London  - Arsenal had Emmanuel Eboue sent off after 36 minutes, but still held on to draw 0-0 at Tottenham Hotspur Sunday.

Spurs have not beaten their North London rivals in a league game since 1999, and it is a long time since they had a better chance.

Arsenal remain fifth, five points behind Chelsea, but having also lost Emmanuel Adebayor to injury before half-time, they will probably feel this represents a valuable point.

Spurs lie 15th, only two points above Blackburn Rovers in the relegation zone - and Blackburn have a game in hand.

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Rome  - English veteran David Beckham remained firmly in the news Sunday after playing another convincing game with AC Milan and openly declaring his desire to play in Italy rather than returning to Los Angeles Galaxy.

Beckham, 33, has been at the Devils since late December on a loan deal set to expire on March 8, when he is due to rejoin the California club for the start of the US Major League Soccer (MLS).

On Saturday, LA Galaxy rejected AC Milan's bid to sign Beckham on a permanent deal.

Frankfurt  - German football federation (DFB) president Theo Theo Zwanziger has criticized "commercial excesses" in the game and the high wages paid to players.

"We have to ask ourselves: can and do we want to allow ourselves (a situation) that a sponsor or a sheikh buys a club and then sells it?" he told Sunday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

"This model contributes to commercial excesses."

London, February 8 : Despite bearing the brunt of recession, British storekeepers in Los Angeles seem set to do anything to ensure that football ace David Beckham does not quit the city due to the rocketing prices of his favourite British food items.

One of them has even offered to facilitate unlimited supply of Beckham's favourite choc bar, Cadbury's Curly Wurlys, at pre-recession prices if the sports star returns to play for LA Galaxy.

London, February 8 : Manchester United footballer Carlos Tevez's white Bentley car, worth 140,000 pounds, has been seized by police.

Cops pulled over the 25-year-old Argentinian striker, while he was driving to the club''s training ground on the M60, because its windows were "too dark".

They initially warned him that the windows of his car were heavily tinted, but later seized the vehicle upon realising that the football ace did not have a full UK licence.