Target Huntelaar is going nowhere, says Milan chief January 27, 2010 AC MILAN have issued a ‘hands-off’ warning to a number of Premier League clubs chasing striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. The Holland international is frustrated at a lack of first-team football and is considering a loan move away from the San Siro to safeguard his World Cup place. Everton boss David Moyes has already expressed an interest [...]
Johnson: Current squad my best yet January 27, 2010 ENGLAND manager Martin Johnson has dismissed fears that the woeful performance of English clubs in the Heineken Cup could have a knock-on effect for his squad at the Six Nations Championship. Northampton are the sole Premiership side to have reached the knockout stages of Europe’s top competition, with six others falling by the wayside. But [...]
Get set for a transfer scramble January 27, 2010 WE’VE not seen much in the way of transfer activity in this January window, but expect all that to change over the next few days as managers hit the mid-season panic button. Today and tomorrow are potentially massive days in determining the campaign and you can be assured at least one of the genuine title [...]
SPORT | IN BRIEF January 27, 2010 Ospreys face ‘extra man’ hearing RUGBY UNION: Leicester will discover tomorrow if their bid to be reinstated into the Heineken Cup is successful. The Tigers lodged a complaint to European Rugby Cup officials after Ospreys full-back Lee Byrne come on as a 16th man in their 17-12 victory last Saturday. The Ospreys have been called to [...]
Federer marches on but Djokovic crashes January 27, 2010 WORLD No1 Roger Federer overcame a shaky start to see off nemesis Nikolay Davydenko and reach a 23rd consecutive Grand Slam semi-final. The Swiss star recovered from a set and 3-1 down with a storming run of 13 consecutive games before coming through 2-6, 6-3, 6-0, 7-5 against the Russian, who had beaten him in [...]
Serena hits back from the brink January 27, 2010 WORLD No1 Serena Williams admitted she was contemplating her long flight home before staging a remarkable comeback to reach the semi-finals in Melbourne. The defending champion was in serious trouble at a set and 4-0 down to Russia’s Victoria Azarenka, only to storm back to win 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2. “I was actually thinking: ‘If [...]
Infineon rows with investors over chairman January 27, 2010 GERMAN chipmaker Infineon tried to appease hostile investors yesterday by saying chairman-designate Klaus Wucherer would serve only one year of his five-year term if elected, while searching for a better candidate to take over the role permanently. The announcement came as opposition rose to Infineon’s choice of Wucherer to head its supervisory board. US investor [...]
LG widescreen TVs lift profits January 27, 2010 LG Electronics yesterday posted a four-fold rise in operating profits riding on better-than-expected flat-screen television sales, helping it to achieve the best quarterly results in the company’s history. The group’s fourth quarter profits, including overseas affiliates, rose to £238m from £54m a year earlier outperforming analysts’ estimates of £215m. LG is the world’s second largest [...]
Boris Johnson to step down from policing role January 27, 2010 MAYOR of London Boris Johnson said yesterday he would stand down as head of the capital’s police authority, reversing an election pledge that he would personally take charge of the fight against crime. “I think it would be a good thing we changed the chair of the MPA (Metropolitan Police Authority) and I am proposing [...]
Inequality widens as elite grow richer January 27, 2010 THE gap between the wealthiest and most deprived households in the country has widened dramatically over the past 30 years, according to a report published yesterday. People in the richest 10 per cent of the population are now more than 100 times better off than those in the poorest 10 per cent, the Anatomy of [...]
