England host All Blacks in 2012 November 10, 2011 RUGBY UNION: England will face Fiji, Australia, South Africa and world champions New Zealand in the 2012 autumn internationals at Twickenham. The opening Test is against Fiji on 10 November, before the hosts face the Wallabies on 17 November and Springboks a week later. The series concludes against the All Blacks on 1 December.
Team GB 2012 venues named November 10, 2011 FOOTBALL: Great Britain’s Olympic football teams will play their group matches at Old Trafford, Wembley and the Millennium Stadium. The men’s team will play their three group fixtures in Manchester, London and Cardiff. Hope Powell’s women will play their first two group matches in Cardiff and the third in London.
Aussies routed by South Africa November 10, 2011 CRICKET: Australia were bowled out for 47 – their fourth lowest Test total – by South Africa as 23 wickets fell in one day in Cape Town. The Proteas closed the day on 81-1, chasing 236 to win.
Divers and Noble Alan can be our friends in the North November 10, 2011 PAUL Nicholls saddles red-hot favourite Mon Parrain in tomorrow’s Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham (2.35pm) and the five-year-old is already as short as 3/1 with a few firms. However, the master of Ditcheat has yet to win this prestigious handicap and he has sent out plenty of well-fancied disappointments over the last few years. [...]
ENGLAND vs SPAIN November 10, 2011 I NORMALLY wouldn’t touch international friendlies with a barge pole, but tomorrow’s encounter between England and Spain at Wembley is an exception. The world champions are simply in a different stratosphere to the Three Lions and they have to be backed at 10/11 with Ladbrokes. Bookmakers initially had Spain at odds against for this encounter, [...]
HOT TIPPING November 10, 2011 The Punter tipped up two 12/1 winners last weekend and a 25/1 each-way third. This came on top of three out of four winning football bets.
ENGLAND VICTORY AS FIFA AGREE TO POPPY November 9, 2011 POPPYGATE: HOW THE ROW UNFOLDED FRIDAY Fifa president Sepp Blatter (above) rejects a request from the Football Association for England players to wear poppies against Spain in this weekend’s match against Spain at Wembley SUNDAY England and Chelsea star Frank Lampard (above) joins war veterans in condemning Fifa’s stance, with a spokesman for the player [...]
COMMENT November 9, 2011 SO common sense finally prevailed in the battle for England’s footballers to sport poppies on their shirts. The big question is: what on earth took so long? Poppies embroidered on black armbands was mooted days ago and has seemed the most sensible solution to this thorny issue ever since. England get to make the one-off [...]
Spain is the ultimate test, says Capello November 9, 2011 ENGLAND manager Fabio Capello admits the prospect of facing World Cup holders Spain has been rendered an even more daunting prospect than normal as a result of the absences of a clutch of key players. The Italian has opted to leave out Wayne Rooney, suspended for the first three games of next summer’s European Championships, [...]
How Spain left their nearly men tag behind November 9, 2011 SPAIN’S meteoric rise to the pinnacle of world football owes much to an Iberian back-to-basics coaching revolution, according to a man with one of the best CVs in the business. A decade ago Spain rivalled England as big tournament flops, but they arrive at Wembley for Saturday’s friendly as undisputed global frontrunners, having swept all [...]