Hamilton bemoans a disaster of a day as Vettel extends his early lead April 11, 2011 WORLD champion Sebastian Vettel extended his one hundred per cent start to the new season with an emphatic victory in Malaysia, but it was a day to forget for Britain’s Lewis Hamilton who derided his McLaren team’s race strategy as a “disaster”. The 2008 world champion, starting from the front row of the grid, was [...]
Returning Lehmann has Wenger vote April 11, 2011 BLACKPOOL (1) v/s ARSENAL (3) ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger paid tribute to his veteran goalkeeper Jens Lehmann after the 41-year-old helped his side back to winning ways at Bloomfield Road. The former Germany international rejoined the club last month in an emergency loan deal following injuries to Wojciech Szczesny, Lukasz Fabianski and Vito Mannone. Lehmann [...]
Murray could work with Henman April 11, 2011 TENNIS: World No4 Andy Murray has stated he would be interested in working with Tim Henman, who he succeeded as British No1. The Scot is searching for a permanent coach in a bid to help him rediscover his form since parting with Alex Corretja last month. Murray said: “I might speak to him but I [...]
Saints are too strong for Ulster April 11, 2011 RUGBY UNION: Northampton marched into the Heineken Cup semi-finals with a 23-13 victory over Ulster. Soane Tonga’uiha’s try inside the first two minutes put Northampton on their way. Ulster responded courtesy of Andrew Trimble’s try to lead at half time. Northampton scored the only try of the second half through Lee Dickson and held on [...]
Ballabriggs eyes Aintree double April 11, 2011 HORSE RACING: Grand National winning trainer Donald McCain is hopeful that Saturday’s Aintree hero Ballabriggs will return to the Merseyside course next April in an attempt to claim back-to-back victories in the world’s most famous steeplechase. He said: “He’ll go home for the summer and I don’t see any reason why it won’t all be [...]
Collins keeps Villa out of danger April 11, 2011 FOOTBALL: Aston Villa eased their relegation worries with a 1-0 victory over Newcastle which takes them five points clear of the Premier League’s bottom three. Defender James Collins headed the winning goal in the 24th minute and afterwards said: “We knew before the game it was massive for us so to get one goal up [...]
Crouch pleased to make amends April 11, 2011 FOOTBALL: Peter Crouch has admitted his sending off against Real Madrid was the lowest point of his entire career. Crouch picked up a red card for two rash challenges in the early stages of last Tuesday’s Champions League quarter-final clash at the Bernabeu. The striker, who scored twice in Saturday’s 3-2 win over Stoke, said: [...]
VICKERS’ VERDICT: REFORM FOR BANKS April 11, 2011 BRITAIN’S banks will this morning find out what sort of shake-up the industry is facing as John Vickers publishes the Independent Commission on Banking’s (ICB) interim report into competition and stability in the financial sector. Banks have been given 90 minutes to read and respond to the report before markets open at 8am, with the [...]
Kroenke to launch bid for Arsenal April 10, 2011 ARSENAL’S much cherished status as an independently-owned football club was under threat last night after it emerged that the US businessman Stan Kroenke had done deals to take his shareholding up to 62 per cent. Kroenke, who already owned 29.9 per cent of the club’s shares, was said to have agreed to purchase the shares [...]
Risk appetite spikes in 2011 April 10, 2011 RISK appetite at FTSE companies has hit its highest rate since a leading survey of chief financial officers began in 2007, it was revealed today. Four in ten (41 per cent) CFOs think this is a good time to take on greater risk on their firms’ balance sheets, according to a Deloitte survey – up [...]
