Champions Celtic start with win

Forest and Reading draw

Olympic football news from Beijing

FA Cup winners Portsmouth showed plenty of charity to Manchester United by missing three of their four penalties in a penalty shoot-out to hand the Charity Shield to last season’s Premier league winners. United dominated the game but couldn’t score and game ended 0-0.

A controversial Barry Robson penalty was enough for Celtic to get their defence off to a winning start in the Scottish Premier. Before the game the championship flag was raised before the game by the widow of the late Celtic coach Tommy Burns.

Reading started life back in the championship with a 0-0 draw at the City Ground against Nottingham Forest.

Over in Beijing, Ronaldinho scored two goals in seven minutes to put Brazil through to the Olympic football quarter-finals during a 5-0 thrashing of New Zealand.

Argentina maintained their perfect record to guarantee progression from Group A with a 1-0 win over Australia courtesy of a goal 14 minutes from time from Napoli’s Ezequiel Lavezzi.

Liverpool’s Ryan Babel fired in a rebound from his own header against the United States to put the Netherlands ahead in what ended as a 2-2 draw.

As the English Football league kicked off a week before it’s big brother the Premier, the honour of being first scorer went to Gary Hooper of Scunthorpe who scored after 57 minutes of their tie with Leeds. Leeds, who are League One title favourites came back to win 2-1.

Rangers got back to winning ways as the Scottish Premier kicked off beating Falkirk 1-0. Inverness gained their first ever win against Aberdeen beating them 2-0 at Pittodrie.

Paul Jewell is still waiting for his first league win as Derby manager as they lost their first game back in the Championship at home to Doncaster.

In League Two Dagenham got off to a magnificent start as they smashed six goals past Chester, while in League One Oldham won a seven-goal thriller against Millwall at Boundary Park after being 3-1 down before Millwall’s Robinson was sent-off.

Also in League Two three sides started with minus points, Rotherham gained three with a 1-0 win over Lincoln, Bournemouth drew with Gillingham 1-1, while Luton lost at home to remain with minus 30.

In Scotland new boys Annan Athletic are still unbeaten after their first home league game ended in a 1-1 draw.

Charlton have signed Fulham winger Hameur Bouazza on a season-long loan.