André Villas-Boas urges Tottenham board to strengthen in the summer

• We must do it in the Tottenham way, manager adds• 'The others have great squads and will continue to add quality'André Villas-Boas has urged the Tottenham Hotspur board to invest strongly in the squad over the summer to help the club close the gap on the Premier League's top four, which they narrowly failed to make this time out.Tottenham beat Sunderland 1-0 on Sunday to finish with a c

Alex Ferguson's last game as Man United manager – in pictures

Guardian photographer Tom Jenkins brings you the best images from Sir Alex Ferguson's last ever game as Manchester United ManagerTom Jenkins

Arsenal's Theo Walcott curbed but Laurent Koscielny finds vital space | Michael Cox

Newcastle United's Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa kept Theo Walcott in check before Laurent Koscielny fittingly won the gameArsène Wenger is not the type of manager who keenly inspects the opposition searching for weaknesses, instead preferring to concentrate upon the strengths of his own players. For Arsenal's crucial trip to Newcastle United, however, there seemed an obvious area of vulnerability to exp

Arsène Wenger praises 'special' Arsenal squad after sealing fourth spot

• Manager hails team's character after 1-0 defeat of Newcastle • 'We want to make additions but keep spirit of the squad'Arsène Wenger has heaped praise on his "special" players after securing a place in the qualifying round of next season's Champions League but pledged to strengthen his squad in the summer.Arsenal's 1-0 victory at Newcastle United assured them of fourth place in the Prem

Arsenal dance on pitch but still look out of step against Newcastle

Arsène Wenger rides out stormy season but old flaws remain and only serious spending will pacify manager's criticsArsène Wenger will be glad to see the back of a season that has proved the most testing since he was handed the Arsenal reins 17 years ago. As he embraced Mikel Arteta at the final whistle at St James' Park there was a huge sense of relief but also vindication after defying his cr

Stuart Broad's part-time brilliance leaves England hoping for more | Barney Ronay

The bowler's devastating spell at Lord's brought the inevitable question as to why Broad o'clock does not strike more oftenIt always seemed likely this was going to be one of those Stuart Broad days from the moment, five overs into New Zealand's invertebrate second innings, that Hamish Rutherford's off stump was uprooted and sent spinning back in the direction of the pavilion like a dying cat

Visconti wins gruelling Giro stage

• Giovanni Visconti wins 15th stage in snowy conditions• An overall victory for Nibali will boost Italian cyclingItalian cycling is in dire need of a heroic figure who can capture the public's imagination and bring pizzazz and sponsorship money back into the sport. That gap – and its underlying reasons – was thrown into clear relief when the slightly truncated 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia

Cook: bowlers 'as good as I've seen'

• Broad takes seven for 44 as New Zealand fall for 68• 'We started to panic,' admits Brendon McCullum after defeatAlastair Cook's first Test on home soil as England captain ended in a comfortable win, although it took an hour of supremely destructive fast bowling from Stuart Broad and James Anderson to lend the start of the Ashes summer something resembling a sense of decisive momentum."W

Hull KR 44-18 Wakefield Trinity | Super League match report

• Hull KR 44-18 Wakefield Trinity• Hull KR turn tables after the intervalHull KR produced a dominant second-half display to end a three-match losing run in style and ease the pressure on their coach, Craig Sandercock.Rovers trailed 18-16 at half-time but then scored 28 points without reply to secure a comfortable victory that lifts them into Super League's top-eight play-offs at the expen

Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Sunderland | Premier League match report

• Newcastle 0-1 ArsenalGareth Bale collected possession in the last minute, he jinked inside, rolling the ball on to his left foot and unfurled a glorious shot into the far, top corner from 25 yards. Under normal circumstances, Bale's goal, his 26th of a stellar season, would have been the cause for frenzied celebration. Not here. It did not matter.The victory propelled Tottenham to 72 poi

Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Sunderland | Premier League match report

• View our gallery from all of Sunday's Premier League gamesGareth Bale collected possession in the last minute, he jinked inside, rolling the ball on to his left foot and unfurled a glorious shot into the far, top corner from 25 yards. Under normal circumstances, Bale's goal, his 26th of a stellar season, would have been the cause for frenzied celebration. Not here. It did not matter.The

Arsenal and Tottenham: Champions League race – as it happened

Minute-by-minute report: Arsenal secured fourth spot in the Premier League with a win over Newcastle Barry Glendenning

Southampton 1-1 Stoke City | Premier League match report

There was to be no fairytale finish, and not much fanfare either, as Michael Owen called time on his playing career with a scoreless 16-minute cameo that rather sums up his season at Stoke City.After an illustrious career that has taken him from Liverpool to Real Madrid, Newcastle United and Manchester United, Owen announced in March that this was to be his last season as a player.The winn

Swansea City 0-3 Fulham | Premier League match report

There might have been goals aplenty around the country, as there were in South Wales, but Swansea's memorable campaign finished tamely. Defeat to a fragile Fulham side who had lost five games on the spin was not the way to celebrate a ninth-place finish and the winning of the Capital One Cup, which was paraded around the stadium at the end.That Swansea battered Fulham for most of the second h

West Ham United 4-2 Reading | Premier League match report

Kevin Nolan scored a hat-trick as West Ham signed off the Premier League campaign with an entertaining win over relegated Reading.West Ham were in complete control after a mistake from the new England call-up Alex McCarthy gifted Nolan the opener, with Ricardo Vaz Tê sweeping home a second following good work from Andy Carroll, who was playing the final game of his season's loan from Liverpoo

