Argentina legend Diego Maradona has attacked world football chief Sepp Blatter, calling the 79-year-old Swiss “a dictator” and claiming his bid for a fifth term as FIFA president is “an absurdity”.Maradona’s scathing personal attack in The Daily Telegraph comes days before Blatter seeks an unprecedented fifth term at the helm of football’s governing body.Blatter is in a two horse race to continue in the post he assumed in 1998 – the only other candidate being Prince Ali bin Al Hussein...
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The England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) new chairman Colin Graves insisted Monday that the decision on England’s new head coach was one for Andrew Strauss.Former captain Strauss was on Saturday named as English cricket’s new director and his first job will be to find a replacement for Peter Moores, who was sacked in the wake of his appointment.Graves will start his role with the ECB on Thursday and there has been speculation that he is keen to appoint Yorkshire’s...
Former star striker Alan Shearer is fearful that Newcastle are heading towards relegation from the Premier League on the back of a dire loss of form.A former skipper at the northeast club, Shearer was stunned by Saturday’s 3-2 defeat to Swansea at St James’ Park which was the Magpies’ seventh straight loss, their worst ever run in the top flight.That loss left them 14th with 35 points, just five ahead of arch-rivals Sunderland in 18th with four games to go.“Have...
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes that the Premier League title is still beyond his players despite their emergence as the English top flight’s form side ahead of the season run-in.Saturday’s 4-1 demolition of Liverpool took Arsenal another step closer to securing the season’s minimum objective of qualification for the Champions League.Leaders Chelsea remain seven points above them with a game in hand, but Arsenal, who have won 10 of their last 11 matches, will have a chance to trim that...
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers declared on Thursday that Raheem Sterling will not be leaving the club at the end of the season after talks over a new contract broke down.Sterling, 20, has two years left to run on his contract and is believed to have rejected a new deal worth œ100,000 ($148,320, 137,710 euros) per week-a significant improvement on his current œ35,000-a-week salary.He said in a BBC interview on Wednesday that he would not address his future until the end...
Dunga says Brazil’s renaissance under his leadership has been sparked by the players’ burning desire to make amends for their...
Kevin Pietersen joked on Twitter that he had applied for the England coaching job on Wednesday, a day after being sidelined by new director of cricket Andrew Strauss.“Morning all, after a pretty bad day yesterday I’ve given it a lot of thought overnight,” Pietersen wrote to his 2.56 million followers. “I’m applying for the coaching job! #StraussLogic”Strauss revealed on Tuesday that Pietersen, 34, will not be selected for England in the immediate future, citing a “massive trust issue” between him...
The English Premier League crown will be within Chelsea’s grasp on Sunday when they host Crystal Palace needing three points to become champions.While their early-season free-flowing football has faded, Chelsea have unquestionably been the season’s stand-out team as they seek a first English title since 2010.The circumstances of their last coronation were quite different, with a side steered by Carlo Ancelotti eviscerating Wigan Athletic 8-0 at Stamford Bridge on the campaign’s final day to set a new Premier League scoring...
Tony Blair was to wade into the British general election campaign on Tuesday, with the former prime minister set to...
English county Worcestershire on Saturday announced the signing of Sri Lanka spin bowler Sachithra Senanayake to provide early-season cover for overseas player Saeed Ajmal.Ajmal has been called up by Pakistan for their tour of Bangladesh, prompting Worcestershire to move for Senanayake, who has played in one Test, 45 one-day internationals and 17 Twenty20 games for his country.“He has played a lot of games in the shorter formats for Sri Lanka, not a lot of the Test matches, but his first-class...
Britain’s economy grew faster than expected in the final quarter of last year, revised official data revealed Tuesday. Gross domestic product expanded by 0.6 percent in the last three months of 2014, up from a previous estimate of 0.5 percent, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. GDP for last year reached 2.8 percent, higher than the previous reading of 2.6 percent, the ONS added. At 2.8 percent, Britain still grew at the fastest pace since 2006, or...
Rafael Nadal will start his bid to win a third Wimbledon title by returning to the grass-court tournament at Queen’s...
