Falkirk’s young 19 year old midfielder Scott Arfield has won the Clydesdale Bank Premier League Young Player of the Month award for September. Arfield, who turns 20 on November 1, is contracted to Falkirk for the next five years, having signed a new contract with the Bairns in February. He made his club debut in August 2007.
This is not the first team Arfield has won the award. He won it for the month of December last year too.
FC Bayern squandered a 3-1 lead as Marcel Koller’s VFL Bochum struck twice late in the game to draw at the Allianz Arena last night.
Belgian Daniel Van Buyten put the hosts ahead after fifteen minutes, but Sinan Kaloglu equalised for Bochum in the 29th minute, with the goal being created by Mimoun Azaouagh.
Brazilian midfielder Ze Roberto then scored on either side of the lemon break as Bayern made it 3-1. With less than 10 minutes to go, it seemed that Bochum were resigned to losing by the same margin as they did last time to Bayern ( in April 2008). But Christophe Dabrowski pulled one back in the 83rd minute, and two minutes late, substitute Dennis Grote silenced the home crowd by heading in Bochum’s third.
Former England international Paul Scholes and Scottish midfielder Darren Fletcher have signed extensions to their current contracts. Scholes will stay at Old Trafford till 2010, while Fletcher has committed himself to the club till 2012.
Salford born Scholes, 33, has been at Manchester United for all his life. He will turn 34 on 16 November. In the recent 3-0 win against Danish side Aalborg in the Champions League, Scholes had to be stretchered off after 16 minutes, with later tests revealing medial knee ligament damage.