Manchester City 2-3 Norwich | Premier League match report

Manchester City's first home outing of the post-Roberto Mancini era ended in the dismay of defeat and with the Blues fans leaving no doubt about their enduring affection for the sacked Italian.For delivering the FA Cup in 2011 and last season's Premier League title the match-day programme allowed Mancini a picture spread captioned with a thank you, Mike Summerbee's column name checked him in

Arsenal pip Tottenham to final Champions League place

• Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 SunderlandFor much of an overcast Tyneside afternoon Arsène Wenger wore the dissatisfied expression of a man forced to travel to Europe by cramped budget charter flight rather than first-class private jet.Threatening only sporadically from open play, his slightly jaded-looking Arsenal players did not exactly arrive in the Champions League in style but the important

Nadal crushes Federer in Rome final

• Spaniard wins 6-1, 6-3 a week before French Open• Rome win was Nadal's 36th in 38 matches since comebackIf Roger Federer's collapse against Rafael Nadal in the Rome Masters on Sunday was to be the last time they meet in a final, it should not sour the memory of the 19 that went before. But the reality is the rivalry that has illuminated the game for a decade is fading by the day.This wi

Liverpool 1-0 QPR | Premier League match report

Regrets? Jamie Carragher can have few. The Premier League winner's medal that would have completed his collection is one; the 30-yard shot that cannoned off a post on his 737th and final appearance for Liverpool another. The biggest, however, was articulated and felt by the Kop and Brendan Rodgers – it is all over, and all over too soon.In truth Carragher's farewell to Anfield after 16 outsta

Chelsea 2-1 Everton

Perhaps it was the raucous chorus of José Mourinho's name, summoned initially by those in the Matthew Harding stand but soon taken up by the majority, as players and coaches waited to re-enter for the lap of appreciation that persuaded Rafael Benítez this was no time to brave the arena one last time. The din must have reverberated round the tunnel, inescapable and deafening. A couple of post-sea

Wigan Athletic 2-2 Aston Villa | Premier League match report

Roberto Martínez will meet the Wigan owner, Dave Whelan, in a week's time to discuss his future, the Latics' manager said after his relegated side ended their Premier League season with a performance that summed up many of their strengths and weaknesses."Whether I am here or not is not important," said the Spaniard, the bookies' favourite to replace David Moyes at Everton. "What's important i

WBA 5-5 Manchester United

West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United players formed a guard of honour as Sir Alex Ferguson took a warmly-received bow before kick-off. He has spent plenty of time on the grass this past week because he thinks it's all over. After 1,500 United games, it seems safe to say: it is now.West Brom's match programme included a generous 40-page tribute to the Scot's quarter century of service, w

Premier League final day – as it happened!| Ian McCourt

Minute-by-minute report: Sir Alex Ferguson's final game in charge at Manchester United was the highlight of an action-packed final day of the seasonIan McCourt

WBA 5-5 Manchester United

Premier League: Sir Alex Ferguson's final game in charge at Manchester United ended in a 10-goal blitz

Frankie Dettori's solicitor in new attempt to restore riding licence

• Dettori caught in stalemate at end of six-month ban• Telescope raises Derby hopes in Newmarket gallopFrankie Dettori's solicitor is expected at the offices of horseracing's ruling body on Monday, where his plea for the jockey to have his licence returned is likely to fall on deaf ears. Christopher Stewart-Moore was due at the British Horseracing Authority in any case, in connection with an

Horse racing tips: Monday 20 May

Union Saint runs at Newton Abbot with his connections hoping for a hat-trick of wins from the five-year-oldLeicester6.20 Khobaraa 6.50 Prime Exhibit 7.20 Capitulate7.50 Greylami 8.20 Ian's Dream 8.50 PlutocracyNewton Abbot2.20 Royal Peak 2.50 Master Flight 3.20 Union Saint (nap)3.50 Mcllhatton 4.20 Miss Tenacious4.50 Talented Kid 5.20 Himalayan ExpressRedcar2.10 Loucal 2.

England's Stuart Broad shoulders task to destroy New Zealand's dream

• Alastair Cook's team go 1-0 up in the series• Broad takes man-of-match award with figures of 7-44For a fleeting moment, an hour into the fourth day's play, just before Stuart Broad found the edge of Peter Fulton's dangling bat, New Zealand nursed grand thoughts of winning the first Test.They had clung on to England's coat-tails tenaciously; Tim Southee had produced a 10-wicket performan

Giro d'Italia 2013: stage 15 – as it happened! | Lawrence Ostlere

Rolling report: Giovanni Visconti won stage 15 in dreadful mountain conditions but Vincenzo Nibali is still in pink

Lord's proves a treacherous place for New Zealand's batsmen | Vic Marks

Lord's has become the new Headingley, a place where mystical forces can suddenly coincide to make batting seem impossibleSo Lord's is the new Headingley. OK, the pavilions do not have much in common and the maroon trouser with cheeks to match are seldom in evidence at Leeds. But Lord's is a place where mystical forces can suddenly coincide to make batting seemingly impossible. Now it can be a

Giro d'Italia 2013: stage 15 results

Stage results, general classification, points, mountain and young rider standings after stage 15, and moreReading this on a mobile? See the results here.*Giro d'Italia 2013*Giro d'Italia*Cyclingguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds