June 22nd, 2009
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Big Transfer House: Goodbyes and good buys
Meet the housemates
Catch up on Day 5-6
Day Seven
Eviction night comes. Alan and Ricardo both wander around the house looking nervous. Ricardo is the more chatty, still telling anyone who’ll listen how keen he is to go. Alan, for his part, wants to stay right where he is, and “just wishes that he would be left alone to get [...]
No pressure, then, Laura Robson…
It wouldn’t be Wimbledon without setting up British players for a fall, and we’re evidently so tired of talking about Murray that the Daily Mail has this morning decided to switch the focus to Laura Robson, with a spectacularly well-informed piece:
It may not be too much to suggest that a new court at Wimbledon today will [...]
The voice of the expert: Desailly on Ribery and United
Since United aren’t talking about Franck Ribery - at least in public - it’s making it a bit difficult for newspapers to find fresh angles on any prospective transfer other than to say that Ribery is rated as one of the best players in attacking midfield in the world, and that he would make a [...]
The last to know about Steve Bruce’s new shopping habits
After Steve Bruce joined Sunderland there was plenty of talk about money and opportunities, the likes of which he would not have had at Wigan. For one thing, as the Telegraph suggested amongst others, there was a potential budget of around £50m. Exciting times ahead for Sunderland, exciting times ahead for Steve Bruce, and exciting [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
And it was all going so well…
… for Tillakaratne Dilshan at this World Twenty20 Championships. He’d scored a frightening number of runs, not yet failed, invented a new shot - these were the good times. Once he was interviewed before the game about the shot to decide whether he preferred the name the ‘Starfish’ or the [...]