Drogba injury fright as Fabregas ensures Chelsea overturn deficit August 10, 2014 RETURNING striker Didier Drogba limped out of Chelsea’s friendly victory over Hungarian side Ferencvaros in Budapest last night and could be a doubt for the start of the new Premier League season. With Real Sociedad next up for Jose Mourinho’s side on Tuesday ahead of a campaign opener at top-flight new boys Burnley, strikes from [...]
Moores demands England make it 3-1 at Oval August 10, 2014 ENGLAND cricket coach Peter Moores has urged his players not to get carried away by successive victories over India and to finish the series with a flourish in this week’s final Test at the Oval. Saturday’s win by an innings and 54 runs inside three days at Old Trafford put England 3-1 ahead and capped [...]
Blythe and Swift upstage Wiggins in London-Surrey Classic August 10, 2014 BRITAIN’S Adam Blythe pipped childhood friend Ben Swift to win the RideLondon-Surrey Classic yesterday, as Sir Bradley Wiggins missed out on a capital hat-trick. NFTO’s Blythe and Team Sky’s Swift battled it out over the last 300m of the 200km race, which began in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and passed through Surrey before finishing [...]
FIFPro show support for Suarez as striker appears before Court of Arbitration for Sport August 8, 2014 FIFPro, the representative organisation for professional footballers, has denounced the four-month ban from all footballing activity handed to Luis Suarez by Fifa. The Barcelona forward was in Switzerland today to make an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the ban he was given the suspension for biting Italian Giorgio Chiellini [...]
Arsenal drawn against Besiktas in a Champions League qualifier worth £8.5m August 8, 2014 Arsenal have been handed a tricky tie against Turkish side Besiktas in a Champions League play-off worth £8.5m. The first leg of the Champions League group stage qualifier will be played in Istanbul on August 19-20, with a return leg at the Emirates taking place a week later on August 26-27. The Gunners will face a [...]
Make a ton and series is ours to lose, insists six-wicket Broad August 8, 2014 SIX-WICKET hero Stuart Broad believes England are just a century away from establishing an unassailable series lead after dominating day one of the fourth Test against India at Old Trafford yesterday. England made a mockery of losing the toss, reducing India to 8-4 under favourable overhead conditions before routing the tourists for just 152, with [...]
Oscar dropped baton of truth, says prosecutor August 8, 2014 PARALYMPIC superstar Oscar Pistorius cannot escape a conviction for the premeditated murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, prosecutor Gerrie Nel told a South African court yesterday in his concluding remarks. Nel said Pistorius, the first double amputee to run at an Olympic Games, had presented two arguments on his defence that “can never be reconciled”. [...]
Westwood cards lowest Major round to head PGA leaderboard August 8, 2014 ENGLAND’S Lee Westwood matched his lowest ever round in a Major to share the lead with Americans Kevin Chappell and Ryan Palmer on six under par after round one of the US PGA at Valhalla yesterday. World No1 Rory McIlroy entered the tournament in prime form after wins at the Open and last week’s WGC-Bridgestone [...]
Andy Murray receives double boost in Rogers Cup ahead of quarters August 8, 2014 Britain’s Andy Murray was handed a double boost yesterday at the Rogers Cup in Toronto as top seed and would-be opponent Novak Djokovic was knocked out before Richard Gasquet was forced to withdraw from their third-round tie. Murray received a walkover into the quarter-finals after Gasquet pulled out shortly before the clash due to an [...]
West Ham star threatened girl with acid attack, court is told August 8, 2014 WEST Ham star Ravel Morrison threatened to throw acid in his ex-girlfriend’s face, blow up her house and have her killed during a four-year campaign of terror, a court heard yesterday. The harassment allegations emerged as England Under-21 midfielder Morrison appeared before Manchester magistrates charged with assaulting his former partner and her mother last month. [...]