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September 23, 2010
The Commonwealth Games: why India is a bit player in the world of sport
The Independent
Deep-seated cultural attitudes may be to blame for the Commonwealth Games fiasco.
Does India always have a problem making a strong entrance on the world stage? That was certainly the view of E M Forster's fictional English hero Fielding in A Passage to India who ranked the country alongside Belgium as cutting a sorry figure.
Deep-seated cultural attitudes may be to blame for the Commonwealth Games fiasco.
Does India always have a problem making a strong entrance on the world stage? That was certainly the view of E M Forster's fictional English hero Fielding in A Passage to India who ranked the country alongside Belgium as cutting a sorry figure.
Why India is a bit player in the world of sport
The Independent
Deep-seated cultural attitudes may be to blame for the Commonwealth Games fiasco.
Does India always have a problem making a strong entrance on the world stage? That was certainly the view of E M Forster's fictional English hero Fielding in A Passage to India who ranked the country alongside Belgium as cutting a sorry figure.
Deep-seated cultural attitudes may be to blame for the Commonwealth Games fiasco.
Does India always have a problem making a strong entrance on the world stage? That was certainly the view of E M Forster's fictional English hero Fielding in A Passage to India who ranked the country alongside Belgium as cutting a sorry figure.
September 22, 2010
Match-fixing: good riddance to cricket's summer from hell
Evening Standard
Cricket, said the writer JM Barrie, is a gift of the gods. This cricket season may have led even the creator of Peter Pan to conclude that the devil had a hand in its planning.
So much so that nearly all cricket followers will celebrate its end with tonight's final one-day match at the Rose Bowl. Few will mourn the departure of the Pakistan team, hoping there is a long gap before they are back.
Cricket, said the writer JM Barrie, is a gift of the gods. This cricket season may have led even the creator of Peter Pan to conclude that the devil had a hand in its planning.
So much so that nearly all cricket followers will celebrate its end with tonight's final one-day match at the Rose Bowl. Few will mourn the departure of the Pakistan team, hoping there is a long gap before they are back.
Good riddance to cricket's summer from hell
Evening Standard
Cricket, said the writer JM Barrie, is a gift of the gods. This cricket season may have led even the creator of Peter Pan to conclude that the devil had a hand in its planning.
So much so that nearly all cricket followers will celebrate its end with tonight's final one-day match at the Rose Bowl. Few will mourn the departure of the Pakistan team, hoping there is a long gap before they are back.
Cricket, said the writer JM Barrie, is a gift of the gods. This cricket season may have led even the creator of Peter Pan to conclude that the devil had a hand in its planning.
So much so that nearly all cricket followers will celebrate its end with tonight's final one-day match at the Rose Bowl. Few will mourn the departure of the Pakistan team, hoping there is a long gap before they are back.
September 21, 2010
'No guarantees our next boss will be English', says Sir Trevor Brooking
Evening Standard
So you think it is set in stone that Fabio Capello's successor will be English? Well, think again.
"It's not," Sir Trevor Brooking tells me. "I think the general view is, Let's see what happens in the next 18 or 21 months.' But, come the summer of 2012, we would like to go English."
So you think it is set in stone that Fabio Capello's successor will be English? Well, think again.
"It's not," Sir Trevor Brooking tells me. "I think the general view is, Let's see what happens in the next 18 or 21 months.' But, come the summer of 2012, we would like to go English."
September 16, 2010
Cricket bosses ignored Pakistan match-fixing warnings
The top bosses of the International Cricket Council were warned two years ago that the game faced real dangers of corruption re-emerging and that they were becoming complacent about illegal bookmakers seeking to subvert players. However the warning did not go down well with all the members of the ICC executive board.
The verbal warning was given to the highest authority charged with running the world game in June 2008 by Lord Condon. The former head of the Metropolitan Police had been brough...
The verbal warning was given to the highest authority charged with running the world game in June 2008 by Lord Condon. The former head of the Metropolitan Police had been brough...
Cricket bosses ignored match fixing warnings
The top bosses of the International Cricket Council were warned two years ago that the game faced real dangers of corruption re-emerging and that they were becoming complacent about illegal bookmakers seeking to subvert players. However the warning did not go down well with all the members of the ICC executive board.
The verbal warning was given to the highest authority charged with running the world game in June 2008 by Lord Condon. The former head of the Metropolitan Police had been brough...
The verbal warning was given to the highest authority charged with running the world game in June 2008 by Lord Condon. The former head of the Metropolitan Police had been brough...
September 14, 2010
Audley Harrison: Get ready for the greatest comeback
London Evening Standard
There is not much that unites Audley Harrison and David Haye, except a common loathing. The pair's verbal jousting before their WBA heavyweight world title fight has gone to such lengths that Haye has said it will be as "one-sided as a gang rape".
But there is one thing the two men will share as they step into the MEN Arena on 13 November — both will have given up sex for several weeks in preparation for this fight.
There is not much that unites Audley Harrison and David Haye, except a common loathing. The pair's verbal jousting before their WBA heavyweight world title fight has gone to such lengths that Haye has said it will be as "one-sided as a gang rape".
But there is one thing the two men will share as they step into the MEN Arena on 13 November — both will have given up sex for several weeks in preparation for this fight.
September 13, 2010
Frenchie Gerard Houllier has unfinished business in the Premier League
InsideWorldFootball.com
Gerard Houllier's return to the Premier League was, perhaps, one of the most predictable of events of the season. What is more, he will bring to Aston Villa the conviction that his departure from Liverpool in 2004, after six years in charge, left him with unfinished business in England.
Houllier has a mission to accomplish and he sees the Midlands club as his last great chance to leave his mark on the English game.
I was struck by this when, during the World Cup, we...
Gerard Houllier's return to the Premier League was, perhaps, one of the most predictable of events of the season. What is more, he will bring to Aston Villa the conviction that his departure from Liverpool in 2004, after six years in charge, left him with unfinished business in England.
Houllier has a mission to accomplish and he sees the Midlands club as his last great chance to leave his mark on the English game.
I was struck by this when, during the World Cup, we...
September 7, 2010
Tim Lamb: Cricket cheating could tear the heart out of my game
Evening Standard
Tim Lamb is no stranger to cricket corruption. He was, after all, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board when the game was rocked by the Hansie Cronje scandal.
A decade on, there is no disguising the pained tone in his voice as we discuss the current Pakistani spot-fixing allegations.
Tim Lamb is no stranger to cricket corruption. He was, after all, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board when the game was rocked by the Hansie Cronje scandal.
A decade on, there is no disguising the pained tone in his voice as we discuss the current Pakistani spot-fixing allegations.
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