http://www.vortexswimming.com sport blog Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:07:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Emmanuel Adebayor is still on Barcelona's shopping list. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty ImagesBarcelona's manager, Pep Guardiola, refused to rule out making offers for Chelsea's Didier Drogba and the Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor after last night's 6-0 rout of Hibernian.Both players have been strongly linked with a summer move to Camp Nou ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/barca-still-keen-on-adebayor-and-drogba/ Des O'Connor waves goodbye to Countdown. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty ImagesThe Mill is more than happy to take any rumours going on a day when Salomon Kalou's assertion that Chelsea will score some goals next season demands a double page spread in two of the tabloids. So, it is with joy ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/fridays-football-transfer-rumours-robinson-to-blackburn/ The new Liverpool capture David N'Gog, who signed from Paris Saint Germain. Photograph Barry Coombs/PALiverpool have made their sixth signing of the summer with the capture of the French striker David N'Gog from Paris St Germain. The 19-year-old has signed a four-year deal at Anfield and follows Philipp Degen, Andrea ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/football-liverpool-sign-french-striker-david-ngog-from-paris-st-germain/ Max Mosley: accused the News of the World of a gross invasion of privacy. Photograph: Carl Court/PAFormula one boss Max Mosley today won £60,000 in his privacy action against the News of the World after the Sunday tabloid had falsely accused him of taking part in a "sick Nazi orgy".Mosley, ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/max-mosley-wins-60000-in-news-of-the-world-privacy-case/ New West Ham signing Valon Behrami has won 15 caps for Switzerland. Photograph: Ruben Sprich/ReutersWest Ham United have signed the Swiss international utility player Valon Behrami from Lazio for £5m. Behrami, who can play at right-back or across midfield, has agreed a five-year contract. He joined Lazio in 2005 and ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/football-west-ham-sign-swiss-international-valon-behrami-for-5m/ Ajantha Mendis bowlng during the Asia Cup final against India. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty ImagesAt first glance, this clash of Asian cricket's titans is a mismatch. On the one side, you have Sri Lanka, second only to Australia in their mastery of home conditions. On the other is an Indian team ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/cricket-slow-and-low-pitches-give-sri-lanka-the-edge-in-attritional-war/ The Portsmouth midfielder Niko Kranjcar (Paul Childs/Action Images)Monaco have had a £12million bid for him turned down; his father has blithely been talking up his chances of a move to Arsenal; after an impressive European Championship, further offers between now and the end of August seems certain. Niko Kranjcar must ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/jonathan-wilson-on-niko-kranjcars-future-and-his-chequered-past/ Amr Zaki has score 27 goals in 48 games for Egypt. Photogtaph: Finbarr O'Reilly/ReutersWigan have finally concluded the loan signing of Egypt striker Amr Zaki, currently ranked by Fifa as the best striker in the world. Though the 25-year-old completed a medical last week, his transfer remained in doubt until ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/football-wigan-sign-worlds-best-striker/ And now a word from our sponsor ... Joe Calzaghe wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2007. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAThe BBC Sports Personality of the Year show will no longer carry a sponsor after a damning report found the "editorial integrity" of the corporation had been "compromised" by a ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/bbc-sports-personality-of-the-year-stripped-of-sponsorship/ Alastair Cook: time for a career-defining innings? No, no apparently not. Photograph: Scott Heavey/Action Images66th over: England 156-6 (Ambrose 1 Flintoff 2)Kallis takes a spell and Steyn is on. "Only Flintoff's beard stands between South Africa and victory now" comments Keith Flett, lost somewhere in world of his own. ... http://www.vortexswimming.com/cricket-england-v-south-africa-live/