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/ 22 October 2004
Forget Wednesday’s 2-2 draw at Panathinaikos. Something far more important happened late in Arsenal’s stylish 3-1 win over Aston Villa at Highbury last Saturday. It’s the kind of thing that will send a shudder of fear through Manchester United. Neal Collins also takes a look at the coming week’s soccer matches.
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/ 22 October 2004
Liverpool are exploring the possibilities of reviving a deal for Fernando Morientes, Real Madrid’s unsettled Spanish striker. Rafael Benitez had wanted to bring the Spanish international striker to Anfield as part of the £8-million deal that saw Michael Owen move to the Bernabeu, but instead got the now-injured Antonio Nunez.
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/ 22 October 2004
So you’re young, black and gifted with a ball at your feet. European glory beckons. Where should you head to make your fortune? Not racist Russia, apparently. Nor any of the former Eastern Bloc states. Dynamo Moscow’s Senegalese defender, Pascal Mendi, has claimed: ”In Russia they have two major problems. Racism and the language.”
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/ 22 October 2004
A famous South African brand of flour claims that it is too fresh to flop. But to the chagrin of the brass at the SABC, whiteness and fluffiness don’t necessarily stave off deflating, fizzling, ignominious failures. Working off a British recipe, the national broadcaster was presumably hoping that its Great South Africans campaign would culminate in a warm, saccharine brownie of nation-building.
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/ 22 October 2004
The kidnapped director of Care International in Iraq appeared on a videotape broadcast on Friday, weeping and pleading with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to withdraw troops from Iraq ”and not bring them to Baghdad” because ”this might be my last hour”.
British aid worker held in Iraq
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/ 22 October 2004
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Friday it feared plans were already under way to rig elections set for March next year. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who was last week cleared of his first count of treason, alleged that Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF planned to shift constituency boundaries in favour of its rural strongholds.
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/ 22 October 2004
Left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori claimed six wickets to demolish the Bangladesh second innings and help New Zealand claim the first Test on Friday by an innings and 99 runs. New Zealand dismissed the hosts for 126 just after lunch on the fourth day to take a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series.
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/ 22 October 2004
Despite a two-and-a-half-hour delay, the Border Bulldogs arrived in high spirits in Wellington for their first division Currie Cup final against the Boland Cavaliers on Friday afternoon. The Bulldogs team had boarded at 11am only to be told there was a problem with starting the aeroplane.
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/ 22 October 2004
Gary Neville has warned Arsenal that their 49-match unbeaten run in the Premiership will count for nothing when they run out at Old Trafford on Sunday. The Manchester United full-back has been involved in enough encounters between the two biggest forces in English football over the last decade to know that form tends to have little impact on the outcome of the titanic tussles between them.
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/ 22 October 2004
The great and the good of Africa gather in Sandton on Friday to blow out the three birthday candles on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) cake.
Behind the fanfare, the steering committee of the continental rescue plan has to ask what there is to celebrate. But before doing that, it will have to consider exactly who’s at the party.