Porto fined for fans’ racist abuse April 4, 2012 FOOTBALL: Porto have been fined €20,000 (£16,630) after supporters racially abused Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli in a Europa League tie last month. The sanction handed down by Uefa is half the amount the European governing body fined Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger last week for improper conduct.
Porto fined for fans’ racist abuse April 4, 2012 FOOTBALL: Porto have been fined €20,000 (£16,630) after supporters racially abused Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli in a Europa League tie last month. The sanction handed down by Uefa is half the amount the European governing body fined Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger last week for improper conduct.
Defeat in Chambers case won’t end our fight for reform, says BOA April 30, 2012 THE BRITISH Olympic Association has vowed to continue its fight to ban past dopers from representing Team GB at future Games, despite losing the legal battle to enforce that selection policy at London 2012. BOA chairman Lord Moynihan called the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s ruling, which was confirmed yesterday and opens the door for [...]
Group of 8 want all members to stay in the euro May 20, 2012 WORLD leaders backed keeping Greece in the Eurozone over the weekend and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalising a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe’s debt crisis. A summit of the G8 leading industrialised nations came down solidly in favour of a push to balance European austerity – an [...]
Imperial offers share buyback as sales grow May 1, 2012 IMPERIAL Tobacco, the world’s fourth-largest cigarette group, set a £500m share buyback yesterday and said it saw a return to sales growth as the company put last year’s problems behind it. The British firm, which sells over 340bn cigarettes a year, reported that half-year earnings beat forecasts as it gained from the ending of a [...]
LOWER OIL PRICES LIKELY TO REMAIN AS GROWTH SLOWS June 25, 2012 SENIOR MARKET STRATEGIST, GFT LAST week, Brent crude oil traded below $88.50 – a level last seen in November 2010. Back then, crude was in the early stages of a rally which would take it above $126 four months later. The rally was driven, to a great extent, by the US Federal Reserve’s second round [...]
BBBofC blast Haye, Chisora and Warren May 9, 2012 FEUDING heavyweights David Haye and Dereck Chisora, and promoter Frank Warren, have been accused of bringing the sport into disrepute by the British Boxing Board of Control for licensing their fight through the Luxembourg Boxing Federation. Haye and Chisora are scheduled to fight at Upton Park on 14 July after their February brawl at a [...]
European cookie law risks hurting UK tech business May 27, 2012 THE 12 month grace period for the Cookie law is over. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will now start to enforce regulations resricting the storage of personal data. Businesses which use cookies or other tracking techniques to gather information from website users must comply. The Cookie law is a European based law, and is being [...]
Cleverly defence KOd March 20, 2012 BOXING: Governing body the WBO have refused to sanction unbeaten Welshman Nathan Cleverly’s planned light-welterweight world title defence against Serbia’s Robin Krasniqi. The fight would have been the first held at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall for 13 years. The WBO insist Cleverly’s next defence – his fourth – should instead be against Russia’s Dmitry [...]
New financial model braces Championship clubs for fines April 25, 2012 CHAMPIONSHIP clubs run the risk of receiving damaging fines or being placed under a transfer embargo under new financial regulations to be imposed from next season. The financial model, based on Uefa’s financial fair play regulations, was voted for by 21 of the Championship’s 24 clubs and means that any team that records total losses [...]