20 May 12 Sbo Sport News : Varun Chopra ensures strong start for Warwickshire
Sbo Sport News : The former England Under-19 captain made a century in an opening stand of 168 with Ian Westwood as the hosts reached 289 for four on the first day at Edgbaston
Ian Westwoood made 70 in a 168-run opening partnership with Varun Chopra for sbo Warwickshire against Lancashire. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images
Whether Varun Chopra goes on to play Test cricket for England remains to be seen, but in the last two seasons he has at least begun to fulfil the sbo talent that saw him captain his country at Under-19 level. The 24-year-old took advantage of a good first-day pitch to score his second century of the season, and together with Ian Westwood, register the highest opening partnership seen in Division One this year.
That it was worth just 168 probably says as much about the conditions batsmen have been trying to make runs in as the quality of the bowling. In that respect the lack of natural moisture in this pitch may be an indication the pendulum is finally beginning to swing in their favour, and in bright sunshine both Chopra and Westwood settled down to make the most of it. Ajmal Shahzad found a little early movement, but both Lancashire’s left-arm spinners were bowling well before lunch during a morning session in which neither batsman gave a single chance.
Chopra had just gone to 50 when Shahzad finally found an edge, and the Yorkshireman cannot have been particularly impressed to see Stephen Moore drop a straightforward chance at second slip. Westwood was not so fortunate when he pushed forward at a Luke Procter delivery that started outside his off-stump and was moving further away when he nicked it to Paul Horton at first slip.
Having been given one life, however, Chopra did not need another before going to his hundred shortly after tea. It is safe to say the Warwickshire members were not particularly impressed by his first season with the club after moving from Essex at the end of 2009, when he scored only 409 sbo runs in 18 first-class innings. Last season produced a much more impressive return of nearly 1,200 championship runs and after a productive close-season at an England development camp followed by domestic cricket in Sri Lanka, he has continued in that vein.
His disappointment at getting out was obvious and unsurprising, given it was the result of an uncharacteristically ugly cross-batted attempt to hit a Simon Kerrigan delivery from outside off-stump through midwicket. When William Porterfield and Jim Troughton followed in short order three wickets had fallen for just 22 runs, and Warwickshire were in danger of failing to build on their opening platform until Darren Maddy and Tim Ambrose put on an as yet unbroken partnership of 43 for the fifth wicket, counterattacking in some style.
“It was pleasing just to get on a good cricket wicket, when you feel as though it’s an even contest between bat and ball,” said Chopra. “Some of the things I learned in Sri Lanka I sbo was able to implement here against two good left-arm spinners in Simon Kerrigan and Gary Keedy.
“Being part of the development squad was a bit of reward for a good season last year but it’s very much the first rung on the ladder. This season the aim is to be more consistent, to have more good days than bad, and extend the periods of good form for longer.”
The Lancashire coach Peter Moores was pleased at the manner in which his bowlers had stuck at their task. He said Chapple, who had called on the physiotherapist shortly before the close after feeling some pain in his side, would be assessed overnight.
“Hopefully it’s nothing serious but he’s not quite sure – he’ll either wake up and there’ll be nothing there or he’ll be as stiff as a board,” said Moores.
That it was worth just 168 probably says as much about the conditions batsmen have been trying to make runs in as the quality of the bowling. In that respect the lack of natural moisture in this pitch may be an indication the pendulum is finally beginning to sbo swing in their favour, and in bright sunshine both Chopra and Westwood settled down to make the most of it. Ajmal Shahzad found a little early movement, but both Lancashire’s left-arm spinners were bowling well before lunch during a morning session in which neither batsman gave a single chance.
Chopra had just gone to 50 when Shahzad finally found an edge, and the Yorkshireman cannot have been particularly impressed to see Stephen Moore drop a straightforward chance at second slip. Westwood was not so fortunate when he pushed forward at a Luke Procter delivery that started outside his off-stump and was moving further away when he nicked it to Paul Horton at first slip.
Having been given one life, however, Chopra did not need another before going to his hundred shortly after tea. It is safe to say the Warwickshire members were not particularly impressed by his first season with the club after moving from Essex at the end of 2009, when he scored only 409 runs in 18 sbo first-class innings. Last season produced a much more impressive return of nearly 1,200 championship runs and after a productive close-season at an England development camp followed by domestic cricket in Sri Lanka, he has continued in that vein.
His disappointment at getting out was obvious and unsurprising, given it was the result of an uncharacteristically ugly cross-batted attempt to hit a Simon Kerrigan delivery from outside off-stump through midwicket. When William Porterfield and Jim Troughton followed in short order three wickets had fallen for just 22 runs, and Warwickshire were in danger of failing to build on their opening platform until Darren Maddy and Tim Ambrose put on an as yet unbroken partnership of 43 for the fifth wicket, counterattacking in some style.
“It was pleasing just to get on a good cricket wicket, when you feel as though it’s an even contest between bat and ball,” said Chopra. “Some of the things I learned in Sri Lanka I was able to implement here against two good left-arm spinners in Simon Kerrigan and Gary Keedy.
“It’s a good wicket and it was a good toss for them to win. It’s starting to turn a little bit and it’ll turn more as the game goes on, but we stuck at it well, and the new ball will still be pretty new tomorrow morning, so we’ll see what happens then.”
Shahzad, who ran in hard all day, was praised for his energy sbo and attitude. “I take people as I find them and he’s been great so far, he wants to get stuck in. He’s settled in very well,” Moores said.
