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Line and Length (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
One of our final links with the Golden Age of cricket has been broken with the death on Saturday of Hugh Dinwiddy, the last man to have played first-class cricket with Don Bradman and Jack Hobbs, as Martin Williamson notes...
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Hugh Dinwiddy, Kent's oldest cricketer and the last person to have played first-class cricket with both Don Bradman and Jack Hobbs, has died at the age of 97
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
• Coventry 1-1 Leicester Leicester's substitute Martyn Waghorn cancelled out Sammy Clingan's superb early free-kick to ensure the game ended even at the Ricoh Arena. Clingan struck seven minutes before the break after Paul Gallacher had handled on the left-hand side of the box. It was the midfielder's third goal in his last four Championship matches. But Waghorn, on loan from Sunderland, earned...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
Leicester City's Jack Hobbs has praised the role fellow defender Wayne Brown has played in the club's unbeaten start to the season.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/08/2009
Team director has filled his players with confidence but is still ruthless in selection For a man who once took on a dictator by wearing a black armband Andy Flower is not naturally inclined towards the grand gesture. Ever since he was confirmed as England's full-time team director in April – little more than a rubber-stamping after a calm performance as caretaker in the Caribbean – the...
FOOTBALL: Just Love The Game (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Liverpool boss Rafa Benítez has reportedly been told that he has just £1.5 million to bolster his first-team squad, despite selling Xabi Alonso for £30 million. With Daniel Agger suffering with a back problem, Benítez is in desperate need of another centre-back before the curtain falls on the summer transfer window. However, with the sum that the Spaniard has before him,...
Evening Star 24 (Free subscription) | 15/08/2009
Ipswich Town 4-3-3 1 Richard Wright 6 2 David Wright 6 4 Gareth McAuley 6 15 Pim Balkestein 5 12 Jaime Peters 5 18 Colin Healy 5 36 Liam Trotter 5 19 Jon Walters 6 14 Jon Stead 5 8 Lee Martin 6 Substitutes 5 Alex Bruce 7 Owen Garvan (for Martin, 64) 7 16 Tamas Priskin (for Healy, 46) 7 17 Jack Colback 35 Tommy Smith 40 Connor Wickham (for Stead, 46) 7 27 Shane Supple Goals:None Bookings:McAuley Leicester...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
If there is a common theme throughout the managerial career of Rafael Benitez, then it is the fact that he is a man of principle. At Real Madrid, a club he loves and that is in his blood, he was doing the youth team job of his dreams, but walked out rather than select the president of the club's son who he considered not good enough. At Extramadura, despite winning a miraculous promotion to La Liga,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
• Liverpool manager uncertain about spending limits • Transfer budget may not exceed player sales Rafael Benítez has given an ominous indication of Liverpool's financial state by admitting his transfer budget may not exceed what he has recouped through player sales. Ahead of a Premier League campaign of high expectations at Anfield, the Spaniard claims he is looking to existing players...
Sportsviews (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
Xabi Alonso is reported to have handed in an official transfer request at Liverpool as he seeks to secure a switch to Real Madrid. The Reds have not confirmed the latest move in the saga of the midfielder's potential departure to Real, but sources close to club insist that the 28-year-old has formally asked to leave, according to a report in the Liverpool Echo. Previously he had only held meetings...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 22/07/2009
If somebody had told me two weeks ago that the Ashes would once again produce sporting drama from the heavens; that it would give us a nail-biting finish in Cardiff, a dramatic finale at Lord’s; that Andrew Flintoff would once again ride high, carrying his battered knee with him; that Andrew Strauss would hit a century worthy of Jack Hobbs; that we would have controversy, debate, intrigue and...
Red's Fury™ (Free subscription) | 20/06/2009
Former Liverpool chairman David Moores has resigned from the Club's Board of Directors. Moores will, however, retain his position as Club Honorary Life President. Moores, whose family became one of the richest in Britain with the creation of the Littlewoods empire, took the role of chairman in 1991. However, with the club in need of increasing investment he sold his majority shareholding to current...
Line and Length (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
Last week's Ashes Hero was "Ooh Ah" Glenn McGrath. This week it is "Flobadob" Jack Hobbs. It was (gulp) more than a decade ago but I used to eat in Jack Hobbs's restaurant when I was a student. Well not...
A Cricketing View (Free subscription) | 30/05/2009
This is a chart showing the batting careers of all Test match batsmen who have played at least 20 Test Matches, and average 50 in Test Cricket. The brown lines below denote the number of Test teams. The 20 Test Matches cut off is arbitrary, but i think most a reasonable common one for such a long and diverse period. Just to give you an idea, if you applied the 20 test limit to the pre-World War II...
CaughtOffside (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Get ready. The all new rumour reporting article system is in full effect! The Rumour As well as the £18m he expects from Alonso's exit, Rafa has sold Jack Hobbs to Leicester for around £1m, while others certain to go are Ryan Babel, Andrea Dossena plus on-loan duo Andriy Voronin and Sebastian ...
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