I’m lucky, says silver Smith August 5, 2012 AT THE NORTH GREENWICH ARENA GYMNASTICS poster boy Louis Smith insists he still feels “lucky” despite missing out on gold by the finest of margins yesterday. Smith summoned a brilliant pommel horse routine to score 16.066, the same as favourite Krisztian Berki, but lost out to the Hungarian on a tie-break due to a fractionally [...]
England’s fightback turns into a damp squib at rainy Headingley August 5, 2012 ENGLAND’S hopes of grabbing an already-unlikely win in the second Test of this summer’s series against South Africa appeared to have been washed away for good last night, after a torrential storm saw play abandoned on the fourth day. The visitors will resume this morning – assuming the Headingley outfield has drained sufficiently overnight – [...]
TODAY AT THE GAMES August 5, 2012 Athletics Dai Greene will need to improve on his semi-final performance if he is to challenge in the men’s 400m hurdles final at 20:45. Holly Bleasdale, meanwhile, competes in the women’s pole vault final at 17:00. Gymnastics Great Britain’s Beth Tweddle is in the women’s uneven bars final at 14:50, followed by Kristian Thomas in [...]
Mancini gives up Van Persie chase August 5, 2012 Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini appears to have accepted that his bid to sign Arsenal striker Robin van Persie has failed. He said: “Van Persie? No, I don’t think he will come here.” Manchester United and Juventus remain interested in the talented Dutch international.
Spurs narrowly overcome Watford August 5, 2012 Tottenham yesterday defeated Championship club Watford in a friendly at Vicarage Road. The Hornets, who fielded ex-Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia, lost 1-0 due to a second half header from Jermain Defoe. The match was Watford’s Lloyd Doyley’s testimonial.
Red Devils boosted by Vidic return August 5, 2012 Manchester United were held to a goalless draw by Norwegian side Valerenga in Oslo yesterday, with key centre-back Nemanja Vidic returning from an eight month injury lay-off.
Cole dismisses wage demands August 5, 2012 England and Chelsea defender Ashley Cole has denied he has asked for £200,000 per week in wages. “Contract talks have not stalled just started, and 200k are you for real, I’d never ask for that,” he wrote on Twitter. “Like I said before don’t listen or always believe what media say they aint got a [...]
ECB: BAZOOKA IS STILL NOT READY August 2, 2012 MARKETS plunged yesterday after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it is not yet ready to help relieve the financial pressure on the troubled Spanish and Italian governments. Last week ECB boss Mario Draghi vowed to do “whatever it takes” to keep the euro together, sending markets soaring. But yesterday he failed to deliver on [...]
Cameron says Osborne will stay until 2015 August 2, 2012 GEORGE Osborne will remain as chancellor until the next general election in 2015, David Cameron insisted last night. In a bid to quash speculation that Osborne would be moved in his September reshuffle, the Prime Minister insisted that the chancellor had his “full support”. Pressed on whether Osborne would be chancellor at the next election, [...]
Knight Capital looks for cash after $440m error August 2, 2012 US firm Knight Capital, the company behind a software glitch which led to trades being cancelled in New York on Wednesday, was scrambling to raise capital last night after it revealed the error had accidentally wiped $440m (£283m) off the company’s balance sheet. The New Jersey based equity broker, which placed the bad trades in [...]
