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Issue 307 | May 31 2013

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Issue 307, May 31 2013

Radar

04 Pay attention, 007 Aston Martin relives the golden age

of motorsport as it should be with

the CC100 Speedster

06 Boys of summer The previous stars of the show

who made it – and those who didn’t

– ahead of next week’s European

Under-21 Championship in Israel

08 Flashback John Barnes recalls samba-ing

round the entire Brazil side ahead of

England’s match at the Maracana

o this coming weekFeatures

18 Wayne Rooney Talks exclusively about his 10 years

wearing an England shirt, and the

national side’s chances of finally

picking up some silverware

27 Paul O’Connell On his return from injury, previous

Lions failures and his high hopes

for this summer’s tour down under

31 Sporting madness! Tyson noshing on Holyfield’s ear,

Cantona’s flying kung-fu kick and

Serena’s death threat all make our

list of sporting stars losing the plot

Extra Time

46 Kit Get the Lions look – and wear tour-

related merchandise with pride

48 Gadgets The LG BH9430PW Surround System

is more powerful than you could

possibly imagine. Use its force

50 Grooming What to wear on your face before

you fall asleep on the beach this

summer. Don’t forget your back

54 Games special The seemingly very normal-sounding

Joel and Ellie get stuck into a zombie

apocalypse in The Last of Us

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uring the Golden Age of motorsport,

open-seater cars like this could be

found embedded in hedges right

across rural England, while the likes of

Stirling Moss pushed them to their limit in

exotic locations like Belgium. Aston Martin,

famous for supplying cars to James Bond

(before he betrayed his country by buying

German) have revisited that era to celebrate

a century of car building with a one-off

concept car. The jaw-dropping CC100

Speedster is a modern take on the iconic

DBR1, which won the 24 Hours of Le Mans

race back in 1959. Pay attention, 007.

Head to cc100.astonmartin.com for more

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Radarp06 – European U21 Championship: the players who did and didn’t make it

p08 – When John Barnes took on the whole of Brazil, and won

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2000 – AndreA pirLoAlthough back then he was just a fresh-faced

youngster with a girl’s name, the Italian

midfield maestro still had wisdom in his feet.

He picked up the award after scoring twice in

the final against the Czech Republic – one goal

a trademark curling free-kick, and the other

from the penalty spot. He didn’t dink it, but at

least he still scored.

2002 – petr CeChAlmost single-handedly won the final, keeping

a talented French side at bay and saving two

penalties in the shootout that followed the 0-0

draw. His performances earned him a move from

Sparta Prague to Rennes, and from there it

was on to Chelsea – where he cemented his

status with 10 consecutive clean sheets in

a Premier League-winning debut season.

2009 – MArCuS BergThe Swedish striker scored a record seven

times in the tournament, securing a move from

Dutch side FC Groningen to Hamburg in the

process. He notched just four league goals in

30 appearances in his first year, however, and

spent a year back in Holland with PSV before

returning to Hamburg. Scored a single goal

– for Sweden – last season.

2011 – JuAn MAtAA quirk of the eligibility rules meant that Mata

was actually 23 by the time this Under-21

tournament took place. Given how laughably

easy he makes Premier League football look,

we can only imagine the tournament was

a stroll in the park, as the Spaniard netted

two goals and provided two assists to help

Spain ease to victory.

1998 – FrAnCeSC ArnAuThe Barcelona academy graduate didn’t

concede as Spain bored their way to victory

on the back of three 1-0 wins. Subsequently

found himself at the back of the queue at both

club and international level (he never made a

senior appearance), however – after a Steve

Harper-esque 24 first-team games in six

years, he moved to Malaga and is now retired.

eeling jealous of Mr

Gatland’s Lions? Fear

not, for June 14 sees

new game Rugby Challenge 2

arrive, and it features those

boys in red. There are more

than 110 other teams to play

as, not to mention a host of

gameplay tweaks – but the

main thing is you can beat the

Aussies over and over again.

And that never gets boring.

srael is the setting for the 2013 European

Under-21 Championship, which kicks off next

week – and as always, clubs will be keeping

a close eye on the talent on display. At the end of

the tournament, the best performer will be given

the ’Golden Player’ award – but it doesn’t always

mean they’re certain to succeed...

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to the title with three goals, earning him a

€14m move to Real Madrid. Sadly, things didn’t

quite work out. He started well, but found

himself out of favour, moving on loan to

Hercules and Everton before signing a

permanent deal with Alania Vladikavkaz in

the Russian Premier League.

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England visit the rebuilt Maracana Stadium

this week for a friendly with Brazil. They last

played there in 1984, securing a shock 2-0

win thanks partly to a wonder goal from John

Barnes, who picked up the ball on the left

touchline before embarking on a mazy run

and slotting past the keeper to score what

was later voted the sixth best England goal

of all time. Since there’s more chance of the

stadium’s roof falling in than any of England’s

current crop repeating that feat on Sunday,

we asked Barnes to reminisce...

“I always say that I must have had an

out-of-body experience, because I can’t

remember doing any of that. When you score

a goal by dribbling, you’re just reacting to the

people in front of you – you’re not thinking

consciously about what you’re doing. When

you score a free-kick, you put the ball down,

you take it yourself in your head before you

do it, and that’s why you remember it. When

you score a goal by dribbling, you don’t know

what people are going to do – so you react.

I can’t actually remember doing any of that,

no matter how many times I see it.

“I remember the impact that it had, I

remember scoring in the Maracana, but I

can’t remember many specific details about

the goal. I remember collecting it and beating

one player, then thinking: ‘I wanna pass.’ But I

couldn’t see anybody to pass to. I remember

wanting to shoot [from the edge of the box],

but Tony Woodcock was in the way. He kind

of jumped, because he thought I was going

to shoot, and that kind of fooled them, so

it was a bit lucky.

“It’s definitely one of the best I’ve scored,

but I have scored more meaningful goals.

You have to look at the situation. Michael

Owen’s against Argentina was in a World Cup

knockout game, Ryan Giggs got one in an FA

Cup semi final against Arsenal. It was a

friendly against Brazil – they didn’t look too

bothered, and they were probably pissed the

night before. So yes, it was a great goal –

but you have to look at the impact of it. If

I was their coach, I would have been very

disappointed that someone didn’t kick me.”

June 10 1984

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select players instead of relying on scouts

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Liverpool’s American owners tried

to bring a bit of that mathmagic over to

England – but some rats must have been

chewing the cables of their supercomputer,

because they ended up spending £75m on

Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing and Jordan

Henderson. There is still much for football

to learn from numbers, though – and it’s

detailed in The Numbers Game, by former

goalkeeper Chris Anderson and former

baseball pitcher David Sally.

They’ve worked out that managers have

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T here is a real soft spot for Crystal Palace that lurks

deep in my psyche. I think it has something to do

with Malcolm Allison, Vince Hilaire and the best

kit of the 1970s. I can think of no other reason.

So I was pleased to see them win promotion to the

Premier League. Malcolm died in 2010, Vince is currently

doing something backstage at Portsmouth and, to be honest,

the current kit could be sexed up a bit.

Still, they now have £120m, right? Thanks to winning one

game – against Watford – Crystal Palace are now £120m to

the good. This is received wisdom throughout football: that the

Championship playoff final is the most lucrative one-off game in

the whole of the sport. In fact if you read The Daily Mail, you’ll be

thinking it’s actually £145m, and not the paltry £120m.

