Benitez: Three games enough for Hazard ban January 27, 2013 BRENTFORD 2 vs CHELSEA 2 CHELSEA manager Rafael Benitez last night confirmed the club’s opposition to Football Association plans to extend Eden Hazard’s three-match ban for an altercation with a ball boy. Benitez spoke after a late equaliser from Fernando Torres spared the European champions a hugely embarrassing FA Cup fourth-round defeat at League One [...]
Hurricane Fly hat-trick in Dublin January 27, 2013 Hurricane Fly recorded a hat-trick of Irish Champion Hurdle victories at Leopardstown yesterday, boosting hopes that the nine year-old can win the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham on 12 March.
England call up Six Nations cover January 27, 2013 Sale prop Henry Thomas and Harlequins wing Ugo Monye have been called up to train with the England squad following knee injuries to Alex Corbisiero and Freddie Burns. Corbisiero and Burns are set to miss at least the first two matches of the Six Nations, against Scotland and Ireland.
First European Tour win for Wood January 27, 2013 England’s Chris Wood won his first European Tour title at this weekend’s Qatar Masters, beating George Coetzee by one stroke. “There’s an enormous weight lifted off my shoulders,” Wood said. “I feel like I can go on and win more.”
Belgian FA slam Hazard for ball boy altercation January 24, 2013 CHELSEA star Eden Hazard was accused of shaming Belgium and faced the renewed threat of police action last night for appearing to kick a ball boy in Wednesday’s Capital One Cup exit at Swansea. Football Association chiefs, however, were still deciding whether the £32m midfielder’s actions warrant increasing the three-match ban automatically triggered by his [...]
United spend £15m on Palace forward Zaha January 24, 2013 CRYSTAL Palace and England forward Wilfried Zaha is poised to seal a dream £15m transfer to Manchester United, but will remain in south London until the summer to help the Eagles bid for promotion. The Ivory Coast-born 20-year-old, who was handed his first international cap by Roy Hodgson in last year’s friendly defeat in Sweden, [...]
Schalke reject Tottenham bid to accelerate Holtby transfer January 24, 2013 TOTTENHAM have failed in their latest attempt to persuade Schalke to let Germany midfielder Lewis Holtby join them and ease their midfield injury concerns. Spurs have a deal in place for Holtby, who has an English father, to join them in the summer on a free transfer when his contract expires. But an injury to [...]
Haidara and Sissoko sign up for Newcastle’s French revolution January 24, 2013 NEWCASTLE continued their Francophile January spending last night by signing left-back Massadio Haidara and closing in on a deal for midfielder Moussa Sissoko. Haidara, 20, joins from Nancy on a five-and-a-half-year contract and will provide competition for Davide Santon, who has been linked with a move back to his native Italy. Sissoko is set to [...]
Track date for Olympic Park January 24, 2013 THE OLYMPIC Stadium will mark the anniversary of last year’s Games opening ceremony by hosting the London Grand Prix athletics meeting later this year. The event, which has been moved from its traditional home of Crystal Palace, is set to take place on the weekend of 27 July – a year after London 2012 got [...]
Momentum behind Murray as Brit aims to end Federer curse January 24, 2013 STATISTICS, it is said, can be used to justify any argument, but the weight of data in Andy Murray’s favour ahead of the Briton’s Australian Open semi-final against Roger Federer today is compelling. The US Open champion has enjoyed the better of their 19 encounters and won nine of their 17 meetings on hard courts, [...]