The former Gunners midfielder’s return to the club is set to be announced in the coming days as he prepares to replace Arsene Wenger
Arteta agrees to become new Arsenal manager
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Root returns to number three to shoulder more responsibility
England’s Joe Root in action. Photo: Reuters
LONDON: Joe Root believes a year in the captaincy has given him the experience he needs to move up the England batting order to the pivotal number three position for the two-test series against Pakistan beginning on Thursday.
Since replacing Alastair Cook as the test captain last year, Root has batted at number four and juggled the dual demands of being the leader of the side as well as its batting mainstay.
Coach Trevor Bayliss, though, believes England’s best batsman should come at number three and the axing of James Vince for the series against Pakistan has ensured Root’s elevation.
“I think it’s an opportunity for me to take on a bit more responsibility at the top of the order,” Root said at the launch of England’s 2018 kit.
“I’ve had a year in the captaincy now and I feel I’ve gained enough experience to feel comfortable doing that.
“For me it was getting used to the captaincy and making sure I could separate the two; that my full focus was on my batting when it came around.”
The England top order’s struggle for consistency was evident in their series defeats in Australia and New Zealand as Gary Ballance, Tom Westley and Vince all failed to establish themselves at number three.
Root’s highest test score of 254 came at number three, in a 2016 test against Pakistan.
“I did it (number three) for one game in New Zealand and it didn’t work out there but this is a great opportunity to do it at home and it’s a great opportunity moving forward,” Root said.
“Ultimately nothing will change about the way I go about my batting. I will look to have that hunger and desire to make really big runs.”
Wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow will bat at number five in a revamped batting order, while Jos Buttler, who has been in scintillating form in the Indian Premier League, has been selected as a specialist batsman at number seven.
“He has done some very special things in one-day and T20 cricket and won games when he has been under pressure,” Root said of Buttler.
“Now there is an opportunity for him to do that in test cricket. I can see him putting a lot of bums on seats. That is very exciting for me. He can change a game in half an hour with the bat.”
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Newbury on high alert with racing fearing summer of racecourse brawls
• Extra security staff in place for track’s most prestigious fixture
• New measures after high-profile fights at Goodwood and Ascot
Zero tolerance on drug use, ‘spotters’ patrolling bars and extra security staff in hi-viz jackets will be among the protocols in place at Newbury on Saturday afternoon, as one of the course’s most prestigious fixtures takes place with as much focus on the possibility of anti-social behaviour in the enclosures as there is on the action on the track.
High-profile brawls at Goodwood and Ascot over the last two weekends, footage of which has been widely shared on social media, will ensure that Saturday’s Lockinge Stakes meeting will be closely scrutinised for any hint of trouble. Serious disturbance at a racecourse on consecutive Saturdays can be seen as a wake-up call for the sport. Three in a row could suggest that the situation is already getting out of control.
Continue reading…Forget artist v mechanic: Mourinho and Conte’s midfield duel holds key | Jonathan Wilson
José Mourinho’s dig at Antonio Conte has diverted attention from the FA Cup final’s pivotal confrontation in which Chelsea’s midfield could be overrun by Manchester United
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This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/may/18/mourinho-conte-manchester-united-chelsea-midfield-fa-cup-final under the title “Forget artist v mechanic: Mourinho and Conte’s midfield duel holds key | Jonathan Wilson”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article. “I’m not,” José Mourinho said after Manchester United’s home win over Liverpool in March, “the kind of mechanic coach that says player A pass to player B, player B pass to player C and player C to player D. I’m much more a supporter of preparing the players to decide well and feel the game.”
As so often with Mourinho, there was perhaps a coded jibe; this may have been (it’s very hard to know for sure with a man whose every utterance is subjected to intense scrutiny) another sortie in his protracted war of words with Antonio Conte. For the Italian is a manager who has his side practise “automations”, as Eden Hazard calls them. Conte does see the value in practising set moves, to be deployed during games when the disposition of players on the pitch is right.
