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Scott Wilson

May 8th, 2008
9:38am Thursday 8th May 2008
WHATEVER his motives, Kevin Keegan pretty much hit the nail on the head when he claimed the widening gulf between the Big Four' and the rest was making the Premier League boring.

May 1st, 2008
9:42am Thursday 1st May 2008
IT is not quite as ludicrous as his suggestion that female footballers should wear tighter shorts, but FIFA president Sepp Blatter's proposal for reducing the number of overseas players in the English game invites just as much ridicule.

April 17th, 2008
9:36am Thursday 17th April 2008
THE timing could hardly be more ironic. Yesterday, the English county cricket season began with a lack of fanfare in front of a handful of spectators. Glitz and glamour were conspicuous only by their absence.

April 10th, 2008
9:31am Thursday 10th April 2008
DURING the build-up to this week's US Masters, Tiger Woods was asked whether he would be supporting Barack Obama in the race to be the Democratic candidate for the US presidential election.

April 3, 2008
11:19am Thursday 3rd April 2008
IT could be the issue that decides the next general election. How is Gordon Brown going to tackle the problems of burgeoning youth crime, rising anti-social behaviour and a general lack of respect for authority and the law? Easy, he's going to use footballers.

March 27th, 2008
9:16am Thursday 27th March 2008
WHEN he was asked to reflect on a century of England caps earlier this week, David Beckham claimed: "Since 1996 when I made my debut, nothing has changed."

March 20, 2008
10:58am Thursday 20th March 2008
It was carnival time in Cardiff, but a day to drown sorrows in Dublin.

North-East trio between a Rock and a hard place
11:21am Thursday 13th March 2008
IT HAS been another black week for three of the North- East's biggest stars, and the rest of the country is on the look-out for a scapegoat.

Getting a slice of Olympic pie
10:49am Thursday 6th March 2008
IN revealing the location of more than 600 potential training camps for the 2012 Olympic Games, Lord Coe has finally addressed the thorny issue of how his organising team will spread the event's benefits beyond the boundaries of the City of London.

February 28th, 2008
9:37am Thursday 28th February 2008
ONE weekend - two very different routes to a hospital bed.

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