The Quinton Fortune saga is about to take another fascinating turn: Newcastle’s grumpy Graeme Souness is reported to be after the 27-year-old and is prepared to pay £2-million for Manchester United’s South African midfielder. There’s also talk of a swap deal involving Newcastle goalkeeper Shay Given.
South African gold mining group DRDGold confirmed on Friday that a class action lawsuit had been filed in the United States against the company, its chief executive and chief financial officer. The lawsuit alleges that the company made certain false and misleading statements between October 23 2003 and February 24 2005.
George Romero lurches among us again, doing what he does best: Creating a combustible microcosm of society, then besieging it with zombies who just can’t get enough of tasty human flesh. The director, whose 1968 chiller Night of the Living Dead established an entire horror subgenre, is back with George Romero’s Land of the Dead.
A domestic worker was threatened with a snake while five masked robbers ransacked her employer’s house in Honeydew, north of Johannesburg on Thursday, police said. Inspector Yolande Bouwer said on Friday R90 000 worth of household goods including a TV set, a hi-fi, DVD player, jewellery and clothes were stolen.
The Independent Democrat’s former Western Cape leader Lennit Max and his lawyer walked out of his disciplinary hearing in Cape Town on Friday. The walk-out came after independent presiding officer Sarah Christie refused to adjourn proceedings for Max to bring a high court application for a Christie’s recusal.
Wigan Athletic will begin their first ever season in the top flight in the most glamorous possible fashion: by hosting Premiership champions Chelsea. Chelsea will visit the JJB Stadium on August 13 amid what promises to be a carnival atmosphere and one which manager Paul Jewell and owner Dave Whelan will no doubt savour.
Faria Alam, the secretary propelled into tabloid infamy through her affair with the England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and the Football Association’s chief executive Mark Palios, this week claimed she had been sexually harassed by a third official. Alam also told the tribunal that the England manager urged her to deny they had had an affair when rumours first emerged.
Ah, the English summer. It lasts about three weeks; once-fashionable men wear sandals with socks, once-beautiful women whip off their tops and once-popular football drops off the back pages. It’s the silly season. But it’s the football stories that really stretch your imagination. The big one? Luis Figo is might go to Newcastle.
A year from today, those obsessives who feel bereft during this football-free European summer (guilty as charged) will be able to watch their umpteenth consecutive game of the World Cup. The action will be coming thick and fast from Germany as the group stage ends.
Earlier this month England’s 2004 young footballer of the year changed hands between the country’s clubs for £6,5-million, bringing the total spent on one of the brightest prospects Charlton have ever produced to £16,5-million in 17 months. In that time Scott Parker has played in two England friendlies, one Champions League semi-final, and made eight Premiership starts.