Cowes Week Diary: Thrills at sea and ashore: Cowes is more than a red trouser-fest August 3, 2014 ABERDEEN Asset Management Cowes Week, as its 179-year tradition dictates, kicked off at the weekend, and even if you’ve not been before I’m sure you could describe it. All the maritime cliches are here bold and proud: stripy jumpers, red trousers, peaked hats, Hugo and Barnaby down from Town for a spot of yachting, yah! [...]
Sanchez leads Gunners’ line August 3, 2014 MANAGER Arsene Wenger suggested headline act Alexis Sanchez could spearhead the Arsenal attack this season after deploying the Chilean through the middle in the second half of yesterday’s 1-0 Emirates Cup defeat to Monaco. Wenger said: “It was an opportunity for me to see him as a centre forward and we looked better – he [...]
Woods in Ryder Cup injury blow August 3, 2014 FORMER world No1 Tiger Woods’s Ryder Cup place was plunged deeper into doubt last night when he quit the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational with a back injury. Woods, who had back surgery in March, is set to miss out on an automatic spot in the USA team but was in contention for a captain’s pick at Gleneagles [...]
Credibility for Moores after England beat India to level July 31, 2014 HEAD COACH Peter Moores believes the manner of England’s victory gives credibility to his methods after the hosts polished off India yesterday to win the third Test at Southampton in convincing style. England secured the six wickets required to end their 10-match losing streak, routing the tourists by 266 runs and levelling the series as [...]
Fragapane and Whitlock claim third golds each July 31, 2014 GYMNASTS Max Whitlock and Claudia Fragapane both won their third gold medals of Glasgow 2014 yesterday as England consolidated their place at the top of the Commonwealth Games leaderboard. Rebecca Downie added the Commonwealth title to her European crown by taking first place in the uneven bars. With gold medals already secured in the all-around [...]
Dier for Spurs as Rose stays July 31, 2014 TOTTENHAM Hotspur have agreed a deal to sign England Under-21 defender Eric Dier from Sporting Lisbon for a fee in the region of £4m, subject to a medical. The 20-year-old came through the ranks at the Primeira Liga side after relocating to Portugal with his family aged 10, joining the Sporting academy and going on [...]
West Ham starlet Morrison refused bail over double assault allegation July 31, 2014 WEST Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison’s future is in doubt again after he was denied bail and remanded in custody accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and her mother. England Under-21 star Morrison was arrested on Wednesday following the alleged incident on Sunday morning, in which it is claimed he punched and slapped Reah Mansoor, 19, and [...]
Goodwood glory may mean shot at Melbourne Cup for Cavalryman July 31, 2014 EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Cavalryman boosted his chances of a tilt at the Melbourne Cup after becoming the oldest horse to win the Goodwood Cup since Persian Punch in 2001 yesterday. Jockey Kieren Fallon held off the veteran’s Godolphin stablemate Ahzeemah by a neck, with last year’s winner Brown Panther third and the Queen’s mare Estimate last of [...]
Cricket Comment: England still facing uphill task to win series July 31, 2014 IMPRESSIVE though it was, yesterday marked England’s first victory for almost a year and talk of them now steamrolling India and winning the series is premature. Positives weren’t hard to come by, though, so let’s enjoy those first. Alastair Cook got big scores and won the match, and nobody is questioning his captaincy skills. He [...]
Dowsett turns Tour de France anger into gold July 31, 2014 RESURGENT cyclist Alex Dowsett insisted his time trial gold at the Commonwealth Games yesterday was inevitable after wrestling with the agony of missing out on Tour de France selection. The 25-year-old trailed Australian Rohan Dennis by 5.92 seconds after the middle section of the 38.4km course before storming back to win by 9.30. England’s Dowsett, [...]