Horsey plays up Morocco victory April 4, 2011 GOLF: David Horsey won a three-way play-off in the Trophee Hassan at the Royal course in Morocco. The 25-year-old had a hole-in-one at the second but a double bogey at the last meant he had to battle with Rhys Davies and Jaco Van Zyl in a play-off. Horsey played a fine iron shot to within two [...]
Bale winning Madrid fitness race April 4, 2011 FOOTBALL: Tottenham winger Gareth Bale has flown to Spain with his teammates ahead of tomorrow’s Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid. His manager Harry Redknapp claims the Welshman has an 80 per cent chance of playing. Defender Alan Hutton is out for the season with a knee injury he picked up in training last week.
GO TO HELL April 4, 2011 CHAIRMAN Mohamed Al Fayed has provoked outrage among Fulham fans after telling those supporters critical of his controversial statue of Michael Jackson to “go to hell”. Al Fayed, speaking after unveiling his tribute to the deceased King of Pop at Craven Cottage yesterday, also suggested fans who did not like it were not welcome and [...]
Tendulkar laughs off talk of retiring ahead of England tour April 4, 2011 INDIA’S talisman Sachin Tendulkar maintains thoughts of retirement couldn’t be further from his mind following Saturday’s World Cup final victory. A hundredth international century may have eluded the Little Master, as captain MS Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir steered India to a six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka, but with a World Cup winners’ medal now part [...]
Decision due today as FA probe Rooney swearing April 4, 2011 MANCHESTER UNITED striker Wayne Rooney will discover today whether he is to face punishment for his foul-mouthed goal celebration in Saturday’s win at West Ham. Rooney shouted a stream of expletives into a television camera after completing his hat-trick in a 4-2 comeback victory that stretched United’s Premier League lead to seven points. Football Association [...]
Zamora makes it easy as 1, 2, 3 April 4, 2011 Fulham (3) v/s BLACKPOOL (0) FULHAM manager Mark Hughes believes his side can now turn their attention to cementing a top half finish after yesterday’s win over Blackpool. The Cottagers are now six points clear of the relegation zone and five ahead of yesterday’s opponents who were beaten by a Bobby Zamora first-half brace and [...]
VODAFONE SELLS £7BN SFR STAKE April 4, 2011 VODAFONE last night agreed to sell its stake in SFR, France’s second-largest mobile operator, to Vivendi for €7.95bn (£7bn) in cash and said it would return £4bn to its shareholders. The British mobile giant’s 44 per cent stake was valued at €7.75bn and it will receive a final dividend of €200m once the transaction is [...]
Elliott piles pressure on UK targets April 4, 2011 Activist hedge fund Elliott Advisors has stepped up its assault on two UK companies after garnering the support of extra shareholders. At National Express, where it has built up a 17 per cent stake and called for a shake-up of strategy, it is expected to receive the backing of the transport group’s largest shareholder, Spain’s [...]
All eyes on ECB after debt sale April 4, 2011 THE European Central Bank (ECB) will today reveal if it intervened in the Portuguese debt sale at the end of last week, when €1.645bn (£1.45bn) in short-dated bonds were sold. The sales came with a yield of 5.793 per cent — below the secondary market level of seven per cent, but 2.5 per cent higher [...]
Wall St fuelling new dot.com bubble April 4, 2011 WITH the benefit of hindsight, bubbles are shockingly easy to spot. From Dutch merchants staking fortunes on the price of tulip bulbs to Chinese investors fighting for empty properties, the idiocy is always self-evident – eventually. At the time, however, it seems to make perfect sense to throw good money after bad. Somewhere deep in [...]
