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Ministers under Party time Carnival kicks off

fire for locking up

immigrant children
• Policy questions after figures say 470 minors detained
• Post-traumatic stress common in those released
Karen McVeigh
Ministers were facing accusations last night
that hundreds of children are being held
unnecessarily in immigration detention
centres as official figures revealed, for
the first time, that 470 minors were being
detained with their families.
The figures, made public following
pressure from children’s rights groups and
MPs, showed most were under five.
Many were from troubled countries
such as Zimbabwe, Sudan, Sri Lanka and
Democratic Republic of Congo.
The UK has one of the worst records
in Europe for detaining children, but
accurate figures on how many are held, or
for how long, have remained elusive.
While the Home Office has not divulged
the length of detention, it provided a
“snapshot” picture of those held on a
single day: 30 June 2009.
This shows that almost a third of children
were held for longer than 28 days, which
means that in each case an immigration
minister had to sign an authorisation for
their continued detention.
The figures also show that out of 225
children released from detention in the
second quarter this year, only 100 were
removed from the UK.
Yesterday, MPs and children’s rights
groups called for an end to the “national
scandal” that has allowed children to be
locked up unnecessarily.
Sir Al Aynsley-Green, the children’s
commissioner for England, welcomed
the publication of the figures, but said
they raised important questions.
He said: “If they were allowed to stay
at the end of their release, why did they
have to go through the detention process
in the first place?”
He described the fact that one in three
had been held for longer than 28 days as
“extremely worrying”.
Earlier this year, Aynsley-Green
published a critical report into Yarl’s
Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire
which found the average stay for children
Yarl’s Wood: strongly criticised by the
children’s commissioner for England
had increased, and the decision to detain
for longer than 28 days failed to take into
account any welfare concerns raised.
Damian Green, shadow immigration
minister, described the government’s
attempts to find alternatives to detention
for families as “feeble”, adding: “It would
be better and cheaper if we don’t have
to lock up young children for weeks and
sometimes months. Other countries
seem to do better than we do at finding
alternatives.”
The average cost of holding someone in
an immigration detention centre is £130
per day.
The Guardian has spoken to three
families held at Yarl’s Wood for between
19 and 71 days. One of the children has
been diagnosed as suffering from post-
traumatic stress disorder, while another,
Ibrahim Ssentongo, four, remains trauma-
tised seven months after his detention.
Ibrahim’s father, Stephen Ssentongo,
35, from Uganda, said: “When he sees
people in uniforms of white shirts and
black trousers, like bus drivers or secu-
rity guards in shopping centres, he stops.
He wants to hold your hand or to stand in
front of you, so that you will hold him. He
is scared.”
Sheila Melzak, a consultant child
psychotherapist who has worked with
families in detention, said Ibrahim’s
trauma was far from unusual.
“All the young people I have been talking
to have lingering effects, after months and
even after years” she said.
Bethlehem Abate, 12, from Ethiopia,
described the day she and her mother were
seized in an early morning raid as “one of
the worst days I ever had to experience”.
The schoolgirl, who has been liv-
ing in Leeds for four years after flee-
ing her home country to seek asylum,
said she was disillusioned by the British
government, because she felt sure “they
would understand our situation and help
us”, but instead they have “turned every-
thing around.”
Family and children’s support groups
said the statistics showed the UK Borders
Agency was failing in its duty to detain
children only “as a measure of last resort
and for the shortest appropriate period of
time”.
Amanda Shah, of Bail for Immigra-
tion Detainees, said: “Fifty-six per cent
of detained children were released back
to their communities in the UK, their
detention having served no purpose
other than wasting taxpayers’ money
and traumatising the children involved.
Children we have supported have suffered
depression, weight loss, bedwetting and
even self-harm as a result of their deten-
tion – that is the human reality behind the
statistics.”
Lisa Nandy, policy adviser at the
Children’s Society, said children were
being detained unnecessarily because the
asylum system was “chaotic” and because
the UK Border Agency and private con-
tractors who work for them often targeted
families to increase their removal rates.
The Home Office said last night :
“UK Border Agency fully recognises its
responsibilities towards children but
these responsibilities have to be exercised
alongside our duty to enforce the laws on
immigration and asylum. If a family decide
to appeal against the courts decision while
being detained the removal process is
halted. If a judge agrees that there are
fresh grounds for an appeal the family are
usually returned back to the community A young dancer parades through Notting Hill yesterday on the first day of the
until the case has been reviewed.” carnival, which attracted hundreds of thousands of people Photograph: PA

The war? Nothing to do with Stalin, says Medvedev
Luke Harding Moscow
It is a debate that has raged in European
capitals ahead of the 70th anniversary
tomorrow of the beginning of the second
world war on 1 September 1939. Who,
apart from Hitler, was actually responsi-
ble for starting it?
This summer the Baltic states have
blamed Hitler and Stalin equally. Russia,
meanwhile, is fingering Poland.
Ultimately, however, the row which
threatens to eclipse a gathering tomor-
row of European leaders in Gdansk is not
about history or the past. It is all about the
present, specifically Russia’s claim of hav-
ing “privileged interests” in its post-Soviet
neighbours. Yesterday Russia’s president,
Dmitry Medvedev, made his own explo-
sive contribution to the debate, saying it
was a “flat-out lie” to suggest that Stalin
bore any responsibility for starting the
second world war, which he described as
“the 20th century’s greatest catastrophe”.
According to Medvedev, it was Stalin who
in fact “ultimately saved Europe”.
In an interview with Rossiya TV last
night, Medvedev let rip at the EU Bal-
A row has erupted
between Russia
and its neighbours
over Stalin’s role
in events leading
up to the second
world war
tic states and Ukraine, accusing them
of rewriting history, glorifying fascism,
and obscuring the Soviet Union’s unique
leading role in the liberation of Europe. He
also blasted the EU and its Organisation
for Security and Co-Operation in Europe
(OSCE), which, in July, passed a resolution
equating Stalinism with Nazism.
“The OSCE parliamentary assembly
just recently grouped together Germany
and the Soviet Union, pronouncing them
to be equally responsible for world war
two,” Medvedev said. “Now that, quite
frankly, is a flat-out lie.”
Medvedev recognised that there could
be “different attitudes” toward the Soviet
Union. But he alleged that there could be
no debate at all over “who started the
war, which country killed people, and
We are not amused
The Queen,
an underwear
which country saved people, millions of
people, and which country, ultimately, gaffe and a
saved Europe”. diplomatic
He accused governments in the Bal-
tic states and Ukraine of “pronounc- incident
ing former Nazi accomplices to be their
national heroes”. Western Europeans
averted
were allowing eastern Europeans to get Page 3≥
away with this outrageous revisionism,
he suggested, because they were fearful
of souring relations.
The pronouncements from Russia’s
president came as the leaders of Russia,
Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and Lithua-
nia prepared to commemorate the 70th
anniversary of the war in the Polish city
of Gdansk. Russia is sending Vladimir
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News
Knickers and other unmentionables:
(un)diplomatic US view of royal tours
Ambassadors’ indiscreet reports to Washington reveal the lighter side to royals’ ‘pomp-filled’ state visits
Rob Evans
They are the stories you never read about
the royals: a narrowly averted moment
of embarrassment when the Queen was
nearly taken on a tour of an underwear
factory in Jamaica, and a moving, concili-
atory speech made by Prince Andrew in
Argentina after the Falklands war.
They are among candid glimpses behind
the scenes of royal tours recorded by US
diplomats around the world and released
under the US freedom of information
act, and they reveal a lighter side of the
tours.
In a cable headlined “No undies, we’re
British”, the US diplomats reported on
the Queen’s tour to Jamaica in 1994 where
she was due to inspect various factories.
“An effort by the Government of Jamaica
to highlight its recent successes in the
garment-assembly industry required a
discreet change before it was deemed
acceptable by the Queen’s minders.
“Evidently no one bothered to ask man-
agement at the chosen plant in Montego
Bay’s free zone exactly what sort of gar-
ments they assembled. When the answer
came back ‘women’s underwear’, the deci-
sion was quickly made to move the tour
to a T-shirt manufacturing facility (after,
presumably, Her Majesty’s advance man
was revived with smelling salts)”.
The Americans diligently record dem-
onstrations, noting “university students
and Rastafarians used the occasion to
express their discontent”. Jamaica retains
the Queen as ceremonial head of state.
Prince Andrew’s visit to Argentina in
1994 became curiously intertwined with
a Rolling Stones’ tour a few weeks later.
The diplomats reported that the then
Argentinian president, Carlos Menem,
made a huge effort to be photographed
with Mick Jagger and the band in a “some-
what incongruous meeting ... over pizza
‘No undies, we’re
British,’ American
diplomats reported
after the hurriedly
made change to the
Queen’s itinerary
in Jamaica
The tour was moved to a
T-shirt facility (after HM’s
advance man was revived
with smelling salts)
An emotion-laden and
unprogrammed homage
to the Argentine sailors
who died on the Belgrano
Charles spent hours at the
camel races, listening to
(and stoically remaining
awake for) Arabic poetry
The Queen speaks to Ashanti dancers who performed for her in Montego Bay
and champagne” because of his “evident
desire to ingratiate himself with visiting
British ‘royalty’ such as Prince Andrew
and their satanic majesties”.
The US reports show however that
Andrew, often lampooned as the Playboy
Prince, contributed to healing relations
between Argentina and Britain after the
Falklands War. The prince, who fought
in the war, “wound up his recent visit
to Argentina with an emotion-laden and
unprogrammed homage to the hundreds
of Argentine sailors who perished on
the General Belgrano,” the Americans
reported. He had dined with Argentine
naval officers who “let it be known that
Andrew’s visit had special significance
given his personal participation in the
brief war”.
Members of the royal family, drawing
on Foreign Office advice and often accom-
panied by ministers, go on foreign tours to
fly the flag and boost diplomatic relations
and trade. The Queen is said to see them as
the defining moments of her year.
However, the US ambassadors were
dismissive about some of the tours. The
cables include a report on one “pomp-
filled, four-day state visit” by the Queen
3
Flavour of the month
Prince Charles and Diana, Princess
of Wales, ‘enthralled’ the sheikhs
during their tour of Gulf states in
1989, US diplomats reported in
their cables home to Washington
Photograph: David Levenson/Rex
to France, with then foreign secretary
Douglas Hurd. The Americans observed Diplomatic disasters
that although the Queen and President
François Mitterrand had “four meals Dispatches from ambassadors are not
together in three days ... there was little always as insightful as they should be.
substantive dialogue”. Britain’s man in Iran, Sir Anthony Par-
The dispatches also show the warmer sons, got it famously wrong on the eve
side of Princess Anne. In 1987 the Ameri- of the 1979 Iranian revolution.
cans reported that she was the first Euro-
pean royal to visit communist Laos. She
As the shah’s security forces gunned
down protesters in May 1978, he sent a
“made a favourable impression with the telegram to the then foreign secretary,
smoothness of her social skills and her David Owen, insisting that there was
obvious interest in and knowledge of Save no “serious risk” of the “king of kings”
the Children activities”. She was visiting losing his throne. “My honest opinion
projects as the charity’s president. On a trip is that the Pahlavis, father and son,
to Bolivia two years later, she “wowed” a have a good chance and my guess is
“breathless” press.
Meanwhile, US officials wrote that
that they will make it.”
In a more recent embarrassment,
sheikhs in the United Arab Emirates were our man in North Korea, Peter Hughes,
“enthralled” by Charles and Diana in 1989. had his blog on the March elections
“The [sheikhs] seem to have forgiven the likened to Pyongyang propaganda.
British for any excesses they may have “Outside the central polling stations
suffered under imperial rule ... there is far there were bands playing and people
more fondness than rancor for the Brit- dancing to entertain the queues of
ish”. The royal couple’s visit was “hugely
successful”, especially as the British were
voters waiting patiently to select their
representatives in the country’s uni-
“sparing no political attention to enhance cameral legislature,” Hughes wrote.
their economic interests” in the UAE. Mark Tran
In 1997, Charles toured Saudi Arabia,
when relations with Britain had been put
under strain over Saudi dissidents in Lon-
don. “Spreading his message that the west Prince
can learn from Islam’s spirituality, the Andrew paid
Prince of Wales charmed his Saudi audi- tribute to
ence, royals and plebeians alike,” reported Argentinian
the American diplomats. sailors who
Charles was the “star attraction” at perished on
the king’s annual cultural festival, they the Belgrano
reported, spending “hours at the camel
races, listening to (and stoically remain-
ing awake for) Arabic poetry and ballads,
feasting with 1,200 dignitaries and ulti-
mately joining the crown prince and his
half-brother in the sword dance”.
The US re on the receiving end of an
apparent gaffe, when he visited Indone-
sia in 1989 to promote nature conserva-
tion. “A dubious point included the
gift [from the government] to HRH
of two small mounted Komodo drag-
ons in a glass case. The prince gra-
ciously accepted the gift. We have
pointed out to aghast Common-
wealth colleagues that Komodos
are bred in captivity here,” said the
Americans.
4 The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009

Dugard kidnapping

Police in abduction
case focus on spate
of unsolved killings
Search of Garrido home and neighbouring house relates to
nine murders in San Francisco Bay area, say authorities
Ed Pilkington New York
Bobbie Johnson San Francisco
Police from Antioch, the town near San
Francisco where Jaycee Dugard was held
hostage for 18 years by a sex offender until
her dramatic release last week, will meet
today to discuss reopening more than 10
cases concerning murdered and missing
women in the area.
Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have
pleaded not guilty to 29 counts, including
kidnapping, rape and unlawful impris-
onment, after they were discovered last
Wednesday to have been hiding Dugard and
the two children she had borne her attacker,
in tents and sheds in their garden.
Dugard had been missing since being
snatched in 1991, when she was 11, outside
her house in South Lake Tahoe, about 170
miles away.
Detectives are now homing in on kill-
ings and missing persons reports in and
around Antioch, in the suspicion that
Garrido – known by neighbours as “creepy
Phil” – might have been involved in many
more incidents. Police have indicated they
have reasons for pursuing the investiga-
tion, but have declined to give details.
Throughout the weekend forensic and
homicide officers searched the Garrido
home in Walnut Avenue, Antioch, using
metal detectors. They dug holes in the
backyard, pored over scrap heaps and
used a chainsaw to clear vegetation. They
also extended the search to the next door
house where Garrido, 58, is understood to
have been caretaker until its current occu-
pant moved in three years ago.
Local authorities have indicated that
Phillip Garrido with his lawyer at his
arraignment on Friday in Sacramento
the search of the Garrido property and the
house next door relates to a string of nine
murders that occurred between 1998 and
2002 in Pittsburg, a town of almost 60,000
in the San Francisco Bay area just seven
miles from Garrido’s home.
The victims’ bodies were all found in
a remote industrial zone in Pittsburg and
neighbouring Bay Point. It is understood
that the methods of killing bore similari-
ties and that Garrido used to work in an
industrial park on the waterfront close to
where several bodies were discovered.
A number of women were found beaten,
strangled or stabbed and dumped in the
area within a two-month period in 1998-
99. They included three women alleged
to be working as prostitutes, Jessica Fre-
derick, 24, Valerie Schultz, 27 and Rachel
Cruise, 32. The body of a 15-year-old, Lisa
Norrell, was also found at around the same
time. Norrell, who was adopted from
Suburban prison
Mexico as a baby by a Californian family,
The home of Phillip Garrido in
had been in Antioch to attend a rehearsal
Antioch. Clockwise from above:
for a friend’s coming-of-age party. Walk-
an aerial view of the compound;
ing home along the short, dark, stretch of
bookshelves in Jaycee Dugard’s
highway a few miles from Garrido’s house,
tented living quarters; law
Norrell was attacked and asphyxiated.
enforcement officers at the house;
Her shoes were found the next morning
the outside of one of the tents; and
by the side of the road, and her body was
the squalor within
discovered eight days later near a land-
Photographs: Nick Stern/
scaping firm further along the highway.
Redthinkmedia.com; Rex Features
Police did not say whether she was sexu-
ally abused.
Lisa’s mother, Minnie Norrell, said on
local television that police had told her
they were now searching for clues to her
daughter’s death. “I think I started shak-
ing. I’m hopeful that’s who it is, just so
there’s an end. There will never be closure
but there will be an end,” she told KTVU.
John Conaty, one of two detectives who
led the Norrell case, is now an inspector
and is believed to be involved in the inves-
tigation into Garrido’s activities. The other
detective, Raymond Giacomelli, was killed
in a shoot-out with a drug dealer in 2003.
Other cases in which the police have
shown renewed interest since Garrido’s
arrest include that of Michaela Garecht,
who, in 1988, was kidnapped, aged nine,
from Hayward, about an hour’s drive from
the Garrido home, and has not been seen
since. There is also the unsolved case of
a 17-year-old girl murdered a few months
before Garrido kidnapped and raped a
woman in 1976, for which he was impris-
oned for 11 years.
Over the weekend details began to
emerge about the conditions in which
Dugard and her children were kept. They
lived in an area about the size of a tennis
court with an earth floor under tents and
sheds. The “backyard within a backyard”
was kept obscured from neighbours by an
intricate system of tarpaulins, with entry
only through a narrow opening shielded
by shrubs. Part of the construction was
sound-proofed and this section is where
it is believed the two daughters, now aged
11 and 15 and called Scarlett or Starlite and
Angel, were born.
Photographs have been released show-
ing women’s clothes hung on a makeshift
rack inside a tent, and a cluttered work
area with haphazard shelves and food
containers and objects strewn over chairs
and on the floor.
Among the 20 or so books on the shelves
were several volumes dedicated to cats,
and a self-help book on raising families
called Self-Esteem: a Family Affair. There
were toys and crayons dotted around, a
children’s swing outside one of the tents,
and a vase of flowers.
The possibility that Garrido could be
linked to a much greater series of trag-
edies has caused consternation, mixed
with hope of new leads, across the Bay
area. In South Lake Tahoe, where Dugard
used to live until her abduction, banners
and ribbons have been tied to hundreds
of trees and posts, all in pink, the colour
of the clothes she was wearing that fateful
morning of 10 June 1991.

Home town
Some knew her, others only knew of
‘We’re all her. But they will never forget the day
18 years ago when the blonde, blue-eyed
11-year-old was snatched in broad day-
happy she’s light on her way to a bus stop.
Her scream. A frantic sprint on a
mountain bike by her stepfather up the
back – but it’s twisted mountain road as he tried to
catch up to the Ford Granada and the
unknown man and woman who had just
a life ruined’ ripped his family’s lives to shreds before
his eyes.
A world-renowned tourist destina-
tion, South Lake Tahoe on the Nevada-
California line is dominated in summer
by gamblers, boaters and beachgoers,
and in winter by gamblers, skiers and
snowboarders. But beneath the facade
of a tourist town is a tight-knit com-
munity that never forgot Jaycee Lee
Dugard.
Her mother, Terry Probyn, and step-
father, Carl, were relative newcomers
to the community. “They were brand
new to the district,” Sue Bush, Jaycee’s
former teacher, said. “I met them at
parent-teacher conference twice.”
The community held fundraisers, put
up fliers and adorned the town in pink
ribbons after Jaycee was kidnapped on
10 June 1991.
On the 10th anniversary of the kid-
napping, Terry Probyn, who left Tahoe
in 1998 and moved to southern Califor-
nia, returned to the town. “Someone
out there knows what happened,” she
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009 5

Stockholm syndrome theory

‘Her bonding with the kidnapping

duo probably saved her life’
Ed Pilkington New York

One of the most baffling elements of Jay-

cee Lee Dugard’s story is why she never
attempted to escape during 18 long
years of captivity at the hands of the
man who kidnapped her and raped her.
Despite the elaborate lengths to
which Phillip Garrido went to hide Dug-
ard along with their two children, it has
also emerged that he regularly exposed
her to public contact. Several people
have reported seeing Jaycee – or Allissa,
as Garrido called her – in the open.
Ralph Hernandez, a retired police
officer from Garrido’s home town of
Antioch in California, told the Guard-
ian that he visited the house last year
to talk to Garrido about some work. He
was introduced in the living room to a
blonde woman who looked about 20 –
Dugard is now 29 but is said to appear
much younger. The woman was quiet
and polite, but said nothing.
A similar account was given by Ben
Daughdrill, a customer of Garrido’s
printing business. He told the New York
Times he was introduced to a young
woman who Garrido said was his daugh-
ter Allissa and later exchanged emails
and phone calls with her. “She was the
design person; she did the art work; she
was the genius,” Daughdrill said.
Another customer told the Contra
Costa Times Dugard would sometimes
be seen in the house wearing gloves and
with printer’s ink all over her clothes.
After their dramatic reunion, Dugard
told her mother Terry that she felt guilty
that she had not escaped, and for hav-
ing bonded with Garrido. That has led
to speculation that Dugard exhibits the
classic signs of Stockholm syndrome, a
psychological disorder in which a cap-
The case of tive comes over time to feel entirely
Patty Hearst, dependant on, and even affectionate
above, brought towards, his or her captor.
Stockholm It is named after a bank robbery in
syndrome Stockholm in 1972 in which the bank
into the public workers became emotionally attached
consciousness. to the criminals over a six-day hostage
In 1974 Hearst ordeal. The most notorious case is prob-
was abducted by ably that of Patty Hearst, granddaughter
a terrorist group of the publishing magnate, William Ran-
at the age of 19, dolph Hearst, who became a member
and eventually of the outlawed Symbionese Liberation
became a Army having been abducted by them.
member of the Joseph Carver, a US psychologist with
organisation expertise in Stockholm syndrome, said
that Dugard’s situation met all the crite-
ria of such a reaction, but stressed it was
a survival mechanism rather than any-
thing to do with romance. “If we think
about it, her bonding with the kidnap-
ping duo probably saved her life, as well
as the lives of her two children.”
Carver said that recovery would
probably take a long time, not only for
Dugard but also for her children and
her family. “Emotionally, the family is
reliving both her initial loss and return,”
he said.

said at the time. “We need peace. Give
us that gift.”
It arrived, out of the blue, on Wednes-
day night, when she received a call from
investigators, saying that her daughter
had been found alive, ending nearly two
decades of questions – and suspicions
against the girl’s stepfather, Carl Probyn.
In South Lake Tahoe, joy that Jaycee
was alive was mixed with anxiety about
her physical and emotional wellbeing,
and sadness over the loss of youth and
innocence.
“I used to drive by that bus stop all
the time,” said Sue Pritchett, a retired
teacher. “I’m absolutely ecstatic that
she’s been found. But I hope she’s OK.”
Bush recalled the day Jaycee didn’t
show up for school. “We got the call just
before class started,” she said. “Some of
the kids already knew about it, because
they had witnessed it at the bus stop.
The kids were very agitated and upset.
“We brought in counsellors, and dur-
ing the week we wrote letters to Jaycee
and her mom. We kept her chair and
desk set up.”
The school, now called Lake Tahoe
Environmental Science Magnet school,
On the
has a memory garden that started as
site Jaycee’s Garden. Butterflies painted on
Latest news, plus the walls symbolise pupils at the school
a gallery of the who have died. There are four; one was
Antioch compound for Jaycee. “We’re all happy she’s back.
guardian.co.uk/world But it’s a life ruined,” said Bush.
AP South Lake Tahoe
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Opposition ends 54 years of almost unbroken

conservative rule in Japan with poll landslide
Hatoyama’s DPJ expected
to win 300 seats
Cost of election pledges
and US policy under fire

Justin McCurry Tokyo

Japan’s opposition carried off a stunning

victory in yesterday’s general election,
crushing the ruling party and raising
hopes of a significant shift in policy after
more than half a century of almost unbro-
ken conservative rule.
Hours after the polls closed, the Demo-
cratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had surpassed
the 241 seats it needed to win a majority in
the 480-seat lower house and oust the Lib-
eral Democratic party (LDP) from power.
Major television networks projected
that the DPJ, a broadly progressive party
whose ranks include socialists as well as
former LDP rebels, would secure more
than 300 seats, almost triple the number
it held going into the election.
The incoming prime minister, Yukio
Hatoyama, will lead Japan’s first non-LDP
administration since 1993, and only the
country’s second since 1955.
Speaking to jubilant party members in
Tokyo, he said he remained committed to
the mantra of change that had swept the
DPJ into power. “The people are angry
with politics and the ruling coalition,” he
said. “We keenly felt that people wanted a
change in their lives, and so we fought this
election for a change in government.”
Taro Aso, the outgoing prime minister,
indicated he would resign as head of the
LDP to take responsibility for a disastrous
night that could see the party’s strength
reduced from 300 seats to just over 100.
“These results are very severe,” he said.
“There is deep dissatisfaction with our The media wait for the vote count to start in front of posters for the Democratic Party of Japan, which swept into power yesterday Photograph: Itsuo Inouye/AP
party.” In a potentially intriguing devel-
opment, those emerging as possible can-
didates for the LDP presidency included in bilateral ties. The US-Japan alliance, he “We want to ask the next administra-
Hatoyama’s brother, Kunio, a former jus- Profile Yukio Hatoyama said, would “continue to be the corner- tion to swiftly deal with concerns about
tice minister in the Aso administration. stone of Japanese diplomatic policy”. unemployment uncertainty and deflation,
With an overwhelming public mandate Analysts said the election result her- which are deepening simultaneously,” the
secured, Hatoyama will quickly come
under pressure to make good on his mani-
Keeping politics in the family alded a fundamental shift in Japan’s con-
servative-dominated political culture.
Nikkei business paper said.
While Aso counted the cost of a year
festo pledges. He has promised to elimi- “This is about the end of the postwar in office bedevilled by gaffes, sleaze and

nate wasteful public works, challenge
elite bureaucrats’ policy stranglehold and
invest heavily in social security in one of
the world’s most elderly societies.
But he has come under fire for failing
to cost proposals such as free high school
education and a 26,000 yen (£170) a month
child allowance. Sceptics have also ques-
tioned his ability to wrest power from
the mandarins who have dictated Japan’s
postwar economic policy.
There is potential, too, for friction with
the Washington if Hatoyama pursues an
election pledge to end Japan’s “subservi-
ence” to American foreign policy, includ-
ing plans to halt a refuelling mission in
support of US-led forces in Afghanistan.
In a New York Times opinion piece, he
said the failure of the Iraq war and the glo-
bal financial crisis proved that “the era of
US-led globalism is coming to an end.”
He added, however, that the US would
“remain the world’s leading military and
economic power for the next two to three
decades” and he ruled out a radical shift
Y
ukio Hatoyama is almost
certain to become Japan’s
next prime minister af-
ter defeating the party
his family helped create.
His grandfather, Ichiro
Hatoyama, was the Liberal Democratic
party’s first prime minister in 1954-56;
today, Yukio Hatoyama, pictured, is
preparing to lead only the second non-
LDP government for 54 years.
Hatoyama, 62, has politics in
his blood. His father Iichiro
ichiro
was a foreign ministerr and
his younger brother, Kunio,
recently served in Taroo Aso’s
LDP government.
ime
This is the second time
Hatoyama has had a
hand in ousting the
LDP. Angered by its
weak response to cor-
ruption scandals, he
left the party in 1993
to help form a coalition that kept the
LDP in opposition, albeit for less than
11 months.
Hatoyama’s task since his appoint-
ment as party leader in May has been to
convince voters that his eclectic bunch
of former LDP rebels, conservatives and
social democrats, can guide the world’s
second biggest economy through its
worst crisis since the war.
As a blue-blooded politician from
a hugely weal
wealthy family, Hatoyama
can hardly claim
cl to represent a fresh
alternative tto Japan’s political ways.
He inherite
inherited his father’s seat in
Hokkaido in 1986 and has since been
elected seve
seven times.
Hatoy
Hatoyama can come across as
eccen
eccentric and aloof – his nick-
nam
name is “the alien” – and at
time
times sounds more like the
tea
teacher he once was than a
po
political leader.
Ju
Justin McCurry Tokyo
political system in Japan,” said Gerald
Curtis, an expert on Japan at Columbia
University in the US. “It is the only time
any party other than the LDP has won a
majority in the lower house of the Diet.
It marks the end of one long era, and the
beginning of another one about which
there is a lot of uncertainty.”
Much uncertainty centres on the DPJ’s
spending commitments as Japan, already
saddled with a huge public debt, emerges
from its deepest recession since the war.
Richard Jerram, the chief economist at
Macquarie Securities in Tokyo, described
Hatoyama’s 16.8tn yen investment pro-
gramme, as a “quasi-socialist approach”
that would harm Japan’s public finances
and blunt its competitiveness.
“The core of the DPJ’s economic policy
seems to be a fantasy Robin Hood scheme,
aimed at appealing to as many voters as
possible,” he said.
Japanese newspaper editorials agreed
that his first task must be to steer Japan
towards sustained economic recovery.
mounting economic woes, Hatoyama was
reportedly discussing his cabinet.
The administration is expected to
include two minor parties, giving the DPJ
‘This is about the end
of the postwar political
system in Japan’
Gerald Curtis
majorities in both houses of parliament.
Despite nagging concerns over the DPJ’s
ability to govern, its extraordinary rise to
power appears to have stirred voters out of
their disenchantment with politics.
Early estimates suggested turnout
could exceed the 67.5% seen at the last
election, in 2005, but hopes that it could
surpass 70% may have been dashed by
strong winds and heavy rain brought by
an approaching typhoon.
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Bus-pass Briton, 67,

back fighting bulls
Crowd cheers gory return
of El Inglés after heart
bypass and knee surgery
Giles Tremlett Benalmadena
Its name was Baloncito, or Little Ball,
but there was nothing small about the
450kg bull that came charging towards
Frank Evans, a 67-year-old from Salford,
during one of bullfighting’s most unu-
sual comebacks last night.
Evans, advertised on local billboards
as “El Inglés” but recently dubbed ‘the
“bus-pass bullfighter”, greeted Little
Ball with a whirl of his cape as he set
about trying to prove that a titanium
knee and a quadruple heart bypass were
“That was more than acceptable tak-
ing in to account his age and the fact
that he needed a bit of a rest before kill-
ing,” said Carlos Franquelo, one of those
demanding that Evans be rewarded with
the bullfighter’s gory prize – a bull’s ear.
An old rugby league knee injury
forced his retirement four years ago.
“I wasn’t happy about retiring then,”
he said. “It’s OK if you stop because you
want to but when it is because of injury
it feels a bit like your girlfriend has left
you, rather than the other way around.
Evans said before the fight that he
was as fit as he has ever been, submit-
ting his new titanium knee to a daily
regime of running, sprints and gym cir-
cuits. He had also been practising with
his cape and sword at village festivals
during the past few months, he added.

no impediment to an ageing torero.
More than 40 years after first picking
up a cape, the Briton was fighting at an
age at which all but a handful of Spanish
matadors have long since retired.
Some 500 people, including a smat-
tering of pink-faced British holiday-
makers, looked at this small bullring in
Benalmadena, southern Spain, as he
began the slow business of teasing and
tiring the bull with the magenta cape.
There were some shrieks of fear from
the audience but also cries of “Ole!”
when the bull charged. “This ring
mainly brings in tourists,” said Antonio
Ortega, the bullring’s 84-year-old jani-
tor. “Though a lot of local pensioners
also come as they get cheap tickets.”
Fifteen minutes after Little Ball
had run across the sand, Evans sank
his sword into the exhausted animal’s
neck to kill it. It was one of two bulls he
was due to kill during the evening and
was greeted with white handkerchiefs
waved by the crowd in approval.
63
The world ranking
of Frank Evans in
2003, his highest
during a stop-start
bullfighting career
that has spanned
40 years
“I think it was probably more irre-
sponsible of me to fight in my 30s when
I had young children,” Evans said. “If
the bull bumps me off this afternoon
people will cry for a few days but that’s
it. It is always a calculated risk. The dan-
ger is part of that attraction but I’ve got
no intention of getting caught.
“When the bull comes into the arena
your nerves settle down. Within that
first 30 or 40 yards it is telling you a lot
about what it is going to do.”
Evans’s father, a Salford butcher, first
sparked his son’s interest in bullfighting
with his tales of crossing the Spanish
border from Gibraltar to see bullfights
during the second world war.
British matador Frank Evans, 67, sidesteps a bull once again in Benalmadena’s ring Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images
A family of Spanish immigrants in
Salford, devotees of the famous 1960s
matador Manuel Benitez, known as El
Cordobés, kept his fantasy alive.
In his autobiography, The Last British
Bullfighter, Evans wrote that his home
town was hardly a place where either
bullfighting or Spanish culture made
much of an impact. “The city isn’t really
a hotbed for matadors. In Salford most
people used olive oil to clean their ears
out. You could only buy it in a chemist.”
Evans, who has been gored in the leg
and the buttocks during his 40 years as a
bullfighter, had a stop-start career until
the 1990s.
His first attempt at a village festival in
the mid-1960s was not a great success.
The bull ran away with his cape, which
had to be rescued by a group of children.
“It was very Benny Hill,” he said.
He landed his first proper fight as a
junior bullfighter, or novillero, in 1968
when someone mistook him for another
British bullfighter Henry Higgins, but
did not become a fully fledged matador
until 1991.
By 2003 he had climbed to number 63
in the world rankings – thanks largely to
the backing of Benalmadena’s bullring
owner, who saw him as a tourist draw.
Evans’s wife, Margaret, and his fam-
ily have accepted his return to the ring.
“He’s experienced and he knows what
he is doing,” said his son Matthew.
Evans has little time for those who
see bullfighting as a cruel sport. “Gen-
erally they come from sheltered back-
grounds,” he said. “They haven’t ever
seen an animal die and have never been
to a slaughterhouse. They would be
shocked if they did.”

Burmese militia fighters flee to
China after government offensive
Tania Branigan Beijing
and agencies
Fighters from a north-eastern Burmese
militia streamed into south China yester-
day, saying the government had routed
their troops and seized their largely auton-
omous ethnic enclave.
Clusters of weary men described wide-
spread bloodshed in Kokang and some said
their troops had been decisively defeated.
They joined about 30,000 refugees who
have flooded into Nansan in Yunnan prov-
ince in recent days.
The US Campaign for Burma said about
700 Kokang troops had fled to China and
surrendered their weapons, but the
whereabouts of their leader was unclear.
Fresh conflict between the Burmese
regime and other ethnic groups is likely,
warned Aung Din, the campaign’s execu-
tive director. “There will be more fighting,
more tension and more conflict because
the regime will continue to try to force
them to surrender their arms,” he said.
‘
The military junta signed ceasefires
with several ethnic leaders in Shan state in
1989. But it is pressing them to take part in
next year’s elections and allow their mili-
tias to be incorporated into a state border
force.
The groups – some of which have grown
powerful because of drugs trading and
gambling – are suspicious of the move.
“Ultimately the future of Kokang will
have to be solved through negotiations,
not war,” He Shengda, an expert on Burma
at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences,
told Reuters.
“The Kokang army has collapsed. We’re
all on the run,” said Chen Bo, who arrived
in Nansan yesterday. He said he was a Chi-
nese national who had been fighting for
the Kokang for money and showed what
appeared to be a bullet graze on his back.
Xiong Zhaole told Reuters: “We had to
give up. The fighting was too much.”
The total number of dead and injured
in Kokang is unknown. Burma’s state-
controlled media have not reported the
violence.

Suicide bomber kills 14 in attack

on Pakistan police station
Haroon Siddique and agencies
At least 14 police recruits were killed by
a suicide bomber in the Swat valley in
north-west Pakistan yesterday, the deadli-
est attack since the army regained control
of the area from the Taliban.
The blast hit the yard of the main police
station in Mingora, the major town in
the area, a day after the army reported
destroying a nearby training camp for
suicide bombers.
Idrees Khan, the l ocal police chief,
denied reports that the attacker was in
uniform and may have been one of the
police volunteers. “No, we don’t have any
such report – but yes, a suicide bomber
sneaked into the training for recruits,” he
told reporters.
Members of a new community police
force set up to patrol the region were being
trained when the attacker detonated his
explosives, the provincial information
minister, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, told the
Geo TV channel. The police station has
been bombed twice in recent months.
‘I’ve never
Eight recruits who were injured in the had any
explosion were receiving treatment, a hos-
pital official told the Associated Press.
ambition,
The police chief said at least 20 people or thought
had been wounded. He blamed the attack
on the decision to relax a daily curfew in
of what I
the area for the holy month of Ramadan. should be
Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousuf Raza
Gilani, said: “We will not allow the ene-
doing or
mies of the country to succeed.” had any
Police blocked roads and ordered resi-
dents to stay indoors. Pakistani army offi-
idea of
cials said forces were restoring security in what I’d
Swat after a three-month military offen-
sive took the valley back from Taliban con-
like to do.
trol. Five Pakistani soldiers were killed in Never.’
a suicide attack at a security checkpoint in
the Swat valley on 15 August. Last month,
Joanna
the military declared Mingora and sur- Lumley.
rounding areas cleared of militants, except
for small pockets of resistance.
G2, page 4
8 The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
Special report
In a peaceful
enclave, rich
and poor see
dreams crumble
Seventy years on from
John Steinbeck’s tough
take on depression-era
America, Chris McGreal
continues his series
tracing the route of The
Grapes of Wrath and finds
that the foreclosures of
this decade are stripping
homes to the rafters in
one Arizona retreat
Patti Levine is under siege. There are
the plans to build a sprawling factory on
one side of her pristine desert paradise
and proposals for a huge solar power
plant on the other. Mexicans are flood-
ing across the border, forcing her to wait
for a doctor, and a large chunk of her
retirement fund has been wiped out on
the New York stock exchange.
And now, the country has gone and
elected a president who, if you’re sitting
in the middle of an Arizona country
club, looks very much as if he wants to
turn the US into the Soviet Union, and
worst of all, strip Levine of her guns.
“I have a licence to carry a concealed
weapon and when I fly my airplane I
take my gun. When you’re single and
you’re 64 years old you gotta be careful.
Even here,” she says.
But on the bright side, while the
wealthy widow awaits the rightwing
revolution she sees predicted on the
internet, life is pretty good watch-
ing the setting sun glistening through
the sprinklers watering the Valle Vista
country club’s golf course nestled
among the cacti and mountains of the
Arizona desert.
There’s just the other matter of
rampant foreclosures as economic
reality catches up, even with the 1,200
residents of Valle Vista’s privileged
enclave. The country club lies just off
the largely deserted old Route 66 as it
winds through the northern Arizona
deserts. Seventy years ago the road was
besieged by destitute families struggling
west on the last leg of an arduous trip of
1,500 miles or more to California.
Some of the people, in the 1930s
depression era, were escaping mass
unemployment in the northern cities.
Others, characterised in The Grapes of
Wrath, were fleeing evictions from dry,
barren, land in Oklahoma.
There is not the same mass move-
ment today, but many are struggling to
hold on to their homes. Valle Vista lies
at the heart of a region of foreclosures
that runs beyond Las Vegas across the
Nevada border to the north, and south
to Arizona’s capital, Phoenix. Most have
been forced from their homes through
Desert boundary
Sprinklers keep up appearances at
Valle Vista golf course, Arizona. But
the community is suffering as banks
seize homes amid mortgage defaults
and the building slump
Photographs: David Levene
Grapes of Wrath
revisited Day 4
The series, concluding tomorrow,
follows the route of Steinbeck’s
fictional family, seeing how, and
whether, life has changed for
modern-day Americans
Tomorrow An “Okie” recalls the long
trek west seven decades ago
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no longer being able to pay the mort-
gage; or they have done the maths on
their property and abandoned it to the
bank. They are often, as in Steinbeck’s
day, the people who have worked the
hardest for the least reward: men and
women with multiple jobs working for
the minimum wage who one day find
they can’t afford the repayments. It’s a
common story in Arizona and across the
state borders, in California and Nevada.
But nestled away in the Arizona
desert is another story.
The Valle Vista country club was
established in 1972. The lush grass golf
course planted in the desert is a big draw
for many of the residents. Others came
for the isolation. All those who have
arrived over the years were comfort-
ably off, some very wealthy. Many, like
Levine, whose husband was a successful
New Mexico lawyer, lived off the earn-
ings of large investments in the ever-
booming stock market.
Butch and Andi Martin are a debonair
New York couple who arrived nearly
three years ago. “This is the last part of
Route 66 that’s still uninterrupted and
still beautiful and still kind of native
and desert. After living in New York for
25 years you’re ready for the opposite,
which is no traffic, no smells, no indus-
try, no nothing. A nice change for us,”
says Butch Martin. “What you have is no
street lights, no above-ground utilities,
so you can see the stars at night. You
have virtually no noise so you can sleep
at night. Valle Vista is a sort of treasure
that we hope other people find out
about because we have a lot of lots.”
Levine admits it never occurred to
her that the harsh realities of economic
life might intrude. But a financial crisis
that began with mortgage defaults
bundled up as first-class investments
and indirectly bought up by investors
like Levine has left some at Valle Vista
unable to pay for their own houses.
“Most of us here are retired. Our
retirement was in the New York stock
exchange, and it’s not there any more,”
says Levine.
“I lost about 25% of my net income
on the stock market. I own a lot of land
down here. I was living off that too. I
buy and sell land. That’s not done very
well in the last couple of years either.”
Levine is not alone. Of nearly 900
properties at Valle Vista, more than
100 have been seized by the banks, or
abandoned along with the mortgages,
or, left only half built, the money for
construction having run out.
“People are moving out of their
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One of many properties for sale in Valle Vista as people struggle to pay mortgages

a couple of New Yorkers not only from
their stylish dress and east coast accents
but by their decidedly liberal views in a
sea of Republicanism.
“We’re in the minority here,” says
Andi Martin. “We’re the liberals.”
But the Martins and Levine have
found unusual common ground amid
a growing sense of siege at Valle Vista,
though not for the same reasons.
It began when a large biofuels
company, Sun West, announced plans
to build a plant on a patch of desert
that was within a stone’s throw of the
country club. Not only would it spoil the
views, residents thought, but it would
certainly drive down the value of prop-
erty at Valle Vista.
A project to build a billion dollar,
4,000-acre (1,618-hectare) solar plant on
a nearby dry lake bed was also received
with groans at the country club because
of its capability of sucking up a lot of the
ground water – no doubt, another blow
to property values.
The Martins were against all this
mostly on environmental grounds. They
have some worries about safety. And
they can give chapter and verse on the
debated ecological value of biofuels,
never mind the aesthetics of building
an industrial plant under the stunning
desert mountains.
“It will spoil this last part of Route
66 that is unspoiled. It’s a unique
community. Some of us think of this as a
jewel and that’s why we’re trying to pro-
tect it,” says Butch Martin. “We’re not
against the plant, we’re not against the
jobs, we’re not against the tax revenue
for the area. Great. But it’ll all work at
another location. They don’t have to
build it so close to us. It just doesn’t
make any sense.”
Levine admits that at first she didn’t
take much notice of the plans for a
biodiesel plant and the solar project. But
once she realised their significance she
threw her weight behind the campaign
to keep them away from Valle Vista.
“We’re coming together for a very
important cause,” says Butch Martin.
Levine leaps in: “Yeah, keeping our
property values up!”

We pay for the guy

that doesn’t want to
work. They say we’ll
have a revolution.
I’m waiting
Patti Levine, 64

