OID‰‰†‹KOID‰‰†‹OID‰‰†‹MOID‰‰†‹C The Times of India, New Delhi TIMES SPORT Monday,January 5, 2004 19 ‘East German players Beckham injures ankle, Real widen lead AFP were routinely doped’ Madrid: Real Madrid over- SPANISH LEAGUE came the loss of injured Scholes rallies Man U Hamburg: A German historian claimed that East Ger- David Beckham and flu- to 1988). man soccer players, including a current Bundesliga struck Zinedine Zidane to Real had already lost the London: Second-half substi- and hit back from goals from coach, were routinely doped to make them faster and open up a five-point gap at services of Zidane at half- tute Paul Scholes scored two Tommy Johnson, Mamady more aggressive during matches, a magazine has re- the top of the Spanish first time with the Frenchman goals in four minutes to lift Sidibe and Paul Smith to be ported. division with a 1-0 win over suffering from a heavy cold Manchester United over As- two clear at the break.Carl- Potsdam historian Giselher Spitzer makes the claim struggling Murcia. and a fever. ton Villa 2-1 on Sunday in the ton Cole, on loan from in a new book titled Soccer-Athletics-Triathlon, assert- Beckham was forced to The absence of two of third round of the FA Cup. Chelsea, pulled one back for ing that players in East Germany were pumped full of leave the field after 79 min- their more creative players Scholes and striker Ruud Charlton in the 90th minute amphetamines even for European matches, newsweek- utes after a crunching tack- had a destablising effect on van Nistelrooy came on in but it was too late to save the ly Der Spiegel said. le by Rafael Clavero left him the league leaders who had the 54th minute and immedi- team sitting fourth in the Among them was Falko Goetz, now coach of 1860 Mu- with a bloodied right ankle to withstand long periods of ately lifted the Reds, who Premiership, who had rested nich, who played for 10-time East German champion yesterday. Murcia pressure and the looked lethargic after falling key players. Dynamo Berlin from 1979 to 1983. Goetz said he was in- The England skipper visitors, second from bot- behind 1-0 on a 19th minute Earlier,Chelsea — third in formed a few years ago that he had tested positive while needed four stitches in a tom of the table, had two goal by Gareth Barry. the Premiership — were playing in the communist country, whose systematic wound on the ankle, mak- penalty appeals turned Barry’s 18-yard (meter) held to a dramatic 2-2 draw use of drugs for athletes helped make the country an ing him doubtful for down. striker at Villa Park got in away to Watford. Olympic power. Wednesday’s Spanish Cup Deportivo La Coruna be- behind Man United ‘keeper Premiership battlers “I was told three or four years that I was given sub- match against Eibar. gan 2004 in rampant fash- Tim Howard after deflecting Bolton also face a replay af- stances without my knowledge,” said Goetz, who did Raul scored the only goal ion by thrashing Celta Vigo off defender Wes Brown. ter coming from behind not elaborate on the substance involved. of the game after just eight 5-0 away, with Spanish Charlton became the first away to Second Division Goetz said he has agreed to join a joint lawsuit in- minutes as the Spanish in- striker Victor smashing a Premiership team to be Tranmere in a 1-1 draw . volving other athletes who were doped. The 1860 coach ternational striker became hat-trick and Alberto dumped out of this season’s Elsewhere Portsmouth refused to comment further, saying the complaint was the third highest scorer in Luque and Diego Tristan FA Cup when they lost 3-2 scraped past Second Divi- still working its way through the court system. the club’s history. notching the other goals. away to First Division sion Blackpool 2-1. Der Spiegel said Spitzer found that the dreaded se- He joins Hugo Sanchez on The victory left Deporti- Gillingham. Charlton were In other Cup matches in- cret police, the Stasi, had “an army of informants” in- 164 goals in third place in a vo in third place, one point 1-0 up on Saturday at the volving Premiership teams, side top clubs who kept tabs day and night on stars table topped by the Alfredo behind Valencia, who can Priestfield Stadium thanks Freddie Kanoute scored a such as Matthias Sammer, who later became Europe’s Di Sefano (216 goals from cut Real’s lead back to two to a first minute own goal hat-trick in Tottenham’s 3-0 1953 to 1960) and Carlos San- points if they beat Real Madrid’s Ronaldo (right) vies with Murcia’s Diego during from Ian Cox. home win over First Divi- 1996 player of the year. AP tillana (186 goals from 1971 Villareal. AFP a league match in Madrid on Saturday. But Gillingham rallied sion Crystal Palace. AFP Roma’s record Jerose breaks Tolly hearts Rivaldo denies Saudi move on the line Sao Paulo (Brazil): Brazil- agreement er was released by AC Milan Margao: Jerose Oliveira’s Tollygunge, who played a ian World Cup winner Ri- with Rival- after an unsuccessful 17- Rome: Just about the only 75th minute strike ensured defensive game, depended valdo on Saturday denied he do who month spell. thing that has stopped AS Haywards 2000 Sporting on counters and had a had agreed to move to Saudi has accept- He joined the European Roma this season was Serie Club full points as they beat chance to find the equaliser team Al-Ittihad on a three- ed our of- champions on a free con- A’s holiday break. Tollygunge Agragami by a in the 35th minute but veter- million-dollar contract to fer. He will tract, a month after winning AC Milan finished last solitary goal in a Cola Cola an Amit Das failed to inter- play for just five months. play with the 2002 World Cup with season by capturing the 8th National Football cept a Keneth Onu pass ef- “This is not true. Rivaldo Al-Ittihad Brazil. Champions Cup and ended National League match at Nehru fectively. has more or less decided to for five Milan coach Carlo An- 2003 by losing both the Inter- Stadium, Fatorda, here on Football Haywards, who scored stay in Brazil,” said the months for three million celotti limited him to just 16 continental Cup, to Argenti- Serie A matches, and eight Sunday. their third win, now have player’s agent, Carlos Arine. dollars,” said Al-Balawi. na’s Boca Juniors, and a sur- L eague Champions League games Haywards, who created 11 points from seven match- Al-Ittihad chairman Man- “Rivaldo will sign the con- prising league contest to several scoring chances, tract on Monday and he will last season, when he was es while Tollygunge have sour Al-Balawi had said that Udinese. After more than scored the all-important their strikers. come to Saudi Arabia in the only a substitute for the six points from as many the former World Player of two weeks of buildup and an goal in the 75th minute Dudu Omagbemi missed next ten days to start train- Champions League final matches. the Year had agreed to join amount of media coverage through Oliveira beat rival three sitters while Francis ing.” against Juventus. AFP Referee M K Roy flashed the Jeddah-based club. normally reserved for events goalkeeper Chinmoy Baner- Andrade was unlucky in the the yellow cards to Hay- “We have concluded an The 31-year-old midfield- like the Champions final, jee off a snap left-footer off a second half when his shot wards’ Dennis George, Dudu Roma and Milan meet Tues- half-turn. from inside the box was Omagbemi and Tollygunge day night in Rome. The Goan team dominated saved by defender Kabijit Agragami’s Ebi Bar Bar, Roma (11-3-0), the only un- the match and could have Khotel on the goal line. Sandip Das and Jiten Rai. PTI defeated team left in Serie A, won by bigger margin but leads with 36 points.AP for inept shooting on part of TOID50104/CR1/19/M/1TOID50104/CR1/19/C/1TOID50104/CR1/19/K/1TOID50104/CR1/19/Y/1 CMYK.