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The genteel sport of crown green bowling is being threatened by increasing incidents of hooliganism, prompting one county to impose a ban on alcohol-related trouble at matches.

Shropshire Crown Green Bowls Association has agreed to impose fines, points deductions and bans on players for breaches of its new code of conduct.

This is lawn bowls, not to be confused with the Lancastrian crown green version, American 10-pin bowling or French petanque.

After seeing his strikerless side put in the kind of performance that would turn even the keenest football fans to crown green bowls, the Tottenham Hotspur manager André Villas-Boas says he will not be using what remains of the transfer window to buy a forward.

And so, in the absence of MOTD, to the boxing on Channel 5, who got lucky with their European super-middleweight title fight between James DeGale and Hadillah Mohoumadi. Mohoumadi is the French champion, which I gather is about as significant as being Albania's top crown green bowls player, but 5 promised us he would give DeGale a decent fight and, unusually for boxing, this was not just hype.