The revival came just in time to prevent a distress flare from the organisers, aghast at the prospect of their champion outward bound on this morning’s Concorde to New York.Again Bates took a 2-0 lead in the second set, only to be pegged back once more. Another confident game from Bates, taking him to 3-1, [...]

Banks, who quit as sports minister three months ago and is now the Government’s ambassador for the 2006 World Cup campaign, says he has issued writs against the newspaper in question and also Jarvis Astaire, the former deputy chairman of Wembley plc, who made a similar allegation in his biography published earlier this year in [...]

These “stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles” restore to the 3,637 victims their names, their age, what they did, and what they were doing when they died. In Robert McLiam Wilson’s novel Eureka Street, there is a striking metaphor for violent death. Wilson writes [...]

How much better it would have been to deploy the money to find a site, not necessarily greenfield, nor necessarily in the South, with the potential to start from scratch.But that deal is done now, with little likelihood of Wembley National Stadium Limited, the FA’s subsidiary company, selling off the site and using the money [...]

“Physiologically, you only need one testes for hormone production,” he said “The other one is for insurance There is no great difference between having one or two. “I knew William was a remarkable character, because so many people had told me about him,” she said. “But I didn’t know he’d suffered from cancer.”Sichel, in fact, [...]

THIS IS a very important issue, but the fans haven’t been consulted,” David Blatt, London branch chairman of the Football Supporters’ Association, told Newsnight (BBC2) on Wednesday. Otto, Boro old boy made good, is the man in charge of the envied Ajax academy.Price of failureAND FINALLY… four months after Ruud Gullit, the manager, became surplus [...]