French raider Vision D’Etat looks just Champion at 9/2 in Newmarket finale October 14, 2010 NEWMARKET stages its historic Champions’ Day for the very last time tomorrow as from next year the Champion Stakes will be held at Ascot almost a month earlier. Although some have argued that this is racing doing away with tradition, I’m firmly in the progressive camp and I’m sure it will provide the British flat [...]
Hicks halts Reds sale October 13, 2010 LIVERPOOL owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett last night dramatically halted the sale of the club at the 11th hour by obtaining a temporary restraining order from a Texan court over what they called an “epic swindle”. In the same lawsuit Hicks and Gillett also claimed damages of more than £1bn from the rest of [...]
Liverpool hit out at late bid to delay NESV deal October 13, 2010 LIVERPOOL slammed Tom Hicks and George Gillett’s last-ditch attempt to scupper their deal with New England Sports Ventures late last night. Calling the move “unwarranted and damaging”, the club’s board vowed to remove the latest obstacle to completing a protracted sale. Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton was preparing to announce that the £300m transaction had been [...]
Damages claim will be very difficult, warn legal experts October 13, 2010 TOM HICKS and George Gillett turned to US courts after Mr Justice Floyd’s emphatic verdict in the High Court gave them virtually no chance of appeal and only a slim hope of pursuing a claim for damages, sports law experts told City A.M. The judge’s verdict that the Liverpool owners were not entitled to sack [...]
Lord Grabiner QC steals show with a match-winning cameo October 13, 2010 IT WASN’T quite Athens 2005, but Liverpool’s High Court victory represented an exhilarating comeback of sorts. And the match-winner this week was not Steven Gerrard but the more scholarly, if less athletic, figure of Lord Grabiner QC. The legal heavyweight, reputed to be the second highest paid barrister in the land, merely watched from the [...]
Double gold for diver Daley October 13, 2010 DIVING prodigy Tom Daley dedicated his second gold medal of the Commonwealth Games to his seriously ill father after triumphing in the 10m platform. Rob Daley remained at home for chemotherapy instead of travelling to Delhi to watch his son compete, but the 16-year-old did him proud by adding to the 10m synchro crown he [...]
ICC: No evidence of fixing in Oval ODI October 13, 2010 INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council (ICC) chiefs have thrown out allegations that elements of England’s third one-day match against Pakistan last month may have been fixed. The ICC said there was “no compelling evidence” that any individual from either team had been involved in a conspiracy. Cricket’s world governing body had launched a probe after it was [...]
Blow for Chelsea as Benayoun is ruled out by injury until April October 13, 2010 MIDFIELDER Yossi Benayoun has suffered another blow to his fledgling Chelsea career after he was ruled out for up to six months with an Achilles injury. Banayoun, a £5m summer signing from Liverpool, has been booked in for surgery on Monday and may not return to action until mid-April. The Israeli ruptured his Achilles during [...]
Ramsey in training and nearing return October 13, 2010 ARSENAL midfielder Aaron Ramsey is back in full training following an eight-month battle to recover from a horror double leg break. The Wales midfielder, 19, has started kicking a ball again and could make his first-team comeback as early as next month. “It’s great to be back outside and kicking the ball again,” said Ramsey. [...]
Cudmore handed 10-week ban October 13, 2010 RUGBY UNION: Clermont’s Canadian lock Jamie Cudmore has been banned for 10 weeks for stamping against Saracens last weekend. Cudmore’s offence in the Heineken Cup victory was deemed top entry, earning him a length suspension, at an independent hearing in Dublin yesterday. Wales and Cardiff flanker Martyn Williams will be available for the whole autumn [...]