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19 May 12 Sbo Sport News : Stuart Broad takes six wickets as England
Sbo Sport News : Stuart Broad took six wickets as England gained the upped hand against West Indies on day one of the first Test at Lord’s
It was a struggle for West Indies. For most of the day, as England bowled sbo tourniquet-tight and chipped away, they battled uphill. There were periods of optimism, as Adrian Barath and Darren Bravo added 54 for the third wicket and later as Shivnarine Chanderpaul steadied things with 81 for the fifth, that suggested the innings may be changing round. But slow as the pitch was, the ball swung nicely all day, always lending some hope to the bowlers that diligence would bring its rewards. And so just when West Indies appeared to be clawing their way back, they were rocked once more.
Stuart Broad took six wickets for 72, five of them in a row either side of the new ball being taken, and by the day’s end West Indies had reached 243 for 9, of which Chanderpaul, not so much a thorn in the flesh as a bramble bush, had made an unbeaten 87 in a little over four hours, sbo underpinning the total. If West Indies need Chris Gayle, who even as Chanderpaul was grafting out his score here was hitting 13 sixes in a two-runs-per-ball hundred in Delhi, thereby highlighting the sublime and ridiculous ends of the cricket spectrum, then they also desperately need the obduracy of the most capped West Indian and No1 batsman in the world.
The match is already there for England to take away from West Indies. The final wicket will surely not be long in coming first thing on Friday and then England will have to contend with a four-man pace sbo attack, Darren Sammy having opted to leave out the off-spinner Shane Shillingford, who took 10 wickets in his last Test, and also replacing the injured Ravi Rampaul with Shannon Gabriel, a tall fast bowler from Barbados and a headline waiting to happen.
It was no surprise when Andrew Strauss put the visitors in to bat. Mick Hunt, the Lord’s groundsman, had been hampered in his preparations and predicted moisture lurking between a deceptively pristine surface, a surmise borne out by the dark scars of the bowlers footmarks: he was not likely to be wrong. There was cloud cover too, always an aid to swing bowling at Lord’s even if the wind was from an unusual quarter that has the planes in the distance taking off towards the east from Heathrow: cricketers take notice of such things. In the event, the pitch did not jag as much as it might and certainly there was no pace, so that to an extent the batsmen had time to adjust to movement.
But there was swing, most noticeably for Jimmy Anderson – England’s most complete exponent of that art since Ian Botham’s slender early years – who snaked the ball alarmingly at sbo times down the hill and did for the left-hander Kieran Powell with a classic piece of four-card outer-outer-outer-bail-trimming-inner wizardry: swing bowling at its absolute finest. As Powell had taken to the field with the scoreboard under the impression he was Kieron Pollard, and remained so for much of his innings, it did not represent his finest half hour.
As a contrast to Anderson, Broad looked sluggishly ring-rusty until later in the day when he smoothed out and got on a roll, and Tim Bresnan, preferred to both Graeme Onions and Steve Finn, worthy but a little stereotypical although he bowled the correct tight line from the Nursery End and gave little away. It is, however, typical of the iniquities of cricket that while Anderson displayed his sleight of hand with inswing, outswing and the new wobble-seam variation that does neither, it was Broad who gained the better part of the spoils, his first five-wicket haul at Lord’s which places him in an elite of seven who have honours board entries for both batting and bowling.
Without Chanderpaul, West Indies would be shot. He was born in the middle of August which despite his stance at the crease, makes him Leo rather than a Cancerian. But lionhearted is unquestionably sbo what he is. This is a fine Test-match batsman, one who knows precisely how to construct an innings, how to play within limitations appropriate to the circumstances, yet, as evidenced by the fourth fastest Test century, capable of rather more if necessary. His stance may be odd initially, but it merely gives him a starting point for his movement which by the time the ball is delivered, is orthodox. Crucially, he plays the ball that split-second later than most, has time to make those adjustments, and drives with precision, timing and deftness in an age of the bludgeon. There is almost impeccable judgment in letting the ball go as well, so fine on one occasion that when on 15, he was deemed lbw offering no stroke to Anderson, only for the decision to be overturned on review. The single mark against his name came with the run-out of Bravo, in which he sacrificed his partner rather than himself. Just three run-outs in 240 Test innings, while 94 of his team-mates have been run out, 20 of them while he was at the crease, tells of an imbalance of justice.
Bravo had been playing nicely and, like Chanderpaul, was set, although in the previous over from Anderson he was fortunate to have survived a straightforward catch to Graeme Swann at second slip, although the sternum height at which it came makes it tricky to decide on fingers-up or fingers-down style. Swann opted for the former. Earlier Bravo and Barath had been batting sensibly, watchful outside the off-stump sbo and Barath in particular taking toll on anything remotely over-pitched, hitting nine fours in 42, before he drove too firmly at a wide-ish ball from Broad that floated away a touch, Anderson taking the sharp chance at the second attempt in the gully.
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18 May 12 Sbo Sport News : Roy Hodgson’s calls give form to his
Sbo Sport News : Gary Neville urged a clean-out so that a young generation could offer England a fresh approach at Euro 2012 and Roy Hodgson may have been listening
If Roy Hodgson shares the same philosophy as Gary Neville it may actually be that John Terry and Rio Ferdinand are both cut loose when the names pop up on the Football Association’s sbo website and we get a full picture of who will be going to Euro 2012 and who has no place in the thinking of England’s new manager.
When Neville was asked a couple of months ago to select his players for the tournament, there was no place for either Terry or Ferdinand. Neville’s first?choice XI, in a 4-3-3 formation, had Phil Jones and Chris Smalling as the centre?backs, with Gary Cahill and Micah Richards in reserve. “They’ve got to bring through a new group of young players,” Neville, now one of Hodgson’s right?hand men, explained back then. “Now is the time to clear the decks and go in sbo with a fresh approach, with players who are not tarnished by failure and cynicism. They’ve got to get rid of the negativity because it doesn’t create the right environment for young people to thrive and blossom in.”
