Sven defends Ivorian bore draw June 15, 2010 IVORY COAST (0) vs PORTUGAL (0) IVORY COAST coach Sven-Goran Eriksson believes both sides would have been happy with yesterday’s bore draw in Port Elizabeth – as neither team wanted to lose. With Brazil red-hot favourites to top Group G, both were desperate to avoid defeat, culminating in a dour stalemate. Cristiano Ronaldo came closest [...]
Flustered Fabio has much to ponder June 15, 2010 IN an ideal world, Robert Green will have held onto Landon Donovan’s tame effort, Emile Heskey would have scored from his one-on-one, England would have beaten the USA 2-0, and we’d all be merrily dancing our way to Cape Town for the Algeria game, dreaming of World Cup glory. But those fine lines in football [...]
Barkley kicks England to first tour win June 15, 2010 AUST. BARBARIANS (9) vs ENGLAND (15) OLLY BARKLEY kicked over two late penalties to help England’s second string secure a first win of their tour Down Under. The Bath fly-half sealed an unconvincing win for the tourists after three Berrick Barnes kicks had overturned Charlie Hodgson’s pair of penalties early on. But despite the result, [...]
Shahzad handed one-day call June 15, 2010 PACE bowler Ajmal Shahzad has been handed an England lifeline after being drafted into the one-day squad for the forthcoming series with Australia. The Yorkshire seamer was a surprise omission from the original 13-man squad selected last week, but gets his chance after Ryan Sidebottom suffered a minor hamstring strain. Shahzad, 24, was hoping to [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF June 15, 2010 Teen Watson stuns Wozniak TENNIS: British teenager Heather Watson claimed the biggest scalp of her fledgling career after beating world No48 Aleksandra Wozniak at the Aegon Championships in Eastbourne. Watson, 18, a wildcard entry at Wimbledon, came through 6-3, 6-2 to secure a first WTP Tour win of her career. It capped a good day [...]
Cecil eyes success Twice Over June 15, 2010 WHEN Desert Orchid’s trainer David Elsworth says a horse is Class with a capital C, I sit up and take notice. This is what he said after Swiss Dream won her maiden at Newmarket and she runs in today’s Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot. She was arguably unlucky not to win on her debut [...]
FOOTBALL TRADER June 15, 2010 SPAIN are seen by many as the likeliest winners of the World Cup and they will be confident of registering an opening victory against Switzerland. The Swiss made it to the second round in 2006, losing 3-0 in a penalty shootout against Ukraine after a goalless 120 minutes. In fact, that year they became the [...]
Byword to maintain France’s strong record in the Prince of Wales’ Stakes June 15, 2010 FRENCH trained horses have won two of the last three renewals of the Prince of Wales’ Stakes (3.50pm), the feature race on the second day of Royal Ascot, and BYWORD can maintain their hot streak. Andre Fabre landed this race back in 2007 with Manduro and has a brilliant record with the handful of horses [...]
the INSIDER June 15, 2010 The forecast for today looks fine, but I’m hoping that RAINFALL (3%) pours it on in the Jersey Stakes this afternoon. Mark Johnston has champion jockey Ryan Moore booked to ride this son of Oasis Dream and he can show a clean pair of heels to Red Jazz and Shakespearean. I will hopefully be quaffing [...]
IN-RUNNING TRADING HINTS June 15, 2010 Market leaders Antara and Strawberrydaiquiri were both given extremely positive rides last time out and I’d be surprised if Frankie Dettori and Ryan Moore weren’t equally as positive in the Windsor Forest Stakes (3.05pm) this afternoon. They both look sure to trade far shorter in-running on Betdaq when sent to the front in the home [...]