Premier League chief steps down June 30, 2014 FOOTBALL: Premier League chairman Anthony Fry has stepped down on medical grounds three months after suffering a stroke. Fry, who only succeeded Dave Richards last summer, plans to “scale back” his commitments and said it “would not be fair” to stay on. He plans to continue as a non-executive director at Dairy Crest.
Battersea to host Formula E finale June 30, 2014 MOTORSPORT: Battersea Park has been chosen to stage the finale to the inaugural season of Formula E, the motor racing competition based around electric vehicles. The race, set to take place in June 2015, still needs to be rubber-stamped by Wandsworth council, though London Mayor Boris Johnson called it “an awesome addition to the capital’s [...]
Snodgrass seals £7m Hull switch June 30, 2014 FOOTBALL: Hull City have completed the £7m signing of versatile attacker Robert Snodgrass from Norwich. The 26-year-old is the Tigers’ second major signing of the close season, following the £8m arrival of England midfielder Jake Livermore from Tottenham. Snodgrass scored 14 goals in 74 games for the Canaries, after joining them from Leeds in July [...]
World Cup: Robben dive row as Dutch grab late win June 29, 2014 HOLLAND 2 MEXICO 1 HOLLAND winger Arjen Robben was dragged into another diving row last night after the Dutch scored two last-ditch goals to defeat Mexico and set up a World Cup quarter-final against Costa Rica. Mexico coach Miguel Herrera accused former Chelsea star Robben of cheating to win the penalty from which Klaas-Jan Huntelaar [...]
World Cup: Navas’s penalty heroics continue fairytale campaign for Costa Rica June 29, 2014 COSTA RICA 1 GREECE 1 Costa Rica win 5-3 on penalties GOALKEEPER Keylor Navas enhanced his burgeoning reputation with a stunning save to keep out veteran striker Theofanis Gekas’s penalty, as Costa Rica won a high-class shoot-out to reach the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time in their history. The Central American minnows, ranked [...]
Sport Comment: Futile to rail against Suarez and football June 29, 2014 FOR ALL the great football, dramatic penalty shoot-outs and spectacular skills on offer, Luis Suarez’s teeth have blighted this World Cup, and yet it’s hard to write anything rational about them without sounding like some ridiculous reactionary or ludicrous libertarian. That he is an outstanding player is undeniable. That he is a flawed human being, [...]
James equipped to deny Brazil a Hollywood ending to World Cup June 29, 2014 IF LIVERPOOL striker Luis Suarez has been the World Cup’s villain, then James Rodriguez, the dazzling Colombia No10 named after James Bond and partial to a Thunderball, is surely the hero. His two goals, including a majestic volley, sank a Suarez-less Uruguay on Saturday and cemented the graceful Monaco playmaker as the tournament’s revelation. The [...]
World Cup in brief June 29, 2014 France feeling the heat in Brasilia FRANCE boss Didier Deschamps fears his team may wilt in the heat in today’s last-16 tie with Nigeria in Brasilia. France played all of their Group E matches in the evening, but have an earlier kick-off time today, which will mean playing in temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius. Deschamps [...]
Zanotti sees off Stenson in epic June 29, 2014 WORLD No305 Fabrizio Zanotti became the first Paraguayan to win a European Tour title yesterday when he won a four-man play-off at the BMW International Open in Cologne. He was taken to a fifth extra hole by Henrik Stenson, as the Swede recorded his best finish since the extraordinary 2013 campaign in which he topped [...]
Kennaugh and Trott sprint to road race titles June 29, 2014 TEAM Sky’s Pete Kennaugh won a sprint duel with colleague and friend Ben Swift to claim his first British National Road Race Championships title yesterday in Abergavenny. Kennaugh repeatedly failed to lose Swift during the last two laps but beat him to the line, with Orica GreenEdge’s Simon Yates third. “On the last lap it [...]