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FOOTBALL - Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock has been told by the club's administrators that he cannot play his prized asset Victor Moses again, saying dramatically that the future of the club could depend on it. According to Sky Sports News, the joint administrator of Crystal Palace Brendan Guilfoyle said: "I told the manager that it was my decision that Mr Moses was not available for selection - he's very unhappy about that but accepted it was my call and took the instructions. The future of the club could depend on the success of the sale and I couldn't sleep on the prospect that Moses may be injured in the game tonight."
Crystal Palace went into administration on Tuesday, automatically incurring a 10-point penalty from the Football League. The cash-strapped Championship club need to make some money out of selling Moses if they are going avoid further financial problems. As for Moses, he is only 19 years of age and has scored 6 goals from 21 appearances so far this season, which hardly strikes as being the profile of a multi-million pound footballer. Mind you, football clubs need £1 million to secure a new tea-lady nowadays, so maybe Moses is worth the money Palace are hoping to get for him.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Crystal Palace Desperately Need To Sell Victor Moses - Administrator
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Mickey Arthur Quits As South Africa Coach
CRICKET - South Africa coach Mickey Arthur has made the shock decision to resign his post just days before the South African squad head out on a tour of India. The decision of 41-year-old Arthur has led to South Africa having to install Corrie van Zyl as temporary coach for the tour of India. "The timing is very unfortunate with an exciting two-test tour of India coming up, but the international cricket calendar these days means that there is never a good time," said Arthur when explaining his decision to quit. "But all good things must come to an end and now is the time for someone else to take over."
While Arthur is scheduled to hold a news conference on Wednesday to discuss his resignation, it has been rumoured in South Africa that Arthur has been at loggerheads with the South Africa captain Graeme Smith. It seems their working relationship had reached breaking point, the result being Arthur's decision to quit.
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Wladimir Klitschko To Defend Belts Against Eddie Chambers In Dusseldorf, March 20
BOXING - The world heavyweight WBO, IBF and IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko is to fight the American Eddie Chambers on 20 March it has been confirmed. The fight will take place in Dusseldorf's 51,000-seater Esprit Arena. Klitschko, whose brother Vitali holds the WBC belt, last fought in June 2009 when he beat Ruslan Chagaev with a technical knockout in the ninth round.
Wladimir Klitschko said of his opponent: "Chambers is clearly the best heavyweight boxer in the United States and is for good reason ranked top. The fight will take place in a gigantic stadium and I am already looking forward to it."
As for Eddie Chambers, his record as a professional is stands at 36 fights and 35 wins, winning 18 by way of knockout, his only loss coming in an IBF eliminator with Alexander Povetkin in 2008 which he lost by unanimous decision. "Klitschko may be the favourite," said Chambers, "but I know what I am capable of and I will take a belt collection back home."
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Robbie Fowler Refuses To Play For North Queensland Fury
FOOTBALL - Robbie Fowler's time in Australia might be coming to an end after the former Liverpool and England striker refused to play in his side North Queensland Fury's latest game. Fowler spat the dummy out when his team's coach, Ian Ferguson, changed the side's formaton and relegated Fowler to the substitute's bench. Fowler then refused to play, instead plonking himself in the stands. Fowler is the highest profile signing in the history of the Australian soccer A-League.
North Queensland Fury chairman Don Matheson said he planned to talk to Fowler about the incident. "Although Robbie has been fantastic for the club, we're not a one-man team," Matheson said.
If Fowler left Australia it is difficult to see how he can continue with his career. Setting his age aside for a moment, Fowler was not really able to cut it when he last played in England. Fowler scored a remarkable 173 goals in 236 games during his first spell at Liverpool, but he never recaptured that form in a nomadic footballing life afterwards, last playing in England for Blackburn Rovers where he scored no goals in only 3 appearances.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Lee Westwood Claims His Golf Clubs Are Like Fishing Rods
GOLF - Lee Westwood has come uith a novel excuse for missing the cut at the Abu Dhabi Championship after claiming his golf clubs felt like fishing rods. Westwood openly questioned whether or not his equipment supplier, Ping, had fitted all his clubs with wrong shafts, or indeed fitted the clubs with fishing rods. "I will probably get a new set sent out and reshaft the lot over the weekend to see if that does any good. They just feel like fishing rods," the world number 4 Westwood claimed.