homes and taking all of the fixtures,
anything they can take out of the
house,” says Andi Martin. “That’s
unusual. Stripping the houses when
they leave. Plumbing, toilets, carpets.
So the banks are left with these houses
that aren’t very marketable.”
A number of half-built properties will
almost certainly have to be torn down.
Four-bedroom houses with magnificent
views of the mountains have been aban-
doned with roofs incomplete. The rain
has worked into unprotected insulation
and inner walls.
“They’ll never complete these
houses. Can you imagine anyone want-
ing to buy a property so badly damaged
by water? If nothing else, there’ll prob-
ably be a terrible smell,” Martin says.
Still, there are bargains at Valle Vista.
Foreclosed houses can be picked up for
less than half of what it cost to build
them a couple of years ago. Some are
going for as little as $81,000 (about
£50,000). “I’m sure we’ve lost at least a
quarter of our equity and maybe more.
There are houses that are not as in good
shape, but now they’re for $40,000, or
$50,000 – three bedrooms, two bath-
rooms, on a nice sized lot,” says Martin.
Levine is not losing her house. “I was
just lucky that I had enough savings to
get me through. It’s gonna be different
for all of us. We’re gonna have to work a
lot harder and we’re gonna have to pay
attention to what we’re spending.”
It’s not clear if the “we” having to
work a lot harder refers to the country
club folk – unlikely, as few work at all –
or whether it means the less fortunate
in the rest of America. Levine isn’t sure
who to blame for it all going so wrong.
She says she’s a rampant capitalist at
heart but is frustrated that so much of
her money has been gobbled up by the
stock exchange.
Still, there are deeper concerns.
Levine complains of the burdens on
the rich, and her voice rises as she
vents against Barack Obama and his
liberal agenda. “I’m a capitalist and it’s
changing to socialism. I really believe
that, and I believe if we work hard and
we earn what we earn, we should be
able to spend it on ourselves and not
the guy that doesn’t want to work. And
right now we’re being forced to pay for
the guy that doesn’t want to work. I’ve
been watching the internet and they say
we’re going to have a revolution. I’m
waiting,” she says.
Levine found out something else on
the internet too. The US president plans
to brush aside the constitutional right
for citizens to bear arms, enshrined
in the second amendment, and to
“come for the gun owners”. She says:
“They’re talking about taking our second
amendment rights away. In fact some of
our representatives I understand have
already promised other countries we’re
going to be disarmed. That won’t happen
in this country as far as I’m concerned.”
The Martins listen to Levine with a
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International
Israeli prosecutors charge former PM Olmert with corruption
Rory McCarthy Jerusalem
Israeli prosecutors charged the former
prime minister Ehud Olmert with corrup-
tion yesterday in three separate cases after
months of high-profile investigations that
eventually forced him out of office.
Olmert, 63, who announced last autumn
that he would resign in the face of mount-
ing corruption allegations, continues to
maintain his innocence. Indicted for the
first time, he now faces the humiliating
prospect of a trial.
In recent weeks prosecutors had
dropped their investigations into three
other cases against Olmert for lack of evi-
dence, but yesterday indicted him with
charges including fraud and breach of
trust. The cases date back to time when
he was a minister and Jerusalem mayor,
before he became PM in 2006.
An American businessman and long-
Ehud Olmert is
accused of double-
billing charities
including the
Simon Weisenthal
Centre and the
Holocaust museum
time Olmert supporter, Morris Talansky,
alleged in court last year that he gave him
thousands of dollars in envelopes which
he believed were spent on hotels, holidays
and cigars. Olmert, he claimed, asked for
the money in cash and kept no record of
how it was spent. Investigators suspect
Olmert broke campaign finance laws.
In a second case, Olmert is alleged to
have double-billed for flights he booked
through a travel agency called Rishon
Tours. He was accused of falsifying receipts
and using the tens of thousands of dollars
surplus to pay for private family holidays.
Among charities he is accused of double-
billing were the Simon Weisenthal Centre,
the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and
the World Jewish Congress, according to
the Ha’aretz newspaper.
The third inquiry involves claims that
Olmert gave personal favours to a former
legal partner who was acting on behalf of a
company known as the Israel Investments
Centre. Investigators believe Olmert com-
mitted fraud and breach of trust.
In Israel there had been strong criti-
cism of the attorney general, Menachem
Mazuz, who led the investigations into
Olmert. They began not long after he
took office as prime minister and dogged
his shortened term. After announcing his
resignation last autumn, Olmert formally
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
stepped down in March, after Binyamin
Netanyahu formed a government after the
general election.
Olmert led Israel into a costly war in
southern Lebanon in mid-2006, hoping
to secure the return of two Israeli soldiers
who were killed and dragged back into
Lebanon by Hezbollah militants in a cross-
border raid.
The war claimed the lives of more than
1,000 Lebanese and nearly 200 Israelis
and provoked international condemna-
tion, but did not bring the return of the
soldiers or weaken Hezbollah. Olmert’s
wartime conduct was heavily criticised in
a government-appointed investigation.
Merkel’s party
knocked back
in German
state elections
Kate Connolly Berlin
Angela Merkel’s conservatives yester-
day suffered a significant setback ahead
of national elections next month as exit
results in the regional polls indicated the
party had lost power in two states.
Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union
lost 10% of the vote in the states of Thur-
ingia and Saarland while managing to hold
on to power in Saxony.
The conservative premiers of Thur-
ingia and Saarland now face the prospect
of being replaced by left-wing alliances of
the Social Democratic party of Germany
(SPD), the Left, a relatively new hard-line
socialist formation of disillusioned SPD
members and former East German com-
munists, and the Greens.
Although unlikely to knock Merkel off
course to win a second term as chancellor
– when she hopes to win through in the
federal elections on 27 September and
lead a coalition with the pro-business Free
Democrats (FDP) – yesterday’s poll results
in three states in which the CDU had dom-
inated raised the possibility for the first
time of other alliances at national level.
The CDU has a 15-point lead in opinion
polls over the SPD. But the Social Demo-
crats wasted no time in seizing on the
results, which have stopped the down-
ward trend they have been suffering from
for some time, as a chance to ignite their
lacklustre election campaign.
“I’ve heard and read a lot recently that
the [general] election is already over,”
said Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the SPD
candidate for chancellor, at the party’s
headquarters in Berlin. “This election
night has demonstrated that to be a mas-
sive mistake.”
The SPD has broken what was for a long
time a taboo by saying it is prepared to
enter into an alliance with the Left party
and the Greens.
Commentators said the poll results,
seen as a mood barometer ahead of the
federal election, might be viewed as the
electorate’s punishment of Merkel for
what many see as her passive behaviour
as leader, choosing to ride on her popu-
larity at a time of economic and social
uncertainty. “The Merkel nimbus is suffer-
ing,” wrote Heribert Prantl in the national
newspaper Süddeutsche.
The results could also indicate a back-
lash against the FDP, considered by many
to be too free-market oriented and whose
leader, Guido Westerwelle, has frequently
been tipped as the potential kingmaker in
the next general election.
The Left party celebrated its biggest
impact yet in a western state, having made
gains in Saarland, the home of its leader,
Oskar Lafontaine, former SPD chief and a
controversial finance minister at the end
of the 1990s.
Christian Democrats in Saarland react
to the first exit polls yesterday
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
National
Magistrates attack plans for ‘alcohol
asbos’ to tackle drunken behaviour
£2,500 fine for breaching
drinking banning orders
Government initiative
dismissed as ‘gimmick’
Robert Booth and Vikram Dodd
A government policy to fine drunken trou-
blemakers up to £2,500 under a new sys-
tem of “alcohol asbos” introduced today
has been rubbished by magistrates whose
job it is to impose them.
The Home Office has announced that
courts can now ban anyone aged 16 and
over from drinking in certain pubs and
bars and particular public areas and enter-
ing off-licences if they are regularly antiso-
cial or commit crime while drunk. Offend-
ers breaching the new “drinking banning
orders”, which last between two months
and two years, will be fined. Anyone who
is subject to an order will be referred to a
“positive behaviour intervention course”
to address their alcohol misuse, which will
cost offenders up to £250 each.
But the Magistrates’ Association, which
represents 28,000 volunteer magistrates,
said the orders duplicate existing legisla-
tion and are unlikely to help solve prob-
lems caused by drunkenness on Britain’s
streets.
“We are not convinced that DBOs will
do very much more than the provisions
magistrates already have at their disposal
and we do not believe they answer our
demands for more alcohol treatment
courses,” a spokeswoman for the Magis-
trates’ Association said.
“In our view it is unlikely that those
who could benefit from such an order
would be sufficiently motivated and will-
ing to pay for a DBO course.”
Alan Campbell, a Home Office minister,
insisted the orders “will stop those peo-
ple who are well known to the authori-
ties, licensees and often the communities
where they live, from ruining lives and
will make them face up to their destruc-
tive behaviour”.
But civil liberties campaigners said that
the new orders were a “gimmick” which
simply recycles the existing powers under
antisocial behaviour orders which were
created 11 years ago.
Police sources warned the initiative
duplicates existing powers and would
achieve little in the fight against alcohol-
related crime, which the Home Office
estimates costs between £8bn and £13bn
in England and Wales.
“How many times can you spin a new
crackdown without tackling the causes of
offending behaviour?” said Isabella San-
key, director of policy for Liberty, the civil
liberties campaign group. “It will be jelly
bean asbos for sugared-up kids next.”
The “alcohol asbos” come amid grow-
ing public concern at drink-related crime.
According to the 2007/08 British Crime
Survey, a quarter of people think drunk
and rowdy behaviour is a problem in their
area – up from 19% in 2003/4 – while a fifth
of all violent crime occurred in or around
a pub or club.
Licensing reforms in Scotland, which
come into force tomorrow, will include a
ban on irresponsible promotions, as well
Magistrates say plans to curb drunken behaviour will not solve the underlying causes Photograph: Terry Kane/Barcroft
‘It will be jelly bean
asbos for sugared-up
kids next’
Isabella Sankey, Liberty
‘These initiatives can
make a real difference
to safety on our streets
Don Shenker, Alcohol Concern
‘They won’t do more
than the provisions
we already have’
Magistrates’ Association
as entitling customers in pubs and clubs
to free tap water.
The move also represents a revival of
asbos which have been in decline, with
the number issued falling 44% from 2005
to 2007, according to the latest available
figures. “Alcohol asbos” are being backed
by the drinks industry and alcohol aware-
ness groups as well as the Association of
Chief Police Officers.
Jeremy Beadles, chief executive of the
Wine and Spirit Trade Association, said
the new rules would encourage irrespon-
sible drinkers to accept support.
“Tough enforcement against offenders
is critical if we are to change the culture
around problem drinking,” he said.
“Used as part of a package of measures
to reduce alcohol’s harms, these initia-
tives can make a real difference to safety
on our streets,” said Don Shenker, the
chief executive of Alcohol Concern.
“Policing of alcohol-related crime must
go hand in hand with more robust meas-
ures to curb irresponsible and illegal sales
and improved treatment pathways for
dependent drinkers.”
“The ability to take further action
against those who, through vulnerability
or lack of personal responsibility, regularly
misbehave under the influence of alcohol
will assist the police in dealing with the
complexities of alcohol misuse and misbe-
haviour,” said Simon O’Brien, ACPO’s lead
officer on alcohol licensing. “The minority
of mostly young people whom these pow-
ers are aimed at are usually well known in
particular areas or local hotspots.”
But a senior officer from a police force
covering an urban area told the Guardian
that unless the orders included manda-
tory daily testing for alcohol, they would
have little impact. He said he and other
colleagues in the leadership of British
policing were becoming increasingly fed
up with government initiatives: “There’s
a neverending series of announcements,
and not one thing has changed,” he said.
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Man strangled
stepdaughter
in lorry and
hanged himself
Haroon Siddique
A nine-year-old girl was strangled in a lorry
by her stepfather who then hanged him-
self in woodland near the site at a Little
Chef cafe in Northamptonshire, police
said yesterday .
The girl’s body was discovered on Satur-
day afternoon in the cab of the Spar deliv-
ery vehicle, which was parked near the
cafe on the busy A605 near Warmington.
Northamptonshire police said the
40-year-old, who was found hanged from
a tree, and the girl were taken to Leicester
royal infirmary on Saturday night for post-
mortem examinations.
Police said the girl, who along with the
man, is from the West Midlands, thought
she was accompanying her stepfather as
a “treat”, and that her mother had had no
concerns before her death.
Detective Chief Inspector Tricia Kirk
said yesterday: “Any death is distressing
for police officers, but when it’s a child and
in such violent circumstances, it’s even
worse. I cannot begin to imagine what
the family are going through. We have
family liaison officers with them trying to
answer any questions that they may have.
We believe the little girl was murdered and
the man then committed suicide.”
The names of the girl or the man were
not released as not all family members had
been informed.
A phone call was received by police at
2pm on Saturday from an HGV company
concerned that one of its delivery lorries
had not returned to base. The vehicle
was tracked to the A605 and discovered
parked near the Little Chef. Officers found
the body of the girl in its unlocked cab.
After discovering the girl, a wider search
was launched and police found the body
of her mother’s boyfriend hanging from a
tree close to the lorry park.
Northamptonshire police are appealing
for information from anyone who saw the
Spar lorry – registration number BV57 FMC
– in the Midlands area at any time between
3am on Friday and 2pm on Saturday.
The man and girl began their journey at
about 3am on Friday and the vehicle was
due to return to base later that day.
Police believe that the vehicle was
parked in the lorry park in the afternoon
or evening on Friday.
“We believe it’s all taken place in the
vicinity of that layby,” said Kirk. “The
man is part of the family set-up and they
have a close relationship as stepfather and
child. The mother was comfortable with
the child being with the male, and there
were no issues or concerns raised within
the family.”
Kirk said that she was not aware of
any family arguments and believed the
mother and her partner had been together
for about a year. “What we are getting back
from the girl’s mother is that her daughter
was quite happy to go along. It was a bit
of treat for her. This came back as a very
big shock for the family,” she said. “Our
investigation is to try and find out what
led to this tragic event taking place.”
Sources said the man had been in a long-
term relationship with the girl’s mother.
He was not known to Northampton-
shire police, but detectives were checking
whether he was known to other forces.
12
National
Prize-winning novelist
has her vision restored
Candia McWilliam ready
to enjoy ‘simple pleasures’
Pioneering surgery ends
two years of blindness
Severin Carrell
Scotland correspondent
Her blindness led to her living the life of a
recluse, suffering a broken leg and a cata-
strophic house fire. But after two years of
sightlessness, the prize-winning novelist
Candia McWilliam can once again see.
McWilliam’s sight was restored five
weeks ago after pioneering surgery cured
the rare disorder, blepharospasm, which
forced her eyelids to close permanently
over her otherwise healthy eyes. Living
without sight, she said, “was frightening”.
“My life is visual; I am not athletic. My gift
was to see the world and interpret it.”
The Edinburgh-born writer, a past
winner of the Guardian fiction prize for
her 1994 novel Debatable Land, has said
she is now enjoying simple pleasures
again – “flowers, children, newspapers,
cooking, Pedro Almodóvar films. The light
in Scotland”.
The disorder gradually took hold in
2006, the year she was a Booker prize
judge. Two years ago, McWilliam, now 54,
had to be led on stage at the Edinburgh
international book festival. She will be the
closing speaker at this year’s book festival
tonight, reading unaided from her uncom-
pleted memoir.
McWilliam’s sight was restored after
another blepharospasm sufferer from
London read an article she had written
about her condition for the Scottish
Review of Books and made contact. They
eventually met, and her new friend told
her about Alexander Foss, a surgeon in
Government working on technical school revival
Polly Curtis
Education editor
The government is working with the
former Tory schools secretary Lord Baker
to set up a new generation of techni-
cal schools to train teenagers to become
builders, technicians and engineers.
Universities are being encouraged to
sponsor the development, which, Baker
said, would revive dedicated training
schools not seen since the 1950s.
The first “university technical college”,
for 14- to 19-year-olds, is to be in Birming-
ham and will be sponsored by Aston
University. Eight other universities are
in talks with the government about spon-
soring more.
The alliance between the Tory grandee
and government officials comes despite
a high-profile dispute last week between
the schools secretary, Ed Balls, and his
Conservative shadow, Michael Gove,
when the Conservatives were accused of
planning to downgrade vocational quali-
fications to below academic tests.
Vernon Coaker, the schools minister,
said the new schools would help end the
academic-vocational divide in the Eng-
lish education system, which ranks train-
ing second-best to traditional study. But
teachers warned that some children could
be “pigeonholed” at too early an age and
denied a chance to excel academically.
Baker, who was education secretary
from 1986-89 and oversaw the introduc-
tion of GCSEs and the national curricu-
lum, said: “English education over the age
of 14 has always failed to deliver technical
education. In Germany the most popular
schools are now the technical schools.
“Aston will specialise in engineering but
offer proper literacy and numeracy train-
ing as well. We want our lads and lasses to
start with basic stuff: electric circuits and
welding. I think this is the way forward for
technical education in our country.”
The colleges will be established under
the academy programme, offering a spe-
cialist curriculum in vocational subjects,
and cater to no more than 800 students
‘I’ve never had any ambition, or thought of what I should be doing
or had any idea of what I’d like to do. Never.’
Joanna Lumley. G2, page 4
Nottingham who specialised in treating
the disorder.
In January, McWilliam had the first
phase of surgery, to transfer tendons from
behind her knee to hold open her eyelids –
only the 15th person in the world to have
the operation. There was further surgery
in June, and last month the pads on her
eyes were finally removed.
In an interview with the Sunday Herald,
McWilliam credits her recovery to “the
power of words”. She said: “It is a grace.
People frequently say it is a miracle, but
it is a blessing. It is a return to life. If that
piece had not been published I would not
be sighted. Cause and effect. The power
of words.”
Despite her blindness, McWilliam still
worked on two books – a memoir she
began dictating as she was losing her sight,
which will be published next August, and
a novel, See Saw, which was composed on
the Hebridean island of Colonsay, where
she spent much of her childhood.
She has two other novels “stacked up”
in her head, she added. Throughout her
blindness, she stayed at home, listening
to audio recordings of works by Charles
Dickens and James Joyce.
During this period came the house fire
and a fall down stairs, which caused her to
break a leg. She was left living out of a suit-
case with her family. She followed Barack
Obama’s campaign and election on the
BBC World Service; the tears she shed at
his victory briefly relieved her eyes, giving
her “a bit of sight that morning”.
McWilliam said the sightlessness led
her to shun the outside world. “I didn’t
have eye contact, so I took the line of least
resistance and ceased to have human
contact. It is too embarrassing for other
people. The street becomes unnegotiable.
Because you can’t see, you just bump into
things and people think you’re drunk, or
nutty. So you are a magnet for people’s
fear of the sick.”
Lord Baker said a new generation of technicians and builders was needed
in each college. They will teach the gov-
ernment’s diplomas, which are designed
to offer both academic and vocational
education.
Baker said the diplomas would be
most effectively delivered through the
new schools because, with a narrow cur-
riculum, they could buy in the required
specialist equipment. At present, diploma
students get buses to move between
schools and colleges for different classes.
Two officials from the Department for
Children, Schools and Families are work-
ing on the project and the Tories have also
offered their support, should they win the
next general election.
The idea was originally devised with
Lord Dearing – the former civil servant,
chief executive of the Post Office and
author of influential government reviews
of education – who died last year. Baker is
now working with Mike Tomlinson, the
former head of Ofsted, on the plans.
Baker said: “If we’re going to build new
power stations and Crossrail and new [air-
port] terminals we don’t have the techni-
cians at all levels. It’s not just bricklayers
Reading unaided, Candia McWilliam will be the closing speaker at this year’s
Edinburgh international book festival Photograph: Murdo MacLeod
but at every level of the building trade.”
John Bangs, head of education at the
National Union of Teachers, said: “I just
hope they are not a precursor to intro-
ducing selection at 14. Baker has an
undoubted interest in the needs of kids
whom he believes ought to be involved in
some kind of occupational work and train-
ing. But I think everyone has to be careful
we don’t entrench the classic vocational
and academic divide.
“There is a concern that they will be
pigeonholing students far too early.”
Baker denied the move would trigger a
secondary modern divide for pupils at 14,
saying: “It is providing an education most
suitable for the person doing it, pupils will
have much more motivation and purpose.
Having a university associated gives a sta-
tus that’s as highly valued as purely aca-
demic status.”
Coaker said: “It would only trigger a
divide if the expectation is that only less
able kids will be offered that entitlement.
That shouldn’t and mustn’t be the case.
The idea that only the less able should be
in vocational is simply not the case.”
The best of Edinburgh
The triumphs of this year’s festival
G2, page 12
Police arrest 21 after woman in
tent is injured by lawn roller
David Batty
Police are investigating after a woman
was taken to hospital with head injuries
caused by being hit by a metal lawn roller
as she slept in a tent.
Dyfed Powys police arrested 21 men
after Emma Winch, 26, was injured in the
incident at Aberaeron rugby club in Cere-
digion in the early hours of Saturday.
Winch, who had been due to play in a
women’s match at the club, was airlifted
to hospital but was last night recovering at
home. Two friends who were also sleeping
in the tent escaped without injury.
The arrested men – all from the Merthyr
area – have been released on bail. Police
have appealed for witnesses.
Emma Winch
suffered head
injuries when a
heavy lawn roller
ran down a hill and
crushed the tent
she was sleeping in
Sheffield shooting victim named
Press Association
A motorist shot dead in his car has been
named by police as Safrajur Rahman
Jahingir. The 23-year-old was shot twice
as he sat behind the wheel of his silver
Vauxhall Corsa in the Parsons Cross area of
Sheffield on Friday, South Yorkshire police
said. Detectives are questioning three men
in connection with his murder.
After suffering the fatal injury on
Scraithwood Road, Jahingir lost control
of the car, drove across Herries Road
– narrowly missing a bus – and crashed
into bushes at about 10.45pm. The bus
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
≥
Sales of 1% fat
milk at record
level, says FSA
Rebecca Smithers
Consumer affairs correspondent
Sales of 1% fat milk have soared to record
levels this year, with predictions that it
will overtake skimmed and full-fat prod-
ucts in popularity.
The government’s food watchdog, the
Food Standards Agency, said sales had
risen after a multimillion pound adver-
tising campaign urging consumers to cut
their intake of saturated fats. It advised
shoppers to switch to 1% fat milk which
has less fat but the same nutrients as semi-
skimmed and full-fat milk.
Sainsbury’s, which became the first UK
supermarket to launch its own-branded
1% fat milk in April last year, said the
product was set to revolutionise dairy
consumption in Britain.
It is common in the US and Canada, but
in just more than a year it has become the
milk of choice for health-conscious shop-
pers in the UK. They have switched from
semi-skimmed milk because it tastes simi-
lar, and has the same amount of calcium
and vitamin B, with half the fat content,
Sainsbury’s said.
Consumers are also switching to 1% fat
milk from skimmed milk because they pre-
fer the taste and it is healthier, it added.
Sainsbury’s said 1% fat milk now has a
10% share of the milk market, and is con-
sumed in more than 2.5m UK households.
Sales of 1% fat milk are set to overtake
those of skimmed milk by spring 2010 and
of full-fat milk shortly afterwards.
Dairy products such as milk and cheese
are important to our diets because they
contain important nutrients. But they
also contain saturated fat, which can cause
heart disease.
The FSA estimates that Britons con-
sume about 20% more saturated fat than
is recommended.
Winch’s team, the Pontyclun Falcons,
were camping in a field next to the rugby
club when the two-tonne roller was
pushed down a hill and collided with her
tent. A rugby club official said Merthyr
youth team had been thrown out of the
competition following the incident, the
BBC reported.
Inspector Louise Bradshaw of Dyfed
Powys police said Winch, who had been
due to play on the third day of the four-
day annual rugby tournament, could have
been seriously injured. “In the early hours
of Saturday 29 August, police were called
to an incident in Aberaeron. It transpired
that a large metal lawn roller, used on the
rugby ground, had been rolled over a tent
whilst a 26-year-old female occupant from
a visiting rugby team was sleeping.”
Winch, a former hockey player, was
taken to hospital in nearby Aberystwyth
and then airlifted to a neurology ward in
Swansea. A hospital spokeswoman said
she was released yesterday morning.
Police said they were not yet certain
who among the 21 men arrested was
directly involved in moving the roller.
driver rushed to the scene to help and
was joined by a paramedic but Jahingir
was pronounced dead. A post mortem
examination revealed Jahingir died from
two gunshot wounds to the body.
On Saturday, detectives appealed for
sightings of a red Seat Leon hatchback car
that had been seen leaving the scene sec-
onds after the shooting.
Police said the three men, aged 28, 33
and 36, were arrested in raids at different
locations across Sheffield.
Det Supt Peter McGuinness, who is
leading the murder hunt, stressed that
members of the public had no reason to
fear for their safety.
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National
Entertainment
Calls grow to scrap ‘potentially racist’
Form 696 as music industry suffers
Met police measure targets
black and Asian events,
claim worried campaigners
Matthew Taylor
Police say it has curbed gun crime at clubs
and played a role in reducing serious vio-
lence on the London music scene. But
musicians, politicians and figures from
the entertainment industry have now
called on the government’s equalities
watchdog to intervene in the controversy
over the Metropolitan police’s Form 696,
which they claim is “potentially racist”.
Opponents fear that the Met scheme will
be adopted by forces nationwide.
Form 696 asks venues to provide the
name, address and contact telephone
numbers for artists and promoters.
When the layer of red tape was intro-
duced, it also asked for details of which
ethnic group was likely to attend the
proposed event.
That requirement was dropped last
year after widespread criticism, but the
form still asks promoters to say what
style of music is to be played and gives
“bashment, R&B, garage” as examples –
all of which are styles of music popular
with black and Asian fans.
“To me it is quite remarkable that
anyone could have thought this level of
intrusion was a good idea,” said Feargal
Sharkey, the former lead singer of the
Undertones and now chief executive of
UK Music, who is one of the signatories
of a letter to the Equalities and Human
Rights Commission (EHRC), asking it to
intervene.
“The form is clearly targeting styles of
music that are popular with people from
ethnic minority communities and that
seems extraordinary in today’s modern,
diverse multicultural London.”
The organiser of the appeal to the
EHRC, journalist Sunny Hundal, said
that although the form was “volun-
tary”, many events had applications for
licences turned down after refusing to
fill it in.
“There is a deep sense of unease
among many within the music scene
that it is being used to target events
by black or Asian organisers,” he said.
“With live events being an integral part
Form 696 has the potential to be
misused to discriminate against grime
music artists such as Tinchy Stryder
(right), according to the signatories of a
letter to the equalities watchdog
Genres targeted
Singling out beats of bashment, R&B and garage
B
ashment, R&B and garage
– the three styles of music
explicitly singled out in
the Metropolitan police’s
Form 696 – are all dance
genres associated with a
predominantly young, black audience.
Bashment, also known as dancehall,
updates traditional reggae with digital
beats and faster tempos; thanks to
the influence of the British Jamaican
community, one of the world’s largest
overseas Jamaican populations, it has
historically had a strong cultural pres-
ence and core fanbase in the UK.
At its most club-oriented, bashment
combines rowdy rhythms with often
sexually explicit lyrics. Aimed squarely
at getting dancefloors moving, the
genre is known for the dance crazes that
periodically sweep it, among them the
Gully Creeper performed by the sprinter
Usain Bolt following his 2008 Olympic
victories. Current artists of stature
within the genre include Mavado, Busy
Signal and Ce’cile.
The constantly evolving UK garage
scene has taken many forms over the
past decade, ranging across a wide aes-
thetic spectrum. Two-step, a smooth,
melodic R&B-influenced sound, domi-
nated around the turn of this century,
with producers such as MJ Cole and The
Artful Dodger finding chart success. By
contrast, grime boasted harsher beats,
metallic textures and a focus on MCs
who dealt with the realities of inner-
city life in uncompromising, often
aggressive terms; recently, artists such
as Dizzee Rascal and Tinchy Stryder
have found mainstream success with
lyrics about partying and relationships.
Though grime’s relationship with the
law has always been somewhat uneasy,
with the scene growing through illegal
raves and pirate radio stations, its repu-
tation for violence was overstated.
A northern iteration of garage,
bassline house, is – as its name suggests
– marked out by heavy basslines as well
as high-pitched vocals and relentless,
four-to-the-floor beats. Currently, the
dominance of UK funky house is indica-
tive of a shift among garage clubbers
back towards the smoother, female-
friendly days of two-step. UK funky DJs
and producers often cite “good vibes” in
clubs as key, and UK funky club nights
are overwhelmingly friendly, glamorous
affairs. Alex Macpherson
13
‘It’s quite remarkable
that anyone could
have thought this
level of intrusion
was a good idea’
Feargal Sharkey
‘Certain urban music
events are being
unfairly associated
with violence and
trouble’
Rahul Verma
of the music scene, this only makes
life harder for everyone and denies the
people of London a diverse range of
entertainment.”
The letter, which has more than 50
signatories, states: “We are deeply con-
cerned that Form 696 has the potential
to be misused by the police to discrimi-
nate against ethnic minorities … There
is now a danger that police across the
country will adopt this measure and
further entrench this illiberal and poten-
tially racist practice.”
Police have defended their use of
the form, saying it has helped reduce
violence at certain London music events
and “played its part” in an 11% drop in
serious violence at venues in 2008.
However, a report by the Commons
culture media and sport select commit-
tee, published in April, said: “Such a
form goes well beyond the requirements
of the licensing act and has a detrimen-
tal effect on the performance of live
music. We recommend that Form 696
should be scrapped.”
The Met said the form was still being
used but was under review, and a deci-
sion about its future would be made
next month.
A Met police statement said: “Fol-
lowing concerns expressed by various
groups about the form, it is right that we
consider whether it meets the require-
ments of all those involved in the risk
assessment process.”
However, campaigners and music
promoters remain unconvinced.
Rahul Verma, a journalist specialising
in urban music, said whole genres were
under threat: “It is very difficult to find
a grime night in London now because
of the use of this form. This is because
it has been used to stereotype certain
urban music events which are being
unfairly associated with violence and
trouble.”
Hundal, who is the editor of the polit-
ical blog Liberal Conspiracy, said police
assurances that the form was being
reviewed did not inspire confidence.
“Unless the Met withdraw this need-
less layer of bureaucracy, we can’t
simply accept their assurances that it’s
under review – they’ve been saying that
for ages.”
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National

Straw denies allegations he gave Scottish

government green light to release Megrahi
Justice secretary says SNP
had power to refuse release
Claims that Libyan was
freed for oil called ‘absurd’

Michael White and Severin Carrell

The justice secretary, Jack Straw, yester-

day denied fresh allegations that he gave
the Scottish government the green light
to release Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man
convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, in
the “overwhelming interests” of wider
trade and oil negotiations with the Libyan
leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
Alex Salmond’s Scottish National party
cabinet had the power to free Megrahi and
could have refused to do so, said Straw,
adding that “Libya could have done noth-
ing about it” and Whitehall would not have
interfered. He made his comments as hos-
tility in Scotland over Megrahi’s release
threatened to damage the SNP strategy
for an independence referendum.
After publication of leaked letters pur-
porting to show that Straw had reversed
an earlier decision to exclude the Libyan
agent – convicted after a trial in the Neth-
erlands in 2001 – from the proposed 2007
UK-Libya prisoner transfer agreement
(PTA), he admitted the issue had become
a stumbling block. Libya had resisted that
exclusion, and he had changed tack for
that reason.
“In a negotiation you do not get every-
thing you seek. What you have to do is
protect your vital concerns,” he said.
Most PTAs between countries did not
“carve out” particular names from the
agreement. In any case, Megrahi had not
been released under the 2007 agreement, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi with his family. A poll found 74% of Scots feared his release had damaged Scotland’s reputation Photograph: Julie Howden/Glasgow Syndication
but under his Scottish counterpart, Kenny
MacAskill’s autonomous power to show
compassion to a dying man, he said. repeated by the former Lib Dem leader Sir
With MacAskill facing censure after
a debate on his decision in Holyrood on
Writ large Menzies Campbell. In Scotland, MacAskill,
a former defence lawyer, was accused of
Wednesday, the case is acquiring growing
significance in Scottish internal politics.
Oil slicks in the sea of truth ignoring guidelines and the existence of
an outstanding legal appeal by the Crown
Despite voter hostility in Scotland and Office’s prosecution team, which sought a
outrage in the US, Salmond plans to pub- longer sentence than Megrahi’s 27 years.
lish his referendum bill on Thursday.
Yesterday Straw was forced back
Marcel Berlins That alone would have prevented the
minister using the PTA to free Megrahi,

into the debate after the Sunday Times
claimed Megrahi had been “set free for oil”
– a reference to BP’s £500m exploratory
agreement with the Libyan regime shortly
after the PTA. Echoing Lord Mandelson’s
complaint that the charge was implausible
and offensive, Straw called it an “absurd
confection”. What is not in dispute is that
London had been keen to normalise rela-
tions with Tripoli after Gaddafi’s renuncia-
tion of nuclear ambitions in 2003 and that
Salmond had opposed including Megrahi
in the 2007 PTA.
Last night Labour officials in Edin-
burgh, from where cross-border corre-
spondence appears to have been leaked,
poured scorn on the idea of any deal over
Megrahi’s release.
“How could Tony Blair or Gordon
Brown offer a deal to Gaddafi which would
depend on getting Alex Salmond to do
something?” an official said.
Scottish Labour MP Russell Brown yes-
terday dismissed the leaks as “a complete
red herring.” But calls for an inquiry were
W
hat if Abdelbaset
al-Megrahi was inno-
cent of the Lockerbie
bombing? The furore
over his release has
concentrated on two
issues: whether or not he deserved to
be freed on compassionate grounds and
whether, behind the scenes, lurked the
real motive for granting his freedom,
which was all about oil and Britain’s
trading relationship with Libya.
Megrahi’s return to Libya seemed
conveniently to have sidelined another
potentially embarrassing question: was
he the victim of a miscarriage of justice?
Of course, no one connected with the
decision, whether in Scotland, White-
hall or Downing Street, could admit, or
even hint, that guilt or innocence was a
factor. Officially, he was a properly con-
victed prisoner, no question.
It is not just Megrahi himself insist-
ing on his innocence. For many years,
the case has induced unease in the Scot-
tish legal world. Evidence has emerged
that appears to cast some doubt on the
verdict. No one is saying the material
absolutely proves Megrahi’s innocence,
but it has been enough to raise the pos-
sibility of wrongful conviction.
Jim Swire, the father of one of the
Lockerbie victims, who led the cam-
paign of bereaved British relatives to
discover the truth about the tragedy,
now believes that an injustice occurred
– so do many families of British victims
(though this doubt is not shared by
families on the American side).
Robert Black QC, one of Scotland’s
most eminent advocates, who has stud-
ied the case, is of the same view. More
importantly, in 2007, the independent
Scottish criminal cases review commis-
sion (SCCRC) referred the Megrahi case
to the Scottish appeal court, finding suf-
ficient grounds to suggest a miscarriage.
The court was due to hear the appeal
later this year, but Megrahi formally
withdrew it before his release.
His lawyer said he did so because
it was felt that continuing the appeal
might have prejudiced his chances of
being sent home.
If he was wrongly convicted, all
sorts of new questions arise, not least
who was the real bomber and whether
Libya was the instigator of the attack.
It is probably too late to uncover the
whole truth, but should we not try?
If he didn’t do it, there would at least
be a sort of vindication of the decision
to release him, even if for the wrong
reasons.
Is there any way still open to con-
sider the evidence which might have
overturned Megrahi’s conviction? His
Scottish lawyer says he will make the
dossier public. But who would evaluate
it? It would not be satisfactory to leave
matters in uncertainty. There is a strong
case for an independent inquiry.
even though the prisoner withdrew his
appeal against conviction shortly before
MacAskill’s decision was announced with-
out consulting the Crown Office.
In his appearances on TV yesterday
Scotland’s first minister stressed the com-
passionate aspect of MacAskill’s decision.
Salmond said it was “in the best traditions
and part of the rules of the Scottish legal
system”, adding: “More is achieved in this
world through acts of mercy than acts of
retribution.” He said MacAskill’s rejection
of the PTA was wise, and said most coun-
tries had welcomed it.
An ICM poll at the weekend found only
32% of Scots favoured the release, with
74% fearing it had damaged Scotland’s
reputation. Like other UK ministers, Straw
declined to express a view either way. But
public anger may not easily recede if, as
also reported, Megrahi lives to write his
memoirs – justifying his insistence that he
is innocent – or recovers from the prostate
cancer that the Scottish prison service said
would soon kill him.

Police officer injured as 4,000 attend rave Trial shows new drug better than
David Batty
Police who shut down one of the largest
illegal raves in several years in south-west
England said the gathering did not signal
a return to the rave scene of the late 1980s
and 1990s.
An officer was injured at the event near
Warminster, in Wiltshire, which drew
4,000 revellers on Saturday night. It is
thought to be the biggest rave that the
county’s force has had to deal with.
A 46-year-old policeman was hit by a car
at the site, off the B390 between Knook
and Chitterne, and suffered a suspected
fractured ankle. He was taken to Salis-
bury district hospital where he was due
to undergo surgery yesterday.
Officers were deployed throughout Sat-
urday night to clear the site, where ravers
had set up sound stages and hundreds
of cars were left by the side of the road,
which was closed temporarily.
A Wiltshire police spokesman said raves
normally attract several hundred people
rather than thousands. “Fortunately a
gathering of this size is unusual. There
have been smaller gatherings – some
involving several hundred people – we
have had to deal with on occasions in the
past couple of years. I don’t know why this
one was larger. The bank holiday weekend
might be a factor.”
A number of people at the rave required
medical treatment for alcohol and drug
intake and one person was taken to
hospital.
Wiltshire police said the injured officer
was standing by the side of his car trying
to restrict access to the site when he was
hit by another vehicle trying to enter the
rave. The force is investigating whether
any charges will be brought.
In 1994 the then Conservative home
secretary, Michael Howard, introduced
the Criminal Justice Act to tackle unli-
censed raves. Zero-tolerance policing
and legislation that banned gatherings
of more than 10 people listening to music
“wholly or predominantly characterised
by the emission of a succession of repeti-
tive beats” drove many abroad.
But the scene never entirely disap-
peared and gatherings of several dozen
or a few hundred people continued across
the country – much smaller than events
such as the week-long rave at Castlem-
orton, a traveller camp on common land
in Hereford in May 1992, which attracted
about 25,000 revellers.
Police in Suffolk, Norfolk, Gloucester-
shire and Somerset have dealt with ille-
gal gatherings, usually involving 100-500
revellers, a few times a year in the past few
years.
In April, Gloucestershire police broke
up a rave with more than 1,000 revellers in
Chedworth Woods, near Compton Abdale,
on the £15m estate of Lord Vestey, head of
Vestey Foods.
Police in Suffolk and Norfolk urged
landowners and the public to be on the
lookout for illegal raves over the bank
holiday weekend.
rat poison at preventing stroke
Press Association
A new blood-thinning drug could end the
use of rat poison as the primary medical
treatment to prevent stroke, it was claimed
yesterday. For half a century, thousands of
patients at risk of stroke have been given
warfarin to prevent blood clotting.
But treatment with the drug, commonly
used to kill vermin, is risky. Doses have
to be carefully watched and w arfarin
can interact badly with other drugs and
certain foods, including green vegetables
and grapefruit.
The new drug, Pradaxa, works differ-
ently and is safer. Patients taking the pill
do not have to be constantly checked for
signs of overdosing, and can eat what they
like. Results from a major trial showed
Pradaxa was 34% better at reducing the
risk of stroke and blood clots in at-risk
patients than well-controlled warfarin.
More than 18,000 patients from 44
countries took part in the three-year RE-LY
(randomised evaluation of long-term anti-
coagulant therapy) trial. Participants had
an average age of 71 and all suffered from
atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder
that greatly increases the risk of stroke.
The findings were presented yesterday
at the European Society of Cardiology’s
annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain, and
published online in the New England
Journal of Medicine.
At present the drug is only licensed in
the UK for the treatment of orthopaedic
patients at risk of clotting after surgery. An
application for permission to use it for the
prevention of stroke is pending.
One leading expert said Pradaxa could
make warfarin largely redundant.
Dr Adrian Brady, consultant cardiologist
at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, said: “This is
the greatest step forward in anticoagula-
tion therapy for over 50 years.”
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
National
How private lives of famous were invaded
Actors, MPs and union
leaders among victims
Investigators took data for
news organisations
Nick Davies
The Guardian today reveals the identities
of scores of public figures whose confi-
dential details were extracted from sup-
posedly secure databases by a network
of private investigators working for news
organisations.
The victims include politicians, union
leaders, a high court judge, sports person-
alities, showbusiness stars, journalists
and thousands of members of the public.
Repeatedly breaking data protection
laws, newspapers and magazines com-
missioned the network to obtain personal
information from social security records,
the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency,
the police national computer, British Tel-
ecom and mobile phone companies.
They also conned hotels, banks, pris-
ons, trade unions and the post office into
handing over sensitive information.
The victims’ identities are contained
in paperwork which has been suppressed
since it was seized six years ago from a
Hampshire private investigator, Steve
Whittamore, during an inquiry known as
Operation Motorman, run by the Informa-
tion Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
It has released a statistical summary of
the Motorman paperwork but has refused
repeatedly to reveal any of the content,
with the result that the vast majority of
the victims have never been warned that
their privacy was compromised.
Troubled arts centre finally opens to The Public
David Batty
After years of being dogged by funding
crises, building delays and technical fail-
ures, The Public, West Bromwich’s much
derided £63m arts centre, has finally
opened in full and appears to have won
over its main critics – the residents of the
West Midlands town.
The opening on Saturday of the venue’s
state-of-the-art interactive electronic art
gallery, which had remained closed after
the building opened in June last year,
drew large crowds.
In January, the Arts Council decided
to withdraw its £500,000 annual grant
to the gallery. Sandwell council agreed to
provide emergency funding and secured
another £3m from the Arts Council in July
to finish the gallery.
After waiting years to see the results
of the massive investment, local people
seemed impressed by the exhibits.
Dave Hill, a lorry driver from Wednes-
bury, said: “From the outside, I thought it
looked like a monstrosity, but coming in
the doors the colours were really vibrant,
the staff were friendly and helpful.
“There was a lot of bad press and they
kept delaying the opening, but I hope it
will be positive now for the area. Our kids
and granddaughter loved it.”
Phil Spencer, from West Bromwich ,
said: “As a taxpayer, it’s worrying that so
much is being spent on this, especially
in the recession, but I’m impressed.
There’s a real atmosphere as soon as you
walk in the door; there are kids every-
where, playing with the interactive bits
and laughing.”
Photographer John Bulmer, who has
old photographs of the Black Country on
display in the gallery, said: “I think it’s
UK troops blow up damaged helicopter in Afghanistan
Mark Tran
British troops in Afghanistan yester-
day deliberately destroyed a Chinook
helicopter after it was badly damaged
while landing about six miles east of
Sangin, in Helmand province, early in
the morning.
In addition to the four crew, the Chinook
was carrying 15 soldiers from the Rifles
regiment who were being airlifted into the
area as part of a security operation.
A Ministry of Defence statement said
the helicopter was damaged on the under-
carriage, nose and front rotor, which “sub-
The Commons select committee on cul-
ture, media and sport has sent a strongly
worded request to the new information
commissioner, Chris Graham, demanding
he show them the material and publish a
redacted version. Graham is due to appear
before the committee on Wednesday.
Now the Guardian has been given access
to the material in which Whittamore kept
detailed records of more than 17,500
requests from more than 400 journalists
even though access to these databases is
a criminal offence unless there is a clear
public interest to justify it.
The most common target for their
efforts was British Telecom. The seized
records reveal the names of hundreds of
people who asked BT for an ex-directory
number to protect their privacy, only for
the company to be tricked into revealing
the number and often the home address.
Victims include comedians Lenny
Henry and John Cleese, former footballer
David Seaman, Prince Charles’ personal
assistant, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, former
England cricket captain Michael Atherton,
former union leader Arthur Scargill and,
in a neat irony, the former editor of the
News of the World, Phil Hall. Bill Wyman
of the Rolling Stones appears to have had
11 different ex-directory phone numbers
handed over for his home in Suffolk.
Among the unwitting victims of secu-
rity breaches are politicians of all three
main parties. The Labour minister Peter
Hain, Liberal Democrat peer Lord Ave-
bury and former Conservative chairman
Chris Patten were all targets of attempts
to extract information from BT.
The records show repeated attempts to
track down details of Peter Mandelson’s
home, while Labour MP and former cabi-
net minister, Peter Kilfoyle, was the target
of a successful attempt to find his address
The Public, West Bromwich’s £63m arts centre proved a hit after fully opening at the weekend Photograph: David Levene
great what it’s trying to do, it’s getting all
sorts of people interested in the arts.”
Maggie Firman, the manager of the
Frank Cohen exhibition of Indian art at the
gallery, said: “I’m bowled over. It’s some-
thing you just have to see to experience.
You could spend a whole day here; it’s all
about getting involved.”
The much-mocked centre – a vast
black shed pierced by bubble-shaped
shocking pink framed windows – was
sequently made it unflyable”.
The crew and passengers were unhurt,
and the troops continued with the opera-
tion and were later evacuated by one of
two other Chinooks in the area.
It was decided that the £10m Chinook
could not be safely recovered, so it was
blown up in the afternoon. The MoD said
there was no evidence to suggest that
enemy action had been the cause of the
damage.
Another RAF Chinook was deliberately
destroyed in Afghanistan this month after
an engine fire forced its crew to make an
emergency landing.
British troops have been heavily
Bill Wyman and Lenny Henry had their
ex-directory home telephone numbers
obtained by private investigators
designed by the architect Will Alsop .
It went into administration and lost its
first chief executive two years before
it opened last year, two years late and
£15m over budget.
The planned £7 admission charge had
to be scrapped and the centrepiece gallery
remained closed until this weekend.
Richard McComb, a columnist on the
Birmingham Post, had described The Pub-
lic as “a part-time conceptual arts centre
involved in military operations in south-
ern Afghanistan in Operation Panther’s
Claw, in the lead up to this month’s presi-
dential election.
The British government has been
strongly criticised by generals and the
opposition for leaving some of the 9,000
UK troops in Afghanistan without proper
equipment, including helicopters which
help troops to avoid roadside bombs.
The MoD said options for replacing the
Chinook were being considered; in the
meantime, aircraft from the International
Security Assistance Force (Isaf) would be
available.
The RAF runs the largest fleet of Chi-
in Liverpool. Kilfoyle said: “I think it’s out-
rageous this kind of information can be
obtained in this way. I would have thought
that the ICO would have let me know. I was
a government minister attached to the
Cabinet Office at the time.”
Former union leaders Sir Gavin Laird
and Andy Gilchrist were targets along with
court of appeal judge Lord Saville, who
chaired the inquiry into the 1972 Bloody
Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland.
Journalists including Jeremy Paxman,
James Naughtie, Kate Adie and Peter
Sissons all had their home addresses
and ex-directory phone numbers sold to
Fleet Street by the network as did two
former BBC director generals , Michael
Checkland and Alasdair Milne, and the
former publisher of the Daily Express,
Lord Hollick.
The material records requests from jour-
nalists from the Observer, the Daily Mail
and Mail on Sunday, the Daily and Sunday
Express, the Daily and Sunday Mirror and
Sunday People, and The Times, Sunday
Times, Sun and News of the World, as well
as magazines and broadcasters.
The ICO has made no attempt to pros-
ecute news organisations involved. Offi-
cials said they feared the news companies
would break their budget by hiring expen-
sive QCs, forcing the ICO to do the same.
For taking information from the police
computer, Whittamore was charged with
two former police officers and a civilian
police worker. Before the case came to
court, the civilian separately pleaded
guilty to stealing police equipment to
use in sex games. He was terminally ill
and was given a conditional discharge.
When all four then came to court , the
judge could not impose a more serious
punishment and gave them conditional
discharges.
and full-time waste of space”. But it has
attracted more than 65,000 visitors.
The venue, which is run by a new not-
for-profit company set up by the council
called the Sandwell Arts Trust, will now be
open from Wednesdays to Sundays.
Linda Saunders, the general manager
of the site, said: “It is lower tech than the
original vision but, as a council, we have
had to make hard decisions about what we
can realistically deliver.”
The Chinook is the second to be blown
up this month after being damaged
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1960s TV
chatshow host
Simon Dee dies
Leigh Holmwood
Simon Dee, Britain’s first TV chatshow
host and the inspiration for the Austin
Powers movie character, has died from
bone cancer, just a day after revealing he
was terminally ill.
Dee, 74, was a star in the 1960s, attract-
ing 18 million viewers to his twice-weekly
BBC show Dee Time, with its opening
catchphrase “It’s Siiiimon Dee”. Guests
included Sammy Davis Jr, Lee Marvin,
Charlton Heston and John Lennon.
According to the actor Elizabeth Hur-
ley, his “sixties grooviness” made him
the inspiration for Mike Myers’s Austin
Powers.
Dee, whose real name was Cyril Nicho-
las Henty-Dodd, worked as an RAF pho-
tographer before finding fame by helping
to launch pirate station Radio Caroline. He
went on to host Miss World, appeared on
Juke Box Jury and Top of the Pops, and
was part of the lineup of DJs when BBC
Radio 1 launched in 1967.
Due to a disagreement with the BBC
over his huge salary demands, he left the
broadcaster in 1969, moving to LWT in
1970, where he was offered £100,000 for
a two-year contract. However, he also fell
out with management there and his con-
tract was terminated after a few months.
Dee signed on for unemployment ben-
efit at the Fulham labour exchange and,
unable to revive his showbusiness career,
he took a job as a bus driver.
Dee was married three times and
is survived by four children and four
grandchildren.
Brady to kick
the Apprentices
into shape
Haroon Siddique
If Margaret Mountford was everyone’s
favourite strict school head on the Appren-
tice, her replacement is more like the
teacher who receives cards from pupils
on Valentine’s Day. A spokeswoman for
the production company behind the BBC
show, TalkbackThames, said yesterday
that Lord Sugar’s new sidekick is to be Kar-
ren Brady, who became managing director
of Birmingham City at the age of 23.
Mountford, a former corporate lawyer,
was a favourite with viewers with her
acerbic comments, shake of the head and
signature roll of the eyes. “But he’s clever,
isn’t he? Didn’t he go to Edinburgh?”
Sugar’s other aide, PR executive Nick
Hewer, implored once. “Well,” Mountford
responded, with a slight sneer, “I think
Edinburgh isn’t what it used to be.”
In the male-dominated football world,
Brady has come up with a few sharp retorts
of her own. And although Sugar will retain
responsibility for hiring and firing, Brady
has sufficient form for wannabe Appren-
tices to beware. Early on at Birmingham,
a player said: “I can see your tits in that
shirt.” Brady replied: “Well, don’t worry,
when I sell you to Crewe, you won’t be able
to see them from there, will you?”
Brady, 40, will accompany Hewer, 65,
in monitoring candidates during the sixth
series. In 2006 she was a victorious team
leader on a Comic Relief version, raising
more than £750,000 for charity.
Mountford left to focus on her PhD in
papyrology – the study of ancient litera-
ture, correspondence and legal archives.
nook helicopters after the US army, with
34 HC2s, six HC2As and eight HC3s, which
have yet to enter operational service. The
Chinook wing is based at RAF Odiham, in
Hampshire.
Gordon Brown, who flew home from
Afghanistan yesterday after a sur-
prise visit to British troops in Camp
Bastion, in Helmand, said their work
there was essential to Britain’s secu-
rity. Amid waning public support as
the number of British military deaths
has risen to 208, Brown used his visit
to give the first insight into changes
aimed at curbing the death toll among
UK soldiers.
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Financial
Police report huge increase in mortgage fraud
City of London force sees
72% rise in the crime
‘Tip of iceberg’ with valuers
and brokers also involved
Phillip Inman
City of London police has reported a 72%
increase in cases of financial fraud largely
driven by a jump in mortgage scams over
the previous year.
The force said allegations of mortgage
fraud had reached double figures and were
one of the largest areas of activity for its
officers. The number of investigations is
expected to increase over the next year as
frauds came to light and lenders sought to
recover their losses, it said.
Last week Chelsea Building Society
became the second lender to be hit by
mortgage fraud after Bradford & Bingley
said it was the target of criminal gangs.
Chelsea estimated its losses at £41m,
which pushed the mutual into a first-half
loss of £26m.
The building society said gangs with
the support of professional advisers were
behind fraudulent buy-to-let loans made
between 2006 and 2008 on hundreds of
properties in Manchester, Leeds and sev-
eral other northern cities.
This month Bradford & Bingley, the
nationalised buy-to-let lender, set aside
an extra £100m for potential losses from
mortgage fraud.
Detective chief superintendent Steve
Head, the chief of the City of London’s
economic crime directorate, said mort-
gage fraud “was happening all over the
country” and “has jumped from nothing
18 months ago to being one of the biggest
areas of investigation”.
Head said he expected the number of
investigations to rise, though lenders
were being slow to report cases to his unit,
which has taken the lead in tackling finan-
cial crime since 2003.
“While the amounts of money we are
dealing with are significant, I don’t think
we are seeing the full picture. It is a fraction
of the fraud that has taken place. It is the
mortgage lenders that are hit by the crime
and they usually see it first. It would be
good if the lenders were coming forward
more than they are at the moment.” Most
of his work centres on potentially fraudu-
lent mortgage applications or professional
negligence on property valuations.
Last year the Association of Chief Police
Officers estimated that mortgage frauds
rake in £700m a year.
“Greed is the driving factor in fraud,”
said Head. “There are some where there
are family links, some cultural links and
some where the only link is greed. But a
valuer is a key figure in the process.”
The Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors is investigating 10 complaints
of valuation fraud, several of them in con-
junction with the City Police.
Simon Bevan, head of fraud services
unit at BDO Stoy Haywood, estimated
that mortgage fraud cases had risen from
£13m in 2008 to almost £200m in the first
half of 2009. “This is not a figure showing
how much fraud was out there, it’s just
the tip of the iceberg,” he said. “We are six
months away from investigations starting
in earnest because the lenders haven’t got
round to tackling it yet.
Bevan believes that domestic mort-
gage fraud could top £1bn by the end of
the recession and commercial property
mortgage fraud could reach £5bn.
The Financial Services Authority has
banned 65 mortgage brokers in the past
three years for mortgage fraud and levied
fines of £1m. Since last year 40 of its staff
investigated brokers for rule breaches.
Often the brokers allowed customers to
inflate their incomes to obtain larger mort-
gages. When they could no longer pay the
bills, it emerged that the customers could
never afford the original loan.
Mortgage fraud cases value £200m so far in 2009 Photograph: Ian Canham/Alamy
?
Swiss banks give details of 3,000
tax suspects in deal with France
Lizzy Davies Paris
The secretive world of Swiss banking
showed signs of edging towards greater
transparency yesterday when France
announced it had received the details of
thousands of people suspected of evading
taxes in undeclared accounts.
Eric Woerth, the French budget minis-
ter, said Paris had been given the names
of 3,000 French residents who were
“very probably” profiting illegally from
the neighbouring country’s opaque fiscal
system.
The value of the assets in the accounts
was estimated at about ¤3bn (£2.6bn), he
added.
“This is the first time that we have
this kind of precise information, with
the names, the account numbers and the
amounts deposited,” he said in an inter-
view with the Journal du Dimanche news-
paper. “It’s exceptional.”
The unprecedented move, which will
send jitters through the thousands of
French citizens thought to escape their
own country’s fiscal regulations by stash-
ing money over the border, comes days
after Paris and Berne signed an agreement
aimed at sharing more information on
We can’t curb pay, says FSA chief
Abhinav Ramnarayan
The government must take action if it
wants to curb bankers’ bonuses and must
stop passing the buck over City pay, the
head of the financial watchdog warned
yesterday.
Lord Turner, head of the Financial
Services Authority, said it was “economic
Blurring illiteracy” to expect his organisation to
be able to dictate to banks what they paid
the line their staff.
Are Speaking days after airing controversial
advertorials proposals for a tax on international finan-
becoming cial transactions in order to curb excessive
bank profits, Turner told Sky News that
more the FSA cannot go beyond its remit and
insidious? start imposing limitations on the level of
guardian. bonuses. It is “neither in our legal power
or our practical ability to do,” he said.
co.uk/media The role of the watchdog is to stop
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
Head of business: Dan Roberts
Telephone: 020 3353 4791
Fax: 020 3353 3196
Email: financial@guardian.co.uk
How it works
In some cases gangs would buy
a property, typically in a large
development, at a deliberately inflated
price.
Once the purchases appeared on the
Land Registry website, they
would be used as a basis for
subsequent valuations, enabling the
fraudsters to obtain inflated
mortgage applications on other
homes, often in the same
development.
So, if a property was valued at
£250,000 but was only actually worth
£200,000, the gang could pocket the
spare £50,000 to fund further deposits
or to remove offshore.
The gang would usually include a
solicitor and surveyor “on the payroll”
to ensure that the funds from the
lender were siphoned off.
Frauds went undetected because,
at the height of the boom, lenders
were happy to hand out mortgages
without carrying out their own due
diligence but relying on third-party
valuations.
Rising property values disguised
the fraud so that only when the
market collapsed and the fraudsters
pulled out did lenders realise that
an asset they thought was worth
£250,000 – to use our example – was
worth much less, perhaps as little as
£150,000 due to the falling market.
Other scams involved enticing
investors to buy new-build properties
off-plan.
The homes would be advertised
as high-specification and priced
accordingly but in reality they would
be built on the cheap, leaving
investors and lenders with properties
worth a fraction of the mortgage.
Martin Farrer
suspected tax evaders. Switzerland, the
world’s largest offshore banking centre, is
attempting to bring itself back in from the
cold after its idiosyncratic financial prac-
tices were sharply rebuked at the London
G20 summit of leaders in April.
Amid an economic crisis which left
little patience for the continuing exist-
ence of tax havens, Switzerland was put
on a “grey list” of countries considered
Earlier this month
the Swiss agreed
to allow the US to
see details of 4,450
accounts with
UBS, Switzerland’s
biggest bank
by the Organisation for Economic Co-
operation and Development to be failing
to co-operate “substantially”. Since then,
it has reluctantly promised to help other
countries crack down on tax evasion. This
month the Swiss government agreed to
provide US tax inspectors with the details
of 4,450 accounts with the country’s big-
gest bank, UBS.
Woerth urged those who fear they are
on the list given to the French authorities
to give themselves up and pay the taxes.
banks from taking excessive risks – and if
the banks were engaged in relatively low-
risk areas, it is beyond its authority to step
in on the question of pay, he said.
It was “simple economic illiteracy to
suggest that you hand to the regulator
the job of saying ‘stop people being paid
so much’,” he added.
He said that people would be willing to
accept high salaries and bonuses as long as
they were convinced the financial sector
is engaged in valuable economic activity.
The problem arose when some categories
of financial activities grew to a large scale
without proving to be socially useful, such
as complex securitisation packages and
derivative trading structures blamed for
the credit crunch.
He said: “I think ordinary people are
right to have a suspicion of saying ‘well
hang on, these people are getting paid a lot
of money for that, is it really valuable?’”
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
Economics
A September to remember? Let’s hope not
Larry Elliott
Economics editor
Financial upsets tend to
happen about now – but this
time there’s good news
Tomorrow marks the start of September,
traditionally the most accident-prone
month of the year. For some reason,
stuff happens when the leaves turn
brown: world wars start, terrorist out-
rages occur. In Britain, it was the month
when sterling came off the gold stand-
ard in 1931 and the month the pound
was ejected from the ERM 61 years
later. Last year, it was the month Leh-
man Brothers collapsed, providing the
catalyst that pushed the global banking
system to the brink of the abyss.
At the moment it looks unlikely that
there will be a seminal moment in the
economy, since there has been little evi-
dence of the growing tension that tends
to prefigure a catastrophic event. What
we are likely to see is a reality check
on the strength and durability of the
recovery.
I am going to end this column with
three pieces of encouraging news. But
first here are some warning signs to look
for over the next month. Let’s start with
the US, where there is a risk of a double-
dip recession. Wall Street has been on a
high all summer, but high levels of debt,
rising unemployment and the threat of
deflation make a potentially lethal cock-
tail. The better-than-expected corporate
earnings figures in recent months have
tended to be the result of firms saving
money through job cuts rather than
raising revenue through sales growth.
It is worthy of note that directors in the
US have taken advantage of the rally
on Wall Street to offload shares in their
firms. Hardly a bull signal.
Concerns
Then there is some evidence from for-
ward-looking indicators of activity that
the pick-up in industrial output seen in
recent months may be running out of
steam. The Baltic Dry – an index of ship-
ping costs for commodities that is often
used as a proxy for global industrial
activity – has fallen back in recent weeks
after a strong recovery in the spring.
That adds to concerns that the stabilisa-
tion of economies has been caused by
companies re-stocking after running
down their inventories rather than by
a genuine rise in consumer and invest-
ment demand. The return of France
and Germany to growth was the result
of a collapse in imports rather than an
improvement in domestic demand.
In the UK, something does not smell
quite right about the supposed bounce
in the property market, symbolised by
four months of rising prices as reported
by the Nationwide. It is hard to square
Mandelson in talks to boost fast broadband access Migrant cuts ‘a threat to UK jobs’
Richard Wray
Communications editor
The bosses of the UK’s five mobile phone
networks have been summoned to a meet-
ing by Lord Mandelson, as he attempts to
salvage the government’s ambition that
everyone in the country will be able to get
fast broadband internet access by 2012.
The meeting tomorrow is the second
time in as many weeks that the business
secretary has made a personal interven-
tion in the horse-trading before formulat-
ing a digital economy bill in the autumn.
That legislation will implement some of
the main points of June’s Digital Britain
report, produced by then communica-
tions minister Lord Carter, but a few of
the proposals look to have fallen foul of
Westminster’s realpolitik.
Last week Mandelson’s Department for
Business, Innovation and Skills proposed
that internet users who steal copyrighted
material should have their broadband
connections cut off as it tries to stem the
rising tide of online piracy.
A Wall Street trader last September as the Dow Jones average was heading for a 777-point drop, its biggest one-day points fall Photograph: Richard Drew/AP
these figures with what is going on in
House prices now... the labour market, where the increase in
unemployment has been concentrated
Average UK house prices, among the under-35s. Given that young
£ thousands people make up the bulk of first-time
buyers, without whom the property
market grinds to a halt, the renewed fall
in the price of homes at auction may be
170
a better guide to the underlying trend.
Dhaval Joshi, economist with RAB
150 Capital, says that there were a number
of false dawns for the housing market
during the trough of the early 1990s,
130
but it was not until there were sustained
gains in young adult employment in
110 1995 that prices finally began to rise.
2003 04 05 06 07 08 09 Even if the economy returns to growth
in the third quarter, the outlook for
...and then jobs remains poor. In any event, don’t
be fooled into thinking that a booming
property market is desirable. We would
Average UK house prices, have learned nothing if we believe rising
£ thousands house prices plus bumper City bonuses
lead to a genuine economic recovery.
Now for the reasons for optimism.
The first is that activist economic
60
policies have put a floor under the global
economy. Six months ago activity was
56
False dawns
in free-fall, with declines in output and
trade analogous with those witnessed
52 during the Great Depression. The sharp
cuts in interest rates, the willingness
of governments to run exceptionally
48 large budget deficits and pump
1989 90 91 92
SOURCES: NATIONWIDE, RAB CAPITAL
93 94 95 96 97
priming through quantitative easing
have stabilised the situation, thereby
One of the report’s flagship recommen- upon the five networks reaching a deal
dations – a £6 a year levy on all phone lines over the use of 900MHz wireless spec-
to pay for the next generation of super- trum that was granted to the two original
fast fibreoptic broadband networks – has networks – Vodafone and O2 – when they
already collapsed as it will not get the nod started operating in the 1980s. This spec-
from the Conservatives needed by parlia- trum is perfect for rural broadband as it
mentary convention for a major tax meas- allows signals to be carried over long dis-
ure this close to an election. tances. None of the other networks have
Some Labour backbenchers have also it. A deal over re-apportioning this slice
questioned the wisdom of introducing a of the airwaves also needs to be reached
new tax measure just before an election. before the government can sell off the
800MHz spectrum it will get back when
Broadband reaches the analogue TV signal is switched off in
Fair Isle in the 2012, which is also perfect for widespread
Shetlands. Access rural mobile coverage.
to other remote Mandelson’s meeting with the chief
areas depends on executives of the five UK networks – O2,
a deal among Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone and 3 – is
mobile operators designed to “bang some heads together”,
according to an insider.
Lord Carter’s report made it clear that In return the mobile phone companies
achieving his other big recommendation will have their licences to operate 3G serv-
– universal broadband access – depended ices extended indefinitely – potentially
on much wider use of mobile broadband, saving them billions of pounds, which
extending a signal to remote parts of their fixed-line rivals argue is money that
Britain for the first time. could be used to pay for next-generation
But getting universal broadband relies broadband networks.
explaining the recovery in financial
markets since March. There are those
who argue that throwing money at the
problem is storing up problems for the
future, and they will be proved right if
policymakers remove the stimulus too
quickly or keep it for too long. In the cir-
cumstances that prevailed last winter,
there was no real alternative.
If the first piece of good news is the
rehabilitation of Keynes, the second is
that a herd of economic sacred cows has
been carted off to the slaughterhouse.
The question by the Queen during the
crisis was the right one: why did none of
these supposed experts spot it coming?
Answer: because they were obsessed
with their narrow mathematical models
and had a blind faith in theories – such
as efficient market hypothesis and
rational expectations – that worked in
the economics faculty but not in the real
world. Some of the die-hard modellers
fight on; they argue that their lovely
‘If the government
had any sense it
would act on Lord
Turner’s blueprint.
Without delay’
Abhinav Ramnarayan
Deep cuts in the numbers of migrant
workers coming from outside Europe to
Britain could lead to the loss of British
jobs as companies relocate to more immi-
gration-friendly countries, employers
warned yesterday.
An internal survey by the CBI employ-
ers’ group seen by the Guardian showed
that on average companies believe they
would each lose 50 British workers if the
changes are implemented. Companies
claim that the paperwork related to the
points system has made it more difficult
to recruit skilled overseas workers since it
was introduced in February this year.
The planned changes will create even
more hurdles, they say. One proposal is
that visas should only be given in profes-
sions where there is a shortage of British
workers and another would extend the
time that firms have to advertise vacancies
in Britain before recruiting foreigners.
“We could find ourselves in a situa-
tion like the US – where companies shift
17
models would have worked except for
the colossal shock provided by the seiz-
ing up of markets in August 2007.
This is the economics profession’s
equivalent of the old joke: “Apart from
that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the
play?” Once the dust has settled, there is
a strong case for an inquiry into whether
the teaching of economics has been
captured by a small but dangerous sect.
Dangers
I’ve left the best piece of good news
until last. The support of Lord Turner,
the chairman of the Financial Services
Authority, for a transaction tax on the
City was the clearest evidence that lead-
ing policymakers understand the dan-
gers of a return to “business as usual”.
It was mightily encouraging to hear
the bark of the City watchdog. The
growth of the financial sector has come
at the expense of other parts of the
economy. It has gobbled up more than
its fair share of talented workers. Its
activities have little purpose beyond
self-enrichment. It is, in an unreformed
state, likely to cause another economic
crisis. Naturally, the City has responded
with outrage to the suggestion that it
should be tamed. But if the government
had any sense it would act on the Turner
blueprint. Without delay.
larry.elliott@guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk/business/economics ≥
projects to Vancouver because of the
tough rules on migrants,” said Neil Car-
berry, head of pensions and employment
policy at the CBI.
Earlier this month, government advis-
ers also recommended against tightening
up the regime, saying there was too much
“turmoil” in the labour market.
Carberry applauded the migration
advisory committee, headed by Profes-
sor David Metcalf of the London School
of Economics, for opposing changes, par-
ticularly to the “intra-company route”.
More than 60% of migrant workers
come to the UK through intra-company
transfers.
Metcalf said: “I think the Home Office
feels that with the economic climate being
what it is, it is inappropriate to ignore the
needs of British workers and make it too
easy for companies to recruit migrant
workers.”
But the committee decided that while
this is important, the system should act
as an automatic stabiliser and not be con-
stantly adjusted in response to the eco-
nomic cycle.
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Reviews
Bowie hits,
explosive
kicks and a
flash of disco
Dance
Michael Clark Company
Edinburgh Playhouse
★★★★★
The most unsettling moment in Michael
Clark’s latest work is a solo in which
dancer Kate Coyne is put into a costume
that’s covered in fake syringes. Raptly
oblivious to her own bizarre appearance,
Coyne alternates between ecstatic arcs
of movement and crumpled falls. The
music accompanying her is the Velvet
Underground’s Heroin.
This is a stark reference to the
choreographer’s past, summoning
memories of the wilderness drug years
during which it seemed he might never
work again. Yet there is nothing painful
about Come, Been and Gone. Created
for the 25th anniversary of Clark’s
company, the work has a playful, even
celebratory quality, looking back over
his career with quotes from his former
repertory, but also trying out new
dynamics and styles.
Musically, the piece pays homage to
Proms 57, 58 & 59
BBCSO/Netherlands Wind
Ensemble/Zurich Tonhalle
Royal Albert Hall, London
★★★★★
Two Proms themes came neatly to an end
in the BBC Symphony’s first appearance
this season under chief guest conductor
David Robertson. Their performance of
Agon was the last of the Stravinsky
ballets, while Stephen Hough ended his
journey through Tchaikovsky’s works
for piano and orchestra with the rarely
heard Concert Fantasia Op 56.
Neither, though, made an upbeat
finale. Robertson’s account of Agon
lacked the sinewy athleticism one
associates with the score; it was hard to
imagine Balanchine’s choreography being
danced to this lethargic performance.
And within a few bars of the Concert
Decadence, strut and waywood fun … dancers from the Michael Clark Company in Come, Been and Gone Photograph: Murdo Macleod
1970s rock, its decadence, its strut, its
wayward fun, and its presiding star is
David Bowie. Seven of the 10 numbers
are his, and during Heroes the singer
appears, courtesy of 1977 film footage,
at the back of the stage. With his alien
beauty and ineffable cool, Bowie is a
daunting act to match, but Clark
responds to Heroes with a daring,
rigorous logic. Using minimalist phrases
that echo Bowie’s own body language
(the dancers wear similar leather
jackets), Clark builds up the dance with
Fantasia it became clear why it is so rarely
heard. Even Hough’s most dazzling
virtuosic efforts couldn’t disguise the fact
that it is a vacuous, misshapen work – an
excuse for punishing but empty display.
Later that evening the Netherlands
Wind Ensemble conducted by Lucas Vis
supplemented last week’s 70th-birthday
tribute to Louis Andriessen with a
performance of his most famous work,
the Plato-inspired De Staat, whose hard
edges and driving rhythms spawned
a whole school of Dutch minimalism.
Works by two of Andriessen’s pupils
framed it: Steve Martland’s Beat the
Retreat; and Cornelis de Bondt’s Doors
Closed, which takes the funeral march
from Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony
and the final lament from Purcell’s Dido
and Aeneas and creates a forbidding
giant clockwork.
After their Edinburgh performance of
Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, the Zurich
Tonhalle and David Zinman repeated it in
Saturday’s Prom, but paired it with the
near unbearable restraint until suddenly
he allows it to detonate into a sextet of
jumps and kicks. The effect is brief but
mind-blowing, as if the climax of the
dance had exploded out of the music
itself. Clark takes his music as seriously
as any choreographer – finagling his own
personal stories and structures from
each song. His setting of Aladdin Sane
is a revisit to The Rite of Spring, as
dancer Simon Williams torques and
twists in subjection to the music’s
jangling rhythms. With The Jean Genie
UK premiere of She Was Here, four
Schubert songs of loss and longing sung
by Dawn Upshaw, with a saccharine
orchestral veneer by Osvaldo Golijov.
It’s quite an achievement to turn a great
song like Wandrers Nachtlied into near
kitsch, but Golijov manages it expertly.
Andrew Clements
The Proms continue until 12 September.
Details: bbc.co.uk/proms
Theatre
The Testament of Cresseid
Hub, Edinburgh
★★★★★
The story so far: in Chaucer’s Troilus and
Criseyde, two lovers have been forcibly
parted thanks to a Trojan/Greek prisoner
swap. After promising to be true to
Troilus, Criseyde joins her banished
father in Greece where she hastily
switches her affections to Diomede.
Troilus is none too pleased.
Writing a century later, around 1490,
Dunfermline poet Robert Henryson
decided to tie up some of Chaucer’s
loose ends. In his narrative poem The
Testament of Cresseid, he imagined the
luckless young woman being dumped
by Diomede. Cursing Venus and Cupid
for her misfortune, she rouses the wrath
of the gods and ends up a destitute
leper, too disfigured for Troilus even to
recognise her.
As Edinburgh international festival
shows go, The Testament of Cresseid is
on the esoteric side, though nothing in
Jimmy Yuill’s mesmerising performance
makes it seem so. Sat in a wheelchair, his
hair as white as the snowy landscape, he
narrates the story as though personally
pained by it. Scarcely moving – and
ending the performance as he begins it,
in shocked paralysis – he treats the verse
like a Beckett monologue, full of wonder
and terror with occasional
onal outbursts of
exasperation at the follylly of it all.
ranslation
Elizabeth Elliott’s translation
retains a Scottish flavour
our – the
season is dreich, gods are crabbit
and jewels are bonny – and
has an easy conversational
ional
flow, with the odd
rhyme showing
through. Less success-
ful is the decision of
director David Levin to o
get actors to pre-recordrd the speeches
of Cresseid, Cupid and d Saturn. In
contrast to Yuill’s performance,
formance, the
recordings are lifeless, drawing energy
away from the stage. All credit to Yuill
for pulling it back eachh time in a
production that remains ins an
austere pleasure.
Mark Fisher
Until Saturday. Box offi ffice:
ce:
0131-473 2000.
In thrall to an obsession
on …
Iris Brunette
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he turns showman, having two men in
striped blazers dancing a vaudeville jig,
a pair of women strutting arm in arm on
pointe, some dancers trying on a flash of
disco, others a slither of Broadway jazz.
It’s a lovely, knowing pastiche of
styles, like Clark’s version of Frederick
Ashton’s Facade – and there are parts of
Come, Been and Gone that inevitably
look underdeveloped by contrast. But
overall the programme is vintage Clark,
especially since his masterpiece Swamp
opens the evening. After 23 years, this
Opera
Admeto
Festival theatre, Edinburgh
★★★★★
Doris Dörrie’s production of Admeto,
an import from Göttingen, relocates
Handel’s provocative take on Euripides
to medieval Japan. The opera is one of
Handel’s darker disquisitions on the
erratic nature of desire. As in classical
literature, Ercole (Hercules) descends to
Hades to rescue Alceste, who has
sacrificed her life for her dying husband
Admeto. The Handelian twist is that
when she returns to the realms of the
living, Alceste discovers that Admeto
already has another woman in the form
of Antigona, a former fiancee, who is also
being pestered by his brother Trasimede.
Dörrie’s transposition elaborates on
the preoccupation with things Japanese
that we find in her recent film Cherry
Blossoms. Admeto (Tim Mead) and
Trasimede (David Bates) strut their stuff
in samurai gear, while Ercole (William
Berger, swathed in unconvincing
prosthetic fat) is a sumo wrestler.
Alceste (Marie Arnet) disguises herself
as a warrior in order to spy on Kirsten
Blaise’s Antigona, slumming it as a
shepherdess. But a Jungian gloss
renders it messy: Alceste emerges from
Hades accompanied by her shadow,
played by butoh dancer Tadashi Endo,
who looks, unfortunately, like that nasty
wraith who crawls out of your telly and
kills you in Hideo Nakata’s film Ring.
The production’s unsteadiness is
compounded by a musical performance
that is barely adequate. Conductor
Nicholas McGegan is forced to proceed
in fits and starts thanks to Dörrie’s
irritating decision to fly front cloths in
between scenes, which wrecks the
momentum. The singing is at best no
more than halfway dece decent (Arnet and
Berger), and so some of it is third
rate. It’s not really worthy
of a festiva
festival that calls
itself “int
“international”,
I’m afraid
afraid.
Tim Ashl
Ashley
Ends toni
tonight. Box office:
0131-473-
0131-473-2000.
Theatre
T history and what it means to be a
Ir Brunette
Iris
U
University of
E
Edinburgh
M
Medical
S
School
★★★★★
Is that the distant sound
of bombs dropping or
the quie
quiet chatter of
customers
custome in a cafe? You
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work is still shockingly good. Bruce
Gilbert’s music isn’t awfully inspiring,
with its relentless, windscreen-wiper
washes of sound, yet Clark mines it for
extraordinary textures and patterns.
The accumulating power of ritual and
the evocation of a world both heroic and
damaged are hair-raising. Best of all, it
is performed by the finest company of
dancers Clark has yet possessed.
Judith Mackrell
At the Barbican, London, 28 October to
7 November. Box office: 020-7638 8891.
are never quite sure what you’ve seen
and heard in this intimate and elusive
chamber piece, which operates in a city
that has fallen victim to an explosive
catastrophe. It is as if memory and time
have somehow been shattered so that
past, present and future are melded.
There are few more compelling
presences than that of Melanie Wilson,
and here she plays a woman wandering
through the heart of this devastated city
in search of a lost lover, a glimpsed face.
She is like a detective on the trail of
memory itself, conjuring ghosts from
the wreckage; she is in thrall to an
obsession, seeking the face of love in a
loveless world that is about to implode.
Inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962
black-and-white experimental film,
La Jetée – set in Paris in the wake of the
third world war – Iris Brunette is a
journey through the city and into the
self. The duality is emphasised with
sound and through Wilson’s character,
who is both narrator and protagonist.
It is a tantalising piece of immersive
theatre that places the audience in a
circle around the action, and casts us
as characters and observers in the
unfolding events, which have more
in common with the travelogue than
with traditional drama. We watch Iris
watching. We are voyeurs just like her.
Our memory of her face is haunting,
just as she is haunted by a face glimpsed
and lost in the maelstrom of war.
Lyn Gardner
At Ustinov Studio, Bath, from Friday. Box
office: 01225 448844. Then touring.
Critics’ picks
Classical Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra
Mariss Jansons conducts probably the
world’s greatest orchestra, in Sibelius,
Duparc and Ravel. Royal Albert Hall,
London (0845 4015040), tonight.
Dance Tilted Productions:
Trapped
Maresa von Stockert’s piece explores
ideas of freedom in our surveillance-
obsessed times. Zoo Southside,
Edinburgh (0131-226 0026), tonight.
Theatre Trilogy
Astonishing reclamation of feminist
woman. The Arches at St Stephens,
Edinburgh (0141-565 1000), tonight.
Pop Duke Special
Eccentric dreadlocked Irish
singer-songwriter with a vaudeville
bent. ULU, London (020-7664
2000), tonight.
Film The Hurt Locker
Powerful, heartfelt anti-war movie: a
US bomb-disposal team get close to
the edge. On general release.
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Comment
Obama needs the movement that
Gary Younge
got him elected more than ever
Raleigh
A
round 1,000
demonstrators gath-
It isn’t that the right has ered at North Caro-
lina’s capitol on Satur-
been organised over day to support Barack
Obama’s proposals
healthcare reform – rather for universal
that the left has not been. healthcare. In one
of four rallies across the state, some
But there’s still time carried placards stating: “If it’s broke,
fix it”, and “Insurance profits are bad for
my health”, while ironic “Billionaires
against healthcare” strode the grounds
in top hats, carrying fat cigars and
glasses of champagne as they mocked
their enemy. Across the street stood
50 counter-protesters with signs saying
“Socialism is an Obamanation”, and
“Revolution is brewing: 2010”, and “Not
ready for Obama’s communist America”.
In between stood a statue of
Confederate general Zebulon B Vance
with the inscription: “If there be a
people on Earth given to sober second
thought [and] amenable to reason …
it is the people of North Carolina.”
Given the fistfight that broke out at a
local town hall meeting on healthcare
recently that is, at best, debatable.
With Congress about to return to
work, the struggle for healthcare reform
is reaching its most crucial and intense
phase. Opportunities for a Democratic
president to overhaul the system while
his party has commanding control of
both houses of Congress come around
once in a generation – if that. Yet over
the last few months the momentum
has been slipping away. According to
an ABC/Washington Post poll shortly
before summer, 53% of Americans
approved of how Barack Obama was
handling healthcare reform, against 39%
who did not. Today 50% disapprove
and only 46% back him. To get through
Congress any bill will inevitably contain
compromises. The issue is who will
need to be placated and what will have
to be surrendered.
Faulkner Fox, an organiser for
Durham4Obama, knew there would
be times like this. From the moment