Hodgson’s own deliberations will become clear at 1pm on Wednesdaywhen his squad is announced, followed by a Wembley press conference in which, among other things, he will be asked to explain the politics of Ferdinand’s omission and it may not be enough to cite the player’s fitness record. Ferdinand has not missed a league match because of injury since 22 January and, if Terry is included, the Manchester United player is entitled to harbour strong suspicions his omission is linked directly to the irreparable damage in their relationship.
Hodgson was always likely to sacrifice one of the two but perhaps the more surprising call he made on Tuesday was to Micah Richards, informing him that he, too, was not part of his sbo plans. By then Hodgson had already learned that Kyle Walker had become the fifth England international to be ruled out for injury. Phil Jones will be one option at right-back and, though Glen Johnson’s relationship with Hodgson was poor at times at Liverpool, the defender’s concerns that it may be held against him might not be justified now Richards has been left out.
It was a busy day for Hodgson, who also squeezed in a visit to Chelsea’s training ground to meet Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole, Gary Cahill and Daniel Sturridge. Later there was a telephone call to Peter Crouch to break the news that he had not made the cut. Crouch must wonder what he has to do sometimes when he has 22 goals from 42 England appearances, only 19 of which were starts, and has also had a reasonably successful first season at Stoke City, including a goal-of-the-season contender. He will have known from experience not to take anything for granted after the way he was marginalised under Fabio Capello but must have been encouraged by the fact Hodgson sbo vonce tried to sign him for Fulham.
Instead Hodgson is looking elsewhere as he tries to compensate for the absence of Wayne Rooney through suspension from the first two games, against France and Sweden. There is not a particularly strong sbo list of alternatives when the talented but raw Danny Welbeck is considered a near?mandatory pick and the fact there is no place for Crouch supports the theory that Andy Carroll may be in the reckoning, ironically on the back of the problems he caused Terry as a second-half substitute in the FA Cup final, followed by the 4-1 defeat of Chelsea.
Carroll played so badly for the majority of the season that Liverpool’s then director of football, Damien Comolli, was trying to move him out in January but by early evening the former Newcastle United striker, on his way to a Westlife concert, had not been among the list of thanks-but-no-thanks calls Hodgson was making.
The first of those was to Ferdinand and in many ways it is easy to sympathise with the 33-year-old when he has worked so hard to prove his fitness and, since the turn of the year, appears to have got on top of the back and calf issues that had meant he was involved in only 40% of United’s fixtures for the previous two seasons.
In ordinary circumstances he and Terry would probably both have made the cut. These, however, are not ordinary circumstances when Hodgson has also had to contemplate the fallout of Terry standing trial for allegedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand, Rio’s younger brother, during Chelsea’s game at QPR last October. Above everything else, Hodgson has had to decide whether it would be workable to include them both and all the feedback he has received has made him conclude it would be divisive at a time when he is trying to invoke a spirit of togetherness.
If Terry is included, however, that does not mean the problem automatically goes away. If Hodgson has made his background checks, he will also be aware that a significant number of Ferdinand’s United team-mates, including at least one other England international, had planned to snub Terry in the pre-match handshakes when they played Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February.
As it turned out, Terry was injured anyway but the animosity is still there and is shared by other players within the squad, many of whom are close with the Ferdinand brothers. Terry still has his allies, including Ashley Cole, but he was cold-shouldered by some of England’s other players when he was last involved in sbo the squad, for the friendlies against Sweden and Spain. In the end it is understood that he asked Cole to find out if there was a problem and the message came back from several players that, yes, there was. With Ferdinand off the scene, however, there is at least the possibility of a fully united squad.
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17 May 12 Sbo Sport News : Your Premier League team of the 2011-12 season
Sbo Sport News : Simon Burnton: Guardian readers present their verdicts on the season’s performers – and it proves just what harsh markers you are
All season you have been awarding players marks out of 10 for their sbo performances, and now the action has finished we have dusted off the
calculator we normally only use for keeping tabs on Lionel Messi’s latest goal tallies, done some sums and worked out a team of the season.
And it looks like this:
GK: Michel Vorm, Swansea – 7.02
RB: Kyle Walker, Tottenham – 6.63
CD: Fabricio Coloccini, sbo Newcastle – 6.83
CD: Vincent Kompany, Man City – 6.78
LB: Jos? Enrique, Liverpool – 6.47
RM: Moussa Demb?l?, Fulham – 6.72
CM: Luka Modric, Tottenham – 6.85
CM: Mikel Arteta, Arsenal – 6.80
LM: David Silva, Man City – 6.88
FC: Robin van Persie, Arsenal – 6.92
FC: Wayne Rooney, Man Utd – 6.87
The most striking aspect about this team is that it would probably do well if Sheikh Mansour decided it was worth assembling for real (although
it perhaps lacks a little steel in midfield). The second most sbo striking thing is that these players, the best in the land, haven’t actually got very
high marks. You will note that one of them, Liverpool’s Jos? Enrique, has snuck into our Premier League XI despite having an average rating
of only 6.47 – a mark that, if extrapolated into a percentage, would only just scrape a grade C in some GCSE exams.
This, readers, is because you, or at least those of you sbo who like to grade footballers, are exceptionally harsh markers. When Manchester
United beat Arsenal 2-1 at the Emirates in January, a pretty good result whatever way you look at it, the Guardian readers’ response was an
emphatic “could do better” – seven of their players scored below 6 out of 10 and only Antonio Valencia got more than 6.5. You might have
expected that Manchester City fans would have been unusually generous in their scoring after Sunday’s match against Queens Park Rangers,
what with having just won the league and everything, but instead two players sbo got 6.8, one got 6.7, two more got 6.6 and poor Joleon Lescott
received just 5.8.
