Swansea City beat Arsenal 3-2 to deny super-sub Thierry Henry a magical return to the Premier League and Mark Hughes made a losing start as manager of struggling Queens Park Rangers Sunday. Arsenal stayed fifth in the table, four points behind Chelsea and 12 adrift of leader Manchester City which has a game in hand and play at Wigan Athletic Monday. Swansea moved up to 10th. The league's top scorer Robin van Persie put the Gunners ahead in the fifth minute but the Londoners' hopes of closing the gap at the top suffered a setback when Scott Sinclair equalixed from the penalty spot 11 minutes later. Nathan Dyer put the Welsh side in front on 57 minutes, Theo Walcott came good with an equalizer in the 69th but Danny Graham hit back with the winner straight from the re-start. Henry, Arsenal's all-time top scorer who made a fairytale return last Monday with the winning goal in an FA Cup third-round tie against Leeds United, came on in the 63rd minute but was unable to conjure up more of his magic. The 34-year-old Frenchman, on loan from the New York Red Bulls during the Major League Soccer close season, last played in the Premier League with Arsenal five years ago. While part of the principality was celebrating a famous victory for Swansea's neat-passing promoted team, former Wales manager Hughes watched his relegation-threatened side lose 1-0 at Newcastle United. Leon Best stroked home a fine winner in the 37th minute to send Newcastle up to sixth place. Third-bottom QPR has now gone nine games without a victory. Former Manchester City and Fulham boss Hughes took over at the west London club Tuesday after Neil Warnock was sacked. Stars to play in India Former international football stars including England's Robbie Fowler and France's Robert Pires are set to take part in a tournament in India playing alongside local talent, according to organizers. The ageing footballers could earn up to $600,000 for playing in the seven-week tournament which is being run along the lines of cricket's Indian Premier League and is pencilled in for a Feb. 25 start. Italian World Cup winning captain Fabio Cannavaro, Argentina's Juan Pablo Sorin and Hernan Crespo, Nigeria's Jay-Jay Okocha and Spain's Fernando Morientes are also lined up, according to the Celebrity Management Group (CMG) which is organizing the tournament with West Bengal's football association. Foreign coaches including Englishmen Peter Reid, John Barnes and Colin Todd have been signed up to take charge of teams, with each of the six franchises based in West Bengal.
