Martin Johnson is in principe overeengekomen over te nemen aangezien de het teammanager van Engeland, The Times heeft geleerd. Behoudens het beëindigen van termijnen met de Unie van de Voetbal van het Rugby (RFU), zou zijn benoeming volgende week moeten worden bekrachtigd. Zijn aankomst in Twickenham, die na de reis aan Nieuw Zeeland in Juni zou zijn, is bijna bepaald om […] aan te kondigen

Hoe een epidemie `' van verslaving de carrières en het leven van de hoogste spelers van enkele spel vernietigt.
Een voetballer met een ernstig het gokken probleem heeft toegelaten ermee instemmend een steekpenning £50,000 helpen een spel in Groot-Brittannië werpen, kan de Onafhankelijke openbaren.
Volgens een bron vertrouwd met de omstandigheden, de speler - wie een Premiership heeft […]

Liverpools £26.5 million striker Fernando Torres is delighted that the Anfield faithful have created a song just for him.

“It is fantastic,” he told liverpoolfc.tv. “For me, Stevie Gerrard is the best player, he is the hero of the fans. So when I hear them sing the song they have for me it makes me feel […]

The England head coach, Fabio Capello, is to be investigated for allegedly withholding evidence in a trial linked to Italy’s 2006 Calciopoli match-fixing scandal.After giving evidence to a Rome court yesterday Capello, who was the coach of Juventus at the time the scandal erupted, was criticised by the state prosecutor, Luca Palamara, for hiding behind […]

David Hytner at White Hart Lane
Kevin Keegan noted last week that it did not take much to set Geordie pulses racing. A couple of wins at the beginning of a season and the team are going to win the Premier League, he said with a smile. Newcastle is that kind of town. Back-to-back victories have […]

FANS travelling to Wembley Stadium to watch Cardiff City’s FA Cup semi-final clash next weekend had their plans thrown into chaos yesterday as London Underground workers announced a strike to begin just minutes after the final whistle.
The announcement adds further travel misery for fans travelling by train from South Wales, who will also be hit […]

A word of advice on wedges: Get them before they’re illegal. The USGA is having discussions with leading manufacturers about the nonconforming grooved edges that could be banned by next year because of the way they help spin the ball.
Titlest has Vokey Design Wedges in the 200 series and the Spin Milled series. The Vokey […]

MEDIA reports have suggested Italian giants Juventus are prepared to make a summer swoop for Tottenham defender Younes Kaboul.
The Turin club, who returned to the top tier of English football this season following their relegation to Seria B in 2006 over match-fixing revelations are in the hunt to add new talent in time for a […]

Much was made of Beckham’s future with the Three Lions following his decision to step down as captain after Luis Felipe Scolari and Portugal proved to be their undoing in the quarterfinals once again.
Successor of then-manager Sven-Goran Eriksson was his assistant and Middlesbrough manager Steve McClaren. McClaren made the bold move of dropping Beckham from […]

A suspicious transfer highlighted by the Stevens bung inquiry was behind yesterday’s police raid on Birmingham City.The early morning swoop on the Premier League club by officers of the City of London Police is the latest move in the biggest crackdown on football corruption ever mounted.
Three officers from the special unit investigating football corruption, armed […]

Tottenham put a dent in Chelsea’s title hopes by holding their London rivals to a 4-4 draw at White Hart Lane.
In a game which will surely go down as one of the best to be played in the Premier League, Spurs trailed 1-0, 3-1 and 4-3 but somehow fought back to claim an improbable point […]

Andrew Flintoff took his first steps towards resurrecting his career with a brief spell of fast bowling under floodlights in the Arabian desert yesterday.
The England all-rounder’s decline through injury had left England vulnerable, and his form for Lancashire in the Arabian Challenge tournament for the Pro-ARCH Trophy - a glass prize that was accidentally smashed […]

Cristiano Ronaldo set a new landmark as Manchester United moved three points clear at the top of the table with a 2-0 home win over Bolton Wanderers.
The Portuguese winger, who was captain for the night in the absence of several senior players, struck twice in the opening 20 minutes at Old Trafford.
He put United in […]

Eddie O’Sullivan has confirmed his resignation as head coach of Ireland.He had been in change since November 2001 and was under pressure after a disastrous World Cup, followed by a poor campaign in the RBS Six Nations.
Ireland failed to make it out of the group stages at the World Cup and could only manage victories […]

There are 78 players at this World Golf Championship, and one guy playing out of this world.Tiger Woods is winning at a rate not seen in more than a half-century. Bay Hill was his sixth straight victory around the world among official tournaments, and he is the three-time defending champion this week at the CA […]