Real confident success will convince Beckham to stay

MADRID (Reuters) - Real Madrid sports director Predrag Mijatovic is confident that the club's serious challenge for honours this season will convince David Beckham to stay on in Spain.

Burnley 2-1 Leeds
Second-half goals from Gifton Noel-Williams and Andrew Gray saw Burnley see off

Darlington 1-0 Mansfield
Substitute Martin Smith smashed in a superb 30-yard shot to send Darlington into the Northern area semi-finals of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. Smith volleyed in the winner with 15 minutes left to make it nine games unbeaten for the Quakers.

Empty stadiums as Asiad football gets underway
football campaigns off on the right foot, but glaringly empty stadiums took the gloss off their victories.There was also wins for local hope Qatar, Uzbekistan and Kuwait as the hunt for Asiad gold began in earnest.

Watford 0-1 Sheffield United
Danny Webber came off the bench to earn Sheffield United a late 1-0 basement battle win at Watford to boost their survival hopes.

Colchester 5-1 Hull
Colchester's Chris Iwelumo scored four goals as Hull were thumped. But the hosts were forced to come from behind after Nicky Forster prodded home Craig Fagan's header on 16 minutes.

Cook: I want to stay
Queens Park Rangers winger Lee Cook has stated he is more than happy to stay at Loftus Road, despite the recent transfer speculation surrounding his future.

"At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler