It’s not good enough.”In a match where cynical trips went unpunished and petty indiscretions got the full treatment, he had a case no matter how you viewed the final moments. But in a world where speaking one’s mind is a short cut to penury, the FA is unlikely to be as understanding.Goal: Gallacher (12 min) [...]

He passed to Guivarc’h who proved, contrary to popular opinion, that he could put the ball in an empty net from eight yards. Mind, it only went in off the post.Newcastle briefly revived but then Karlheinz Riedle caught Laurent Charvet dwelling on the ball, it ran to Owen and he was off, spearing the ball [...]

But three wickets crashed in four overs, stifling those hopes.The major loss was the last specialist batsman, Tony Wright, caught at slip, but thinking the ball had brushed the pad. Neither Martyn Ball nor Jonathan Lewis are adhesive batsmen; they are happier hitting the ball and Lewis, aiming to carve Rose, fell at gully.Ball, after [...]

This was not immediately apparent at Goodison Park on Saturday. In the same way as some films become celebrated for their ineptitude, Everton and Tottenham produced a match which was so awful it became entertaining. After watching PSV play sweet passing football with an emphasis on attacking wing play, returning to this thud-and-blunder was like [...]

“The population of this country is not interested in what the NLD has to say,” he said. They are more interested in food on the table.”He said it was not possible to include Aung San Suu Kyi in talks because she was not “an officially recognised leader” However, he said: “We do not rule out [...]

LG Telecom, set up in 1996, is a consortium led by the industrial conglomerate, LG Electronics. Until now BT’s biggest investment in Asia has been in Japan.. GLOBAL MARKETS face another roller-coaster ride today following last night’s dramatic collapse of a political deal in Russia that could have paved the way for economic recovery. Instead, [...]

The promise of merit awards bought them, with the condition that though the total sums and the subjects are published the names are not. It has been a kind of old- boy arrangement for consultants and has caused the keenest resentment from both the GPs and the young consultants. “Patients are entitled in emergency,” contended [...]

There was a brief moment when I walked away from my notes and thought, “Is this such a good idea?” but it was only fleeting The next thing I knew, I was running out of time. The chap who sits at the front and indicates how many minutes I had left was suddenly saying “one” [...]

It is a unique association which we value, but the idea that it would become an effective economic or political, let alone military, block has never materialised.Our relationship with the United States is close, friendly and natural, but it is not unique. And superficially, some of the institutions associated with Western economic “corporatism” also resembled [...]

I wasn’t an offensive, obnoxious child: I was precocious in a very gorgeous and humble kind of way.” This last statement is made with a Dame Edna-like grimace.At nearly 16, she went back to school – “I went `great, TV’s over: school, my friends: excellent’.” – graduated, and then ran up against a brick wall [...]