Sunday Herald

No Ibrox Gain to Adam's Heroics

rANGERS will not receive a penny as a result of Charlie Adam leading Blackpool into the Barclays Premier League yesterday, as the deal which took the midfielder south did not include a promotion clause. Both the Ibrox club and the player's agent confirmed last night that while there is a sell-on clause in Adam's contract, reports suggesting Rangers would pocket up to pound(s)600,000 after his team won the Championship play-off final were wide of the mark.

Julio Cesar: Almost Untroubled in the Opening 45 Minutes, But... [Derived Headline]

Julio Cesar: Almost untroubled in the opening 45 minutes, but saved adroitly from Hamil Altintop and a menacing Arjen Robben effort in the second half.7 Maicon: Put his back to the wheel with the odd forward surge and performed his defensive duties well enough, although he did have a thin-air moment when attempting a clearance as Bayern threatened just after the interval.6

Hans-Jorg Butt: Pulled Off One Great Save From Pandev At... [Derived Headline]

Hans-Jorg Butt: Pulled off one great save from Pandev at the start of the second half and couldn't take much of the blame for Milito's brace.5 Philipp Lahm: Linked well down the right and looked in a hurry on the ball but his team-mates didn't seem to know where he intended to go with it.7

The Wait Is Finally Over

Jose Mourinho - after managing a club to the Champions League title for the second time - may be even more special than he was before, but last night in Madrid belonged to the Inter players and their fans. When it came time for the ritual lap of honour, Javier Zanetti, a man God may well have had in mind when he invented the terms "leadership" and "professionalism", and playing in his 700th match for the Nerazzurri, grabbed the trophy and sprinted towards their supporters' end as they celebra...

Charlie & the Football Factory

Occasionally, the game is still capable of the kind of outcomes that defy plausibility. Even some of the Blackpool players might have recognised a kind of disbelief as they celebrated in front of their fans, who created a swathe of tangerine that swept round half of Wembley. A small club, from a small seaside town, they will be an unassuming, yet intrepid presence in the Premier League. It is 39 years since Blackpool were last in the top-flight, and they will become the smallest club - by any...

Mcgeady Warned About Birmingham Move

AIDEN McGeady was last night warned against a pre-season transfer to Birmingham City by his international team-mate Lee Carsley. The Celtic winger, valued at around pound(s)8 million, has been a consistent target for City manager Alex McLeish over the last 12 months, and it looks increasingly likely that the club will cash in on their prime asset this summer. But Carsley, the 36-year-old former Birmigham and Republic of Ireland midfielder, feels the 24- year-old - who was also linked yesterda...

What Is It? Les Internationaux de France de Roland Garros... [Derived Headline]

WHAT IS IT? Les Internationaux de France de Roland Garros (the French Internationals of Roland Garros) make up the second Grand Slam tennis event of the year, referred to simply as Roland Garros by the French themselves. Being French and therefore a prideful lot, they built the Roland Garros stadium in 1928 in honour of les mousquetaires (musketeers) - Jacques "Toto" Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Rene Lacoste - who had won the Davis Cup on American soil the previous year. A French m...

1 Who Were the Last Pair of Brothers to Play... [Derived Headline]

1 Who were the last pair of brothers to play in a World Cup final? 2 Who captained Raith Rovers when they beat Celtic on penalties to win the League Cup in 1994/95?

From Parkhead Shadows to Wembley for Cuthbert

FOUR years ago, Scotland Under-19s reached the 2006 European Championship final, losing 2-1 to Spain. Since then, newspapers have regularly printed "Where are they now?" features on the players in that squad. For a long time, Scott Cuthbert did not have to read the articles to know what would be said about him. "Highly-rated but yet to break into the Celtic first-team squad" was how the young centre-half was described for the best part of two years. As peers such as Steven Fletcher, Lee Walla...

Young Stars Looking to Take Centre Stage

THE World Cup kicks off in Johannesburg in 19 days and Scotland are not the only ones missing out on the party. Esteban Cambiasso and Javier Zanetti, two stand-out performers in the Inter Milan side which reached the Champions League final, didn't make it into Diego Maradona's Argentina squad. Brazil coach Dunga doesn't rate Ronaldinho. Luca Toni, Francesco Totti, Alessandro del Piero, and Fabio Grosso - previously crucial cogs for defending champions Italy - missed Marcello Lippi's bus. Raym...