And, to a point, all of it is true. Playing in the Premier League

does indeed bring riches. But it also costs. And it costs a lot.

Look at, say, Wigan – now on their way down and in line for

a parachute payment. Or Stoke. Or, in fact, any team in the

Premier League – most of whom are millions in hock. They are

not living proof that to play in the top flight is to be in a land

of riches. In fact, they demonstrate that other well-known

football fact: that it is an industry like no other.

In any other walk of life, to run your business as most

football clubs are run would be financial suicide. When the lion’s

share of your revenues go out of the door simply on the

salaries of a few people, you have to wonder.

And so it is that Crystal Palace enter this rarefied world.

A good few bob will need to be spent on summer signings.

Their wage bill is about to go through the roof. In fact, they may

well need, ooh, about £120m to make ends meet. But I hope

they do – even more so if they bring back the old kit.

Dylan Hartley is no longer an impetuous kid. He’s a senior pro

who should know better and deserves every second of his

11-week ban for dissent. Can you imagine if football were

governed in the same way? There’d be no players available at

all by the end of November.

I’m all for cricket captains making sporting declarations, but I

would be the first to defend Alastair Cook’s decision to put the

second Test against New Zealand beyond his opponents’

reach. The first job was to ensure England didn’t lose. Grinding

the other team into the dust before pulling the final trigger

breeds a strong mentality ahead of the Ashes. Nice captaincy.

Eagles have landedBut let’s be clear – winning the Championship playoff final isn’t really worth £120m

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Radar Opinion

I have never been much of a romantic.

Well, I say that, but I did once make a tape of

love songs on my twin-deck stereo in my

bedroom, using nothing but editing technique and

obsession. The girl’s reaction to my cassette of

passion was to openly mock me over my decision to

include a song by Billy Ocean, and this is likely why

these seemingly natural instincts were quelled. As

for Billy Ocean, are you telling me this bloke wasn’t

romantically successful in the 1980s? Exactly.

My wife once surprised me by telling me she’d

booked a trip to Paris, just for the two of us. I then

surprised her back by telling her that I didn’t really

fancy it. It wasn’t that I had anything else on; it was

more that the idea of sweating on Le Metro and

having cigarette smoke blown in my face as I ate

a croque monsieur made me feel less happy than

the idea of walking my dog and watching telly.

This vile rejection has never been forgotten, but

it did set a useful precedent. I inadvertently set the

bar of romance so low that, since then, very little

has been expected of me. I have still managed to

cock things up a few times, forgetting anniversaries

and even a birthday (though I did also once forget

my own), but a man can generally come back from

these things with heartfelt apologies and gifts.

All of this means that, when I do decide to do

something lovey dovey, it goes down a right treat.

She’s not stupid though, Mrs F, and she knows very

well that many of my romantic plans are laced with

self-interest. I never pretend otherwise, mind –

and, as she sees it, she profits anyway. Usually,

my request comes in the car on the way home.

“Did you have a lovely time?” I often ask – and,

as she answers in the affirmative, I pile in with:

“Oh yeah, I knew I had to run something by you.”

This is where it begins, and this time it is about

sport. For the good of charity, I am, along with Lewis

Moody and Danny Grewcock, cycling from John

O’Groats to Land’s End in a few days – a pursuit

designed to destroy both the body and soul of a

man with my genetic make-up. I am terrible at

cycling, and full of dread. But it’s all about the kids.

And, beyond charity, this trip means one thing

to me: I am going to miss British & Irish Lions

games. So, after what will be 12 days away from

home, I have negotiated quite the reintroduction

package. I will spend Day 1 with the family: catching

up, cuddling and playing. Then, with my daughters

both at nursery and Mrs F serving me food and

coffee continuously, Day 2 will be my Lions day. I will

watch every missed minute, reading every match

report I can access between viewings.

I can’t wait for my gentleman’s area to be

released from the saddle and I can’t wait for the

cuddles, but Day 2 is also a real motivator. I love

Lions tours as much now as I did when I was a

chubby kid with muddy knees. You see, romance

isn’t dead. It’s just all about negotiation.

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There were some media commentators who, for reasons best known to themselves, chose to link Carl Froch’s

ill-advised declaration that he would like ‘to kill’ Mikkel

Kessler with the recent sickening events in Woolwich.

They were attempting to draw a parallel that brought

boxing and its proponents into disrepute.

For that reason, I would like to draw a distinction and

also reference what happened in Woolwich.

These commentators were trying to buy gravitas at

the same time as condemning a throwaway comment in

the run-up to a fight. Should he have said it? No. Did he

mean it? No. Was Froch in any way referencing events in

southeast London? No. Did he apologise to Kessler?

After a fashion. It’s boxing. Deal with it.

“Lennox Lewis, I’m coming for you man. My style is

impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I’m just

ferocious,” said Mike Tyson before their 2002 world title

fight. “I want your heart.

I want to eat his

children...” The press

conference was named

Event of the Year by The

Ring magazine and, if

memory serves, there

was some scuffling

– but no heart was

taken and no children

were eaten. It’s boxing.

Perhaps Froch should

have said: “I have fond

feelings for Mikkel

Kessler. What with his

incredible cheekbones and eyes like limpid pools, I’m not

sure I want to fight him. Maybe I’ll take him home to meet

my mum. And, remember kids, we should all live in

perfect harmony.” But he didn’t. It’s boxing.

And Froch is a boxer. A fighter. A warrior. A man who

puts his life on the line to put food on his kids’ plates.

And that is precisely what distinguishes him from the

poor, deluded, brain-washed arseholes who, it seems,

chose to drive a car into an unarmed man walking down

a street in Woolwich before assaulting him with a range

of weapons and hacking him to death. “We want to start

a war in London tonight,” one of them is reported to have

told a female cub scout leader who fronted them up.

The distinction? One is barbarism and utter lunacy

dressed up as religion and masquerading as a perverted

form of justice. Froch-Kessler II is boxing.

@billborrows

Plank of the WeekDylan Hartley, Northampton Saints and England

There’s a reason why the words ‘British & Irish Lions’

do not appear here. That reason is because Hartley,

despite a warning to shut up and get on with the

game, called the ref “a f*cking cheat”. Beyond daft.

It’s like this…Bill Borrows

“Should Froch have said he would like to kill Kessler? No. Was he in any way referencing events in southeast London? No.”

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A long way downLatest rehearsals for the next series of the Tom

Daley TV vehicle Splash! have been going well,

even if some competitors are slightly concerned

about health and safety. Just before this picture

was taken, Jim Carver off of The Bill performed a

belly flop that nigh-on ripped out his appendix, and

here we see one of boyband A1 pulling off a dive

that is – typically – all style and no substance.

(We josh, readers: this is the 27.5m board at the

Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in La Rochelle,

France – and jolly impressive it is, too).

Wayne Rooney

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He might have clocked up a decade of playing for his country, but Wayne Rooney’s

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Wayne Rooney has maintained a professional

silence regarding his club career since the

retirement of his former manager Sir Alex

Ferguson, despite the cantankerous old

hairdryer leaving the media with a final

expulsion of hot air regarding the future of

the centre forward who has scored more

goals for him than any other player throughout

his long managerial career. However, the end

of the season cannot have been entirely

comfortable for the 27-year-old.

