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Asian Football: Peter Withe missing Asian action but much English interest in AFF Cup, Sport

Asian Football: Peter Withe missing Asian action but much English interest in AFF Cup

If we are talking about corners of foreign fields being forever English then this week you can look no further than south-east Asia where 37.5% of teams participating in the AFF Suzuki Cup, the biennial tournament for the region, are led by Englishmen.

By | Sport | Friday, 3 December 2010 at 4:37 am

Manchester City set for January sales, Sport

Manchester City set for January sales

The Manchester City squad is bulging at the seams with expensively acquired footballers and January departures appear inevitable.

By | Sport | Friday, 3 December 2010 at 3:00 am

iBet: Blackpool v Manchester United promises goals, Sport

iBet: Blackpool v Manchester United promises goals

After a week of Carling and Europa Cup games when you don’t know what kind of team the managers are going to pick, we are back to the real deal on Saturday and we can up the stakes.

By | Sport | Friday, 3 December 2010 at 2:00 am

World Cup vote: Your view, Sport

World Cup vote: Your view

Russia has won the right to host the 2018 World Cup.
In doing so they beat Spain/Portugal, Netherlands/Belgium, and most significantly for Three Lions fans, England.
We want to hear your thoughts on the decision of the Fifa executive committee. Leave your comments below…
The reaction on Twitter:
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By | Sport | Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 3:40 pm

Who’s better – Nani or John O’Shea?, Sport

Who’s better – Nani or John O’Shea?

Let’s be scientific about this and base it on the evidence. Below is what we shall call ‘Exhibit A’, demonstrating the abilities of Manchester United’s winger Nani, courtesy of #5. Below that is ‘Exhibit B’, showing O’Shea. You make up your mind who’s best…

By | Sport | Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 1:34 pm

BBC bias on Iraq – delayed latest, Eagle Eye

BBC bias on Iraq – delayed latest

Nearly a year on, the BBC Trust has still failed to rule on Stan Rosenthal’s appeal against the way in which the Corporation grudgingly, belatedly and wrongly tried to excuse its error in reporting Sir Christopher Meyer’’s evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.

By | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 1:12 pm

Twitter accounts suspended after “malaware attack”, Notebook

Twitter accounts suspended after “malaware attack”

Twitter users awoke this morning to find accounts suspended overnight after a “malaware attack” on the social networking site.

By | Notebook | Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 12:48 pm

Interview with Gareth Edwards, the Director of ‘Monsters’, Notebook

Interview with Gareth Edwards, the Director of ‘Monsters’

Director Gareth Edwards discusses his new sci-fi film where aliens have invaded Mexico, leaving the area an ‘infected zone.’

By | Notebook | Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 6:00 am

iBet: Keep stakes low on the Europa League, Sport

iBet: Keep stakes low on the Europa League

I’m no real fan of betting on this competition because the teams involved are rarely outstanding and often closely-matched, plus team news is hard to come by in time for the ‘I’ deadlines.

By | Sport | Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 2:00 am

The return of Tiger Tim  – a little older, wiser and creakier, but still the same Tim Henman, Sport

The return of Tiger Tim – a little older, wiser and creakier, but still the same Tim Henman

Tim Henman was a mythologised sporting persona in my youth. Not quite of the Jonny Wilkinson or David Beckham ilk; in all honesty, I can’t say I ever swooned at the sight of Tiger Tim, and we certainly didn’t discuss his physique in the playground during break. But, to the probable horror of my school friends, come the summer months, Neighbours and Home and Away didn’t get a look in.

By | Sport | Wednesday, 1 December 2010 at 2:54 pm

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