February 28th, 2008

9:37am Thursday 28th February 2008

ONE weekend - two very different routes to a hospital bed.

No hiding place for China as the show rolls into town

10:59am Thursday 21st February 2008

THE British Olympic Association has watered down its gagging order' on athletes competing at this summer's Games, but will continue to instruct its competitors not to become involved in political debate.

Febraury 14th, 2008

9:29am Thursday 14th February 2008

SPEAK to most Liverpool fans and they'll tell you Rafael Benitez has suffered at the hands of the club's American owners this season.

February 7th, 2008

9:29am Thursday 7th February 2008

THE ongoing Dwain Chambers saga proves one thing - if UK Athletics are serious about pursuing a zero tolerance policy when it comes to drugs in their sport, they must introduce lifetime bans for convicted offenders.

January 31st, 2008

9:44am Thursday 31st January 2008

SIR Alex Ferguson once claimed that Dennis Wise was "capable of starting a fight in an empty room". For supporters of Newcastle United, the more pertinent question now is whether the club's new executive director is capable of being similarly disruptive in a suit.

January 24th, 2008

8:26am Thursday 24th January 2008

WITH the transfer window due to close in seven days, clubs up and down the country are preparing to splash the cash.

Murky world of African football

9:56am Friday 18th January 2008

ON Sunday, the world's fourth biggest football tournament will begin. Eighteen years after Pele's infamous prediction that an African side would win the World Cup by the year 2000, this month's African Cup of Nations will prove just how far the continent has come.

December 20th, 2007

9:12am Thursday 20th December 2007

LAST week, the Football Association rubberstamped Fabio Capello's appointment as England manager.

December 6, 2007

11:02am Thursday 6th December 2007

IT was hardly a surprise that Muttiah Muralitharan's 709th Test wicket was greeted with fireworks at Kandy's Asgiriya Stadium.

November 22nd, 2007

9:05am Thursday 22nd November 2007

INTERNATIONAL football, according to the G14 group of leading European clubs, is dying. Manchester United are bigger than England, Barcelona more appealing than Spain. The Champions League is where the money is, so players and spectators will naturally gravitate towards club football and the international game will become more and more of an irrelevance.

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