Winger Sako’s Eagles swoop August 5, 2015 WINGER Bakary Sako cited the appeal of working under Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew after signing for the south London club on a free transfer yesterday. The Mali international left Wolves at the end of last season after failing to agree a new contract, having alerted top teams to his ability by scoring 15 goals [...]
Anti-doping chiefs deny blood data leak as Coe says: this is war August 5, 2015 ATHLETICS’ doping row has taken another twist after the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) denied provoking the storm by leaking thousands of blood test results. Embattled governing body the IAAF emphasised this week that none of its employees had passed on the data, as it denounced claims that it had failed to act on mountains of [...]
Manchester United kit launch already worth £1.5m to Adidas in social media value August 5, 2015 Adidas' record breaking £750m kit deal with Manchester United is already beginning to pay off thanks to a successful social media launch. Read more: Even at £750m Adidas' Man United kit deal could prove to be a bargain for the sportswear giant The launch of United's new kit – the first from Adidas in a 10-year [...]
Even at £750m Adidas’ Manchester United kit deal could prove to be a bargain for the sportswear giant August 5, 2015 £75m per year. That’s how much Adidas is paying Manchester United to make their kit. To put that into context, that’s about 2.5 times more than the next biggest Premier League deal (Arsenal and Chelsea both receive £30m per year from Puma and Adidas respectively) and over 10 times more than NFL teams receive from [...]
Cricket Comment: England must clinch Ashes this week as Oval will favour Aussies August 5, 2015 THIS Ashes is almost impossible to predict but I think England need to try and wrap it up at Trent Bridge this week. A drawn series would see Australia retain the urn and England don’t want to wait until the Oval, where I think conditions will favour the tourists. The ball swung around in the [...]
My Abramovich rows are in past, says Mourinho August 5, 2015 CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho says his conflict with the club’s owner, Roman Abramovich, are a thing of the past as he prepares to launch his team’s Premier League title defence. Mourinho left Stamford Bridge under a cloud in 2007 little more than a year after landing successive titles but was lured back in 2013 and [...]
Lancaster: I’ll give Cipriani a fair chance August 5, 2015 ENGLAND head coach Stuart Lancaster insists fly-half Danny Cipriani has an equal chance of making his final Rugby World Cup squad despite the lingering threat of drink-driving charges. Cipriani has been re-bailed until November, it emerged this week, removing doubts over whether the Sale No10 would be free to play in the home tournament, which [...]
Bale stakes claim for central role with goal to sink old team Spurs August 5, 2015 FORMER Tottenham hero Gareth Bale is hoping that a goalscoring performance against his former club last night convinces Real Madrid bosses to play him in a central role more often. Bale struck the second goal as Real beat Spurs 2-0 in a friendly match in Munich, after Colombia’s World Cup star James Rodriguez had headed [...]
Johnson talks up Anderson’s injury absence August 5, 2015 AUSTRALIA paceman Mitchell Johnson has warned England they will miss attack spearhead James Anderson whoever replaces him in the fourth Investec Ashes Test, which starts tomorrow. Johnson also called on the tourists to respond to last week’s eight-wicket drubbing at Edgbaston by levelling the series at Trent Bridge, in a match he regards as “a [...]
Track chiefs in tests defence August 4, 2015 WORLD athletics chiefs the IAAF have strongly denied turning a blind eye to thousands of suspicious blood test results, labelling the claims “sensationalist and confusing”. It follows the publication of leaked data by the Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD/WDR, who reported that analysis suggested that as many as a third of Olympic and World [...]