Though Birmingham obviously relaxed, Stockport also suddenly sparked into form. The Birmingham keeper Ian Bennett had to produce a splendid save to deny Angell’s header before the striker got the goal he deserved, as he poked home Armstrong’s half-hit shot from six yards.Bennett was stretched on two more occasions – by another Angell header and [...]

On Friday he took eight at the par-five ninth, and it was not until the 17th yesterday that he exorcised the memory.The Boom Boom special left him with a wedge shot of 145 yards to the green The hole measures 550 yards You do the maths. “I don’t know if it was 400 yards, but [...]

Galliano is known as the fashion editor’s designer – his clothes are innovative and make striking photographs. Menkes praised his “audacious and salacious, ethnic and romantic” clothes as “a pretty good effort”, though she found his tailoring lacked “conviction” and disapproved of the lingerie-look of “hand-painted-panther-chiffon trimmed with lilac lace”. Sarah Mower agreed that his [...]

After captaining the side to a draw in Wales (the first time in 20 years we had not lost there), I was dropped from the squad and replaced by Nigel Melville. Four days before the Calcutta Cup match I was in a Manchester night-club drowning my sorrows when I got a call telling me that [...]

If the ethics of that don’t appeal, perhaps the fact that more money can be made might edge them towards the charitable view. I trust Tom Pendry won’t be deflected from his intention of opening a debate on the subject.STILL they come, the multi- millionaires attracted by the new glitter of football And they get [...]

They’ve got the right attitude and the desire to do well.” Hughes, possessor of one of the strongest pairs of legs in the game, is now building up his upper-body strength.If Hughes’s eyes have been opened by others, so they have recognised what he offers to them. Zola is wary of being asked about his [...]

But it was far from plain-sailing for nine-times winners Llanelli. The Scarlets were given a scare by First Division new boys Caerphilly, who came back from 20-3 to go down fighting 20-17 Scrum-half Rupert Moon scored two tries for Llanelli.. Contrary to what most people believe, writing this column does not open the door to [...]

There were a few boos injected into the applause when he took his medal.Livingston plans to run in Madrid on 5 February, by which time he will begin to feel the pressure of being among the sprinters called “pretenders” to the crown of Christie. For the moment, though, Darren Campbell and Ian Mackie remain the [...]

It is an eloquent testimony to rugby’s arrival as a popular – and lucrative – mainstream entertainment business. Dallaglio appeared on A Question of Sport last week, and he seemed calm, relaxed and witty. So had Powell, with all his broadcasting experience and connections, coached his young charge? “Absolutely not,” the former disc-jockey insisted, grinding [...]