Rooney’s current form for his country,

however, is excellent. Post-Euro 2012,

he’s scored five goals in the four World Cup

qualifying games in which he’s played, as well

as netting against Brazil in England’s 2-1 win

at Wembley in February. No wonder he seems

in relaxed mood as Sport caught up with him

at the launch of Nike’s new England away

kit to discuss the national team.

This year also marks a decade since

Rooney’s first senior cap. When the then

Everton manager David Moyes pulled him to

one side in 2003 to let Rooney know he’d

first been called up for England, the teenager

assumed he was in the Under-21s, innocently

asking if Tony Hibbert was in there too.

“No, Tony’s in the Under-21s,” Moyes replied.

“You’re in the full England squad.”

“My dream was when I broke through and got into the team.”So says Rooney, looking back on being called

up for his first full England game against

Australia (below). “I was delighted. At 17, as

I was, I just couldn’t wait to get there and try

to... well, I probably knew I wasn’t going to

start the game, but to try and get on. It was

great for me that Franny Jeffers was in the

squad. We went to the same school [the De

La Salle Academy in Croxteth, Liverpool] and,

for the area we were from, it was great to

have two local lads in the England squad. We

both came on at half-time and got to play up

front together, so it was a great occasion

for the area and for the school as well.”

Not that this was the start of Rooney’s

relationship with England. While some

modern-day footballers leave you with the

impression that if they weren’t being paid to

play, they wouldn’t be able to tell you what

shape a football is – let alone stop to watch

a game – Rooney is a genuine football fan.

Follow him on Twitter and – in between the

odd Stereophonics recommendation, which

you’re free to take or leave – he’s often

commenting on the matches he’s watching in

his own time in England, Spain or beyond.

In the pre-Twitter era, however, Euro 96

remains one of his formative football

memories. “It was a great atmosphere

around England and I always remember all

our fans coming into the city of Liverpool,

where I’m from,” he recalls. “It was great to

see them and to watch the games on TV.”

Rooney lists Paul Gascoigne and Alan

Shearer as the England players he admired

growing up. “Really exciting players,” he

says. “Gascoigne was great on the ball and

running forward; he was fantastic. And then

obviously Shearer [was] scoring goals, so

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Did he do his best Gazza and Shearer

impersonations in the playground?

“Yeah, you always try to emulate what

football players were doing,” he confirms.

“I always remember Tony Yeboah scoring

those volleys [for Leeds United] against

Wimbledon and Liverpool – and I was always

trying to do one of them.”

For England fans now in their late

teens, the age at which Rooney made his

international debut, their own formative

international footballing memories will be of

Euro 2004 and watching the young tearaway

striker fearlessly shredding defences

(including Switzerland’s, above). He went

away to Portugal that summer a feted young

footballer, yet came back a sensation and

a household name.

“Sometimes it was difficult, being a young lad of 18 at the time.”Looking back at his return from Euro 2004,

Rooney says: “It takes a lot to adapt to, but if

that’s what you want to be [a professional

footballer], you have to get on with it.”

His memories of the tournament itself

are also mixed. “We had a good squad of

players and had a chance of winning it, I feel.

We were unlucky going out on penalties, but

for me personally, I scored four goals in the

tournament and then obviously got injured.

So it was a mixture; being happy to score the

goals, then sad that I got injured [he limped

off with a broken fifth metatarsal during the

quarter-final defeat to Portugal].”

The highs and lows he felt at Euro 2004

have been reflected throughout his England

career. There has rarely been a dull moment:

from the rush of that spectacular big-

tournament debut or scoring nine goals

in nine games as England marched to

World Cup 2010 qualification, to the

disappointment of going out to Germany in

the tournament proper, or what Rooney says

is his worst moment in an England shirt –

“getting that red card against Portugal” at

the 2006 World Cup. His current potent form

under gaffer Roy Hodgson, however, has led

to the England boss referring to Rooney as

his “vice-captain”.

“It’s great that he feels that way about

me,” says Rooney of his international

manager. “But I always feel that, whether

you’ve got the armband or not, you’ve got

a responsibility anyway. If you want to be

successful, you have to help each other

and try to win games together. I think it’s

something that we’ve got at the minute – it’s

a great chemistry and a great atmosphere

around the squad.”

He’s also enthusiastic about the young

generation of England players currently part

of the set-up. “It probably helps the likes of

Tom Cleverly and [Danny] Welbeck that

they’re in the squad together, because I

remember when I got in the squad, I was

probably the only really young player there,”

he says. “Whereas now there’s a lot of young

players who came through the Under-21s

together. The likes of Welbeck, [Daniel]

Sturridge, [Jack] Wilshere, [Alex Oxlade-]

Chamberlain, who’s a bit younger... they’ve

all come through and now they’re all in the

senior squad together, so I’m sure they don’t

feel nerves. I think that’s only going to be

good for England.”

Asked how different he is from the player

he was a decade ago, Rooney emphasises

how his experiences in Europe’s biggest

club competition have helped him develop

his game.

“I think tactically, I’ve learned a lot over the

past 10 years,” he explains. “International

football is a lot like Champions League

football, so it’s been a great experience to

play in Europe, and that helps when you play

for England. I think you’re a lot more raw and

you do things off-the-cuff [as a young

player], whereas when you’ve been there for

a while, you tend to think more about the

tactics – working out ways of how you can

get around players or how you can get in

behind teams. That’s why I think England

have a good blend: we’ve got a few senior

players and we have the younger players

coming through. Sometimes you need that

rawness and that bit of excitement to break

teams down.”

Rooney isn’t the only player in the England

set-up with experience of playing in – not to

mention winning – the Champions League

(left). It applies to many of his international

colleagues, including Ashley Cole and Frank

Lampard at Chelsea, Steven Gerrard with

Liverpool and current club teammate Michael

Carrick. So what does Rooney make of the

eternal question posed in this country as to

why these players, who are such integral

parts of successful club teams at the very

highest level, have sometimes struggled to

replicate that success for England? >

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“I think we have to look at ourselves over the past 10 years and say we haven’t been good enough – and that hopefully we can be successful in future.”Rooney is perfectly frank. “It’s tough. There’s

two tournaments every four years and

there’s so many different countries trying to

win those trophies,” he says. “But I think over

the past 10 years, there’s been better teams

than us who’ve deserved to win the trophy

more. So we have to just understand that,

but keep trying to get to that point where

we’re in a good position to win a trophy.

Hopefully we can do that.”

Rooney has, however, found individual

success. His goal away in Montenegro in

March took him to 26 competitive goals for

England – a record he shares with Michael

Owen. “Obviously you see it in the newspaper

and some people talk about records, but I’m

not really too fussed,” he confesses. “I’ve

always felt that, to be successful, you have

to win trophies. I could end my career with

England being record goal-scorer and maybe

even record caps-holder, but if you’re not

going to be successful, then it’s pointless.

That’s what I play for England for: to try and

help England be successful. That’s the aim.

It’s not to see how many caps or goals I can

get – it’s to see if I can get a winner’s medal.”

Rooney talks with an intriguing mix of

realism and ambition. On the one hand, he’s

grounded about what a mighty challenge it

is to win an international trophy. But on the

other, his competitive nature means he will

not define success as anything other than

winning a major competition. Before any

such thoughts can even edge into his mind,

however, Rooney is fully aware that World

Cup qualification has to come first.

