work on the pitch. The match was then held electrifying early-season form. one-year-old in his arms, round-the-world record until his voyage by train, ship and every morning. British cyclist Mark Beaumont (C) poses next to men with lead. “You go through ups and up as a cameraman had to be City hammered Watford 6-0 at Beaumont said the world 2009 when it was beaten by balloon in Jules Verne’s classic The three remaining days penny-farthings after arriving in Paris yesterday to complete And Bale secured the downs in your career -- it is stretchered off with his leg Vicarage Road on Saturday to complete record was “an absolute a New Zealander, leaving 1873 novel, “Around the were spent on flights. his journey after he travelled around the world in 78 days three points as he sped past how you bounce back.” heavily strapped as he was three wins in seven days, scoring 15 Rodrigues and dinked the Without the suspended injured from fans surging goals without reply. ball over Geronimo Rulli for Cristiano Ronaldo, as he forward from a temporary Hailing full-back recruits Kyle just his second goal of the completed a five-game ban, stand behind the goal Walker, Danilo and Benjamin Mendy for Kerber exorcises New York demons season on the hour mark. and injured Karim Benzema, Sociedad were defending. transforming City’s blueprint, Guardiola, whose Tokyo first set. Victory moves the Zinedine Zidane handed Once the game got back side are top of the Premier League alongside ormer world number one Osaka’s game unravelled European champions up to 20-year-old Mayoral a shock underway, a crazy 60 seconds Manchester United, said his team are nowhere Angelique Kerber thrashed completely in the second, giving fourth and within four points start up front. for Rodrigues swung the near their peak. Japan’sF Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-4 at Kerber a welcome opportunity of leaders Barcelona. And the Frenchman’s match back in Madrid’s “Even if it looks like we cannot improve, the Pan Pacific Open women’s to work her way back to form Bale had received stinging faith was rewarded inside favour. The left-back was of course we can improve,” said Guardiola. tennis tournament yesterday to after a poor run of results and criticism from the Spanish 20 minutes when Mayoral inches away from bagging “There’s still movement, there are still actions avenge a humiliating loss at the to seal victory in an hour and 23 Froome’s press and Madrid fans for his swept home a loose ball with a second when his looping we can improve. US Open. minutes. underwhelming displays in a classy finish from close effort came back off the bar. “The full-backs are so important. They offer Frenchwoman Kristina “I was trying to come out, Ronaldo’s absence in recent range. Mayoral’s strike meant However, Real broke energy to go up and down so that means we can Mladenovic suffered an epic focus on every single point and weeks as Real dropped points Madrid have now matched straight up the other end and put more players in the middle, to play, to pass the Tokyo meltdown, meanwhile, as make it better than last time,” Sky recruit at home to Valencia and a world record of scoring in the unfortunate Rodrigues sort passes.” “I like it when we play short passes she was pulverised by China’s said Kerber. “Naomi is a tough Levante. 73 consecutive games set by turned Mayoral’s cross into through the middle, five, six metres, that gives Wang Qiang, who inflicted the opponent and a great talent.