Source: Daily_Mail
Charles Sale: Age mystery over Crystal Palace ace Victor Moses
Cash-strapped Crystal Palace will have Victor Moses, their mostvaluable asset, back in the Championship shop window at Plymouth onSaturday, with the firm expectation that he will be sold this month.[LNB]But speculation about the exact age of the exciting striker, who isregistered as a 19-year-old, might hamper Palace's hopes of realisingtheir £5million valuation.[LNB]Age discrimination: Palace may not receive their £5m valuation of Moses[LNB] More from Charles Sale... Charles Sale: Cardiff City tax story results in arrest of former IT head13/01/10 Charles Sale: Ice-bound Anfield still open for stadium tours12/01/10 Charles Sale: Fiszman's fight is worry for Arsenal10/01/10 Charles Sale: C4 pip the Beeb to Paralympic rights08/01/10 EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 pips BBC to host the London Paralympics in 201208/01/10 Charles Sale: Retirement? Andrew Flintoff inundated with lucrative offers away from cricket06/01/10 Charles Sale: Sir Alex Ferguson's hairdryer after beating Manchester City06/01/10 Charles Sale: Sheffield steeled for court battle04/01/10 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE Moses has a British passport, having lived in the UK since he was11. But the tragic circumstance in which he arrived in this countryfrom war-torn Nigeria as a traumatised orphan, having seen both hisparents shot dead in a sectarian killing spree in Kaduna, means thereis little documentation of his early years.[LNB]Palace manager Neil Warnock blames himself for the escalating talkthat estimates Moses's age between 19 and 23. Warnock said: 'I'm alwaysjoking with him that he looks a lot older than 19 but that's the ageon his passport.'[LNB]Moses's agent Tony Finnigan, who accompanied the player when hereturned to Nigeria last summer, said: 'His age is his age and if it'squestioned, then you have to question the age of many other foreignfootballers playing here.'[LNB] [LNB]Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan will add to his burgeoning job portfolio when he starts a 30-day-a-year coaching deal with the ECB, spending five days in India next month with the England Under 18s. [LNB]Vaughan prefers coaching junior England groups rather the senior squad because he believes he can make more of a difference at that level. [LNB]That's just as well, with relationships between Vaughan and the Test team strained by his ball-tampering allegations against Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson.[LNB] [LNB]South Africa's Graeme Smith was presented with a shirt yesterday by sponsors Castle bearing the signatures of captains who, like Smith, have led their side in 50 or more Tests. [LNB]Twelve, including England's Michael Atherton and Michael Vaughan, have done so and all their autographs were present apart from Hansie Cronje, who died in a plane crash in 2002.[LNB] [LNB]Radio 5 Live sports broadcaster Arlo White, who took over the Monday night presenting role at the start of the football season, is moving to America for a broadcasting job with Major League Soccer side Seattle Sounders. [LNB]A perceived lack of cricket know-how, for which White received plenty of flak during his Test Match Special appearances, won't be a problem in Seattle.[LNB] [LNB]Wounded WoodwardIt would have been awkward for master planner Sir Clive Woodward, a guest at the Rugby Writers annual awards dinner on Tuesday, to hear everyone, including the newly knighted Lions leader Sir Ian McGeechan and star player Brian O'Driscoll, describe the 2009 tour of South Africa as the best-ever in terms of organisation, professionalism and team spirit. That is in marked contrast to the Woodward-led shambles in New Zealand four years earlier.[LNB]And McGeechan should receive huge credit for being almost alone among managers of major British sports teams in having no objections to his players and the press staying in the same hotels on tour. The FA, paranoid on this subject, should take special note.[LNB]Meanwhile, the long, self-imposed exile from rugby of Wales centre Gavin Henson, who like Tiger Woods has made himself scarce aboard his boat, has led to informed speculation that when he returns it won't be with the Ospreys.[LNB] [LNB]Spurs commercial boss Paul Barber, who starts a new job as chief executive of MLS newcomers Vancouver Whitecaps in March, will remain as a non-executive director on the Tottenham board. This will allow Spurs continuity in their hunt for new shirt and stadium sponsors. Barber's arrival in Vancouver means the big two clubs from the original North American Soccer League now have strong Tottenham connections as former Spurs director Paul Kemsley is reviving the New York Cosmos, who are building towards an MLS feeder league.[LNB] [LNB]
