Ian Winrow LONDON: Andre Villas-Boas has admitted that he does not enjoy the full support of his Chelsea squad ahead of the FA Cup fifth-round meeting with Birmingham City on Saturday. The manager has endured a difficult first season at Stamford Bridge since succeeding Carlo Ancelotti last summer and last weekend’s defeat at Everton sparked [...]
MILAN: AC Milan all but booked their place in the Champions League quarter-finals with a swashbuckling performance to thump hapless Arsenal 4-0 at the San Siro on Wednesday. A Kevin-Prince Boateng blockbuster, a Robinho brace and a penalty from Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave the Italians their first win in seven Champions League clashes against English opposition [...]
MANCHESTER: Carlos Tevez returned to Manchester on Tuesday insisting he wanted to end his long-running feud with Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini and play again for the Premier League leaders. The Argentina striker, returning from his homeland, has not played for City since incensing Italian manager Mancini by refusing to warm-up while on the bench [...]
Pirate Irwin PARIS: The city of Manchester were hoping to see their two football sides fight out the Champions League final but instead on Thursday both sets of fans will have to make do with the lesser fare of the Europa League. However, both face tricky second round ties if they are to progress a [...]
PARIS: Holders Barcelona all but sealed their place in this season’s Champions League quarter-finals after beating German opponents Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 away in their Last 16 first leg clash on Tuesday. They could well be joined by Cypriot side APOEL, who came away from French giants Lyon trailing 1-0 but the fairytale side of this [...]
MILAN: Thierry Henry will be looking to give the club he loves a farewell gift as he makes his final appearance for Arsenal against AC Milan in the Champions League on Wednesday. Henry’s second spell at the North Londoners is set to come to an end on Thursday when he will return to the New York [...]
LONDON: Carlos Tevez headed back to England accusing Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini of treating him “like a dog” in the incident that led to his exile from the Premier League leaders. The Argentina striker said Monday that an angry Mancini swore at him during the Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich in September, where [...]
EDINBURGH: Scotland flanker Alasdair Strokosch could miss the rest of the Six Nations with a broken hand, it was announced on Monday. The 28-year-old suffered the injury during Scotland’s 27-13 loss to Wales in Cardiff on Sunday and, in a statement issued by the Scottish Rugby Union, team doctor James Robson said: “Recovery from such an [...]
Nick Reeves LIBREVILLE: Zambia conjured a shock when they toppled star-studded Ivory Coast 8-7 in a penalty shoot-out to claim their first ever Africa Cup of Nations title on Sunday. With the sides goalless after extra time Zambia’s Stoppila Sunzu converted the magic spot kick after Arsenal striker Gervinho missed for the Elephants. The result [...]
Manchester United regained top spot in the Premier League with a 2-1 victory over Liverpool on Saturday in a stormy clash marred by fresh controversy stemming from the Luis Suarez racism affair LONDON: Two second-half goals in three minutes from United talisman Wayne Rooney — playing in his 500th game at senior level — saw [...]
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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