Watford sale at 'premature' stage

Italian Serie A side Udinese sacked coach Gianni de Biasi on Sunday, replacing him with Pasquale Marino, a former coach who was fired to make way for de Biasi just two months ago.De Biasi is paying the price for Udinese's poor form this year. Despite having the most prolific striker in the Italian division -- Italian international Antonio Di Natale -- Udinese are in 16th place after winning just once under de Biasi who took over in December.After Saturday's 3-0 defeat to seventh-placed Genoa he become the 14th Serie A coach to lose his job this season.

Watford Leisure, the company that owns Watford football club, reports a sharp increase in losses for the second half of 2010.

Udinese ended Leonardo's perfect record since taking over as Inter Milan coach from Rafael Benitez with a 3-1 win over the Italian champions in a lively lunchtime match in Serie A on Sunday.Inter, aiming for a sixth straight win since the Brazilian's arrival in the San Siro dugout, took the lead after quarter of an hour through Dejan Stankovic.Udinese then stunned Inter with goals from Cristian Zapata and Antonio Di Natale to go into the break 2-1 up, with Maurizio Domizzi adding a third midway through the second half.

AC Milan grabbed an injury-time leveller to share a 4-4 draw with Udinese at the San Siro on Sunday in a thrilling game that gave them a six-point lead at the top of Serie A.Udinese had led 3-1 at one stage and also moved into stoppage time with a 4-3 lead but Milan were rewarded for their never-say-die attitude.

A dramatic second half fightback from Italian side Udinese stunned English Premier League club Liverpool in the Europa League and inflicted their third straight defeat at Anfield.

Goals from Wesley Sneijder and Samuel Eto?o helped Inter Milan defeat Sampdoria 2-0 in Genoa and move second in Serie A on a Sunday that saw Udinese hit seven at Palermo and fourth-placed Lazio lose at Cagliari.Ahead of Monday?s clash between leaders AC Milan and Napoli at the San Siro, Sneijder opened the scoring with a 73rd-minute free kick in a bruising game with chances at both ends before Eto?o settled the matter with the final kick to take Inter one point above Napoli.

AS Roma and Inter Milan will contest the Italian Cup final for the fifth time in six years after Roma reached the trophy match despite a 1-0 defeat at Udinese in Wednesday's semi-final, second leg.Roma triumphed 2-1 on aggregate due to their 2-0 win at home in the first leg back in February.Alexis Sanchez scored the only goal of the game nine minutes from time but that wasn't enough to take the relegation threatened club past the Serie A leaders.

Ronaldinho was at his inspirational best as AC Milan ended a four-game winless streak with a 3-2 success against Udinese at the San Siro to move up to second in Serie A.Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored a brace and Pato marked his injury comeback as a substitute with a goal as Milan closed the gap on leaders Inter Milan to eight points.And the win was a much needed boost ahead of the resumption of Champions League duties next week but if there was any concerns that Milan would have one eye on Manchester United, they were quickly dispelled.