Can Dimitar Berbatov provide a cutting edge to the United attack? Photograph: John Peters/Man Utd via Getty Images
Two interminable Old Trafford summer transfer sagas: two happy endings for Alex Ferguson. The signing of Dimitar Berbatov from Spurs was the final - and pretty much the only – positive act of a three-month transfer window campaign [...]

Jamie Staff and Chris Hoy on the track. Photograph: Brandon Malone/Action Images
A day before Britain’s track cyclists take to the velodrome a top English Institute of Sport coach said that many of his charges in the cycling team have been pedalling faster than ever and pushing bigger weights than before in the run-up to the [...]