Fabregas: Real Madrid wanted me over summer October 14, 2010 ARSENAL captain Cesc Fabregas has revealed he was wanted by Real Madrid during a summer of uncertainty over his future. Barcelona were known to be interested in the Spain midfielder and had two bids, the second of more than £30m, rejected by the Gunners. But it emerged yesterday that Barca’s fierce rivals Real were also [...]
CHRONOLOGY | LIVERPOOL OWNERSHIP BATTLE October 14, 2010 IF LIVERPOOL’S sale to New England Sports Ventures is finally completed today, it will mark the end of one of the most convoluted takeovers in the history of English football. Since the day their bid was accepted by the club’s board on 5 October, NESV have been opposed by Reds owners Tom Hicks and George [...]
Hodgson could come unstuck at the Toffees October 14, 2010 EVERTON vs LIVERPOOL SUNDAY, 1.30PM, SKY SPORTS Roy Hodgson’s men have taken six points from their opening seven games, but have only bagged a solitary point on their travels. Everton also have just six points from a possible 21, but they have picked up four points from their last two away games and will be [...]
French raider Vision D’Etat looks just Champion at 9/2 in Newmarket finale October 14, 2010 NEWMARKET stages its historic Champions’ Day for the very last time tomorrow as from next year the Champion Stakes will be held at Ascot almost a month earlier. Although some have argued that this is racing doing away with tradition, I’m firmly in the progressive camp and I’m sure it will provide the British flat [...]
Hicks halts Reds sale October 13, 2010 LIVERPOOL owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett last night dramatically halted the sale of the club at the 11th hour by obtaining a temporary restraining order from a Texan court over what they called an “epic swindle”. In the same lawsuit Hicks and Gillett also claimed damages of more than £1bn from the rest of [...]
Liverpool hit out at late bid to delay NESV deal October 13, 2010 LIVERPOOL slammed Tom Hicks and George Gillett’s last-ditch attempt to scupper their deal with New England Sports Ventures late last night. Calling the move “unwarranted and damaging”, the club’s board vowed to remove the latest obstacle to completing a protracted sale. Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton was preparing to announce that the £300m transaction had been [...]
Damages claim will be very difficult, warn legal experts October 13, 2010 TOM HICKS and George Gillett turned to US courts after Mr Justice Floyd’s emphatic verdict in the High Court gave them virtually no chance of appeal and only a slim hope of pursuing a claim for damages, sports law experts told City A.M. The judge’s verdict that the Liverpool owners were not entitled to sack [...]
Lord Grabiner QC steals show with a match-winning cameo October 13, 2010 IT WASN’T quite Athens 2005, but Liverpool’s High Court victory represented an exhilarating comeback of sorts. And the match-winner this week was not Steven Gerrard but the more scholarly, if less athletic, figure of Lord Grabiner QC. The legal heavyweight, reputed to be the second highest paid barrister in the land, merely watched from the [...]
Double gold for diver Daley October 13, 2010 DIVING prodigy Tom Daley dedicated his second gold medal of the Commonwealth Games to his seriously ill father after triumphing in the 10m platform. Rob Daley remained at home for chemotherapy instead of travelling to Delhi to watch his son compete, but the 16-year-old did him proud by adding to the 10m synchro crown he [...]
ICC: No evidence of fixing in Oval ODI October 13, 2010 INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council (ICC) chiefs have thrown out allegations that elements of England’s third one-day match against Pakistan last month may have been fixed. The ICC said there was “no compelling evidence” that any individual from either team had been involved in a conspiracy. Cricket’s world governing body had launched a probe after it was [...]