Manchester United accounts: Incredible growth in club’s financial might revealed in results from 1969 January 28, 2016 No club better symbolises the size and scale of today's football industry than international mega-brand Manchester United – and leaked figures from the club's 1969 accounts reveal just how much they've grown. In Sir Matt Busby's final season as manager, the club paid out £204,028 in "wages and bonuses" to a star-studded squad that included [...]
Scotland are favourites to beat England, insists Eddie Jones January 27, 2016 England head coach Eddie Jones is adamant that Scotland will start as favourites when the two old foes do battle at Murrayfield in the opening round of Six Nations fixtures on 6 February. Scotland have lost their last seven Six Nations matches, while their only win in 12 clashes in the competition was a narrow [...]
Compton should open, and don’t rule out Bell just yet January 27, 2016 Even though England recorded a very good Test series win in South Africa, there are still questions to be answered and there will be a few guys looking over their shoulders. There are places up for grabs in that XI. Opener Alex Hales has struggled and he is not right at the moment to bat [...]
Australian Open 2016: Andy Murray’s joy – and surprise – as he and Johanna Konta make history in Melbourne January 27, 2016 World No2 Andy Murray toasted a landmark day for British tennis after he and Johanna Konta ended the country’s 39-year wait to have both men’s and women’s semi-finalists at the same grand slam. Konta penned the latest chapter of her fairytale run at the Australian Open by defeating Chinese wildcard Shuai Zhang 6-4, 6-1 to [...]
Zlatan Ibrahimovic salary: New PSG contract boosts earnings to £1.1m and makes him the best-paid player in France January 27, 2016 Zlatan Ibrahimovic has almost doubled his money at Paris Saint-German with a new contract worth more than £1m a month, according to local reports in France. The Swedish superstar's lucrative new salary makes him the best-paid player in France ahead of PSG teammate Thiago Silva. Ibrahimovic's contract with the Qatari-owned club is set to expire [...]
Johanna Konta earnings: Australian Open prize money doubles career total in six months and past $1m mark January 27, 2016 British tennis sensation Jo Konta has increased her career earnings by more than 50 per cent after beating China's Shuai Zhang 6-4 6-1 in the Australian Open quarter-final. The win earns Konta the biggest payday of her career, and the $563,240 prize money she has banked for reaching the semi-finals of a grand slam – the [...]
Liverpool 0, Stoke City 1 (AET, Liverpool win 6-5 on penalties): Klopp vows to seal first Reds trophy January 26, 2016 Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has vowed to win the Capital One Cup and deliver a trophy in his first year in the Anfield hotseat after edging past Stoke in last night's semi-final courtesy of a tense sudden-death penalty shoot-out victory. Oft-maligned Reds goalkeeper Simon Mignolet turned centre-half Marc Muniesa’s spot-kick around the post before midfielder Joe [...]
Let me laugh and I will score goals, insists Palace new boy Emmanuel Adebayor January 26, 2016 New signing Emmanuel Adebayor has vowed to score the goals that fire Crystal Palace to a top-six finish — but only if he is allowed to laugh — after joining the Eagles on a free transfer until the end of the season yesterday. The 31-year-old was released by Tottenham in September having failed to impress [...]
Jose Mourinho and Manchester United are the perfect marriage and neither can afford to fail with their next appointment January 26, 2016 It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Louis van Gaal is a dead man walking. The Manchester United manager has made himself unpopular among fans with his brand of football, and the best the club can hope for this season is probably scraping into the Champions League. It’s a question of when, not if, he goes [...]
Australian Open 2016: Novak Djokovic ready for latest instalment of titanic rivalry with Roger Federer after they join women’s champion Serena Williams in sweeping into the last four January 26, 2016 Defending champion Novak Djokovic is braced for another epic tussle with former world No1 Roger Federer after both men swept into the semi-finals of the Australian Open on Tuesday. Djokovic put an error-strewn fourth-round match behind him with a ruthless display against Kei Nishikori, beating the Japanese seventh seed 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. Federer was almost [...]