Moyes booed and beaten in Everton reunion December 4, 2013 MANCHESTER United boss David Moyes suffered a chastening defeat to former club Everton and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez hit Norwich for four on an eventful night in the Premier League. Full-back Bryan Oviedo’s 86th-minute goal condemned United and Moyes to a home defeat in his first meeting with the team he left in the summer [...]
Premier League: Forgotten man Bendtner tipped to shine again December 4, 2013 ARSENAL 2 vs HULL CITY 0 CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho praised a “special” performance from playmaker Eden Hazard that kept his side second in the Premier League table. The Belgian took his tally to eight goals for the season with a sublime finish in either half as the Blues won a third successive league match. [...]
Premier League: Spurs bite back as Meulensteen’s Fulham tenure begins in defeat December 4, 2013 FULHAM 1 vs TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 TOTTENHAM are back on track, according to manager Andre Villas-Boas, after they came from behind at Craven Cottage to earn a first league win in five matches. Ashkan Dejagah fired Fulham ahead in Rene Meulensteen’s first match in charge, but late long-range efforts from Vlad Chiriches and Lewis Holtby [...]
Butler served with five-year ban for doping December 4, 2013 TRAINER Gerard Butler has been handed a five-year ban by the British Horseracing Authority after pleading guilty to seven doping charges. A disciplinary panel accused the Irishman of an “appalling breach of his duty” after nine horses in his care produced positive samples for the banned steroid stanozolol. Butler was found to have given four [...]
New Jersey among three axed December 4, 2013 FORMULA ONE: New Jersey, Mexico and South Korea have been dropped from the 2014 F1 calendar. Abu Dhabi is to host the final grand prix, with Brazil staging the penultimate event.
Rio 2016 medals to surpass 2012 December 4, 2013 OLYMPICS: British chiefs believe Team GB athletes are on course to achieve a first for a host nation and exceed their London 2012 medal haul at the Rio Games in 2016.
Insurers’ £25bn growth pledge December 3, 2013 SIX CITY insurers have today announced a major investment into UK infrastructure projects, committing £25bn over the next five years. The money, which does not include finance for existing schemes, signals a commitment to new large-scale projects, following the successful negotiation of changes to EU insurance regulation that had been holding back investment. Changes to [...]
Europe hands out hefty fines to global banks December 3, 2013 THE EUROPEAN Commission is set to impose heavy fines on a number of global banks including Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and RBS later this morning, over allegations that they rigged key interest rate benchmarks. The fines could break European antitrust enforcement records and run to several hundred million euros each, based on the level of involvement [...]
We must revolutionise UK schooling or face inexorable decline December 3, 2013 IT is not possible to put a positive spin on Britain’s results in the latest global education league tables: they reveal an appalling, shameful, tragic waste of talent. It is an embarrassing failure for a country that ought to be doing so much better. Our children were ranked 26th for maths, 23rd for reading and 21st [...]
More nations beating UK’s stagnant school system December 3, 2013 VIETNAM, Poland and South Korea are among the countries ranked higher than the UK in a major survey of the world’s education systems, released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) yesterday. Out of 65 countries, the UK ranks just 26th in maths and 23rd in reading. In science the UK managed 21st [...]
