Arsenal spurn £30m Fabregas offer June 2, 2010 Gunners come out fighting with unusually blunt, public retort to Barcelona offer for captain ARSENAL hope to have driven the final nail into Barcelona’s pursuit of Cesc Fabregas after rejecting a £30m bid for their captain and issuing a strongly-worded statement ruling out his sale. Barca stepped up their campaign to prise their former youth [...]
Joy for Melzer as Djokovic and Serena are dumped out June 2, 2010 THIRD seed Novak Djokovic squandered a two-set lead before crashing out in the quarter-finals to Austria’s Jurgen Melzer on another great day for underdogs at Roland Garros. Former Australian Open champion Djokovic looked to be cruising against Melzer only to collapse dramatically in an epic tussle that the 22nd seed won 3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 [...]
I’ll be ready for Wallabies clash, claims Wilkinson June 2, 2010 ENGLAND fly-half Jonny Wilkinson has dismissed fears overs his fitness, insisting he will be fit and ready for the first Test against Australia a week on Saturday. The 31-year-old record points scorer is yet to resume contact training after bruising his ribs during Toulon’s Amlin Challenge Cup final defeat to Cardiff last weekend. It had [...]
Boss Grant all set for Hammers role June 2, 2010 AVRAM GRANT is set to be unveiled as West Ham manager today. The Israeli, who quit as Portsmouth boss a fortnight ago, returned from a family holiday yesterday to conclude discussions with Hammers co-owners David Sullivan and David Gold. “After an hour, we knew we could work with this manager. We are very optimistic,” Gold [...]
Shahzad insists he’s raring to go for Test debut June 2, 2010 AJMAL SHAHZAD says he is fit and raring to go should he be handed a Test debut at Old Trafford tomorrow. The Yorkshire seamer, 24, was 12th man for the first Test with Bangladesh at Lord’s last week, and is jostling with recalled Ryan Sidebottom to replace the injured Tim Bresnan for the second and [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF June 2, 2010 Hearn gets the players’ vote SNOOKER: Barry Hearn won the Battle of the Baize and took control of World Snooker yesterday after coming through 35-29 in a vote of the world’s top 64 players. The sports guru edged out businessman and former Olympic shooter John Davison to take a 51 per cent share in the [...]
WORLD CUP NEWS | IN BRIEF June 2, 2010 Johnson targets Euro 2012 ADAM JOHNSON has his sights set on making England’s 2012 European Championship squad after missing out on the World Cup. The Manchester City winger was one of seven players axed when Fabio Capello named his 23-man squad. “I am going to have a rest now and then get ready to try [...]
CRUNCH TIME June 1, 2010 PRUDENTIAL’S future was hanging in the balance last night after its dream of taking over AIA died, drawing a line under what one shareholder called “an unprecedented shambles”. The insurer is expected to tell the London stockmarket this morning it will abandon its calamitous $35.5bn (£25bn) pursuit of AIG’s Asian operation. Following a series of [...]
FBI set to probe BP’s oil disaster June 1, 2010 PRESSURE on BP mounted last night as the US attorney general said he would launch a criminal and a civil investigation into its massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Eric Holder said the federal agencies, including the FBI, would participate in the probe and warned: “If we find evidence of illegal behaviour, we will be [...]
Caja Madrid seeks €3bn June 1, 2010 SPAIN’S banking woes continued yesterday after its second-largest savings bank Caja Madrid is understood to have sought up to €3bn (£2.5bn) from a government rescue fund. Caja Madrid entered preliminary merger talks with five regional savings banks last week. But the Spanish lender released a statement saying the reports it will seek government funds are [...]
