WHITE HOT LANE March 9, 2011 l Spurs edge out mighty Milan l Harry hails amazing achievement TOTTENHAM 0 vs AC MILAN 0 Tottenham win 1-0 on aggregate PROUD Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp hailed his side’s progression to the quarter-finals of the Champions League as an amazing achievement. The north Londoners, enjoying their debut season in Europe’s premier club competition, made [...]
QPR face points penalty threat over FA charges March 9, 2011 QUEENS PARK RANGERS top-flight promotion bid was thrown into turmoil last night after they were charged by the Football Association with seven breaches of rules banning third-party ownership in relation to their midfielder Alejandro Faurlin. If found guilty by a three-man independent panel, the runaway Championship leaders would be open to a number of punishments [...]
2012 chiefs slam BOA as row ignites March 9, 2011 LONDON 2012 organisers LOCOG last night hit back at the British Olympic Association (BOA) in an increasingly bitter row over cash, calling its complaints “sad”. The hard-up BOA, chaired by Lord Moynihan, believes it was short-changed when it sold marketing rights to next year’s Games to LOCOG for £28m in 2004. Chief executive Andy Hunt, [...]
Barca add insult to Arsenal’s injury March 9, 2011 BARCELONA star Javier Mascherano has accused Arsenal of sour grapes for blaming their Champions League exit on the controversial sending off of Robin van Persie. Gunners manager Arsene Wenger and midfielder Samir Nasri are facing possible European bans after being charged with improper conduct for remarks made to referee Massimo Busacca after Tuesday’s defeat. Both [...]
Robinson out to spoil grand slam March 9, 2011 FORMER England boss Andy Robinson is convinced he can lead Scotland to their first win of this year’s RBS 6 Nations against his old team this weekend. Robinson has rung the changes for Sunday’s clash at Twickenham, recalling backs Simon Danielli, Joe Ansbro and Rory Lawson and flanker Nathan Hines. And the Englishman insists the [...]
SINGH WHEN YOU’RE WINNING: INDIA MARCH ON March 9, 2011 INDIA are all but through to the last eight of the World Cup after a five-wicket win over Holland in Delhi. Only a freak set of results would prevent the co-hosts from making the quarter-finals now, as an unbeaten half-century from the previously out-of-form Yuvraj Singh guided his side to a modest target of 190 [...]
Mayfair tycoons: We will clear our name March 9, 2011 ENFORCEMENT THE Tchenguiz brothers were held for questioning for over 12 hours by the Serious Fraud Office yesterday after being arrested in connection with the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing. Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz were among seven men arrested in a series of dawn raids across London. The brothers were both released without charge last [...]
Benefit fraud and overpayment costs £3.1bn March 9, 2011 THE government wasted £3.1bn last year due to fraud and errors that caused it to overpay benefits, according to a report by the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Most of the waste was caused by failures by the Department for Work and Pensions (DPW), with £1.1bn stemming from mistakes by officials and another [...]
Portugal sells €1bn in bonds March 9, 2011 PORTUGAL edged closer to an EU bailout as its two-year cost of borrowing on a €1bn (£861m) bond sale surged yesterday. The Portuguese government sold the 5.45 per cent bond, which matures in 2013, at a yield of 5.993 per cent. The cost was almost 200 basis points higher than the 4.086 per cent yield [...]
How to squeeze more out of UK plc March 9, 2011 ONE of the most influential books in America today – Tyler Cowen’s The Great Stagnation – argues that technological innovation peaked in 1873 (yes, you read that right). Most of the progress of the past 100 years has come from the application of innovations made prior to 1914, he says; what we now think of [...]