Continue reading…Bojan Krkic: ‘I had anxiety attacks but no one wants to talk about that. Football’s not interested’
The forward, who scored 900 goals for Barcelona’s youth teams and was labelled the ‘New Messi’, opens up on how the huge expectations affected him
“I have a problem,” Bojan Krkic says, edging forward on the sofa. “I love football, it’s my life.” Outside, through the balcony doors, the sun dips behind Vitoria, northern Spain.
His homeland is one of five countries in which he has played; he started at Barcelona, where he became their youngest player to make a league debut, and then had spells at Roma, Milan and Ajax. He joined Stoke in 2014 before loans at Mainz and now Alavés. He has won four league titles and the European Cup twice, been a world champion and played alongside some of the finest footballers of a generation. He has scored in La Liga, Serie A, Eredivisie, the Premier League and the Bundesliga, and he is proud of all that. So it might sound like a strange sort of problem to have but there is something in it.
Continue reading…Carlos Carvalhal loses job as Swansea manager after relegation
• Portuguese’s deal has not been renewed after five months
• Östersund’s Graham Potter is among candidates to succeed him
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This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/18/carlos-carvalhal-loses-job-swansea-manager-graham-potter under the title “Carlos Carvalhal loses job as Swansea manager after relegation”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article. • Östersund’s Graham Potter is among candidates to succeed him
Carlos Carvalhal has left Swansea City following their relegation from the Premier League. The manager was appointed in December on a contract until the end of the season and that has not been renewed.
Related: There is more to lament about fallen Swansea than relegation | David Conn
Continue reading…‘Dancers live in a world of fear’: why cheerleaders are taking on the NFL and NBA
For years cheerleaders have been underpaid and mistreated by their teams. But a wave of lawsuits could change things for the better
One dollar. That’s the amount former NFL cheerleaders Bailey Davis and Kristen Anne Ware offered to settle for in exchange for a four-hour sit down with Roger Goodell, the commissioner of their league. Both athletes have accused the NFL of discriminating against women. Last season, Davis claims she was fired from her position cheering for the New Orleans Saints after sending a private Instagram photo of herself in a one-piece bathing suit. Ware alleges she lost her job with the Miami Dolphins when she showed up to work wearing a ring that signified she was a virgin. Both were underpaid, subject to extreme control over their lives, and expected to adhere to anti-fraternization rules that applied to them but not the players they devoted their lives to cheering for. Accounts like theirs are surfacing frequently, bubbles of scandal rising in fast succession: markers of a rolling boil.
Since 2014, five other NFL teams – the Raiders, Buccaneers, Bengals, Jets, Bills, and one NBA team, the Bucks – have faced lawsuits from their dancers, each alleging severe labor violations, and offering glances into the secretive and manipulative world of professional cheerleading: mandatory diets; forced beauty regimens paid out of pocket; countless hours of work for which the super-rich teams they cheered for refused to pay them. Perched atop of this mountain of alleged mistreatment, and riding the rocky aftermath of a recent New York Times story that revealed that in 2013 Washington cheerleaders were required to pose topless and act as unpaid escorts to the team’s sponsors, Goodell chose not to meet face to face with Davis and Ware. He sent his lawyers instead.
Continue reading…‘Dancers live in a world of fear’: why cheerleaders are taking on the NFL and NBA
“. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article. Cal athletics staffer fired for violating sexual violence, harassment policy
Former basketball player Layshia Clarendon, now in the WNBA, filed suit against Cal, triggering an investigation of Mohamed Muqtar.
NHL playoffs 2018: Capitals fighting own playoff history after series lead vanishes
The Capitals arrived home with a 2-0 series lead; they depart with the baggage of past coughed-up playoff series. They played just well enough in Game 4 to lose a frustrating nailbiter.
NBA playoffs 2018: JR Smith says Cavaliers can’t make LeBron James play ‘hero ball’
LeBron James had a 40-point triple-double in Game 2, but the Cavaliers were unable to come away with a win.
NBA playoffs 2018: JR Smith says Cavaliers can’t make LeBron James play ‘hero ball’
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