Everton are hoping to give Jack Wilshere a pair of tracksuit bottoms with huge pockets so that he can trouser a better weekly wage than he is being offered at Arsenal to come and join the second coming of the Toffees’ revamp next season. And the word is that he’ll be joined by Manchester United’s human wrecking ball, Phil Jones, a player so prone to injuring himself and others that he’ll be sure to wipe out Wilshere in their first training session. But any move for Jones would probably be dependent on Sam Allardyce staying at the club, as the man who gave Jones his professional debut at Blackburn is keen to make the centre-back his key summer signing in a rebuilt spine featuring Jamie Vardy in attack.
Source :- theguardian
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
West Ham vow to give life bans to fans who invaded pitch or threw missiles
West Ham have vowed to issue life bans to the fans who invaded the pitch during Saturday’s 3-0 defeat by Burnley.
The Premier League match at the London Stadium was marred by four separate pitch invasions as well as protests against the club’s board as hundreds of supporters congregated beneath the directors’ box. The joint-owners David Gold and David Sullivan were advised to leave their seats for their own safety, with the latter having been struck on his glasses by a coin.
A West Ham statement said: “The club is working in close conjunction with the Metropolitan police to identify those individuals who entered the pitch during the second half and … to identify those who threw missiles. Any individual found guilty will be banned from attending any West Ham United fixture, home and away, for life and the club will request the courts serve a banning order to prevent these individuals attending any football matches in the future.”
Source :- theguardian
The Premier League match at the London Stadium was marred by four separate pitch invasions as well as protests against the club’s board as hundreds of supporters congregated beneath the directors’ box. The joint-owners David Gold and David Sullivan were advised to leave their seats for their own safety, with the latter having been struck on his glasses by a coin.
A West Ham statement said: “The club is working in close conjunction with the Metropolitan police to identify those individuals who entered the pitch during the second half and … to identify those who threw missiles. Any individual found guilty will be banned from attending any West Ham United fixture, home and away, for life and the club will request the courts serve a banning order to prevent these individuals attending any football matches in the future.”
Source :- theguardian
Which football clubs are named after political leaders?
When our readers come through, they really come through. Sit back and watch the answers to this one roll in, kicked off by Philip Farrell, who has a number of suggestions.
“French medieval hero and Saint Joan of Arc is memorialised in the name of ASC Jeanne d’Arc, from Senegal,” he writes. “Spartacus was a legendary gladiator and slave turned rebel who was born in what is now Bulgaria and was an important character in the history of the Roman Republic. Yet, a host of clubs outside Italy and Bulgaria share his name, Spartak.
Source :- theguardian
“French medieval hero and Saint Joan of Arc is memorialised in the name of ASC Jeanne d’Arc, from Senegal,” he writes. “Spartacus was a legendary gladiator and slave turned rebel who was born in what is now Bulgaria and was an important character in the history of the Roman Republic. Yet, a host of clubs outside Italy and Bulgaria share his name, Spartak.
Source :- theguardian
Accrington Stanley defying all logic to sit top of League Two? Exactly
If the league was based on budgets, we’d be relegated at the start of every season,” says the Accrington Stanley midfielder Sean McConville. As it is, though, the Lancashire club, with 10 games to play, are on course for an overdue promotion to League One after missing out on goal difference on the final day of the season in 2016. Last year it was a case of too little, too late.
On the first day of pre-season before this campaign John Coleman sat his squad down, plus the kit man, chief executive and other non-playing staff, to set the bar high, with automatic promotion the explicit target. After a December dip Accrington’s form since Christmas, with 11 wins from their past 13 matches, has accelerated them to the summit of League Two
Source :- theguardian
On the first day of pre-season before this campaign John Coleman sat his squad down, plus the kit man, chief executive and other non-playing staff, to set the bar high, with automatic promotion the explicit target. After a December dip Accrington’s form since Christmas, with 11 wins from their past 13 matches, has accelerated them to the summit of League Two
Source :- theguardian
Jamie Carragher suspended by Sky until end of season over spitting incident
Jamie Carragher has been suspended from his job as a Sky Sports football pundit until at least the end of the season after he was filmed spitting into a car.
The broadcaster is considering how it can offer a route back on to the channel for the former Liverpool defender after what he described as a “moment of madness”.
Footage shows him being taunted through the open window of his car while driving away from Old Trafford stadium after Manchester United’s victory against Liverpool. He reacts by spitting towards Andy Hughes, who had been delivering the taunts, but the spit hit Hughes’s 14-year-old daughter.
Source :- theguardian
The broadcaster is considering how it can offer a route back on to the channel for the former Liverpool defender after what he described as a “moment of madness”.
Footage shows him being taunted through the open window of his car while driving away from Old Trafford stadium after Manchester United’s victory against Liverpool. He reacts by spitting towards Andy Hughes, who had been delivering the taunts, but the spit hit Hughes’s 14-year-old daughter.
Source :- theguardian
The outsiders who deserve England call-ups – and the regulars who don't
Injury to Tom Heaton threatened to derail Burnley’s campaign but stand-in keeper Nick Pope has been pivotal to their success this season, helping them achieve the fourth best defensive record in the division. The 25-year-old boasts the second best save success rate in the Premier League (77.5%) behind David de Gea (80.2%), with no other English keeper reaching 70%. Moreover, a clean sheet at West Ham last time out was his 10th of the season; Jordan Pickford, Jack Butland and Joe Hart have managed just 15 between them.
Source :- theguardian
Source :- theguardian
Britain's Menna Fitzpatrick wins her third medal at Winter Paralympics
On a day with 36 medals up for grabs, Team GB’s Menna Fitzpatrick and Jen Kehoe won silver in the women’s visually impaired giant slalom, finishing behind Slovakia’s Henrieta Farkasova and Natalia Subrtova, who took their fourth gold of the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
After the race Fitzpatrick said: “It felt absolutely amazing, you can really feel the acceleration from your skis and your bodies driving you forward. It just doesn’t sink in. When we get to celebrate we’ll have a chance to realise what we’ve done, our families have done all the celebrating for us so far.”
The silver was their third medal of the Games, adding to their super combined silver and super-G bronze.
Team GB’s Kelly Gallagher and her guide, Gary Smith, narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fifth. A disappointed Gallagher, a gold medal winner at Sochi 2014, said: “I think there is more in us but I definitely set out with the intentions to work really hard, which I did, and overall it went quite well. It’s hard to want something and for it then not to work out for you but I suppose having that resilience is really what these Games are about.”
Source :- theguardian
After the race Fitzpatrick said: “It felt absolutely amazing, you can really feel the acceleration from your skis and your bodies driving you forward. It just doesn’t sink in. When we get to celebrate we’ll have a chance to realise what we’ve done, our families have done all the celebrating for us so far.”
The silver was their third medal of the Games, adding to their super combined silver and super-G bronze.
Team GB’s Kelly Gallagher and her guide, Gary Smith, narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fifth. A disappointed Gallagher, a gold medal winner at Sochi 2014, said: “I think there is more in us but I definitely set out with the intentions to work really hard, which I did, and overall it went quite well. It’s hard to want something and for it then not to work out for you but I suppose having that resilience is really what these Games are about.”
Source :- theguardian
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