Chelsea raise ticket prices April 15, 2010 CHELSEA have raised ticket prices for next season, in a move that goes against the grain of their major rivals. The hike, averaging around four per cent, ends four years of price freezes at Stamford Bridge and is borne out of an acceptance that they must increase matchday revenue if they want to achieve their [...]
Robben plays superhero as United crash April 7, 2010 MANCHESTER UTD (3) v/s BAYERN MUNICH (2) MANCHESTER United manager Sir Alex Ferguson fumed at “typical Germans” after seeing Bayern Munich stage a stirring comeback to deny his 10-man side a place in the Champions League semi-finals. Former Chelsea winger Arjen Robben’s sweet 20-yard volley decided the quarter-final on away goals, as Bayern recovered from [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 11, 2010 BoA Merrill Lynch The bank has rehired Anthony Bor to its global research team as head of South Africa Equity Research. Bor previously spent 12 years as an analyst at Merrill Lynch and consistently ranked in the top three in Institutional Investor and Extel surveys in a variety of different sectors. He then left the [...]
Ruiz plots Haye downfall March 29, 2010 BOXING: Veteran challenger John Ruiz is looking to out-punch David Haye in their WBA heavyweight showdown in Manchester on Saturday. Ruiz, 38, is preparing for an 11th world title fight and believes he needs to hit Haye at a rate of around 50 punches a round to dethrone the Londoner in his first title defence. [...]
Adebayor plays down Milan link March 9, 2010 MANCHESTER City striker Emmanuel Adebayor has reaffirmed his commitment to the club, for the time being at least, after fresh speculation linking him with AC Milan. The Togo international, who has been at Eastlands less than eight months, was a target for the Italian club before leaving Arsenal last summer. “I signed at City for [...]
WINNERS & LOSERS May 3, 2010 A WEEKEND is a long time in sport, as this lot will attest. But while for some it was a few days to remember, others may wish they had never set foot out of the house. CHELSEA IT was do or die for the Blues at Liverpool on Sunday, but they held their nerve to claim [...]
Jagielka error saves Villa in the draw which neither team wanted April 14, 2010 ASTON VILLA (2) v/s EVERTON (2) AN INJURY-TIME own goal from Phil Jagielka salvaged a point for Aston Villa, although Martin O’Neill’s men lost more ground in the race for fourth place. Victory would have seen Villa leapfrog Liverpool to within five points of fourth-place Manchester City, but Tim Cahill’s headed opener from Leighton Baines’ [...]
Managers eyeing job swaps March 18, 2010 A MANAGER’S future is notoriously precarious but even by those standards this summer is shaping up to be a jamboree of job changes, with Europe’s biggest clubs training their sights on some prestigious names. Rafael Benitez and Jose Mourinho brought the scramble into sharp focus this week with renewed and feverish speculation about their current [...]
Man United freeze ticket prices March 24, 2010 FOOTBALL: Manchester United are to freeze tickets sales for next season. Under-fire Old Trafford owners, the Glazer family, have been criticised for price increases since their controversial takeover in 2005, but have now moved to dismiss claims of further rises for the 2010-11 campaign. It means matchday admission will stay at between £27 and £49 [...]
Adebayor quits Togo after Angola gun attack April 12, 2010 MANCHESTER CITY striker Emmanuel Adebayor last night announced his decision to retire from international football in the wake of the gun attack on the Togo team bus earlier this year. The 26-year-old admitted he couldn’t come to terms with the attack at this year’s African Nations Cup, which killed three people. In a statement, Adebayor [...]