Новости за 11.07.2015

Manchester United have completed the signing of Torino defender Matteo Darmian after he agreed a four-year deal with the option of a further year, the club have confirmed.

It had to be Joe Root, the chirpy, cheeky face of New England. He took a measured catch, hurled the ball towards the heavens, and sprinted towards team-mates who were giving their best impression of a chaotic corps de ballet. England had won the first Test for only the third time in 15 Ashes series.

A supportive father is something everybody wishes to have. But sometimes even the best of them can take matters too far. Srdjan Djokovic is known to be not just the proud father of the defending champion Novak Djokovic but a proud Serbian too, and his nationalism is most often on show through the prism of his son’s exceptional tennis. 

They're either proud suffragettes or insufferable prima donnas, these female tennis players. The views are becoming increasingly entrenched. On one hand, they are castigated for barely grazing the courts with their paltry three setters, deafening their audiences with operatic screeching and then having the temerity to pocket equal prize money while complaining they're not on the show courts enough. Both the men's and women’s Wimbledon champions will take home £1.9m this year, after the rule of... Читать дальше...

Roger Federer knocked out Pete Sampras in the seven-times champion's penultimate Wimbledon, beat Andre Agassi in the American’s last Grand Slam final, saw his contemporary Andy Roddick into retirement and is still challenging for the biggest prizes at a time when Rafael Nadal, the young upstart who for years challenged his position at the top, has begun to look like a spent force.

Roger Federer knocked out Pete Sampras in the seven-times champion's penultimate Wimbledon, beat Andre Agassi in the American’s last Grand Slam final, saw his contemporary Andy Roddick into retirement and is still challenging for the biggest prizes at a time when Rafael Nadal, the young upstart who for years challenged his position at the top, has begun to look like a spent force.

The final will be watched by just about every tennis fan in the world and it could be a classic. Novak Djokovic has no weakness. But in 60 years I've never seen anyone play as brilliantly as Roger Federer did against Andy Murray on Friday.

When your foot is on the Aussies' throat, push that little bit harder

In that second innings on Friday, England had done so much hard work to get ahead in the game, then we lost four wickets in quick time to give the Aussies a little sniff again.

There is something about playing Australia that seems to bring out the best – and the worst – in Stuart Broad, and undoubtedly the chance to extend his impressive record in cricket's oldest and most bitter rivalry has empowered him in Cardiff during the last few days.

Time is a tyrant, unforgiving and ultimately irresistible. Roger Federer has transformed it into a compassionate mistress, prepared to postpone the reckoning which afflicts even the greatest athletes.

Manchester United fans do not know who they want more, Bastian Schweinsteiger or Morgan Schneiderlin.

Andy Roddick believes Serena Williams has become "obsessed" with becoming the most decorated player in the history of women's tennis.

The fan protest that caused Blackpool’s final game of the Championship campaign last season to be abandoned returned at the club’s first pre-season game after angry supporters once again stormed the pitch in protest against the club’s owners.

More than half a million British property owners are now property millionaires, it has been revealed.

Newlyweds keep just one in three of their wedding presents and sell lots of the rest online, according to new research.

Liverpool midfielder Raheem Sterling is up for sale for £50m…on eBay.

Serena Williams has celebrated her Wimbledon victory by walking back to the locker room balancing the tournament's historic trophy on her head.

Fabian Delph has dismissed the prospect of him leaving Aston Villa despite Manchester City considering a move to activate his £8m release clause.

Arsene Wenger has revealed that Arsenal's lack of movement in the transfer window is due to his desire to get the squad fully fit before assessing his options.

Serena Williams achieved her goal of a second "Serena Slam" and the Wimbledon public found a new heroine in Garbine Muguruza. If the American's 6-4 6-4 victory was nothing less than the world had expected, Muguruza gave a performance that suggested the 21‑year-old Spaniard will be a major force in years to come.

Serena Williams holds all four majors for the second time in her career after beating Garbine Muguruza for her sixth Wimbledon crown and 21st grand slam title.

Alastair Cook combined great captaincy with great catching to dismiss Brad Haddin as England edged towards a famous victory in the First Test of the Ashes series against Australia.

A neo-Nazi paedophile has been found guilty of murdering a school girl who vanished eight years ago.

Even with a broken leg, Dave Grohl still knows how to put on an amazing show.

Manchester United have agreed a deal to sign Bastian Schweinsteiger from Bayern Munich, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has confirmed.