“It’s gone alright,” is his assessment of a

campaign that has seen England go unbeaten

over six matches, but which includes a trio

of 1-1 draws. “I think it could be a little bit

better. If we could’ve turned one or two of

those draws into wins, we’d be in a great

position. But they’re tough games: Poland,

Ukraine and then the last game away against

Montenegro was obviously a tough game.

But if we win our next four, then we qualify

top of the group. So it’s down to us, really.”

For England, those qualifiers begin again

in September. Before then, the team debut

the new away kit in a glamour fixture with

Brazil at the reopening of the Maracana –

and it’s a challenge Rooney clearly relishes.

“It will be great going out to Brazil to represent England.”Looking ahead to this weekend’s friendly in

Rio, Rooney says: “I’m sure the stadium will

be full and it will be an amazing atmosphere.

You watch the south American games on TV

and it looks brilliant, so it will be a great

experience for us. I can’t wait.

“You said before about me growing up

watching England as a young lad – Brazil

were brilliant then. You remember watching

the likes of Ronaldo and Romario, so to play

against Brazil is a special feeling. I’ve been

fortunate to captain England against Brazil

[in a friendly in 2009, above] and now

obviously I’ve scored against them

[in England’s 2-1 win at Wembley in February

this year], so it’s a great honour for me.”

More than this, Rooney sees it as a good

motivation for the squad. “I think it will be

good for us to go out there before the

qualifiers, I feel, because you’ll get a taste of

what it’s like to play out there – heat-wise

and atmosphere-wise. I’m sure that will be

good for all the players. We can see that

that’s where we want to be in a year’s time

– and hopefully we will be.”

At 28 years of age by the time of the next

World Cup, Rooney should be ideally placed to

make an impact on the biggest stage of all –

providing the team can get there. He talks

now of the tactical awareness that comes

from the experience of Champions League

football and having 80-plus England caps,

but a childish excitement at pulling on the

England shirt clearly still sparks within

Rooney. He even finishes our interview

talking about one day taking his kids along to

watch England games after he’s retired.

That’s one for the future, however. He has

dreams to chase on the pitch before then.

So, if you see him trying a Yeboah-style

volley against Brazil on Sunday night, feel

grateful that there’s still something of the

schoolboy inside this experienced England

international.

Alex Reid @otheralexreid

Leading by example:

Rooney takes the

captain’s armband for

a friendly with Brazil

in Qatar in 2009

For our preview of

England’s friendly with

Brazil at the revamped

Maracana on Sunday,

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Third Time luckywiTh The lions Tour seT To begin againsT The barbarians Tomorrow, Paul o'connell Tells sPorT why he's ready To leave a season of injuries, and a hisTory of lions failures, firmly in The PasT

How happy are you just to be in the squad after

your injuries this season?

“I’m delighted. It’s a bonus for me just to be here.

Six months ago, or even three months ago, I never

thought I would be fit. When my name was read out, it

was great. I’m really thrilled to get another chance.”

Was the Lions always the aim once you got injured?

“You always have aims, but it was only based on the

recovery timescale, so I was thinking I had a great

chance to be back for the Heineken Cup quarter final

against Harlequins – and if I could play well and we

could win a few games, I had a great chance of

possibly pushing my way into the reckoning... you

know, maybe an outside chance. If I’d have been back

a bit later, the Irish tour to Canada would probably

have been the aim, but I was back early enough for

my focus to be solely on the Lions.”

A lot of people predicted you’d be captaining this

year’s tour party – did Warren Gatland have a little

chat to you ahead of the official announcement?

“No, seeing my name come up on Sky Sports was

genuinely the first I heard. I met Warren in an

elevator on the way to the Munster v Harlequins

game, and all we did was say hello and have some

small talk. I knew he wasn’t saying anything to

anyone, so it didn’t bother me. Look, I never thought

for an instant that I was going to be captain. There’s

so much media talk around the Lions this year – I’ve

never seen anything like it. So players were being

put on the plane, taken off the plane and given the

captaincy week in, week out depending on their

performances. There was so much hype that it was

very easy to get wrapped up in it. I was delighted that

people started talking about me going after the Quins

game, but I never thought I’d be captain.” >

know, I suppose… 2005 was just very difficult.

Sometimes things conspire against you and

sometimes things conspire with you, and a lot of

things helped us in 2009. Then again, we still lost

the Test series, so ultimately there wasn’t a huge

difference between the two of them.”

In a way, is it nice to just be a tourist again, and not

have the pressure of captaincy?

“Yeah, there is a bit of that. I certainly put a lot of

pressure on myself when I’m captain, and it’s nice

not to have that pressure now. I’ll be doing my best

to help Sam [Warburton, this year’s skipper] out,

though, and take a bit of that pressure off him.

I don’t mind the media stuff and the functions and

stuff like that. The bit that’s tough is when you’re not

successful as a captain, you tend to shoulder a bit of

the blame yourself, and you put yourself under that

sort of pressure. Well, I certainly would have anyway.

So, from that point of view, you can look after your

own backyard in a sense when you’re not captain.

In the position I’m in, coming in after having played

only seven or eight games, that’s probably not a

bad place to be.”

That also means you’re fresh, though.

“Yeah, fresh is definitely the line I’ve been peddling

to the management.”

Paul O’Connell

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“If we had just sealed that second test In 2009, god only knows what would have happened In the thIrd – there probably would’ve been 30 ambulances takIng people away afterwards”

How important was that big win over Harlequins

for you?

“It put me on Warren’s radar, so it was key. I probably

didn’t play as well as the media made out – but I

wasn’t going to complain. It was nice to be back in

the frame and to be thought of as a possible tourist

– because up to then, I didn’t stand a chance.”

You went to New Zealand with the Lions on the

ill-fated 2005 tour, and captained the side in 2009.

How much difference was there between the

two tours?

“There was a massive difference, definitely. People

like to blame Clive [Woodward] for 2005, but 20

minutes into the first Test, we’d lost our three

best players – Lawrence Dallaglio, Richard Hill and

Brian O’Driscoll. We weren’t the kind of team that

could really tolerate that kind of loss of personnel.

Clive certainly tried things that needed to be tried

to realise that they didn’t work. In professionalism,

there’s a certain point where it has limited gains, and

to win rugby matches you still need to be a tight unit.

And that’s something we probably didn’t work hard

enough at on that New Zealand tour – having a bit of

fun together, getting out together and sharing a bit

of time together builds a tight unit, and we didn’t do

that enough.

“South Africa, then, was probably helped by a

few guys – the likes of Andy Powell – who were big

characters and brought a lot of people together.

The 3pm kick-offs certainly helped because you were

out of the ground at six or seven o’clock, so you got

to spend a lot of time together over a beer or two

after games, which you don’t really get in the games

against Australia or New Zealand because you’re

playing at eight and you’re out of the stadium at 1am.

All those little things made a difference and, you

You’ve had a lot of highs and lows in your

career. Where does the Test series defeat

in 2009 rank?

“It’s right down there. That second Test was

one of the most physically intense games

I’ve been in, because both teams were just

willing to do anything to win the game. If we

had just sealed that game and seen it out,

god only knows what would have happened in

the third Test – there probably would have

been 30 ambulances taking people away

afterwards. It was a big disappointment; the

pressure was intense and there were times

when it was really tough and you’d love to

just get on a plane and get out of there.

