Blow for goal-shy Gunners as Welbeck ruled out for months September 3, 2015 Arsenal are facing a striker shortage just days after failing to add forward reinforcements in the transfer window, with Danny Welbeck ruled out until the end of the year. Read more: Injured Arsenal players have missed 1,931 games since 2008 Welbeck, who has been sidelined since April, will remain out of action “for a [...]
Burgess unfazed by Carling criticism on World Cup selection September 3, 2015 RUGBY league convert Sam Burgess insists he is at ease with criticism from Will Carling after revealing the former England captain and fellow centre had contacted him to explain his scathing judgement. Carling said last week that head coach Stuart Lancaster had made a mistake by including Burgess in his 31-man squad for this month’s [...]
Liverpool’s squad valued one of most expensive in Europe – while Arsenal are €100m behind title rivals September 3, 2015 Liverpool's current squad is one of the most expensive in Europe, having come at more of a cost than those assembled by Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal and Juventus. Read more: £32.5m Benteke signing makes Brendan Rodgers the highest spending Liverpool manager in history A new study put together from academic research group the CIES Football [...]
US Open 2015: Andy Murray takes prize money past $40m at tennis’ richest tournament September 3, 2015 Andy Murray has taken his career earnings beyond the $40m mark following his early progress at the US Open. Read more: Impending fatherhood will help Andy Murray win grand slams – Tim Henman Murray takes on Adrian Mannarino in Flushing Meadows in the third round today as he bids for what is the richest prize [...]
EU refugee crisis: Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund show of support for asylum seekers September 3, 2015 Cheap ticket prices, electric atmospheres and a World Cup-winning team: German football has stood apart from the rest of Europe in recent years and you can now add humanitarianism to its list of appealing qualities. Read more: UN calls on European nations to accept more Syrian refugees German champions Bayern Munich have pledged to donate €1m [...]
Film review: American Ultra September 3, 2015 Cert 15 | ★★☆☆☆ Soon to appear in Batman v Superman, a film in which he’ll have no hair at all, here’s Jesse Eisenberg starring in a film in which he has lots of hair. And let me tell you, it’s lovely hair. Long and shiny. The kind you want to run your fingers through. [...]
Murray masters mirth to march past erratic Kyrgios at US Open September 3, 2015 BRITAIN’S Andy Murray admitted he had to stop himself from laughing as he reeled off a fourth consecutive win over wild child Nick Kyrgios to reach the second round of the US Open. Murray stayed cool in the face of a Kyrgios performance that veered from scintillating to scratchy to defeat the Australian 20-year-old 7-5, [...]
Spurs fight back over Saido Berahino as Daniel Levy goes to war with Peace September 3, 2015 Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has hit back at West Brom counterpart Jeremy Peace and accused him of disrespect as the war of words over striker Saido Berahino escalated yesterday. Peace turned down four Spurs bids for Berahino, two of them on Tuesday hours before the transfer deadline, and suggested that Levy had unsettled the 22-year-old [...]
You’ll either be knighted if you win or you’ll be Guy Fawkes if you lose… September 3, 2015 Harlequins boss Conor O’Shea tells Ross McLean his Rugby World Cup message to Chris Robshaw ENGLAND’S performance at this month’s World Cup will either immortalise skipper Chris Robshaw or taint his reputation gravely, according to his club boss and Harlequins director of rugby Conor O’Shea. Robshaw had a solitary cap to his name when interim [...]
Tour de France winner Chris Froome pulls out of Vuelta a Espana with foot injury after crash September 2, 2015 Briton Chris Froome’s hopes of becoming only the third man to win the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana in the same year look to be over after he crashed in Andorra yesterday. Froome went to hospital for X-rays after struggling to walk following stage 11 of the Vuelta, which left him seven and [...]