THE Sables will have to learn to accept coach Brendan Dawson (pictured) after the Committee running the affairs of the national 15s team settled for the mentor to continue presiding over the team.
ENGLISH Premier League Champions Manchester United travel to South-West London on Sunday as they take on Chelsea in an eagerly awaited Premier League clash. Games between Manchester United and Chelsea have decided the destination of the title in the last seven seasons.
THE transfer window slammed shut with a whimper as the big clubs largely kept a firm grip on their wallets, but there were still winners and losers. Here, the Mirror’s Darren Lewis reveals whose business he rates as a hit and whose was a miss.
ROSS Taylor reached an unbeaten sixth Test hundred just before stumps on day one to put New Zealand in command in the Test against Zimbabwe in Napier. Having been inserted on an unusually green Mclean Park deck, New Zealand collected 331 largely trouble-free runs for the loss of five wickets, with half-centuries to Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill helping set up a strong total.
BY their standards and profile, a league title is well overdue for Caps United. The team’s chance of winning the Castle Lager Premier league last term flew out the window once they appointed coach Maxwell Takaendesa Jongwe. This was after they had binned Moses Chunga who had presided over a first-rate start to the season.
COACH Brendan Dawson who led the Sables in a clean sweep of all their matches last year is unlikely to retain his post, with Nsikelelo “Sykes” Sibanda emerging as the favourite for the top position.
A DARK cloud continues to hover above Zimbabwe’s Napier Test against New Zealand following Vusi Sibanda’s exclusionfrom the touring squad as punishment for snubbing the Stanbic Bank 20 Series last year.
TOP Zimbabwe rally driver Conrad Rautenbach has retired from racing due to pressing work commitments and frustration at the application of the rules in the South African series.
IT was the day that Manchester well and truly put London in its place. The new capital of football could hardly have made a more forceful argument, winning 13-3 on aggregate – and it was a scoreline that didn’t flatter the city.
ZIMBABWE’S 15s national rugby team the Sables face a busy winter this year with coach Brendan Dawson set to sign a new contract after which preparations will begin.
ZIMBABWE’S 15s national rugby team the Sables face a busy winter this year with coach Brendan Dawson set to sign a new contract after which preparations will begin.
“THE third year,” the great Hungarian coach Bela Guttmann always said, “is fatal.” If a manager stays at a club more than that, he said, his players tend to become bored and/or complacent and opponents start to work out counter-strategies.
WHEN Caroline Wozniacki, world No 1 at the age of just 21, is repeatedly asked why she has not yet won a Grand Slam title, it is no wonder that Maria Sharapova is regarded by some as a veteran.
ZIMBABWE opening batsman Vusi Sibanda has split Zimbabwe Cricket on whether he should be allowed to play in the New Zealand tour or be barred over snubbing the local league to ply his trade in Australia.
WHILE foreign clubs have shut the door on Zifa’s attempts to bring in regular members of the Warriors in tomorrow’s Botswana friendly, the door opened ajar for fringe players that Norman Mapeza barely looked at in the last Afcon campaign.
MICHAEL Essien says he expects a Ghana versus Ivory Coast final at the 2012 Nations Cup in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. The Chelsea midfielder who will be missing for Ghana with a knee injury says Ghana’s blend of youth and experience will be a key factor in the Black Stars campaign.
NO wonder the Clasicos have been getting out of hand recently. Tensions flared as Real Madrid and Barcelona met four times in 18 days last April and early May, six times in all last season and on seven occasions in the calendar year of 2011.
THE Zimbabwe national cricket team will embark on the tour of New Zealand full of confidence that they can win another Test match and ready to unleash their two seam stars, Kyle Jarvis and Brian Vitori.
THE first African football drama of 2012 will unfold in a Swiss boardroom as Namibia continue a battle to get Burkina Faso kicked out of the upcoming Cup of Nations.