In the same match Joey Barton’s hideous meltdown brought him not only global ignominy but a Guardian score of 2.7 out of 10. It was bad –
even Marton Fulop, the West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper who on the same day all but scored a hat-trick for their opponents, Arsenal,
managed 2.9 – but we’ve seen worse. Johan Djourou’s mark in Arsenal’s 8-2 defeat at Old Trafford was a grisly 2.6, while John Terry’s
comedy display for Chelsea in their recent 4-1 defeat at Liverpool merited just 2.5. Jonny Evans ended up with 2.4 for his performance in
Manchester United’s 6-1 home humbling by City, the same score that Ronald Zubar got when his Wolves team lost 5-0 at home to United
(Evans scored in that one, and got an 8.0). But pride of sbo place in the hall of flame goes to Mario Balotelli, whose display at Arsenal seemed to
have ended City’s title aspirations and could easily have ended Alex Song’s ability to walk, earning him just 2.3.
But the person we really pity is Clint Dempsey, a man who has just enjoyed the season of his life and still isn’t the Fulham fans’ favourite. This
is a guy who can score a hat-trick against Champions League contenders – as he did when the Cottagers thumped Newcastle 5-2 back in
January – and still emerge with nothing more than a 7.8. Quite what he’s done to deserve this is any neutral’s guess, as it is individual
achievements of precisely that ilk that tend to earn the highest scores in our system.
So Steven Gerrard scored all three in Liverpool’s derby win over Everton and got a 9.0, Papiss Ciss? earned 9.1 for his sensational brace at
Chelsea, Robin van Persie got 9.3 for his hat-trick at Chelsea, while Luis Su?rez’s brilliant trio sbo against Norwich and Yakubu’s four in a game
against Swansea were both considered worthy of 9.5 out of 10. It’s those at the very front and those at the very back who get almost all the
glory here: a glance through each club’s statistical players of the season finds 14 attack-minded folk basking in glory along with three
goalkeepers, leaving a single defender (Stoke’s Robert Huth) and a couple of guys who run about a lot (Everton’s Marouane Fellaini and
Bolton’s Fabrice Muamba, who may have benefited – if benefit is a word that can be in any way applied to the cause of his absence – from
missing the final stages of Bolton’s stumble towards relegation).
With an average rating of just 5.67, Muamba has the unwanted sbo distinction of being the worst best player of all – proof that, after the kind of
season they’ve had, even Bolton’s silver linings look tarnished.
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16 May 12 Sbo Sport News : Didier and Fernando may both start against Bayern Munich
Sbo Sport News : Roberto Di Matteo has revealed he may pair Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres in the Champions League final
Roberto Di Matteo has revealed he had the Champions League sbo final on Saturday in mind when he paired Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres in Chelsea’s win over Blackburn Rovers.
Drogba and Torres both came off the bench in Chelsea’s last Premier League game of the season on Sunday, linking up for the final 21 minutes of the 2-1 victory at Stamford Bridge. Di Matteo, the caretaker manager, has not started the strikers in tandem since taking charge just over two months ago but confirmed he had been looking at potential options for the showdown with Bayern Munich this weekend during the 2-1 win over relegated Rovers.
“I tried a few things to just have a look and see how it could work out,” he said. “It’s always sbo difficult because obviously it’s going to be a different opposition. But I’ve been trying to figure out a few things.”
Drogba and Torres being in the same XI would have been unthinkable before Chelsea’s Champions League semi-final triumph against Barcelona. The received wisdom is that they do not sbo work as a duo, with neither having found the net in five starts together or on the 19 other occasions they have been on the pitch at the same time.
It is still unlikely Di Matteo would gamble on that changing in what is the most high?profile game of his managerial career, but with four players suspended and three potential injuries for the final at the Allianz Arena on Saturday, it is not impossible.
Drogba appears certain to start what is looking increasingly like his farewell match for Chelsea, with Juan Mata and Salomon Kalou in support, leaving a vacancy for one of Frank Lampard, Florent Malouda, Daniel Sturridge or Torres.
Lampard may well be earmarked for a holding role alongside Mikel John Obi, Malouda is sweating on a hamstring injury picked up on Sunday, while Sturridge has been out of sorts since the turn of the year. Torres, who has an impressive 18 assists this season, could therefore be a contender to play on the right side of attack, presuming Di Matteo does not also suddenly abandon the 4-2-3-1 formation that has served him so well since his appointment.
“I tried a few things to just have a look and see how it could work out,” he said. “It’s always difficult because obviously it’s going to be a different opposition. But I’ve been trying to figure out a few things.”
Drogba and Torres being in the same XI would have been unthinkable before sbo Chelsea’s Champions League semi-final triumph against Barcelona. The received wisdom is that they do not work as a duo, with neither having found the net in five starts together or on the 19 other occasions they have been on the pitch at the same time.
It is still unlikely Di Matteo would gamble on that changing in what is the most high?profile game of his managerial career, but with four players suspended and three potential injuries for the final at the Allianz Arena on Saturday, it is not impossible.
Drogba appears certain to start what is looking increasingly like his farewell match for Chelsea, with Juan Mata and Salomon Kalou in support, leaving a vacancy for one of Frank Lampard, Florent Malouda, Daniel Sturridge or Torres.