Westwood had finihed 2009 in good form. He had won the season-ending Dubai World Championship in November, as well as finishing first in the overall European Tour money list.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Mikel Arteta All Set For Everton Return From Injury
FOOTBALL - Mikel Arteta appears to be on the mend after declaring that he will be ready to return to the Everton team sooner rather than later. Arteta has not played since damaging a cruciate knee ligament 11 months ago against Newcastle, but according to a statement Arteta made to the official Everton website he is not far off being back to full fitness. "I have been doing nearly everything in training with the lads over the last week and I am hoping to start doing contact work this coming week," said Arteta.
Arteta has been put through an extensive rehabilitation programme in order to get back to full fitness, and he is now starting to step up his bid for a comeback, saying: "I am back into my fitness and I am back with the lads. I am really enjoying it at the moment."
Everton have struggled without the talented Spaniard orchestrating things in midfield, winning only six games so far in the Premier League this season.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Next Stop USA - Amir Khan Joins Golden Boy Promotions
BOXING - Amir Khan has joined Golden Boy Promotions in a bid to increase his profile and marketibility in the USA. Khan has teamed up with Golden Boy having spent his professional career to date being promoted by Frank Warren. Presumably, Khan and his team did not feel that Warren could give Khan the exposure - and ultimately, the money - in the USA that the fighter wants.
Golen Boy, who are fronted by former multi-weight champion Oscar De La Hoya, have said: "Amir Khan is one of the most talented fighters in the world at any weight. That talent, combined with his charismatic and outgoing personality, makes him a promoter's dream and I feel will one day lead him to being the face of boxing." Whether or not such lofty hopes ever become a reality is a different issue entirely. In the short term, Khan seems likely to fight mandatory challenger Marcos Maidana next, presumably somewhere in the USA.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
ICC To Review Umpire Referral System After England Complaint
CRICKET - The International Cricket Council (ICC) are to undertake an urgent review into the umpire referral system after a number of controversial incidents in the South Africa v England test series. Things have got so bad that the England and Wales Cricket Board have written a letter to the ICC, declaring the the umpire referral system as it stands is "a shambles".
ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat has said: "We have received a letter of complaint from the ECB and we will launch a formal investigation into the exact circumstances surrounding the application of the decision review system (DRS) after completion of the Johannesburg test match." The ECB chairman Giles Clarke had previously stated that the old system was better, because "if the umpire is as blind as a bat, it's the same for both sides."
The ECB wrote their letter of complaint following Friday's third umpire decision not to give South Africa captain Graeme Smith out caught behind early in his innings before he went on to make a century, leaving England with an uphill stuggle to win the final match in the test series.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Brazil Announce Spending Plans For 2014 World Cup
FOOTBALL - We have not got this year's World Cup in South Africa out of the way yet, but officials in Brazil are already looking beyond that to the 2014 World Cup when Brazil is due to host the event. At a ceremony in Brasilia, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the state officials agreed to start the work needed to bring up to scratch stadiums and facilities in the 12 cities chosen as venues for the tournament. In all Brazil's government have pledged spending on the 2014 World Cup of 20.1 billion reais (approximately £7 billion) to fund the neccessary upgrade of Brazilian infrastructure ahead of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
It has been stated that around half of the money will be spent on improving public transport. Presumably this will also benefit the Olympic movement too, as the Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro is hosting the Olympics in 2016. For the record the London 2012 Olympics are set to cost around £9.3 billion if officials are to be believed, significantly more than a major sporting event which is due to take place two years later.
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