Topic: England

Upstart Tagliani the man to catch at Indy

Pole-sitter Alex Tagliani will try to complete a month of domination of IndyCar's most successful teams with a victory in Sunday's 100th anniversary running of the Indianapolis 500.The Canadian driver pulled together his own team before the season and has pulled off ...

Patrick, Andretti struggle into Indy 500

Americans Danica Patrick and Marco Andretti endured a tense final qualifying session Sunday before claiming their places in the 100th anniversary edition of the Indianapolis 500.Patrick, the first woman to win a major open-wheel race, was among nine qualifiers who filled the ...

Power on pole for IndyCar opener

Australia's Will Power captured pole position Saturday for IndyCar's season-opening race, the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.Power claimed the St. Pete pole for the second straight year, edging two-time reigning IndyCar series champion Dario Franchitti in the Fast Six qualifying competition.Power ...

Cavendish makes BBC Sports Personality shortlist

Cycling star Mark Cavendish has made the shortlist for this year's prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.. His Team GB team-mates Bradley Wiggins and Victoria Pendleton narrowly missed out on a place in the top 10, leaving Cav as the ...

Sporting Miscellanies

If Fabio Capello was looking particularly pleased with himself at Hertfordshire's plush Grove Hotel this week, it wasn't only at the prospect of England running up a cricket score against that renowned international power-house, Andorra, in tomorrow's World Cup qualifier. When we ...
Formula One received its first entry for 2010 from a new team today just hours before the latest round of crunch talks aimed at averting a mass exodus from the sport took place off the shores of Monte Carlo.. The current Spanish ...
Formula One received its first entry for 2010 from a new team today just hours before the latest round of crunch talks aimed at averting a mass exodus from the sport took place off the shores of Monte Carlo.. The current Spanish ...

Paranoid United victims of their siege mentality

Manchester United should resist the temptation to turn a drama into a crisis. His antics on Saturday, persistently flaunting his upper thigh to referee Phil Dowd, in a pantomime-camp manner, was actually deserving of a second yellow Dowd was kind enough not ...

Tottenham revival has left me open-mouthed

A few days ago, Arsene Wenger was expressing his concern, in the manner of a colonel on the north-west frontier, that it's quiet at Emirates Stadium. The explosion of decibels shortly before 10pm on Wednesday could have awoken the dead - and ...
According to a Football Association spokesman, it was " crazy" for England fans to boo Ashley Cole after his howler gave away a goal at Wembley last Saturday. Cheers have to be earned, not imposed by FA apparatchiks. It is disappointing how ...
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