The Italian’s selection will also depend on the availability of the injured centre-backs David Luiz and Gary Cahill, with the captain, John Terry, and Branislav Ivanovic both suspended. Terry signed off for the season on Sunday by heading in his seventh goal of the campaign, one shy of his personal record.
“I am delighted with seven,” he said. “I rose sbo up and it was a decent header, I was delighted with it, and I was pleased with the performance as a whole.”
Terry, who was heavily criticised for his performance in the 4-1 thrashing at Liverpool last Tuesday, added: “It’s always good to end the league season with a win, especially bouncing back after Liverpool in the week as well. Now we go into a huge week and we can start concentrating on Munich.
“Robbie has rested players, hopefully we will have everyone fit, and those of us that are sbo suspended have been playing games and we still have a big part to play this week in training and preparation.”
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15 May 12 Sbo Sport News : Lewis Hamilton to be questioned over
Sbo Sport News : An incident involving Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg at Bahrain is to be discussed at a drivers meeting before the Spanish Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton’s aggressive driving style will be discussed at what is expected to be a heated drivers’ meeting here on Friday night. Hamilton and Fernando Alonso were both forced wide by the Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in last month’s Bahrain Grand Prix – Alonso backed off but Hamilton did not sbo slow down and succeeded in passing the equally aggressive Rosberg, even though he had to go beyond the edge of the track to do so, which is against the rules.
Rosberg and Hamilton were cleared by stewards afterwards but that will not stop them being asked to defend their actions in front of their peers on Friday night. The Red Bull driver Mark Webber said on Thursday: “I was surprised that Lewis was allowed to keep his position. It was a situation that Lewis didn’t want to find himself in, off the track, but he sbo stayed with it and ultimately the move was kept. I’m sure we’ll talk about it in the drivers’ briefing.”
When Hamilton was told of this he said he was not surprised. “Mark is probably one of the most – if not the most – outspoken individual here so that is the least I expect from him,” he said.
Ironically, Hamilton’s driving has been at it’s most controlled this season as he has battled to preserve his difficult tyres, and he is second in the championship. He added: “I’m not really bothered, to be honest. It’s in the past for me. I’m a racer and I didn’t feel I was in the wrong. Everyone has a right to their own opinions but it doesn’t mean they are right.
“You can’t see from the camera angles whether I was alongside but I know I was. I had a good slingshot out of the corner and as he [Rosberg] kept going over I had nowhere to go. The wall was quite far away but if it’d been there I would have been in it. We do have to give each other room to a certain extent and not do as Michael’s experience with Rubens.”
He was referring to the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2010 when Michael Schumacher almost shoved Rubens Barrichello into a wall.
But Hamilton appeared to sbo welcome the meeting when he said: “It’s good to have clarity. Whatever they decide, will affect all the drivers.”
Reflecting on the incident with Rosberg he added: “Fortunately neither of us got in trouble, neither of us were hurt, and hopefully we will try and rectify the rules to make them clearer so that we won’t be in that position again.
“Lots of people have commented on it, but the only two people who know exactly what happened are myself and Nico. The footage you have of what occurred is from the front, and it is very difficult to see clearly what happened, whether I was alongside him or not.
“But the stewards made the right decision, and hopefully this weekend we will clarify the rules. Would it have happened if there had been grass or a wall? Probably not. If there had, it would have been an interesting situation.”
That was echoed by Rosberg, who said: “Of course if there had been the barriers at Monaco it would have been a different story, but then again the guys behind would have backed off SBO a lot earlier. In that situation, which I’d probably do again, it was harsh but within the rules, and I didn’t judge I was putting my competitors in danger.”
Hamilton and Rosberg appeared to come under fire from Alonso this week when the Spaniard wrote on his Twitter account: “I think you are going to have fun in sbo future races! You can defend position as you want and you can overtake outside the track! Enjoy!”
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14 May 12 Sbo Sport News : Bayern Munich embrace anti-Nazi history
Sbo Sport News : Raphael Honigstein: Players and officials of Bayern Munich defied Nazi regime with small acts of personal courage in the 1930s
Bayern Munich have around 12 million fans in Germany, a number that is dwarfed only by those who dislike the club with equal passion. And Bayern would not have it any other way. They actively play on a heightened sense of Bavarian-ness, on a confidence that verges on arrogance and describe themselves as “a family” to sbo create an “us and them” dynamic. “We cultivate this polarisation,” Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the CEO, says. “Partly because it means that we have constant media exposure.”
This aggressive marketing – and continued success on the pitch, with the Champions League final against Chelsea on Saturday – has made Bayern a blue-chip brand, representing West Germany’s golden, Franz Beckenbauer-led era of the 70s and the promise of the current generation. But there is also a very different side to “FC Hollywood”, a part of the Bayern story that is still unknown to most supporters and that has also only been sbo recently embraced by the club after nearly 80 years of awkward silence.
Bayern were founded in the bohemian quarter of Schwabing, and were very much a Jewish club before the second world war, with a Jewish president and a Jewish manager. As a consequence, Bayern were targeted by the Nazis but players and officials continued to defy the regime with small acts of personal courage. “All those things were forgotten in the post-war years,” said Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, the author of 2011′s award-winning Der FC Bayern und seine Juden (FC Bayern and their Jews). “Bayern’s success in the sbo 60s and 70s submerged the past, and West German society on the whole only started to look back at the Holocaust in earnest in 1979, in any case.”
