Arsenal are also third in the fans' fair play league - the team whose supporters finish top at the end of the season receive £20,000.. Points are awarded from reports made by the Premier League's referees assessors who attend each match.The Premier League confirmed the table was correct. A spokesman said: "The Fair Play League is judged on a number of Uefa-set criteria other than red or yellow cards, for example positive play. Delegates, in conjunction with match officials, at every Premier League match assess the teams in each area from which an aggregate score is taken to form the Fair Play League table."Prize money of £30,000 is on offer for the winning side. In addition, Sol Campbell was fined last week for retaliating against Eric Djemba-Djemba in the Community Shield.The Fair Play League is based on the number of red and yellow cards, positive play, respect for opponents and the referee, and the behaviour of club officials. The final day had begun with Matthew Hoggard underlining his return from a knee operation last summer to claim six wickets and dismiss their opponents - who were made up largely of players earmarked for the forthcoming Under-19 World Cup - for a lowly 57. Thorpe impressed in particular, scoring an unbeaten 47 off only 42 deliveries before the tourists declared 265 runs ahead.
The impressive left-arm spinner Enamul Haque Jnr claimed his fifth wicket of the match by bowling Clarke.The President's XI line-up seemed to have denied any England hopes of a positive result after reaching 79 for 1 at tea. But the introduction of the left-arm spinner Ashley Giles and the off-spinner Gareth Batty in tandem changed the nature of the match.The all-rounder Clarke claimed the key wicket four overs after tea when he won an lbw decision against Aftab Ahmed. Three overs later, Giles claimed the first of three victims when he ended 36 overs of defiance by the opener Hannan Sarkar, who was deceived by the arm ball and also trapped leg before. Batty struck in his third and fourth overs, firstly to have Ashiqur Rahman caught behind, then trapping Mushfiqur Rahman leg before.Three further wickets fell in the next 10 overs before the captain, Michael Vaughan, finally turned to the pace and hostility of Harmison.
He ended a stubborn innings of 26 by Nadif Chowdhury with a superb yorker. Arsenal may be in the thick of disciplinary action with the Football Association, but the Gunners have also somehow made it to the top of the Premier League's Fair Play League table. England's build-up to their historic opening Test with Bangladesh gathered momentum after an encouraging and impressive display with bat and ball to come within one wicket of victory in their first warm-up match. Aiming to gain match practice in the first of only two three-day tour matches prior to the opening Test at the National Stadium on 21 October, they almost exceeded their own expectations with the President's XI last pair surviving the last two balls of the match to scrape a draw.It was an encouraging and impressive display from an England tour squad whose preparations had been limited to the indoor school at the Bangladesh Academy prior to this game. "We are going through a difficult phase," the Leipzig mayor, Wolfgang Tiefensee, said.Gross was one of Germany's most successful swimmers, winning three Olympic golds, five World Championship golds and 10 European titles.The organisers of next year's Athens Olympics have signed an agreement with a private Greek hospital group to provide additional healthcare services during the games.The Athens Medical Center will provide staff for health facilities as well as material for the Olympic Village's 24-hour microbiology clinic..