she started campaigning for Obama
during the primaries she has provided
unstinting but never uncritical support.
After Obama took North Carolina by
a hair’s breadth in November – the
first Democrat to do so since Jimmy
Carter – she demanded that the
The rightwing campaign leave its data so the local
healthcare protesters group could continue organising.
In January, before the inauguration,
are ridiculous, but she called a meeting to talk about what
that does not prevent they should do next. She expected

around 40; more than three times that
them being effective number showed up. “We had brought
together this very diverse brilliant group
of people and it was clear to me that
this should not stop on 4 November.
We could not let those people go back
into the woodwork. We had to keep
going. We never thought Obama would
A
few years back, I
Confession of commissioned a
young adventurer
to write about his
a lame man attempt to cycle round
the world. Having
duly completed his
bike ride, he became
Gwyn Topham a motivational speaker, with his own
motivational website, sending out
regular motivational mailings, even to
those of us who were previously doing
My self-image of soaring just fine. Last month’s email included
athleticism has just been a link to an article listing 50 lessons an
author had learned in 50 years of life. I
shattered: apparently you perused it avidly. And there, at number
all think volleyball is naff 27, was the bombshell. “Four things that
most people think are lame but really
are a lot of fun: barn dancing, charades,
volleyball and sing-alongs.”
I was stunned. Volleyball, lame?
My world – a world made bearable
largely by weekly volleyball – started
to disintegrate a little. I remember a
Gary Larson cartoon of two German
soldiers talking, one asking the other
in disbelief: “Wait – you’re saying
WE’RE the bad guys?” After all my time,
money and effort perfecting the art, I
was suddenly confronted by a similar
do all the things we wanted to do and
we always knew that we would have to
pressure him to get some things done.
That’s how politics works.”
When trade unionist and civil rights
leader A Philip Randolph demanded
that Franklin Roosevelt integrate the
military, Roosevelt responded: “I agree
with you. I want to do it. Now make me
do it.” Here they are, making him do it.
They formed working groups and
started organising. Michael Pearlmutter,
who co-chairs the healthcare committee,
provides a daily digest of the day’s
healthcare stories. One of their principal
targets is their senator, Kay Hagan,
who swept in on Obama’s coat-tails but
has since dragged her feet on all the
major votes. A moderate Democrat in
a conservative state, she is anxious to
find ways to cover her right flank. Ask
the pro-healthcare demonstrators at the
capitol how they think she will vote and
they shrug. But Faulkner, Pearlmutter
and their fellow activists have given her
little wriggle room.
“We flood her voicemail,” says Fox
“We visit her, email and get people to
revelation: most people think volleyball
is lame.
For months, years, I had blithely
walked out of the office calling cheerily
to colleagues, “See you later – off to
volleyball!” I had long told my girlfriend
I wouldn’t be around on Mondays –
that’s volleyball night! I’d enthused
about volleyball to strangers – few
of whom, in retrospect, accepted an
invitation to come and play. I would
happily have listed it on CVs had I
needed. Thank God I had never filled in
the relevant sections of Facebook.
A cold sweat of realisation overtook
me. What I hoped would project a
soaring athleticism, a rich, muscular
and varied social life, society at large
apparently regarded as something to
equate with barn dancing (who the
hell barn dances? What was this?) and
charades. I saw myself as Magic John-
son. Everyone else was thinking Lionel
Blair on Give Us A Clue. I should never
have clicked through on the email – had
a motivational website ever got it so
badly wrong?
In retrospect, the warning signs
should always have been there. Our
sessions were organised by a comedian
Debate
write her letters. She always knows
we’re here. She does the right thing in
the end. But we have to make her.” Fox
is currently in the middle of a 30 events
in 30 days spurt of activity: last week 75
people showed up to learn about cam-
paigning, including how to peacefully
deal with rightwing hecklers.
That is no minor feat. Central to
derailing Obama’s reforms has been
the high-profile disruption of town hall
meetings by conservatives alleging,
among other things, that universal
healthcare would create death panels
that could kill your grandmother.
Small in number but well organised,
they captured the attention of the
media. It is the silly season, and a lot
of these people are quite silly. Like
the “birthers”, who insist that Obama
was not born in America, most of their
claims are not only demonstrably false
but downright daft. They have argued
that if Stephen Hawking were British he
would be dead, even though Hawking is
British and alive. They insist that under
the NHS the state decides whether to
“pull the plug on grandma”.
GEOFF GRANDFIELD
friend: charismatic, fit-ish, but hardly
warrior caste. The teams were made
up of the likes of actors, voice artists,
lawyers, geography teachers. Even two
decades on, many had the lingering
stain of kids picked last in playground
games. Few of us wore what a recog-
nised sportswear shop might stock as
“kit”. Several women attended, some
of whom made us look good, one of
whom smashed over serves that none of
us could return, before leaving to find a
decent challenge elsewhere.
Occasionally, we would discover
gurus and coaches who could take our
game to the next, less pitiful level. All
had beards and swelling stomachs, like
proper mystic gurus, if not sporting
ones. They discovered links with a
wider volleyball movement: over the
summer, we could play volleyball for
whole weekends in fields in Surrey,
and even camp there, just like a proper
festival. Sort of.
Of course, I have an alibi, which may
have shielded me from friends’ outright
disdain and which I am keen to make
widely known here. I also play football
– manly, hard-tackling football. And I
like to think I bring a little of that realm
19
But life expectancy in the UK is higher
than the US, meaning that even with our
supposed state-sponsored euthanasia
our grannies still live longer than theirs.
In a blend of the comic and the tragic
one protester, who was hospitalised
after he got into a fight at a town hall
meeting in St Louis, had to have a
whip-round to pay for his medical bill –
it turns out he had no health insurance.
There are legitimate arguments, both
philosophical and economic, against the
proposed reforms. Antipathy towards
government runs deep here, and the
national debt was last week forecast to
reach $9tn. But that would be a case for
different kinds of overhaul – not none.
Sooner or later something will have to
be done about American healthcare. As
a percentage of GDP the US spends twice
as much on it as the UK, and yet one
in six aren’t even covered. According
to government figures, life expectancy
for women is lower than in Albania
and infant mortality is higher than
Cuba. This national disgrace conceals a
regional outrage. Black infant mortality
in Louisiana is on a par with Sri Lanka;
in the very city where the reforms will
be decided, Washington DC, life expect-
ancy is lower than in the Gaza Strip.
T
he rightwing protesters
are ridiculous, but
that does not prevent
them from being
effective. “It’s much
easier to turn up at a
meeting and yell,” says
Pearlmutter, “than
to propose something that works.
Healthcare is complicated. Even within
our own working group there are many
different positions.”
The fact that the right has diminished
Obama’s chances does not mean they
have boosted their own. An NBC poll
shows that while only 41% support
Obama’s proposals, 62% disapprove of
the way the Republicans are handling it.
But those who complain that the
right’s intervention has been the work
of co-ordinated activists rather than
spontaneous individuals miss the
point. The problem is not that the right
were organised but that – with a few
exceptions like Durham – the left has
not been. At the very moment when he
needed the “movement” that got him
elected most, it appears to have largely
stopped moving.
The bad news is there are all too few
places like Durham. The good news is
there is still time. A significant part of
the country is desperate to be convinced
and the battle for public opinion – which
will ultimately determine how wavering
congressmen vote – is finely balanced.
“We’re not going to out-yell them,” says
Fox. “So we have to out-organise them.”
gary.younge@guardian.co.uk
to the volleyball court: the crashing into
the net, the rough and tumble, going
shoulder to shoulder with the other guy
or girl. True, all of these are technically
infringements, resulting in a point to
another team and a quiet word from
one of the beardy pros when they are
around, telling me in disappointed tones
that really, someone could get hurt. But
that’s not to say some pretty extreme
stuff doesn’t go on. We’ve had broken
fingernails, the lot.
Yet none of this will probably redeem
my volleyball activities in the eyes of
the world, which has only a vague and
sardonically refracted inkling of the
thrill of the rallies, the desperate digs,
the precise sets, the unstoppable spikes.
Yes, I know what you’re thinking: lame,
lame, lame.
The joy has been tarnished. I’ve
considered quitting. But then, like the
German soldiers, I’m already set on my
course. It is nobler to keep fighting than
to desert. I’ll be back there tonight and
every Monday. Volleyball is fun. It is
decent. Join us. If we only believe, this
thing could get bigger than badminton.
gwyn.topham@guardian.co.uk
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Comment&Debate
Julian Glover
The question of who is in
charge of the countryside
takes in jealousy, diggers,
and class – but deserves
our honest attention

The Peak park could do
nothing to save 150 jobs
lost this spring when a
rival took over and

closed Hartington Dairy
The cure is
working
Alistair Darling
The global economy is
spluttering back into life.
The Tories would have
left it to choke to death
The hard moorland way:
trouble in our national parks
T
o the sound of rustling
Gore-Tex and Brasher
boots scraping on scree,
an anniversary is being
celebrated this bank
holiday: the 60th since
Clement Attlee’s gov-
ernment gave Britain
national parks. It was, said Hugh Dalton
as he steered the bill to law in December
1949, “one of the most exciting measures
introduced for years”, and he was right.
National parks were a postwar gift to
the cities and working men celebrated
in Ewan MacColl’s masterful ballad The
Manchester Rambler, written after the
1932 Kinder trespass. “I get all me pleas-
ure the hard moorland way,” his hikers
chanted as they tramped across the Dark
Peak. “I may be a wage slave on Monday.
But I am a free man on Sunday”.
MacColl’s words cut into the soul of
anyone who loves Britain’s great north-
ern hills, though they are no longer so
lonely. The fells are open today, with
effort, a little daring and the skill to read
a rain-splattered 1:25000 OS map. No
other government measure can match
the National Parks and Access to the
Countryside Act for the pleasure and
freedom it has given, nor for the value:
the Peak District National Park is said to
be the second busiest in the world.
National parks exemplify the com-
mon good; socialism with a pack on its
back. Two hearty hilltop cheers, then,
for their creation, but only a hesitant
hurrah for what has happened to the
countryside since. For although the
national parks (and landowners such as
the National Trust) have saved selected
parts of the English and Welsh land-
scape from bungaloid despoilation,
national parks are not as strong as they
sound. Beneath a veneer of visitor cen-
tres and rangers, they are just commit-
tees with planning powers trying to bal-
ance the demands of those people who
own and live in a place against those of
the people who want to visit.
And they can offer no help to the
great majority of the countryside
that does not enjoy their protection.
The danger is that national parks will
become fenced-off bits of olde England.
Everywhere else can fall prey to ware-
houses, new estates, security arc lights
and pointless tin roadsigns – the erosion
of the things that once made the land
properly rural.
The 1949 act designated areas of
outstanding natural beauty too. They
have some protection, but even at the
time the planners’ powers were seen as
restricted, and the difference between
A
s we see the first
signs that countries
are emerging from
recession, G20 finance
ministers in London
on Friday will step
up their efforts to
secure the economic
recovery and repair the world’s failed
financial system.
In the UK we have already taken
radical measures to get through
the recession. We will do more.
But neither the economy nor the
banking system can flourish without
international co-operation.
Only 12 months ago, the world’s
financial system came close to collapse.
The consequences for families in every
nation have been dramatic. And it is
because we want to help families and
businesses that we have been prepared
to spend money in the UK to bolster the
economy and do whatever we can to
maintain employment.
The Tories have opposed our
measures every inch of the way, but
I make no apology. For me the cost
of doing nothing, far from being “a
price worth paying”, would have been
morally indefensible. Governments can
and should make a difference. That’s the
clear division between our approach
and that of the Conservative party.
The international response, led by
Gordon Brown, has been critical. By the
end of 2010, the extra $5tn spent by the
G20 countries to boost their economies
is expected to increase global economic
output by 4%. That is why international
co-operation is imperative.
In the UK we acted decisively to
rescue the banks, not for the sake of
bankers, but to protect our savings, jobs
and businesses, all of which depend
a national park, an AONB and plain old
Britain is chance: the Howgill fells in
Cumbria, and the Cambrian mountains
in mid-Wales fall through the net.
In 1949 the Manchester Guardian
was full of letters lamenting the spread
of pylons; there were proposals that all
new lines in sensitive areas be buried. It
didn’t happen. We have got used to clos-
ing our eyes to the spread of ugliness.
The countryside is both a place and
a picture; one can change, develop
or decay as its owners and regulators
choose, while the other is cherished.
The view across Crummock water is
kept as carefully as a Constable land-
scape, but if the place is to stay pretty it
must also stay busy, and not just busy
selling tea and parking places. Land for
which there is only decorative use loses
its soul, and the core of its beauty.
Yet no planner can make hill-farming
profitable, or encourage young people to
take on tenant farms. Nor could the Peak
park do anything to save the 150 jobs
lost this spring when the Competition
Commission allowed a rival to take over
and close the Hartington Dairy.
And in the Peaks the authorities have
a more elemental battle: to prevent the
landscape being removed by digger.
In 1947 the Hobhouse report, which
led to national parks, warned that “the
increased power of modern machinery
is visibly reducing the hills and scoop-
ing out the dales”. That did not stop
ministers handing out mineral rights in
on a stable financial sector. Fiscal and
monetary policy have supported the
economy, including through the £12bn
VAT cut and the car scrappage scheme.
So while I remain cautious that risks
to the global economy remain, I am
confident that the UK will return to
growth round the turn of the year as a
result of the measures we have taken.
I am determined the recovery will
be sustainable and lasting, that no one
should be consigned to the scrap-heap,
like so many were in the 1980s and
1990s. The Tories were wrong then,
just as they are wrong now – David
Cameron and George Osborne appear
to wallow in the prospect of swinge-
ing cuts, unwilling to spell out their
economic and social consequences.
My priorities are clear: keeping
people in work, getting credit flowing
and getting public spending on to a
sustainable footing in the medium term.
In the past year we have committed an
extra £5bn to ensure that we don’t leave
people to languish on the dole. And in
the run-up to the pre-budget report I
will consider further measures. And
just like households, our country must
continue to live within its means. That is
why, alongside supporting the economy
through the recession, the budget set
out a clear plan for stable public finances
by halving the deficit within four years.
Every country will face difficult choices
as they see through the recovery. Here,
we must be clear about our priorities,
underpinned by the values which will
define where we stand.
The banking system, which has
received so much support must do
everything it can to lend to creditworthy
businesses at competitive rates. Banks
have to realise that the taxpayer came to
their rescue for a purpose. That purpose
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1952, which are today being exploited on
Longstone edge, near Chatsworth.
Permission to mine fluorspar for
industry is being used to dig out the
valuable limestone that surrounds it.
The company involved has fought in
the courts to defend its right to take as
much limestone as it wants – and lost.
But no one seems to have the power to
cancel the mineral rights and the coun-
tryside around feels like the badlands,
all barbed wire and spoil tips.
This is only an extreme example of
the debate about who is in charge in the
countryside. The story involves class
and jealousy, but few political heroes or
villains. The Conservatives claim emo-
tional connection to the land. Labour
has laid its own claim, championing pro-
tection and access in the 1949 act in the
right to roam legislation that followed.
We need to bring honesty to the sub-
ject. Countryside protection is designed
to give the nation a presiding voice in
arguments that would otherwise be
decided according to which local inter-
est can shout the loudest. Though the
choice might seem to be between town
and country, nothing is that simple. If
you spend today’s bank holiday lost
in the mist on Nine Standards Rigg, or
somewhere remote at the back of Blen-
cathra, you’ll have a strong sense of kin-
ship tied together by that most elemen-
tal of inheritances: this land; our land.
julian.glover@guardian.co.uk
MATTHEW RICHARDSON
was to get credit going again, not to fund
rewards for excessive risk-taking which
had such disastrous consequences.
Bankers forget that at their peril.
On the global front, Britain will
continue to lead international action
both in response to the financial crisis
and to help secure the recovery. In April
at the London summit, world leaders
agreed to treble the IMF’s resources
to $750bn to give it what it needs to
support emerging markets and low-
income countries most affected by the
crisis. European Union countries have
agreed to provide $100bn. But Europe
should set an example and do more to
meet the target, by committing up to
$175bn – with the UK ready to provide
up to an additional $11bn, taking our
total contribution to over $26bn.
Nor can there be any let-up in the
reform of the financial sector. Every
country must continue to put their
banks on a sound footing. Restoring
public confidence, as well as ensuring
the future stability of the sector,
requires us to go further on pay and
bonuses. Building on the progress made
at the London summit, as exemplified
by agreements such as that reached
earlier this month between the UK and
Liechtenstein, there is more to be done
in tackling the risks posed by tax havens
and other jurisdictions.
And just as at home we have set out
a clear vision for our economic future –
investing in skills, manufacturing and
science so that Britain is at the forefront
of a worldwide low-carbon recovery –
we will work with our G20 partners to
help shift the global economy towards
more sustainable growth.
Alistair Darling is Chancellor
of the Exchequer
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
≥
Africa goes
hardcore
Tim Samuels
The porn industry must
take responsibility for
the impact of its work on
the developing world
I
used to think porn was tremen-
dously good fun. The adolescent
thrill of sneaking a copy of Fiesta
home inside the Manchester
Evening News. Crowding around
a PC at university as a smutty
picture revealed itself pixel by
pixel. Even the equine VHS shown
during my first job at GQ gave everyone a
good, if not queasy, lads-mag laugh.
Any anti-porn voices felt like killjoy
whines echoing from the outskirts of
Greenham Common. By the time I’d
left the lads-mag cocoon, porn was
almost part of the mainstream furniture.
But the proliferation of free and utterly
hardcore websites visited by kids in
their global droves did spark an interest
in investigating the industry.
The moment porn truly stopped
being fun came in a remote Ghanaian
village – mud huts, barefoot kids, no
electricity. The BBC series I was making
about the impact of porn had led me
via LA to Ghana. One of the unforeseen
consequences of globalisation is the
shocking effect that western porn is hav-
ing in parts of the developing world.
The village has no electricity, but
that doesn’t stop a generator from being
wheeled in, turning a mud hut into an
impromptu porn cinema – and turning
some young men into rapists, with vil-
lagers relating chilling stories of assaults
taking place straight after the film’s end.
In the nearest city, other young men are
buying bootlegs copies of the almost
always condom-free LA-made porn
– copying directly what they see and
contracting HIV. The head of the coun-
try’s Aids commission says porn risks
destroying all the achievements they’ve
made. It’s a timebomb, he says.
The concerns aren’t theoretical –
I met young fathers with HIV whose
only sex education came from LA,
women living in the villages subject
to post-screening abuse, and even a
shy teenage virgin who has written to a
porn outfit in California asking to star in
their films (his return address was care
of the local church in Accra).
The porn producers aren’t deliberately
pushing their products into Africa.
But the tide of black market DVDs on
sale at street markets and hardcore clips
viewable at internet cafes is almost
unstoppable. Surely this multibillion-
dollar industry needs to take some
responsibility for the human costs?
Since the only sex education some
people in places such as Ghana are
getting is via porn films, there is a
decent argument for the porn industry
to produce more films where performers
use condoms. In LA, where the majority
of the world’s porn is still shot, only
one company routinely makes such
films. The condom-only policy adopted
following an industry HIV outbreak
five years ago lasted just months.
If the ambition is to put more
condom-using porn into circulation,
which will then more likely end up in
those street markets or cafes, some seri-
ous multinationals could throw their
corporate weight behind this. Hotel
chains – among the biggest broadcasters
of adult material – have not used their
immense clout to insist on greater
condom use – much to the dismay of
the porn-star STD-testing clinic in LA.
Mobile phone firms are also surrepti-
tiously making jaw-dropping amounts
of money from showing adult content
on their handsets. Could their ideas of
corporate responsibility take on a latex
dimension? Might it actually be that
ridiculous for the porn industry itself to
adopt a spot of corporate responsibility?
These are, after all, major businesses
replete with HR departments and plush
offices nestling next to mainstream
film companies. Bankroll sex safe cam-
paigns, harness the allure of their top
stars, maybe even make bespoke films
for the developing world which educate
as well as titillate. Doing nothing, and
leaving western porn to march untram-
melled into Africa and other places, is a
deeply unattractive prospect.
Tim Samuels’s series, Hardcore Profits,
starts tonight on BBC2
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
Comment&Debate
Jackie Ashley
Edward Goldsmith and
Daniel Hannan may
never be liberal heroes,
but the left should recall
the value of the shockers

Voters know arguments
are signs of life – and as
long as the arguments
are serious and creative,

people respond
Discipline has given way to
the silence of the graveyard
T
here can be few less
likely heroes for the
Guardian and progres-
sive classes than Edward
Goldsmith, who died last
week at 80. He was fero-
ciously rightwing, hos-
tile to economic growth,
wanted a much smaller population and
hung around with a posh, high-living
set. And furthermore, he left little obvi-
ous achievement behind him, except for
founding The Ecologist magazine.
Yet Goldsmith merited a long,
respectful obituary in this newspaper,
and for anyone interested in the parlous
state of the left, his legacy is worth ana-
lysing. He was an extremist: he pushed
ideas to their logical end, then further –
even supporting a racist group in France
for a while. Like his younger brother, the
maverick financier Jimmy Goldsmith, he
frightened quite a lot of people.
Hardly surprisingly, he found rela-
tively few allies. Today’s mainstream
green agenda, which tries to reconcile
material growth with action against glo-
bal warming, often through technologi-
cal fixes, was about as far from his primi-
tive, low-growth, science-hostile politics
as can be. He opposed the Channel tun-
nel as likely to increase our economic
activity, while other greens welcomed
it as an investment in public transport.
So why did so many environmentalists,
including George Monbiot, Jonathon
Porritt and Goldsmith’s nephew Zac,
praise him so fulsomely?
It was surely because, while they
may not agree with all his philosophy,
they understand the power of ideas and
idealism. Goldsmith’s idealism certainly
wasn’t mine. But by taking on such
obvious truths as the virtue of free mar-
kets in agriculture, which he thought
destroyed and starved, rather than sus-
tained; and asking hard questions about
the worship of technology, Goldsmith
forced others to think harder. He was,
in short, a stimulant – a shocker in good
ways as well as bad.
He reminded me, a little, of that other
stirrer-upper who has been causing
David Cameron a certain amount of
angst recently: Daniel Hannan, the Tory
MEP, YouTube star and Gordon baiter.
Not that their views are similar – Han-
nan, who recently claimed Enoch Pow-
ell as one of his heroes, is a liberal on
trade and presumably very pro-growth.
But his insistence on speaking out is
absolutely in the Goldsmith mode.
He is proving very popular, so much
so that more conventional, mainstream
Tories worry that one day he will be a
rival to Cameron. Certainly, assuming
that the Tories win the election, Hannan
is just the kind of person who will make
it hard for Cameron to compromise over
Europe. He seems to be his own man;
that’s what makes the Tory high com-
mand so anxious and Hannan himself so
popular, both in the US and here.
Stung recently by the bucketful of
ordure tipped over his head after he
attacked the National Health Service on
American television, Hannan argued
that political parties had to grow up,
and allow MPs to speak out publicly
when they disagree with the party
line. He issued what could be called a
manifesto for mavericks, pointing out
that MPs were originally responsible to
their electorates, not party whips. Why
could backbenchers, at least, not have
more freedom?
Not only is he absolutely right – the
leaden repetition of the official line is
perhaps even more important than the
expenses scandal in explaining the low
standing of MPs – but his analysis mat-
ters at least as much to the left as the
right. Without bolder thinkers, political
movements and parties begin to wither.
What Westminster calls a gaffe, most
voters call frankness. When a free spirit
asks what the consensus deems wild
questions, millions of people may lis-
ten and test their thinking. Parliament
needs its republicans, its hardcore anti-
EU campaigners, its squeeze-the-rich
enthusiasts. If everyone is a member of
the soggy centrist consensus, serious
thinking becomes flabby and the point
of parliamentary politics declines.
So when Tony Benn advocated a
socialist economy, buttressed from the
rest of the world and run by a kind of
puritan republican democracy, he was
no nearer to mainstream political real-
ity than Teddy Goldsmith with his call
for self-sufficient communities. But he
challenged mainstream thinking in the
1970s and 1980s and made people look
again. I can see why, for instance, Lord
Kinnock might ardently have wished
that “Wedgie” had spent his life as a
radical bookshop owner; but the history
of the left would have been more mea-
gre without him.
And who can now say that the iron
discipline of New Labour MPs during the
boom years was such a good thing? If it
meant that there was very little probing
of the City and banking practice, wasn’t
that a mistake? Where there was real
dissent, such as over the Iraq war, and
the limitations on freedoms produced
by the so-called war on terror, we can
only wish there had been more of it.
The great argument inside Labour now
seems all about which individuals should
be in which positions before and after
the expected election defeat. And yes, it
matters, a little. But Labour seems inter-
nally unargumentative and worryingly
uninterested in big ideas. Has the party
really understood how the state works?
Does it need to rethink the reform of
public institutions? What about the
euro? What about Afghanistan?
L
abour does not have
enough bold people ask-
ing bold questions. Where
are the Hannans, or the
Benns, challenging and
probing Labour thinking?
There are some. Jon Crud-
das can be interesting but
keeps one foot inside the establishment.
Harriet Harman raised some hackles,
but at least got people talking, during
her summer slot. Frank Field has never
flinched from saying the unpopular.
But too many thinkers on the left are
outside parliament, and even outside
the party. Question: if Zac Goldsmith is
an acceptable Tory candidate, why is it
impossible to imagine Labour allowing
Monbiot to stand for them?
Here’s the final irony. Just as Cameron
contemplates his growing and articulate
awkward squad, Brown’s Labour party
has gone quiet. Government spin-
doctors try to turn this into a positive
thing, by attacking Tory splits and
gaffes, but it isn’t working.
Voters know that argument and dis-
sent are signs of life – and as long as the
arguments are serious and creative, peo-
ple respond. Once, Labour seemed in
danger of falling apart. Then it learned
discipline. But it learned silence and dis-
cretion too. Just now, it sounds like the
silence of the graveyard. Let’s remember
the value of the shockers – and have a
little more noise on the left.
jackie.ashley@guardian.co.uk
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Murdoch
was right
Peter Preston
We need civilised debate,
not a festival shouting
match, in order to
start finding solutions
F
orget “chilling” hyperbole
about “state-sponsored
news” and standard
Orwellian allusions: James
Murdoch is right – or at
least not far wrong. The
BBC may not deserve all
the Sun-drenched adjec-
tives he lavished on it at the Edinburgh
International Television Festival last
week, just as Murdoch junior doesn’t
deserve the dung chucked across
decades at his dad: but there is a bur-
geoning problem for news, on air and in
print, and hiding behind the old barri-
cades of fear and loathing won’t solve it.
Everybody – from the chief execu-
tive of the Guardian Media Group to the
editor of the Independent to the lords
of the Mail – agrees with James about
the BBC’s website, currently consuming
upwards of £150m in licence-fee cash.
How does a newspaper that wants (nay,
needs) to move on to the web and pay
for the words it puts there, cope when
the BBC dishes them out for free? It’s
hard enough to find ways of charging
for news services. It’s practically impos-
sible while the successors of Lord Reith
sit at the centre of their own huge stage,
declining to adjust logic or strategy.
Look around you, from local papers
going out of existence to national papers
fighting not to lose money, and ask
how something more rational can be
contrived? Then ask the same questions
about local radio, and television itself.
More than newspaper business models
would seem near to bust here. Almost
anything that tries to compete with the
BBC is in much the same boat. Ride out
a recession with relative ease? Just get
Joe Public to stump up £142.50 a time
and your worries are relatively few.
Timewarp debates about good or
commercially evil don’t hack it any
longer. Nor – as BBC business editor
Robert Peston and Murdoch reportedly
trade post-lecture vituperation – does
the language of confrontation. We are
heading into a new era of mass com-
munication where what you see on TV
will arrive best by broadband, not out of
the satellite Sky. And, as we hop around
between new media projects called Kan-
garoo and Canvas, TV will be an archive
of viewing on demand, not a linear serv-
ice in hock to the clock.
So the tangle over websites, pitting
newspapers against corporation, isn’t an
end game, it’s just a beginning. The poli-
ticians and regulators are being asked
to decide what “broadcasting” means
today. Websites, blogs, mobile phones,
apps on demand? Of course, as the BBC
sees it. “We are required to deliver news
on as many platforms as possible”, says
the head of BBC1. There are no bounda-
ries, no limits to ambition, no technical
bridges too far.
But this is old thinking, too. At root,
it says that the BBC can’t get its £142.50
a time unless it offers something for
everyone (except, perhaps, football,
cricket and the arts buffs looked after
by Murdoch enterprises). Something for
everyone is the magic formula. Which
is where the thinking, as well as the
language, has to change.
Very soon now, there’s a reckoning
coming. You can see it as David Cameron
starts stomping around over paying “the
talent”. You can feel it as newspapers
fight their own corner. Self-serving? Of
course. But so is a BBC that can’t discuss
boundaries and areas of influence afresh.
There has to be a new start in here some-
where: what Murdoch, through gritted
teeth, might call “recreation”.
There’s no point standing on a for-
tress wall howling defiance. I’d hate to
leave the world to Sky. I think the BBC
is a force for good (and truth in journal-
ism). I want it to last another 87 years, at
least. We need it to survive and prosper.
But for that to happen, we also need
to see the way things are, and will be:
to recognise a problem in order to start
finding solutions. A civilised discussion,
not an Edinburgh shouting match? Big
rethinking without Big Brother? Or is
that an unreality show too far?
p.preston@guardian.co.uk
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An American in Edinburgh
Twenty years after his father lectured the Brit-
ish media on their failings, James Murdoch
flew into Edinburgh at the weekend to do the
same. One was Australian at the time, the other
is American: both relish their outsider status.
Both chafe at what they see as an over-regu-
lated industry indefensibly dominated by a
public-service broadcaster. To James Murdoch,
the British media is like the Addams family –
unhappy in every way.
The unrelenting Murdoch attack on the BBC
has echoes of the recent attacks by the Ameri-
can right on the NHS. Both are institutions
which, when push comes to shove, the Brit-
ish people use, treasure and trust. They may
moan about them and complain about their
shortcomings, but in the end they feel grateful
to have them and regard them as pretty good
value for money. This may seem inexplicable to
some on the American right, who regard both
organisations with barely concealed contempt,
but that’s the way it is.
In James Murdoch’s analysis, creativity,
investment and innovation are being choked
off in the UK by the twin evils of the BBC and
the media regulator, Ofcom. He would like Brit-
ish TV to be more like the press – opinionated,
lightly regulated (if at all) and totally independ-
ent. In other words, he would like Britain to be
more like America. The problem is that the
American newspaper sector – untroubled by
either the BBC or very much regulation – is on
its knees. The free market can no longer support
the work of keeping communities informed.
The same is true in the UK, where the job of
systematically reporting public authorities and
courts is increasingly beyond the ability of des-
perately struggling local newspapers. Yes, the
Times has a Baghdad reporter. But the paper
is currently losing tens of millions of pounds a
year and is able to do its fine journalism only by
virtue of enlightened Murdoch cross-subsidy.
Good for the Murdochs, who have, over the
years, invested admirably in journalism, but
don’t pretend this is an example of the free
market at work. And remember it was the
Murdochs – now arguing for plurality and the
customer paying a fair price for quality journal-
ism – who cut the price of the Times to 10p in
the predatory hope that weaker papers would
go to the wall, an act that affected newspaper
pricing in the UK for 15 years.
Sky has done extraordinarily well in Brit-
ain, thanks to the Murdochs’ vision, tenacity
and willingness to take risks – and, in part, to
a regulatory regime that has not been unhelp-
ful to their ambitions. It is not obvious that the
company has been held back by the presence
of the BBC. Any fair analysis of the woes of the
media industry in America and Europe today
would have questioned the growth and alarm-
ing dominance of Google. It is a shame that
Mr Murdoch allowed these twin obsessions to
distort a speech that made some good points.
There are aspects of the BBC’s size and purpose
that should be scrutinised. Regulation should
change with the times. He was right to high-
light the way convergence is producing “an
all-media market”. He is right to talk about the
need to trust consumers, even if the underly-
ing purpose of his speech will be seen as one
of self-interest.
All countries’ media ecosystems are differ-
ent. The American way is no more desirable in
the UK than the Italian way – in which a very
powerful media magnate has ended up with a
dangerously large slice of the cake. What works
rather well in the UK is a mixed economy of
private and public. Newspapers are lightly
regulated, fiercely opinionated and proudly
independent. Public-service broadcasters are
more heavily regulated in return for their sub-
sidy. It’s not a perfect mix, but its part of the
texture of life in the country. The idea of deci-
mating it in order to allow a sort of Fox News
UK to flourish is a prospect that should truly
chill our souls.
clarifications
• A taste test of various foods de-
scribed a sample from Anila’s Curry
Sauces as starting well but having “a
slightly dirty aftertaste”. Our reviewer
meant to convey that the aftertaste
was odd – not to imply that food hy-
giene might be poor (Look, no gluten!
19 August, page 14, G2).
• A story was incorrect in saying
that the European Union had ex-
tended copyright to 95 years from
the present 50 for performers and
sound recordings. The European
commission did propose 95 years,
but the European parliament
amended it to 70. To take effect,
this still needs approval from the
council of ministers, some of whom
oppose an extension (A new frontier
for filesharing, 27 August, page 1,
Technology).
• An article said that an inventor’s
prototype for a home wind turbine
produced “the equivalent of 1kWh
continuous power” in initial tests in
his mother’s garden. The kilowatt
hour is a serial offender in this col-
umn: it is not a unit of power, but of
energy – the equivalent of 1kW being
generated for one hour. In the case
of this turbine, what we should have
said was, “on average, the equivalent
of 1kW continuous power” (A new
generation of turbines, 20 August,
page 6, Technology).