On the club’s founding charter from 1900, two out of 17 signatories were Jewish. One of them, the Dortmund-born artist Benno Elkan, would later emigrate to London and become a prominent sculptor: on commission from Westminster, he built the seven-branched Candelabra (Menorah) that stands outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem. From 1911, Bayern were led by Kurt Landauer, the son of a wealthy Jewish businessman, and the team were coached by a sbo succession of Jewish coaches, including the Austro?Hungarian Richard “Little” Dombi, who went on to manage Barcelona and Feyenoord. Landauer’s commitment and Dombi’s knowhow secured a first German championship for Bayern in 1932. Landauer had to resign, along with a number of other Jewish members and officials, when Hitler seized power a few months later and fled to Switzerland after 33 days in the Dachau concentration camp.
Bayern were discredited as a Judenklub by the Nazis but resisted its cooptation. In 1934, Bayern players were involved in a brawl with Nazi brownshirts. Two years later, the Bayern winger Willy Simetsreiter made a point of having his picture taken with Jesse Owens, who enraged Hitler by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics. The full-back Sigmund Haringer narrowly escaped prison for calling a Nazi flag parade a “kids’ theatre”, and the captain, Conny Heidkamp, and his wife hid Bayern’s silverware when other clubs heeded an appeal from Reichsmarschall sbo Herman G?ring to donate metal for the war effort. The most symbolic act of defiance occurred in Zurich in 1943. After a friendly against the Swiss national team, the Bayern players lined up to wave at the exiled Landauer in the stands.
Landauer returned to Munich after the war and once again became Bayern president until 1951. But his legacy became lost. Club publications simply mentioned that he had to leave Germany “on political-racial grounds”. “The word ‘Jew’ was assiduously avoided,” said Schulze-Marmeling. At the turn of the century, a wave of academic books and newspaper articles renewed interest in the Landauer era but the Bayern leadership were unsure as to how they should react. Bayern’s general manager, Uli Hoeness, fobbed off an inquisitive reporter by saying he “wasn’t alive at the time”, and vice-president Fritz Scherer later admitted that the club did not want to emphasize its Jewish roots for fear of “negative reactions”. “We don’t want to provoke something,” Scherer said. Schulze-Marmeling suspects that commercial interests in Asia may also have been the reason why Bayern sought to play down their Jewish heritage.
The club’s attitude has changed markedly in recent years, however. The club’s Ultras have celebrated Landauer and Rummenigge has acknowledged him as “the father of the modern FC Bayern”. The club also sbo donated part of the money that enabled the Jewish amateur club TSV Maccabi Munich to build a pitch bearing Landauer’s name in 2010. The ground was inaugurated with a friendly against Bayern’s “All-Star-Team”.
The Landauer years will take pride of place in the Erlebniswelt museum the club are opening in the Allianz Arena this summer. “I’ve been in the club for many years but had little idea about all these amazing stories,” said Hans-Peter Renner, the museum’s content director. “It’s been profoundly moving to learn sbo about all these people and the things they did for the club.”
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13 May 12 Sbo Sport News : At the risk of rousing the beast
Sbo Sport News : Shaun Edwards: South Africa are also rebuilding and that should give England heart when they play three Tests next month
If you have been involved in five Tests in South Africa and won just the sbo one, then you learn to button your lip and not provoke the beast. However … this, I’d say, is not a bad time to be taking on the Springboks on their own patch.
At first sight Stuart Lancaster might seem to be playing a gambler’s hand in selecting 13 uncapped players for England’s three-Test tour this summer, but there are two things to consider:
1 South Africa are in a similar state to England. They have a new coach in Heyneke Meyer, who has been in charge for roughly the same period as Lancaster, but has had much less sbo time with his top players and will have not much more than a week during the interval in Super Rugby to pull his players and his ideas together.
So far he’s had a series of camps with about 100 players, but they have tended to be from the Super Rugby teams that have a week off and can make their players available, rather than the tighter-knit squad that was around Lancaster before and during the Six Nations.
So when Meyer does finally get his chosen players together, he’s not going to have long getting them to play the way he wants. That may force a conservative approach and sticking with the Springbok philosophy of building a game around big men being physical, but attitudes have changed sbo out there and teams like the Bulls are beginning to play a bit of rugby rather than running everything off the scrum-half.
Also, Meyer and his coaching team of Johann van Graan (forwards), Ricardo Loubscher (backs) and John McFarland (defence), all from the Bulls, will not have that fabulous pack from 2007 to 2009 to play around. Even allowing that Victor Matfield is considering coming out of the commentary box to help out his out boss, it is not the eight that was perhaps as good as any in the history of Test rugby. The potential squad also has injuries sbo to guys Schalk Burger, Jean de Villiers, Andries Bekker, Duane Vermeulen and Gio Aplon.
I’m certainly not writing them off, but I’d be very surprised if they could match the intensity of the pack the Lions forwards faced, particularly in the first 15 minutes of the second Test in 2009 when we went from being 16-3 up just before half-time to losing by three points at the end.
2012 would seem to have the makings of a rerun of 2000 when Clive Woodward went to South Africa with the core of a side that had done well in that season’s Six Nations (actually they went one better than Lancaster, winning it) plus a few young tyros who would be using the midweek sbo games to stake a place in the 2003 side which finished on top of the world.
Far be it from me to undermine the whole venture before it even boards the bus, but the similarity is that England have a couple of midweek games where those of the 13 uncapped players who don’t figure in the Test will have the opportunity to show that they have what it takes to make the step up from club, age-group and B internationals to the main arena.
And of those 13 I’ll have particular regard for two guys I’ve already coached and one who I’m looking forwards to working with next season. First there is Christian Wade of Wasps, a guy who has the happy knack that Rory Underwood once had scoring tries; he’s one of those guys who sends a buzz around the ground every time he gets his hands on the ball.
Next comes another product of the Wasps academy, Joe Launchbury, a real rugby player and a guy you never see without a black eye. He’s a sponge when it comes to sbo learning from experience, as I suspect is Jonathan Joseph of London Irish, who was sensational against Gloucester last weekend.
