Henri Bianchéri, the man who helped Arsène Wenger sign Thierry Henry for Monaco, on Wednesday declared his candidacy to fill the vacant director of football position at Arsenal. The Frenchman spent 19 years as Monaco’s general manager, where he was a key ally of Wenger during the latter’s seven-year spell in the principality, and he is keen to renew their association.
What would happen if Portsmouth’s Benjani Mwaruwaru was to score a goal and dedicate it to the hundreds of opposition activists who are in detention now, to the thousands of people who are dying of Aids because they have no access to ARVs and the millions who have been forced to flee from their homes because of the crisis in Zimbabwe?
National coach Jake White was presented with the names of three candidates for team manager ahead of the Springbok’s 100th Anniversary tour of England in November last year. White indicated to SA Rugby that he was willing to work with Songezo Nayo, whom he knew from his term as deputy to former SA Rugby managing director Riaan Oberholzer.
An aggressive bull buffalo killed a man and hampered the retrieval of his body on a farm near Bethlehem on Wednesday, Free State police said. Sergeant Mmako Mophiring said that Sam Shongwe (26) was returning from a pit latrine to a fenced area with two homes when the buffalo attacked at about 10am.
”They haven’t come to South Africa for a soccer game in 100 years,” said Danny Jordaan at a media briefing of the newly formed South African Football Association (Safa) commercial wing on Wednesday, ”but you can be sure world champions Italy will now be in the queue clamouring to come here before the 2010 tournament.”
Silver Stars beat new league champions Mamelodi Sundowns 2-0 in a Premiership game played at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Stadium on Wednesday night. The home team’s industrial midfielder Dingaan Masanabo broke the deadlock in the 38th minute with a superb header from a corner kick taken by Tshepo Ramokala.
The listless 1-0 defeat Supersport United suffered against an improving Black Leopards at Loftus Versfeld on Wednesday night before little more than 100 spectators left the M-Net club in danger of finishing out of the eight top places in the log and not qualifying for next season’s Supa 8 tournament.
Joe Cole scored the only goal on Wednesday to give Chelsea a 1-0 win over Liverpool in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals. He knocked in a cross from Didier Drogba in the 29th minute. The goal was Chelsea’s first against Liverpool in the Champions League.
The JSE remained higher at noon on Thursday on the back of Dow’s record moves overnight, but off its opening highs after producer price inflation (PPI) figures came in above forecast. At noon, the all-share index was up 0,21%. Resources gained 0,17% and the gold and platinum mining indices added 1,11% and 0,29% respectively.
Jamaican investigators will travel with the body of slain Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer when it is returned to South Africa, and hope to gather information from relatives here to help identify any suspects in his killing, police officials said. Police will return the body on Thursday to Woolmer’s widow and sons in South Africa.