Mallett tells RFU he might be free after Six Nations November 28, 2011 FORMER Italy coach Nick Mallett has performed a U-turn by expressing an interest in the vacant England manager’s job, less than a fortnight after ruling himself out of the running. The 55-year-old claimed earlier this month that, with his family settled in his native South Africa, he would not be putting his name forward to [...]
McLaren pair aim to be Red Bull fighters November 28, 2011 BRITISH pair Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton have vowed to knock Red Bull off the podium and reassert McLaren’s dominance next season. Australia’s Mark Webber capped a record-breaking year for the team by winning Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix, with colleague Sebastian Vettel signing off his emphatic world title defence with a rare second place. Button [...]
Dalglish: Fixture pile-up a joke November 28, 2011 LIVERPOOL manager Kenny Dalglish has branded the scheduling of tonight’s Carling Cup quarter final against Chelsea “irresponsible”. The Scot believes the Professional Footballers’ Association should have stepped in to help avoid a scenario which sees his side forced to travel to Stamford Bridge just two days after Sunday’s league 1-1 draw against Manchester City. “Forty-eight [...]
Lions braced for Hong Kong start November 28, 2011 RUGBY UNION: The British and Irish Lions will meet the Barbarians in Hong Kong in an historic and glitzy curtain-raiser to the 2013 tour of Australia. The stop-off in Asia precedes nine fixtures Down Under, including three Test matches, at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium, the Etihad Stadium in Melbourne and then Sydney’s ANZ Stadium. The Lions [...]
Cav leads the way for BBC award November 28, 2011 CYCLING: Sprint sensation Mark Cavendish is the early favourite to claim the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award after the 10 nominees were announced yesterday. The 26-year-old has enjoyed a magnificent year, becoming Britain’s first winner of the Tour de France green jersey and Britain’s first male world road race champion for 46 [...]
Haye confirms comeback talks November 28, 2011 BOXING: Former heavyweight world champion David Haye is in talks to fight WBC title holder Vitali Klitschko in March 2012. Haye, 31, who retired in October after losing to the Ukrainian’s brother Wladimir, says he will lower his pay demands to make sure the fight happens. “I haven’t seen a contract but there’s definitely talks [...]
CLOUDS GATHER AHEAD ON OSBORNE’S BIG DAY November 28, 2011 THE UK will fall victim to a second recession, a leading economic forecaster warned yesterday, pushing up unemployment and further damaging George Osborne’s hopes that he will be able to meet his deficit reduction target. The figures will make for grim reading for the chancellor, who will today deliver his Autumn Statement just hours before millions of [...]
Equity markets are still hoping for a miracle November 28, 2011 Stock markets worldwide shot up yesterday, defying gloomy forecasts. The FTSE jumped 2.87 per cent; the DAX soared by 4.6 per cent; the CAC stormed up 5.46 per cent; and the Dow Jones rose 2.59 per cent, as hopes built that finance ministers or the IMF would somehow save the euro.
ICAP braces for euro fail November 28, 2011 ICAP, the world’s top broker for foreign exchange and government bonds, said yesterday that it had been testing its trading systems in the event of a possible break-up of the euro. ICAP has been prepping its spot foreign exchange platform, EBS, over the past six months to ensure it could handle trading the Greek drachma [...]
Stagnation looms for Western world November 28, 2011 PRODUCING detailed, quantitative economic forecasts is the closest thing the modern world does to sorcery. It’s a fool’s game; the results will only be right by chance. There are too many variables. What economists and commentators can more successfully achieve, however, are broad pattern predictions – and it is clear that the UK, US and [...]