But, looking back on it, it was also a really

enjoyable tour – and we became a very tight,

close-knit team in a very short period of

time, which isn’t an easy thing to do. People

gave a lot of themselves to do that, and I was

really proud to be part of that tour.”

Brian O’Driscoll recently told us that after

three Lions tours, 2009 was the first time

he realised what the Lions really meant.

Did you get that same feeling?

“Yeah, well people talk about the Lions and

they’re almost thinking back to the 1970s

and the ’80s, when these guys went on

three-month tours and had this time period

together to be really tight and to become

this unit. We don’t have that time, so you

actually need to work hard at it, whereas they didn’t

need to do that back in the day. They got to go out

four nights a week, leave their families and they were

on a boat for ages and all this sort of craic. So in

2009, we really made a conscious effort to have a bit

of banter and get on with one another, and from that

point of view it was great to be part of it. We worked

hard at the legacy, and keeping the tradition and the

values that the Lions stand for alive. You don’t just

arrive on tour and all of a sudden have these qualities

of a tight squad: you need to work at it, and guys did

go out of their way to do that.”

You’ve been on two unsuccessful tours, though.

Is there a sense of unfinished business this time?

“Yeah, every time a tour comes around, the value of

the Lions and the Lions’ place in the rugby calendar

is questioned. And, unfortunately, I’ve been involved

in two tours where we’ve lost and probably added to

the naysayers’ weight in the argument. This time

around, I’d love to be involved in a winning tour.

That’s the plan, anyway. We’ll see what happens

from here!”

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MeltdownWhat happens when

athletes lose the plot

lend Me your ear“When I look back on my second fight with Evander Holyfield, I still can’t believe that I bit his ear. I mean, what was I thinking...?” asks Mike Tyson in Twice Bitten, a riveting new book about the incident in June 1997, when arguably the most famous sportsman on the planet did the unthinkable. In the third round of his rematch with Holyfield, Tyson – frustrated by butts from his bald-headed, Bible-bashing rival and possibly fearing a KO defeat – sank his teeth into his opponent’s right ear and tore out a chunk. Shocked referee Mills Lane halted the fight, but then rather remarkably chose to restart it after docking Tyson two points.Holyfield reacted exactly the way we would if we were facing an enraged Mike Tyson with a piece of our own ear cartilage on the canvas, telling trainer Don Turner: “Put my mouthpiece in; I’m going to knock him out.” Holyfield didn’t get a chance to fulfil his prophecy. Tyson went to work on his left ear and was finally disqualified at the end of the round. If you can think of a more outrageous sporting meltdown, we are – forgive us the pun – all ears. Twice Bitten, by George Willis (Mainstream), out on June 6

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She iS SeriouSJohn McEnroe’s temper tantrums had nothing on this. After being called for a foot fault in her 2009 US Open semi final against Kim Clijsters, Serena Williams bawled at the tiny line judge: “If I could, I’d take this f**king ball and shove it down your f**king throat.” Despite protesting her innocence to umpire and judge (“I didn’t say I would kill you. Are you serious?”), Williams was docked a point, causing her to lose the match. She was later fined $82,500 and told she couldn’t force-feed any officials tennis balls for at least two years.

Pretty flySports stars have attacked

opponents, teammates, even

officials – but few have the front to

assault a fan in his own stadium.

When Eric Cantona’s rouge mist

descended after he was abused by

a fan after being sent off against

Crystal Palace in 1995, however, his

madness knew no bounds. Not for

Eric the pedestrian punch or the

brutish nut. Instead, he went flying

over the advertising hoardings in

that most vulnerable and graceful of

violent acts: an airborne kung-fu

kick. The end result was a four-

month ban (later increased to

nine), £20,000 fine, 120 hours of

community service and a doubling

of his already fairly hefty quota of

antihero cool. >

Sporting Madness

What a helmetNelson Piquet’s decision to lash out at Eliseo Salazar after the backmarker

clumsily took him off the track and out of the race while being lapped at

the 1982 German Grand Prix was perhaps understandable. What made

less sense is that Piquet tried to wallop Salazar while the Chilean was still

wearing his helmet. Piquet’s flimsy, spaghetti-armed blows to a helmet

designed to withstand F1-speed accidents were followed up by a dismal

fresh air kick. The two then began squabbling again in the back of a van

that picked them up to drive them back to the pits, but Piquet got the last

laugh. After the van driver stopped to separate them, the Brazilian seized

his opportunity to leap behind the steering wheel and vroom off, leaving

Salazar and the driver with a lengthy walk back to the pits.

Would I lIe to you?“I did not move!” yelled US sprinter Jon Drummond at the 2003 World Athletics Championships, eyeballs popping after being disqualified for false-starting from his 100m heat. Then, as an official brandished a comedy, oversized red card in front of his angry face, he took the only sane course of action. Drummond lay down in his lane and refused to leave the track, the situation exacerbated by replays that seemed to show he had a point. It was 51 minutes after that gun going off before the race was eventually run: surely one of the slowest 100m races in history.

Feel the burnFrankly, we cannot better Peter Alliss’ commentary

on Jean van de Velde’s final-hole meltdown at the

1999 Open, which ended with the Frenchman

shoeless in the Barry Burn. So here he is: “If anybody

needs an adviser, he does. His golfing brain stopped

about 10 minutes ago. This is so, so, so, so, so sad...

and so unnecessary. Oh, Jean, Jean, Jean. He’s

surely not going to climb down and try to whack it out

of there. No, no, that would be... that would be totally

ridiculous. What are you doing? What on earth are

you doing? No Jean, please. Would somebody please

kindly go and stop him? Give him a large brandy and

mop him down! No! This really is beyond a joke now.

He’s gone ga-ga. This is... this is quite... I’ve never

seen anything quite like it, and to attempt to hit the

ball out of there is pure madness.” Sense prevailed

and he took a drop shot, but the damage was done.

A triple-bogey wiped out van de Velde’s lead, and he

lost the subsequent playoff to Scotland’s Paul Lawrie.

no ÁngelBam! The 2008 Olympics was the ideal moment for Cuba’s

Ángel Matos to let loose a perfectly placed taekwondo

kick. Bit of a shame that he chose to put his foot into

the mush of Swedish referee Chakir Chelbat after he’d

disqualified Matos from his bronze-medal match in Beijing

for taking too much injury time. The result was a lifetime

ban for Matos and World Taekwondo Federation head

honcho Yang Jin-suk calling him “an insult to mankind”.

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ApproAch with confidenceAfter his 2000 Guineas demolition job, Dawn Approach bids for a classic double in tomorrow’s Epsom Derby. Jim Bolger, the unbeaten colt’s trainer, is in quietly sanguine mood

five years ago, the multiple classic-

winning Irish trainer Jim Bolger brought

his then stable star across the Irish Sea

to take his chance in the Derby. It was

one of the few major races to have eluded

Bolger through a long and distinguished

career, but the omens were that it would

continue to do so. His great hope, the

champion two-year-old New Approach,

had been beaten in both of his starts as a

three-year-old – and his very participation

in the race had been shrouded in mystery

throughout a build-up plagued by rumour

and misinformation.

Not that anyone seemed to tell the horse.

