NNewew VVisionis Tuesday,ion MarchSPORT 1, 2011 67 Cole faces £250k fine for shooting LONDON Ashley Cole is facing a £250,000 club fine for shoot- ing a student at Chelsea’s Decisive twist training ground. The England full back — who has so far refused to apologise publicly — wounded 21-year-old Tom Cowan after accidentally firing a high-powered air rifle he Chelsea take on United took to Cobham last Sunday morning. Surrey police will now start an investigation into the incident, which casts a fur- ther cloud over Carlo Ancelotti’s squad ahead of Tuesday’s crucial game at home to Manchester United. Accident: Ashley Cole, seen here in Chelsea’s FA Cup game against Everton last Saturday, reportedly shot an intern with an air rifle at the club’s training ground last Sunday. Soccer returns to troubled Egypt CAIRO Soccer returned to Egypt on Sunday against a backdrop of celebration and mourning but LONDON of Arsenal. City are third on 50, continuing tensions elsewhere with Spurs on 47. Chelsea, on 45, in North Africa mean the Today at 10.45 on SS3 have a game in hand on Spurs and African under-20 champion- Chelsea v Man United the top two and two in hand over ship is likely to be moved from City. Libya and the planned re-start For the first time in years, Chelsea's Chelsea's situation is still very of leagues in Tunisia called off. prime concern in Tuesday's much in their own hands as they Zamalek, one of Egypt’s top Premier League match against have still to play City and Spurs at two clubs, wore black arm- Manchester United at Stamford Stamford Bridge, though they also bands and held a minute’s Bridge will not be the title. have to travel to Old Trafford. silence for victims of the vio- Already 15 points behind leaders Their home record against lent demonstrations which led United and 11 adrift of second- United in recent years is strong to the toppling of long-stand- placed Arsenal, Chelsea's hopes of having not lost since 2002 and, ing president Hosni Mubarak. retaining the title are long gone having had the weekend off, cap- Zamalek beat Ulinzi of Kenya and instead they must focus on tain John Terry said his team were 1-0 in an African Champions fighting it out with Manchester raring to go. League match postponed City and Tottenham Hotspur for "We are very confident at home from last month. the remaining Champions League and the way they play might help berths. Chelsea have not finished us," Terry told the club's website. outside the top four since 2002, "I'm not sure how they are going Ronaldinho guides the year before Roman Abramovich to come at us but other teams that took them over, and after subse- have come to the Bridge have sat Flamengo to 1st Cup quently failing to land the back and we've found it hard to Champions League trophy he so break them down. RIO DE JANEIRO desperately wants, the Russian "It is a must-win game for us and Flamengo 1 Boavista 0 billionaire is unlikely to be the fans are going to be up for it. impressed by the prospect of the If we can win, who knows, it could Ronaldinho showed on Europa League. put a little bit of pressure on them Sunday he had lost none of United have 60 points, four clear and the teams around us." his free kick skills when he curled in the only goal as Flamengo beat Boavista in the final of the first phase of the Carioca (Rio de Janeiro) Arsenal players ‘destroyed’ after loss Championship. The 30-year- FA CUP: TOMORROW old playmaker, yet to shine for Arsenal v Lyton Flamengo since his January LONDON phies. move from AC Milan, scored Birmingham's winner came in the with a trademark free kick over the wall from 25 metres Arsene Wenger said Arsenal's shock 89th minute after a defensive blun- that gave the goalkeeper no defeat by Birmingham City in the der by keeper Wojciech Szczesny chance. The 72nd-minute goal English League Cup final on Sunday and defender Laurent Koscielny, came as relief for Flamengo at could have an impact on the club's leaving Arsenal players slumped on Engenhao as they struggled to push for three other trophies this the turf at the final whistle. convert their superiority into season. Asked if the defeat could affect the goals against surprise finalists "Everyone is devastated in the rest of Arsenal's season, Wenger Boavista from a small seaside dressing room, they (the players) are said: "It can. We are tremendously town who upset Brazilian destroyed, and I don't want to add to disappointed to lose, and we face a champions Fluminense in the that," the Arsenal manager told lot of questions after that mistake. semi-finals. reporters after Birmingham had "We have to be strong enough to beaten his side 2-1 at Wembley. stand up to it and show that we have Is Arsenal ending "I am bitterly disappointed like the the mental strength to respond. another season whole team. We had some problems "That's what a team is about; these to start the game, the number of kind of things are part of the game. without a trophy games we played caught up a little We had enough chances to kill off after losing the bit on us." the game when it was 1-1, but we The north London club, whose last didn't. League Cup ? 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