Target Milner happy to put future on hold May 20, 2010 JAMES MILNER has vowed to put his club future on hold until after the World Cup – but admits he doesn’t know whether he’ll be an Aston Villa player next season. The 24-year-old is in high demand after an outstanding season at Villa Park and was the subject of a failed £20m bid from Manchester [...]
Grant set for West Ham job after leaving Pompey May 20, 2010 AVRAM GRANT is expected to be named the new manager of West Ham in the next 24 hours after leaving Portsmouth last night. The Israeli guided the cash-strapped, relegated club to the FA Cup final against his former club Chelsea last Saturday and admitted leaving Pompey was the “most difficult decision” he has had to [...]
My support makes me feel part of a big family May 20, 2010 IT’S been a difficult week for everyone here at Saracens, and with the Premiership final with Leicester just eight days away, you could say the timing might have been better. But, on the positive side, it’s brought everyone closer together, like one big family, and that makes me extremely proud as head coach. On Tuesday, [...]
Fast and furious – all in a day’s work May 20, 2010 IT’S not all breakneck speeds, multi-million dollar contracts and being sprayed with champagne. Okay, there is rather a lot of all that, but peer into the paddock of an F1 team and you will also find dozens of dedicated individuals beavering away at their jobs. I went behind the scenes at a grand prix to [...]
Hartley injury a blow for England May 20, 2010 ENGLAND team boss Martin Johnson has suffered his first blow of the summer after hooker Dylan Hartley was ruled out of the forthcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand with a knee injury. The 24-year-old went over on his knee during Northampton’s 21-19 Premiership semi-final defeat to Saracens last weekend and now faces a battle [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF May 20, 2010 Els slips up on own design GOLF: Ernie Els was left to rue his own design changes after his BMW PGA Championship bid hit the buffers at Wentworth yesterday. The South African found the new water ditch on the controversial 18th hole of the West Course, which he has recently finished redesigning. It took him [...]
Osborne unveils company tax cut May 20, 2010 POLITICAL EDITOR GEORGE Osborne yesterday said he would lower the headline rate of corporation tax, but bowed to pressure from his Liberal Democrat coalition partners and promised to protect manufacturing allowances. In his first major speech as chancellor, Osborne said he would use an emergency Budget on 22 June to kick-start a five-year plan to [...]
Markets in chaos after Merkel ban May 20, 2010 MARKETS worldwide were plunged into turmoil yesterday as Germany’s panic move to ban naked shorting triggered fears of a fresh financial meltdown. The FTSE 100 crashed by almost three per cent to 5,158.08, mirrored by similar falls in Paris with the Cac 40 dropping 2.9 per cent to 3,511.67, and Germany’s Dax plunging 2.7 per [...]
Liberal-Cons unveil final plan May 20, 2010 DAVID Cameron and Nick Clegg will today unveil the final text of their coalition agreement, outlining their programme for government for the next five years. The pair will herald a “historic” moment in British politics as their Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties join forces for the first time in over half a century, but will [...]
Merkel’s actions will weaken the EU May 20, 2010 ANGELA Merkel has no clue about economics. Her silly decision to slap various restrictions on short-sellers, even though shooting the messenger in this way never works, triggered pandemonium in the markets. It even led to capital flight to Switzerland, according to BNP Paribas. Merkel is panicking, trying to prevent her government from imploding and doing [...]