• The map that accompanied a reces-

sion story set along Route 66 cut a big
Parliamentary reform slice out of Oklahoma and gave it to
Texas (Same road, same grim story,
same sense of optimism, 28 August,

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no overall control, and finally accepted that it But the real challenge to completing reform heart. This government must make the case Lake District
would be mainly or entirely elected. But there is that the interim arrangements have resulted that the system by which we are governed The Keswick climber, photographer
was no agreement on the final size, on the sys- in a second chamber that has become reason- shapes what governments do. It must lead the and writer George Abraham once com-
tem of election or even on the process by which ably effective at causing the government to fight for an elected second chamber. pared “the clinging in apparent isola-
tion on a 1,000ft wall and the risk of
moving” to “the timing needed by
Bradman, who with instant abandon
In praise of... circumambulation hooks an in-swinger away to sharp
leg”. Another climber, Peter Green-
wood, made the same comparison
while watching the final Test match on
Buddhist and Hindu worshippers have circu- monitored by experimenters in the deserts of that, since most people are asymmetric, there television recently. Almost 60 years
mambulatory rituals at holy places. Muslim Tunisia and the forests of Germany, and con- would naturally be a built-in bias to the left or ago on the Oval, a turf-clad ledge on
the central buttress of Scafell, Green-
pilgrims, too, choose to walk counter-clockwise firmed by GPS readings. When people had a the right. But this proved not to be the case.
wood hit the ledge during a hurtling
round the Kaaba stone in Mecca. The rest of us clearly visible landmark to aim for, or could The same blindfolded volunteer could turn fall down the crag, bounded out into
walk round in circles because we don’t know see the sun or the moon, they generally kept clockwise or widdershins, and keep turning. space and continued falling until the
where we are going. Researchers at the Max on in a straight line. Without a reliable land- So the platitudes are true. Successful people rope twanged tight to stop him just
Planck Institute at Tübingen have just con- mark, according to the team’s report in Cur- are goal-oriented, know where they are going short of the jagged rocks near Rake’s
Progress. Amazingly, he sustained
firmed those Victorian adventure stories about rent Biology, most participants in the study and keep their eyes on the prize, while the rest only a scaphoid fracture of the wrist.
lost travellers. People who do not know where would unconsciously begin a turn that would of us – and that may include governments that Under the aegis of the Bradford
they are going really do tend to walk in circles. take them back on their own tracks. The sci- have lost their way – maintain the illusion of Lads, Greenwood developed new
This aimless circumambulation has been entists used blindfolds to test an old theory – progress, by going round in small circles. routes of the hardest stature, still
revered by climbers today. In his bluff
Yorkshire way, he recollected how his
own clinging to England’s finest crag
face on that wet, miserable day in
31 August 1999 1950 was terminated by a Bradman (or
indeed a Flintoff ) moment – always
likely when sporting action becomes
enduring hours of walking and wait- we affirm our sovereignty as a people. increasing militia violence against both intense. He remembers his fingers
Freedom for ing under a tropical sun, about 90% of
the 438,000 registered voters went to
We have overcome the difficulties, the
suffering and bloodshed, the grief and
the local population and UN personnel.
Militias, often openly accompanied by
“just inches” from the handhold at
the top of the Great Flake. Then a
Timor as voters the polls. Counting begins today and
the final result is due within the week.
the sorrow (of the last 24 years)”.
Indonesia’s former dictator, Suharto,
Indonesian security forces, prevented
pro-independence groups opening
plimsoll (covered by a sock for extra
adhesion) skidded off the rock and he
The expected overwhelming vote invaded East Timor in 1975 and offices in many towns and destroyed began to fall, his ex-War Department
defy gunmen for independence is likely to have seri-
ous consequences for the rest of Indo-
annexed it the following year, a move
never recognised by the UN. More than
numerous centres that did open. In
some areas the pro-independence side
camouflage patterned anorak billow-
ing and his black hair flying.
nesia, where several provinces are 200,000 people died in the first three was unable to campaign at all. Now he ruffles that same head of
After 25 years of repressive occupa- campaigning for similar treatment. years of occupation but Jakarta never So today’s scenes confounded all rather more depleted hair and men-
tion by the Indonesian military, the Dozens of East Timorese were completely pacified the territory. expectations. Many people camped at tions that his companion on the rope,
people of East Timor yesterday seized killed in the run-up to the vote as the In January Mr Suharto’s succes- polling stations overnight and queues Freddie Williams (with whom he
the historic opportunity to determine militias established by the Indonesian sor, B.J. Habibie, accepted defeat: if were often half a mile long before danced “foxtrots and tangos all the
their own future by flocking to vote in army waged a campaign of terror and the East Timorese rejected his offer dawn as people demonstrated their way back across the fell” after success-
a referendum on independence. The violence to derail the referendum. of wide-ranging autonomy, he would refusal to submit to the terror. fully making the second ascent of Deer
huge turnout makes it almost certain The pro-independence leader Jose give them their freedom. The UN was “Today is too important for us,” said Bield buttress in Far Easedale), reso-
the vote will be in favour of breaking “Xanana” Gusmao, who is under asked to organise the referendum. Carlos Pinto dos Santos, a farmer in the lutely refused to go first on the rope,
ties with Jakarta. house arrest in Jakarta, said the ref- Few people believed the task would village of Laulada. “We are all prepared so Greenwood still had to lead the way
Defying massive intimidation by erendum “marks once and for all the be possible, given the three-month to risk everything in order to vote.” off the crag, injury or no injury.
pro-Indonesia armed militias, and end of our long suffering and today deadline, particularly in the face of John Aglionby in Dili Tony Greenbank
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Reply
Letters and emails
Profit is no measure of broadcasting quality
James Murdoch has just fired the first
shot in the general election campaign
(Put an end to this dumping of free
news, 29 August). A defining issue will
be the split between public and private,
after 30 years of systematic attack on
the public sector from the right. As Mur-
doch pointed out, the private sector has
one aim: profit. Our public spaces, our
public services, the very idea of the pub-
lic, have all been appropriated by the
language and practices of profit and the
private sector. We are no longer passen-
gers, students or citizens, only consum-
ers of services that must make a profit.
Murdoch is wrong to say public provi-
sion penalises the poorest; it is in fact
their bulwark against exploitation.
“Free news”, by definition, is available
to all. Sky News is available only to
those forced to pay the subscription by
Sky’s progressive appropriation of pro-
gramming that used to be in the public
sphere, but which is now private.
Professor Andrew Dobson
Keele University
• Hot on the heels of Americans bashing
the NHS, another British institution is
now in the sights of American-educated
and resident James Murdoch. Murdoch
makes the case for what he describes as
“genuine independence in news media”,
when what he really wants are favour-
able conditions for billionaire media
tycoons free from regulation. He attacks
the BBC as a state-sponsored medium,
as if it were the Chinese state, which his
father’s media empire has done deals
with in the past: it appears one person’s
“independence and plurality” is another
billionaire’s business opportunity.
His straight-faced “inescapable con-
clusion” is unsurprising: “The only
reliable, durable and perpetual guaran-
Twitter fans
BNP councillor Pat Richardson says
“A brick through a window is a British
method ... of showing displeasure”
(Muslim man claims he was abducted,
27 August). Could you please publish her
address so that those of us who wish to
show our displeasure at her could do so
in a manner of which she approves.
Mike Robinson
Lancashire
• Taxes on socially useless banks (Edi-
torial, 28 August), cancellation of Big
Brother, the state rebuilding the rail-
ways, football violence ... are we at last
entering the first stage of a post-Thatch-
erite renaissance?
David Lund
Winscombe, Somerset
• Watching the West Ham-Millwall “do”
on TV news (Sport, 26 August) it would
seem that our police forces are better
equipped than our forces in Afghani-
stan. Perhaps Gen Sir Jock Stirrup
should lobby the MoD with the same
vigour as the Home Office (We owe it to
our troops, 28 August).
Bob Davenport
London
• The hooligans who used internet
forums to orchestrate the disgraceful
scenes at the West Ham v Millwall game
are clearly relics of a bygone age. Oth-
erwise they would have known to use
Twitter.
Charles Rowlands
Nantwich, Cheshire
• Was the football hooliganism between
West Ham and Millwall a case of plus ca
change or deja vu?
Stan Labovitch
Windsor, Berkshire
• There was ,of course (Letters, 24
August), the Cambridge mathematician
who emailed a colleague suggesting
they spend Saturday afternoon “investi-
gating some conundra about pendula”;
to which his colleague replied that there
were better ways to spend a weekend
than “sitting on our ba doing sa”.
Michael Law
London
• ‘Dot! Dot! Dash!’ I cried to my wife
Dorothy as we hastened to get to the
Telegraph Museum in Porthcurno, Corn-
wall, before it closed (Letters, passim).
Maurice Coad
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
tor of independence [in news media]
is profit.” Perhaps he has Fox News in
mind. My own inescapable conclusion is
simpler: news media owned by billion-
aires tend to reflect the views of their
owners, and ensure that a world view
is presented which shows Mr Murdoch
and his ilk as enlightened defenders of
free speech (from such evil wrongdoers
as the European Union). Mr Murdoch
may be right on one thing – there is a
“serious and imminent threat” to inde-
pendent news provision. But he needs
to look closer to home for the culprit.
Graeme Routledge
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
• The existence of the BBC’s high-qual-
ity, free, credible news on the internet
has not stopped the Times and other
Murdoch newspapers from having their
own websites. It is good for democracy
for there to be at least one major source
of information on the web that is not
reliant on advertising income from rich
and powerful companies, just as it is
good to have BBC television and radio
for the same reason. Undoubtedly, the
existence of the BBC is bad news for
News Corporation’s profitability. But
in attacking the BBC’s free provision,
it would appear to be Murdoch’s News
Corp, not the BBC, that “is incapable of
distinguishing between what is good for
it and what is good for the country”.
Richard Mountford
Hildenborough, Kent
• James Murdoch says “the BBC feels
empowered to offer something for eve-
ryone, even in areas well served by the
market”. So what he wants is for the BBC
to drop out of activities where there are
programmes provided by commercial TV
companies. Then the BBC becomes just a
Trading ways to tackle climate change
Your Climate Camp reports have not
mentioned one very important group –
workers from the Vestas wind turbine
factories, who are still fighting for the
nationalisation of the plants to save
their jobs (Direct action: ‘Casino’ protest
staged in City, 28 August). They are tak-
ing part because they understand that
workers’ organisation and the fight
against climate change are inseparable.
Trade unionists should join the debate.
Stephen Wood
Workers’ Climate Action
• Your report (Turning charcoal into
Carbon Gold, 27 August) about Craig
Sams’ and Dan Morrell’s biochar project
filled me with despair. Biochar is being
hailed as a “silver bullet”, much like
biofuels, carbon capture and storage
(“clean” coal). These are smoke screens,
raised to let us ignore the uncomfort-
Mind your language
David Marsh
The style guide editor on ...
commodious collections
of annoying cliches
Y
ou’d think that years of
dodging metaphorical
bullets in the sniper’s
alley that used to be
known as Fleet Street
would have given me
a thick skin. But I’m a
sensitive soul.
I can cope with being told by one of
my most dedicated online critics, in an
increasingly hostile series of comments
which followed last week’s column:
“The truth is, David, that your style
guide is an appallingly amateurish col-
lection of peeves, invented rules and
straightforward mistakes.” (Don’t be coy
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Email: letters@guardian.co.uk
source for specialist and intellectual pro-
grammes, so the number of viewers falls;
there is no justification for the licence
fee to support the BBC - and so on to
oblivion for the BBC and a clear field for
Murdoch and his commercial aspirations.
Of course the BBC can improve – but it
offers wonderful programmes, satisfies
a variety of interests and provides trans-
missions unencumbered by commercial
breaks. Long live the BBC!
John Chubb
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
• The BBC licence fee is £142.50pa for a
plethora of services covering TV, radio,
internet, etc, of wide-ranging interest.
The Sky subscription of about £50 a
month for a basic package – £600 a year –
goes straight into the Murdochs’ pocket
for providing commercial TV only, with
very little original UK programming.
Douglas Hartington
Manchester
GKIMAGES.COM
able truth that we need to reduce energy
demand. We must define a future that
works without abundant, cheap, fossil
fuel-derived energy to throw at prob-
lems, not act as if it will never happen.
Why is the climate debate so focused
on carbon? We talk of electric cars with
no thought for where the raw materials
come from to build the cars, make their
batteries and maintain the roads on
which they travel. We talk of replacing
the millions of years’ worth of natural
energy contained in fossil fuels with
plants grown in a few years. We talk of
biochar, while we carry on flying, burn-
ing coal and trashing the planet. If it
seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Dr Mandy Meikle
West Calder, West Lothian
• UK airports don’t back the European
emissions trading scheme because it’s a
– tell me what you really think.) Intem-
perate, humourless and at times abusive
attacks are the norm in these days of
anonymous online postings, even when
the most controversial thing you write
about is punctuation rather than poli-
tics. I shudder to think what poor Polly
Toynbee goes through.
However, I admit to being a bit
upset when a former editor of this very
newspaper recently denounced what
he called “the sacred book of ordained
coinages” and “commodious collec-
tions of consistency designed to make
readers believe their morning sheets are
computer-standardised”.
This at least explains why, when I
arrived at the Guardian in the mid-90s,
I couldn’t find a copy of the stylebook
(“Everyone here knows what our style
is”), but it also betrays a disappointing
failure to understand why we, like just
about every media organisation in the
world, have a house style guide.
Yes, part of it is about consistency,
trying to maintain the standards of
good English that our readers expect,
and correcting former editors who
write such things as “This argument,
says a middle-aged lady in a business
suit called Marion …” But, more than
anything, the Guardian style guide is
about using language that maintains
and upholds our values – which may be
why our first stylebook appeared in 1928
We do not publish letters where only
an email address is supplied;
please include a full postal address,
a reference to the article and a daytime
• The day when a station owned by
Rupert Murdoch produces or commis-
sions a single programme, let alone a
lifetime of programmes, of the quality of
Blue Planet or Blue Peter, Life on Earth
or Life on Mars, Gardeners’ World or
World at One – and allows us to see and
hear them for under £150 quid a year – is
the day when we should even entertain
his son’s self-serving views about broad-
casting or any other subject. As to his
belief that the only measure of quality
in broadcasting is profit, I suppose it has
to be admitted that he clearly practises
that whereof he speaks.
David Robertson
West Malvern, Worcestershire
• It is infuriating that you give free
space for James Murdoch to promote
his family’s vile assault on integrity and
public accountability. Can you imagine
an attack by Alan Rusbridger on News
International being given prominence in
the Murdoch press?
Philip Foxe
London
• What’s “chilling” is surely the pros-
pect of a greater stranglehold by private
oligopolies like Murdoch’s, not any
plans by the BBC. What we need is more
support for community and alternative
outlets, not more deregulation for trans-
national media conglomerates.
Diana Raby
Liverpool
• James Murdoch might reflect on what
Hannen Swaffer said 80 years ago: “Free-
dom of the press in Britain is the freedom
to print such of the proprietor’s preju-
dices as the advertisers don’t object to.”
Mike Starke
Chale Green, Isle of Wight
free ride (Letters, 21 August), and “cap” is
not a misnomer. Aviation must either get
its emissions below 2005 levels or grow,
but pay other industries to decarbonise
in equal and opposite amounts.
Also, it’s suggested that nothing will
happen until “airlines pay a realistic price
for carbon” – a call for more tax. UK pas-
sengers pay £2bn (and rising) to the gov-
ernment in departure taxes, something
unparallelled in Europe. ETS works the
other way round. Politicians set caps on
sectors, which then trade to meet over-
all targets as cheaply as possible. Trad-
ing to make reductions leads to a carbon
price, not vice versa. We agree ETS must
be got right, but prefer it because it’s
international and good value, and acts
directly on carbon dioxide.
Robert Siddall
chief executive, Airport Operators
Association
under the auspices of another distin-
guished former editor, one CP Scott.
Just like CP, I have no desire to make
the Guardian read as if it were all writ-
ten by the same person (or computer).
Anyone familiar with the contributions
of, say, Charlie Brooker, Ian Jack, Lucy
Mangan and Matthew Norman will agree
that they have more than managed to
maintain their own distinctive voices.
And not one of them has ever been sub-
jected to an inquisition for straying from
the sacred writ of Guardian style.
Actually, many of our readers might
prefer it if the rules, invented or other-
wise, were enforced more rigorously.
One writes: “I cannot bear to read avoid-
able cliches in your paper any more.
You really should expand the style
guidelines to forbid more of them. I did
a quick search of the Guardian website
and discovered that the phrase ‘eye-
watering’ appeared an eyebrow-raising
1,710 times. Please stop.”
And from another reader: “Can you
please use your influence to prevent ‘the
Bank of Mum and Dad’ (page 1 today)
Intemperate, humourless
attacks are the norm
online. I shudder to think
what poor Polly Toynbee
goes through
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We may edit letters.
Race bias fears over
music licence form
We write to raise our concerns over the
Metropolitan police’s use of form 696
to collect information about, and in
some cases restrict, live events across
London. Form 696 has already been
criticised by the music industry as an
unnecessary piece of bureaucracy that
will make it more difficult to hold small
and impromptu live events. We are also
deeply concerned that form 696 has the
potential to be misused by the police
to discriminate against ethnic minori-
ties. The signs are not positive since the
police have already indicated an interest
in the racial profile of people attending.
Though this question was removed
after an outcry, the form still asks what
music style will be performed (focusing
on styles disproportionately popular
with minorities), as well as its target
audience. Anecdotal evidence already
suggests that the Met is restricting
events aimed at ethnic minorities and
making it harder for Londoners to enjoy
a diverse range of music. There is now
the danger that police services across
the country will adopt this measure
and further entrench this illiberal and
potentially racist practice. (One London
council has already invoked prevention
of terrorism in its licensing guidelines
for live events.)
Trevor Phillips, chair of the equalities
commission, recently said the police
had made great strides in tackling rac-
ism since the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.
The use of such forms throws this claim
into doubt by opening up more subtle
fronts through which individuals can
misuse their authority by discriminating
against ethnic minorities.
The existing licensing application
process already makes it a prerequisite
that venues prove adequate provision
to prevent crime and disorder, harm
to children and public nuisance. We
understand the need for the Metropoli-
tan police to protect members of the
public and limit criminal incidents at
live events. However, these initiatives
should be intelligence-led and carried
out in partnership with local communi-
ties rather than through initiatives that
increase animosity towards the police.
Sunny Hundal Liberal Conspiracy
Feargal Sharkey CEO, UK Music
Lynne Featherstone MP Lib Dem
Henry Porter
Ziauddin Sardar
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Anthony Barnett Charter 88
Dr Rob Berkeley Runnymede Trust
Brian Paddick
Sian Berry Green Party
Simon Woolley Operation Black Vote
Hari Kunzru
Chantelle Fiddy thelondonpaper
Bashy Music artist
Ben Harris Run Music
Hattie Collins Music editor, i-D
Alex Chase Stones Throw records
And seven others
Full list at guardian.co.uk/letters
from becoming the next ‘elephant in
the room’?”
I’ve written about “elephant in the
room” before and can report that this
tired expression, if not quite in the
elephants’ graveyard, is definitely on the
endangered list, with just 15 mentions
in our pages this year – and one of those,
in a travel piece, was about an elephant
that was literally in the room. Quite a fall
since the heyday of elephantiasis in 2006,
when 38 elephants wandered around the
room (up from just two in 2004).
The pace at which a fresh metaphor
becomes a tired cliche seems to have
increased in recent years. Although 1,710
usages of “eye-watering” is exaggerated,
the reader is right to have noticed a big
increase in its popularity: 69 mentions
so far in 2009 if we include “eye-water-
ingly” – although curiously, while “eye-
watering” is only ever applied to money
(“eye-watering sums”), its near relative
is more versatile (“an eye-wateringly
beautiful woman”, “an eye-wateringly
sharp sauvignon” and so on).
This marks a fivefold increase since
2004, and that is too much eye-watering
– the danger, as ever, being that the
expression loses its force from overuse.
Time will tell if this this fate is about to
befall “the Bank of Mum and Dad” – just
six mentions in 2009. So far.
www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide
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Obituaries
Simon Dee
Huge radio and TV star
of the Swinging Sixties
whose career went
into freefall in the 70s
S
imon Dee, who has died of
bone cancer at the age of
74, was a radio disc jockey
of the Swinging Sixties who
took his larger-than-life
personality to television as
host of the chatshow Dee
Time. Dee began his broad-
casting career as one of the pirate radio
DJs who brought the latest pop sounds
to Britain’s teenagers. His was the first
voice to be heard on Radio Caroline,
the country’s inaugural offshore pirate
station, which took to the airwaves
in 1964, anchored three miles off the
Essex coast, just outside British territo-
rial waters. His theme tune was On the
Sunny Side of the Street.
The following year, Dee left to present
a late-night Saturday show on the BBC
Light Programme and was also heard on
Radio Luxembourg. When, in 1967, the
BBC finally launched Radio 1 and the
Marine Offences Act outlawed Caroline
and other pirates, Dee was among the
original team of DJs on the new channel,
presenting the Monday edition of Mid-
day Spin. Like some of his colleagues, he
also presented Top of the Pops.
However, he was by then already
making waves on television with his
chatshow Dee Time (1967-69), which
attracted up to 18 million viewers. Any-
one who was anybody wanted to appear
in the programme, which opened with
the upbeat introduction “It’s Si-i-i-i-
mon Dee!” and closed with film of the
host driving off in an E-type Jaguar,
with a blonde in the passenger seat.
Sammy Davis Jr, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Rod
Taylor, Richard Harris and John Lennon
were among the guests who queued up
to be interviewed by Dee. He was even
reported to have been asked to audition
for the role of James Bond in 1969.
But Dee walked out on the show after
only two years when the BBC refused to
bow to his salary demands. He took his
massive ego to the ITV company LWT,
which offered him a salary of £100,000
to host The Simon Dee Show (1970),
although it already employed the heavy-
weight interviewer David Frost.
When Dee fell out with his new
bosses, the latenight Sunday show was
axed. This followed the broadcast of
an interview with the new Bond actor
George Lazenby, who used the pro-
gramme to make claims about Ameri-
can senators he believed to have been
involved in the assassination of Presi-
Sergei Mikhalkov
Russian writer known
for his three versions
of the national anthem
S
ergei Mikhalkov, who
has died aged 96, was a
Soviet children’s author,
poet and writer of satirical
fables. He is best known
for writing three different
versions of the Soviet and
Russian national anthems
to suit the diverse tastes of Josef Stalin,
Leonid Brezhnev and Vladimir Putin.
But it is with his verses for children –
loved by many generations of Soviet
boys and girls – that he achieved his
most enduring success.
In Uncle Styopa – a friendly police-
man always ready to rescue cats stuck up
trees, and to perform other helpful deeds,
about whom Mikhalkov wrote a series of
poems – he created one of the best-loved
characters of Russian children’s literature.
Like Mikhalkov, the fictional Styopa was
exceptionally tall. (On entering a cinema,
a group of children complain he is block-
ing their view of the screen, telling him:
“You, comrade, sit on the floor/It’s all the
same to you.”) In English, his name trans-
lates as Uncle Steeple.
Mikhalkov’s poems were simple, easy
to learn by heart, and, from the 1930s
onwards, ended up on almost every
Soviet bookshelf. But he was also pre-
pared to put his literary talents to the
service of the state.
Dee in 1967. His show Dee Time attracted up to 18 million viewers Photograph: Bruce Fleming/Rex
Mikhalkov was born into an aris-
tocratic Moscow family. His father
Vladimir noticed his son’s talent at an
early age, sending some of nine-year-
old Sergei’s verses to an established
poet, who responded encouragingly.
Mikhalkov published his first poem,
Road, aged 15. After finishing school,
he worked in a Moscow loom factory,
before joining the staff of the newspa-
per Izvestiya. His poems appeared in
communist magazines for children, and
other journals.
He first attracted Stalin’s attention
in 1935, after he wrote a poem entitled
Svetlana, the name of Stalin’s daugh-
ter. By 1939, and with Uncle Styopa
a national bestseller, the 26-year-old
Mikhalkov scooped the Order of Lenin
and the Stalin prize.
In 1943 he and the Armenian poet
Gabriel El-Registan jointly entered
a competition to write a new Soviet
national anthem. Stalin picked their
version from 60 others, making only
minor alterations in soft pencil. As
the Red Army fought back against the
invading Nazis in 1944, Mikhalkov’s
patriotic ode replaced the Internation-
ale as the Soviet Union’s official war-
time hymn. Inevitably, it included a line
praising Stalin, “who brought us up”,
for labour and heroic deeds.
By the postwar 1950s, Mikhalkov had
become one of the regime’s favourite
courtier-poets. His work appeared
frequently on the front page of Pravda
– praising a new mega-watt power-
station, or some other example of Soviet
technological prowess, or lambasting
Clement Attlee and Harry Truman. The
result was sometimes little more than
communist doggerel. One line read: “It
stands powerful and strong, and works
on nuclear energy.” Mikhalkov joined
the prestigious Soviet Writers’ Union in
1938, and rose rapidly.
In 1958 he took the side of the state in
the campaign against Boris Pasternak,
comparing Pasternak with an unwanted
plant that grows in your kitchen garden.
He also participated in the later cam-
paign against Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
After Stalin’s death, and under
Khrushchev, Mikhalkov’s words for the
national anthem were no longer used.
Mikhalkov at the Kremlin last year
For 20 years, the anthem was played
without words. A solution was found in
the 1970s, when Mikhalkov wrote new
lyrics omitting all reference to Stalin,
but keeping mentions of Lenin.
In the late Soviet Brezhnev period,
he achieved popularity among a new
generation via Fitil (The Fuse), a series
of short humorous films that poked fun
at everyday Soviet life. Shown before
the main feature, these mild, politically
harmless satires were preferred to the
alternative – the propaganda-style News
of the Day. He also wrote satirical plays.
After the Soviet Union’s collapse,
Boris Yeltsin dumped the old Soviet
anthem. In 2000, however, Yeltsin’s
ambitious KGB successor Putin brought
it back again, asking Mikhalkov, then
aged 87, to write another version.
He did, this time praising Russia as a
“sacred state” and “Our dear land kept
safe by God”. In an interview in 2000
he said he had believed in God all along.
Mikhalkov was an avid collector of state
awards: he received the Stalin prize
three times. In 2005 Putin bestowed
upon Mikhalkov the Order of St Andrew,
Russia’s highest award, for his services
to literature.
He is survived by his physicist wife
Yulia Subbotina, his two sons Nikita
Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky,
both successful film directors, 10 grand-
children and eight great-grandchildren.
Luke Harding
Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov,
writer, born 13 March 1913; died 27
August 2009
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
dent John F Kennedy. Dee’s fall from
grace proved at the time to be one of the
fastest and most sudden in broadcasting
history. His career was over, never to be
revived.
He was born Cyril Nicholas Henty-
Dodd in Lancashire, although at the
height of his fame his publicity material
claimed that the star’s birthplace was
Ottawa, Canada. Privately educated, he
attended Shrewsbury school, Shrop-
shire, then worked in a coffee bar and as
a vacuum-cleaner salesman, photogra-
pher and designer, before joining Radio
Caroline. This was when he changed his
name, combining his son’s forename
with the initial letter of his surname to
become Simon Dee.
While establishing himself on tele-
vision as a symbol of the era, he hosted
the 1967 Miss World contest, before mak-
ing appearances in the films The Italian
Job (1969) and Doctor in Trouble (1970).
Of that first cameo, he recalled: “Mike
[Michael Caine] had been on the show
and thought he’d do me a favour. I played
a poofy Savile Row tailor and I was so
good that poofs started chasing me.”
The comedian Benny Hill parodied
Dee as Tommy Tupper, host of the chat-
show Tupper Time, and, many years
later, it was claimed that he was the
inspiration for the Austin Powers spoof
spy films.
After his show was axed, Dee was
spotted signing on the dole at Fulham
labour exchange. However, he remained
in the news, claiming that he had been
ousted as a result of his opposition to
Britain entering the EEC and that his
phone was tapped by the intelligence
services. Dee said: “Being a high-flier
in the media, I knew I’d have my phone
tapped by British intelligence. It was
perfectly obvious that the CIA, who con-
trolled our media and still do, would be
on my case.” In 1974, he served 28 days
in Pentonville prison for non-payment
of rates on his former Chelsea home.
Although he made brief comebacks as
a DJ with the Reading-based commercial
station Radio 210 in the late 1970s and
as host of Sounds of the Sixties on BBC
Radio 2 in 1988, they did not last. When
Dee returned with a one-off live edition
of Dee Time on Channel 4 in 2003, one
critic wrote that Dee reminded him of
“Alan Partridge – a toxic mix of naff, bit-
terness, strange vulnerability and pomp-
ous self-regard”. The show was followed
by the documentary Dee Construction,
charting the star’s rise and fall.
Dee, who moved to Winchester in
1994, was married three times and had
three sons and one daughter.
Anthony Hayward
Simon Dee (Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd),
DJ and television presenter, born 28 July
1935; died 29 August 2009
Birthdays
Martin Bell, journalist and former
Independent MP, 71; Serge Blanco,
rugby footballer, 51; Todd Carty, actor,
47; Ann Coffey, Labour MP, 63; Dame
Liz Forgan, writer and broadcaster,
chair of Arts Council England and the
Scott Trust, 65; Tom Foulkes, director
general, Institution of Civil Engineers,
59; Richard Gere, actor and cam-
paigner, 60; Daniel Harding, conductor,
34; Ian Harte, footballer, 32; Prof Chris-
tine King, historian, vice-chancellor
and chief executive, Staffordshire
University, 65; Prof Brian Livesley,
consultant forensic physician, 73; Clive
Lloyd, cricketer and commentator, 65;
Prof Sir Bernard Lovell, astronomer,
former director, Jodrell Bank, 96; Van
Morrison, rock singer, 64; Ed Moses,
athlete, 54; Bryan Organ, painter, 74;
Dwayne Peel, rugby international, 28;
Itzhak Perlman, violinist, 64; Shahwar
Sadeque, information technologist, 67;
Glenn Tilbrook, singer and musician,
52; Herbert Wise, film and television
director, 85; Su Ye, writer and film
editor, 60.
Announcements
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
Obituaries
Helen Brotherton
Conservationist who
fought to preserve a
key wildlife sanctuary
H W
elen Brotherton,
who has died aged
95, was one of the
behind-the-scenes
heroines of British
conservation. Her
lasting claim to fame
was that she led
the campaign to save one of Britain’s
best-known wildlife sanctuaries,
Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, in
Dorset. She was also a keen cricketer,
rally driver and yachtswoman.
When Brotherton moved to Poole
after the second world war, Brownsea
was owned by an eccentric recluse,
Mary Bonham-Christie, and no one
was allowed access; a barrier easily
overcome by the redoubtable Broth-
erton, who would simply sail across
the harbour on her yacht and trespass
to her heart’s content. When Mrs Bon-
ham-Christie died in 1961, her nephew
applied for permission to build 400
luxury homes on Brownsea, aiming to
turn it into an exclusive playground
for the rich.
Other lives
Janet MacLeod
My wife, Janet MacLeod, who has died
aged 72, was a sculptor of rare sensitiv-
ity and skill, but her aversion to public-
ity meant that she was less well-known
than she might have been. She was an
energetic member of the Art Workers
Guild and of the Royal British Society
of Sculptors. Her sculpture Germina-
tion was featured in the RBS Centennial
Exhibition in 2005.
She worked mainly in bronze,
branching out occasionally into mar-
ble and silver, and her work has been
described as an emotional response
to a shape, line or sound from the
natural world. The concept of many
The work of
sculptor Janet
MacLeod was
often inspired
by messages of
regneration, new
birth and hope
pieces – often inspired by the seeds and
plants which became my life work – is
of regeneration, new birth and the
accompanying message of hope. At the
Chelsea Flower Show in 2007 and 2008
her stands were voted the “outstanding
presentation” of their kind, a reward for
months of painstaking, and sometimes
physically demanding, preparation.
A slight, even ethereal, figure, Janet
radiated generosity and calm, but she
was also resilient. Told more than 20
years ago that she was suffering from
a rare blood disorder, which she was
Brotherton immediately began to
marshal a team of naturalists to fight the
plans, which would have been devastat-
ing for the island’s wildlife, including
the rare red squirrel.
With the support of Max Nicholson,
arguably the most influential conserva-
tionist of his day, she won the fight, and
the Treasury agreed to take the island in
lieu of death duties. The plan was to run
Brownsea jointly between the National
Trust and a new organisation, the Dorset
Naturalists’ Trust (later to become the
Dorset Wildlife Trust).
There was one major barrier: the
need to find £100,000 to fund the
scheme, which was a huge sum in those
days. Once again, Brotherton swung
right into action, raising money from
the people of Poole, and also involv-
ing the John Lewis partnership and
the Scouts, whose very first camp had
taken place on Brownsea more than
half a century earlier.
For the following third of a century,
Brotherton continued to work, plan and
campaign for the benefit of Dorset’s
wildlife. She helped to found the Port-
land Bird Observatory, and became sec-
retary, chairman and finally honorary
president of the Dorset Wildlife Trust,
which grew under her stewardship to
more than 25,000 members. She was
also a trustee of the Chesil and Fleet
unlikely to survive for more than a dec-
ade, she put it behind her and carried
on. At about the same time, we suffered
the devastating loss of our elder son,
Alexander, in a car crash, a disaster that
she bore with quiet dignity and reso-
lution. Some of these qualities came
through in her sculpture, which has a
strong physical presence, imbued with
a sense of calm and peace.
Nor did Janet shirk the “heavy
lifting” which the lost-wax process
involves. She not only sculpted but
also became skilled in the processes
of manufacture, slaking lime in an old
baby bath, cooking pots of wax beside
the evening meal and brewing sulphur-
ous patinas in her studio. Our architect
son, Patrick, was inspired in his choice
of career by her enthusiasm for both
design and manufacture.
Janet was born in Nuneaton, War-
wickshire, and trained as a teacher at
Whitelands College, in south-west Lon-
don. She later taught at a school near
Stratford-upon-Avon and then for three
years in West Germany under the aus-
pices of the British Families Education
Service. Her marriage to me involved
several moves around the country,
revealing Janet’s skill at home-making
and feeding her love of the natural
world. When we finally settled at Over,
Cambridgeshire, and the boys were
growing up, she was able to turn to
sculpture, and her talent flourished.
Her death – of leukaemia consequent
upon her blood disorder – came sud-
denly, after a holiday in Scotland.
Patrick and I survive her.
John MacLeod
Trust. She was valued by staff and vol-
unteers for her generous nature, sense
of humour, and perceptive advice.
Born in Lincolnshire, a few months
before the outbreak of the first world
war, Brotherton was fascinated by
natural history from an early age: her
first memory, at the age of three, was
finding fossils in the gravel driveway of
her Leamington Spa home. Throughout
her childhood she pursued her interests
by exploring the countryside around
her home: always encouraged by her
mother, but not by her businessman
father, who disapproved of his daugh-
ter’s outdoor activities.
This combination of rebelliousness
and drive was also revealed when she
was a boarder at Edgbaston high school
for girls in Birmingham, where despite
her loathing of academic studies she
excelled at cricket, becoming wicket-
keeper for the school team. After quali-
fying as a teacher in 1936, she secured
a job at Norwich High School for Girls,
chosen mainly because of the oppor-
tunities this gave her to watch birds in
Norfolk. But three years later her teach-
ing career ended with the outbreak of
the war. She returned home to Warwick-
shire, and became involved in admin-
istrating various schemes for evacuees
and the sick, for which she was awarded
the British Empire Medal (Civil) in 1943.
Berta Freistadt
Our friend Berta Freistadt, who has
died of Parkinson’s and cancer aged 67,
was a lesbian writer, feminist, actor and
teacher. A private person, with an inti-
mate, flirtatious manner, she inspired
love in those who knew her. She wrote
plays, poetry, short stories, and a novel,
with work published in anthologies,
journals and magazines on both sides
of the Atlantic. She worked as an actor,
director and performance poet in ven-
ues throughout the UK, and won prizes
and commendations for her poetry.
Berta’s collection Flood Warning,
which explores the nature of love and
identity, was published by Five Leaves
Lesbian writer
Berta Freistadt
liked to puncture
orthodoxies.
She won several
commendations
for her poetry
in 2004, and more recently her poems
have appeared in the magazine MsLexia
and in Grey Hen’s first publication of
poems A Twist of Malice: Uncomfort-
able Poems by Older Women (2008).
She would say her greatest achieve-
ment was her book of visions and
fairytales, Mass Dreams, in which the
storytellers are the lesbians at the Eye
the Girls café in Paradise. This haunt-
ing, complex work won the London
Region of the Undiscovered Authors
2006 Competition. As Berta said: “I
am now a discovered author!”
During this period she discovered an
ability to organise others – a talent she
would put to good use in later life. But
it was at the end of the war, when she
moved to Poole to look after her sick
mother, that she discovered her true
vocation. With characteristic enthusiasm
she threw herself into voluntary work
for the Dorset Field Ornithology Group,
and began to visit nearby Brownsea.
Brotherton also served as a magis-
trate for 30 years, and as a trustee of
the RSPB. She received many awards,
including a CBE in 1984, an honorary
degree from Bournemouth University
in 1993, and the Octavia Hill medal from
the National Trust in 2007.
The following year she established
her own prize, the Helen Brotherton
Award for Volunteering, to encourage
others to follow in her path. And at the
age of 93 she had the satisfaction of
seeing the wildlife of Brownsea Island
reach a national audience, via the BBC2
series Autumnwatch, whose approach
mirrored her own attitude to the natural
world. As she said at the time: “If peo-
ple get pleasure out of wildlife, they are
going to be more careful about looking
after it.”
Stephen Moss
Helen Brotherton, conservationist, born 9
February 1914; died 6 August 2009
Brownsea Island, Dorset. Brotherton,
above, was horrified when she learned
of plans to build 400 houses there and
gathered together a team of naturalists
to fight the scheme Wildlife Trust
Berta’s mother was of Irish-Scottish
descent and her father was an Austro-
Czech Jewish refugee. Berta was born
in the north of England but grew up in
London, attending Wimbledon high
school, then studied drama. She went
back to education as a mature student,
getting an MA at the age of 50. Berta
also taught drama at east London sec-
ondary schools, and a course on mem-
oir, creative writing and poetry at the
Mary Ward Centre at Birkbeck College,
London. She had a loyal following of
students, who came back to her classes
year after year.
Published in numerous anthologies
that arose out of the women’s move-
ment, her work, with its nuanced style
and wry, humorous tone, punctured
many orthodoxies. Dope Smoking
Lesbians Can Never Be Good Teach-
ers (1990) is a fine critique of romantic
love. A Fine Undertaking (1984), ironi-
cally set in a funeral parlour, caused her
lesbian audience to weep with laughter
as she slyly parodied our political meet-
ings. Berta was a must-have as a con-
tributor to A Twist of Malice. Because
of her increasing infirmity, she took
part in only one of the readings, but it
was a memorable night. Her poems will
appear in further anthologies, and a
collection is planned.
Berta was a generous friend, who
would think long and hard about the
“exact present” to give. She could
even turn a trip to Ikea into a magical
adventure. She is survived by her many
friends, cousins in the US, and, not
least, by her cat Mr Charlie-Bluebell.
Elaine Hutton and Robin Goodfellow
25
Rafael
Escalona
Colombian composer
and popular troubadour
hen, in 1982,
Gabriel García
Márquez
became the first
Colombian to
win the Nobel
Prize for Lit-
erature, he took
with him to Stockholm a group of musi-
cians whom he said were his inspiration.
The group was led by the songwriter
and composer Rafael Escalona, who, for
more than 50 years, brought the Colom-
bian country music known as vallenato
to audiences throughout the world.
Escalona, who has died aged 81, was
an outstanding exponent of the popular
troubadour tradition. He made songs
out of local events, often commenting
slyly on politics or simply telling the
stories of people from Colombia’s Car-
ibbean coast. It was here, in the town
of Patillal, that Escalona was born, the
sixth of eight children. His father had
been a colonel on the losing Liberal
side of the civil war, but this had little
adverse effect on his lofty social posi-
tion. The young Rafael was educated
to become a lawyer or landowner, but
what most interested him were the sto-
ries his father told about exploits in the
war or other tales from what in those
days was a wild frontier region.
At the age of 10, Escalona and his
family moved inland to the larger town
of Valledupar. At school in the 1930s,
Escalona was already writing poems, but
it was in 1943 that he composed his first
song for the traditional musical group
led by an accordion, guitar, a guacharaca
or scraper, and the caja or small drum.
The syncopated rhythms of this val-
lenato tradition are perhaps closest to
US country or cowboy music.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s
Escalona composed many of his most
famous songs, gradually making a name
for himself along the northern coast
of Colombia. It was in 1950 that he
first met García Márquez. A year later
Escalona married Marina Arzuaga (“La
Maye” in his songs), who for many years
put up with his womanising before
finally divorcing him. She had six chil-
dren by him, but the total number of
Escalona’s offspring has been put at any-
thing between 28 and 36.
In a similar way to the boom of
Colombian and Latin American lit-
erature, in the 1960s Escalona’s songs
about everyday life and heartaches in
his remote province conquered a new
audience among students in the capital,
Bogotá. It also won the enthusiastic
support of Alfonso López Michelsen,
the son of a former president. It was he
who in 1968 helped Escalona found the
Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata, a week
of celebrations held annually in Valle-
dupar to elect the “kings” of vallenato
music for the year.
In the 1990s Escalona found himself
once more enjoying huge popularity in
Colombia. A TV soap opera based on his
life was a huge success, and launched a
new star of vallenato, Carlos Vives. This
was the first time Escalona made any
money from his music, which he spent
as usual on drink, women, and friends.
This hard living took its toll and
Escalona was in hospital for several
weeks before dying of heart failure.
Nick Caistor
Rafael Calixto Escalona Martínez, singer
and composer, born 27 May 1927; died 13
May 2009
Escalona enjoyed wine and women
26 The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009