Gasquet Sends Murray a Warning

Richard Gasquet sent Andy Murray a stern warning before their French Open first-round clash by taming Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6- 3, 5-7, 7-6 in the final of the Nice Open yesterday. Gasquet ended a three-year title drought to claim his sixth ATP trophy and it could not have come at a better time. The Frenchman, who was briefly suspended last year after testing positive for cocaine, has struggled to regain his form since returning to the tour last August and in a bid to boost his morale bef...

David Ferrer (Spain) World Ranking: 11 Previous Best: Qf 2005,... [Derived Headline]

David Ferrer (Spain) World ranking: 11

Justine Henin (Belgium) World Ranking: 23 Previous Best: Winner 2003,... [Derived Headline]

Justine Henin (Belgium) World ranking: 23

Baltacha Feeling at Home Among the Elite

ELENA Baltacha delights in proving people wrong, so don't expect her to be put off by those who expect her debut appearance in the French Open main draw to be over before it begins. The past 12 months have seen the Enfield-based Scot rise to a career-best world ranking of 63 and become British No 1. She has also qualified for Roland Garros by right for the first time, only to be plunged into a difficult first-round encounter with Agnieszka Radwanska, a 21-year-old from Krakow who has risen to...

Scotland's Catriona Matthew Won Her Third Round Match at The... [Derived Headline]

Scotland's Catriona Matthew won her third round match at the 19th hole against South Korea's M J Hur but then lost 5 and 3 to American Angela Stanford in the quarter-finals of the inaugural Sybase Matchplay Championships at Hamilton Farm in Gladstone, New Jersey. Matthew, the Ricoh Women's British Open Champion, had scraped through on the final green to win her first two matches and had to go to an extra hole to defeat Hur.

Williams Warms Up

MARTIN Williams has locked up his marathon hopes as tightly as the offenders he manages in a Walsall police office. It's all part of his plan to run the race of his life wearing a Scotland vest in Delhi this year. The 32-year-old has been nursing the dream since discovering serious endurance aptitude on belatedly taking up the sport seven years ago. Until then he was a footballer with Shrewsbury Town, hoping to follow in the footsteps of his dad's cousin, Gary Williams, who won the European C...

Victory a Purpose-Built Triumph

The most successful cavaliers are those who can act like roundheads when they have to. The stereotype, which is not without evidence, casts Toulouse as the flashing blades of European Rugby, prepared to take on all comers in contests of flair and elan. But you do not attain success with their consistency - a fourth Heineken Cup victory, two more than anyone else, was added to a roll that includes a record 16 French championships and a current run of 17 consecutive appearances in the final-fou...

Hockey: Kelburne Are Hit for Six

Kelburne face the drop from the EuroHockey Club Trophy in Rome after they were whipped 6-0 by Belgian side ARA La Gantoise, and now occupy bottom place in the pool. Ironically, if the Paisley outfit had lost by two goals or less they would have picked up a crucial bonus point that would have relegated Irish side Loreto to bottom spot. The Belgians needed six goals to top the group but they were only three up midway through the second half. In a desperate attempt to secure the remaining three ...

Scots Fail to Shine

Scotland will face France in the quarter-final of the Bowl at the Emirates Airline London Sevens after finishing third in their group at the end of a first day in which the woes of a poor season continued to haunt them. The Scots came into the London Sevens at Twickenham without a point to their credit in the IRB World Series. Yesterday should have been about redemption but it looked a hopeless cause after the Scots crashed to a 43-17 defeat against Australia in their opening tie. The Scotlan...

Motorsport: Frustration for Di Resta

Bathgate's Paul di Resta will start fifth on the grid in his Mercedes for today's second round of the DTM Championship in Valencia. The 24-year-old Scot, back after Formula One duty as reserve driver with Force India at Barcelona and Monaco, was frustrated to miss out on the shoot-out for pole.