Source: Daily_Mail
THAT WAS THE SPORTING WEEK: Disappearing Jose likes to wine, Spurs perfect the 'throw in a goal' mov
SUNDAY ECB chairman Giles Clarke is to be one of the characters in a sporting edition of the board game Cluedo. Somebody else did it.[LNB]WINE-LOVING Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho's current favoured vintage is described as bullish, suave and opinionated. Fellow buff Sir Alex Ferguson soon finds it to be lacking in real bite when tackled.TENNIS officials are said to be hopeful that Andy Murray will play in the exhibition matches being staged on Wimbledon's centre court to test the new roof. I didn't realise his drop shots were that bad.DWAIN CHAMBERS is to be the mainstay of Great Britain's athletics team for the European Indoor Championships. Excuse me if I remain seated for the national anthem.[LNB] [LNB] Big front men: Larry Lloyd...[LNB] ...and Kenny Burns[LNB] MONDAY TOTTENHAM [LNB]goalkeeping coach Tony Parks extends the good work he has already done with Heurelho Gomes to new signing Carlo Cudicini. The once-assured former Chelsea [LNB]star replicates the drills he has been working on so hard in training to throw Hull an equaliser which even Gomes would have proud of.THE Time of Their Lives - a nostalgia show presented by the peerless Jeff Stelling - proves as entertaining as ever when it features the European Cup-winning Nottingham Forest side put together by Brian Clough, although appearances suggest that the once-fearsome central defensive unit of Kenny Burns and Larry Lloyd may be a little more vulnerable to the ball played in behind them these days. [LNB] More from Tim Chalmers... That Was The Sporting Week: Chelsea talking double Dutch; new laws put cricket on a sticky wicket; and Spurs boss Harry reveals a little too much[LNB]20/02/09 THAT WAS THE SPORTING WEEK: Big Phil gets his dates mixed up, West Indies offer England Ten10 series and RBS rubbish player rule aids England[LNB]12/02/09 THAT WAS THE SPORTING WEEK: A break from the norm at ITV, Spurs go back to the future, Phil shoots himself in the foot, and your chance to win big![LNB]05/02/09 THAT WAS THE SPORTING WEEK: It's Oscar season and the faces are redder than the carpet at Camp Capello, Man City, Newcastle and the like...[LNB]30/01/09 THAT WAS THE SPORTING WEEK: Defoe is dedicated, Keothavong crashes and runaway Robinho leaves City aiming for the stars[LNB]22/01/09 THAT WAS THE SPORTING WEEK: Ballack's broke, Rafa's well rehearsed and Pietersen's on a slippery slope[LNB]16/01/09 THAT WAS THE SPORTING WEEK: Fergie in a fix, Defoe pops back for a cuppa, and Pietersen misjudges the mood[LNB]08/01/09 Tim Chalmers: That was the sporting week[LNB]01/01/09 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE[LNB] TUESDAY JOSE MOURINHO surprises Manchester United [LNB]boss Sir Alex Ferguson by heading straight down the tunnel after their teams draw 0-0 in the San Siro. It is a disappearing act copied from his Inter striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic.*** DON'T panic West Brom[LNB]fans, manager Tony Mowbray reveals his cunning plan to ensure survival in the top flight following yet another loss. 'We will try and win some games between now and the end of the season,' announces Mowbray to ecstatic applause.[LNB] Better have a rest Harmy...you won't be trusted to bowl when England need wickets[LNB] WEDNESDAY STEVE HARMISON benefits from a well- deserved rest when England play a two-day warm-up game before the fourth Test against West Indies, which they must win to have any chance of taking the series. [LNB]Harmison is understandably exhausted after patrolling the fine leg boundary for hours on end during the third Test because he couldn't be trusted with the new ball or during much of the tense final day.SRI LANKA and Pakistan play out a Test match which features 1409 runs in two innings, including one batting partnership of 437 for the Sri Lankans and a triple hundred for Younis Khan in reply. [LNB]Maybe supporting England is not such a bad deal after all. At least you know our boys would have thrown in an inexcusable battling collapse to wake the slumbering spectators.[LNB] [LNB]THURSDAY WHAT have Josh Goodall, Alex Slabinsky, Chris Eaton, Dan Evans, Colin Fleming and James Ward got in common? [LNB]Sorry sports fans, they're all competing for the second singles spot in the Great Britain tennis team to play Ukraine in the Davis Cup.[LNB] Apart from being able to travel anonymously on the Underground in the Wimbledon area, these elite competitors share the distinction of never having played five sets in senior competition - until Eaton beats Goodall 21-19 in the decider of a six -hour, 40-minute practice game which becomes the longest match in history. [LNB]Delighted at his charges' show of guts, Davis Cup captain John Lloyd says: 'We wanted tough matches but we didn't want them to kill each other! We now know we have guys who can play five sets and we didn't before.' [LNB]Unused to the exercise, neither player recovers in time to face Ukraine.[LNB] Check out the frizz: Everton's Marouane Fellaini[LNB] FINALLY this week, overdue news that the FA is to unveil far-reaching measures to combat a growing menace in football which, if not stamped out, they believe could threaten the very fabric of this once proud sport.[LNB]Sporting Week has seen highly sensitive correspondence between high-ranking football officials calling for stricter policing and punishment of an area of the game which is causing great concern in the corridors of power.[LNB]We speak, naturally, of the unacceptable explosion of ludicrous and overblown hairstyles to be found at the highest level of professional football.[LNB]Leading the way is undoubtedly Marouane Fellaini of Everton [LNB]with his wry interpretation of the Harry Enfield scouse 'balloon frizz'. [LNB]Already this has been mindlessly mimicked by Spurs import Benoit Assou Ekotto, with no thought for his own reputation long term. He may as well get a tattoo of Gareth Gates on his thigh.[LNB]The games law makers fear this tasteless preening could easily erupt into a full-blown trend if not tackled immediately.[LNB]A defiant Soho Square insider declared: 'We survived the Malcolm Macdonald mutton chop era, saw off the Bob Latchford bubble perm epidemic which spread to the entire Liverpool side of the Seventies and are currently in the midst of a bloody power battle with the hairband brigade. [LNB]'There is no way we will allow this minority to ruin the game for the majority.' [LNB]Please note: No elite sporting icons were harmed in the writing of this column.[LNB] [LNB]
