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TENNIS | Page 5 MMLBLB | Page 8 Argentina Ramirez blasts To Advertise here captain Red Sox past Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 savours Davis Yankees for Cup glory series sweep Tuesday, September 20, 2016 FOOTBALL Dhul-Hijja 18, 1437 AH Ronaldo-less Real GULF TIMES Madrid net record 16th straight win SPORT Page 2 FOOTBALL ACHIEVEMENT Qatari shooters Guardiola on win bronze at Junior World Cup QNA places, respectively. guard as Man City Qabala, Azerbaijan India’s Shambhaji Zanzan Patil emerged the individual champion, hitting 562 with 13x. He held off Aus- atar bagged the 25m Stand- tralian pair of Sergei Evglevski and ard Pistol Men’s Team Thomas James Ashmore, who se- bronze medal at the ISSF cured 555 and 554. Junior World Cup for rifl e, Gurmeet and Rituraj Singh, both Qpistol and shotgun in Qabala, Az- of India, completed the top fi ve with begin cup defence erbaijan, Qatar Olympic Committee one target separating them. Gurmeet reported on its website yesterday. netted 547 and Singh hit 546 to help Ahmad Zayed al-Shammari, Mo- their team and Patil clinch the top After a supreme start to the League, Guardiola warns against complacency hamed Nasser al-Yafei and Rabeaa honours. al-Kuwari combined for a tally of India were on the top of the med- AFP 1558 with 14x to fi nish third behind als tally with three gold, one silver London gold-medal winning India (1655) and and three bronze medals. China and second-placed Australia (1645). Norway were close behind with two Al-Shammari was the top shooter gold medals each. Overall, China are anchester City launch for Qatar, collecting 540, while al-Yafei in second place with fi ve medals, in- their League Cup defence tallied 520 and al-Kuwari shot 498. cluding two silver, while Norway also at Swansea City this week Al-Shammari and al-Yafei were had one bronze medal. with manager Pep Guar- also among the top 10 in the individ- Qatar, with one bronze, are ninth Mdiola desperate to keep a lid on expec- ual event, getting seventh and ninth in the table. tations after their supreme start to the season. City have won their eight games in all competitions — a club record — and preserved their two-point advantage at the Premier League summit with a ra- zor-sharp 4-0 win over Bournemouth on Saturday. It was the fi fth time this season they have scored three or more goals in a game, but Guardiola has vowed that he will not allow complacency to take hold at the Etihad Stadium. “That is not going to happen when I am there,” he told reporters after the win against Bournemouth. “And don’t say it is too easy. I heard from years ago the Premier League is the toughest league and I am going to accept that. “We have a lot of work (to do) and we are just in September. We have played absolutely nothing. Manager Pep Guardiola (centre) talks with referee Jon Moss after Manchester City’s Nolito (second from left) was sent off dur- “Always for the next game we have ing the English Premier League match against Bournemouth in Manchester, England, on Saturday. (AFP) to try to do it better than the game before.” today when Premier League champions “I knew I had a task. It is tactical, but FIXTURES Ahmad Zayed al-Shammari, Mohamed Nasser al-Yafei and Rabeaa al-Kuwari The next game is against a Swansea Leicester City entertain Chelsea. also mental. We have to improve, no Today won the 25m Standard Pistol Men’s Team bronze medal at ISSF Junior World side who were left a point above the Leicester go into the game on the doubt.” Bournemouth vs Preston North End Cup for rifle, pistol and shotgun in Qabala, Azerbaijan. (Twitter/QOC) relegation zone following a 1-0 loss at back of successive 3-0 wins over Club The tie will rekindle memories of an Brighton and Hove Albion vs Reading Southampton on Sunday. Brugge and Burnley, while Chelsea extraordinary performance at North- Derby County vs Liverpool The result increased the scrutiny on were left smarting by a 2-1 home defeat ampton by United great George Best, Everton vs Norwich City coach Francesco Guidolin and with a at Liverpool’s hands on Friday. who scored six goals in an 8-2 FA Cup Leeds United vs Blackburn Rovers He cannot walk, says Schumi’s league game against City to follow, and Another team in the doldrums are win at their old County Ground in Feb- Leicester City vs Chelsea then a visit from in-form Liverpool, he Manchester United, who crashed to a ruary 1970. Newcastle United vs Wolverhamp- lawyer, denying