Go hard at Australia, urges Colly June 20, 2010 ALL-ROUNDER Paul Collingwood has called on England to use the forthcoming one-day series against Australia to intimidate their old rivals ahead of this year’s Ashes series. England set the tone for their 2005 success with the aggressive and fearless way they took on the Aussies in the short contests that preceded the main event. And [...]
Player uprising worked for England’s rugby stars June 20, 2010 THE ROT set in with dreary warm-up matches, deteriorated during a dreadful group stage in which England failed to get out of first gear, and culminated in a player uprising. No, not the current football squad but their rugby counterparts at the 2007 World Cup in France – and they still made it to the [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF June 20, 2010 GB claim second place in Bergen ATHLETICS: Andy Turner won the 110m hurdles to help Great Britain clinch second place at the European Team Championships in Bergen. Turner was the only winner on day two but triple-jumper Phillips Idowu and 5,000m runner Jo Pavey came second. Gulbis pulls out of Wimbledon TENNIS: Latvian 27th seed Ernests Gulbis [...]
FOOTBALL TRADER June 20, 2010 THE biggest shock of World Cup 2010 so far has undoubtedly been tournament favourites Spain losing to Switzerland in their opening Group H game. Vicente del Bosque’s side didn’t play badly, but they didn’t show their normal cutting edge and it was a big surprise to see them fail to find the net. Honduras were [...]
WORLD CUP NEWS | IN BRIEF June 20, 2010 Kaita gets death threats NIGERIA officials say midfielder Sani Kaita is “terribly shaken” after receiving more than 1,000 death threats. Kaita received threats by email from angry Nigerians after he was sent off in their 2-1 defeat to Greece on Thursday. Spokesman Peterside Idah said: “The team is urging the authorities in Nigeria to take [...]
TONY HAYWARD: I AM DEEPLY SORRY June 17, 2010 TONY HAYWARD, BP’s embattled chief executive, yesterday sought to distance himself from the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill during a heated interrogation by Senators. Hayward, who appeared before the House energy and commerce sub-committee panel looking tired and worn-out, told Senators that all of the decisions made about the Macondo well, which is gushing [...]
Pay falls at fund star’s UK offices June 17, 2010 SALARIES have tumbled at the London branch of the hedge fund run by Paul Tudor Jones, the billionaire trader who earned cult status by predicting 1987’s Black Monday crash. Tudor Jones, who is worth an estimated $3.2bn (£2.2bn) after three decades at the top of one of the world’s most successful investment companies, is renowned [...]
Spending cuts total £10.5bn June 17, 2010 THE government yesterday cancelled £10.5bn of projects, which were signed off when Labour went on a last-minute spending spree in the run up to the general election. Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury, told the Commons his hand had been forced by the “irresponsible financial planning” of the previous government. He announced he was [...]
UK needs more creative destruction June 17, 2010 IT was Joseph Schumpeter, the great economist, who first understood that capitalism is a process of creative destruction. Every day, new firms are born with fresh ideas, talent and technologies; old firms die when they become unable to meet customers’ needs efficiently and fail to make a better use of resources than their rivals. Competition [...]
Three Lions hoping for better rub of the Green June 17, 2010 ENGLAND vs ALGERIA TODAY – 7.30PM ITV THE Three Lions’ opening performance against the USA was undoubtedly disappointing, but a number of the top teams have started with a whimper rather than a roar. The USA were always going to be the most difficult opponents in Group C and I hope some of you followed [...]