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Edinburgh
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Moscow times. A fine evening too. It will be windy around
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BBC Prime Intelsat Pretty Woman. 11.00 Runaway Bride. 1.00am The Shining:
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6.15am Tommy Zoom. 6.25 Tikkabilla. 6.55 Teletubbies. Extended Version. 3.30 The Postman Always Rings Twice. Vienna Bratislava
Geneva
7.20 Little Robots. 7.30 Balamory. 7.50 Tommy Zoom. 8.00 5.40 The Battle Of Midway. 24
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Budapest Spain and Portugal
Sky Movies Premiere Astra, cable and DST Ljubljana
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Futurama. 2.00 Futurama. 2.30 Futurama: Welcome To The Brussels 26 16 s Milan 31 19 s Vienna 25 14 s B Aires 30 86 s Honolulu 32 90 s Nice 28 82 s
Meeting Myself Coming Back. 4.45 I Was A Child Prodigy. Barbados 31 88 f Innsbruck 17 63 s Oslo 18 64 f
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FILM: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. 6.15 FILM: The Librarian: Barcelona 27 81 f Istanbul 24 75 f Paris 22 72 c
PM. 7.00 News. 7.30 Just A Minute. 8.00 The Archers. 8.15 Crete 29 22 s Oslo 21 14 c Algiers 32 21 s
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Sport
Football comes alive in the midnight hour
Martin Kelner
Screen Break
T
he BBC has a slight
scheduling problem with
its Football League Show.
It seems to be in the wrong
place, following Match Of
The Day late on a Saturday
night, like the hors d’oeuvres arriving
after the main meal. We tuck into the
tasty sirloin steak of the Premier League
and are then invited to loosen our belts,
stub out the postprandial fag, and
sample the prawn cocktail (I stopped
dining out around the time Berni Inns
ceased trading) of lower league football.
I realise people access TV in different
ways these days, and I dare say some
of you will be watching the Football
League Show on the net right now while
reading this, checking your emails,
downloading a Spiderman movie and
sending a tweet to Jonathan Agnew,
but its placing in the schedules is still
important psychologically. While the
FLS languishes in what viewers of my
vintage continue to think of as the
Hitman And Her slot, the suspicion
will persist that the BBC is less than
committed to football beyond the
Premier League, not least because for
years it has acted as though the top
division was all that mattered.
Results
Rugby union
TRI-NATIONS
P W D L F A B Pts
South Africa 4 4 0 0 120 80 1 17
New Zealand 4 2 0 2 79 93 0 8
Australia 4 0 0 4 76 102 3 3
Australia 25 South Africa
PRINCIPALITY BUILDING SOCIETY PREMIERSHIP
Bedwas 15 Neath 34; Cardiff 29 Swansea 35;
Glamorgan Wanderers 27 Ebbw Vale 23; Llanelli 47
Cross Keys 16; Newport 36 Carmarthen Quins 6;
Pontypool 25 Aberavon 38; Pontypridd 36
Llandovery 21.
SCOTTISH HYDRO ELECTRIC PREMIERSHIP
Division One Ayr 37 Heriots Rugby Club 21; Currie 41
Dundee HSFP 18; Melrose 22 Glasgow Hawks 20;
Selkirk 24 Boroughmuir 29; Stewart’s Melville FP 21
Edinburgh Acads 39; West of Scotland 18 Watsonians 22.
Division Two Biggar 28 Dunfermline 15;
Jed-Forest 23 Gala 18; Kelso 13 GHA 8; Kirkcaldy 45
Haddington 21; Peebles 15 Aberdeen GSFP 17;
Stirling County 24 Hawick 26.
Division Three
Dumfries 6 Hillhead/Jordanhill 27; Falkirk 36
Garnock 0; Hamilton 45 Ardrossan Acads 15;
Howe of Fife 37 Perthshire 15; Morgan Academy FP 18
Cartha QP 20; Musselburgh 48 Irvine 14.
Rugby league
CARNEGIE CHALLENGE CUP FINAL
Huddersfield 16 Warrington
CO-OPERATIVE CHAMPIONSHIP ONE
London Skolars 10 Keighley
Cricket
LV COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
First Division (third & final days of four)
Hampshire v Somerset
Rose Bowl Hampshire (11pts) drew with
Somerset (10).
Hampshire First innings 548 (J H K Adams 147,
Imran Tahir 77no, M J Lumb 68, L A Dawson 55,
D G Cork 52; O A C Banks 4-120).
Somerset First innings (overnight from Friday 98-3)
M E Trescothick b Imran Tahir ........................... 118
A C Thomas c Pothas b Cork ................................ 15
Z de Bruyn c Adams b Cork .................................... 0
†C Kieswetter c Pothas b Imran Tahir ................... 94
P D Trego c Adams b Imran Tahir.......................... 20
O A C Banks not out ........................................... 45
M T C Waller lbw b Imran Tahir ............................ 28
C M Willoughby b Griffiths .................................... 0
Extras (b6, lb4, nb24)......................................... 34
Total (106 overs).............................................. 393
Fall cont 129, 133, 280, 311, 322, 392.
Bowling Griffiths 19-2-74-1; Mascarenhas
10.5-2-31-0; Imran Tahir 35.1-6-140-7;
Cork 16-5-39-2; Briggs 13-2-70-0;
Dawson 2-0-8-0; Ervine 10-2-21-0.
Somerset Second innings (following on)
M E Trescothick c Cork b Briggs .......................... 73
A V Suppiah b Cork ............................................. 21
*J L Langer c Vince b Imran Tahir......................... 32
J C Hildreth lbw b Cork ......................................... 4
Z de Bruyn c Pothas b Briggs ............................... 13
†C Kieswetter c Dawson b Griffiths ...................... 70
P D Trego c Adams b Imran Tahir.......................... 27
O A C Banks lbw b Ervine....................................... 6
A C Thomas b Briggs ........................................... 11
M T C Waller c Pothas b Griffiths .......................... 18
C M Willoughby not out ....................................... 5
Extras (b1, lb2, w1, nb10) .................................. 14
Total (94 overs)................................................ 294
Fall 52, 117, 126, 149, 152, 210, 233, 261, 278.
Bowling Ervine 11.1-2-39-1; Griffiths 12-2-25-2;
Cork 16-2-48-2; Imran Tahir 35.5-21-117-2;
Briggs 19-3-62-3.
Hampshire Second innings
J H K Adams not out ............................................. 1
M J Lumb not out ................................................. 3
Extras (lb5) ......................................................... 5
Total (for 0, 1.5 overs) .......................................... 9
Did not bat L A Dawson, J M Vince, S M Ervine,
†N Pothas, *A D Mascarenhas, D G Cork, Imran Tahir,
D A Griffiths, D R Briggs.
Bowling Willoughby 1-0-1-0; Thomas 0.5-0-3-0.
Toss Hampshire elected to bat.
Umpires M R Benson and N G B Cook.
(finished Saturday)
Yorkshire v Warwickshire
Scarborough Yorkshire (10pts) drew with
Warwickshire (10).
Warwickshire First innings 320 (T R Ambrose 113,
N M Carter 67; A Shahzad 4-78).
Yorkshire First innings 328 (D J Wainwright 102no,
G L Brophy 85; S Sreesanth 5-93).
Warwickshire Second innings
(overnight from Friday 111-2)
*I J Westwood c Pyrah b Shahzad ........................ 58
I R Bell lbw b Wainwright .................................... 35
J O Troughton b Hoggard ................................... 40
Matches like Nottingham Forest
– Derby, it seems to me, would fit
perfectly into Match Of The Day, while
lower down the food chain one of the
new digital platforms could be available
for aficionados. I am not entirely sure
of the economics, but I suspect every
fan of Macclesfield could have match
highlights beamed to their mobile
phone – or direct to their synapses – for
the cost of lunch for Chris Moyles.
What the BBC has chosen to do
instead is operate a kind of football
apartheid, with the FLS being given an
entirely different look and feel to MOTD.
Not that it is a bad look.
The title sequence features
ROBIN HURSTHOUSE
representatives of every race, creed,
colour, generation, gender, and possibly
sexual proclivity, doing keepy-uppies or
other football-related activities – there
is even a brief shot of someone sitting
on a bench reading Guardian Sport – in
a series of thrillingly regional locations,
cut to a drum beat soundtrack. Trebles
all round for the sheer inclusivity of it.
The set, meanwhile, is as far from
the cosiness of MOTD as it is possible
to get. Presenter Manish Bhasin picks
his way through a landscape of steel
girders and a faux brick wall to join
pundit Steve Claridge (only one, not
two like on MOTD) who is a cheerful
T Frost c Brophy b Pyrah...................................... 48
†T R Ambrose lbw b Wainwright .......................... 33
R Clarke b Sayers ................................................ 23
N M Carter c Rudolph b Sayers ............................. 11
C R Woakes not out .............................................. 6
S Sreesanth c Brophy b Sayers ............................... 1
Extras (b9, lb15, w1) .......................................... 25
32
Total (108.5 overs)........................................... 313
Fall cont 116, 159, 229, 256, 288, 304, 310.
Bowling Hoggard 20-9-42-1; Shahzad 19-3-57-2;
Pyrah 17-2-64-1; Kruis 12-5-24-0;
Wainwright 30-8-71-2; McGrath 6-1-11-1;
Sayers 4.5-0-20-3.
Yorkshire Second innings
J A Rudolph not out ........................................... 21
J J Sayers not out ................................................. 4
Extras (w1, nb4) .................................................. 5
Total (for 0, 8 overs) ........................................... 30
Did not bat *A McGrath, A W Gale, J M Bairstow,
†G L Brophy, R M Pyrah, A Shahzad, M J Hoggard,
D J Wainwright, G J Kruis.
Bowling Sreesanth 4-1-17-0; Tahir 2-1-4-0;
Bell 2-1-9-0.
Toss Yorkshire elected to field.
Umpires R J Bailey and N A Mallender.
P W L D Bt Bl Pts
Durham 12 7 0 5 33 36 186
Nottinghamshire 13 3 1 9 45 34 157
Somerset 13 3 1 9 43 35 156
Lancashire 13 3 2 8 27 37 138
Warwickshire 13 1 2 10 46 29 129
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Hampshire 13 2 3 8 38 32 127
Yorkshire 13 1 2 10 38 35 127
28 Sussex 12 2 3 7 36 29 120
Worcestershire 12 0 8 4 21 30 67
Division Two (second & third days of four)
Kent v Surrey
Canterbury Surrey (7pts) lead Kent (8) by 54 runs
with five second-innings wickets remaining.
Surrey First innings (overnight from Friday 261-4)
M R Ramprakash c Van Jaarsveld b Cook .............. 46
M N W Spriegel lbw b Khan ................................. 49
C P Schofield c Van Jaarsveld b Edwards ................ 9
S C Meaker c Van Jaarsveld b Khan ....................... 23
J W Dernbach c Northeast b Kemp ......................... 5
T E Linley not out .............................................. 35
P T Collins b Khan............................................... 23
Extras (b4, lb22, w4, nb16) ................................ 46
Total (129.3 overs)........................................... 423
Fall cont 275, 302, 340, 347, 365.
Score at 120 overs 377-9.
Bowling Khan 31.3-4-113-5; Cook 23-7-54-1;
Edwards 21-6-72-3; Tredwell 38-9-100-0;
Kemp 15-4-58-1; Stevens 1-1-0-0.
Kent First innings
S A Northeast c & b Spriegel................................ 48
*R W T Key lbw b Dernbach ................................. 13
†G O Jones b Meaker ........................................ 156
M van Jaarsveld lbw b Schofield.......................... 28
D I Stevens c Walters b Schofield ....................... 112
J M Kemp run out ............................................... 92
A J Blake b Schofield ............................................. 1
J C Tredwell c Spriegel b Linley ........................... 11
S J Cook lbw b Meaker........................................... 2
A Khan lbw b Meaker............................................. 5
P Edwards not out ............................................... 0
Extras (b6, lb16, w6, nb16, pen5) ....................... 49
Total (110.3 overs)........................................... 517
Fall 21, 112, 193, 376, 430, 440, 479, 485, 499.
Bowling Dernbach 23-6-100-1; Collins 13-2-66-0;
Linley 28-5-89-1; Meaker 22.3-2-114-3;
Spriegel 5-0-31-1; Schofield 19-2-90-3.
Surrey Second innings
†J N Batty lbw b Edwards .................................... 26
M J Brown c Blake b Tredwell ................................ 5
M N W Spriegel b Edwards .................................... 6
*S J Walters c Northeast b Tredwell ....................... 6
U Afzaal lbw b Tredwell ...................................... 44
C P Schofield not out ......................................... 33
S C Meaker not out .............................................. 7
Extras (b4, lb8, w1, nb8) .................................... 21
Total (for 5, 44 overs) ....................................... 148
Fall 38, 38, 55, 57, 135.
To bat M R Ramprakash, J W Dernbach, P T Collins,
T E Linley.
Bowling Cook 10-3-37-0; Khan 6-2-26-0;
Edwards 7-1-26-2; Tredwell 17-5-41-3;
Van Jaarsveld 4-1-6-0.
Toss Surrey elected to bat.
Umpires G Sharp and P Willey.
(third & final days of four)
Middlesex v Gloucestershire
Lord’s Middlesex (20pts) beat Gloucestershire (4) by
180 runs.
Middlesex First innings 342 (S D Robson 83,
A B London 68, N J Dexter 51; S P Kirby 4-77).
Gloucestershire First innings
(overnight from Friday 196-9)
J Lewis not out .................................................. 20
S P Kirby c Dexter b Murtagh ............................... 18
Extras (b4, lb11, w1, nb14) ................................ 30
Total (70.3 overs)............................................. 210
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presence, and handy to have around,
having either played for or managed
most of the teams in the Football League
(I think he is currently managing at least
two teams in League Two, and possibly
one in the Blue Square Premier).
Interactivity is the other area in
which the show marks out its distinctive
territory, with Manish regularly
throwing to a female sidekick – the spirit
of Michaela Strachan lives on – acting as
interlocutor for those fans awake and
sending texts and emails at half past
midnight. As you might imagine, the
level of debate is a notch or two below
The Moral Maze. On Saturday, however,
there was a genuine story to react disrespect to Forest’s defeated rivals. amount of it”. Forest fans messaging
to; what Manish described as “sadly Predictably Tyson was an ex-colleague of the show came up with some unlikely
another unsavoury sight on a football Claridge. “I played with him at Wycombe, explanations for the post-match
pitch”. Indeed, he was so sad about the and he’s not a bad lad,” said Steve. Derby’s brouhaha, one saying Tyson had merely
punch-up in the Forest–Derby match, he Robbie Savage suggested in his post- passed the Derby fans on his way to
showed a clip in his little promo slot in match interview that Tyson “have a good wave his flag in front of the Nottingham
MOTD, another at the top of his show, look at himself, after what happened at supporters, another suggesting Savage
replayed it after the match highlights, West Ham–Millwall”. had started it all during the warm-up,
asked Claridge for his “personal slant” Robbie might care to do similar in “waving various parts of his anatomy at
and invited viewers to give their views relation to an earlier incident when he Forest fans”.
“on the whole Derby–Forest scrap”. went down like Billy The Kid after being Who says the Championship lacks
The scrap – or melee, as I believe it pushed on the shoulder by Forest’s entertainment value? I was at the
should more properly be called –began Garath McCleary. rugby league cup final and all we got
after the final whistle when Nathan Tyson Commentator Steve Wilson thought was a brass band, and an opera singer
removed a corner flag and started waving initially that Savage had been punched performing Abide With Me.
it in celebration in front of the Derby in the face, but later conceded the
fans, which Claridge reckoned showed lovable Welshman had “made a huge martin_kelner@yahoo.co.uk
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Middlesex Second innings
N R D Compton c Saxelby b Marshall .................... 83
Trent Bridge Worcestershire (2pts) beat 283 D McGrane 72 72 71 68; G Storm 69 74 70 70. Cycling
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N J Dexter not out ............................................. 39 A D Brown c Imran Arif b Shantry ......................... 14 72; D Vancsik (Arg) 69 69 74 73; D Dixon 76 68 74 67; Step ) at 0.09; 3 T Farrar (US) Garmin 0.12; 4 J Mouris
A D Hales not out ............................................. 150 F Zanotti (Par) 72 70 70 73; M Jonzon (Swe) 70 69 72
†B J M Scott c Dawson b Saxelby ......................... 22 (Neth) Vacansoleil 0.14; 5 D Bennati (It) Liquigas 0.16;
G K Berg c Adshead b Kirby .................................... 7 S R Patel c Batty b Imran Arif ................................. 8 74; C Doak 72 72 74 67. 286 J Haeggman (Swe) 72 70 6 R Kreuziger (Cz) Liquigas at 0.17; 7 A Vinokourov
*S D Udal c Gidman b Kirby ................................. 26 B M Shafayat run out ......................................... 22 72 72; J E Morgan 70 71 78 67; O Wilson 73 68 74 71; (Kaz) Astana 0.18; 8 I Basso (It) Liquigas; 9 A Valverde
Extras (lb6, nb2) .................................................. 8 *†C M W Read c Davies b Shantry ........................ 11 P Edberg (Swe) 72 71 75 68. 287 J Caldwell 72 66 76 (Sp) Caisse d’Epargne both same time; 10 M Bodnar
K J O’Brien b Mitchell ......................................... 42 73; A Wall 69 75 72 71; J-M Olazábal (Sp) 71 68 77 (Pol) Liquigas 0.19. Also: 15 D Millar (GB) Garmin 0.21;
Total (for 7 dec, 71.1 overs) .............................. 273 P J Franks b Andrew ............................................. 2 71; R Ramsay 71 73 74 69; C Montgomerie 76 68 72 91 R Hammond (GB) Cervelo 0.32; 163 C Wegelius
Fall 128, 150, 155, 184, 226, 237, 273. D J Pattinson not out ........................................... 1 71; B Dredge 75 67 73 72. 288 R Finch 73 70 75 70; (GB) Silence-Lotto 0.44.
Extras (lb2, w4, nb4) .......................................... 10 M Lafeber (Neth) 71 67 73 77; P Larrazábal (Sp) 70 72
Did not bat S D Robson, T J Murtagh, S T Finn. Second two (Assen - Emmen, Neth; 203km) 1 G Ciolek
Bowling Saxelby 16-2-51-1; Kirby 14.1-3-41-2; Total (for 7, 40 overs) ....................................... 282 72 74; R McGowan 74 68 74 72. (Ger) Milram 4hr 43min 12sec; 2 F Sabatini (It)
Lewis 5-0-24-0; Dawson 13-0-60-1; Fall 26, 50, 70, 140, 172, 259, 270. THE BARCLAYS (Jersey City, New Jersey) Liquigas; 3 R Hammond (GB) Cervelo; 4 A Greipel (Ger)
Franklin 10-2-35-0; Marshall 8-1-32-1; Leading third-round scores (US unless stated) Columbia); 5 T Farrar (US) Garmin; 6 L Duque (Col)
Did not bat C E Shreck, J F Brown.
Taylor 5-1-24-1. 204 S Marino 65 71 68; P Goydos 65 71 68. Cofidis; 7 J Roelandts (Bel) Silence-Lotto; 8 T Boonen
Bowling Andrew 8-0-58-1; Shantry 8-1-55-2; 206 F Jacobson (Swe) 66 72 68; W Simpson 66 68 72. (Bel) Quick-Step; 9 D Vigano (It) Fuji; 10 S Chavanel (Fr)
Gloucestershire Second innings
Imran Arif 7-1-51-2; Fisher 5-0-30-0; 207 S Stricker 69 70 68. 208 H Slocum 66 72 70. Francaise des Jeux all at same time.
R J Woodman lbw b Murtagh................................. 4 Batty 7-0-50-0; Mitchell 5-0-36-1.
209 T Woods 70 72 67; Z Johnson 70 72 67; I Poulter Also: 122 D Millar (GB) Garmin 0.28; 173 C Wegelius
Kadeer Ali c Compton b Berg ............................... 48
Worcestershire (Eng) 67 72 70; M Kuchar 68 73 68; P Harrington (Ire) (GB) Silence-Lotto 1.00.
H J H Marshall c Scott b Murtagh ........................... 0
*A P R Gidman lbw b Finn ..................................... 7 *V S Solanki c Patel b Shreck .............................. 27 67 75 67. 210 N Watney 68 73 69; R Pampling (Aus) Overall standings: 1 F Cancellara (Swi) Saxo Bank 4hr
C G Taylor c Scott b Finn ..................................... 25 †S M Davies c & b Franks ................................... 106 68 73 69; E Els (SA) 72 68 70; B Van Pelt 70 74 66; 48min 32sec; 2 G Ciolek (Ger) Milram at 0.08; 3 T Boonen
J E C Franklin not out ......................................... 80 S C Moore not out .............................................. 87 G Owen (Eng) 71 74 65. 211 C Hoffman 66 74 71; (Bel) Quick-Step 0.09; 4 T Farrar (US) Garmin 0.12;
†S J Adshead b Berg ............................................. 0 M M Ali run out .................................................. 17 B Haas 72 70 69; T Matteson 71 71 69; S Verplank 73 5 J Mouris (Neth) Vacansoleil 0.14; 6 D Bennati (It)
R K J Dawson c Malan b Berg ............................... 35 B F Smith not out ............................................... 40 70 68; Y E Yang (Kor) 71 72 68. 212 H Mahan 72 72 Liquigas 0.16; 7 R Kreuziger (Cz) Liquigas 0.17sec;
I D Saxelby c Scott b Berg...................................... 0 Extras (lb5, w4) ................................................... 9 68; R S Johnson (Swe) 68 71 73; J Furyk 69 73 70; 8 D García (Sp) Xacobeo at 0.18; 9 I Basso (It) Liquigas;
J Lewis c Scott b Berg ........................................... 4 Total (for 3, 37.5 overs) .................................... 286 R Allenby (Aus) 68 75 69; T Clark (SA) 71 70 71. 10 A Valverde (Sp) Caisse d’Epargne both same time.
S P Kirby c Dexter b Murtagh ................................. 9 213 B Gay 70 72 71; D Toms 67 75 71; L Janzen 68 75 Also: 21 R Hammond (GB) Cervelo 0.24; 90 D Millar
Fall 27, 200, 222. 70; S Cink 70 72 71; J Byrd 72 74 67; J Day (Aus) 70 (GB) Garmin-Slipstream 0.48; 168 C Wegelius (GB)
Extras (b1, lb8, nb4)........................................... 13
Did not bat D K H Mitchell, G J Batty, G M Andrew, 73 70. 214 J Rose (Eng) 73 72 69; B Lunde 70 73 71; Silence-Lotto 1.44.
Total (60.5 overs)............................................. 225 I D Fisher, Imran Arif, J D Shantry. M Weir (Can) 71 71 72; B Snedeker 72 75 67.
Fall 4, 4, 21, 73, 118, 118, 196, 196, 204. Bowling Pattinson 7-0-46-0; Shreck 5.5-0-47-1; 215 D A Points 70 71 74; J B Holmes 73 73 69; J Leonard Motorcycling
Bowling Murtagh 18.5-2-83-3; Finn 14-3-52-2; Franks 6-0-51-1; O’Brien 4-0-36-0; 68 75 72; S García (Sp) 65 76 74; L Donald (Eng) 73 US MOTOGP (Indianapolis)
Berg 14-1-55-5; Kartik 1-0-4-0; Udal 9-4-12-0; J F Brown 8-0-50-0; Patel 7-0-51-0. 69 73; K Streelman 68 78 69. 125cc: 1 P Espargaro (Sp) Derbi 42min 07.925sec;
Malan 2-0-7-0; London 2-0-3-0. Toss Nottinghamshire elected to bat. WOMEN’S FINNAIR MASTERS (Helsinki, Finland) 2 B Smith (GB) Aprilia 42.08.045; 3 S Corsi (It) Aprilia
Toss Middlesex elected to bat. Umpires J H Evans and B Dudleston. Leading final scores (GB/Ire unless stated) 42.08.373.
250cc: 1 M Simoncelli (It) Gilera 45min 43.599sec;
Umpires M J D Bodenham and R K Illingworth. 202 B Recari (Sp) 65 64 73. 202 I Tinning (Den) 66 68
68. 206 M Blomqvist (Fin) 69 69 68; B Brewerton 67 2 H Aoyama (Jpn) Honda 45.45.542; 3 A Bautista (Sp)
(finished Saturday) Yorkshire v Sussex 68 71; M Skarpnord (Nor) 68 67 71; J Westerberg (Swe) Aprilia 45.48.260.
Essex v Leicestershire Scarborough Sussex (2pts) beat Yorkshire (0) by 38
runs (D/L Method).
67 67 72. 207 N Garrett (Aus) 71 69 67; Je-Yoon Yang
Rowing
Chelmsford Essex (11pts) drew with Leicestershire (9). (Kor) 67 71 69. 208 C Afonso (Fr) 70 70 68; M Boden
Yorkshire (Swe) 73 66 69; E Bennett 70 69 69; V Lagoutte-Clément WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Poznan, Poland)
Essex First innings 517-9 dec (J K Maunders 150, (Fr) 70 66 72. 209 N Gergely (Aut) 74 69 66; H Kavanagh
A W Gale c Hodd b D R Smith ............................... 21 Men: Single sculls: 1 M Drysdale (NZ), 6min
J S Foster 103no, T Westley 71, D D Masters 67). 72 70 67; K Lunn (Aus) 70 67 72. 210 M Jorgensen (Den)
J A Rudolph c Kirtley b Beer ................................ 68 33.35sec; 2 A Campbell (GB) 6.34.30; 3 O Synek (Cz)
Leicestershire First innings 344 (J W A Taylor 112, A Lyth not out .................................................. 109 68 74 68; A Jutanugarn (Tha) 71 68 71; L Cabañillas
6.38.53.
M A G Boyce 70; Danish Kaneria 8-116). *A McGrath not out ........................................... 48 (Sp) 70 69 71; L-A Pace (SA) 67 71 72. 211 M Jutanukarn
Pairs: 1 New Zealand, 6.15.93; 2 Great Britain (P Reed,
Leicestershire Second innings Extras (b4, w4) .................................................... 8 (Tha) 70 73 68; A Tybring (Swe) 72 70 69; L Wahlin A Triggs Hodge) 6.17.45; 3 Greece 6.23.01.
(following on; overnight from Friday 42-2) (Swe) 74 67 70; T Johnson 71 70 70; L Kenny 69 72
Total (for 2, 40 overs) ....................................... 254 Double sculls: 1 Germany 6.07.02; 2 France 6.07.82;
*H H Dippenaar not out ................................... 115 70; J Tvede (Den) 73 68 70. 212 B A Loucks 71 69 72; 3 Estonia 6.07.86.
J K H Naik c Danish Kaneria b Phillips ................... 20 Fall 51, 136. K M Juul (Den) 69 69 74. 213 L Wessberg (Swe) 74 69
Fours: 1 Great Britain (A Partridge, R Egington,
J J Cobb b Danish Kaneria ...................................... 1 Did not bat L J Hodgson, †J M Bairstow, D J Wainwright, 70; S Michl (Aut) 74 69 70; C Rominger (Swi) 72 69 72. A Gregory, M Langridge) 5min 47.28sec; 2 Australia
J W A Taylor lbw b Danish Kaneria ....................... 62 R M Pyrah, Azeem Rafiq, G J Kruis. 214 M Prieto (Sp) 71 72 71; M Bryden (Aus) 73 70 71;
5.49.20; 3 Slovenia 5.51.11.
†T J New lbw b Danish Kaneria ............................ 10 J Schaeffer (Fr) 73 68 73; Jessica Ji (Kor) 68 71 75;
Bowling Yasir Arafat 8-1-63-0; Kirtley 5-0-46-0; Lightweight single sculls: 1 D Grant (NZ) 6min
J G E Benning not out ........................................ 21 J Kuosa (Fin) 73 66 75. 215 A Knutsson (Swe) 73 71 71;
D R Smith 5-0-17-1; Martin-Jenkins 3-0-11-0; 50.78sec; 2 V Polymeros (Gre) 6.52.33; 3 M Rasmussen
Extras (b6, lb1, nb4)........................................... 11 Beer 8-0-37-1; Yardy 6-0-43-0; S Walker 71 73 71; P Feggans 72 70 73; B Hauert (Ger) (Den) 6.56.25.
Hamilton-Brown 5-0-33-0. 68 72 75; S Croce (It) 70 70 75. Coxed pair: 1 United States 6min 53.58sec; 2 Czech
Total (for 6, 101.5 overs) .................................. 258
Sussex WOMEN’S SAFEWAY CLASSIC (North Plains, Oregon) Republic 6.54.58; 3 Germany 6.55.44.
Fall cont 88, 89, 218, 230
R J Hamilton-Brown c Hodgson b Lee ................... 5 Leading second-round scores (US unless stated) Lightweight pairs: 1 France 6min 29.63sec; 2 Italy
Did not bat W A White, C W Henderson, A J Harris. 134 A Nordqvist (Swe) 65 69. 135 A Miyazato (Jpn) 67 6.31.40; 3 Serbia 6.31.58.
E C Joyce c McGrath b Lee ................................... 13
Bowling Masters 14-4-27-0; Wright 15-0-48-1; J S Gatting not out ............................................. 99 68; Hwa Seon Lee (Kor) 65 70. 136 S Pettersen (Nor) Lightweight double sculls: 1 New Zealand 6min
Phillips 25-9-44-1; Danish Kaneria 36.5-12-87-4; M W Goodwin c Bairstow b Pyrah......................... 20 68 68; M Redman 67 69. 137 N Gulbis 68 69; B Bader 10.62sec; 2 France 6.12.57; 3 Italy 6.15.08; 6 Great
Ten Doeschate 4-1-18-0; Westley 4-0-18-0;
*M H Yardy c & b Rafiq........................................ 24 64 73; A Stanford 66 71. 138 J Rosales (Phi) 68 70; Britain (R Williams, P Mattick) 6.23.95.
Cook 1-0-3-0; Chopra 2-0-6-0. Lightweight quadruple sculls: 1 Italy 5min
D R Smith c Rudolph b Kruis ................................ 58 S Gustafson (Swe) 71 67; M J Hur (Kor) 69 69;
Toss Essex elected to bat. 47.50sec; 2 Germany 5.49.89; 3 Denmark 5.51.67.
†A J Hodd not out ................................................ 4 R Gulyanamitta (Tha) 71 67; C Kim 68 70; Jeong Jang
Lightweight four: 1 Germany 5min 50.77sec;
Umpires V A Holder and J F Steele. Extras (w8) .......................................................... 8 (Kor) 68 70. 139 M Wie 68 71; S Prammanasudh 66
2 Denmark 5.51.02; 3 Poland 5.52.70.
73; P Phatlum (Tha) 71 68; Meena Lee (Kor) 70 69;
Northamptonshire v Glamorgan Total (for 5, 31.3 overs) .................................... 231 C Kerr 69 70; E Dahllof (Swe) 69 70; Hee Young Park Quadruple sculls: 1 Poland 5min 38.33sec;
Northampton Northamptonshire (11pts) drew with Fall 12, 37, 72, 130, 214. (Kor) 74 65. 140 Sun Young Yoo (Kor) 70 70; Eun Hee Ji 2 Australia 5.39.66; 3 Germany 5.39.85.
Lightweight eight: 1 Italy 5min 33.92sec; 2 United
Glamorgan (11). Did not bat R S C Martin-Jenkins, Yasir Arafat, (Kor) 70 70; A Hung (Tai) 73 67; M Dunn 67 73; S Lee
States 5.37.15; 3 Netherlands 5.39.69.
Nothamptonshire First innings 350 (S D Peters 163, W A T Beer, R J Kirtley. 72 68. 141 L Wright (Aus) 72 69; G Sergas (It) 72 69;
Eight: 1 Germany 5min 24.13sec; 2 Canada 5.27.15;
A J Hall 89). Bowling Kruis 7.3-0-40-1; Lee 4-0-30-2; P Mackenzie 70 71; K Stupples (Eng) 70 71; Shi Hyun Ahn
3 Netherlands 5.28.32.
Glamorgan First innings 383 (J Allenby 55, Pyrah 6-0-65-1; Hodgson 4-0-32-0; (Kor) 70 71; Young Kim (Kor) 70 71; M Hjorth (Swe)
M J Powell 55). Rafiq 5-0-36-1; Wainwright 5-1-28-0. 70 71; Na Yeon Choi (Kor) 73 68; B Morgan (Wa) 70 Women: Single sculls 1 E Karsten-Khodotovitch (Bel)
Toss Yorkshire elected to bat. 71; M Ueda (Jpn) 70 71. 142 M Miyazato (Jpn) 69 73; 7min 11.78sec; 2 K Grainger (GB) 7.13.57;
Northamptonshire Second innings
L Ochoa (Mex) 70 72; J Granada (Par) 73 69; B Lang 73 3 M Knapkova(Cz) 7.16.22.
(overnight from Friday 19-1) Umpires R J Bailey and N A Mallender.
69; K Futcher 72 70; Jee Young Lee (Kor) 75 67; C Kung Pairs: 1 United States 7min 06.64sec; 2 Romania
S D Peters st Wallace b Croft ............................... 86 (Tai) 66 76; A Sharp (Can) 71 71; Hye Jung Choi (Kor)
P W L T NR RR Pts 7.06.64; 3 New Zealand 7.06.94.
A G Wakely c Rees b Croft.................................... 29 72 70.
Sussex 6 5 1 0 0 1.26 10 Double sculls: 1 Poland 6min 47.18sec; 2 Great
†M H Wessels b Dalrymple .................................. 92
Somerset 4 3 0 0 1 1.67 7
*N Boje lbw b Croft .............................................. 4
Worcestershire 5 3 1 0 1 -0.73 7 Tennis Britain (A Bebington, A Vernon) 6.48.82; 3 Bulgaria
6.50.16.
A J Hall c Powell b Harris ..................................... 25
Hampshire 4 3 1 0 0 0.28 6 ATP/WTA PILOT PEN TOURNAMENT Fours: 1 Netherlands 6min 31.34sec; 2 United States
D J Willey b Dalrymple ........................................ 16
Durham 5 2 3 0 0 -0.52 4 (New Haven, Connecticut) 6.36.01; 3 Canada 6.36.87.
M S Panesar lbw b Croft ........................................ 4
Gloucestershire 6 1 4 0 1 -1.38 3 Men: Semi-finals: S Querrey (US) bt J Acasuso (Arg) Lightweight single sculls: 1 P Weisshaupt (Swi)
D S Lucas not out ............................................... 25
Essex 4 1 3 0 0 0.09 2 6-3 6-4; F Verdasco (Sp) bt I Andreev (Rus) 7-6 (7-4) 7min 36.23sec; 2 L Milani (It) 7.37.18; 3 J Rasmussen
D H Wigley not out ............................................... 3
Yorkshire 5 1 4 0 0 -0.33 2 7-6 (7-5). (Den) 7.37.42.
Extras (b8, lb7, nb4)........................................... 19
Nottinghamshire 3 0 2 0 1 -0.65 1 Final: F Verdasco bt Querrey 6-4 7-6 (8-6). Lightweight double sculls: 1 Greece 6min 51.46sec;
Total (for 8 dec, 92 overs) ................................. 312 Women: Semi-final: C Wozniacki (Den) bt F Pennetta 2 Poland 6.56.65; 3 Great Britain (H Goodsell,
SECOND TEST (final day of five)
Fall cont 116, 144, 152, 203, 240, 253, 309. Colombo Sri Lanka 416 (T T Samaraweera 143, (It) 6-4 6-1; E Vesnina (Rus) bt A Mauresmo (Fr) 5-7 S Hosking) 6.56.67.
Did not bat J A Brooks. D P M D Jayawardene 92, K C Sangakkara 50; 6-1 6-2. Lightweight quadruple sculls: 1 Germany 6min
Bowling Harris 17-2-60-2; Kruger 12-0-51-0; J S Patel 4-78) & 311-5 dec (Sangakkara 109, Final: Wozniacki bt Vesnina 6-2 6-4. 32.91sec; 2 Great Britain (S Cullen, L Greenhalgh,
Shantry 4-0-28-0; Allenby 7-2-18-0; Croft 32-4-71-4; Jayawardene 96). New Zealand 234 (L R P L Taylor 81) A Dennis, J Hall) 6.35.42; 3 United States 6.36.88.
Dalrymple 15-3-46-2; Bragg 5-0-23-0. & 397 (D L Vettori 140, J D P Oram 56, D R Flynn 50; Baseball Quadruple sculls: 1 Ukraine 6min 18.41sec;
Toss Glamorgan elected to field. H M R K B Herath 5-139). Sri Lanka won by 96 runs. MAJOR LEAGUE 2 United States 6.21.54; 3 Germany 6.24.27.
Umpires N L Bainton and M A Gough. Played Saturday Arizona 9 Houston 0; Baltimore 3 Eight: 1 United States 6min 05.34; 2 Romania
FIRST ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL
Amstelveen Netherlands 188 (R N ten Doeschate 58; Cleveland 5; Boston 3 Toronto 2; Chicago Cubs 11 6.06.94; 3 Netherlands 6.07.43.
Kent*
P W
11 6
L
2
D
3
Bt
24
Bl
32
Pts
152
Shapoor Zadran 4-28). Afghanistan 180 NY Mets 4; Cincinnati 4 LA Dodgers 11; Detroit 1
Tampa Bay 3; Florida 4 San Diego 7; LA Angels 3
Squash
(Ten Doeschate 4-35). Netherlands won by eight runs.
Essex 13 4 3 6 32 35 146 Oakland 4; Milwaukee 7 Pittsburgh 3; Minnesota 0 MEN’S COLOMBIAN OPEN (Bogota)
Derbyshire 13 2
Northamptonshire 12 4
2
3
9
5
40
27
36
34
140
137
Golf Texas 3; NY Yankees 10 Chicago White Sox 0;
Philadelphia 1 Atlanta 9; San Francisco 5 Colorado 3;
Quarter-finals: D Palmer (Aus) bt C Salazar (Mex)
11-4 11-2 9-11 11-3; O Tuominen (Fin) bt E Galvez
JOHNNIE WALKER CHAMPIONSHIP
Glamorgan 12 2 2 8 42 32 134 Seattle 8 Kansas City 4; St Louis 9 Washington 4. (Mex) 11-6 12-10 11-3; M Angel Rodríguez (Col) bt
(Gleneagles, Scotland)
Gloucestershire 13 4 6 3 27 37 132 Friday Arizona 14 Houston 7; Baltimore 13 Cleveland 4; M Azlan Iskandar (Mal) 11-8 10-12 11-7 12-10;
Middlesex 13 2 5 6 33 36 121 Leading final scores (GB/Ire unless stated) Boston 6 Toronto 5; Chicago Cubs 5 NY Mets 2; B Golan (Sp) bt A Salazar (Mex) 11-7 11-2 9-4 ret.
Leicestershire 13 2 2 9 28 27 119 275 P Hedblom (Swe) 72 68 68 67. 276 M Erlandsson Cincinnati 4 LA Dodgers 2; Detroit 6 Tampa Bay 2; Semi-finals: Palmer bt Tuominen 11-5 9-11 11-6
Surrey* 12 1 2 9 41 28 119 (Swe) 74 70 70 62. 278 Paul Lawrie 67 69 73 69; Florida 5 San Diego 9; LA Angels 11 Oakland 7; 11-7; Golan bt Angel Rodríguez 9-11 11-7 11-4 11-13
*not including current match G Havret (Fr) 68 76 67 67. 279 G Orr 73 71 71 64. Milwaukee 8 Pittsburgh 6; Minnesota 3 Texas 2; 15-13.
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Swansea 5 0 2 1 1 4 1 0 1 2 2 -3 5 DWDLL 12 Sep v Preston (a) Gillingham 5 1 0 1 5 1 0 1 2 3 6 +1 4 DLLLW 5 Sep v Exeter (h) Bury 5 0 0 2 0 4 2 0 1 4 4 -4 6 LLWWL 5 Sep v Accrington Stanley (h)
Crystal Palace 4 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 1 3 2 -1 4 LWLD 31 Aug v Peterborough (a) Southend 5 0 2 0 2 2 0 2 1 4 5 -1 4 LDDDD 4 Sep v Leyton Orient (h) Macclesfield 5 1 0 2 3 7 0 2 0 2 2 -4 5 LDWLD 5 Sep v Crewe (a)
Scunthorpe 5 1 0 2 3 5 0 0 2 0 8 -10 3 LLLWL 12 Sep v Crystal Palace (a) Wycombe 5 1 1 1 3 3 0 0 2 4 8 -4 4 WLDLL 5 Sep v Brighton (a) Hereford 5 0 2 1 4 6 0 1 1 2 3 -3 3 DLLDD 5 Sep v Aldershot (a)
Plymouth 5 0 1 2 3 7 0 1 1 2 3 -5 2 LLLDD 12 Sep v West Bromwich (a) Hartlepool 5 0 0 3 1 6 1 1 0 1 0 -4 4 LWLLD 4 Sep v Oldham (a) Morecambe 5 0 2 0 4 4 0 1 2 3 8 -5 3 DDLLD 4 Sep v Rochdale (h)
Ipswich 5 0 2 1 2 4 0 0 2 1 4 -5 2 DLLDL 12 Sep v Middlesbrough (a) Tranmere 5 1 0 2 4 7 0 0 2 0 5 -8 3 LLLWL 5 Sep v Carlisle (a) Grimsby 5 0 0 3 2 8 1 0 1 2 2 -6 3 LWLLL 5 Sep v Port Vale (a)
Peterborough 4 0 1 1 3 4 0 0 2 1 4 -4 1 LLDL 31 Aug v Crystal Palace (h) Brighton 5 0 0 2 2 5 0 2 1 2 8 -9 2 DWLDL 5 Sep v Wycombe (h) Accrington Stanley 5 1 0 2 2 6 0 0 2 1 4 -7 3 LLLWL 5 Sep v Bury (a)
Barnsley 5 0 0 3 1 8 0 1 1 2 3 -8 1 LLLLD 12 Sep v Watford (a) Southampton* 5 0 2 0 2 2 0 1 2 2 5 -3 -7 DDLLD 5 Sep v Colchester (h) Darlington 5 0 1 2 1 3 0 0 2 1 4 -5 1 DLLLL 5 Sep v Lincoln (a)
*Southampton docked 10pts

Barnsley (1) 1 Reading (1) 3 McKenna, Majewski, Tyson, Blackstock (Adebola 58) Brentford (1) 1 Oldham (0) 1 Southampton Davis, Thomas, Trotman•, Perry, Harding, Accrington Stanley (0) 1 Shrewsbury (1) 3 Benson, Scott Subs not used Lewington, Bentley, Uddin,
Gray 11 Pearce 29 Subs not used Smith, Anderson, Davies, Mitchell. O’Connor 43 (pen) Blackman 52 Mellis, Hammond, James, Lallana, Lambert, Saganowski Symes 67 Leslie 18 (pen) Thomas, Ogogo.
Hunt 53 (pen), 54 Derby Bywater, Connolly, Addison•, Buxton •(Dickov 86), Brentford Price, Wilson, Phillips, Foster, Weston (Kabba 71), (Paterson 75) Langmead 50, Hibbert 82 Lincoln City Burch, Hughton, Kovacs•, Swaibu, Brown,
Barnsley Steele, Kozluk, Moore, Foster, El Haimour, Moxey•, Pearson•, Savage, Livermore (Green 79), Teale, Taylor, Hunt, Saunders, Wood, O’Connor, Cort Subs not used Bialkowski, Wotton, Schneiderlin, Accrington Stanley Martin, Joyce, Kempson, Edwards, J Clarke (Hutchinson 46), Butcher, Kerr•, Oakes (John-
Bogdanovic (Hume 65), Colace (Odejayi 81), Hallfredsson, Commons (Croft 46), Hulse Subs not used Bull, Bean, Osborne, Franks, Williams. Thomson, Gobern, Lancashire. Winnard, Grant, Ryan, Procter, Miles, Symes, McConville Lewis 60), Connor, Howe
Campbell-Ryce, Gray, Macken (Hammill 74) Subs not used Deeney, McEveley, Leacock, Barker. Oldham Brill, Gilbert, Hazell, Gregan, Blackman (Lee 85), Att 4,680. Ref C Boyeson (Kee 59) Subs not used Dunbavin, Turner, Murphy, Gary Subs not used Musselwhite, Hone, Fagan, S Clarke,
Subs not used Preece, De Silva, Devaney, Thompson. Att 28,143. Ref M Atkinson Furman, Whitaker, Holdsworth, Marrow, Parker, Abbott King, P Mullin, Richardson. Colman-Carr.
Swindon (1) 2 Southend (0) 1 Att 1,810. Ref K Hill
Reading Federici, Rosenior•, Mills, Pearce, Bertrand, Subs not used Kazimierczak, Brooke, Rowney, Kalnoki-kis, Cuthbert 21 Scannell 80 Shrewsbury Phillips, Holden•, Coughlan, Langmead,
Robson-Kanu (Rasiak 65), Gunnarsson, Karacan, Plymouth (0) 1 Sheff Wed (1) 3 Bembo-Leta, McGrath. Obadeyi 79 Cansdell-Sherriff, Murray, Labadie, Disley (McIntyre 79), Darlington (0) 1 Cheltenham (1) 1
Sigurdsson, Kebe •(Antonio 72), Hunt (Long 82) Gow 80 R Wood 33 Att 5,125. Ref G Hegley Leslie, Hibbert (Bright 85), Elder •(Robinson 79) Gall 71 Richards 32
Tudgay 72 (pen), 90 Swindon Lucas, Amankwaah, Greer, Cuthbert,
Subs not used Hamer, Cisse, Tabb, Kelly. Colchester (0) 1 Leeds (0) 2 Subs not used Arestidou, Gray, Simpson, Lewis Neal.
Jean-Francois•, McGovern, Douglas, Ferry (Timlin 76), Darlington Knight, Bains (Plummer 46), Foster, Miller,
Att 11,116. Ref M Oliver Plymouth Larrieu, Blake, Arnason•, Seip•, Sawyer, Lisbie 57 (pen) Johnson 47, Beckford 64 Att 1,447. Ref J Moss
McNamee (O’Brien 69), Hutchinson (Obadeyi 61), Paynter Bower, Cook, Chandler, G Smith (Bennett 46), Porritt,
Judge, Fletcher, Paterson•, Mackie, Gow, Sheridan Subs not used Smith, Morrison, Kennedy, Macklin. Barnet (0) 1 Notts County (0) 0 Windass •(Dowson 70), Gall•
Colchester Williams, Maybury•, Okuonghae, Baldwin,
Blackpool (1) 3 Coventry (0) 0 Subs not used Letheren, Timar, Clark, MacLean, Fallon, Southend Mildenhall, Francis, Barrett, Mvoto•, White, Jake Hyde 90 Subs not used Liversedge, J Smith, Thorpe, Convery.
Tierney•, Vincent •(Perkins 75•), Fox (Wordsworth 84),
Adam 13 (pen) Summerfield. Grant•, McCormack, Christophe•, Moussa, Barnard Barnet Cole, O’Neill, Yakubu, Leach, Deen, Adomah, Cheltenham Brown, Bird, Townsend, Diallo, Ridley,
Izzet•, Hackney, Vernon (Platt 67), Lisbie
Burgess 59 Sheff Wed Grant, Buxton, Purse, R Wood•, Spurr, Gray (Scannell 70), Revell (Laurent 70) M Hyde•, Hughes•, Jarrett (Bolasie 74), Furlong, O’Flynn Watkins (Alsop 78), Artus, Gallinagh, Hutton (Low 41),
Subs not used Cousins, Thomas, Holt, Lockwood.
Taylor-Fletcher 71 (McAllister 10), Potter, O’Connor, Johnson •(Miller 82), Subs not used Heath, Walker, Sankofa, Freedman, Betsy. (J Hyde 90) Richards, Hayles (Haynes 85•)
Leeds Higgs, Crowe, Marques (Michalik 87), Kisnorbo,
Tudgay, Varney •(Sodje 88) Att 6,417. Ref M Russell Subs not used Carpenter, Devera, Tabiri, Charles, Kamdjo. Subs not used Richardson, Denton, Tabor, Durrant.
Blackpool Rachubka, Eardley, Evatt, Edwards, Crainey, Hughes, Snodgrass (Prutton 80), Howson, Doyle,
Subs not used O’Donnell, Hinds, Esajas, Beevers. Notts County Schmeichel, Moloney•, Edwards, Att 1,840. Ref K Wright
Taylor-Fletcher (Vaughan 80), Southern, Adam • Johnson•, Becchio (Showunmi 90), Beckford• Tranmere (0) 0 Charlton (2) 4
Att 10,228. Ref A Haines Thompson, Hunt, Davies, Ravenhill, Bishop (Westcarr 72),
(Bangura 81), Euell, Burgess (Emmanuel-Thomas 61), Subs not used Ankergren, Kilkenny, Grella, Robinson. Grimsby (0) 1 Aldershot (1) 2
Sam 24, 49 Jackson, Hughes•, Hawley (Rodgers 57)
Ormerod Att 8,810. Ref D Phillips Conlon 81 Donnelly 27, 49
Scunthorpe (0) 0 QPR (1) 1 Semedo 26, Bailey 68 Subs not used Hoult, Hamshaw, Canham, Clapham, Facey.
Subs not used Gilks, Clarke, Baptiste, Almond. Exeter (0) 1 MK Dons (2) 2
Taarabt 3 Tranmere Daniels, Logan•, Goodison, G Gunning, Att 2,858. Ref D Deadman Grimsby Forecast, Stockdale•, Bennett•, Atkinson,
Coventry Westwood, Wright, Cranie, Turner, Van Aanholt, Corr 51 Easter 1, 6
Scunthorpe Murphy•, Spence, Byrne, Mirfin, Williams, Cresswell, Shuker (Edds 46), McLaren•, Welsh, Mahon Widdowson, Clarke (Proudlock 60•), Leary (Linwood 60),
Cork, Gunnarsson, Clingan, McIndoe, Best, Morrison Bournemouth (0) 1 Crewe (0) 0
Sparrow (Thompson 70), Togwell (McCann 61), O’Connor Exeter Jones, Tully, Archibald-Henville, Taylor•, Duffy, (Ricketts 46), Thomas-Moore, Gornell •(Fraughan 66) Sweeney, C Jones, Conlon•, North Subs not used
(Eastwood 62) Feeney 51
(J Wright 61), Woolford, Hayes, Hooper Sercombe, Russell, Saunders (Logan 46), Golbourne Subs not used Collister, Taylor, Barnett, Curran. Overton, Heywood, Boshell, Normington, Fuller.
Subs not used Konstantopoulos, Osbourne, Walker, Cain, Bournemouth Jalal, Partington (Bartley 80•),
Subs not used Lillis, Forte, Morris, Crosby. (McAllister 46), Corr •(Seaborne 70), Stewart Charlton Elliot, Richardson, Youga, Llera•, Semedo Aldershot Jaimez-Ruiz, Sandell, Blackburn•, Winfield,
Grandison, Clarke. Cummings, Garry, Pearce, Igoe (Guyett 86), Molesley•,
QPR Cerny, Ramage, Hall, Connolly, Borrowdale, Subs not used Marriott, Edwards, Dunne, Burnell. (Spring 75), Dailly, Bailey, Shelvey (Tuna 83), Racon, Hinshelwood, Harding, Halls, Donnelly (Chalmers 90),
Att 8,239. Ref N Miller Robinson, Feeney, Pitman •(McQuoid 90), Bradbury
Routledge•, Leigertwood, Faurlin (Mahon 81), Ephraim, MK Dons Gueret, Howell, Woodards, McCracken, Burton, Sam Soares, Morgan, Hudson
Lewington, Chadwick, Gleeson, Carrington, Johnson Subs not used Randolph, McLeod, Solly, Wagstaff, Basey. Subs not used Pryce, Connell, Webb. Subs not used Masters, Straker, Grant, Hylton, Connolly.
Bristol City (0) 2 Middlesbrough (0) 1 Taarabt (Vine 56), Simpson (Helguson 70) Crewe Legzdins, Brayford, Mitchel-King, Ada, Worley,
Subs not used Heaton, Stewart, Buzsaky, Pellicori. (Doumbe 62), Puncheon (Partridge 81), Easter •(Ibehre 69) Att 5,417. Ref P Tierney Att 3,757. Ref P Quinn
Maynard 63, 90 A Johnson 80 (pen) Subs not used Searle, Baldock, Davis. Jones•, Schumacher (Miller 82), Verma •(Grant 71),
Att 5,866. Ref G Salisbury Walsall (0) 0 Gillingham (0) 0 Donaldson (Moore 26), Elding, Zola Hereford (1) 2 Port Vale (0) 2
Bristol City Gerken, Wilson, McCombe, Carey, Fontaine, Att 5,333. Ref A Hall
McAllister, Elliott, Hartley, Skuse, Maynard (Sproule 90), Walsall Ince, Westlake, Roberts (Weston 70), Smith, Subs not used Collis, O’Donnell, Tootle, Davis. Pugh 36 Dodds 49
Haynes •(Akinde 52) Sheff Utd (0) 2 West Brom (0) 2 Hartlepool (0) 0 Norwich (1) 2 Att 4,563. Ref R East Plummer 80 (pen) Robert Taylor 53
Vincent, Till (Byfield 74), Mattis, Richards (Taundry 62),
Subs not used Basso, Orr, Johnson, Blackman, Ribeiro. Evans 56 Bednar 54, 60 Nelson 27, Hughes 64 Jones, Parkin, Deeney Bradford (1) 2 Torquay (0) 0 Hereford Bartlett, Green, D Jones, Dennehy, Rose,
Middlesbrough Coyne, McMahon•, Wheater, Grounds, Cotterill 88 (pen) Hartlepool Flinders, Haslam, Collins, Liddle, Hartley, Subs not used Gilmartin, Sansara, Nicholls, Bradley. Hanson 45, Brandon 90 Godsmark (Morris 15), J Tolley, Gwynne, Pugh, Plummer,
Taylor, A Johnson, Arca•, Williams, Yeates, Lita, Emnes Sheff Utd Bunn, Walker, Morgan, Kilgallon, Taylor, Ward McSweeney (Boyd 70), Sweeney, Jones (Fredriksen 77), Gillingham Royce, Fuller (Miller 60), Bentley, Gowling•, L Constantine (Marlon Jackson 76) Subs not used
Bradford Eastwood, Ramsden, Rehman, Williams, L O’Brien,
(Aliadiere 71) (Howard 90), Montgomery, Quinn, Treacy (Cotterill 70), Monkhouse•, Behan, Larkin (Brown 59) Nutter, Oli •(Palmer 53), Jackman (Maher 87), Weston, Adamson, R Valentine, K Lowe, Southam, Done.
Bullock, Flynn, J O’Brien (Brandon 68), Colbeck (Neilson 76),
Subs not used Steele, Hoyte, Walker, Hines, Bennett. Henderson•, Evans (Reid 79) Subs not used Cook, Austin, Greulich, Clark. Barcham, Jackson, McCammon Port Vale Martin, Yates, McCombe, Collins, Owen,
Hanson, Evans Subs not used McLaughlin, Thorne,
Att 14,402. Ref R Booth Subs not used Bennett, France, Bromby, Sharp. Norwich Forster, Otsemobor, Nelson, Berthel Askou, Subs not used Julian, Richards, Erskine, Payne. McCrory, Loft, Fraser, Dodds (Jorgensen 86), R Taylor
Michael Boulding, O’Leary, Bateson.
West Brom Carson, Cummings, Martis, Olsson, Mattock•, Drury, McVeigh (Adeyemi 70), Smith (McDonald 90), Att 3,331. Ref K Evans •(Horsfield 86), Richards
Torquay Bevan, Robertson•, Todd, Charnock, Nicholson,
Doncaster (2) 2 Cardiff (0) 0 Thomas •(Reid 73), Koren•, Mulumbu•, Cech, Bednar•, Hughes, Lappin, Cureton (Daley 78), Holt Subs not used Lloyd-Weston, Stockley, Griffith.
Wycombe (1) 2 Bristol Rovers (1) 1 Carlisle, Wroe, Hargreaves, Stevens (Carayol 70), Sills,
Lockwood 13 Moore (Dorrans 58) Subs not used Rudd, Whaley, Martin, Stephens. Att 2,434. Ref G Scott
Phillips 36 Lines 26 Benyon (Rendell 69)
Subs not used Kiely, Barnett, Meite, Valero, Cox. Att 4,470. Ref S Mathieson
Hayter 17 Pittman 80 Subs not used Brough, Mansell, Thompson, Hodges, Joyce. Macclesfield (1) 1 Rotherham (2) 3
Att 25,169. Ref P Crossley Huddersfield (1) 2 Yeovil (1) 1 Att 11,123. Ref S Rushton
Doncaster Sullivan, Chambers, Lockwood, Shackell, Wycombe Shearer, Moncur, Oliver, Duberry, Woodman, Tipton 45 Le Fondre 24, Pope 37
Roberts, Spicer (Wilson 87), Stock, M Woods, Oster (Guy 89), Robinson 33, Collins 65 Murtagh 6 Burton Albion (3) 3 Northampton (0) 2 Harrison 87
Swansea (0) 1 Watford (0) 1 Zebroski, Green, Mousinho, Westlake (Beavon 60), Harrold
Coppinger (Hird 84), Hayter Huddersfield Smithies, Peltier, P Clarke, Butler, Skarz, (Pittman 60), Phillips Harrad 2 Guinan 72, Gilligan 81 (pen) Macclesfield Veiga, Reid, Brisley •(Sinclair 71), Morgan,
Subs not used Smith, Shiels, Fortune, Heffernan. Tate 90 Graham 66 Pilkington, Kay (Goodwin 80), Collins, Ainsworth (Simpson Simpson 7, 11
Subs not used Young, Spence, Westwood, Chambers, Pack. Tremarco•, Bolland (Bell 56), Draper, Bencherif, Daniel,
Cardiff Marshall, Matthews, Hudson, Gerrard, Capaldi, Swansea De Vries, Williams•, Painter•, Tate, Collins, 65•), Rhodes (Novak 56), Robinson Bristol Rovers Evans, Regan, Anthony, Coles•, Lescott Tipton (Rooney 74), Sappleton
Burton Albion Krysiak, Austin, James, Branston,
Burke (Magennis 84), Rae, Ledley, Whittingham (Taiwo 71), Britton (Trundle 70), Orlandi •(Idrizaj 85), Dyer Subs not used Glennon, N Clarke, Williams, Berrett. (Swallow 83), Lines, Campbell, Hughes, Pipe, Duffy Subs not used Brain, Reed, Lowe, Dennis.
Boertien•, Corbett, Simpson, McGrath, Phillips (Stride 82),
Bothroyd (Etuhu 9), Chopra• (Morgan 76), Lopez, Gower, Beattie Yeovil McCarthy, Alcock, Caulker, Forbes, Smith•, Mason (Hunt 70•), Kuffour Rotherham Warrington, Tonge, Sharps, Joseph, Green,
Harrad, Pearson (Penn 62) Subs not used Redmond,
Subs not used Enckelman, Quinn, Gyepes, McPhail. Subs not used Cornell, MacDonald, Richards, Bond. (O’Callaghan 80), Murtagh, Jones (Welsh 71), Schofield, Subs not used Elliott, Blizzard, Reece, Richard, Rayford. Warne, Harrison, Mills, Law, Le Fondre (Ryan Taylor 84),
Walker, Shroot, Goodfellow, Maghoma.
Att 9,742. Ref E Ilderton Watford Loach, Mariappa, DeMerit, Doyley, Hodson, Obika, Tomlin •(Williams 72) Att 5,214. Ref P Gibbs Pope (Cummins 67)
Northampton Dunn, Rodgers (Osman 45•), Beckwith,
Lansbury, Cowie (Harley 76), Jenkins, Cleverley, Sordell Subs not used Stam, Martin, Murray, Lindegaard. Subs not used Annerson, Lynch, Nicholas, Liddell, Ellison.
McCready, Hinton (Mulligan 45), Marshall•, Gilligan•,
Ipswich (1) 1 Preston (1) 1 (Ellington 53), Graham (Hoskins 81) Att 12,646. Ref S Hooper FRIDAY Boden (Threlfall 85), Holt, Guinan, Mckay Att 1,972. Ref C Sarginson
Walters 45 Wallace 12 Subs not used Lee, Severin, Bryan, Eustace. Leyton Orient (0) 2 Carlisle (1) 2 Subs not used Walker, Dyer, Rose, Harris.
Millwall (1) 1 Brighton (0) 1 Rochdale (0) 3 Bury (0) 0
Att 14,172. Ref A Taylor McGleish 48 (pen), 85 Robson 42, Thirlwell 90 Att 3,321. Ref R Shoebridge
Ipswich R Wright, Bruce, McAuley, Balkestein, Smith•, Price 6 Forster 70 Thompson 59, Dagnall 73
Walters•, Trotter, Colback, Martin (Quinn 60), Priskin Leyton Orient Morris, Purches, Mkandawire, Ashworth•, Millwall Forde, Dunne•, Frampton, Smith, Barron, Abdou, Chesterfield (0) 1 Morecambe (0) 1
(Wickham 60), Counago (Stead 60)
T Kennedy 81 (pen)
Daniels, Melligan, Demetriou, Smith, Townsend Laird, Fuseini (Hughes-Mason 83), Martin (Friend 67), Talbot 75 Jevons 79 (pen)
Subs not used Lee-Barrett, Delaney, Healy, Ainsley. LEADING GOALSCORERS (all competitions) (Chambers 54), McGleish, Jarvis (Patulea 69) Rochdale Arthur, Flynn•, Dawson, Holness, T Kennedy•,
Alexander, Price (Grimes 74) Subs not used Sullivan, Chesterfield Lee, Picken, Page, Breckin•, Austin, Lowry,
Preston Lonergan, Jones, St. Ledger (Hart 81), Chilvers, Subs not used Giddens, Cave-Brown, Pires, Baker, Hall. Thompson, J Kennedy, Jones, W Buckley, O’Grady,
8 Chopra (Cardiff ). Bolder, Harris. Niven (Harsley 65), Allott, McDermott (Small 66), Lester
Davidson•, Wallace•, Shumulikoski, Chaplow, Parry Carlisle Pidgeley, Raven, Livesey, Murphy (Offiong 87), Dagnall• Subs not used Edwards, Stanton, Spencer,
5 Ameobi (Newcastle); A Johnson (Middlesbrough); Brighton Kuipers, Whing•, El-Abd, Bennett, Virgo•, (Boden 90), Talbot Stevens, Wiseman, Higginbotham, Rundle.
(Sedgwick 57), Parkin (Nolan 45), Brown Maynard (Bristol City). Harte, Hurst, Thirlwell•, Taiwo (Kavanagh 68), Robson•, Tunnicliffe, Crofts, Cox (Mark Wright 87), Navarro (Dicker Subs not used Crossley, Robertson, Currie, Gray. Bury Brown, Scott•, Futcher•, Sodje•, Newey, Worrall,
Subs not used Henderson, Carter, Elliott, Mellor. Anyinsah, Dobie (Madine 81) 46), Forster (Hart 77•), Dickinson Subs not used Graeme
4 Ambrose (Crystal Palace); Brown (Preston); Morecambe Roche, Moss, Artell, Bentley, Adams, Dawson, Barry-Murphy, Racchi (Rouse 68), Robertson•
Att 19,454. Ref P Taylor Subs not used Collin, Horwood, Rothery, Kane. Smith, Livermore, Thornhill, Davies.
Johnson (Sheff Wed); Routledge (QPR). Panther•, Drummond, Wilson, Craney, Jevons, Twiss (Morrell 62), Lowe (Bishop 62)
3 Blackstock (Nottm Forest); Bogdanovic (Barnsley); Att 3,546. Ref G Horwood Att 10,138. Ref Andy Penn (W Midlands) (Curtis 89) Subs not used Scott Davies, McStay, Parrish, Subs not used Johnson, Cresswell, Baker, Belford.
Nottm Forest (3) 3 Derby (0) 2 Boyd (Peterborough); Burgess (Blackpool); Stockport (0) 1 Southampton (1) 1 Wainwright, Stanley, Hunter.
LEADING GOALSCORERS (all competitions) Att 4,534. Ref K Stroud
Majewski 1 Morgan 51 (og) Dobbie (Swansea); Fryatt (Leicester); Baker 90 (pen) Lambert 45 (pen) Att 3,210. Ref D Webb
Blackstock 28 Livermore 62 6 Rhodes (Huddersfield); Robinson (Huddersfield).
Graham (Watford); Hooper (Scunthorpe); Stockport Fon Williams, Mullins, Havern, Raynes Dag & Red (1) 3 Lincoln City (0) 0 LEADING GOALSCORERS (all competitions)
Tyson 43 5 Beckford (Leeds); Harris (Millwall); Holt (Norwich);
Mellor (Preston); Morrison (Coventry); (Turnbull 59), Rose, Pilkington (Johnson 69), Tansey, Nurse 13, 72, Green 57 5 Benson (Dag & Red). 4 Donnelly (Aldershot);
Nottm Forest Camp, Gunter, Morgan, Chambers, Cohen, Jackson (Gillingham). 4 Baker (Stockport); Barnard
Taylor-Fletcher (Blackpool); Vincent, Poole, Baker•, Thompson (Southend); Easter (Milton Keynes Dons); Lambert Dag & Red Roberts, Doe, Antwi, Arber, Griffiths, Green Hibbert (Shrewsbury); Hughes (Notts County);
McGoldrick (Earnshaw 74•), Garner •(McCleary 64), Tudgay (Sheff Wed); Whittingham (Cardiff ). Subs not used Rigby, Griffin, Halls, Edwards, Rowe. (Montgomery 83), Thurgood, Gain, Nurse (Bingham 88), Richards (Port Vale); Zola (Crewe).
(Southampton; 1 for Bristol Rovers); Lisbie (Colchester).

