Liverpool close to Lambert deal May 29, 2014 LIVERPOOL were last night closing in on a £4m move for Southampton and England striker Rickie Lambert. The 32-year-old hit 16 goals last season, including the winner against Scotland on his England debut in August. Brendan Rodgers’ men, who finished as Premier League runners-up scoring 101 goals, are hoping to fast-track the deal before Lambert [...]
Sagna set to leave Arsenal May 29, 2014 ARSENAL right-back Bacary Sagna has confirmed he has played his last match for Arsenal and will search for a new club this summer. The 31-year-old has not accepted the offer of a new contract to extend his seven-year stay in north London. He said: “It’s no longer a secret, I will leave Arsenal for sure. [...]
Keane held talks over Celtic job May 29, 2014 REPUBLIC of Ireland manager Martin O’Neill has revealed his assistant Roy Keane has been contacted by Celtic over their managerial vacancy. Keane, 42, spent the final season of his playing career at Celtic, before managing Sunderland and Ipswich. O’Neill said: “I had a call the other day from Dermot Desmond [Celtic’s main shareholder] wanting to [...]
Wawrinka gets Queen’s invite May 29, 2014 REIGNING Australian Open champion and world No3 Stanislas Wawrinka has been given a wild card to next month’s Aegon Championships at Queen’s Club. Wawrinka, who lost his first round match at the French Open earlier this week, is set to warm up for Wimbledon at the grass court event in west London, which begins on [...]
Rugby Comment: Ending a great season with nothing is just unthinkable May 29, 2014 WE NEED to use the frustration of losing last week as motivation to win the Premiership final tomorrow. Defeat in the Heineken Cup final was very disappointing, there is no getting away from that. But you can’t sit around moping, because then we might come away with nothing from a very good year. To end [...]
Borthwick: Saints should expect a Sarries backlash May 29, 2014 SARACENS captain Steve Borthwick is convinced his team-mates possess the strength of character to bounce back from their Heineken Cup heartbreak when they face Northampton Saints in tomorrow’s Aviva Premiership Rugby final. The Twickenham clash will bring the curtain down on Borthwick’s 16-year playing career. And as the 34-year-old bids to go out on an [...]
Froome hits out at UCI for risking reputations with lack of testing May 29, 2014 TOUR de France champion Chris Froome has accused cycling’s governing body of compromising riders’ integrity by failing to conduct a sufficient number of out-of-competition drugs tests. Cyclists have tried desperately to rebuild the sport’s reputation since the extent of American Lance Armstrong’s doping came to light in recent years and Froome is unhappy not to [...]
Groves vows to knock out Froch with left hand May 29, 2014 CHALLENGER George Groves has promised to leave Wembley Stadium tomorrow night with Carl Froch’s world super-middleweight titles and will do so by knocking out the champion with a left hook. The pair’s rematch has been eagerly anticipated since their original November bout was adjudged to have been prematurely stopped in Froch’s favour by referee Howard [...]
30 May on this day… May 29, 2014 1979 – BRITAIN’S first £1m footballer Trevor Francis headed the only goal of the game as Nottingham Forest beat Malmo to win the first of back-to-back European Cups. Francis had been at Forest since February, but Uefa rules dictated the final was his first match in the competition.
McIlroy takes an early lead May 29, 2014 WORLD No6 Rory McIlroy opened up a three-shot lead after the first round of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield last night, picking up where he left off from Wentworth last week. The Northern Irishman, who recovered from seven shots behind Thomas Bjorn to win the PGA Championship last Sunday, stormed to a nine under par round of [...]