Otherwise I’ll be fascinated to see how James Haskell takes to the role of senior pro. My guess is that his time at the Highlanders in Super Rugby will have given him a more rounded view on life. No one has ever been able to fault James Haskell’s level of effort or his attitude to training. Now I suspect, he might sbo contribute a lot more to the development of some of the younger guys in the new set-up.
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12 May 12 Sbo Sport News : Manchester United and the deal interesting the Portuguese police
Sbo Sport News : The former agent of Manchester United’s B?b? has been interviewed by Portuguese police about his ?7.2m transfer to Old Trafford. He claims his player was
Sir Alex Ferguson’s transfer policy at Manchester United is attracting increased scrutiny from fans for its glaring contrast with huge-spending rivals Manchester City, and the signing of B?b?, for €9m (?7.2m) in August 2010 becomes no less curious with the passage of time. Now the sbo deal, in which B?b?’s just-appointed agent, Jorge Mendes, was paid €3.6m (?2.89m) from the €9m fee, is subject to a criminal investigation in Portugal by the judicial police’s national unit for combating corruption.
The Lisbon-based anti-corruption unit wrote last month to B?b?’s former agent, Gon?alo Reis, who has now formally complained to Fifa that Mendes improperly poached B?b? from him just before Mendes concluded the lucrative deal with United. The police asked Reis to recount as a witness his relationship with B?b? and all sbo that happened just before B?b? terminated his contract with him and signed up with Mendes. The police letter to Reis, from the inspector, Jos? Cunha Ribeiro, leading the investigation, informed Reis that a processo-crime – criminal proceedings – “relate to the transfer of the professional football player Tiago Manuel Dias Correia (known as ‘B?b?’) from Vit. Guimar?es to Manchester United (England)”.
Reis told the Guardian that when he presented himself at the anti-corruption unit’s headquarters on 23 April, he was interviewed for around three hours about every aspect of his dealings with B?b? and how his contract with the player was terminated.
Reis said Inspector Ribeiro told him the police are planning to question United about their version of the deal.
A spokesman for United said: “Clearly if the sbo police ask us for information, we will co-operate with them. Nobody is suggesting that we have done anything wrong.”
The police unit declined to officially confirm to the Guardian the scope of their inquiries or what precise aspects of the transfer they are investigating.
The season before the B?b? signing, 2009-10, United had lost out, by one point, to Chelsea for the Premier League title, and were eliminated by Bayern Munich in the European Champions League quarter-finals. To then strengthen his squad, Ferguson signed just three young players that summer: the promising Mexican centre-forward, Javier Hern?ndez, elegant defender Chris Smalling – and B?b?. Also a forward, B?b?’s only sbo competitive football had been the single 2009-10 season in the Portuguese third division. When United paid that fee for him, he had signed for Vit?ria, a Portuguese first division club, for whom he had played six pre-season friendlies.
Ferguson had for some time complained that the transfer market was over-priced and there were no United-quality players available at the right value. He and United’s chief executive, David Gill, have always denied United’s modesty in the transfer market, despite the club’s massive income, ?286m in 2009-10, was due to the debts loaded on to the club by the Glazer family’s 2005 takeover, which have since cost United ?500m in interest, fees and finance charges.
That same summer, 2010, City, backed by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, bought Yaya Tour?, who in City’s crucial 1-0 derby victory on 30 April this season, dominated the 37-year-old returnee from retirement, Paul Scholes, in midfield. City also spent lavishly on recruiting David Silva, James Milner, Mario Balotelli and J?r?me Boateng, who left after a season for Bayern Munich sbo (at a profit to City). The combined outlay on those five players was ?110m.
United have always said they moved rapidly to conclude the deal to sign B?b?, and that he was the only player Ferguson has signed in his epic managerial career whom he had not watched at all before. United said the manager signed B?b? following a recommendation by Carlos Queiroz, Ferguson’s former assistant, then the coach of Portugal’s national team. Queiroz’s agent, too, was Mendes. B?b? had moved to Mendes’s company, Gestifute, only days before Mendes concluded the lucrative move to United.
Reis represented B?b? when he played for Estrela da Amadora in the semi-professional Portuguese third division, while B?b? was still living in a care home. In June 2010, Reis brokered the deal sbo for B?b? to move to Vit?ria. He had played only pre-season friendlies when Marca, the Spanish football newspaper, splashed with the news that Real Madrid, where another Mendes client, Jos? Mourinho, had become manager, were keen on B?b?. United signed the player for €9m on 11 August, two days after Reis received a letter dated 5 August from B?b?, sacking Reis as his agent. It was later reported at Vit?ria’s general meeting that Mendes had been paid 10% agent’s commission, and had also bought, presumably very shortly before, 30% of the player’s “economic rights” for an undisclosed amount, which earned him a further €2.7m when United signed B?b?.
Reis’s complaint, sent to Fifa this week, asks that Mendes be sanctioned for representing B?b? in the move to United, while the player had an existing contract for Reis to represent him. Reis refers to Fifa’s code governing the conduct of licensed football agents, which prohibits agents from contacting players who have existing agreements with other agents, and from “any action that could entice clients away from other parties”.
Reis argues in his complaint that a €9m transfer “is not likely to be negotiated and finalised overnight” and that “evidence shows that transfers of this nature sbo and financial significance are the result of intense negotiations … sometimes taking several weeks to be successfully concluded. Consequently one can conclude on the balance of probabilities that the transfer took at least several days to be prepared before it was finally announced.”