Scotland Europe Other results

CLYDESDALE BANK PREMIER LEAGUE SECOND DIVISION BELGIUM Bayer Leverkusen 2 Bochum 1; Bayern Munich 3 BLUE SQUARE PREMIER Borough 3 Margate 0; Hendon 0 Kingstonian 3;
P W D L F A Pts P W D L F A Pts Anderlecht L Standard Liege L; Cercle Bruges 2 Club Wolfsburg 0; Eintracht Frankfurt 1 Borussia Dortmund 1; P W D L F A Pts Horsham 1 Canvey Island 2; Maidstone Utd 1 Tooting &
Rangers 3 3 0 0 10 3 9 Alloa 4 3 1 0 6 2 10 Brugge 3; Kortrijk 1 Ghent 0; Mechelen 0 St Truiden 2; Hamburg 3 Cologne 1; Hannover 0 Hoffenheim 1; Oxford Utd 6 5 1 0 14 6 16 Mitcham 0; Sutton Utd 4 AFC Hornchurch 1.
Stirling 4 3 1 0 4 1 10 Lokeren 4 Excelsior Mouscron 1; Racing Genk 1 Hertha Berlin 2 Werder Bremen 3; Schalke 0 Mansfield 6 5 0 1 14 5 15 Leading standings: 1 Dartford P5 Pts13;
Celtic 3 3 0 0 9 3 9 Germinal Beerschot 1; Roeselare 1 Charleroi 3. Freiburg 1; Stuttgart 0 Nurnberg 0. 2 Canvey Island 5-11; 3 Aveley 5-10.
Dundee Utd 3 2 1 0 4 1 7 Arbroath 4 2 1 1 6 6 7 Friday Westerlo 1 Zulte Waregem 2 Friday Borussia M’gladbach 2 Mainz 0 Luton 6 3 3 0 8 3 12
Stenhousemuir 4 1 3 0 6 3 6 York 7 3 2 2 9 6 11 UNIBOND LEAGUE
Hibernian 3 2 0 1 5 3 6 Leading standings 1 Anderlecht P4 Pts 12;
Premier Division Buxton 0 Retford Utd 2; Durham City 0
Motherwell 3 1 2 0 5 3 5 East Fife 4 1 3 0 5 3 6 2 St. Truiden 5-11; 3 AA Gent 5-10. ITALY Kettering 6 3 2 1 7 5 11
Matlock Town 4; FC United of Manchester 2
Aberdeen 3 1 1 1 4 3 4 Brechin 4 2 0 2 6 5 6 FRANCE P W D L F A Pts Cambridge Utd 6 3 1 2 10 6 10 Burscough 0; Frickley 1 Worksop 1; Guiseley 1 Boston
Peterhead 4 1 1 2 5 5 4 P W D L F A Pt AFC Wimbledon 6 3 1 2 8 4 10 Utd 3; Hucknall 1 Ashton Utd 2; Kendal Town 4 Marine 1;
St Mirren 3 1 1 1 3 3 4 Juventus 2 2 0 0 4 1 6
Cowdenbeath 4 0 2 2 4 7 2 Paris St Germain 4 3 1 0 10 4 10 Kidderminster 6 3 1 2 7 3 10 King’s Lynn 1 Whitby 1; Nantwich Town 2 Ossett
Kilmarnock 3 1 0 2 5 5 3 Internazionale 2 1 1 0 5 1 4
Clyde 4 0 1 3 3 7 1 Lyon 4 3 1 0 9 3 10 Altrincham 6 3 1 2 8 7 10 Town 0; North Ferriby Utd 1 Stocksbridge PS 0.
St Johnstone 3 0 2 1 6 9 2 Genoa 1 1 0 0 3 2 3
Bordeaux 3 3 0 0 11 3 9 Leading standings: 1 Dartford P5 Pts11;
Hearts 3 0 1 2 3 6 1 Dumbarton 4 0 1 3 6 12 1 Palermo 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 Crawley Town 6 3 1 2 7 10 10 2 Boston Utd 4-10; 3 Stocksbridge 5-9.
Brechin 3 Dumbarton 1; Clyde 0 Alloa 1; East Fife 1 Montpellier 4 2 2 0 8 3 8 Stevenage 6 2 3 1 8 5 9
Falkirk 3 0 0 3 3 9 0 Sampdoria 1 1 0 0 2 1 3
Cowdenbeath 1; Stenhousemuir 3 Arbroath 0; Marseille 3 2 1 0 4 1 7 Wrexham 6 3 0 3 8 5 9 ZAMARETTO LEAGUE
Hamilton 3 0 0 3 1 10 0 Lazio 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Premier Division Banbury 1 Oxford City 1; Bashley 2
Stirling 2 Peterhead 1. Lens 4 2 1 1 7 7 7 Tamworth 6 2 3 1 6 5 9
Aberdeen (0) 0 Motherwell (0) 0 Milan 2 1 0 1 2 5 3 Evesham 1; Cambridge City 1 Nuneaton 1; Clevedon
THIRD DIVISION Lorient 4 2 1 1 5 5 7 Rushden & D’monds 6 2 2 2 8 8 8
11,320 Bari 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 Town 1 Farnborough 4; Didcot Town 0 Stourbridge 1;
P W D L F A Pts Boulogne 4 2 1 1 3 4 7 Halesowen 2 Swindon Supermarine 0; Hednesford 2
Bologna 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 Eastbourne Borough 6 2 2 2 5 7 8
Dundee Utd (0) 2 Falkirk (0) 1 Forfar 4 3 1 0 10 4 10 Nancy 4 2 0 2 9 6 6 Truro City 3; Hemel Hempstead 1 Brackley 1;
Cadamarteri 49 Finnbogason 75 Parma 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 Histon 6 2 1 3 10 9 7
Berwick 4 3 0 1 5 3 9 Rennes 4 1 3 0 7 4 6 Leamington 4 Chippenham 4; Merthyr 0 Bedford Town 0;
Goodwillie 56 6,979 Udinese 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 Barrow 6 2 1 3 5 9 7
Stranraer 4 2 1 1 5 2 7 Sochaux 4 2 0 2 4 5 6 Tiverton 3 Rugby Town 1.
Fiorentina 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 Salisbury 6 2 1 3 4 8 7 Leading standings: 1 Farnborough P5 Pts15;
Hibernian (0) 0 Celtic (1) 1 Albion 3 2 1 0 4 2 7 Monaco 4 2 0 2 3 5 6
14,221 Samaras 41 Cagliari 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Hayes & Yeading 6 1 2 3 6 8 5 2 Truro City 5-12; 3 Chippenham 5-11.
Queens Park 3 1 1 1 3 3 4 Toulouse 4 1 1 2 4 4 4
Livorno 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Grays Athletic 5 1 2 2 4 6 5 PRINCIPALITY BUILDING SOCIETY WELSH PREMIER
Kilmarnock (1) 1 St Mirren (0) 2 East Stirling 3 1 1 1 3 6 4 Le Mans 4 1 1 2 5 7 4
Sammon 4 McGinn 48, 69 Catania 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 Gateshead 6 1 1 4 7 12 4 Aberystwyth 2 Prestatyn Town 3; Caersws 3
Livingston 3 1 0 2 2 2 3 Nice 4 1 1 2 3 8 4
5,645 Napoli 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 Ebbsfleet Utd 6 0 2 4 3 12 2 Technogroup Welshpool 0; Llanelli 5 Gap Connah’s
Elgin 4 0 3 1 3 4 3 Valenciennes 4 1 0 3 4 7 3 Quay 0; Rhyl 2 Port Talbot 0; The New Saints 2
Rangers (2) 4 Hamilton (0) 1 Siena 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 Forest Green 6 0 0 6 4 14 0
Annan Athletic 4 0 1 3 2 6 1 St Etienne 4 1 0 3 2 6 3 Airbus UK 1. Postponed Neath v Newtown.
Whittaker 19, 67 McLaughlin 87 Atalanta 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 *Chester 4 0 1 3 2 9 -24
Montrose 4 0 1 3 2 7 1 Lille 4 0 1 3 2 7 1 Leading standings: 1 The New Saints P3 Pts9;
Boyd 27, 65 47,633 Chievo 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 *Chester docked 25pts 2 Rhy 3-7; 3 Bala Town 3-7.
Albion 1 Livingston 0; Berwick 1 Queens Park 0; Elgin 1 Auxerre 4 0 1 3 0 6 1 AFC Wimbledon 0 Oxford Utd 1; Barrow 1 Tamworth 0;
St Johnstone (1) 2 Hearts (0) 2 Annan Ath 1; Forfar 5 E Stirling 1; Stranraer 2 Montrose 0 Roma 2 0 0 2 3 6 0
Grenoble 4 0 0 4 2 7 0 Cambridge Utd 3 Gateshead 0; Chester 0 Mansfield 1; CARLING IRISH PREMIER
Davidson 23 Goncalves 59 Crawley Town 1 Grays Athletic 1; Ebbsfleet United 1
SCOT-ADS HIGHLAND LEAGUE Boulogne 0 Auxerre 0; Lens 2 Rennes 2; Lorient 1 Atalanta L Genoa L; Bari 0 Bologna 0; Cagliari L Siena L; Dungannon Swifts 1 Crusaders 2; Linfield 3 Newry 0.
Hardie 90 Obua 86 Hayes & Yeading 2; Forest Green 0 Wrexham 2;
5,825 P W D L F A Pts Le Mans 0; Lyon 3 Nancy 1; Marseille L Bordeaux L; Chievo L Lazio L; Fiorentina L Palermo L; Milan 0 Friday Portadown 6 Lisburn Distillery 1.
Cove Rangers 5 5 0 0 19 4 15 Nice 0 Montpellier 3; Paris St Germain 3 Lille 0; Internazionale 4; Napoli L Livorno L; Parma L Catania L; Kettering 0 Luton 0; Kidderminster 3 Altrincham 0; Leading standings: 1 Crusaders P6 Pts15;
LEADING GOALSCORERS (all competitions) Roma 1 Juventus 3; Sampdoria L Udinese L. Salisbury 1 Eastbourne Borough 1; Stevenage 2 2 Dungannon Swifts 6-13; 3 Linfield 6-11.
Deveronvale 5 4 0 1 15 3 12 Sochaux 1 Monaco 0; St Etienne 1 Grenoble 0;
6 Mehmet (St Mirren). 4 Deuchar (St Johnstone); Toulouse 0 Valenciennes 1. Rushden & D’monds 1; York 3 Histon 1.
Forbes (Motherwell); Murphy (Motherwell); Samuel Fraserburgh 5 4 0 1 13 4 12 NETHERLANDS LEAGUE OF IRELAND
BLUE SQUARE NORTH Premier Divison St Patricks L Drogheda Utd L.
(St Johnstone). 3 Boyd (Rangers); Cadamarteri Inverurie Locos 5 3 2 0 8 1 11 GERMANY Groningen 0 PSV Eindhoven 2; Feyenoord 1 Twente 1; Telford 0 Ilkeston Town 0; Corby 3 Gloucester 6;
P W D L F A Pts Friday Bray 0 Derry City 1; Galway Utd 0 Shamrock
(Dundee Utd); Hutchinson (Motherwell); Kyle Buckie Thistle 5 3 0 2 14 5 9 Heracles 0 Ajax 3; NAC 2 Heerenveen 0; AZ Alkmaar 2 Droylsden 2 Fleetwood Town 0; Eastwood Town 1
(Kilmarnock); McDonald (Celtic); McGinn (St Mirren); Hamburg 4 3 1 0 12 5 10 Willem II 1; Utrecht 2 Sparta 0; NEC 1 VVV 1. Rovers 1.
Turriff United 5 3 0 2 12 9 9 Hinckley Utd 0; Farsley Celtic 4 Gainsborough 1; Hyde 0 Leading standings: 1 Bohemians 25-55;
Milne (St Johnstone); Riordan (Hibernian); Sammon Bayer Leverkusen 4 3 1 0 10 3 10 Friday RKC Waalwijk 0 Den Haag 2; Roda Kerkrade 3
Huntly 5 3 0 2 10 7 9 Blyth Spartans 3; Redditch 3 Alfreton Town 0; Solihull 2 Shamrock Rovers 26-51; 3 Derry City 25-44.
(Kilmarnock); Sutton (Motherwell). Werder Bremen 4 2 1 1 9 6 7 Vitesse 4. Moors 2 Stalybridge 2; Southport 3 Harrogate Town 1;
Forres Mechanics 5 2 2 1 7 5 8 Schalke 4 2 1 1 5 2 7 Leading standings 1 AZ Alkmaar P5 Pts12; First Division Longford Town 1 Monaghan Utd 4;
IRN-BRU FIRST DIVISION Vauxhall Motors 2 Stafford Rangers 2; Workington 0
Clachnacuddin 5 2 1 2 14 7 7 Borussia M’gladbach 4 2 1 1 7 7 7 2 Feyenoord 5-11; 3 PSV Eindhoven 5-11. Northwich 1. Mervue Utd 3 Athlone Town 1; Waterford Utd 0
P W D L F A Pts
Wick Academy 4 2 1 1 13 7 7 Eintracht Frankfurt 4 1 3 0 5 4 6 Leading standings: 1 Droylsden P6 Pts13; Sporting Fingal 0.
Raith 4 2 2 0 6 3 8 PORTUGAL 2 Corby 6-13; 3 Southport 6-13. Friday Kildare County 0 Finn Harps 2; Shelbourne 1
Nairn County 5 2 1 2 5 6 7 Wolfsburg 4 2 0 2 7 8 6
Queen of South 4 2 2 0 5 2 8 Academica Coimbra L Sporting Lisbon L; Braga 3 Wexford Youths 2; UC Dublin 2 Limerick 37 1.
Formartine Utd 4 2 0 2 8 5 6 Bayern Munich 4 1 2 1 6 4 5 Belenenses 1; Leixoes 0 Rio Ave 0; Naval 1 Porto 3; BLUE SQUARE SOUTH
Ross County 4 2 1 1 5 3 7 Bishop’s Stortford 2 St Albans 0; Chelmsford 1 Bromley 2; Leading standings: 1 Shelbourne P23 Pts54;
Keith 5 2 0 3 7 14 6 Stuttgart 4 1 2 1 5 5 5 Pacos Ferreira 0 Guimaraes 0; Uniao Leiria 0 Maritimo 0 2 UC Dublin 23-52; 3 Sporting Fingal 23-49.
Dundee 4 1 3 0 6 5 6 Leading standings 1 Braga P3 Pts9; 2 Porto 3-7; Dorchester 2 Bath City 2; Eastleigh 1 Dover 2; Hampton
Brora 5 2 0 3 5 14 6 Hoffenheim 4 1 2 1 2 2 5
Dunfermline 4 2 0 2 4 3 6 3 Maritimo 3-4. & Richmond 1 Thurrock 1; Havant and W 0 Basingstoke 2; UEFA WOMEN’S EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Lossiemouth 5 1 1 3 7 10 4 Mainz 4 1 2 1 5 6 5 Lewes 0 Woking 2; Maidenhead Utd 1 Newport County 3;
Partick 4 1 2 1 6 2 5 Group B Germany 1 Iceland 0; Norway 1 France 1.
Fort William 5 0 0 5 1 17 0 Borussia Dortmund 4 1 2 1 4 6 5 SPAIN Welling 0 Braintree Town 0; Worcester 0 Staines Town 0.
Inverness CT 4 1 2 1 4 5 5 Group C Russia L Italy L; Sweden L England L.
Rothes 5 0 0 5 4 23 0 Hannover 4 1 1 2 3 3 4 Almería L Valladolid L; Athletic Bilbao 1 Espanyol 0; Leading standings: 1 Dover P6 Pts14;
Morton 4 1 0 3 2 8 3 Málaga 3 Atlético Madrid 0; Mallorca 2 Xerez 0; 2 Basingstoke 6-14; 3 Woking 6-13.
Strathspey Thistle 5 0 0 5 5 26 0 Bochum 4 1 1 2 5 8 4 TESCO WOMEN’S PREMIER LEAGUE
Airdrie Utd 4 0 2 2 3 6 2 Osasuna 1 Villarreal 1; Racing Santander 1 Getafe 4;
Buckie Thistle 5 Rothes 0; Clachnacuddin 0 Freiburg 4 1 1 2 4 10 4 RYMAN LEAGUE Blackburn 1 Birmingham 1; Doncaster 2 Watford 2;
Ayr 4 0 2 2 1 5 2 Deveronvale 4; Fort William 0 Brora 1; Fraserburgh 4 Real Madrid 3 Deportivo La Coruña 2; Real Zaragoza 1 Premier Division Ashford Town 0 Boreham Wood 2; Millwall 2 Bristol Academy 0; Sunderland 2
Airdrie Utd 1 Dundee 1; Dunfermline 0 Raith 2; Hertha Berlin 4 1 0 3 4 6 3 Tenerife 0; Valencia 2 Sevilla 0. Nottm Forest 3. Postponed Everton v Chelsea.
Strathspey Thistle 2; Huntly 4 Lossiemouth 1; Aveley 4 Carshalton Ath 0; Billericay 1 Tonbridge Angels 1
Inverness CT 1 Ross County 3; Partick 5 Morton 0; Inverurie Locos 1 Forres Mechanics 1; Keith 3 Nurnberg 4 0 2 2 2 5 2 Leading standings 1 Getafe P1 Pts3; 2 Malaga 1-3; Bognor Regis Town 1 Waltham Abbey 2; Cray Wanderers 1 Leading standings: 1 Millwall P3 Pts9;
Queen of South 2 Ayr 0. Nairn County 1; Turriff United 2 Cove Rangers 2. Cologne 4 0 1 3 2 7 1 3 Mallorca 1-3. Hastings Utd 2; Dartford 1 Wealdstone 1; Harrow 2 Birmingham 3-5; 3 Nottm Forest 3-4.
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
Sport
I’m ready to go all
the way this time,
says upbeat Murray
The world No2 came of age
at last year’s US Open and
now has the mettle to win it,
he tells Simon Cambers
This time last year Andy Murray was still
a relative novice in grand slam tennis,
having never been beyond the quar-
ter-final in any of the four biggest events.
Now the Scot has a major final to his name
following the run in New York last summer
and enjoys the rarified status of being the
world No2, sandwiched between Roger
Federer and Rafael Nadal. In short, he is
a genuine contender to win a first grand
slam title.
Winning a major is the dream for every
player and the pressure of trying to get
there has proved too much for many. But
as a relaxed and confident Murray sits in a
rooftop tennis club in Manhattan with the
Empire State Building in the background,
he emphasises the notion that this could
be his time. “My mindset just now is that
I think I can win it,” he says. “I think I am
playing well enough.”
The confidence gained from a year of
progress shines through his every word.
There is no hint of arrogance, just the
knowledge that best-ever performances
at the French Open (quarter-final) and
Wimbledon (semi-final) this summer
prove that he is on the right track. Lean
and strong after another huge physical
effort in the weeks after Wimbledon, he
feels at home in New York and knows that
last year’s experience can only help.
“That was the first time I’d been past the
quarter-final of a slam, so it was good to
have that experience,” he says. “The thing
I learned most was to make sure or under-
stand that I can stay calm in those situa-
tions. There were a lot of things that I had
to deal with over the weekend, with the
rain and playing the first day on one court
and getting moved on to another. I’d never
really had that in a slam before so it was
good to have that experience, so if it hap-
pens again you know you came through it
and it didn’t faze you too much.”
Murray’s victory over Nadal in a
semi-final played over three days was in
many ways his coming of age, even if it
Nerves hit Robson
Laura Robson admitted nerves got
the better of her after she lost in
the final round of qualifying for the
US Open. The 15-year-old led Eva
Hrdinova 4-0 in the final set and
served for the match before losing
7-6, 4-6, 7-6. She hit 22 double faults,
13 in the final set. ‘It just got to
the point where I was even having
trouble breathing. It’s pretty hard to
play tennis when you can’t breathe.
I was just focusing on not having a
panic attack. It’s all about experience
really. It’s just dealing with nerves
and all that is something I have to get
used to.’ Simon Cambers
Federer fancies six in a row after overcoming New York blues
Simon Cambers New York
It seems hard to believe now but when
Roger Federer first came to New York he
wanted to go home immediately. The
buzz, the noise and the crowded streets
were a far cry from the relative quiet of
Basel, the city where the current world
No1 grew up. Fast forward to 2009 and
the Swiss today begins his bid for a sixth
successive US Open title, back on top of
the rankings and fresh from winning two
more grand-slam titles to set a record of
15. It is likely to take a man playing out of
his skin to beat him.
“I used to struggle here a bit more
just because conditions were really dif-
ficult,” Federer said. “But then I started
to embrace everything and I enjoyed the
wild city, New York, the way crowds are
and how loud it is and everything. Now
I love everything about it, especially the
city and the fans here.”
This time last year Federer arrived in
something of a slump. For the first time
left him emotionally and physically spent
against a well-rested Federer the follow-
ing day.
Since then Murray has been the most
consistent player in the world, winning
seven ATP Tour titles, three of them Mas-
ters Series titles –the level just below the
four majors. The 22-year-old is the first
Briton to be ranked No2 and his record
on hard courts this year, 34-3, is second
to none. It is just his luck then that while
Nadal is not quite up to full speed after the
tendinitis in the knees that caused him to
miss Wimbledon, Federer won the French
Open and Wimbledon and is riding high
after becoming a father last month.
Considering that Novak Djokovic, at
the Australian Open in 2008, is the only
man other than Federer and Nadal to win a
grand-slam title in 4½ years, Murray could
be forgiven if he feels a little unfortunate
to be playing at the same time as the lat-
ter pair. But the Scot has never felt sorry
for himself and the thought of beating
them both – as he may have to do to win
the title in New York – is an inspiration,
not a burden. “I obviously want to win a
grand slam – everyone wants to do it, it’s
no different with me. But I understand
and I know tennis well because I follow it
‘I want to win a slam
but it’s not easy when
you’re playing the two
best players of all time’
a lot, that you’ve got the two best players
maybe of all time playing just now and it’s
not that easy a thing to do when you’re in
an era like this.
“I’m sure by the time they finish you’ll
have the most slams between any two
rivals, so they’re obviously two of the best
ever. So if I was to win it, it would make
my achievement a lot greater. If I don’t
I can still have a very good tournament
and not win it. I’ll be very disappointed
because I’d love to win this grand slam,
maybe more than any, but if I don’t, it’s
not a failure.”
Fred Perry was the last Briton to win the
US Open in 1936. Like Perry, who became
a US citizen in 1938, Murray is very popu-
lar with fans here and what would help
him is if he does not have to play all his
matches in the heat of the day to appease
the demands of Sky TV, which would like
Murray to play all his matches during its
peak viewing hours, 4pm-6pm. “I am sure
the viewers would also like to see Nadal
or Federer playing,” he says. “It’s not like
there are not other players they can show
around that time. In a two-week tourna-
ment it would be a lot more helpful for me
to play the odd night match.”
His potential path to the final is littered
with danger, with Ivo Karlovic, Stanislas
Wawrinka and Juan Martín Del Potro likely
opponents, with Nadal again seeded to
face him in the last four. Murray begins
tomorrow or on Wednesday with a first-
round match against Latvia’s Ernests
Gulbis, ranked 95 but touted as a potential
world-beater as recently as a year ago.
since 2002, he had not won a grand slam
event and his world No1 ranking, together
with the Wimbledon title, had been
snatched from him by Rafael Nadal. He
was losing to players he used to destroy,
and his aura appeared to have gone.
His victory over Andy Murray in the
final at Flushing Meadows wiped away the
doubts, though, and with a first French
Today’s highlights
Men’s singles
Roger Federer 1 v Devin Britton
Bjorn Phau v Andy Roddick 5
Thiago Alves v Lleyton Hewitt 31
Women’s singles
Viktoriya Kutuzova v Kim Clijsters
Vera Dushevina v Venus Williams 3
Alexa Glatch v Serena Williams 2
Television
Sky Sports 2 4pm, Eurosport 7pm
Andy Murray enjoys the view at a Manhattan tennis club and says he hopes to
better last year’s runners-up spot at Flushing Meadows Larry Busacca/PA
Open title and a sixth Wimbledon crown
to his name he is the strong favourite to
win here again, especially with Nadal not
100% fit after enduring chronic tendinitis
in both knees.
“Last year I felt like I had to win,”
Federer said. “It would have been disap-
pointing not to have won a slam. I guess
everything fell into place and today I find
myself No1 in the world and defending
champion, thanks to how great I played
last year. I’m playing great, playing offen-
sive tennis. I feel physically and mentally
really fresh, which is great after so many
matches played already this year.”
The 28-year-old became a father for the
first time last month when his wife gave
birth to twin girls. Any thoughts his ten-
nis might suffer from the late nights and
broken sleep evaporated when he beat
Murray and Novak Djokovic to win the
Masters Series title in Montreal eight days
ago. The Scot and the Serb will be among
the main challengers for the title at Flush-
ing Meadows, together with Nadal and the
Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick .
Roger Federer is 11-10 favourite to win
a sixth successive US Open title Al
Behrman/AP
Federer knows he may not have things all
his own way.
“I think it’s one of the toughest tourna-
ments to win because everybody is going
for the last grand slam of the season,” he
29
Curragh clash
fizzles out as
Ordnance rows
in at Goodwood
Will Hayler
Fireworks were forecast but racing’s latest
clash of the empires fizzled out in the rain
at the Curragh yesterday.
Lillie Langtry and Long Lashes, fillies
representing the Coolmore and Godolphin
teams respectively, were supposed to
fight out the Group One Moyglare Stud
Stakes. But in the event neither of the
market leaders appeared to handle the
testing conditions and it was left to the
Kevin Prendergast-trained Termagant, a
16-1 chance, to beat rank outsider Famous
by two-and-a-half lengths.
William Hill went just 10-1 about the
winner for next year’s 1,000 Guineas, but
Ladbrokes dismissed the form and offer
20-1, keeping Lillie Langtry as their 8-1
joint-favourite despite her defeat.
Instead it was at Goodwood where
racing fans enjoyed the finest perform-
ance of the day as Ordnance Row fol-
lowed up his third behind Delegator in
Saturday’s Celebration Mile with a gutsy
victory in the Group 3 Supreme Stakes.
Richard Hannon’s gelding is owned by
the Cheshire breeder Poilin Good, who
was completing a weekend to remember
having sold Delegator to Godolphin before
Will Hayler’s best bet
Spic’N Span
5.35 Chepstow
There’s nothing complicated about
Spic’N Span. He wants to get out
quickly, get to the front and stay at
the front. He will not have many
easier opportunities than this,
where the opposition consists of a
mainly disappointing collection of
horses that find winning hard.
Rain would be a slight concern,
but the fact that the selection
handles Fibresand so well is
encouraging in that respect.
his impressive victory. Ordnance Row and
Delegator are closely related, their dams
– also bred by Good and her late husband,
John – being half-sisters.
Ordnance Row had dictated the pace in
Saturday’s contest, but a change of tactics
saw him settled last of the seven runners
for his second Group race in 24 hours.
This time the Godolphin representative
was Asset, who struck for home a furlong
out but once again found less than might
have been expected in front and had no
answer as Ordnance Row swept past under
Ryan Moore to win by a length.
The dots are gradually being joined
ahead of Kieren Fallon’s comeback to the
saddle on Friday. The 44-year-old Fallon
has been booked to ride for Ed Dunlop in
the afternoon at Lingfield, before head-
ing to Kempton’s evening fixture, where
he appears likely to have a near-full book
of mounts.
Interestingly, Fallon has only made one
public appearance before on Kempton’s
Polytrack, when he was out of luck in
two rides for Alan Jarvis and one for Paul
Howling in April 2006.
Results and selections, Page 27 ≥
said. “Everybody can play on hard courts.
Nobody has excuses because the majority
of tournaments are played on that surface.
You rarely see surprises at the US Open.
Everybody’s match-tough and fit to go, so
it makes it difficult to win here.”
On paper, Federer looks to have an easy
draw through to the semi-finals, where
either Roddick or Djokovic are likely to
await him. First up, though, he begins his
title bid today against an American wild-
card Devin Britton, who will be playing his
first grand slam match at the senior level.
It is a daunting prospect for him but Fed-
erer said he cannot afford to take anyone
lightly.
“It’s a best-of-five-set match, maybe
something Britton has never played
before,” the Swiss said. “But I think it’s a
good thing that in tennis you always have
a chance. It doesn’t matter who you play,
where you play. If you think the guy’s
not there to make a match, that’s absurd.
That’s how tennis is. You have to be very
careful. I have to make sure I put in a good
performance.”
30 The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009

Sport

Ennis happy to take fame and fortune in her stride

The world heptathlon
champion can handle the
pressure of No1 ranking,
she tells Mikey Stafford
World Championship gold medals have
a transformational quality. Jessica Ennis
travelled to Berlin this month as one of
Britain’s most promising yet unheralded
athletes but returned a world champion
and one of the country’s most famous
sportswomen. It is a distinction that is
easy to make – promising competitors
are admired at arenas like Crystal Palace
while their more famous counterparts
are adored by the nation as a whole. Now
Ennis is being trumpeted as “The face of
2012” and heavily backed to win the BBC
Sports Personality of the Year award.
At least the psychology graduate can
draw on her degree to help deal with her
new-found fame, can’t she? “Dealing with
instant fame? I don’t think I had a lecture
on that,” said the 23-year-old as she sat in
a Newcastle hotel ahead of today’s Aviva
British grand prix at the Gateshead Inter-
national Stadium, where the 100m hur-
dles will be her last event of a momentous
season.
“It’s very different,” Ennis said of her
profile since winning gold in the heptath-
lon a fortnight ago with a personal best of
6,731 points. “There are lots of pressures
and things to handle. But yeah, there are
bits I could take from my degree. It’s a gen-
eral psychology degree. Everyone asks me
if I can apply it to athletics and what hap-
pens on the track, but not really. Yeah, I
can dig out some textbooks and see what
I can apply.”
Whether her degree has helped or not,
on the track and in the field Ennis has been
dominant this season, outperforming the
Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska.
To most observers Ennis’s triumph in Ber-
lin was the inevitable coronation of the
queen of the gruelling multi-event.
Not so the woman herself, who insists
her victory in the Olympic Stadium was
unexpected and came as the most pleas-
ant of surprises.
“There was lots of pressure but I was
really, really aware that even if you’re
ranked No1 it doesn’t mean anything. I
knew I was competing against an Olympic
champion and loads of other really good
heptathletes, so I knew it wasn’t going to
be easy. I thought it was going to be a really
tough challenge and I was going to have
to pull out everything. So yeah, it was a
surprise.
“It’s nice being ranked No1 going into a
competition but it doesn’t mean anything
until you’ve gone to the championship and
you’ve performed under the pressure and
the expectation and you’ve come home
with a medal. That’s a medal that you keep
for life. You don’t have anything for being
ranked No1 going into a competition.”
The Sheffield-born athlete’s abhor-
rence of presumptuousness derives from
the heartbreak of last summer, when a
career-threatening triple stress fracture of
the right foot ruled her out of the Beijing
Olympics.
She describes 2008 as a “disaster”
and the memory of sitting on the couch
Gateshead timetable
The order of today’s Aviva British
grand prix and the Team GB world
championship medallists taking part
13.51 Long jump (M)
13.59 Pole vault (M)
14.09 800m (W) Jenny Meadows
14.19 400m (M) Michael Bingham,
Rob Tobin, Martyn Rooney
Jessica Ennis is sure to get a warm
reception at the British grand prix at
Gateshead today Nigel Roddis/Reuters
watching her British team-mates win 19
gold medals only makes her more excited
about the London Games in three years’
time.
“Beijing was going to be my first Olym-
pics and I was really looking forward to it,
so now it’s all about London,” she said,
unable to hide a smile of anticipation.
“Everyone else is so excited about it. It’s
constantly talked about and you can’t
really not think about it.
“I know [the expectation] is going to be
absolutely massive when it comes around
to 2012, but at least I know I have that abil-
ity to control it and to still pull out a per-
formance. It was nice to have the pressure
of these championships as well, so I got a
taste for it. There were a lot of articles writ-
ten and everyone was kind of pinning eve-
rything on me to do really well out there.
It was nice to deal with that pressure and
experience it.”
Even ahead of a civic reception in Shef-
field tomorrow night and a holiday “some-
where hot and relaxed” with her boy-
friend Andy, Ennis is already thinking of
the sacrifices that have to be made ahead
‘It’s nice being No1 but
it doesn’t mean anything
until you’ve performed
under pressure’
of that heptathlon in Stratford. Next year
brings both the European Championships
in Barcelona and then the Commonwealth
Games in Delhi. Something, says Ennis,
will have to give.
“I’ve thought about it a bit and my coach
has as well and I think it is wise not to do
both. Especially with the heptathlon, it’s
very hard to peak in July and then in Octo-
ber, so then it obviously affects your win-
ter season and affects your indoor season
the following year. It is just about working
out which is best.” She is not yet ready to
say which she will favour.
Until then, besides recommencing
training in October, Ennis should have
plenty to keep her occupied. Her elo-
quence and good looks, combined with
that life-changing gold medal, mean she
will not be short of commercial opportuni-
ties, with her manager Jane Cowmeadow
claiming to have been “very busy” since
her client crossed the line in the 800m on
16 August.
Ennis laughs when asked if she is a
millionaire now but admits she has been
offered “lots of different things, bits and
bobs” – the rewards of an annus mirabilis.
“It’s nice to have other opportunities and
14.29 800m (M) 15.53 1,500m (M) things you might not have had a chance to
14.41 100m (W) 15.58 Triple jump (M) Phillips Idowu do in the past.
14.52 110m hurdles (M) 16.04 200m (W) “I’ll start picking a few things that I
14.57 Javelin (W) 16.25 3,000m (M) would like to be involved in. I think it has
15.03 100m hurdles (W) Jessica Ennis 16.43 1,500m (W) Lisa Dobriskey opened a lot of doors and a lot of oppor-
15.14 200m (M) Marlon Devonish 16.53 400m (W) tunities, so I am looking forward to doing
15.25 3,000m (W) 17.04 100m (M) Tyrone Edgar, other things off the track.”
15.39 High jump (M) Marlon Devonish, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey Off the track or on it, “The face of 2012”
15.42 400m hurdles (W) TV: BBC Two 14.00-17.15 is chasing gold, a sure sign that her trans-
formation is complete.

Smith savours Warrington rise from chumps to Challenge Cup winners

Rugby league
Andy Wilson Wembley
Huddersfield 16 Warrington 25
Tony Smith will lead England into this
autumn’s Four Nations series with his
coaching reputation not merely restored
but lifted to new levels, after taking less
than six months to end Warrington’s
25-year wait for a major trophy by winning
the Challenge Cup on Saturday.
The naturalised Australian admits it took
him a while to recover from the deflation of
England’s World Cup failure last autumn,
which marked a bitter end to the extended
honeymoon he had enjoyed through his
first year as the national coach.
He jumped at the chance to return to
the Super League offered by Warrington
in March, persuading the Rugby Football
League that he could continue in the
England job part-time, and received an
early indication of the task at hand when
would have dismissed the possibility of happy enough as he celebrated with Briers the club he’s with us every single day teenage scrum-half Richie Myler and the
lifting the Challenge Cup together on their on the Wembley pitch – although Lowes is and in that environment there’s no better powerful Wakefield centre Ryan Atkins
next trip to London – especially as Briers, still expected to return to his former club coach. I’m not just saying that because he – will be signed for next season, both for
the gifted but unreliable half-back who Bradford ahead of next season. stuck his neck out for me. If you ask any six-figure fees courtesy of Simon Moran,
had personified the club’s underachieve- But Richie Mathers, the full-back who of our squad from one to 17, they respect the low-profile music promoter whose
ment throughout
ughout the previous dec- had been rotting
rottin in Wigan’s reserve him completely for his knowledge, his years of financial backing have finally
ade, was unceremoniously
nceremoniously dropped team until SmitSmith signed him shortly attention to detail and most of all his been rewarded.
for the next game. after his arrival, left no doubt about honesty.” In contrast, this was a second Cup
“A lot of contrast, yes,” Smith said the driving force behind Warrington’s Smith enjoyed a similarly successful final disappointment in four years for
as he reflected
cted on that bleak Satur- transformation.
transforma start to his previous club job with Leeds, Huddersfield and their munificent
day afternoon on at The Stoop. “But “I know Tony came in for a lot who won the Super League title in his first chairman Ken Davy, and it was far harder
those sort of things happen from of criticis
criticism after the World Cup season in 2004. He was building on firmer to swallow than the 2006 defeat by St
time to time e and I don’t let them bu
but club coaching is totally foundations there, but the sight of around Helens at Twickenham because they went
devastate me. We’ve had to different,” said Mathers,
di 30,000 Warrington supporters turning one into Saturday’s match as favourites.
change a few things and wh
whose determined try end of Wembley primrose and blue left no But whereas Warrington’s big guns
work very hard, but in after 68 seconds gave the
aft doubt about the Cheshire club’s potential – notably Briers, Morley and Michael
some ways I’ve come W
Wo
Wolves the perfect start at to kick on from this overdue success. Monaghan, the former Manly hooker
in and been n able to We
Wembley. “We’re on the up, I’d say,” Smith added. who became only the third Australian to
jump on things
hings “With the international
“W “I’d hardly call this consistent yet and that win the Lance Todd Trophy as man of the
they were about
bout side yyou only get the players shows in where we’re sitting on the table match – rose to the occasion, too many of
to do anyway.”
ay.” weeks, and you’re always
for a few wee [ninth, and unlikely even to make the Huddersfield’s key men failed to deliver
That wass a going to be a hero or a villain. At Super League play-offs]. We’ve shown in on the game’s grandest stage.
commend- the Cup that we can lift for big occasions, Huddersfield Giants B Hodgson; Cudjoe, Lolesi, Whatuira, D
able attempt pt ‘They
h respect
r him which makes it a bit special, but to be Hodgson; Brown, Robinson; Mason, Lunt, Griffin, Fulton, Wild,
Faiumu. Interchange Aspinwall, Crabtree, Jackson, Moore.
to defend classed as a really good team you need to Tries Lunt, B Hodgson, D Hodgson.
James Lowes, es, for his knowledge,
k his do that regularly. Goals B Hodgson 2.

the Wolves shipped 60 points in his second his predeces-es- “The desire to do that is strong. We Warrington Wolves Mathers; Hicks, Bridge, King, Riley; V

game in charge, at Harlequins. sor who has attention

At that stage they were bottom of the
table without a point from five matches,
stayed on as
the assistant ant
and even Adrian Morley and Lee Briers and seemed
attentio to detail need to get a bit more depth in our squad
Anderson, Briers; Morley, Monaghan, Carvell, L Anderson,
Harrison, Westwood. Interchange Johnson, Higham, Cooper,
and his
hi honesty’ and we’re going to be up there competing
with the big boys regularly.”
McCarthy. Tries Mathers, Monaghan, Hicks, V Anderson.
Goals Bridge 4. Drop goal Briers.
Referee S Ganson.
ed Two England internationals – Salford’s Attendance 76,560.
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Sport
Flintoff and Lancashire face future filled with trepidation
Twenty20 international
David Hopps Old Trafford
Australia England
145-4 4-2 (1.1 overs)
Match abandoned
Everything at Old Trafford yesterday
smacked of uncertain times: a Twenty20
captain, Paul Collingwood, with no guar-
antee that he will lead England in next
year’s World Cup, Lancashire facing major
ground redevelopment with undisguised
trepidation and more fears about Andrew
Flintoff’s future. This time they were
voiced by the man himself.
Less than a week after undergoing an
arthroscopy and microfracture surgery to
two areas in his right knee, with England
about to take the field on his home ground,
Flintoff conceded that it is not certain that
he will play at the highest level again.
“There is a possibility I may not play
again,” Flintoff told the News of the World.
“There will be a question mark in my mind
about whether I have played my last game
until I know how the operation has turned
out. I’d be lying if I said it hadn’t crossed
my mind, but the success rate for an opera-
tion like this is pretty good. The bottom
line is that if it doesn’t work, there’s noth-
ing I can do about it.”
Australia’s David Warner is out for 33 to a controversial lbw decision with the ball looking to have pitched outside leg stump during the abandoned Twenty20 international against England Andrew Yates/AFP
Hedblom holds nerve to enjoy rare taste of success Golds give Britain selection issues
Golf
Mark Garrod Gleneagles
Peter Hedblom breathed a huge sigh of
relief at Gleneagles last night after win-
ning the Johnnie Walker Championship.
The 39-year-old Swede’s delight was not
just that he had grabbed only his third
European Tour victory in 364 starts, but
also that he did not need a play-off.
Four times Hedblom has gone into a
play-off in his career and four times he
has lost – the most recent being last week
in the Netherlands when England’s Simon
Dyson sank an 18-foot birdie putt. On this
occasion, though, a five-under-par 67 gave
the former Malaysian and Moroccan Open
champion his first success on European
soil. Hedblom beat his compatriot Martin
Erlandsson by one shot after Erlandsson,
joint 20th overnight, had set the club-
house target with an astonishing 62, the
lowest round of his life.
After a remarkable nine birdies in his
first 12 holes the world No365, who last
week closed the KLM Open with a course
Flintoff ’s target is a return for
England’s tour of Bangladesh, which
begins in mid-February, but he admits
that “whether that’s realistic or not, I’m
not sure”. It is more politic, however, to
imagine a return for England in Bangla-
desh than a comeback for Chennai Super
Kings in the Indian Premier League. If it all
goes badly then he has some great Ashes
memories as consolation; he is already
planning two giant mosaics of the Ashes
urn on the bottom of his swimming pool
at his home in Cheshire.
Even if he recovers, Flintoff’s inten-
tions in county cricket remain unknown.
Jim Cumbes, Lancashire’s chief executive,
admitted: “He always said he wanted to
finish his career here but we need to know
how much cricket he wants to play. It
would be nice for him to remain associ-
ated with the club. He is synonymous with
Lancashire..’’
Throughout this Ashes summer, Eng-
land’s international grounds have sought
to promote their claims to a slice of the
future. Yesterday, Cumbes was even
tempted to call Old Trafford “The Lord’s
of the North”. As umbrellas were raised
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record-equalling 63, had moved from six
behind to two in front.
Erlandsson, taking his mind off the
search for his first Tour win by studying
his thumb of all things, added another
birdie on the short 17th. His round would
have counted as another course record
but for the fact that placing of the ball was
allowed all week on the wet fairways.
By then, however, Hedblom had reeled
off four birdies in a row around the turn as
well, but he then failed to get up and down
from rough left of the 15th green.
So one more birdie was needed and
it came with a superb pitch to four feet
on the long 16th. Then two closing pars
– not easy on bumpy greens he reckoned
to be the worst of the year – gave him the
Peter Hedblom
finished one shot
clear of fellow
Swede Martin
Erlandsson to win
the Johnnie Walker
Championship
against the rain and pools formed on the
covers, Venice of the North might have
been more appropriate.
The rain led the first of two Twenty20
internationals to be abandoned with Eng-
land 4 for two after seven deliveries, in pur-
suit of 146. The one conclusion that could
be drawn from England’s eight minutes of
batting was that their 13th opening batting
combination in 21 matches was no more
successful than the rest.
Joe Denly made a first-ball nought on
debut, hooking at Brett Lee, and Ravi
Bopara’s horrific international summer
switching to one-day mode with an undis-
tinguished jab at a short ball from Mitchell
Johnson to be out for a single. “They have
three 90mph bowlers and they are going
to have to come hard at us,” Collingwood
said.”
England’s tactics of bowling back of a
length on an inhibiting pitch had been a
success, a dangerous tactic in the power-
play, with only two fielders outside the cir-
cle, but one that left Australia 43 for one
after six overs. Collingwood’s cutters and
off-spinners then enraged David Hussey
so much that he charged down the pitch to
be stumped second ball for nought.
Only Cameron White came to terms
with a slow, dry pitch, reaching a T20-best
55 off 36 balls. He was dropped by Denly on
12 at backward point, a fend at a short ball
£233,330 first prize with a 13-under total
of 275. The defending champion Gregory
Havret and Scotland’s former Open cham-
pion Paul Lawrie shared third place.
“That was so tough. I thought last week
was, but this was harder,” Hedblom said.
“I had to dig down so deep, but I am so
happy. What a round Martin played – I
couldn’t believe it and he should have
won. This year has been unbelievable. I
played so poorly [not one top-30 finish]
until last week. I want to play in the big
tournaments, but I keep taking one
step back. Hopefully this is two steps
forward.”
Colin Montgomerie, the Ryder Cup
captain, has pulled out of this week’s
Omega European Masters in Switzerland,
the first qualifying event for next year’s
match. Montgomerie has not had a top
10 finish for 14 months and finished 31st
yesterday. “I feel I need a week to recharge
my batteries,” he said. “I have been watch-
ing more golf recently than I’ve ever done
and that will continue next week when I
will avidly tune in to all the coverage as the
race for Ryder Cup points kicks off.” PA
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from Jimmy Anderson, and dispatched
Scoreboard Chris Broad, Graeme Swann and Ryan
Sidebottom for sixes in the closing overs
Australia to drag Australia towards respectability.
S R Watson c Bopara b Broad ......................................... 10
D A Warner lbw b Collingwood ...................................... 33 To this unpromising backdrop of an
*M J Clarke not out ..................................................... 27 abandoned match, Lancashire presented
D J Hussey st Prior b Collingwood .................................... 0
C L White c Collingwood b Broad.................................... 55 what they dutifully termed their “vision”,
A C Voges not out ........................................................ 11 outlining a 25,000-capacity stadium
Extras (lb3, w6) ............................................................. 9
by 2012, revamped pavilion and indoor
Total (for 4, 20 overs) ................................................. 145
Fall 35, 54, 54, 132.
cricket centre, new media centre and
Did not bat †T D Paine, M G Johnson, N M Hauritz, dressing rooms (no longer will players
D P Nannes. have to walk through the Lancashire mem-
Bowling Anderson 4-0-28-0; Sidebottom 4-0-31-0;
Broad 4-0-33-2; Collingwood 4-0-20-2; bers area famously dubbed the “pit of the
Wright 1-0-6-0; Swann 3-0-24-0. hate”) and a square turned 180 degrees.
England
R S Bopara c Watson b Johnson........................................ 1
It is a commitment that they hope will
J L Denly c Hauritz b Lee ................................................. 0 win them an Ashes Test in 2013, as they
I J L Trott not out ........................................................... 0
Extras (w2, nb1) ............................................................ 3
enter a bidding process for the three unal-
Total (for 2, 1.1 overs) .................................................... 4
located Tests, one of which is bound to go
Fall 1, 4. to Lord’s. The Oval and The Riverside have
Did not bat †M J Prior, *P D Collingwood, O A Shah, already been granted games. It is a world
L J Wright, S C J Broad, G P Swann, R J Sidebottom,
J M Anderson.
they have entered with misgivings.
Bowling Lee 1-0-3-1; Johnson 0.1-0-1-1. Cumbes said: “Our decision was do we
Toss England elected to field. back out of international cricket or do we
Umpires I J Gould and R A Kettleborough.
No result, rain
remain a viable county club? We decided
to stick with international cricket because
Remaining fixtures we owe it to the north-west. It is a vicious
Tuesday Second Twenty20, Old Trafford (7pm)
Friday First ODI, The Oval (1pm)
circle because we have nine international
Sunday Second ODI, Lord’s (10.15am) grounds and we are probably going to get
9 Sep Third ODI, Rose Bowl (2.30pm) 10. It has been stipulated that such grounds
12 Sep Fourth ODI, Lord’s (10.15am) should spend £1m a year on upkeep and
15 Sep Fifth ODI, Trent Bridge (2.30pm)
17 Sep Sixth ODI, Trent Bridge (2.30pm) improvements. That’s not a problem, as
20 Sep Seventh ODI, Riverside (10.15am) long as we stage enough cricket – but we
already play too much cricket already.”
Rowing World Championships. This could mean
Reed and Hodge may return to the four.
Martin Cross
In addition, it looks increasingly
likely that Gröbler will have the same
Even though Britain surrendered the four men who took gold in Beijing from
crown of top rowing nation to Germany which to choose. Tom James has already
at the World Championships, the six announced his return to the sport. Yester-
medals in the Olympic-class events, won day Reed suggested that Steve Williams
by Britain’s rowers, represented a superb might be about to do the same.
effort in what has sometimes proved a But the gold won by Britain’s new four
difficult post-Olympic season. But with on Saturday could give Gröbler a problem.
thoughts of 2012 never far from the The four men may press their claims to
minds of the coaches it may be the crews stay together for another year after their
that performed here are broken up in the comprehensive defeat of the Australia’s
search for faster units. Olympic silver-medal crew.
New Zealand’s defeat of Andy Hodge The chief coach’s thinking may be influ-
and Peter Reed in the men’s pairs on Sat- enced by the fact that Hodge was less than
urday posed questions as to whether Brit- 100% fit for the final. Reed revealed that
ain’s two best rowers could afford to con- his partner had been suffering stomach
tinue in this boat. But Reed thought there cramps but kept it to himself. Though
was still unfinished business at stake: “I’m nobody in the British team suggested it,
really keen to do the pair next year.” Hodge’s condition must have had some
Though they took silver, Reed’s pair effect on the British pair’s performance.
was still the quickest British boat. And Katherine Grainger’s stunning silver in
the men’s chief coach, Jürgen Gröbler, has the single sculls may mean that the Scot
indicated he wants to have his key Olym- will stay in the single for another year,
pic combinations in place for next year’s rather than return to a crew boat.
32 The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009

Football Motor racing Belgian grand prix

Shadow of Eduardo looms over Mowbray as

Celtic take points but lose McGeady for diving
Scottish Premier League
Ewan Murray Easter Road
Hibernian 0 Celtic 1
Samaras 41
A penny for Arsène Wenger’s thoughts.
Four days and thousands of column inches
since Eduardo da Silva’s penalty-box
dive for Arsenal against Celtic, it was the
Scottish side who were at the centre of a
simulation controversy. As far as the Celtic
manager, Tony Mowbray, is concerned,
Eduardo’s con trick – or more accurately
the hubris which has followed it – played a
part in the dismissal of Aiden McGeady.
McGeady, already on a yellow card for
a first-half foul on Derek Riordan, earned
a second caution after 62 minutes having
embellished a challenge from Paul Hanlon
near the halfway line. Cue much wailing
from Celtic’s supporters – the same ones
who have been calling for Eduardo to be
hung, drawn and quartered in recent days
– and a similarly perplexed reaction from
Mowbray. In what was a highly amusing
post-match scene, the manager even
refused to watch the contentious incident
when replayed on a television monitor
beside him.
“I don’t need to watch it again, it hap-
pened right beside me,” Mowbray insisted.
“If the Eduardo thing hadn’t been blown
up, hadn’t become nationally so big, then
Celtic’s Aiden McGeady is sent off for
diving after a disputed second booking
never in a million years was that a yellow
card. The match officials got sucked in. If
it hadn’t happened this week, 99 times out
of 100 that decision would not have been
given. I think we are all in disbelief; the
linesman even signalled for a free-kick to
us at the time and he was a lot closer to the
incident than the referee.”
Although Mowbray’s explanation that
McGeady was “knackered” and attempt-
ing to ride Hanlon’s challenge following a
30-yard run has a degree of merit, at least
one camera angle proves there was no con-
tact between the players. Wenger, who has
been so vociferous over what he regards
as a “witch-hunt” against his striker,
would have been an interested onlooker.
“I didn’t touch him,” Hanlon confirmed.
“Aiden isn’t a cheat, he was running at a
fair pace at the time, I just managed to get
my body out of the way. I think the referee
got it right.”
McGeady’s red card threatened to halt
Celtic’s flawless start to the league sea-
son but basic belligerence, and some bril-
liance from their goalkeeper Artur Boruc,
secured the three points. Hibernian laid
siege to the visiting goal in the closing
stages, Boruc superbly clawing a David
Wotherspoon volley on to the frame of
the goal before Anthony Stokes, Riordan
and Sol Bamba and Colin Nish all passed
up opportunities to restore parity.
Ultimately Hibs could not cancel out
Georgios Samaras’s 41st-minute goal,
which was headed beyond Graham Stack
from six yards after a fine Andreas Hinkel
cross, but that basic detail will be lost amid
what is sure to be another cheating debate
north of the border. McGeady received
support, at least, from the Hibs manager,
John Hughes. “I don’t think Aiden’s that
kind of guy,” Hughes said. “He’s an hon-
est, hard-working player and I don’t want
to see anyone getting sent off.”
Mowbray refused to confirm that his
trio of McGeady, Scott Brown and Scott
McDonald will still be Celtic players after
the closure of the transfer window.
Man of the match Artur Boruc (Celtic)

Tyson’s flag-waving raises standard of stupidity

Coca-Cola Championship
Jeremy Alexander City Ground
Nott’m Forest 3 Derby County 2
Majewski 1, Blackstock 28, Morgan 51og, Livermore 62
Tyson 43
This crackling derby was quickly lost in a
red mist of madness after the final whistle.
As Nottingham Forest celebrated their first
victory over Derby County in nine tries
Nathan Tyson ran to a corner flag before
prancing with it in front of the away fans.
Martin Atkinson, the referee, added the
incident to his report. By the evening the
Football Association was treating it as “a
matter of urgency”. Well it might after a
week in which football had reasserted its
claim to the moral low ground assumed
by rugby union.
The East Midlands could not match
east London. The game was category C+,
the highest rating, and strong stewarding
kept Derby’s fans from reaching Forest’s
standard-bearer of stupidity. But players
and bench support rushed to form a mush-
room of macho posturing that Atkinson
helped to disperse. The taking of eight
names, including that of Tyson for his goal
celebration, was no reflection of a match
of good temper, extreme tempo and inci-
sive attack. It ended with Billy Davies on
the touchline fanning Forest’s anxiously
fading roar to carry his team home.
Not to have won after leading 3-0 at the
interval would have been too much, espe-
cially as Nigel Clough, Derby’s manager,
had twice got the better of him at the City
Ground, once from two down, since their
respective appointments last January.
Clough said of the post-match incident
that he was “in the dressing room, which
Forest’s Nathan Tyson sparks a mass
brawl with his victory celebration
I think a manager should be. We tried to
behave as responsibly as we could.” He
had disappointment to hide after Derby’s
second-half rally, sparked by Lee Croft
replacing Kris Commons, just failed to gain
reward. Pole-axed by Radoslaw Majew-
ski’s first-minute thunderbolt, Derby had
struggled to get a grip until then.
Davies was too cocky for diplomacy. It
took him two months to alienate Forest
fans last winter, three games to get these
first home points this season. Before
kick-off he had disparaged the Derby side
he led to the Premier League and back by
claiming this lot are better. Forest are the
Championship’s big spenders, with £6m on
nine players, though even Chris Gunter at
£1.75m is only a wigwam signing. He called
them “an early team”, suggesting develop-
ment. They were certainly not late; they
were out on their feet after a dashing and
thrilling first half.
“It’s a wonderful result,” he said. “We
absolutely pummelled them and then your
worst nightmare comes true as they get a
deflected goal.” The FA, desperate to land
the 2018 World Cup, may have worse ones.
As one swallow-dive makes a headline, so
does a flag-bearing, goading goat.
Man of the match Paul McKenna
(Nottingham Forest)

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Tony Leighton
A place in the European Championship
quarter-finals, for the first time since 1995,
will be England’s prize if they beat or draw
with the already-qualified Sweden this
evening in their final group game of the
12-nation tournament in Finland.
Hope Powell’s team may even, depend-
ing on the result of Italy’s game against
Russia, be able to afford to lose by a
single goal and go through as one of the
best third-placed teams.
But victory – for what would be only the
second time in 20 meetings between the
two nations – will be the demand of Powell,
who as an England player lost to Sweden
in the 1984 final and 1987 semi-final, and
as the national coach has seen her team
beaten by the same opponents in both
2001 and 2005. “Forget the equations,”
said Powell. “We want our destiny in our
own hands and not be worrying about
who does what.”
Sweden will be aiming to extend their
run of 10 successive victories in competi-
tive European fixtures, but Powell said:
“We have enough about us to compete
with a team considered one of the favour-
ites to get to the final.”
Probable England team: Brown (Everton); A Scott (Boston
Breakers), White (Arsenal), Johnson (Everton), Stoney (Chelsea);
Chapman (Arsenal), Williams (Everton); Carney (Chicago), K
Smith (B’ Breakers), S Smith (Leeds Carnegie); Aluko (St Louis).
Kimi Raikkonen steers his Ferrari up the slope at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium yesterday. T
Raikkonen has
Finn takes advantage of
rivals’ opening lap crash
Ferrari use Kers system to
see off Force India threat
Maurice Hamilton
Spa-Francorchamps
Kimi Raikkonen owes his first win of the
season to the accident that eliminated
Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton on the
first lap of the Belgian grand prix. By the
time the collision at Les Combes, the fifth
corner, had taken out four cars, Giancarlo
Fisichella had made a perfect start from
pole position while Raikkonen was for-
tunate to survive an off-course moment
as the Ferrari driver worked his way from
sixth on the grid to second place.
The accident – two collisions in prox-
imity as the British drivers were struck
from behind – brought out the safety car
for four laps. This allowed Raikkonen to
move on to Fisichella’s tail and use the
Kers boost button to overtake the Force
India on the uphill run immediately after
the re-start. Judging by the extraordinary
pace of Fisichella as he shadowed the
Ferrari’s every move for the remaining 43
laps, Force India would have won their
first race had it not been for Raikkonen
being in a position to use the six-second
boost of power (used only by Ferrari and
McLaren) at a crucial moment.
Fisichella may have brought the
Silverstone-based team their first-ever
championship points – a major achieve-
ment for a team with a quarter of Ferrari’s
workforce and budget – but the story could
have had a fairytale ending, particularly
on a weekend when the driver has been
linked with a move to Ferrari. The rumour
has been flatly denied by Fisichella and
Force India. His manager Enrico Zanarini
said: “Nobody’s been in touch.
We find ourselves in a fantas-
tic team with a great car for
Monza because if the car is
quick here it will be quick
in Monza.”
“If you had asked me
before coming to Spa, I would
have said it would be fantastic
to finish in the first eight and
score a point for the team,” said
Fisichella. “But, considering the
pace we had all weekend thanks
Kimi Raikkonen, left, and
Giancarlo Fisichella celebrate
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Chaos on the first lap

Britons crash out

Lap one and Button is closing in on

Kovalainen but before he knew it …

… he’s been hit from behind by

Grosjean and spins out of control …

… taking his Brawn and the Renault

of the Frenchman off the track.