Ridden by Bolger’s son-in-law, Kevin Manning,

New Approach refused to settle in the early

stages of the race – but his superior class

would still hold sway, a blistering turn of foot

from the two-furlong pole helping him to

a half-length victory over the high-class

Tartan Bearer. New Approach (below, right)

had defied the doubters, and his trainer had

a maiden victory in one of the world’s most

revered races.

Now, in 2013, Bolger is back for another

tilt with Dawn Approach – not only the hot

favourite to give his trainer a second Derby

victory, but also a foal from the very first

crop sired by the horse that brought him

his first.

“He would be right up there with New

Approach,” says Bolger, when asked how his

latest star inmate compares with his father.

“It would be very difficult to split New

Approach with Teofilo [another champion

two-year-old trained by Bolger], and it

would be equally difficult to split the pair

of them with Dawn Approach. Officially,

New Approach was rated a couple of pounds

higher as a two-year-old [126, compared

with Dawn Approach on 124 and Teofilo

on 123], but we certainly never felt there

was much difference between the three

of them.”

GoinG one betterA diplomatic response from a man who has

been in his sport for longer than many of

us have been drawing breath, but the bare

facts report that the son has, to this point

in his career, achieved more than his father.

While New Approach suffered a heartbreaking

defeat to Henrythenavigator in his 2000

Guineas, going down by a nose after making

every yard of the running, Dawn Approach

powered home to win the Newmarket classic

by five lengths earlier this month. It was

Bolger’s first victory in the race.

“It was very satisfying,” he says. “I haven’t

had many runners in it, so I couldn’t really

complain too much about not having won

it earlier. With New Approach it was only a

bob of the head on the line that decided the

outcome, so we had gone close before – and

the main thing is that the few runners I’ve had

in it over the years have run well. When you

do decide to have a go, you need to make sure

that the horse runs up to his best form. >

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Once-a-year punters hoping for a

big-priced winner of the Investec Derby

look set to be disappointed, as Dawn

Approach appears to stand head and

shoulders above the rest of the field

and will probably be sent off at odds-on.

A son of Derby winner New Approach,

his five-length romp in the 2000 Guineas

at Newmarket marked him down as a

well-above-average winner, and he looks

on course to become the third Guineas-

Derby winner of the past five years. The

one doubt is stamina, but in all his races

he has looked better the further he

went, and he’s going to be hard to beat.

Ocovango, yet to be tested in three

starts and trained in France by the

legendary Andre Fabre, could be the one

to give him most to do.

The Investec Oaks (Friday 4pm,

Channel 4) also has a solid enough

favourite in Secret Gesture, although

this race has always been more prone to

shocks – largely because winners tend

to be pretty unexposed, having had only

one or two runs in their first season.

Secret Gesture looked potentially

brilliant when winning the Lingfield Oaks

trial by an eased-down 10 lengths, but

they looked a poor bunch behind her.

Instead, for an each-way punt at tidy

odds, I suggest trying Madame Defarge

for Michael Bell, who trained Sariska

to land the race in 2009. She was an

arguably unlucky third in a decent-

looking 1m2f Listed race at Newmarket

on her return; by a Derby winner out of

an Oaks/St Leger winner, she is going to

improve hugely for another two furlongs.

She needs to, but Bell (below) has

given her a gallop round Epsom in a bid

to familiarise his filly with the track,

and that suggests he means business.

“We were obviously delighted with Dawn

Approach in the Guineas, but that’s what

you get from a horse of that calibre. While

I was a little surprised to see him win so

spectacularly, I have to admit that I did

expect him to win.”

It is rare for anyone in horse racing to

speak with such confidence, even in the

aftermath of a victory as impressive as

Dawn Approach’s in the 2000 Guineas

(above). Bolger is not a man prone to

hyperbole, but it is hard to miss the

bullishness in his tone when he speaks about

this horse – even if having a crack at the

Derby was not part of the original plan.

“To give Sheikh Mohammed [Dawn

Approach’s owner] his dues, I wasn’t thinking

about the Derby at all until after the

Dewhurst,” he admits, referencing the sixth

and final of Dawn Approach’s victories as a

two-year-old, at Newmarket last October.

“He suggested then that we should enter him,

whereas I had been thinking more in terms of

mopping up all the mile races and then maybe

having a go at the Champion Stakes [over 10

furlongs] at the back end of the season. But

I didn’t require any persuading when he did

mention it. I said yes, that might be a good

idea – that’s why we’re where we are now.”

Staying power?And that is with a horse that looks likely to

go off as an odds-on shot to maintain his

unbeaten record at Epsom tomorrow,

despite doubts over his ability to truly see

out the mile-and-a-half trip. His old man may

be a Derby winner, but Dawn Approach is

more speedily bred and is yet to race beyond

a mile. It’s a big step up in distance for a

horse with such raw pace, but Bolger seems

largely unperturbed.

“He wasn’t stopping in the Guineas, and

better judges than I am have asked how far

he would have won had that race been a mile

and a half,” he says. “I’d be optimistic that he’ll

get the trip – and any horses that I’ve had at

Epsom through the years have run well, so I’d

be optimistic that he’ll handle the track, too.”

Optimism has surrounded Dawn Approach

ever since he made his debut at the Curragh

four weeks before his second birthday, in

March 2012. It has only grown since his

victory in the Guineas, as a whole host of

Derby trials came and went without any

single horse laying down the kind of marker

that would have his supporters even close

to worried. The withdrawal of long-time

talking horse Telescope last week saw his

odds shorten even further – although Bolger

remains respectful of the opposition.

“The Derby is the Derby, and it’s always

very hard to win it,” he insists. “I would

expect the standard of the race to be as

good as it ever is, so whatever wins it

is going to have to put on a good show.

And I hope it will be Dawn Approach.”

Tony Hodson @tonyhodson1

Should Dawn Approach win on

Saturday, he would become

the third horse in the past five

years to complete the 2000

Guineas-Derby double, after

Sea The Stars (2009) and

Camelot (2012). Only two

horses, Nijinsky and Nashwan,

had achieved the feat in

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HIGHLIGHTS

» Athletics: Rome Golden Gala » p40 » Cycling: Critérium du Dauphiné » p42

» Cricket: England v New Zealand – 1st ODI » p42» Rugby Union: Barbarians v The Lions » p42

» MotoGP: Italian Grand Prix » p44OUR PICK OF THE ACTION FROM THE SPORTING WEEK AHEAD

Sunday fOOTBALL | INTERNATIONAL fRIENDLy: BRAZIL v ENGLAND | EsTáDIO DO MARACANã, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL | ITV 8PM

What better way for England's Premier League

stars to relax after a gruelling season than with

an 11-hour flight to Brazil? Chelsea's contingent,

in particular, must be absolutely sick of the sight of

complimentary pretzels; Frank Lampard, Ashley

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clash with Ireland. Like that game, this visit is part

of the FA's 150th birthday celebrations, and will

be Brazil's first game at their remodelled national

stadium. The players don't appear desperate to be

part of those celebrations, though, judging by the

rate at which they're dropping out: at the time of

writing, Roy Hodgson has just five midfielders to

choose from (plus Theo Walcott).

This is less of a problem for Brazil, who are

also using the game to warm up for hosting the

Confederations Cup in June. Eleven of their squad

play at home, where the season is only about

halfway through. They include spiky-haired starlet

Neymar, although not for much longer: he ended a

protracted transfer saga by confirming he will join

Barcelona next season in a £51.3m deal.

