The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It is 30 years since Wolves defeated Arsenal and few will give Mick McCarthy's side much chance of bringing that run to an end. Arsenal are in scintillating form, having passed a half century of goals for the season against Alkmaar on Wednesday, and won five out of their last six in the Premier League. Arsène Wenger will be without the injured Gaël Clichy and Nicklas Bendtner, while Sylvan...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Mick McCarthy returns to the Stadium of Light once more but this time his old Ireland nemesis Roy Keane will not be occupying the home dug-out. Instead it is now filled by Steve Bruce, who has been careful to talk of his "massive admiration" for McCarthy this week. During the Wolves manager's time in charge on Wearside, Sunderland had next to no money to spend but, having seriously splashed...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
• Midfielder needed as cover for Steve Sidwell • Martin O'Neill pleased with Brad Guzan's form Nigel Reo-Coker has been recalled to the Aston Villa squad after his training ground bust-up with the manager Martin O'Neill and could feature in tomorrow's match at Blackburn. Reo-Coker was dropped from O'Neill's plans for last weekend's league game with Portsmouth after the pair had clashed at...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Chairman of sports retailer vows not to follow rivals downmarket as he bids to take his company to the Next level Sir David Jones, chairman of struggling sportswear chain JJB Sports, yesterday reopened his feud with Mike Ashley when he launched a veiled attack on the Newcastle United owner's Sports Direct shops. Speaking as JJB announced a widening of first-half losses from £14.8m to £42.3m,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
It had already been a bad year for billionaire Mike Ashley; yoday, it got so much worse. Sports Direct, the retailer he founded 25 years ago, has been struggling in the recession and is £400m in debt; Newcastle United, the team he owns, have been ejected from the Premier League; and he has lost tens of millions on bad business deals. This morning, when he should have been celebrating the likely...
Just Style (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The Annual General Meeting of Sports Direct International brought no repeat of the drama its founder helped spring on the same occasion at rival JJB Sports in July. A mere fourteen shareholders attended the meeting, at the company's HQ in Shirebrook, Nottinghamshire, and there were as many security guards as directors. Perhaps founder Mike Ashley was wary of a revenge visit, having sent along an unwelcome...
Bitter and Blue (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Teams are in: Man City: Given, Richards, Dunne, Toure, Bridge, Wright-Phillips, Ireland, Barry, Tevez, Adebayor, Robinho. Subs: Taylor, Onuoha, Zabaleta, Petrov, De Jong, Bellamy, Weiss. Wolverhampton: Hennessey, Stearman, Craddock, Mancienne, Stephen Ward, Henry, Halford, Edwards, Jarvis, Milijas, Keogh. Subs: Hahnemann, Elokobi, Surman, David Jones, Berra, Vokes, Doyle.
William F. Yurasko (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
The Maryland Bureau Chief, who also answers to Sam, has long harbored a grudge against Patriot-News columnist David Jones . Sam believes that Jones hates Penn State. I asked Jones during his Cover it Live chat if this was true: 2:42 [Comment From Sams friend] My friend thinks that you hate Penn State, but I disagree. In fact, I think you kind of like the basketball team. I guess its my friend you actually...
William F. Yurasko (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
Big Ten Media Day chat with Penn State columnist David Jones - Patriot-News I know one Maryland Bureau Chief who has got to be overwhelmed with excitement -- Dave Jones is chatting about Penn State and teh Big Ten Media Days at 2 p.m. today! Penn State , Nittany Lions , David Jones , college football ©MMIX William F. Yurasko
Just Style (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Troubled UK sportswear retailer JJB has been hitting the headlines more during this past month for the antics of its executive chairman Sir David Jones than for the performance of the company. Up the drama stakes with the involvement of Mike Ashley, the owner of arch rival Sports Direct who controversially loaned Sir David GBP1.5m, and it's not surprising that today's AGM was an eagerly-anticipated...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Row between sportswear tycoons reveals dog-eat-dog nature of a lucrative sector "There is a club in the north, son, and you're not part of it," was the immortal line uttered by Dave Whelan, the JJB Sports founder, to Sports Direct's Mike Ashley, who at the time was the young pretender to the UK's sportswear crown. The club in question was a tight-knit group of Manchester businessmen who...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
• Sir David Jones gets vote of confidence in attempt to calm crisis over loan taken from rival sports magnate • Shares make slight recovery after 25% plunge JJB has given chairman Sir David Jones a public vote of confidence in an attempt to calm the mounting crisis over the controversial £1.5m loan that he took from rival sports magnate Mike Ashley. The sports retail company insisted...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
Sir David Jones, the chief executive of JJB Sports, is embroiled in an extraordinary row over revelations he borrowed £1.5m from billionaire Mike Ashley, the boss of rival sportswear chain Sports Direct and owner of Newcastle United.
Sport Minded (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Champ Corner's Steven Woodgate continues his investigation into the Championship team of the year, by focusing on the centre midfield area. The midfield general, the anchor, arguably the most influential position on a football pitch. They can change a game, one single pass, one superb tackle, or one inspiring turn can make the biggest of impacts. These players have certainly done that for their sides....
QPR REPORT (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
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