Tottenham told to wait for £12m Lyon striker Njie August 12, 2015 TOTTENHAM have been warned that they will have to wait to sign forward Clinton Njie from Lyon, despite striking a £12m deal for the Cameroon international. The French club’s president Jean-Michel Aulas confirmed the quick, versatile 21-year-old was close to a move to White Hart Lane but that Lyon wanted to land a replacement before [...]
Anti-doping expert hits back at Coe and cites IAAF lack of rigour August 12, 2015 AN EXPERT at the centre of the athletics doping storm hit back at Lord Coe yesterday and accused world governing body the IAAF of lacking the necessary rigour to oversee a clean sport. Michael Ashenden was one of two experts enlisted by the Sunday Times to analyse leaked blood test data, and concluded that hundreds [...]
Anti-doping expert Michael Ashenden says Lord Coe and IAAF don’t have dedication to clean up athletics August 12, 2015 An expert at the centre of the athletics doping storm hit back at Lord Coe yesterday and accused world governing body the IAAF of lacking the necessary rigour to oversee a clean sport. Read more: Anti-doping chiefs deny blood data leak Michael Ashenden was one of two experts enlisted by the Sunday Times to analyse leaking [...]
Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro backed by Football Medical Association in dispute with Jose Mourinho August 12, 2015 Chelsea first team doctor Eva Carneiro has been backed by the Football Medical Association after falling foul of Jose Mourinho's wrath last weekend. Read more: Carneiro set for punishment after Mou run-in Carneiro is expected to be relieved of duties at matches and on the training ground after Mourinho publicly criticised her and physiotherapists Jon Fearn's [...]
US PGA Championship 2015: What Rory McIlroy has to do to keep world No1 ranking from Jordan Spieth August 12, 2015 Rory McIlroy insists he is "100 per cent" fit and ready to return to action at the US PGA Championship this weekend and defend his world No1 ranking from the rising Jordan Spieth who he has been drawn with in the first two rounds. Read more: What prize money is on offer at the [...]
Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro set for punishment after feeling the wrath of manager Jose Mourinho August 12, 2015 Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro is expected to lose her place on the bench just days after she incurred the wrath of manager Jose Mourinho by rushing onto the field to treat a stricken player. Mourinho criticised his medical staff after the Premier League champions were held to a 2-2 draw at home by Swansea in Saturday’s [...]
Xherdan Shaqiri: Stoke transfer is just latest in European exodus to Premier League’s middle class August 12, 2015 Leading players are increasingly quitting top continental clubs to play for some of the Premier League’s least glamorous outfits as England’s top-flight middle-class flexes its new-found financial muscle. Graphic by Chris Parmenter Stoke’s £12m capture of Switzerland star Xherdan Shaqiri from 18-time Italian champions Inter yesterday is just the latest example of the trend, which [...]
Dozens of athletes suspended after governing body IAAF retests stored samples August 11, 2015 Athletics chiefs have suspended 28 athletes after retesting of samples from the 2005 and 2007 World Championships revealed they may have taken banned substances. Governing body the IAAF, which has been accused of a lack of rigour in anti-doping, said that the athletes could not be named yet for legal reasons but that most of [...]
Australia Test debutant Jess Jonassen thwarts England progress after seamer Anya Shrubsole stars with the ball August 11, 2015 Test debutant Jess Jonassen restricted England’s progress on the opening day of the Women’s Ashes Test at Canterbury by scoring an unbeaten 95 and leading Australia’s recovery from a perilous position yesterday. Seamer Anya Shrubsole claimed the first four Australian wickets to fall as England reduced the tourists to 87-4 and then 99-5 after the [...]
Claims Australia skipper Michael Clarke eroded baggy green culture rubbished by newly-retired seamer Ryan Harris August 11, 2015 Retired Australia seamer Ryan Harris has issued a robust defence of outgoing skipper Michael Clarke as the stream of criticism regarding his captaincy continued yesterday in the wake of Ashes defeat. Former coach John Buchanan, in charge of Australia during the first four years of Clarke’s international career, accused the 34-year-old of allowing the baggy [...]