Despite the price tag, he failed to impress

during England's 2-1 victory over Brazil in February.

If Hodgson's ramshackle squad can manage a repeat

in the Maracana, it will be the perfect preparation for

the climax to their World Cup qualifying campaign

(in three months, against completely different

opposition, in an utterly different climate).

Samba summer

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40 | May 31 2013 |

Usain Bolt's first race on European

soil this year comes in Rome's

Olympic Stadium, which will host

the fifth Diamond League meeting

of the season. The Jamaican's third

outing of 2013 follows a distinctly

average run over 100m at the

Cayman Invitational earlier this

month, where he edged out

countryman Kemar Bailey-Cole

for the win – but it took him a

pedestrian 10.09s to do so.

He started last season in similar

fashion, running 10.04s in Ostrava

before picking up the pace in Rome

five days later, where he clocked

a more acceptable (by his own

ridiculous standards) finishing time

of 9.76s. Three Olympic gold

medals later, no one could argue

that Bolt's slow start reflected

anything other than a gentle warm-

up for the huge summer ahead.

Bolt's focus won't only be on

getting faster – it will also be on

finishing ahead of Olympic 100m

bronze-medallist Justin Gatlin,

whose 9.97s in Doha earlier this

month is the second-fastest of

2013 so far – behind Tyson Gay's

9.86s at the Jamaica Invitational,

set at the beginning of May.

Elsewhere, Olympic 200m

champ Allyson Felix and Olympic

triple jump gold-medallist Christian

Taylor are also set to compete, with

Britain's 400m world champion

Dai Greene likely to finally get his

season under way after having a

double hernia operation in March.

Slow Bolt's back in town

FRiDAy > TENNIS | FRENCH OPEN | ROLAND GARROS, PARIS | ITV 4 11.30AM

Halfway maison

As the first week of the French Open draws to

a close, there is some good news for British

tennis fans. With Andy Murray out with a sore

back, there'll be no second-week disappointment

or painful dissections of what that means for his

Wimbledon chances, followed by the inevitable

head-scratching over whether he's a 'one-slam

wonder'. Summer has barely started, mind,

so don't rule out a late appearance by all those

aforementioned joys. Savour Paris, while it lasts.

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Saturday | Rugby union | Lions v baRbaRians | Hong Kong stadium | sKy spoRts 1 12.3

Friday CRiCKet | engLand v new ZeaLand: 1st odi | LoRd’s | sKy spoRts 1 10.45am

England look to sharpen their one-day

international eye ahead of next week's

Champions Trophy with a three-match series

against the Kiwis. As they were for the

equivalent series in New Zealand, the

England deck is robbed of its ace in Kevin

Pietersen. With the in-form trio of Joe Root,

Jonathan Trott and captain Alastair Cook

joined by big-hitting Jos Buttler and the

mercurial flair of Eoin Morgan, however, good

totals shouldn't be beyond them.

New Zealand tend to be more dangerous

as a limited-overs team than in Tests – and,

when on song, skipper Brendon McCullum can

take attacks apart. While Graeme Swann,

James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Steven

Finn probably all have their Champions Trophy

spots nailed down, there's competition for the

fifth bowling place. Tim Bresnan (below),

returning from injury, is the favourite – but if

he doesn't perform, Warwickshire all-rounder

Chris Woakes is waiting in the wings.

A traditional battleground and form indicator

for the Tour de France favourites, the 65th

edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné begins not

with its traditional short individual time trial, but

with a 121-kilometre loop of the Abondance

mounts and valleys, starting from the Swiss

town of Champéry.

It will set what the organisers are calling

an "ultra-mountainous tone" for the race –

a week-long Alpine battle made up of eight

stages and covering a total distance of 1,117km.

Like this summer's Tour, the route will favour

the climbers. It follows, then, that Team Sky's

Chris Froome (pictured) is one of the favourites

– as he will be come July. Team Sky know how

to win this one, with Sir Bradley Wiggins having

taken the title in the past two years. He is not

back to defend his crown for a second time,

however – it will instead be Froome, Sky's main

man for Le Tour, who leads an A-team including

Paris–Nice champion Richie Porte and Tour of

Norway winner Edvald Boasson Hagen.

His competition will have to do something

special to beat the Brit – the only man to have

defeated Froome this year is Vincenzo Nibali,

and he won the Giro d'Italia last week.

Decisions, decisions

Setting the tone

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Brownlee

at the

doubleAfter an ankle injury delayed his start to

the season, defending world champion

Jonathan Brownlee is looking for a second

win of the year at the Madrid Triathlon this

weekend. His first came at Yokohama in Japan

this month, where the Olympic bronze-

medallist led from almost start to finish to

record the fifth series win of his career.

The Madrid course is a familiar one to the

younger Brownlee brother (left), who won

there last year with a performance that

convinced GB selectors he and brother

Alistair should spearhead Team GB's bid for

medals in the 2012 Olympic triathlon.

The pair are ranked equal 11th in the

current ITU world rankings, with one win

apiece (Alistair cruised to a win in San Diego

last month). But with his older brother

missing Madrid with an ankle injury,

Jonathan is in pole position to leapfrog him

in the rankings as September’s Grand Final

in London starts to come in to view.

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tHurSday FootbaLL | aRsEnaL LadiEs v CHELsEa LadiEs | mEadow paRK, boREHamwood | Espn 7.45pm

SuNday basEbaLL | nEw yoRK yanKEEs v boston REd soX | yanKEE stadium, nEw yoRK | Espn amERiCa 1am

After months of speculation, selection and

sweary regrets, it's time for the 2013 Lions to

kick off their tour with a money-making exercise

in Hong Kong. It's Warren Gatland’s first chance

to get his boys out on the field – but, on such

a short tour, every game matters.

For their part, the Barbarians are likely to offer

much more resistance than they did in losing

40-12 to England last week, with the likes of

Dimitri Yachvili and Nick Evans pushing for a

start. This is the game they've been waiting for.

A strong Welsh contingent is set to take to

the field for the Lions, meanwhile, with last

weekend's respective club finalists (Leinster,

Leicester and Ulster players) watching on. It's

all about trying out combinations for Gatland

(left), so it will be fascinating to see how Mike

Phillips and Owen Farrell play together – or how

the second row duo work.

Giving captain Sam Warburton a first chance

to lead, and getting his side through the 80

minutes with no injuries, will be Gatland's first

priority, though.

The 2012 season was one that

Boston Red Sox fans would like

to forget, finishing last in the AL

East with the team's worst record

in almost 50 years. Eight months

later they sit top of their division,

rejuvenated under the leadership

of John Farrell and playing great

baseball. Clay Bucholz (left) has

a 7-0 record – his 1.73 ERA is the

best among American League

starters – and on offense David

Ortiz is leading the team in style,

belting eight home runs with a

batting average in the .340s.

On Friday night the Red Sox

travel to the Bronx to begin a

three-game series with arch rivals

the New York Yankees (the third

game of which is being televised).

The Yankees opened the season

with a three-game series against

the Red Sox, which they lost 2-1.

This time they will be looking to

get one over on their rivals.

