Chronicle of sporting events Football. English Championship . 22nd round. "Manchester United" - "Newcastle" - 6:0, "Chelsea" - "Tottenham" - 2:0, "Arsenal" - "Birmingham" - 1:1, "Aston Villa" - " Reading - 3:1, Derby County - Wigan - 0:1, Middlesbrough - Liverpool - 1:1, Everton - Manchester City - 1: 0, West Ham - Fulham - 2:1, Sunderland - Portsmouth - 2:0, Bolton - Blackburn - 1:2. Leading : Manchester United, Arsenal - 51 points each, Chelsea - 47.

Magnitogorsk won the European Cup Magnitogorsk Metallurg continued the victorious performance of Russian teams at the European Champions Cup, winning the tournament, which, after its resumption, was held only in St. Petersburg and had exclusively Russian champions. The victory cannot be called the most extreme, for example, Dynamo had more serious problems two years ago; they were not paid wages then.

Tennis players began a new campaign for the Grand Slam The first official tennis tournament of the Grand Slam series, the Australian Open, has started in Melbourne, Australia. With the exception of two players, Germany's Tommy Hass and Argentina's Guillermo Cañas, who withdrew due to injury, the rest of the seeds - 30 men and 32 women - arrived on the Green Continent. So Australians will have no shortage of celebrities.

Speed ​​walkers from the Land of Tulips were the best in Kolomna In the first half of January, fans of winter sports were not bored. Just last weekend, the European championships in speed skating and luge, the “royal” stage of the Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding, Germany, the first starts of flying skiers after the prestigious “Four Hills Tour”, competitions of bobsleigh and alpine skiing masters took place.