County Cricket

Panesar upset at Northants treatment

• County 'would not help with my England career' • Spinner determined to win back Test and one-day places Monty Panesar has said he left Northamptonshire to join Sussex because his former employers did not want him enough and...

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Fifa plans for extra officials at World Cup

• Fifa to discuss introduction of extra assistants in March • Four home unions vital to fast-track plan for South Africa 2010 Thierry Henry's handball against the Republic of Ireland could lead to Fifa fast-tracking the...

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Scotland A 38 Tonga 7

An impressive result on paper, but Scotland could quite easily have doubled their tally in this one-sided romp at Netherdale. Crunch: Scotland A wing Thom Evans is tackled by Tonga's Sefa Vaka Photo: PA Before a crowd just a...

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Wayne Rooney will be a future Manchester United captain says Sir Alex Ferguson

Manchester United manager insists Wayne Rooney has all the attributes to captain his club, but not in the near future. Captain fantastic: Sir Alex Ferguson says Wayne Rooney has all the qualities needed to become a future...

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Scotland job dominates as Rangers manager Walter Smith again rules himself out

Tony Blair has not yet been asked if he is interested in succeeding George Burley as Scotland manager although, since just about everybody else has been, it seems only a matter of time before he has to tender his answer, too....

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Crackdown on drink prices 'will send shoppers flocking to England'

Published Date: 21 November 2009 MINIMUM pricing for alcohol could harm non-alcohol retailers in the south of Scotland as consumers are lured across the Border to do their weekly shop, business leaders have warned. As the...

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Interview: David Obua, footballer

Published Date: 21 November 2009 DAVID Obua was born in Uganda and educated in part in the United States. He has played club football in America and in South Africa, and has more than a score of international caps. Well...

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Glenn Gibbons: Scotland's decline is so steep

Published Date: 21 November 2009 IN THE course of a BBC documentary back in 1985, Bobby Charlton made a statement which, to anyone under the age of, say, 30 nowadays will sound like a fairy tale. His claim concerned Scotland's...

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Allan Massie: Supremacy up front vital to any chance of finest result in years

Published Date: 21 November 2009 WHEN Australia beat Scotland in the autumn of 1984 on the way to their Grand Slam of victories, this was only the second time they had been victorious at Murrayfield. This reflects an...

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Ref blunder could cost us

DEFINING MOMENT ... Drogba puts Brown down as United are undone at Chelsea ALEX FERGUSON fears Martin Atkinson awarding Chelsea's winner two weeks ago could cost Manchester United the title. John Terry's goal at Stamford Bridge...

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