Reis asked Fifa to rule in the case because B?b?’s move was an international transfer between a Portuguese club, Vit?ria, and United, and he calls for Mendes’s agent’s licence to be withdrawn, “or other appropriate sanction”.
United said at the time, and maintain, that the decision to sign B?b? was made, and the deal concluded, very quickly, and that it did not take weeks to agree. Mendes’s agency, Gestifute, based in Porto, did not respond to detailed questions from the Guardian about the police investigation or Reis’s complaint. The agency has previously denied poaching B?b? from Reis or breaching Fifa’s agents’ regulations.
Mendes himself had a meteoric rise in the football agency business to the point where he represented Mourinho and most of the best Portuguese players who attracted profitable moves abroad. He previously sealed the deals for United to sign the prodigy Cristiano Ronaldo from Sporting Lisbon in August 2003 for ?12m, then in July 2007, in the early years of the Glazers’ ownership, Nani, for ?25.5m, also from Sporting Lisbon, and Brazil’s Anderson, from Porto, for ?27m.
Ferguson noticeably restrained his spending since the ?71m spent in that sbo summer of 2007, and continued to complain about inflation in the transfer market, despite United making a ?68m profit when they sold Ronaldo to Real Madrid for ?80m in July 2009. Nevertheless, Ferguson found €9m to sign B?b? in a deal with the same agent, for a player with barely any professional experience. B?b? then started just three cup matches for United last season, before being loaned to the Turkish side Besiktas last summer, where he has been out injured.
As dusk beckons for Ferguson’s great tenure, B?b? is a signing which continues to stand out like a beacon.
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11 May 12 Sbo Sport News : Khan rematch in doubt after Peterson drugs fail
Sbo Sport News : Amir Khan rematch in doubt after Lamont Peterson fails drug test
The world title rematch between Amir Khan and Lamont Peterson in Las Vegas on 19 July edged closer to cancellation on Tuesday night when it was confirmed the American has tested positive sbo for testosterone use.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission, which is responsible for the conduct of the promotion, will take submissions from Peterson’s legal advisers before delivering a judgment within the next day or so.
“Unless there’s some real obvious and legitimate reason for the positive test, he’s not fighting,” NSAC’s executive Keith Kizer told the Associated Press.
The development will cause concern for the estimated 4,000 British fans who have booked flights, hotels and fight tickets to support Khan as he seeks to reclaim the WBA and IBF sbo light-welterweight belts lost in a controversial fight in Washington last December.
So, while anarchy was ruling the day in London at the announcement of David Haye’s upcoming fight with Dereck Chisora, boxing was falling over itself in the United States to do the right thing, albeit clumsily. How the NSAC views the alleged use of a banned performance-enhancing substance will reflect its commitment to probity in the sport. Its record, generally, has been good; it banned Mike Tyson for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear in 1997 and would not let Antonio Margarito box in Nevada after he was caught with loaded gloves before his fight with Shane Mosley in 2009.However it had no qualms about sanctioning Floyd Mayweather’s fight with Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand last Saturday night – just three weeks before Mayweather was due to go to prison for domestic battery against his former partner Josie Harris.
Richard Schaefer, chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions, Khan’s American promotional partners, on Tuesday night put meat on the bones of a story that has been bubbling up as rumour for days. He was not sbo pleased that news of the test results had been slow to emerge. While Peterson’s camp knew, Khan’s did not – and the selling of tickets at the Mandalay Bay went ahead.
“We were informed by a call [on Monday morning] from Keith Kizer, the director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. He said he had received a letter over the weekend from the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada).”
The tests took place at a lab at the University of California (UCLA) in mid-March but were not relayed to the drugs agency until nearly a month later. “Why I was not informed, I cannot explain,” Schaefer said. “I find it rather shocking that I was not copied into this letter. Nobody from Team Khan was copied into that letter.
“A urine specimen was taken from both athletes on 19 March. It was an unannounced, unscheduled visit by the collections officers [of Vada] following the press conference in Los Angeles, where both fighters, obviously, were present. The adverse result for Peterson’s A-sample was reported to Vada by the sbo lab [at UCLA] on 12 April. Again, why we were not informed until Monday – not even by Vada, but by the commission – is a mystery to me.”
Vada told Peterson the results of the test the following day and said the B-sample would be analysed on 30 April.
Schaefer observed: “Why it took so long to analyse the B-sample is also a mystery to me. If I would have been informed about it, I certainly would have asked for expedited testing, rather than wait two weeks to get this sample tested.”
Peterson had representation at the second analysis, Schaefer said. “The result of the B-sample confirmed the analytical result of the A-sample. Both showed that the athlete’s specimens were consistent with the administration of an anabolic steroid, such as testosterone. There were follow-up samples taken from Peterson on 13 April and the laboratory reported it came back as negative on 6 May.”
Peterson’s attorneys will submit their explanation to the commission on Tuesday afternoon.
“In the coming days,” Schaefer said, “I would assume by today or maybe the day after, we will know where we stand.”
“We want to get to the bottom of this and do what is right. We cannot sbo overrate how important random drug-testing is for the sport of boxing. This is not about hitting a baseball, running faster or jumping higher. This is toe-to-toe battle, where one’s life is at risk every time these young athletes enter the ring. I think it’s important that the Nevada commission have all the facts and them makes the ruling as they deem appropriate.”Kizer told The Ring magazine last night that Golden Boy Promotions will abandon the sbo whole show if Peterson is not granted a licence, and reschedule it for later in the year. That would be a blow for Gary Sykes, the 28-year-old Dewsbury super-featherweight who had landed himself a world title shot on the undercard against the unbeaten WBO champion, Adrien Boner.
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