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/ 17 September 2004
Okay, you crazed students of English football, it’s time for an early squint at the Premiership table. Arsenal, unbeaten in 45 games, have made a perfect, goal-happy start, Chelsea remain unbeaten two points behind them with upstarts Bolton struggling for oxygen in third. Then drop lower down the table.
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/ 17 September 2004
The romance of football is wonderful just so long as you don’t have to watch it too often. While respecting a runty, underfunded and frankly unentertaining team that knocks out an illustrious club, many people have to suppress a sense of regret. It’s bad form to say out loud that you’re going to miss the star players who have just been eliminated.
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/ 17 September 2004
With precious little to crow about since the last time England looked to a cocky young Tottenham player for inspiration, those who have spent the post-Gazza years traipsing to White Hart Lane will this season be excused for skipping all the way. Maybe the years of miserable mediocrity are coming to an end.
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/ 17 September 2004
Schalke’s Ebbe Sand scored a hat-trick and Newcastle’s Patrick Kluivert hit two on Thursday as the favoured teams in the Uefa Cup took big strides toward the second round. Lazio scored a 3-0 victory in Ukraine, Germany’s Schalke won 5-1 and VfB Stuttgart won 3-1 on the road.
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/ 17 September 2004
The Pan African Parliament came home to South Africa this week — toothless but full of hope in a ceremony rich with the continent’s culture and talent. ”We meet in South Africa today because the peoples of Africa dared to make the necessary sacrifices to end the criminal system of apartheid in our country and thus bring to a close the long period of colonial and white minority rule in our country,” said President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 17 September 2004
The decision by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to suspend its participation in further elections pending Zimbabwe’s compliance with the new Southern African Development Community guidelines and principles for democratic elections seems to have taken many by surprise. It was assumed that the MDC would continue to place blind faith in Zanu-PF eventually opening up the democratic space.
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/ 17 September 2004
Italian driver Jarno Trulli got behind the wheel of a Toyota for the first time on Thursday just hours after being confirmed as one of the team’s new drivers for the 2005 formula-one season. Trulli wasted no time in getting to know his new teammates by taking part in testing at Silverstone.
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/ 17 September 2004
South Africa A romped to an inevitable 10-wicket victory over New Zealand A on the third day of their four-day Castle Lager/MTN ”Test” at Willowmoore Park on Thursday, after getting the visitors out for 127 in their second innings, on a day that saw 14 wickets fall.
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/ 17 September 2004
Jaguar is to pull out of formula-one racing from the end of the current season, the British manufacturer’s United States parent company, Ford, announced on Friday. The announcement was made as Ford said it is ending production of cars at a plant in Coventry, in the central United Kingdom, with the loss of more than 1 000 jobs.
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/ 16 September 2004
Brenda Wardle is one of more than 100 prisoners who have cases before Gauteng courts this month arguing that they should be released on parole. She presents the fact that she now has a law degree, enabling her to represent herself in the court proceedings, as her first exhibit.