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Olympic financial problems

An apparent exclusive from the Times: a team from KPMG have been called in to investigate a £100m hole in the 2012 Olympics finances of the London Development Agency. £100m that the LDA should have set aside to compensate the businesses forced out of the Olympic site in Stratford – and the KPMG team are [ READ MORE ]

Portsmouth’s brighter future?

Mesmerised as I was by the clinical display of footballing prowess that was Wednesday night’s Champions League final, I couldn’t help noticing that my beloved Portsmouth have had a little bit of luck of late. Saved from the relegation mire by a win over Sunderland, the next problem our board faced was one of massive [ READ MORE ]

The demise of Southampton FC

Yes, I’m a devoted Portsmouth fan, yes I think the Pride of the South is the one in blue, not the one in red and white, yes I couldn’t stop laughing when fickle Harry Redknapp left us to join them and promptly got them relegated from the Premier League – but I still felt a [ READ MORE ]

Sorry such a hard word?

Just noticed this piece on BBC News – German football club Energie Cottbus is refunding the tickets of its travelling fans after they put in a dismal performance against Schalke at Gelsenkirchen. Looks like Gordon Brown could learn a thing or two from the Germans – and not just their economic policies. Maybe the Labour [ READ MORE ]

Community Shield: Man Utd 0p – 0 Portsmouth

How bloody predictable. Man Utd run several elaborate rings round Portsmouth, who by some miracle manage to keep a clean sheet for 90 minutes despite some stereotypically scrappy defensive work, then finally completely destroy us 3-1 on penalties. To qualify that last bit some more – Portsmouth started the penalty shootout, so we missed not [ READ MORE ]

Big Phil’s big impression

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/2008/07/luiz_felipe_scolari_arrived_be.html For all the anti-Liverpool bias that I notice only Reds fans seem to find throughout Phil McNulty’s blogs, I tend to agree with him on pretty much all of his generally witty (if not quite up to ‘Robbo’ standards) and perceptive pieces on the twists and turns of the footballing world. This one’s no [ READ MORE ]

Crouch set for Portsmouth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/2008/07/crouch_confirms_portsmouths_ri.html I can tell today’s going to turn into a very good day – though my watching of Top Gear has been impeded a little by iPlayer’s remembering it isn’t supposed to like me and therefore packing up half-way through the latest episode. Crouch signing for Portsmouth is possibly the best football news I’ve heard [ READ MORE ]

Federer-Nadal

  • July 6th, 2008
  • Posted in Tennis

Quite extraordinary – the longest final in the history of Wimbledon, longer even than McEnroe-Connors in 1982, and with potentially two further records to be made: the first final to be won with the winner initially two sets down, and the longest consecutive run of Wimbledon victories since the 1920s. Except, of course, for the [ READ MORE ]

Germany 0-1 Spain

Well there we have it, Spain are the new champions of Europe, with their first significant piece of silverware since 1964. They deserve it, I suppose, even if their goal wasn’t as impressive as the calibre of their side should provide – Germany’s route to the final was nothing if not haphazard, and the match [ READ MORE ]

Germany 3-2 Turkey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/euro_2008/7363524.stm OK, biased as I am I can’t deny that Turkey were the better team in this game, even if they aren’t actually technically in Europe. Many’s the time over the last couple of weeks that I’ve wished Beckenbauer were a sprightly 28 again, just so we could have at least ONE defender who can [ READ MORE ]

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