magazine’s claims faces a testing run of fi xtures. third consecutive loss at Watford in the Liverpool, last season’s beaten fi nal- ton Wanderers “I am worried because my job is my league on Sunday. ists, begin their quest for a record-ex- Nottingham Forest vs Arsenal Michael Schumacher’s job and it is my attitude to be always Jose Mourinho’s side visit third- tending ninth League Cup at Champi- lawyer has denied, in a ready if it’s possible,” said Guido- tier Northampton Town, where defeat onship side Derby County. Tomorrow court case against a German lin, whose club won the League Cup in would rank alongside their humiliat- Tottenham Hotspur are sweating on Fulham vs Bristol City magazine, claims that the 2013. ing 4-0 loss to Milton Keynes Dons in the fi tness of striker Harry Kane ahead Northampton Town vs Manchester seven-times Formula One “Now we have Man City on Wednes- this competition under Louis van Gaal of their home game with Gillingham, United world champion can walk day, Man City again on Saturday, and in 2014. after he was stretchered off with an QPR vs Sunderland again. then Liverpool. We have to improve. “I know what is in my hands, the im- ankle injury in Sunday’s 1-0 win over Southampton vs Crystal Palace Schumacher’s family is suing The opponent is not important, but our provement of the team and individuals. Sunderland. Stoke City vs Hull City Bunte after it quoted an un- attitude is.” I have to try to stop defensive mistakes,” Arsenal, who won 4-1 at Hull City on Swansea City vs Manchester City named friend of the 47-year- The stand-out tie of the third round Mourinho said after the 3-1 reverse at Saturday, get their League Cup cam- Tottenham Hotspur vs Gillingham old’s who said he was able takes place at the King Power Stadium Vicarage Road. paign under way at Nottingham Forest. West Ham vs Accrington Stanley to walk “a couple of steps” following his skiing accident in the Alps in December BOTTOMLINE 2013. Schumacher spent six months in a coma after hit- ting his head on a rock and has been cared for since at his house in Switzerland. Gascoigne fi ned for racism off ence Felix Damm told the court “he cannot walk” and was unable to stand even with AFP District Judge Graham Wilkinson, by police about his comments on De- the assistance of therapists. Dudley, United Kingdom fi ning Gascoigne, who made his name cember 22 last year. The original report last at northeast club Newcastle United He said he “hadn’t gone out to off end December featured a picture before enjoying spells at Tottenham anybody” but also told offi cers: “Look- of Schumacher on the cover ormer England footballer Hotspur, Rome club Lazio and Glasgow ing back now, obviously I have said the with the headline “He can Paul Gascoigne has been fi ned Rangers, told the retired playmaker: wrong thing. I apologise from the bot- walk again”. £1,000 ($1,305, 1,168 euros) “You sought to get a laugh from an au- tom of my heart and it will never hap- “Michael is very thin,” the and ordered to pay £1,000 in dience of over 1,000 people because of pen again.” friend commented. “But he Fcompensation by a court yesterday for the colour of Mr Rowe’s skin.” Defence lawyer Gavin Harris told the can once again walk a little with the help of his therapists. He manages to making a racist comment to a black Wilkinson added: “Mr Rowe was Paul Gascoigne (left) poses with a fan court Gascoigne’s comment was not make a couple of steps. And he can also raise an arm.” security guard at his An Evening With clearly humiliated on stage, as part of outside the court in Dudley yesterday. malicious but arose from the star’s up- That was described as “irresponsible” by Schumacher’s manager Sabine Gazza show last year. an act. As a society it is important that bringing in “a bygone age”. Kehm. “Unfortunately, we are forced by a recent press report to clarify that Dudley Magistrates Court was told we challenge racially aggravated be- “He would be in a position where he But Wilkinson, passing sentence, the assertion that Michael could move again is not true,” she said. “Such Gascoigne, 49, had humiliated Errol haviour in all its forms.: would be putting himself in harm’s way told Gascoigne: “I accept that you grew speculation is irresponsible because given the seriousness of his injuries, Rowe, who had been given the job of Prosecution lawyer Simon Davis said should the requirement develop. Clearly, up in a diff erent time. We live in the 21st his privacy is very important for Michael.