Those behind take avoiding action

and Hamilton, hit by Alguersuari …

… can do nothing as his striken

McLaren careers into the gravel .…

he Finn used his Ferrari’s Kers technology to beat off the challenge of Force India and become Formula One’s sixth different winner in as many races Benoït Doppagne/EPA

victory at touch of a button

… joining Alguersuari, Grosjean and
Raikkonen may have contributed to the driver to win in as many races. The spread
Full results from Spa-Francorchamps Les Combes pile-up when he ran wide and of victories has played in Button’s favour
his fellow Briton out of the race.
Laps 44 Fastest lap Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault 1min 47.263secs, lap 38
flicked dirt on to the track as the follow- just as much as the erratic progress of his
4 R Kubica (Pol) 5pts
BMW Sauber 1:24.00.961
13 K Nakajima (Jpn)
Williams 1:24.45.236
ing pack of 18 cars braked from 190mph to rivals. Sebastian Vettel had the strongest
5 N Heidfeld (Ger) 4pts 14 L Badoer (It) Ferrari 85mph for the right-hand bend. Being one race of the four contenders as the Red
BMW Sauber 1:24.02.271 1:25:33.172 of the few places where overtaking is pos- Bull driver moved from eighth place with
1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin)
Ferrari
10pts
1h 23min 50.995sec
6 H Kovalainen (Fin) 3pts
McLaren 1:24.23.758 sible, several cars were in close company. a strong middle and final stint of the race
7 R Barrichello (Br) 2pts
Brawn GP1:24.26.456
Not Classified
15 F Alonso (Sp)
Button, starting from 14th, his lowest grid to close on the leading duo.
8 N Rosberg (Ger) 1pts Renault 26 laps completed position of the season, had already been “I was probably a bit too cautious when
Williams 1:24:27.203 16 J Trulli (It)
Toyota 21 laps
forced wide at the first corner. Button used I saw people spinning off on the first lap,”
the run-off area at the exit of the hairpin said Vettel. “I lost ground during the first
2 Giancarlo Fisichella (It)
Force India-Mercedes
8pts
1h 23min 51.934sec Also Classified
17 J Button (GB)
Brawn GP 0 laps to recover and hold a place in the mid- stint and, after that, I starting driving
9 M Webber (Aus) 18 R Grosjean (Fr)
Red Bull 1:24.27.954 Renault 0 laps field as the pack charged uphill towards every lap like it was a qualifying lap. My
10 T Glock (Ger)
Toyota 1:24.32.485
19 L Hamilton (GB)
McLaren 0 laps
the impending chaos at Les Combes and compliments to Renault. With all the
11 A Sutil (Ger) 20 J Alguersuari (Sp) Raikkonen’s get-out-of-jail card. shit we have gone through [with engine When the dust settles the Brawn
3 Sebastian Vettel (Ger)
Red Bull-Renault
6pts
1h 23min 54.870sec Force India 1:24.33.631
12 S Buemi (Swi)
Scuderia Toro Rosso 0 laps Despite the relentless pressure from failures] in the last races, we’ve proven and the McLaren are lifted clear …
Scuderia Toro Rosso behind as the Ferrari and Force India we’re back. This championship is crazy,
1:24.37.101 made their two pit stops on identical laps, but it’s still open.”
Raikkonen did not put a wheel out of place Rubens Barrichello, whose Brawn
Drivers’ championship
1 Jenson Button 72 6 Nico Rosberg 30.5
Constructors’ championship
1 Brawn-Mercedes 128 6 Williams-Toyota 30.5
en route to his fourth win at this classic developed an oil leak two laps from the
2 Rubens Barrichello 56 7 Lewis Hamilton 27 2 Red Bull-Renault 104.5 7 BMW Sauber 18 track, the longest in Formula One. end, finish seventh. Webber lost a possi-
3 Sebastian Vettel
4 Mark Webber
53
51.5
8 Jarno Trulli
9 Felipe Massa
22.5
22
3 Ferrari
4 McLaren-Mercedes
56
44
8 Renault
9 Force India-Mercedes
16
8
“I knew I needed to get past him ble top five finish when he was forced to
5 Kimi Raikkonen 34 10 Heikki Kovalainen 17 5 Toyota 38.5 10 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 5 [Fisichella],” said Raikkonen. “If I hadn’t take a drive-through penalty after the Red
been able to do that at the restart, they Bull team had released him into the path
[Force India] had too much speed and it of another car during a pit stop.
would have been all over. But I was close “I thought I deserved points from that
to improvements we’ve been making for the rest of the race. But, because we enough coming out of the first corner, drive. But the drive-through wrecked
to the car, it was possible to win this had the restart, he was right behind me used Kers and it was pretty easy in that that,” said Webber. “No one’s interested
race. My start had been perfect. and able to use the Kers to overtake. There way to get in front. I knew that so long as I in excuses, though; that’s how it is. So let’s
When the safety car came out, I was nothing I could do. Second place and didn’t make any mistakes, I should win.” get on and look ahead to the next race.” … leaving Hamilton and Button to
was over two seconds ahead. Kimi eight points is a fantastic result. But it It was Ferrari’s first victory of the season The 13th round will be the Italian grand fume at the injustice of it all
would not have been able to get near me could have been so much more.” as Raikkonen became the sixth different prix on 13 September.
34 The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009

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Clogger r
Striker
Redknapp targets £5m Kranjcar
after losing Modric to broken leg
A sideways glance at football Striker

Six-gun shootout The four-pint pundit

City’s shirty strikerss Tonight’s pub talk David Lacey White Hart Lane

Manu Strike Winning ways Tottenham H 2 Birmingham City 1

Three in three. And for
the third time for City I pointnt up to
the sky to the one who made all this
possible
Craig
Does Arsène Wenger live in a
penthouse, big fella? No, I think the
difference today was having a busy
front man with a never-say-die spirit
that never let the Pompey
defence rest on their laurels
Carlos
Thanks, Craig. I felt it was
my best-ever performance
Striker
in a shirt with a shoulder-
to-hip
h red d and black sash
Roque
You can all safely say that. But I
couldn’t help feeling that we lacked a
certain something. An elegant South
American predator
Rob
Too true. I was left to sit
on the bench. Me, the
record signing, spent the
whole afternoon kicking
my heels
Manu Striker
Just like my old mate Eduardo d th
the
other night
Benji
We have to be patient. Butt the
frustrations of not playing g can make
r At Fratton Park Sulaiman
Al-Fahim wore a replica shirt
then moved from the directors’
box to sit with fans. Following
the Mike Ashley method bodes well
Reffing hell
Keith Hackett says he’s going
to apologise to Arsène Wenger
for him being sent to the stands.
Who would be a referee? Apart
from Liverpool’s Lucas that is
Abou’s booboo
First Abou Diaby then John
Pantsil gave away goals with
defensive headers. With that
sense of direction no wonder
they shot their sides in the foot
Age before youth
Freddie Ljungberg and
Christian Vieri are Notts
County’s latest targets. Are
Sven and Sol trying to open a
crown green bowling club?
Postcard from Madrid
Missing you
R I D
D
a
M A
Crouch 72 Bowyer 75
Lennon 90
Already Tottenham’s strength in depth is
heading for the shallows. They have yet to
drop a point but players are dropping like
flies. Any pleasure they took from Satur-
day’s win over Birmingham, which main-
tained their 100% record, was numbed by
yesterday’s news that the supposed calf
injury which put Luka Modric out of the
game early in the second half was in fact
a broken leg. He is not expected to return
to training for six weeks.
Bad news for Harry Redknapp and
not the happiest of portents for Croatia’s
chances of holding up England’s World
Cup progress when the teams meet at
Wembley on Wednesday week. Modric
cracked the fibula just below his right
knee when he made a clumsy challenge
on Lee Bowyer, giving away a free-kick. Up
to that point his influence on the left for
Spurs had been greater than the heavily
marked Aaron Lennon on the right, even
though it was Lennon who eventually
won the game with a goal in the fifth and
final minute of stoppage time.
“It’s like my whole world has crumbled
because I will be out for at least six weeks.
I am terribly sad,” Modric said. “It wasn’t
a ferocious tackle but it hurt awfully and I
knew something was wrong the moment
Spurs’s Luka Modric is out for at least six weeks Andrew Couldridge/Action Images
the international break they will face Man-
chester United and Chelsea on successive
weekends. Even at full strength they
would be hard pressed to keep the run
going. As it is, and as Redknapp acknowl-
edged, “the squad is a bit short”.
The irony on Saturday was that Modric’s
departure, for all his earlier promise,
helped to set up a victory which should
have been more comfortable than it was.
So far Fabio Capello, the England coach,
has been distinctly underwhelmed by
Peter Crouch, whose height advantage
cannot hide the fact that he often deals
more comfortably with the ball when it
is on the ground. This time, however, the
introduction of Crouch for Modric trans-
formed a match which up to that point had
any amount of imaginative passing and
movement by Spurs foundering near goal
as the opposition successfully blocked
off the runs of Jermain Defoe and Robbie
Keane while queuing up to deny Lennon
space on the right.
Crouch’s arrival found Birmingham try-
ing to remember where they had left their
ARP helmets and after seeing a header hit
the bar and another cleared off the line, he
finally beat Joe Hart with one that looped
over the goalkeeper into the top far corner
of the net. At which point Alex McLeish
brought on an extra striker, the Ecua-
dorian Christian Benítez, who quickly
exposed Tottenham’s defensive frailties
and was challenging Alan Hutton for a ball
that Carlo Cudicini might have gathered
but instead broke loose for Bowyer to

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you do rash things it happened. The worst feeling is knowing equalise. Spurs’ defenders continued to
20

The breakdown
a

e XX XX
Carlos 10! W that I will be watching both my club and live on their nerves and Garry O’Connor
Well, Benj, if you’re Waz country from the sidelines for a while.” and Roger Johnson each missed a chance
getting sick of not
Hola core fromth Modric and his partnership with the to put Birmingham ahead.
o th s e bo e y
Harry Redknapp Alex McLeish
playing I’ve heard b
lty. W m oone overlapping Benoît Assou-Ekotto have Selection Unchanged Selection Carsley as Then a slip by Stephen Carr allowed
pena oal-a-ga n. ne R
Way—————
for the third successive midfield anchor in a
Portsmouth g s o given Tottenham a better attacking bal- the excellent Tom Huddlestone to set up
a a
se ——— Trafford
league game 4-1-4-1 formation
on
would like youu ague ht ance, but now Redknapp may need to get Tactics 4-4-2 with Tactics Containment Roman Pavlyuchenko, who had replaced
back for le e only eig ual Old ————— busy in the transfer market before tomor- Huddlestone the key for the most part a muted Defoe, for a square pass across
s ———
Benji You’r of your u ne row’s deadline. He is preparing a £5m offer Game-changing Game-changing More the face of the defence to Lennon, who
I said rash not sho r t ell d o UK ————— for Portsmouth’s Niko Kranjcar. Injuries forced dangerous at set pieces cut inside the score the winner much as
Striker w . W ———
12 no
masochistic The Spurs manager was already faced reshuffles in defence in the last 20 minutes he had done at West Ham six days earlier.
CR9 with having to mend his fences, or rather McLeish described the moment as “a boot
defences, with Ledley King back in the Suspensions Suspensions in the proverbials” but took heart from his
treatment room after suffering a groin None None team’s overall resilience after looking out-
World Cup X-factor The auditions
strain which forced him to miss the classed for much of the game.
second half. For Redknapp the centre- M of the match
Man “I’m disappointed not to have taken
back situation is again critical. Jonathan Tom Huddlestone
T three points,” he said. In fact a point might
Tottenham
T
Woodgate and Michael Dawson have groin His loping style belies a
H
have been his but for the stoppage-time
and achilles injuries respectively and the sharp eye for the telling
sh substitution in which Sebastian Larsson
loss of King on Saturday looked like cost- pass to the likes of
p took his time walking off, time that Peter
ing Tottenham a win until Lennon came Keane and Crouch
K Walton added on to the four minutes indi-
to the rescue. When Spurs resume after cated and proved crucial to the result.
Oh, bless! You’re a brave
ave
little thing, aren’t you? You’ve
got talent but can you do it
when the big boys come out to
ellow
play? Hate the outfit. Yellow
Pulis plays down Stoke’s lofty ambitions
ght
and white, what a fright

Sachin Nakrani Britannia Stadium instead they finished a creditable 12th

and, this campaign, have simply picked
up from where they left off. Victory over
Stoke City 1 Sunderland 0 Sunderland, the club’s second of the sea-
Kitson 43 son, had them in fourth place on Saturday
night and with Huth and Tuncay on board,
Tony Pulis continues to convince as a hope exists that they can improve on last
straight-taking, circumspect manager but season’s placing.
increasingly his deeds are undoing him. “They’re very positive additions for
Sven Saturday Comes Following yet another positive result for us,” Pulis said after the grin had passed.
Stoke, the 51-year-old spoke about avoid- “Tuncay will give us that bit of quality
Football at the coalface ing relegation being the club’s sole aim in the final third that we sometimes lack
this season. while Robert Huth is a class defender who
We lost to Sulaiman77 “We need three years in this league,” could conceivably be selected for the Ger-
bleedin’ two bob Southsea he said. “Staying up again would be a man World Cup squad. He’s been unlucky
Barnet. And my lot ot @Pstorrie Why I wear 77 on my fantastic achievement.” But then Pulis was with injuries but if we can keep him fit
were sittin’ suppin’
in’ shirt? That’s how old I’ll be in reminded that he has just signed Robert than having a player of that ilk represent- Sunderland’s Lorik Cana, right, beats
tea afterwards. I 2054 when Pompey get a new Huth and Tuncay from Middlesbrough ing Stoke will be fantastic.” the Stoke striker Dave Kitson to the ball
launched into ’em,
m, ground and leave Fratton Park for a combined fee of almost £11m and a Neither player was able to made a nota-
chuckin’ the mugsgs somewhat embarrassed grin broke across ble contribution on Saturday having each
about. ‘Mugs,’ I JoleonL his face. been brought on during the final minutes manager, receives for Collins is likely to be
said, ‘that’s you.’’ I Crumpsall The signings are clearly a statement of the contest but judging by the volume used to fund a move for Michael Turner
want bottle No, haven’t heard the one about of Stoke’s rising ambitions. Last season of the roar that greeted their respective from Hull City. The centre-half has been
Englishman, Welshman and they played the role of robust gatecrash- arrivals from the substitutes bench, there a target for Bruce ever since he arrived at
Scotsman. Have heard nowt ers to the Premier League party that would is much excitement in the Potteries about the Stadium of Light but following defeat
Alastair Campbell since stuffing £50 notes in ears soon be sent back to where they came. But Stoke’s latest acquisitions. here, is now deemed essential.
In that regard, much credit should be For the third league game in a row, Sun-
Spin to win Eduardo given to the club’s chairman Peter Coates, derland conceded from a set-piece – they
Holloway The breakdown who has consistently provided money for failed to clear a Stoke corner that led to
Chelsea 3 Burnley 0 @Tom_Daley Some transfers since regaining control at the Dave Kitson thrashing in his first league
A blue landslide, just as misunderstanding. I’m not a Tony Pulis Steve Bruce Britannia Stadium in 2006. Stoke spent goal for Stoke on 43 minutes – and no
the naysayers predicted, but coach. I don’t do private tuition Selection Kitson‘s Selection Gordon and £16.25m on 12 players last season in a bid longer will such ineptitude be accepted by
inclusion for Beattie Nosworthy returned
this was the keynote stage in the to stabilise their return to England’s top- their manager. “I’ll ask the big questions
proved inspired but frailties remained
end of Old Burnley. Stakeholders in Sol_Campbell Tactics No change to Tactics Midfield failed flight and another £13m on three players and if I don’t get the responses I want then
the New Burnley project, however, Nottingham well-balanced 4-4-2 supply front pair this summer with Dean Whitehead arriv- I will get a team that will be able to defend
will persevere until the people’s @MikeAshley Why turn down Game-changing Game-changing ing from the north-east a month before against them [set-pieces],” warned Bruce.
club emerge stronger from some Newcastle for a £10m five-year Arrival of Tuncay on 85 Campbell failed to Huth and Tuncay did the same. “We’re “Perhaps we’re just not capable. If it
batterings in opposition with values contract with a League Two minutes added spark increase threat looking to bring a few more in before the continues I’ll make changes.”
intact. New Burnley, new grit in club? Nicer shirts deadline,” added Pulis. “So hopefully Change is undoubtedly in the air at
Suspensions Suspensions there’ll be even more competition for Stoke and following the international
None None places here.” break they will attempt to continue their
The sack race:
a this week’s worried managers One player certain to join Stoke before transformation into firm Premier League
Man of the match tomorrow’s cut-off is Danny Collins. The residents. And next up is another game at
Glenn Whelan Stoke ke defender was on Sunderland’s bench on home, where the club gathered 35 of their
he
Surprise choice in the
centre of midfield butut
Saturday but with the two clubs having 45 points last season and have won two
proved determined in n agreed a fee for the 29-year-old, he should out of two this campaign.
the tackle and drovee switch shortly, while Paul McShane also The only problem, though, is that
Safe ht
Outfought h ht
Outthought Outspent Sacked his side on left the club yesterday to join Hull. Chelsea are the visitors. No wonder Pulis
The money Steve Bruce, the Sunderland is so humdrum in his forecast.
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009
Megson furious at
Liverpool’s ‘take a
hit and dive’ tactic
Andy Hunter Reebok Stadium
Bolton Wanderers 2 Liverpool 3
Davies 33, Cohen 47 Johnson 41, Torres 56
Gerrard 83
Each new season creates its own trend
and the must-have for 09-10 is a “deceiv-
ing the referee” charge. Thanks to Uefa’s
decision to detonate a can of worms over
Eduardo da Silva’s dive against Celtic, it
may prove irresistible to any manager
nursing a grievance. Gary Megson filed the
complaint at the Reebok Stadium where
he accused Rafael Benítez’s players of
consistently “waiting for the hit and then
going down”.
The anger of the Bolton Wanderers
manager was understandable, given that a
potentially watershed victory for his team
evaporated on the draconian toss of a red
card to Sean Davis. But blessed fortune,
not skulduggery, was the cornerstone of
Liverpool’s recovery and put the gloss on
their latest unconvincing show.
Misfortune consumed Megson the
moment Davis and Lucas Leiva collided
and the referee Alan Wiley deemed an
innocuous touch worthy of a second
yellow card. It continued as Bolton
reacted with a defensive substitution,
but Fernando Torres equalised before
they could. It was also Megson’s ill-luck
that Davis foolishly invited his first book-
ing by kicking the ball away in first-half
stoppage time. Or that Zat Knight opted
to ball-watch instead of track Torres
when Dirk Kuyt teed up the Spaniard for
Liverpool’s second. Uefa’s problematic
stance on Eduardo, however, has invited
diversionary tactics to thrive.
“Some of the opponents we play are
chucking themselves all over the pitch.
The question is do we accept it or do we
The breakdown
Gary Megson Rafael Benítez
Selection Two changes Selection Kyrgiakos
from the side that lost made his debut in place
at Hull City of the injured Skrtel
Tactics The usual Tactics Exploited
formation and reliance Bolton when they were
on set-pieces reduced to 10 men
Game-changing Game-changing
Torres scored during Benayoun and Voronin
Basham’s substitution stretched the hosts
Suspensions Suspensions
Sean Davis – one match None
M of the match
Man
S
Steven Gerrard He
m
mirrored Liverpool’s
fo
fortunes – comfortably
ccontained until the
ssending-off, utterly
d
dominant thereafter
Wolverhampton Wanderers (0) 1
Stearman 46
The manager Mick McCarthy
I’ll be glad when the transfer
window shuts, because it’s a
pain in the hole. It just becomes
frenzied now ... who gives a flying one?
If we get players in, we get them in 
Selection Gave Kevin Doyle a first
Premier League start alongside Andy
Keogh in a 4-4-2 formation
Tactics A blend of neat wing-play and
directness from free-kicks, while long
throws were also a much-used weapon
Game–changing Brought on Sam Vokes
with a minute to go, who should have
scored the winner with a header from
Matt Jarvis’s last minute cross.
The player Kevin Doyle ▲
On his full Premier League
debut for the club, Wolves’
record signing impressed with
his movement and touch. Came close
to giving Wolves three points but his
close range shot was cleared off the line.
Needs a goal or two to get his confidence
going – 16 of his 18 for Reading last year
came before Christmas – and he will
need to be on song for Wolves to have
a chance of survival.
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join in?” Megson asked rhetorically. “I am
convinced that there are six clubs in this
division who wouldn’t have a player sent
off in that position and the other 14 will –
and we are in the latter. It is not breaking
the rules but bending them and we are not
particularly cute at that. You just have to
hope that the referees and officials, when
they have these meetings, recognise what
is happening.”
Lucas has been accused of many misde-
meanours at Liverpool, but not even the
Brazilian’s biggest baiter would charge
him with slowing down and waiting for a
foul while clear of his man in the final third
and with Liverpool trailing 2-1. The mid-
fielder’s crime was to demand a second
yellow card from Wiley, who had gone for
his pocket the second Lucas fell. Megson
had added legitimacy in his accusation as
two Liverpool players – Torres and Steven
Gerrard – had made the most of fair chal-
lenges inside the Bolton penalty area.
“If someone throws themselves over
and doesn’t get booked they can still be
punished,” the Bolton manager said. “But
when did you last see that happen?”
Until Wiley enabled Liverpool to fol-
low an identical script to last season’s 3-2
victories over the 10 men of Manchester
City and Wigan Athletic, this was shap-
ing into an ignominious trial for Benítez.
Defensively, Liverpool were as fractured
as in their defeat to Aston Villa, with a
third central defensive pairing in three
matches – not zonal marking – to blame.
Kevin Davies gave Bolton the lead from
a Matt Taylor corner and Tamir Cohen
restored the advantage following Glen
Johnson’s equaliser when Davies beat the
debutant Sotirios Kyrgiakos to a long ball
into the box. “It doesn’t really worry me,”
was Benítez’s take on Bolton’s first league
goals of the season. “You know how impor-
tant set-pieces are in this stadium.”
Davis’s dismissal altered everything.
Torres struck while the lowest crowd to
gather at the Reebok for this fixture was
digesting the decision before Gerrard,
shackled by Fabrice Muamba before the
red card and uncontrollable afterwards,
showed superb technique to drive the
winner into the top corner from 18 yards.
“I’m sure if I’d gone to the toilet in the
first half Muamba would have followed
me,” said Gerrard. His goal was a char-
acteristically emphatic response to his
manager’s instructions to lead Liverpool
into the light. “It’s always nice to score but
you get extra pleasure when you’ve been
under pressure all week and you have had
people sniping away trying to put the team
down. The criticism has come because
of the expectation. Because we finished
second last year, everybody expects us to
have a flying start and go straight to the
top of the table. People are writing us off
after three games of the season, which is
absolute madness,” Gerrard added Bolton’s Sean Davis collides with the Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva to earn a second yellow card Andrew Yates/AFP/Getty
Hull City (1) 1 Blackburn Rovers 0 West Ham United 0
Geovanni 3
Stats The manager Phil Brown The manager Sam Allardyce Stats The manager Gianfranco Zola
I was disappointed with a The creating of chances is It’s been a long week with
point. The defending for the not a concern, the taking of a lot of things going on. We
2 10
goal was inexcusable. To let chances is a big concern. We’ve couldn’t give our best for
someone run into your six yard box to played three games and only scored physical reasons, but the players stood
get a tap in is just inexcusable  one goal from our centre-half strong and didn’t concede.
Richard Selection Michael Turner kept the Selection Allardyce keeps playing Jason Kieron Dyer Selection Playing 4-3-3 seemed quite
Stearman captain’s armband despite a probable Roberts up front on his own. Roberts West Ham bold from West Ham, but their
Goals scored move away from club. Rewarded faith keeps flattering to deceive. David Dunn, Games played performance was anything but.
for Wolves in put in him with an excellent performance in his first Premier League match for since August Tactics Nick a point. West Ham crowded
44 matches Tactics Fluid front three threatened four months, was comfortably the most 2007 the midfield and did not look interested
initially, but resorted to channel balls far assured Blackburn player. in anything other than a draw.
4 1
too often as Wolves’ pressure increased Tactics Keep fingers crossed, hope a goal Game–changing Kieron Dyer replaced
Game–changing Might have brought on arrives. One never really looked likely. Luis Jiménez with 20 minutes to go but,
Jozy Altidore for the ineffective Caleb Game-changing David Hoilett posed a in keeping with the rest of the game, he
Folan sooner, but couldn’t turn the tide threat when he replaced Steven Nzonzi. failed to show match-winning skills.
Hull City Blackburn
Number of The player Michael Turner ▲ The player David Hoilett ▲ League goals The player Carlton Cole ▼
shots achieved The Tigers captain is a target The 19-year-old right-winger scored in 4hr The striker should have seized
during game for several clubs including looked assured at this level and 30min of play the chance to secure an England
Sunderland, Aston Villa and will become a firm Blackburn this season place against a Blackburn
Fulham, and it was easy it see why. Rovers favourite if he supplements his side still to get going this term but he
92 4
The defender saved a point for his side obvious pace with a goal or two every lacked a killer touch, though he was
with a remarkable goalline clearance now and then. The Canadian linked up not alone in that. He is clearly West
from Doyle, but his last-minute lapse well with Dunn, but his scoring attempts Ham’s spearhead in attack, but needs
in concentration almost allowed Sam from three opportunities – two of them to become more of an accomplished
Wolves’ tackle Vokes to head a winner. Turner led more than presentable – were fruitless The number finisher if the weight of West Ham’s
percentage by example throughout and Hull will in a match that was, on the whole, ugly of bookings, ambitions are to sit comfortably on his
success. Hull’s certainly miss him if he goes. and uninspiring. three of them shoulders. Effort could not be faulted.
rate was a less going to
impressive 74% Suspensions Suspensions West Ham Suspensions
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United provide
another lesson in
winning ways for
nervous Arsenal
The breakdown
Sir Alex Ferguson Arsène Wenger
Selection Left out Selection As expected,
Berbatov in order with Fábregas still out
to pack midfield Tactics Same 4-3-3
Tactics Used Fletcher as United, but with a
and Carrick to block more adventurous
Kevin McCarra Arsenal build-up
Game–changing
trio in attack
Game–changing Sent
Old Trafford Berbatov introduced to
help counter-attacks
on two more forwards,
but to no avail

Manchester Utd 2 Arsenal 1 Darren Fletcher ▲ Manuel Almunia ▼

Rooney 58 pen Arshavin 40
Inexhaustibly Although the Spaniard
Diaby 64 og combative as he is normally a reliable
stopped Arsenal while goalkeeper who
also showing he could does not get enough
It is not often that the losers get to patron- help the attack when recognition, he made a
ise the victors. Then again, Arsenal are a circumstances allowed. misjudgment here with
Had luck, too, when no the rash concession of
far from conventional club and the man- penalty was awarded a penalty when Arsenal
ager, Arsène Wenger, duly rummaged for against him were on top
some gracious words about Manchester
United. “They have won a game today Suspensions Suspensions
they should not have won, so that is a None None
quality as well,” he said.

Wenger’s conclusion was incomplete.
A self-destructive Arsenal had connived
their own downfall after being 1-0 ahead.
The Frenchman has taken great strides
towards producing another line-up
of athleticism and grace, but a robust
mentality is yet to be implanted.
The lack of a trophy since 2005 is more
than a statistic. Those who had little
or nothing to do with that dry spell are
affected by it in any case. Arsenal have
forgotten how to take victories from key
occasions. United scooped the points, in
part, because it is in their nature, after
three consecutive Premier League titles,
to rally at a moment of crisis.
Indeed, Sir Alex Ferguson’s team have
been beaten just once by Arsenal over the
last eight encounters in all competitions.
Wenger himself appreciates that know-
how has dwindled with each barren cam-
paign. “Experience is linked with calm-
ness,” he said on Saturday evening. “We
were a bit too nervous and rushed a little
bit our decisions in some situations. We
look mature in the way we are positioned
on the pitch but individually there was
still nervousness in some situations where
it was not needed.”
The winner for United was flabbergast-
ing. Ryan Giggs, who managed to shake
off his initial drabness when his side got
into trouble, flighted a free-kick from the
right in the 64th minute. The height of
the ball presented no difficulty and Abou
64
Key minute
The absurd own-goal
by Abou Diaby not only
handed Manchester
United the lead but
must have caused his
team-mates to despair
Diaby was unchallenged, but he still con-
trived to head past his own goalkeeper,
Manuel Almunia.
Injuries have hindered the develop-
ment of a midfielder whom Wenger calls
“an athlete, a powerhouse”, but no such
excuses are available to Almunia. The
Spaniard was suckered at the United
equaliser, after 58 minutes, when he
brought down Wayne Rooney. The
attacker was chasing a Giggs through ball
and had nudged it towards the flank just
before the goalkeeper made contact with
him. Rooney swept in the penalty.
Arsenal can be unsettled all too readily. Michael Carrick and Wayne Rooney a late equaliser by Robin van Persie was the 40th minute as the United defence
They have not shed their old fault of celebrate after Arsenal’s Abou Diaby justly chalked off because William Gallas backed off him.
complaining when the opposition decline heads into his own net, giving victory to had been in an offside position. Ben Foster could conceivably have
to play the match on their terms. Wenger, Manchester United Martin Rickett/AP The sole outrageous offence dealt with done better with his effort to stop the
returning to the issue of Eduardo da by Dean was Emmanuel Eboué’s wanton shot, but a wonderful save three minutes
Silva’s dive for a penalty against Celtic yet the midfielder had a fine if combative dive following an imaginary challenge. after the interval denied Arsenal total
last week, grumbled that the sport had a match. You could sympathise with Arsenal should still remember with control. Arshavin went past the right-back
greater problem with “players who make Wenger’s grievance purely because a pet- satisfaction a great deal of what they did John O’Shea and Van Persie seemed to
repeated fouls and get out of a game tifogging referee, Mike Dean, discovered at Old Trafford. Andrey Arshavin ought have converted the cut-back until Foster
without a yellow card”. cause to book nine players, half-a-dozen of to have had a penalty when Fletcher blocked with an outstretched left foot.
It is understood that he was referring them from Arsenal. He also sent Wenger to barged into him, but within moments Shortly before United’s winner, Van
on Saturday to United’s Darren Fletcher, the stands for booting a water bottle when the attacker had crashed home a drive in Persie was also to smack the bar with a

Lack of a playmaker dulls Ferguson’s creative thinking David Pleat’s

Champions’ priority should
be to find a solution to the
missing spark of genius,
writes Richard Williams
The rumour that Barcelona want to per-
suade Cesc Fábregas to return to the Nou
Camp surfaced again at the weekend, but
the man who really ought to be breaking
the bank to sign the Catalan midfielder –
or the nearest possible equivalent – is Sir
Alex Ferguson. Although slow starts by
Manchester United are nothing new, and
experienced fans know well enough to
keep their frustration to themselves until
Christmas looms, Old Trafford’s pleasure
in a hectic win over Arsenal on Satur-
day could not disguise the side’s lack of
inspiration in the creative areas.
With Xavi Hernández and Andrés Ini-
esta providing the flow of passes for their
forwards, Barcelona already have what
United lack. Arsenal, of course, possess a
superfluity of such players, including three
of Saturday’s absentees: Fábregas, Samir
Nasri and Tomas Rosicky. For this vital
early-season match against the London
side, Ferguson relied on the 35-year-old
Ryan Giggs to provide the creative spark
behind his lone striker, Wayne Rooney.
Ferguson’s occasional tactical eccen-
tricity is part of his charm, but it was
nevertheless astonishing to see Rooney
left so obviously stranded for the first 45
minutes. On the way back from Old Traf-
ford, a mental trawl through personal
experience going back to the immediate
post-Munich era threw up no examples
of any United striker being so isolated.
Rooney, as always, exploited his guile and
worked his socks off to compensate for the
lack of support, but United deserved to go
in at half-time a goal down, and might have
been dead and buried had Ben Foster not
brilliantly saved an instinctive first-time
shot by Robin van Persie three minutes
into the second half.
A few words from the boss saw United
improve after the interval, Giggs getting
closer to Rooney and the tempo speed-
ing up. Even so they had to rely on a
slightly questionable penalty – Sky’s
super-slo-mo showed that Rooney’s
knees were already buckling
before he slid into the diving
Manuel Almunia – and an
own goal for their victory,
which is good enough
for three points but not
really good enough for
Manchester United.
The summer departures
of Cristiano Ronaldo and
Carlos Tevez were always
going to exact a price in
Sir Alex Ferguson’s
experience with Juan
Sebastián Verón may
have soured his faith
in playmakers
terms of attacking flair, and it may be that
Nani and the newcomers Antonio Valen-
cia and Zoran Tosic will make the most of
the opportunity. But United would look a
more convincing proposition if they had
a genuine playmaker providing a base of
continuity.
Ferguson’s mastery of the trans-
fer market ensures that his successful
investments outnumber his failures, but
they seem to be concentrated in certain
areas. He likes acquiring strikers, second
strikers, wingers and deep-lying midfield
players. Apart from the two veterans of
the 1992 Youth Cup-winning team, his
current first-team midfield roster,
excluding wingers, amounts to
Michael Carrick, Darren Fletcher,
Anderson, the inexperienced Dar-
ron Gibson and the unlucky
Owen Hargreaves: none
of them is either suited or
ready to be a replacement
for Paul Scholes as the
player who disman-
tles a defence with a
single pass and pops
up to score 15 goals
a season. Like Giggs,
Scholes no longer
has the legs for the job
in the biggest matches.
Perhaps the unhappy and
expensive experience with
Juan Sebastián Verón under-
mined Ferguson’s faith in
playmakers. United’s most
impressive performances since that time
have been achieved with a line-up in
which aggressive midfield players such
as Fletcher and Anderson create the plat-
form on which out-and-out forwards can
perform. The flowering of the partnership
of Rooney, Ronaldo and Louis Saha during
the French forward’s injury-free autumn
of 2006 was a typical expression of that
approach.
Ferguson’s reluctance to acquire a
player of the type of Luka Modric, Joe Cole,
Deco or Stephen Ireland – not to mention
any of the clusters on show at Barcelona or
Arsenal – is particularly odd since the man
he most regrets failing to acquire is Paul
Gascoigne. But then we have to remember
that Ferguson is also the man who decided
not to bid for Zinedine Zidane from Bor-
deaux in 1996 because he and his scouts,
having watched the Frenchman closely,
could not decide on his best position.
Then again, perhaps that says some-
thing about Ferguson’s approach to the
job. Free spirits are not really to his taste,
and are only acceptable when they can
demonstrate an irreproachable attitude
to preparation. And yet who, of all the
players under his command in the past
23 years, has done more for him and for
Manchester United than Eric Cantona
and Ronaldo, two men who represented
individualism in its most extreme form?
On Saturday, for all Rooney’s marvellous
efforts, his side lacked the spark of genius
– a commodity United’s supporters have
come to take for granted.
tactical
report
Arsenal
1
Game-plan and shape
Without Cesc Fábregas’s subtle
prompting, Arsenal opted to challenge
last season’s title winners with a more
powerful midfield. Keeping his 4-3-3
shape, Arsène Wenger selected Abou
Diaby to thrust forward while Denilson
and Alex Song had the responsibility
to keep midfield discipline and hold
when Arsenal attacked. Emmanuel
Eboué, right of the two men stationed
behind Robin van Persie, would give
defensive cover when needed although
his presence also reduced creativity.
Indeed, there looked to be a reliance
on the individuality of Van Persie and
Andrey Arshavin to conjure a goal.
2
Tactical awareness
United’s system mirrored Arsenal’s,
with Ryan Giggs the foremost of
their middle three and tasked with
supporting the frontman Wayne
Rooney. Arsenal restricted the supply
to Rooney and their full-backs had the
confidence to get tight whenever the
ball was transferred wide, meaning that
Nani and Antonio Valencia were never
able to receive and run at the defence
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Manchester United v Arsenal
Video highlights on the web
guardian.co.uk/football

Jensen says Chelsea are champions in

waiting after Burnley get bamboozled
Mikey Stafford Stamford Bridge
Chelsea 3 Burnley 0
Anelka 45, Ballack 47, A Cole 52
If anyone is well qualified to make judg-
ments on how the title favourites com-
pare, it is Brian Jensen. Burnley’s goal-
keeper starred in his team’s shock victory
over Manchester United and was kept
busy during his side’s defeat here by
Chelsea. Liverpool at Anfield are next but
the Dane thinks he has already faced the
champions in waiting.
“I don’t want to say too much because
I am a Man U fan myself but, personally, I
think Chelsea are the team to beat so far,”
said Jensen, who made six top-class saves
on Saturday to keep the scoreline respect-
able. “It doesn’t matter who they play
against. You saw it against Sunderland last
week as well when Steve Bruce said it was
one of the best attacking displays he had
seen. We saw it again today and nobody
can deny it.”
Chelsea’s midfield diamond of Michael
Essien, Michael Ballack, Frank Lampard
and Deco ran Burnley ragged with their
neat passing and constant movement. For
those in the stand it was mesmerising to
watch; for the 34-year-old valiantly keep-
ing goal for the bamboozled visitors it was
confusing as the home team made it four
wins from four.
“I just saw blue shirts everywhere. It
was a bit of a footballing lesson for us,”
said Jensen. “The passing and the move-
ment, the full-backs coming forward, the
attacking football. The passing is great to
watch and everyone can see the quality.”
Chelsea’s manager, Carlo Ancelotti,
may still be getting to grips with the Eng-
lish language but he possesses the words
to dampen expectations after the club’s
best start to a league campaign since José
Mourinho’s second title in 2005-06.
“To win [the league]? We are ready to
continue this work, this play. I am sure
that it will be difficult. Now is a good
moment, we play very well, we train very
well, no injuries. But it will be difficult, I
am sure, because this is football,” said the
Italian, who missed his old club Milan’s
4-0 defeat by Internazionale in the Milan
derby on Saturday evening because he
was on a plane.
Ballack, who scored with a header
either side of goals from Nicolas Anelka
and Ashley Cole, believes form at Stam-
ford Bridge will be key to wresting the title
from Manchester United after three years.
Last season Chelsea lost two games at
home and drew six as they finished third,
seven points behind United.
“We’ve had some periods, especially
last year when we were struggling at home.
We won a lot of away games but we drew
too many at home and that’s what cost us
the league in the end,” said the German
Ashley Cole, left, celebrates scoring for midfielder. “If we play the best we can,
Chelsea with his captain, John Terry I’m sure we can win the league because
we have a strong team.”
Top of the table on goal difference ahead
of Tottenham – whom they face here after
The breakdown a trip to Stoke – Chelsea have a three-point
advantage over their nearest traditional
Carlo Ancelotti Owen Coyle rivals, United. Ballack, speaking before
Selection Deco in, Selection Only Bikey Arsenal’s loss at Old Trafford, said he was
Lampard moved to left remained from Carling
encouraged by the points dropped by the
Tactics Anelka dropped Cup side
deep and full-backs Tactics Fletcher on “Big Four” already.
attacked freely right to test Ashley Cole “It was a surprise that Liverpool lost
Game-changing Game-changing twice in the first three games. It gives us a
Drogba off when Fletcher replaced little bit extra motivation of course when
result was secure Paterson in attack they lose,” he said. “Manchester United
and Liverpool have both lost a game or
Suspensions
spensions S
Suspensions two. We recognise this but we have to
ne
None N
None focus on ourselves.”
John Terry was the focus of much atten-
M of the match
Man tion this summer until he eventually
M
Michael Essien rebuffed Manchester City’s approaches
R
Released from
d
defensive duties
and here he easily repelled Burnley’s best
h
he combined efforts. As expected, the Chelsea captain
w
wonderfully with his will be rewarded for his loyalty with a new
m
midfield partners five-year contract worth an estimated
£150,000 per week.

free-kick. Arsenal will have to draw what
comfort they can from the knowledge that
they had largely played at a higher level
than the reigning champions. “I just hope
that this undeserved defeat will not take
any confidence away,” said Wenger.
United are still casting around for means
to adapt now Cristiano Ronaldo has gone
and the type of footballers picked in their
4-3-3 structure gave them a more cautious
air than Arsenal. Ferguson flatly declined,
for nearly the whole game, to give Rooney
a partner in attack because his priority was
to ensure that his team was never outnum-
bered in midfield. That altered only in the
last five minutes, when Dimitar Berbatov
was introduced so that United could hit on
the break as the visitors took risks.
Aesthetics received little consideration,
but Ferguson’s battleplan, assisted by
freakish events here and there, prevailed.
Arsenal will at least sense how tough it is
going to be to land the title for the first
time since 2004.

(see graphic). Meanwhile, Arshavin and was successful in most respects.

Diaby were able to find pockets of space The visitors controlled more of the
to break with the ball. In the first period possession and they showed drive
Darren Fletcher and Michael Carrick and determination. Wenger has been
played a little square with each other criticised by the pundits for not
as Arsenal held sway in midfield. At replacing the holding midfield players
half-time, United would have needed to Gilberto Silva and Mathieu Flamini but
change their system or be more positive his faith in Song, who was ably assisted
with their attitude to match Arsenal. by Denilson, was justified here. On the
counter Arsenal looked more powerful,
3 hustling higher up the field to win the
Did it succeed? ball earlier.
Despite losing the game to two
unfortunate goals, Arsenal’s game-plan 4
Major dangers
Bacary Sagny was strong defensively,
while Diaby showed glimpses of
potential that could lead to an
outstanding career. He allies great
Vidic body strength and speed with clever
footwork when breaking upfield.
O’Shea Song and Denilson forged a strong
Van Persie defensive barrier in front of Gallas and
Vermaelen who were never stretched.
The team used the width well and broke
Diaby
quickly through midfield. Gaël Clichy’s
Arshavin
defensive covering and closing down of
Jessica
Song
Denilson
his opponent Valencia was excellent. Ennis puts
Valencia
Rooney 5 her degree
Clichy Sagna
Possible weaknesses to good
In high wide left-sided positions, only
Vermaelen Gallas Clichy has the confidence as a left-footer
use after
to cross the early ball. The team also becoming
have a tendency to give away too many
free-kicks when challenging in the
the face
Player move without ball
Ball movement/pass
midfield areas; this may be exploited. of 2012
Arsenal’s passing takes them into
good positions near the penalty box
Mikey
Arsenal’s midfield closed quickly and protected their
centre-backs well, which allowed Clichy and Sagny but there is still a reluctance to hit the Stafford,
early effective shot which, as Arshavin
the confidence to get tight and nullify any threat from
United’s wide players. Almunia was rarely troubled demonstrated, can reap huge rewards.
page 30
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Football Barclays Premier League

Aston Villa 2 (1)

Paintsil 3og, Agbonlahor 59

Fulham 0 (0)
Blackburn Rovers 0 (0)

West Ham United 0 (0)

ARTE ET LABORE

Agbonlahor rocket sinks Fulham

Referee S Bennett 7 Attendance 32,917
Friedel Possession
Referee P Dowd 6 Attendance 32,421
Robinson Possession
to ease O’Neill’s European pain
Cuéllar
6
Clark 43 Samba
6
Givet 46
6 6 6 7 6 6 5 6
Beye Shorey % Jacobsen Chimbonda % Stuart James Villa Park Pantsil, under pressure from Agbonlahor,
Sidwell Petrov Reo-Coker Dunn Grella N’Zonzi headed into his own net on the edge of the
6 6 6 6 6 57 6 6 6 6 7 54 six-yard box with Schwarzer stranded.
Milner Agbonlahor A Young Andrews Roberts Pedersen Aston Villa 2 Fulham 0 So vapid were Fulham thereafter that
Aston Villa Fulham Blackburn West Ham
7 6 Paintsil og 3 Villa ought to have scored a third goal,
Agbonlahor 59
Kamara Nevland 2 Shots on target 0 Stanislas 7 Jiménez 6 Shots on target 1 never mind a second, long before Agbon-
6 5 7 7
Duff Dempsey 5 Shots off target 5
Cole
9 Shots off target 7 lahor struck just before the hour. Steve
5 5 5 5
Noble Collison The pain that accompanied Aston Villa’s Sidwell should have forced Schwarzer into
78% Passing 82% 7 6 71% Passing 80%
Greening Etuhu 6 exit from the Europa League will linger a save when space opened up on the edge
Konchesky Paintsil 12 Fouls 9 Spector Parker Faubert 14 Fouls 18 for a while longer yet, but when Martin of the area and Ciaran Clark, who could not
5 6 5 5 6 6 6 6
Hangeland Hughes 9 Corners 4
Upson Collins
5 Corners 2 O’Neill recalls elimination at the hands have wished for a more comfortable after-
5 7
Schwarzer 5 Offsides 1 Green 2 Offsides 2
of Rapid Vienna in the months to come, noon to make his debut in central defence
Aston Villa substitutes  Carew 72. Blackburn substitutes  Hoilett 60  Kalinic 75. he might take some comfort from the in place of the injured Curtis Davies, sent
Subs not used Guzan, Albrighton, Delph, Heskey, Warnock, Gardner. Subs not used Brown, Emerton, Khizanishvili, Olsson, Salgado. three victories that arrived in the same a free header over before Agbonlahor
Fulham substitutes  E Johnson 75. West Ham substitutes  Dyer 66  Kovac 87.
Subs not used Zuberbühler, Kelly, Baird, Gera, Riise, Smalling. Subs not used Kurucz, Gabbidon, Nouble, Tomkins, Hines. week. Yesterday’s was the last of the trio thumped home only his third goal in 27
and it included the rare sight of Gabriel appearances.
Bolton Wanderers 2 (1) Chelsea 3 (1) Agbonlahor scoring at Villa Park. Fulham defender John Pantsil, left, “I thought it was a poor performance
K Davies 33, Cohen 47 Anelka 45, Ballack 47, A Cole 52 It was the first time Agbonlahor has tangles with Aston Villa’s Ashley Young from us,” said Hogdson, who revealed that
managed to do so this year, with his loss he would “take it” if he was offered the
Liverpool 3 (1) Burnley 0 (0) of form prompting the supporters to chance to manage the 2012 Great Britain
Johnson 41, Torres 56, Gerrard 83 turn at one stage, most notably when the Olympic side. “The goal we gave away
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Holte End sarcastically applauded as he after three minutes didn’t help matters.
Jaaskelainen Possession Cech Possession was substituted against Tottenham Hot- That wasn’t the most intelligent thing to
spur in March. How fitting then, that the Martin O’Neill Roy Hodgson do. But we can’t use the excuse of tired-
Cahill
7
Knight 20 Terry 6 Carvalho
61
6 7 6 6
7 7 6 8 striker should arrow a wonderful 22-yard Selection Recalled Selection Retained ness. We didn’t show enough energy last
Agbonlahor in attack seven of the side that
Ricketts Samuel % Bosingwa 8 A Cole
% left-footed shot inside Mark Schwarzer’s week against Chelsea and we didn’t show
Tactics 4-5-1, onus started in Russia
Muamba Davis Cohen 7
Essien 7 near post at the same end of the stadium on Sidwell, Milner and Tactics 4-4-2 but with enough energy today. At the moment we
7 7 5 5 6 80 Ballack 7 Lampard
39 to secure Villa three points against a Young to get forward little fluency and failed aren’t playing at the level I expect us to.”
K Davies Elmander Taylor 6 Deco 7 listless Fulham. Game-changing Carew to gain a foothold O’Neill offered similar words of frus-
Bolton Liverpool Chelsea Burnley
6 Anelka Drogba Fulham failed to produce a single shot for Reo-Coker, dropping Game-changing Eddie tration after Villa’s opening-day setback
Riera 7 Kuyt 3 Shots on target 9 5 15 Shots on target 0 on goal and if this is what playing on the Agbonlahor to wide Johnson introduced up against Wigan Athletic but the victories
7 7 right and Milner infield front but had no impact
Torres
3 Shots off target 13
Blake Paterson Fletcher
10 Shots off target 3 continent in midweek does to your team over Liverpool last Monday and Fulham
Alexander
Mascherano Lucas 6 5 6 6
– Roy Hodgson’s side endured a five-hour yesterday have helped to erase the mem-
6
7
6 60% Passing 88% McCann 7 Elliott 86% Passing 72%
2,250-mile trip back from Russia on Thurs- Gabriel Agbonlahor John Paintsil ory of that abject performance. It is nota-
Jordan Mears Seems more effective Within three minutes
Insúa Gerrard Johnson 15 Fouls 8
6 6 6 6
9 Fouls 5 day night after their defeat to Amkar Perm without a partner in the right-back had ble that both Premier League wins have
6 6 6 7
Kyrgiakos Carragher
5 Corners 11 Bikey Carlisle 10 Corners 1 – O’Neill could be forgiven for thinking attack. Worked the put through his own come since O’Neill reverted to 4-5-1, a
7 8
Reina 0 Offsides 1 Jensen 3 Offsides 1
Villa are better off without European foot- channels and held the net, and in the period formation which allows Villa to use their
Bolton substitutes  Basham 59  Steinsson 78  Riga 90. Chelsea substitutes  Belletti 65  Kalou 75  Mikel 83. ball this season. This match was won at a ball up; the sweetly immediately after pace to hit teams on the counter-attack
Subs not used Al Habsi, Robinson, Lee, A O’Brien. Subs not used Hilario, Ivanovic, Malouda, Sturridge. canter, with the dreadful defending that struck left-foot he struggled as Villa but also control central midfield, as they
Liverpool substitutes  Benayoun 63  Voronin 74  Dossena 89. Burnley substitutes  Gudjonsson 58  McDonald 74  Guerrero 78. shot, after eluding targeted Fulham’s right
Subs not used Gulacsi, Plessis, Kelly, Skrtel. Subs not used Penny, Kalvenes, Thompson, Eagles. precipitated Villa’s opening goal inside Greening, was his most flank. He was isolated demonstrated against Fulham.
the first three minutes emblematic of memorable effort and vulnerable “I am very pleased,” said O’Neill, who
Everton 2 (0) Manchester United 2 (0) Fulham’s lack of conviction and carefree is expected to make a £5m bid for West
Saha 62, Baines 90pen Rooney 59pen, Diaby 64og attitude all afternoon. Suspensions Suspensions Ham United’s James Collins today, after
“It was a ludicrous succession of None None he watched the central defender against
Wigan Athletic 1 (0) Arsenal 1 (1) affairs,” said Hodgson reflecting on how Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, as well

3
Scharner 57 Arshavin 40 Fulham invited pressure as they tried to Key moment as try to tie up the loose ends of Richard
keep possession on the edge of their pen- Fulham tried to Dunne’s £6m transfer from Manchester
Referee L Probert 6 Attendance 35,122 Referee M Dean 6 Attendance 75,095 play keep-ball until
Howard Possession Foster Possession alty area before Schwarzer sliced Aaron Schwarzer was put
City. “It was a fantastic goal from Gabbi.
Hughes’s back-pass behind for a corner. He’s modestly saying that he just hit it but
Yobo 6 Distin
55 Vidic 6 Brown
51 under pressure and
6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 From the set-piece that followed Carlos sliced behind. Villa he struck it brilliantly. That’s three games
Hibbert Baines
% O’Shea Carrick Evra
% Cuéllar flicked on Ashley Young’s inswing- scored from the corner in seven days we’ve had and I am really
Neville Rodwell
6 6 Cahill 8 7
8
6
7 ing delivery at the near post and John delighted with the team.”
Osman 6 Pienaar 45 Fletcher Giggs
49
Saha 5 Rooney 6
Everton Wigan 7 Man Utd Arsenal

Capello finds no room for James in England squad

7 Valencia Nani
5 8 Shots on target 3 Arshavin 7 Eboué 3 Shots on target 3
N’Zogbia Rodallega Gómez 7 Van Persie 6
10 Shots off target 6 8 Shots off target 6
7 4 5 6 7 Diaby Denilson
Diamé Thomas Scharner 77% Passing 69% 5 6 74% Passing 76%
6
Figueroa Melchiot
6 4 7 7
11 Fouls 24 Clichy Song Sagna 22 Fouls 16
Kevin McCarra will be between the posts for his country position to pull off a recovery and win 2-1
7 7 7 6
Boyce Bramble 12 Corners 5
Vermaelen Gallas
6 Corners 5 in the forthcoming matches. Foster was at Old Trafford. Capello will have to weigh
6 5
Pollitt 3 Offside 1 Almunia 7 Offsides 4
not fit to ace the Dutch, but he has been up that mixed evidence.
Everton substitutes  Fellaini 70  Jô 76  Bilyaletdinov 89. Man Utd substitutes  Park 63  Berbatov 85. Fabio Capello has not quite secured Eng- appearing for Manchester United. If James were to change clubs, White
Subs not used Nash, Gosling, Duffy, Agard. Subs not used Kuszczak, Neville, Owen, Anderson, Scholes. land’s qualification for the 2010 World At the weekend, he did not excel when Hart Lane would seem the ideal setting for
Wigan substitutes  Scotland 36  Cho 73  Sinclair 82. Arsenal substitutes  Bendtner 71  Eduardo 79  Ramsey 81.
Subs not used Kingson, Edman, Koumas, King. Subs not used Mannone, Silvestre, Gibbs, Wilshere. Cup finals, but his squad announcement Arsenal opened the scoring, but an excel- the moment. The side has taken full points
confirmed the stability that has been lent stop prevented Robin van Persie from from their League programme so far and
Portsmouth 0 (0) Stoke City 1 (1) achieved. The party for the friendly with doubling the lead and so left his team in a the run was maintained on Saturday by
Kitson 43 Slovenia on Saturday and the qualifier Aaron Lennon’s last-minute winner over
with Croatia the following Wednesday Birmingham City. Capello would have
Manchester City 1 (1) Sunderland 0 (0) had no element of surprise. England squad brought back the winger in any case.
Adebayor 30 His goalkeeping deliberations carried a Lennon’s team-mate Peter Crouch had
Referee H Webb 7 Attendance 17,826 Referee M Jones 7 Attendance 27,091
minor interest, David James took no part Goalkeepers B Foster (Man Utd), R Green been left out of the England squad for the
Begovic Possession Sorensen Possession in Portsmouth’s 1-0 defeat by Manches- (West Ham United), P Robinson (Blackburn Holland match because he was not featur-
ter City and although he was reported as Rovers) ing prominently for Tottenham after his
Kaboul 6 Mokoena
50 Shawcross 7 Ab Faye 45
6 7 6 5 6 7 7 6 having treatment for a knee injury it was Defenders W Brown (Man Utd), W Bridge transfer from Portsmouth. On Saturday,
Vanden Borre Hughes Belhadj
% Wilkinson Higginbotham
% thought that he would be available for his (Man City), A Cole (Chelsea), G Johnson though, he came off the bench to make the
Delap Whelan
6 4 5
6 7 7 6
country. This seems to have been unac- (Liverpool), J Lescott (Man Utd), J Terry breakthrough against Birmingham.
Brown Mullins
50 Lawrence Etherington 55 ceptable to Capello. (Chelsea), M Upson (West Ham) Capello has not excluded any striker
5 Piquionne 5 7 6 James, 39, was not involved with the to make space for Crouch. His name is
Smith Kranjcar Portsmouth Man City Stoke Sunderland Midfielders Gareth Barry (Man City),
7 Kitson Fuller draw against Holland this month. He added to those of Wayne Rooney, Emile
Adebayor Tevez 1 Shots on target 7 Bent Jones 5 Shots on target 3 could make a case for himself if he set- D Beckham (LA Galaxy), M Carrick (Man Heskey, Jermain Defoe and Carlton Cole
Utd), S Gerrard (Liverpool), F Lampard
Bellamy
8 6
Wright-Phillips 6 Shots off target 5 Richardson
7 6
Malbranque 6 Shots off target 3
tles down this season and there has been (Chelsea), J Milner (Aston Villa), S Wright- in a 24-man party. The manager seems to
6 8 7 7 6 7 7 6 talk of a move today, perhaps to join Phillips (Man City), A Young (Aston Villa), have as many options as he could reason-
75% Passing 80% 61% Passing 63%
Barry Ireland Cattermole Cana Tottenham Hotspur, whose regular goal- A Lennon (Tottenham) ably have expected.
Bridge Richards 13 Fouls 10 McCartney Bardsley 11 Fouls 8 keeper Heureleho Gomes is injured for the The versatile Wes Brown, of Manches-
6 7 6 7 6 6 5 5
Lescott Touré 3 Corners 11 Nosworthy Ferdinand 10 Corners 10 time being. Forwards C Cole (West Ham), J Defoe, ter United, is fit once more and could be an
7 6 P Crouch (both Tottenham), E Heskey (Aston
Given 3 Offsides 1 Gordon 2 Offsides 2
In Amsterdam, Robert Green, the West alternative to Glen Johnson at right-back
Ham United goalkeeper, made some good Villa), W Rooney (Man United) or simply serve as cover for the other back
Portsmouth substitutes  Utaka 68  Kanu 73  Nugent 87. Stoke substitutes  Whitehead 78  Tuncay 84  Huth 90.
Subs not used Ashdown, Hreidarsson, Basinas, Ward. Subs not used Simonsen, Griffin, Pugh, Cresswell. saves, but there is no guarantee that he four positions.
Man City substitutes  Zabaleta• 60  De Jong 76. Sunderland substitutes  Campbell 58  Reid 58  Henderson 80.
Subs not used Taylor, Onuoha, Weiss, Petrov, Robinho. Subs not used Carson, Collins, Leadbitter, Da Silva.

