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 The take over of Manchester City last season led many City fans to believe that they could be the new Chelsea. Despite spending more than ever, a great start to the season, and doing better than they had for a long time, their rebirth as the new Chelsea didn’t happen. It has now. The Abu Dhabi United Group have transformed City to a club with new heights ....
It’s amazing what confidence can do for a sports team. A month ago South Africa were on top of the world after a Smith century lead them to a Test series win against England in England. England were in turmoil after they had started the series well, with a great opening 3 days in the Test series, only to lose the next 12 playing days and find themselves ....
 The news just keeps getting worse for South African cricket supporters, with the Proteas confirming that captain Graeme Smith will be out of action until December with a tennis elbow problem that has plagued him for a while. With South Africa 2-0 down in the 5 match ODI series against England, and following the humiliation of the 10 wicket loss on Tuesday, where they were bundled out for ....
South African sport has not had the best of times in the last week or so. First there was the terrible haul of only one medal at the Olympic games, with excuses doing the rounds about just why we faired so badly, from lack of funding, administration faults, clashing personalities and a host more, the rugby team, the world champion Springboks, were thrashed at home by New Zealand ....
The ICC Champions Trophy, scheduled to begin on the 12th of September this year, in Pakistan, has been postponed until October next year. On Friday South Africa had told the ICC that they would not be sending a team to Pakistan due to security fears. Australia, New Zealand, England and the West Indies had made cautious hints about not sending teams too. At an ICC meeting on Sunday, to ....
Cricket South Africa have decided that the South African team won’t travel to Pakistan to take part in the Champions Trophy next month. The tournament is scheduled to start on September 12th. This years Champions Trophy, which takes place every two years and features all Test playing teams, has been hit with talk of rescheduling, changing the host country, and teams unsure of whether they will take part, due ....
Usain Bolt has done it again. Following up his 100m win, and world record, he completed the Olympic double of gold by adding the 200m title to his growing record, and the new world and Olympic record to go with it. Tomorrow we should be waking up to many sports head lines along the lines of lightning Bolt striking twice. While the Americans may still feel that these ....