It's early days in the 2013 FA WSL season, and

yet Arsenal Ladies have already lifted one hunk

of silverware, winning their 12th Women's

FA Cup by beating Bristol last weekend.

Now their attention turns back to league

matters, and the visit of Chelsea to Meadow

Park next Thursday evening. The Blues have

made a decent start to the season, which got

under way last month, with seven points from

four games. New signings Eniola Aluko and

Sofia Jakobsson have both settled well.

Arsenal's start to the season has been quite

the contrast, with a 4-0 thrashing by Liverpool

bringing their first league defeat in almost two

years. Their FA Cup win went some way to

reassuring fans that the status quo in women's

football still stands (Arsenal rule, okay?), but

their dominance isn't quite as assured as it

has been in recent seasons. Yet.

The great Gat's boys

Yankees face another Boston beating

Normal service

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THURSDAY > EQUESTRIAN | LONGINES GLOBAL CHAMPIONS TOUR OF LONDON | OLYMPIC PARK, LONDON | BBC ONE 3PM (SATURDAY JUNE 8)

44 | May 31 2013 |

SUNDAY MOTOGP | ROUND 5: ITALIAN GRAND PRIx | MUGELLO | BBC TwO 1PM

During London 2012, the only horses that made it

inside the Olympic Park were those being ridden by

police officers, who left steaming piles of you-know-

what in inconvenient places and posed for pictures

with every toddler and OAP who passed by. But next

week, it's the turn of some working horses with rather

different CVs to strut around the site.

The Global Champions Tour is the world's richest

show jumping event, with a prize fund of £640,000

– and it's coming to London for the first time, giving

those riders who were sent to compete in Greenwich

Park last summer a chance to see what life is like

inside the Olympic Park. They'll be competing

in an area of the park that's now being called the

‘International Quarter’ (oh Stratford, you've

changed), with Team GB's gold medal-winning trio

of Nick Skelton, Scott Brash and Ben Maher the star

draws for the home crowd.

But it's American Laura Kraut and 16-year-old

gelding Cedric who come to London at the top of the

rankings after the first three events of the season,

having won the previous round – the Grand Prix of

Wiesbaden. She is, however, in danger of being

overshadowed by some of her competitors, which

include former world number one tennis player

Martina Hingis, Bruce Springsteen's daughter

Jessica and numerous Middle East royals.

It's sport, yes – but not quite as we know it.

Tickets from £10 at globalchampionstour.com

Valentino Rossi is probably not quite where

he hoped he'd be on his return to Italy.

The national hero has been reinvigorated by

his return to Yamaha, but could only manage

12th place in the previous race after sliding off

a slippery Le Mans circuit. He's therefore been

leapfrogged in the championship by British rider

Cal Crutchlow, who secured second place and

his best ever MotoGP finish in France, despite

the considerable handicap of a broken leg.

If you're in any doubt as to the insanity of this

sport, just read this quote from an unfazed

Crutchlow immediately after the last race:

“I was more concerned about the chest and

stomach because I coughed a lot of blood up

on Saturday and had a nose bleed.”

If he's stopped leaking by Sunday, Crutchlow

will be looking to build on that performance at

Mugello, which is one of the longest and fastest

tracks on the calendar. It will be difficult – the

Spanish trio of Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa

and Marc Márquez have between them won all

four rounds so far. Italy might be welcoming

back a national hero in Rossi (above), but it

will almost certainly be the Spanish national

anthem ringing out in Tuscany on Sunday night.

Stratford gets showy

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a round of golf on one of the world’s best

courses with a former Open champion.

Sport has teamed up with Your Golf Travel &

Tourism Ireland to offer one lucky golfer

and three friends an amazing trip to Royal

Portrush to play with 2011 Open Champion

Darren Clarke on June 24.

The Dunluce Links at Royal Portrush is

famed as one of the finest tests of golf on

the planet, and nobody knows it better than

local man Clarke, who grew up nearby.

Not only will you get expert advice from the

five-time Ryder Cup player, but great course

knowledge too!

- Return flights to Belfast

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- 18 holes of golf on the

famed Dunluce Links at

Royal Portrush

- An evening with Darren, dinner

and a few pints

- Overnight accommodation

- Plus... the chance to win a

dream trip to the 2014 Ryder

Cup as a special guest of

Darren’s!

To enter, download this week’s iPad

issue of Sport magazine and follow

the link. It couldn’t be simpler.

Entries close on Friday June 7.

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Inspired by the infamous 99 call

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any Aussies not to mess with you –

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ClimaLite fabric makes this the

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The Ronseal of Lions tops, also

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Logitech Keyboard Folio Mini

This ultra-thin keyboard case connects to the

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missions and monsters in one

handy package. From exploring

dungeons to battling vampires

and dragons, this is an open-

world worldy you don’t want

to let pass you by again.

Released June 9

Deadpool

While Marvel’s wise-cracking

mercenary Deadpool is one in

a million, the game is anything

but. It’s a frantic but all-too-

familiar third-person action

game, in which players chain

together extravagant attacks to

take down the bad guys. Sharp

humour and killer one-liners raise

a smile – but it can’t paper over

the shallow gameplay.

Released June 25

The Last of UsA PlayStation 3 exclusive made

by the same team that created

the blockbuster adventure series

Uncharted, this is a fight for survival

in a post-apocalyptic world in which

a mysterious disease is threatening

to wipe out mankind. You play as

lead character Joel: a hard man

with a soft side, sworn to protect

his young sidekick Ellie. The action-

heavy gameplay is split between

scavenging for weapons – as you

explore the shells of abandoned

buildings – and trying to survive

attacks from both the infected

and fellow survivors, who’ll stop at

nothing to avoid impending death.

While the action is tense and the

story compelling, it’s the relationship

between Ellie (who also acts as your

spotter for approaching threats)

and Joel that makes The Last of Us a

game in which your emotions will be

flexed as much as your trigger finger.

Released June 14

Remember Me

The surprise

reveal of last year

was this action-

adventure set in

2084, where you

play a memory

hunter capable

of rewriting other people’s lives

by getting inside their heads.

Mega-corporation Memorize has

invented a new brain implant

that enables the population to

upload memories to the web,

giving them an immense degree

of control and enabling them

to establish a surveillance state.

It’s an incredibly complex but

wonderfully realised back story

that has you exploring Neo-Paris

as free-running heroine Nilin,

with a heavy focus on combat

so visceral it’ll make you wince.

There’s little in the way of variety

– but it bursts with bold ideas.

Released June 7

In yoUR hEaD – ThEy’RE fIghTIng

ET games Battle an evil conglomerate to retrieve your memories and take on the Nazis with the Soviet

Red Army. Or there is, of course, always the option of slaying a post-apocalyptic zombie

Company of heroes 2

This real-time strategy game

set against World War II’s

Eastern Front casts you as the

commander of the Soviet Red

Army, engaging in frontline

warfare in a bid to drive back

Nazi invaders. Your strategic

skills and tactical expertise are

all that separates your men from

certain death and victoriously

reaching Berlin.

Released June 25

animal Crossing: new Leaf

There are no points or levels

in Animal Crossing, just the

opportunity to create a life in

a rural village while exploring

the sights, places and activities.

As mayor of the Animal Village,

you can chill at a coffee shop,

visit a tropical island, build new

structures for your town... or visit

other players’ towns using the

Nintendo Wi-Fi connection.

Released June 15

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