Stevens vows England will be ready for Scotch wrath September 27, 2011 Armitage also talks up threat posed by Pool B showdown ENGLAND prop Matt Stevens is ready and itching to return to the pack for a heavyweight World Cup clash with Scotland on Saturday. Stevens missed last week’s drubbing of Romania with an ankle injury but is fit again for the final, decisive fixture in Pool [...]
Ferguson fumes as sloppy United show signs of weakness September 27, 2011 MANCHESTER UTD 3 vs FC BASEL 3 MANCHESTER UNITED manager Sir Alex Ferguson admitted his side were given a “wake-up call” by Swiss outsiders Basel after last night’s draw cemented their worst start to a Champions League campaign for 13 years. After the slightly fortuitous draw against Benfica a fortnight ago, United looked on course for a routine [...]
Anderson rested for India tour but Pietersen returns September 27, 2011 ENGLAND will travel to India for next month’s one-day series without three members of their Ashes winning attack after the selectors opted to rest James Anderson. With Chris Tremlett and Stuart Broad injured, Surrey’s 22-year-old paceman Stuart Meaker (inset) has earned a first call-up and is joined in the squad by his county colleague, and [...]
Villas-Boas maintains his love of Lampard September 27, 2011 VALENCIA vs CHELSEA CHELSEA manager Andre Villas-Boas has launched a passionate defence of Frank Lampard and hit out at suggestions the England stalwart is set for a reduced role at the club this season. The 33-year-old Lampard, who once set a record for consecutive Premier League appearances, has started three of Chelsea’s last four matches on [...]
Wenger won’t dwell on Van Persie contract September 27, 2011 ARSENAL vs OLYMPIACOS ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has attempted to calm fears that captain Robin van Persie could become the latest big name to flee Emirates Stadium. The Holland striker has been in the most prolific form of his career since January, scoring 26 times in his last 31 games for the Gunners. But he [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF September 27, 2011 Stricter whip-use rules backed HORSE RACING: Top jockeys have backed stricter rules on whips, which will limit them to seven uses in a flat race and eight per jump race. Flat star Frankie Dettori said the move, which comes into effect on 10 October, was “in the best interest of our great sport”, while champion [...]
LABOUR TURNS BACK ON CITY September 27, 2011 ED Miliband yesterday sounded the death knell on his party’s relationship with the City, singling out some elements of British business for praise yet promising to crack down on supposedly “predatory” financial services. “Britain’s future will be built not on credit default swaps but on creative industries,” Miliband said in his speech to the Labour [...]
Ministers round on bailout plan September 27, 2011 EUROZONE ministers yesterday slammed Brussels for pushing the idea that the region’s bailout fund should be allowed to borrow money to lend trillions of euros to highly indebted countries. Wolfgang Schäuble, finance minister for euro paymaster Germany, declared: “I don’t really understand how anyone in Brussels… can raise such a silly idea without understanding the [...]
ABI lays out new pay rules September 27, 2011 HUGE executive salaries and bonuses threaten the reputation and efficient working of UK companies, an influential shareholder group has warned today. The Association of British Insurers has issued strongly-worded new guidelines for listed company boards, warning them to avoid ratcheting up salaries and stop paying for failure. The ABI, which represents life insurers and pension [...]
Liberalism is left for dead by Labour September 27, 2011 YOU’VE probably never heard of Ivan Lewis, a rather obscure Labour politician. But yesterday Lewis, the shadow culture secretary, unveiled an astonishingly sinister proposal which threatens free speech and media plurality in the UK like never before: he called for a register of journalists, with anybody deemed not fit struck off and banned. Of course, [...]
