Gelsenkirchen, Germany - Struggling Bundesliga club Energie Cottbus is to repay fans the cost of their tickets after a 4-0 thrashing at Schalke 04 on Friday evening.

Around 600 fans who travelled to Gelsenkirchen for the match will get their money back from the players' kitty to compensate for the poor performance, the club said after the game.

"The real restitution will have to come in the next few matches," club general manager Steffen Heidrich said.

London, Apr. 18 : Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney has been ruled out of tomorrow's FA Cup semi-final amid fears he that has a fractured metatarsal.

Club coach Alex Ferguson is set to throw in Federico Macheda for his first start at Wembley.

Ferguson admitted that he would make changes after the midweek Champions League win over Porto - in which Rooney was seen limping briefly - with one eye on next Wednesday's league game against Pompey.

Barcelona - Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils have withdrawn with injuries from next week's Barcelona Open with injuries as the clay season countdown draws closer to the start of the French Open.

Monfils was barely a factor in Monte Carlo this week, losing in the first round to Janko Tipsarevic while complaining of pain in both knees from tendinitis.

The 2008 Australian Open finalist Tsonga has not played since the Miami quarter-finals at the start of the month against Novak Djokovic.

Johannesburg - A visiting Indian cricket team was full of praise for South Africa on Saturday after a big stash of cash the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) team left behind in a room was returned untouched.

A cellphone company boss stumbled across 450,000 rand (50,000 dollars) in the safe of a hotel room in the southern city of Port Elizabeth earlier this week.

London, Apr. 18 : One of England''s finest Twenty20 minds and captain of Kent, Robert Key, believes that the Indian Premier League (IPL) might just help England win back the Ashes.

Key argues that if England are to have any chance of success in June''s World Twenty20, then the country''s top players must get more practice in the shortest form of the game - and where better than the IPL?

London, Apr. 18 : Steven Gerrard will miss Liverpool's crunch clash with Arsenal on Tuesday as he is down with a groin injury.

Gerrard suffered a recurrence in the Reds' final training session before the game, preventing him from even taking a place on the bench.

He may be even in doubt for the trip to Hull four days later.