Steven Gerrard is confident his England partnership with Wayne Rooney can work, providing the two of them adapt to their roles.
During Wednesday’s lacklustre 1-0 defeat in France, Gerrard was deployed as the support to Rooney, who was playing as a lone striker.
Gerrard has been operating in that role for Liverpool in recent weeks, but was [...]
David Bentley is determined to wrestle a place in England’s first XI away from centurion David Beckham.
Bentley was expected to be given the nod to start on the right of England’s midfield for the 1-0 defeat to France in Paris on Wednesday, but manager Fabio Capello opted to hand Beckham his 100th international cap.
Beckham made [...]
Israeli starlet Gai Assulin is ready to shun English interest to remain at Barcelona.
The 16-year-old midfielder made history on Wednesday evening when he became his country’s youngest ever international when he came on for Yossi Benayoun during their 1-0 win over Chile.
Assulin is one of the leading lights at La Masia - Barca’s youth academy [...]
Arsenal full-back Bacary Sagna will be out for at least three weeks due to the ankle injury he suffered at Chelsea.
Sagna headed Arsenal in front at Stamford Bridge last Sunday before collecting the knock prior to Didier Drogba’s double for the Blues.
The defender was forced to pull out of the France squad to face England [...]
Roger Federer insists he is unconcerned about his recent run of results, and insists his game only needs tweaking to be restored to his previous domination.
The Swiss star has not made a final this year and has suffered his worst start to a season since 2000 when he was still a teenager.
Federer has suffered with [...]
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone believes Lewis Hamilton ’saved’ F1 last season.
Many predicted the sport would be dull following the retirement of seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher at the end of the 2006 season.
However, F1 experienced one of its best seasons in recent history during 2007 after a closely fought battle between McLaren’s Hamilton and [...]
Felipe Massa is refusing to blame Formula One’s ban on electronic driver aids for his poor start to the season.
The Ferrari driver started the Malaysian Grand Prix on pole position, but spun off the track on lap 31 of the race while running second to team-mate and world champion Kimi Raikkonen.
The Brazilian also spun at [...]
Sri Lanka clinched a 121-run win, their first ever in the West Indies, with just 40 balls of the first Test to spare in Guyana.
Chasing an unlikely victory target of 437, the West Indies started the final day on 96-1, requiring a further 341, and realistically the aim was to use the nine wickets left [...]
Hashim Amla’s 159 allowed South Africa to post a first innings total of 540 in the first Test against India.
India openers Wasim Jaffer and Virender Sehwag shared an unbroken stand of 82 to reduce their side’s deficit to 458 by the close of day two.
The Proteas used the first 62.5 overs on Thursday to extend [...]
Qatar motorsport authorities are hoping a planned upgrade of their Losail International Circuit could help lure Formula One.
The track has previously hosted a round of the World Superbike Championship, and crucially earlier this year staged the first floodlit MotoGP race.
With Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone eager for other venues to follow Singapore’s lead this year [...]
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