Briefs3-Mancini will stay at Inter, says agent

May 20 (Reuters) - Sports news from around the world:

Soccer - Roberto Mancini will stay at Inter Milan "100 percent", his agent Giorgio De Giorgis told Italian radio.

The coach has made no public comment since Inter retained the Serie A title on Sunday, with club owner Massimo Moratti saying the pair will talk to see if their stretched relationship can continue.

"If would surprise me a lot if he left," De Giorgis added.

Soccer - Tens of thousands of supporters lined the streets of Glasgow's East End to pay their respects to former Celtic player and manager Tommy Burns who was buried on Tuesday, the Scottish Premier League club said on its Web Site (www.celticfc.net).

The former Scotland midfielder, who won six league titles and five Scottish Cups as a player before also leading Celtic to the Scottish Cup as a manager, died of cancer aged 51 last week.

Rugby - New experimental rules aimed at encouraging more free-flowing play could kill Italy's physical approach to the game, coach Nick Mallett has said.

The rules are being tried out at club level and some will be adopted for a global trial from August, with international matches possibly included.

"The individual playing style of various nations will be lost," he told reporters. "Teams like Argentina, England, South Africa and Italy have a certain way of playing, different from Australia or France or Wales."

Rallying - Subaru have brought forward the world championship debut of their new Impreza WRC2008 car to the Acropolis Rally in Greece at the end of the month, the team said in a statement.

The former champions, with drivers Norwegian Petter Solberg and Australian Chris Atkinson, are third in the manufacturers' standings behind Ford and Citroen.

Women's soccer - Former Russia captain and Inter Milan midfielder Igor Shalimov has been appointed coach of the Russian national women's team, the Russian FA announced in a statement.

(Editing by Pritha Sarkar)