Milan - Promoted Serie A side Bologna have called Sinisa Mihajlovic in to replace coach Daniele Arrigoni after he presided over the club's eighth defeat in 10 games.

The central-Italy club announced their decision Monday, in the wake of a 5-1 defeat suffered at Cagliari at the weekend.

Arrigoni, 49, steered Bologna to promotion last summer and seemed to be in for a good top-flight season after a 2-1 win at giants AC Milan in the opening round of the season.

A bad record of two wins and eight defeats, however, dropped Bologna to second-last position.

Frankfurt - German Bundesliga clubs Bayer Leverkusen and Cologne were both fined by the German Football Federation (DFB) Monday after flares and firecrackers landed on the pitch in the recent derby match between the sides.

Cologne have been hit with a fine of 23,000 euros (29,500 dollars) while Leverkusen, which hosted the game on October 24, have to pay 10,000 euros.

The missiles were fired from the Cologne fan section at the BayArena ground in the direction of a linesman and a Leverkusen player.

Lahore, Nov 3 : Senior Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf has flown to India to join the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) despite his selection on Monday in the national team for three one-day internationals.

''He didn''t tell us he was going to India. We heard about it ourselves two hours back. We called up his home and his wife has confirmed he has gone to India to play in the ICL,'' Pakistan Cricket Board operations director Zakir Khan told a news conference on Monday.

Hamburg - Germany coach Joachim Loew appears set to meet Torsten Frings on Tuesday in order to resolve another national team conflict after making peace with captain Michael Ballack.

Kicker sports magazine said that Loew wanted to meet Frings around Werder Bremen's Champions League match with Greek club Panathinaikos. The German football federation (DFB) only confirmed that the meeting was due this week.

Nagpur/New Delhi, Nov 3 : Security around master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has been stepped up on Monday following Maharashtra Police receiving reports from Central agencies of a threat to him from Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed.

However, intelligence sources in Delhi said they had not received any fresh input about any threat to Tendulkar other than in 2002.