THE JIMMY ANDERSON COLUMN: How England can hit back at the Gabba – the team I’d pick, the plans the bowlers need, my advice for Joe Root and why snubbed pink-ball warm-up match would have been so helpful

You simply cannot let positions like the one England found themselves in last weekend – a hundred runs ahead with nine wickets in the tank – slip away against Australia. You’ve really got to put your foot on the throat when you get into that position and the contrast in the way the two teams […]

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Arsenal star left Nicklas Bendtner with a ‘bloody nose’, Craig Bellamy once attacked John Arne Riise with a golf club… and Kieron Dyer’s clash with Lee Bowyer – when team-mates turn rivals after Idrissa Gueye’s slap on Michael Keane

On Monday night, as Idrissa Gueye’s palm connected with the cheek of Michael Keane, the Everton star risked awakening an old curse. Not since Ricardo Fuller spanked Stoke captain Andy Griffin in December 2008 had a player been sent off in the Premier League for striking his old team-mate.  As it happens, Fuller and Griffin […]

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