Tottenham Hotspur 2 (0) Wolverhampton W 1 (0) Key Barclays Premier League

Crouch 72, Lennon 90 Stearman 46

Starting player and mark out of 10 Home Away

Birmingham City 1 (0) Hull City 1 (1) Denotes yellow cards P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts Next three games

Bowyer 75 Geovanni 3 Denotes red cards ▲ Chelsea 4 2 0 0 5 1 2 0 0 5 1 +8 12 Stoke (a) 12/9, Tottenham (h) 20/9, Wigan (a) 26/9

Referee P Walton 6 Attendance 35,318 Referee S Attwell 7 Attendance 27,906

First player substituted ▼ Tottenham 4 2 0 0 4 2 2 0 0 7 2 +7 12 Man Utd (h) 12/9, Chelsea (a) 20/9, Burnley (h) 26/9

Cudicini Possession Hennessey Possession Second player substituted ▲ Manchester Utd 4 2 0 0 3 1 1 0 1 5 1 +6 9 Tottenham (a) 12/9, Man City (h) 20/9, Stoke (a) 26/9

Third player substituted ▲ Manchester City 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0 +4 9 Arsenal (h) 12/9, Man Utd (a) 20/9, West Ham (h) 28/9
King 6 Bassong 60 Craddock 7 Mancienne 54 ▲ Stoke 4 2 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 4 -1 7 Chelsea (h) 12/9, Bolton (a) 19/9, Man Utd (h) 26/9
6 7 6 7 7 7 7 6
▼ Arsenal 3 1 0 0 4 1 1 0 1 7 3 +7 6 Man City (a) 12/9, Wigan (h) 19/9, Fulham (a) 26/9
Corluka Assou-Ekotto
Palacios Huddlestone % Stearman
Henry Milijas
Elokobi
% ▲ Liverpool 4 1 0 1 5 3 1 0 1 4 4 +2 6 Burnley (h) 12/9, West Ham (a) 19/9, Hull (h) 26/9
7 6 8 7 5 6 6 6
▲ Aston Villa 3 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 3 1 +2 6
Lennon Modric 40 Halford Jarvis 46 Leading goalscorers Birmingham (a) 13/9, Portsmouth (h) 19/9, Blackburn (a) 26/9

6 5 7 6 ▼ Sunderland 4 1 0 1 3 4 1 0 1 1 1 -1 6 Hull (h) 12/9, Burnley (a) 19/9, Wolves (h) 27/9

Keane Defoe Tott’ham Birm’ham Doyle Keogh Wolves Hull ▼ Burnley 4 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 5 -3 6 Liverpool (a) 12/9, Sunderland (h) 19/9, Tottenham (a) 26/9

5 10 Shots on target 5 Hunt 5 Ghilas 6 Shots on target 3 lge cups other total West Ham 3 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 +1 4 Wigan (a) 12/9, Liverpool (h) 19/9, Man City (a) 28/9

McFadden O’Connor Larsson 7 Folan 6 Rooney (Man Utd) 4 0 1 5 ▼ Birmingham 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 3 -1 4 Aston Villa (h) 13/9, Hull (a) 19/9, Bolton (h) 26/9
10 Shots off target 5 9 Shots off target 1
6 6 Carsley 6 7 Kilbane Olofinjana Defoe (Tottenham) 4 0 0 4 ▲ Wolves 4 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 1 1 1 -2 4 Blackburn (a) 12/9, Fulham (h) 19/9, Sunderland (a) 27/9
6
Bowyer 7 Ferguson 82% Passing 69% 65% Passing 61% Saha (Everton) 2 0 2 4 Hull 4 1 0 1 2 5 0 1 1 2 3 -4 4
5 Geovanni 6 ▲ Sunderland (a) 12/9, Birmingham (h) 19/9, Liverpool (a) 26/9
Carr Parnaby
12 Fouls 10 Dawson Zayatte 11 Fouls 15 Adebayor (Arsenal) 3 0 0 3 ▼ Fulham 3 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 2 -3 3 Everton (h) 13/9, Wolves (a) 19/9, Arsenal (h) 26/9
6 7 7 6
6 6 7 5 Drogba (Chelsea) 3 0 0 3 ▲ Everton 3 1 0 1 3 7 0 0 1 0 1 -5 3 Fulham (a) 13/9, Blackburn (h) 19/9, Portsmouth (a) 26/9
Queudrue R Johnson 7 Corners 3 8 Corners 2
6 Mouyokolo 7 Turner Wigan 4 0 0 2 0 6 1 0 1 3 2 -5 3
A Johnson (Fulham) 0 0 3 3 ▼ West Ham (h) 12/9, Arsenal (a) 19/9, Chelsea (h) 26/9
Hart 2 Offsides 4 Myhill 3 Offsides 5
Torres (Liverpool) 3 0 0 3 Blackburn 3 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 2 -3 1 Wolves (h) 12/9, Everton (a) 19/9, Aston Villa (h) 26/9
Tottenham substitutes  Hutton• h-t  Crouch 49 Wolves substitutes  Vokes 89. Subs not used Hahnemann, Edwards,
 Pavlyuchenko 80. Subs not used Button, Naughton, Bentley, Giovani. Surman, David Jones, Berra, Zubar. Zamora (Fulham) 1 0 2 3 ▼ Bolton 3 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 1 0 1 -3 0 Portsmouth (a) 12/9, Stoke (h) 19/9, Birmingham (a) 26/9
Birmingham substitutes  Benítez 73  McSheffrey 90. Hull substitutes  Altidore 63  Fagan 73  Barmby 82. Portsmouth 4 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 1 5 -6 0
Subs not used Maik Taylor, O’Shea, Espinoza, Phillips. Subs not used Warner, Cooper, Boateng, Halmosi.
(21 players on two goals) ▼ Bolton (h) 12/9, Aston Villa (a) 19/9, Everton (h) 26/9
The Guardian | Monday 31 August 2009 39

Fahim’s charm fails to lift gloom over Portsmouth

David Hytner Fratton Park
Portsmouth 0 Manchester City 1
Adebayor 30
Sulaiman al-Fahim celebrated his takeo-
ver of Portsmouth by sporting a replica
team shirt and baseball cap and watching
the second half of this match from the
Fratton Park stands alongside the club’s
supporters. It set the seal upon a charm
offensive from the Dubai-based property
developer, that had earlier seen him
embrace fans in the disabled section of
the stadium, but Portsmouth need so
much more than PR fluff.
They finished with a flourish here and
the substitute David Nugent will have
nightmares at how he failed to beat the
Manchester City goalkeeper Shay Given
from close range, after he had taken a fine
first touch with his chest. The less said
about his second, the better.
City, who maintained their perfect start
truth is that after four defeats in four
games they have made their worst start to
a league campaign for 56 years. And with
further boardroom upheaval and player
sales in prospect, the future looks bleak.
The day had started with the chief exec-
utive, Peter Storrie, accusing the outgoing
owner Sacha Gaydamak of “the ultimate
betrayal” for his decision to sell to Fahim
rather than the rival consortium that he
had fronted. Storrie claimed that the
wealth and good intentions of his backer,
the Saudi businessman Ali al-Faraj, would
have secured the “long-term financial
well-being of the club”. He also said that
Gaydamak would rather have put the club
into administration than sell to him and
Faraj. Gaydamak declined to comment
yesterday.
What future now at the club for Storrie?
There was also uncertainty regarding the
playing staff with Tottenham Hotspur
preparing an offer of £5m for the mid-
fielder Niko Kranjcar and Paul Hart, the
Portsmouth manager, being unable to
transfer deadline. The goalkeeper did not it became because it [the takeover] has
play here, because of bone-bruising to his The breakdown taken so long.
knee, but Hart suggested that he could be “The last three months have been
fit for England’s friendly against Slovenia Paul Hart Mark Hughes almost as though the club has been in
at Wembley on Saturday. Selection Gave debuts Selection Started with limbo, so to get an end to that would be a
to Brown and Smith Bellamy on the left
Would he remain a Portsmouth player bonus for everybody and hopefully we can
Tactics Asked instead of Robinho
on Wednesday? “I don’t know,” said Hart. Piquionne to work Tactics Stuck with begin to move forward now.”
“There are two days to the deadline and I alone up front what had worked so far City felt their way slowly into the
don’t think anybody in the Premier League Game–changing Game–changing Was game, but once the impressive Emmanuel
would be confident about any player not Went to two up front forced to withdraw Adebayor had put them in front, having
leaving. At the moment, David’s injured so when Nugent was Richards and Ireland lost his marker, Aaron Mokoena, to head
sent off because of injuries
you would think that it would be slightly home Gareth Barry’s corner, they looked
limited anyway.” set to coast.
Hart has been given the green light to Richard Hughes ▼ Gareth Barry ▲ Micah Richards, who would limp off
Sloppy in possession, The England manager,
add much-needed depth to his squad and the central midfielder Fabio Capello, watching with a knee injury, had the ball in the net
two of his new signings, Tommy Smith and lifted a precious from the stands, cannot just before half-time only for a linesman’s
Michael Brown, made their debuts here. half-chance over the fail to have been flag for offside against Barry to cut short
Aruna Dindane, Kevin-Prince Boateng and bar and there was no impressed with the his celebrations. It was hugely debatable
Jamie O’Hara have also joined, although disappointment among midfielder’s drive and as to whether Barry, at the far post, was
the home crowd when composure. He looks to
too late last week to be cleared to play he was substituted in have been an extremely
interfering with play.
in this match, and Hart hopes to make the second half shrewd signing Portsmouth showed character to rally
further additions. But the impression late on. The substitute John Utaka fizzed
given, after Fahim took months longer Suspensions Suspensions a drive just wide of the far post and the
than expected to finalise his takeover, is None None midfielder Richard Hughes blazed high
of a frantic Supermarket Sweep. Can Hart when well placed before Nugent suffered

to the new season without hitting their
stride, would have been left with egg all
over their faces if Nugent had not directed
his shot down into the ground and straight
at Given. Once again, City stood accused of
lacking the ruthless edge to make a game
safe. For Portsmouth, however, the brutal
give any assurances that David James
would remain at the club after tomorrow’s
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piece together a team on the hoof that is Key minute his horror moment.
capable of survival? Adebayor’s downward There was even time left for Utaka
header, which the
“We’re building now whereas most to misdirect a header from only eight
Pompey goalkeeper
clubs have built three months ago,” he Begovic could do yards out. The Premier League, however,
said. “It’s more difficult and of course, in nothing to keep out, has no time for hard-luck stories. Port-
May, there was a different budget, not a steadied City’s nerves smouth need to fashion a change in theirs,
huge budget, but it was different to what and quickly.

Sulaiman al-Fahim, Portsmouth’s new owner, was decked out in the club’s colours when he joined home supporters in the stands to watch the second half of the 1-0 defeat to Manchester City Sean Ryan/IPS

Moyes desperate for new blood after dead-ball diet earns first points
Louise Taylor Goodison Park
Everton 2 Wigan Athletic 1
Saha 62 Scharner 57
Baines 90 pen
If set-piece proficiency alone determined
Premier League placings, Everton would
be Champions League material. Instead
the Merseysiders’ limitations from open
play meant that David Moyes’ side were
extremely fortunate to collect their first
points of the season courtesy of Leighton
Baines’s stoppage-time penalty.
It had taken a Baines corner headed
home by Louis Saha for the home team to
draw level against a vulnerable, initially
unambitious, Wigan. If Moyes is to fulfil
his aspirations at Goodison – or perhaps
attract more exalted employers – he badly
needs to infuse Everton with creativity.
Despite the lack of improvisation at
Goodison – the first-half highlight was
arguably the moment when Wigan’s
over-enthusiastic Hendry Thomas gained
so much forward propulsion he uninten-
tionally tackled Everton’s manager on
the touchline – the club yesterday moved
closer to signing the Atlético Madrid
Tim Cahill climbs above Wigan’s Paul
Scharner for a header at Goodison Park
defender, Johnny Heitinga, after the clubs
agreed a £5m fee, although personal terms
remain to be resolved. “The chairman and
the staff are working really hard to bring
people in by Tuesday but there’s no guar-
antee that will happen,” said Moyes.
Avoiding relegation is Wigan’s priority
and their manager, Roberto Martínez,
was left downcast at his side’s failure to
hold their lead, particularly after Paul
Scharner’s opener was followed by Jordi
Gomez striking a post and the substitute
Scott Sinclair spurning a decent opening.
“I’m really disappointed,” said Mar-
tínez. “For the first 20 minutes Everton’s
aerial threat meant we couldn’t get into
the game but we changed it round a bit
after that and looked dangerous. We had
chances to kill the game.” Like Moyes,
Martínez had configured his side in a
conservative single-striker formation and,
time after time, visiting counter-attacks
petered out due to a lack of support for
Hugo Rodallega. Joleon Lescott’s central
defensive replacement, Sylvain Distin,
was so under-exerted he might have been
taking a Sunday afternoon stroll in nearby
Stanley Park.
Bar the odd moment of invention
from Charles N’Zogbia, possibly the most
menacing thing about Wigan in the first
half was their DayGlo orange kit – a strip
so bright it made the watching Hulll City
manager Phil Brown look positively y pale
and subdued. True, Mohamed Diame iame
attempted to play the hatchet man an in
Martínez’s central midfield but in reality
eality
he merely charged aimlessly around d like
hirts.
a young bullock, lunging at blue shirts.
Shortly after Diame was booked d forr
hacking down Phil Neville, the Spaniard as the focus of much more of a three-man
sensibly substituted him. attack. Such bravery paid dividends when
It proved a watershed. Suddenly Mario Melchiot slipped the ball to N’Zogbia
Martínez showed why he is such a hot and the Frenchman’s cross was met by
managerial property. Withdrawing Rodal- Scharner – hitherto upstaged by Everton’s
lega to the left and switching N’Zogbia to Jack Rodwell in central midfield – at the far
the right, he introduced Jason Scotland post where the Austrian stooped to head
beyond Tim Howard.
When the improving Jordi Gómez
The breakdown directed a shot against a post after being
cleverly played in by Melchiot, the gloom
David Moyes Roberto Martínez enveloping Goodison was every bit as
Selection Gave Distin Selection Kept Koumas brooding as the rain clouds overhead.
debut in central and King on the bench
Fortunately for Moyes, his side remain
defence, Jô on bench Tactics Gómez and
Tactics Cautious 4-4- N’Zogbia attacked out adept at those set-pieces and Saha was
1-1, Cahill behind Saha wide, packed midfield on hand to head home Baines’s corner,
Game-changing Game-changing leaving the impressive Titus Bramble and
Fellaini’s introduction Scotland brought on, largely unconvincing Emerson Boyce to
gave Bramble problems N’Zogbia went to right debate what had gone wrong.
With Marouane Fellaini finally on, Ever-
Suspensions Suspensions ton threatened from a barrage of dead balls
None None but the biggest indictment of their gamep-
lan was that they produced just one mem-
Man of the match
matc orable passing movement – an early inter-
Jack Rodwell Everton
Ev change involving Steven Pienaar, Leon
Put Diame and
Scharner in their places
Osman and Tim Cahill which concluded
in central midfield and with Saha blasting over. Admittedly it all
forced a fine save with ended happily enough when Boyce’s trip
ahhalf-volley
alf-volley on Jô prompted Baines’s match-winning
penalty but Moyes will not be fooled.
Andy Murray
I’m ready to winn my first
major title at US
S Open
Interview, page 29 ≥
guardian.co.uk/sportt
Monday 31.08.09
Wenger brands
United tactics
‘anti-football’
Arsenal manager accuses
rivals of systematic fouling
Fletcher bears the brunt
of Frenchman’s anger
Daniel Taylor
Arsène Wenger has reopened hostilities
between Manchester United and Arsenal
by accusing the Premier League cham-
pions of using “anti-football” tactics
during their 2-1 victory at Old Trafford on
Saturday. Wenger is to receive an official
apology for being banished from the dug-
out but he remains incensed by the “Old
Trafford-ish” standard of refereeing and
his conviction that Sir Alex Ferguson’s
players, predominantly Darren Fletcher,
were guilty of systematic fouling.
After a period of calm between Wenger
and Ferguson the allegations will go down
badly at Old Trafford after a match in which
Arsenal had six players booked, triggering
a £25,000 fine from the Football Associa-
tion. The conduct of Wenger’s players was
also brought into question by Emmanuel
Eboué being shown a yellow card for div-
ing, a day after Eduardo da Silva had been
charged by Uefa for “deceiving the refe-
ree” for a similar offence, but the Arsenal
manager insisted the “bigger problem” in
football was of players being allowed to
get away with persistent fouling.
“There are other points [than diving]
that, for me, are more urgent – players who
play only to make fouls and who are never
punished; players who make repeated
fouls punished, and who get out of the
game without a yellow card. That, for me,
is more anti-football than a player who did
what Eduardo did.” Wenger was asked
whether he meant Fletcher and laughed,
Inside
≥ said. “I’ve spoken to Keith Hackett and he
Pot, kettle, black?
Fours days after accusing Arsenal’s
Eduardo da Silva of cheating, Celtic
were caught up in their own diving
controversy yesterday when the
midfielder Aiden McGeady was sent
off for picking up a second yellow
card, ironically for simulation, in his
side’s 1-0 win against Hibernian.
McGeady sees red, page 32 ≥
Button admits to lucky escape after crashing out on first lap
Maurice Hamilton Spa
Jenson Button admits he was lucky his
championship lead was cut by just two
points after crashing out on the first lap of
the Belgian grand prix yesterday. Button
failed to score for the first time this season
but his three main rivals for the world
title all failed to take full advantage of
his accident. The Brawn driver now has a
16-point lead with five races to go.
Button’s team-mate Rubens Barrichello
struggled into seventh place as Sebastian
Vettel took third to score six points and
leapfrog into third in the drivers’ cham-
pionship ahead of his Red Bull colleague,
Mark Webber, who finished ninth and
replying with mock surprise: “Why do you
say the name?” Fletcher had given away
six free-kicks, twice as many as any of his
team-mates, but was not one of the three
United players to get a yellow card.
“I have seen a player who plays only
on the pitch to make repeated fouls,”
Wenger continued. “Look at how many
deliberate fouls some players make and
get away with. I think that’s a bigger prob-
lem [than diving] because it cuts the flow
of the game.”
Wenger has accused Ferguson’s players
of using similar tactics in the past, most
notably saying his team had been “kicked
off the pitch” at Old Trafford during the
2004-05 season. It was put to him that he
had previously suspected this was a delib-
erate part of United’s strategy. “You will
have to ask them,” he replied.
On this occasion, however, the French-
man may have opened himself to allega-
tions of diversion tactics at a time when
Eduardo and Eboué have embarrassed
the club. The manager did recognise that
Eboué had tried to win a free-kick by going
down under a non-existent challenge,
but there was no condemnation and he
continued to insist that Eduardo was the
victim of a Uefa “witch-hunt.” He said: “I
think it is difficult with diving. Sometimes
players dive to escape being hit.”
The referee, Mike Dean, acting on the
advice of the fourth official, Lee Probert,
sent off Wenger in the final moments of
Saturday’s game for kicking a water bot-
tle in frustration after a disallowed goal.
However, the FA is unlikely to take disci-
plinary action. Instead, the League Man-
agers’ Association chief executive, Rich-
ard Bevan, spoke to the Premier League
referees’ chief, Keith Hackett, yesterday
and was informed that Wenger would
receive an apology.
“Although [the decision was] correct in
law, it was completely out of context in the
game and it was followed by the nonsense
over where Wenger should sit,” Bevan
fully recognises the situation was an error
and an apology will follow. Lee Probert
totally failed to manage the situation and
created a needless pressure point, taking
the focus away from the pitch.”
Eduardo will discover tomorrow
whether Uefa is to ban him for the exag-
gerated fall that led to Arsenal winning a
penalty against Celtic last week. Arsenal
will fight his case and Wenger said the
club had television pictures to prove that
the forward had been touched by Celtic’s
goalkeeper, Artur Boruc.
Richard Williams, page 36 ≥
failed to score. “I lost two points of my
championship lead, which is not good,”
said Button. “I’ve just got to try and make
sure it goes the opposite way at the next
race. It could always be worse.
“My start was OK and I was up to 11th or
12th and that could have been a good race
for me. Lewis [Hamilton] had a bad start
in front of me but I was able to get round
him. Then, at turn one, I was pushed wide;
there was nowhere to go because it was
three abreast. I saw [Fernando] Alonso
and [Adrian] Sutil touch in front of me,
but I was OK. But then I got hit at turn five
by [Romain] Grosjean. I can’t believe he’s
blaming me. He hit me but I don’t really
care. It’s not important. I didn’t score any
points – that’s what’s important.
Jessic Ennis
Jessica Martin Kelner
Heptathlon champion on
Hepta BBC serves up its football
her new
ne fame and fortune courses in wrong order
Interview, page 30 ≥
Interview Screen Break, page 27 ≥
Emmanuel Adebayor, who scored the only goal in Manchester City’s 1-0 win
against Portsmouth, celebrates after the game Andrew Couldridge/Action Images
“Having Rubens behind at the start and
the Red Bulls not going so well was a good
position [for me] to be in, so it was very
disappointing when I crashed.
“All I could do was watch the race. I saw
Rubens get a couple of points but there
was a problem with Webber’s pit stop and
he wasn’t able to score any points – which
is good for the championship from my
point of view.
“This was a race which we had expected
Red Bull to win easily. The fact that they
didn’t shows that a lot of teams are strong
now. When your weekend doesn’t go
perfectly, it’s difficult to win from that far
back on the grid.”
Jenson Button’s title lead was cut by With five races remaining and 50 points
just two points despite a first-lap crash available, Button has 72 points, Barrichello
Hughes hails
Adebayor after
striker keeps
City on a roll
David Hytner Fratton Park
Mark Hughes has saluted Emmanuel
Adebayor for a blistering start to life
at Manchester City and suggested the
striker had shed his “bad boy” reputation.
Adebayor scored the winner in yesterday’s
1-0 win at Portsmouth, his third Premier
League goal in three games for City, after a
£25m summer transfer from Arsenal.
The Togo striker was painted as a source
of dressing-room friction at the Emirates
and the Arsenal crowd turned on him at
points last season. But Hughes feels that
Adebayor has rekindled his love for the
game and said he could be a driving force
in City’s quest for honours this season.
“There was a lot said about Ade as a
player and as a person and a lot of it was
negative,” said Hughes, the City manager.
“But he has come in and he is very much
wanting to be a success for us. A lot of the
things that were said before [about him]
… I haven’t seen it in him. He is a good
vocal voice in the dressing room and he is
encouraging his team-mates.
“I have been really impressed by his
play and his personality. It’s clear to see
that he’s enjoying what’s around him and
the fans at City love him. Maybe that’s
what was missing from his life before.”
Mark Hughes
thinks Emmanuel
Adebayor has
put negative talk
and a ‘bad boy’
reputation
behind him
Adebayor ensured that City maintained
their 100% start to the new season, in
which they have yet to concede a goal.
Hughes, though, acknowledged that
their next two Premier Leagues fixtures,
against Arsenal and Manchester United,
would offer more serious tests. Adebayor
will certainly relish the Arsenal game.
“Ade knows he’s at the start of some-
thing and it may be something special,”
said Hughes. “He wants to play a big part
in that and he certainly will. It’s still early
but what we have to do is make sure that
we’re in the mix when it comes to the
business end.
“Last season, when there would be a
swing in a game’s momentum against us,
we would go under but this season, I sense
that the group thrives on that rather than
being apprehensive about it. That’s the
key shift in terms of mentality.”
Hughes confirmed that the club were
in talks with Brian Kidd, the former City
player, about a coaching role at academy
level. City are restructuring the set-up of
their youth teams.
Match report, page 39 ≥
56, Vettel 53 and Webber 51.5. Having won
six times and finished third in the first
seven races to collect 61 points, Button has
scored just 11 points in the last five races.
Ross Brawn, Button’s team principal, said:
“Yes, Jenson is under pressure, but he’s
got to get used to it.”
Hamilton was eliminated at the same
place after making a poor start from 12th
on the grid. “When it goes bad, it goes
bad,” said Hamilton. “I’d got off to a bad
start and I was under attack all the way
through the first corner and up the hill.
When Button spun in front of me going
into turn five, I had to back off and got hit
from behind. That was it.”
Race report, page 32 ≥
Monday 31.08.09

QUEEN
OF SERENE
Joanna Lumley
on Gurkhas,
Phil Woolas
and the fine art
of persuasion

How rugby got mean Doonesbury Ask Hadley The Edinburgh Oscars
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4 The G2 interview
Joanna Lumley tells
Laura Barton about
being declared a
Goddess of the Gurkhas
and her candlelit dinner
The xx . . .’Teachers gave us a chance
with Phil Woolas
to experiment and make music’
8 Foul play
From Bloodgate to
cocaine use, rugby
union’s image is at
an all-time low. Can it
recover – or has the
game been damaged
beyond repair?
15 Ask Hadley
What should I wear
on the Trafalgar
Square plinth?
Arts
Tales from the real school of rock
12 And the award goes
to . . . Lyn Gardner and
Brian Logan pick their
Edinburgh festival
N
ew band the xx
winners and losers have wowed critics
with their delicate
14 Germaine Greer debut album, but
My encounter their success is no
with soprano surprise – the foursome are just
Hildegard Behrens the latest musical stars to gradu-
ate from London’s real-life school
of rock.
From Mercury award nominees inees
Hot Chip and Burial to Four Tet’s
Keiran Hebden and Grammy--
nominated Dragonforce, some me of
the UK’s most successful youngung
musicians have been through h the
Elliott school in the last
20 years.
I spent seven years at this
Putney comprehensive in
west London, a modernist
monstrosity in the middle of
the rough Ashburton council
estate. Unlike fellow alumni thehe
Macabees and a handful of So
Solid Crew, despite a miserable le
few months of clarinet lessonss
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tion that showcased the sixth
form’s musical talents and was as
the bedrock of the school’s
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vibrant music scene. One session
turned into a full-on rave with
strobe lights and smoke machines,
another featured an amazing sax
solo by Emma Smith (later also
nominated for a Mercury).
But Elliott was no Brit School
or showy City Academy; it was
always rather shabby and unruly.
Romy from the xx says this was
Hot Chip . . . nominated
for a Mercury award
its charm: “Teachers were so busy
with dysfunctional kids it gave
us the chance to experiment and
make music.” Hebden agrees:
“I’d rehearse with my band at
lunch and for hours after school
without any interference.”
The mixed background of the
pupils also played a part in the
school’s musical strength,
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drama
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transcended
tr class and bought
all our students together.”
Today, Elliott is deemed
a failing
fa school by Ofsted. It’s
far more regimented since the
inspirational
ins teachers from
the late 70s retired. Under their
tutelage
tute we might have locked
the occasional
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cupboard, had fights at bus stops
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and bunked
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but
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open-minded. I just hope Elliott
open
school
scho can find its mojo again.
Lottie
Lotti Jeffs

‘I don’t get out
of my kennel
for less than
£10,000’
A
h, the modelling
dynasty where
perfect cheekbones
are passed from one
generation to the
next: Jerry Hall to Lizzie Jagger,
Yasmin Le Bon to Amber, Elle
“the Body” Macpherson to Bella
the labradoodle. Yes, that’s right,
Macpherson’s pet is poised to
set the world alight with an
advertising campaign for canine
accessories website dogside.com
– and her owner is reportedly
being paid a five-figure salary
for the privilege.
Could we too ride out the
economic storm on the back of
a canine companion? Sadly no,
according to Melody Lewis,
director of PetLondon Models,
the UK’s leading animal modelling
agency. “I think it’s important that
owners realise that pet modelling
isn’t a full-time career – the dog
isn’t going to work every day,
Why I love
other people’s
gardens
P
eople who pave them
over and park their
cars on them just don’t
deserve to have a
garden; likewise
those who surrender them to
dustbins and weeds. I live in
Dublin and summer can be
difficult if you have no access to
space outside, not even a balcony.
So we, the gardenless, depend
upon you, our more fortunate
neighbours, to get us through
hrough the
summer, from that first st fragrant
cut of the lawn to the leaf-mould
eaf-mould
and berries of early autumn.
tumn.
We never forget thatt these
gardens don’t belong to o us. We
can’t settle down there with a
cool drink and a book. We
can’t have a barbecue.
You do all the work: wee
have no strategy to
stop the slugs from
The latest supermodel . . .
labradoodle Bella
9-to-5 like an office job. They
need to see it as a bit of fun.”
Best not ditch those designs
for your next range of Intimates
lingerie just yet then, Elle.
The average punter could
expect their hound to bring home
just £30 to £50 an hour. So what
would clients expect from a
doggy who won’t get out of bed
for less than £10,000? For Lewis,
it’s not about conventional
eating your hostas. We’re not going where we can linger for a while,
to trim your hedge for you, nor
weed your flowerbeds. And we
don’t like everything you grow.
Your red-hot pokers are hideous,
and your pampas grass is a waste
of space.
But it’s worth a detour just to
see that yellow rose of yours in
full bloom, and it was a stroke
of genius to put lilies in that
particular corner. Very few
people grow lupins now, but
you do, and we love them.
Gardenless folk need all thehe
greenery they can get, so we
value tree-lined streets and
squares, which soften the city ty
in summer. We also depend
do: pop-up te
on parks and public gardens,,
speaker syst
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last week. An
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table was er
Watch your
back,
Silverton!
Chris Eakin
Newsflash! No
famous faces
on TV today
Y
ou soon know your
place in the pecking
order of the BBC
newsroom, especially
when there’s a bank
holiday looming. Yes, this is one
of those long, lazy weekends
when the undead of the news
channels get their chance to
beauty (owner’s or dog’s), it’s break free from the shackles
about talent. “We have a skate- of 24-hour rolling reports and
boarding dog, a dog that can speak barely discernible audiences
on command, and dogs that can to shine in the bright lights of
dance. For that kind of money terrestrial television.
they’d have to have a special skill Reading the bank holiday news,
and a very unique look.” There it seems, is one of those rites of
you have it, Bella, it’s not all down passage that every hungry news
to who you know; best invest in presenter must endure on their
some doggy shinpads and a couple arduous journey to the top of the
of pairs of in-line skates sharpish. news tree. No day off in lieu. No
Laura Potter time-and-a-half. No choice. Just
dragged away from the howling
winds and tumbleweed of that
all-night slot to fill in for Fiona or
and sit down. But the scale is stand in for Silverton. Welcome
different in a park, and it’s the
intimacy and individuality of
instead, then, to the fleeting
household names of Chris Eakin
your little patch of ground that and Mike Embley, Lucy Meacock
we can’t do without. We hope you and Maxine Mawhinney, some of
know how much it means to us, the most dedicated, hard-working
and for brightening our summer and largely anonymous journalists
days we sincerely thank you. in the business working for BBC
Deirdre Madden News, BBC World and ITN.
Go on. Try putting a face to the
names. Not that it’s really that
Parks: we’re m important. But it begs the question:
It used to be
oving in
said that a Who on earth will they get to do
go od ga rden equalle the News Channel?
room in a ho d an extra
use. Now we Gavin Newsham
be treating lo seem to
cal parks as
ex te nsio ns of our homes
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ket will no lo
nger Fiona Bruce!
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s ems abound
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Park
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ia Park,
, a six-man di
ning
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with placem cked
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and cass ses
s erole dishes
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are nno longer just
for Maxine Mawhinney
visit
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all
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Pa
P ula Cocozz Barack Obama is in Martha’s
a
Vineyard. He’s back next week
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 The G2 interview

Laura Barton
meets
Joanna Lumley

‘I don’t think I’m

much of a god.
I don’t have the
good snappy
nature that
would throw a
thunderbolt’
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 J
oanna Lumley glides into the
screening room. “Hallo, lovely peo-
ple!” she purrs at the group of jour-
nalists assembled to view her new
TV documentary, Cats, and to pose a
few questions to the woman famed
for being Purdey, Patsy and, more
recently, Goddess of the Gurkhas.
In dark trousers, blue top and elegantly
swathed scarf, Lumley sits at the front of the
room smiling down beatifically at the arc of
Dictaphones set out before her, answering ques-
tions about every kind of cat. She jokes about
the cat rock band she met in Chicago who play
the drums in return for salmon, and about the
cat-owners who dress their pets as frogs, cows
and mice. She seems fantastically good fun.
Lumley loves cats. Her last one was a hand-
some tabby named The Bee, who died some
time ago. “The Bee was heaven,” she says, in
a warm, sad kind of way. We have moved to a
quiet room set out with a coffee table, sand-
wiches and cakes. “He thought he was a dog, I
think, because when I used to go and post let-
ters in the village where we lived down in Kent,
With Patrick
MacNee and Gareth
Hunt in The New
Avengers in 1976
As the young daughter of a
Major in the Gurkha Rifles
6 The Guardian 31.08.09
‘In service stations, I always
clean the ladies loo. I pick up all
the bits of hankies, I tidy up the
bins, I clean the tops, I shut the
doors, I pull the plugs . . .’
he would walk down the street with me. Right
up to the post box, then walk back again.” She
smiles. “And he was a great companion cat, so
he would always come if I was gardening or if
Stephen [Lumley’s husband, the conductor
Stephen Barlow] was clearing stuff or washing
the car. He would always sit, and watch, and be
with you.” She had no hesitation, therefore,
when ITV approached her to present a docu-
mentary series about cats.
“Leaped at it!” she declares. “I was very
jealous of Martin Clunes, having done the dog
one.” Lumley makes this kind of statement
with such effervescent charm, like the perfect
At the height of fashion in 1983
With Jennifer Saunders in Absolutely Fabulous in 1995
hostess complimenting your dress, that it is
only afterwards you wonder if it was true. This
is of course part of her enduring appeal, a kind
of jovial bewitchery, and a voice that is soft and
fragrant and as perfectly English as gin.
How, I ask, attempting an awkward segue
into non-feline matters, did it feel to have
recently been declared a goddess by the
people of Nepal, following her successful
fronting of the Gurkha Justice Campaign?
“Well, it’s beyond comprehension actually,
you know?” she says modestly. “Somebody
explained to my son Jamie who was out there,
that in Nepal they believe that if the gods can’t
handle something, a problem, they pick some-
body out and send them to earth to solve the
problem, and the person who solves the prob-
lem is called a god or a goddess. And because
my head was above the parapet, because my
face was the identifiable one of our team – we
were a team – they maybe saw me as that per-
son who had been sent to sort the problem.”
Not a frightening god, mind, more of a
serene one. “I don’t have it in me,” she says. “I
don’t lose my temper. I used to, but I realised
 I would probably die of a brain haemorrhage.
So I’ve governed myself not to mind about
things. I have no road rage or anything like that.
Because it’s life-shortening. And also there’s no
need for it; it uses up energy. I don’t mind not
eating, or sitting in the bad part of a restaurant
or being snubbed, it doesn’t really matter to me
very much. So I don’t think I’m much of a god,
because I don’t have the good snappy nature
that would throw a thunderbolt.”
Instead, Lumley has learned the subtle art of
persuasion – to which anyone who witnessed her
confrontation of immigration officer Phil Woo-
las would attest: at the BBC Westminster offices
in May, Lumley, incensed by the rejection of
appeals for residency by five Gurkhas, pursued
Woolas around the studio and forced him into
an impromptu press conference, in which he
agreed to further talks on the matter. The BBC’s
political editor Nick Robinson declared that he
had rarely seen such a scene in his whole career.
“Well,” explains Lumley, gently, “with Mr Woo-
las we had just come from a room where we had
been talking with the lawyers and [Liberal Dem-
ocrat] Peter Carroll for about half an hour about
what the next step would be, and in that press
conference all I was doing was saying aloud and
corroborating with him what was said. But it
looked a little bit as though I was giving him a
tough time. So to make up for that I did invite
him round for supper.” Did he come? Lumley
smiles slowly, broadly. “Yeah,” she says. “And
he brought two friends and we had fish and
chips and champagne by candlelight.”
There is, she argues, a logic to taking a more
nuanced approach to browbeating. “The thing
about water is it’s strong,” she says. “And a river
running down, if you dam it, it’ll break the dam.
So find a way round, but don’t stop something.
And if you can find a way round it’s usually
much better. And people don’t get hurt – there’s
no reason for that. And people don’t lose face,
which is terribly important. But if a change of
mind can take place in their own minds, rather
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than being forced to it, I think it’s the best way
to do anything.” She pauses. “I’m a vegetar-
ian and I long for people to eat less meat,” she
adds, “but the thing to do is not to go, ‘Eat! Less!
Meat!” It’s to say I am fit as a flea and I’m 63, I
haven’t eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get
diseases, I’m never ill, and I’m full of energy. So
how’s about that?”
It’s an approach she claims to have learned
from her mother’s father, a diplomat. “I love
diplomacy,” she says. “I love courtesy and kind-
ness.” She describes her huge disappointment at
Britain’s failure to pursue a diplomatic solution
to the escalating problems in Iraq. “My father,
having been a soldier, said: ‘You should do eve-
rything on the planet before you go to war.’ It is
such a dreadful thing to do. War is so indefen-
sibly dreadful. All frontline soldiers know that,
know how utterly ghastly it is and that you must
never go there again light-heartedly. So anything
that stops conflict, I’m all for that.”
It was Lumley’s father, of course, a Major in
the 6th Gurkha Rifles, who inspired her cam-
paign. “Soldiers are necessary,” she says. “And
the thing about the Gurkhas is that if things have
to be done, they just do it without any kind of
malice. They’re just utterly efficient machines
for doing what they do. Machines is the wrong
word, but . . . It seems to me a good thing to do,
a brave thing to do, to protect people. I have the
highest regard for people who guard us, which
is policemen and the armed forces.”
‘If I had been a raging beauty
I would have gone to America
and made a career out
there. This country
slightly despises beauty’
Earlier this year, as the country was afflicted
by Lumley-fever, as there were cries of “Lum-
ley for PM!” and the people of Nepal named a
mountain in her honour, there were still one or
two detractors, those who claimed that allow-
ing the Gurkhas UK residency would deprive
the already poor nation of Nepal of the finan-
cial support provided by the soldiers’ pensions.
Lumley rolls her eyes a little at the mention of it.
“Yes, we’ve checked that out,” she says firmly.
“It’s going to be far better, farrrr better . . .” she
stretches the word. “If any of them work over
here they’ll make far more than they get on a
pension. All the Asian communities here send
L
money back home.
umley has spoken before about
the fact that she has throughout
her career played good people,
from the crime-fighting Purdey
to the Bolly-swigging Patsy,
via a brief turn as Ken Barlow’s
love interest in Coronation
Street. Add this to her Gurkha
campaign and the 60 charities she supports,
from Wateraid to Tibetan refugees, orphanages
and schools, supporting the Pastoralists in the
Horn of Africa and the Born Free Foundation,
and you begin to sense that she is acutely aware
of the importance of being good.
“God yes!” she says at the suggestion. “Ter-
ribly easy to be bad! It’s easy-peasy to kill some-
thing or break it! I’ve never been remotely
impressed by people with guns killing people in
films, it’s nothing to me. Of course you can kill
people! I could get a gun out and shoot you dead
now, you’re dead, it doesn’t make me powerful,
it’s just completely stupid.” Indeed two years
ago, she legendarily confronted a gunman in a
Sheffield bar, engaging him in polite conversa-
tion until the police arrived. “Being good, how-
ever, is fabulously hard,” Lumley continues.
“And we all fall off at every fence, you know?
And there’s nothing wet about being good! I
think sometimes there’s something quite wet
about being bad!”
Badness, she explains, comes in various
degrees. She rumples her brow. “I hate the
hand that comes out of a car and just drops lit-
ter in the street,” she snaps. “I hate that! For
some reason it just fills me with fury! It’s just
utter laziness, lack of interest in other people,
lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog
who might eat the plastic bag, it’s a lack of
concern.” Would she tell someone off ? “Yes,
but not horribly,” she says. “I would package
it up and say, ‘I believe you dropped this.’”
Her voice is buttery. “And if they were horrid I
would think of a different way of dealing with
it.” She pauses, smiles, leans a little closer.
“I’ve got to tell you in service stations on big
motorways I always clean up the ladies loo.
I pick up all the bits of hankies, I tidy up the
bins, I get using the towels, I clean the tops,
I shut the doors, I pull the plugs . . . Because
people live like animals. And surely if it looks
nice people won’t go on making it look so bad?
If you walk into a midden of filth maybe you
just don’t care about it? But it does baffle me
how people can behave so badly.”
It is perhaps this deep-rooted belief in good-
ness, along with a pervading sense of sleeve-
rolling practicality and her glamorous fearless-
ness, that make her such a fine documentary
host. Cats is the latest in a number of travel-
based documentaries: she has poled up rivers,
seen the Northern Lights in Norway, and spent
nine days on a desert island for the Girl Friday
documentary, where she famously made her
bra into a pair of shoes.
There is something to be said, too, for that
famously mellifluous voice. “I don’t know,” she
says lightly. “If you’re in something you don’t
ever hear it. And I’m lucky, believe me, I’m
lucky. I get as many offers for drama as I do doc-
umentaries.” Earlier, in the screening room, she
had dismissed talk of ageism on screen, arguing
that women of her age shouldn’t expect to get
the roles of a 23 year old. “I was never offered
them,” she says. “I mean I was 30 when I got
Purdey. So I was never playing Juliet at 14.”
Not that she would have wanted them any-
way. “I’ve never been interested enough to
have a career trajectory,” she continues. “I’ve
never had any ambition, or thought of what I
should be doing or had any idea of what I’d like
to do. Never. And still don’t. And if something
comes along I say fine. It’s like food, I like it,”
she waves at the spread on the coffee table,
untouched, “those sandwiches there, they look
fine, I wouldn’t have ordered them, but now that
they’re here they look fine. So that’s how my
acting is.” She stops for a moment and looks at
the sandwich platter. “But if I had been a raging
beauty I would have gone to America I imagine,
and made a career out there. Because you can’t
do that over here; this country slightly despises
beauty, and so all our lovely, lovely ones go and
make a hit of it over there. The Catherine Zeta
Joneses and the Kate Beckinsales.”
It comes as something of a surprise to dis-
cover that the much lusted-after Lumley
shouldn’t consider herself a raging beauty. “No,
never! And never was!” she insists. “I must tell
you this. But I had a useful face. I could work
with it – like my hair, it’s not nice but it’s useful,
it can be dyed different colours, go up and go
down. And so I always saw myself as a charac-
ter actress, which anyone in their right minds
would rather be than a beauty actress. Beauti-
ful is very boring.”
Still, that useful face, that voice, that charm,
have brought an enduring appeal for Lumley,
who has remained for more than 30 years one
of the most popular faces on British television.
She bats away any suggestion of a particular
beauty or talent. “[Programme-makers] know
that I’ll be a good old team person,” is how she
explains it. “The fact that I’d been a model in my
early days, the fact that I can put my own face on
and straighten my own hair back, drag out some
crumpled bit of clothing and pretend it looks
all right. So I’m all right as a team player,” she
says. “And I’m interested in things,” she adds,
“always interested in things.” So, I ask, if any-
thing should ever happen to David Attenbor-
ough, would she be prepared to fill his shoes?
“Oh,” she says softly, “nobody could fill his
shoes. But he can have my shoes. Even the
shoes I made out of a bra” •
Decca Aitkenhead is away
The Guardian 31.08.09 7
 Bloody
mess
From fake injuries to scandals over
cocaine use, rugby union’s image has taken
a severe battering. Barney Ronay reports
on how big money and the pressure to win
has corrupted this once noble game
W
hat on earth has
happened to
rugby union?
T h e n at i o n’s
preferred out-
door pastime
for burly, per-
sonable men
of vaguely military bearing kicked off its new
season this weekend, if not exactly in cri-
sis, then in a state of some distress. Usually
rugby disappears altogether during its sum-
mer recess, a period of welcome respite during
which it can untape its ears, remove the pro-
tective skullcap from its steaming crown and
steel itself for the rigours of the autumn. Not
so this year, during an extraordinary summer
that has seen English rugby windmilling its
way from crisis to black-eye to scarcely cred-
ible pantomime-cheating scandal.
Most obvious in all this was the incident now
known as Bloodgate, the extraordinary saga of
Harlequins winger Tom Williams and the vam-
pire blood capsule. Last week Quins coach and
former England great Dean Richards – lovable,
ambling, mild-mannered Dean Richards – was
banned from the sport for three years after it
emerged he had overseen a regime of dastardly
and opportunist manipulation of the rules on
replacing players with “blood injuries”. The
Bloodgate investigation centred on a Heineken
Cup match last April, during which Williams
was ordered to bite on a blood capsule – bought
in bulk from a joke shop in Clapham Junction by
club physiotherapist Steph Brennan – in order
to allow a potentially more effective replace-
ment to enter the field. Williams duly chomped
his capsule while he was buried at the bottom
of a ruck (after initially dropping it in the mud)
and left the field with suspiciously scarlet Hal-
loween-style gore dribbling from his lip.
8 The Guardian 31.08.09
A Quins club doctor was then pressurised
into cutting Williams’s lip with a scalpel before
the injury could be formally inspected. Four
unnamed Harlequins players have since admit-
ted getting up to similar tricks in other matches.
And suddenly rugby – a sport that seemed to be
populated until fairly recently by jolly decent-
seeming chartered surveyors with cauliflower
ears and policemen who liked a pint – has
started to look a little suspect.
The early rush to understand not just how
but why this could have happened has circled
around the two explanations. The first paints the
previously revered Richards as a blackguard and
a tyrant, a chillingly bloodless despot, amoral,
diabolical and smelling strongly of sulphur. Wil-
liams’s evidence at his disciplinary hearing has
been hungrily seized upon. “There was no doubt
he was the boss . . . I do not think I have ever seen
another player challenge Dean’s authority.” The
notion of a sole satanic mastermind might be
seductive, but it all seems a little too easy.
The second explanation suggests the
corruption could be more widespread and is to
do with money. The Heineken Cup is rugby’s
headline TV rights-fuelled beano, its Champions
League. The match against Leinster was a
quarter final, and hugely important financially
to a club skating on fine, albeit revenue-heavy
margins. Mark Evans, Harlequins’s chief
executive, would later tell Williams’s lawyer
that dragging the fake gore incident out into
the open could see the club lose £2m in revenue
if it were to be expelled from the competition,
leading directly to redundancies and relega-
tion. This year will see the Heineken Cup enter
its 15th season. Money came late to rugby. But
money ruins everything. Perhaps money has
already ruined rugby.
The truth is probably somewhere in
between these two explanations. What →
 Tom Williams of Harlequins
leaves the field with fake blood
pouring from his mouth last April
Photograph David Rogers

The Guardian 31.08.09 9

 emerges above all is a picture of a group
← of people not really in control of what
they’re doing. The capsule itself was a hare-
brained piece of subterfuge: even as he left
the field – openly winking at his replacement
– opposition players were pointing out that
Williams’s blood was clearly fake. Player and
club doctor then panicked: the attempt to cut
Williams’s lip was unplanned, and initially
botched. Above all, the balance of risk and
reward seems totally skewed. The potential
gains of getting Williams off the pitch and
another player on in his place were hardly
worth the terrible consequences of discovery.
There are those who have been quick to
dismiss the Harlequins affair as no more than
an oddity and a one-off, but this would be to
ignore the other distress signals currently
swirling around a sport that the British have
always loved quietly, rather than frenetically,
like football, or with the brittle self-ironising
of cricket. Last month three Bath players were
also banned by the RFU, this time for refusing
to take a drugs test after a calamitously self-
destructive end-of-season club party. Another
Bath player, Justin Harrison, had already admit-
ted taking cocaine on the same ferocious team
booze-up that began in notorious north London
nightclub The Church and ended up, oddly, in
a branch of The Pitcher and Piano. Mortified,
Harrison has since offered a wretched apology
and retired from the sport.
Add to this a late-season rash of onfield
gougings and resultant bans and it’s tempting
to wonder what exactly rugby thinks it’s up to.
Even the sport itself seems a little surprised at
all this. Certainly nobody currently involved
The changing shape of rugby players Yesterday’s stars . . .
Bill
Beaumont
Lock
10 The Guardian 31.08.09
in rugby wants to talk about Bloodgate very
much, and steps in the last few days to get a
selection of current players – one of them an
official spokesman for the players’ union – to
make a comment have met with a bull-necked
wall of silence.
This is perhaps a mistake. As the Guard-
ian’s rugby correspondent Rob Kitson says:
“Basically, this is all a huge shame. Rugby has
made huge strides forward. It’s unrecognis-
able as a sport from what it was 10 years ago.
England has even got the 2015 World Cup. And
just as we should be pushing on, we’ve hit this
set of buffers. You could say it’s the problem of
intense competition. There are societal aspects,
particularly with the drugs. Maybe it’s a bit like
banking. There’s this culture that’s there and
it works for years and then suddenly it all gets
flushed out into the open.”
Things certainly have changed, not just in
rugby, but around it. Perhaps what links Blood-
gate and Cocainegate is the sense that this is an
industry buckling into unusual shapes under
the tectonic pressures of 15 years of increas-
ingly fevered professionalism. In some ways
this is still a young sport. And at this point in
its helter-skelter evolution it feels as though no
one really knows where it is heading.
Least of all the players, who even look differ-
ent these days. Pressure to perform has created
a new breed of skull-capped humungousaur,
a gym-honed colossus more akin to the helm-
eted and shoulder-padded American footballer
than the prancing whippets and lumbering
weebles of the pre-modern game. Forwards
are now almost a stone-and-a-half heavier than
their counterparts a decade ago. Backs have
Jeremy
Guscott
Centre
gained more than a stone, all of it muscle. And
the pressure to bulk up has created other prob-
lems. “I think we are reaching a level where the
players have got too big,” the British and Irish
Lions team doctor James Robson mused after
this summer’s tour to South Africa in which
four players ended up in hospital. A sport that
has always been gladiatorial and unrelenting is
now ferociously and irreversibly so.
Then, of course, there are the drugs. Right
now nobody out there is saying rugby has a
drug problem. But then nobody was saying
rugby had a drug problem last January either,
when another former Bath player, the England
prop Matt Stevens, was banned for two years
for testing positive, also for cocaine. Stevens
is an Anglo-South African who became briefly
famous in 2006 for his turn as an endearingly
beefy and rumpled crooner on ITV’s The X
Factor: Battle of the Stars. After failing his
drugs test he cried on TV and resigned from
Bath before he was sacked.
“I do think there’s a lot more pressure and
media attention on rugby players,” he says
now, taking a break from his duties at the coffee
bar, Jika Jika, that he opened in Bath city cen-
tre after his ban. “People are starting to see that
rugby players are in the limelight a lot more, like
footballers and other kinds of entertainers. You
have all the benefits of fame and wealth, but
there are also some real pressures with that.”
Stevens is right: rugby players do crop up
in unexpected places. The England fly-half
Danny Cipriani is a regular face in the party
pages thanks to his relationship with tabloid
darling Kelly Brook. In August, the wedding of
“rugby star Iain Balshaw” made for an unlikely
PHOTOGRAPHS BOB THOMAS; ANDY HOOPER; NICK LAHAM; NICK KIDD; PAUL GILHAM
Gareth
Chilcott
Prop
cover story in Hello! magazine, albeit driven
by the presence of two of his guests, long-time
team-mate Mike Tindall and his girlfriend Zara
Phillips.
Still, it seems consistent with the lasting
affection we retain for our rugby players – as
opposed to that modern bogeyman, the foot-
balling millionaire-upstart – that public opinion
has yet to turn on the sport. If anything, there
is a sense of bemusement, and of concern.
Even after the revelations of the summer, the
response to Stevens’s problems with cocaine
has remained sympathetic.
“It was quite humbling that people were
willing to look past the fact I tested positive
for a recreational drug,” he says. “I’ve got a
problem and it’s something I’m dealing with,
but people have on the whole been very under-
standing.”
That cocaine should be the rugby player’s
drug of choice might seem a little surprising at
first. This is a sport that in the past was content
to sate itself on 14 pints of ale and a sing-song.
Cocaine is the opposite of a performance-
enhancing drug (as Stevens points out, “You’d
have a heart attack in 10 minutes if you tried to
take it and play a match”). But it is an aspira-
tional drug and an upwardly mobile drug. It’s
a drug taken by rich people, tired people and
people who go to certain kinds of spiff y night-
club. It provides a dusting of egomaniacal privi-
lege. It clears the mind of anything but cocaine.
And rugby – or at least a high-profile selection
of international rugby players – seems to have
been in the mood for some of that of late.
There are of course generational changes in
train here, and not just in the societal issue of
and today’s
Steve
Borthwick
Lock
Take away the sense
of fair play and officer-
class self-regulation
and rugby looks a little
odd, like men pushing
each other for money
well-heeled young men coming into contact
with recreational drugs. Stevens and the pro-
tagonists of Bloodgate are part of the first era
of players to have pursued their entire junior
and senior careers amid the mechanisms of the
streamlined professional game; and who find
themselves, in the Guinness Premiership, part
of the toughest rugby league in the world.
“People are bigger and stronger in rugby
now,” Stevens says of the sheer physical pain
of playing a professional rugby match. “Your
body takes an absolute battering most weeks
of the year. It’s all about dealing with that and
with the recovery too. As a rugby player you
spend your life in a cycle of pressure, trying to
be the best you can be all the time. I do think
rugby people and rugby clubs need to be more
aware that as a player both your physical state
and your mental state need to be looked at. It’s
really not a normal thing that rugby players are
putting themselves through.”
But are rugby people and rugby clubs really
aware of this? Bill Beaumont, a familiar figure
Matt
Banahan
Centre
from his jocular, pastel-sweatered appearances
on A Question of Sport, has been a member of the
International Rugby Board since 1999. He takes
a surprisingly unforgiving line on the pressures
facing the modern player: “With the rewards
comes the responsibility,” Beaumont says,
speaking just before the most recent Bloodgate
revelations. “It’s just a part of the game now. It
was an amateur game and you were only ever
in the public eye for a short spell. Well, that’s
changed and there is more pressure.
“Yes, the players are bigger and faster and
stronger and we as an authority are trying
to look after that. But it has always been
a physical-contact game. The players are
sportsmen and they have a finite shelf-life.
They’re well paid for what they do.”
In truth, Beaumont and the Beaumont gen-
eration seemed to be engaged in an entirely
different pursuit to what, from the outside,
could easily look like an increasingly violent,
drug-fringed and morally confused profes-
sional sport. What will trouble the guardians of
rugby is that the cheating brought to light in the
Bloodgate saga goes right to the heart of rugby’s
sense of self, its righteous and sustaining code
of honour.
Take away that sense of fair play and officer-
class self-regulation, and rugby starts to look a
little odd, a little like men pushing each other for
money. As the new season starts, this is a sport
that faces fresh challenges. Not just the usual
round of revenue-gathering, stadium revamps,
but things such as remembering what it was all
supposed to be about in the first place; not to
mention finding out if that old, deep rugby soul
is still intact •
Andrew
Sheridan
Prop
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 ArtsEdinburgh
We laughed, we
cried, we got naked
From the bewitching Power Plant to the
brilliant Pajama Men, it’s been a vintage
year at Edinburgh. Lyn Gardner
and Brian Logan dish out their gongs
for the festival’s most memorable shows
I
t can be hard to get perspective
when you’ve hardly slept in a
month, and you lost contact
with the real world weeks
ago. But this year’s Edinburgh
festival has been that rarest of
things, a vintage year. So here we dole
out our annual gongs for achievement,
endeavour – or otherwise.
The Best Performer award
The winner is . . . the audience. Edin-
burgh audiences are fantastic: patient,
polite and champion queuers. And this
year they were called on to do much
more – from taking their clothes off and
celebrating their bodies in Nic Green’s
12 The Guardian 31.08.09
life-changing, joyous Trilogy, to
confessing their intimate thoughts in
Internal. They remade the world in
Peter McMaster’s House, and provided
the dedications for Uninvited Guests’
heart-breaking Love Letters Straight
from Your Heart. And at the shows of
comics Jonny Sweet, Brian Gittins,
Felicity Ward, Ginger and Black, or
Adam Riches, they were variously
electrocuted, sat on, or sheathed in a
rubber goat mask and made to dance.
The Anti-Emmy award
The stars of American film and TV
came, saw – and were conquered. New
Zealander Rhys Darby may be flying
Achievement – or with the Conchords, but hiss Edinburgh g
otherwise . . . show barely got off the ground. Greg
(above from left) Behrendt, writer of He’s Just Not That
Janeane Garofalo; Into You, found that Edinburgh just
Trilogy; Bob wasn’t that into him. Janeane Garofalo
Golding; Power – she of The Larry Sanders Show and
Plant; (below) West Wing fame – arrived, tail between
Rhys Darby legs, after her Latitude festival walk-
out, and, in the eyes of most critics,
didn’t redeem her reputation. (The
Guardian demurred: we thought she
was actually pretty good.) And then
the all-conquering Hollywood
behemoth Ricky Gervais arrived – and
came a cropper with a fringe one-nighter
that frayed patience beyond snapping
point with its PC-baiting shtick.

The Navel-gazing aw
award
ward
Theatre this year was intentt on
drawing our attention to the fact that
it’s all pretend. In the international
festival, Faust and Optimism spent
thousands to demonstrate that theatre
is an illusion. On the fringe, The Pilots
and Michael Pinchbeck’s The Post
Show Party Show spent about 30 quid
each to prove exactly the same.
Theatre’s obsession with itself can be a
wee bit wearing. But John Clancy’s The
Event was a real winner for its
intelligent deconstruction of why
sitting in the dark and suspending our
disbelief can be dangerous.
The Jimmy Savile award
This is the age of the train, Sir
Jimmy once said – and so it proved in
Edinburgh this year, where two
of the funniest comedy shows were
railway-based. Albuquerque double-
act The Pajama Men set their comic
play Last Stand to Reason onboard
the Stanford Bullet, and populated
it with a wise-cracking panoply of
psychopaths, maiden aunts and
flirtatious zombies. Sheffield’s Tom
Wrigglesworth told us the extraordinary
story of his spat with Virgin Trains,
which began when he defended an
elderly woman against an extortionate
penalty fare. Edinburgh went loco for
both shows.
The Let There Be Light award
PHOTOGRAPH MURDO MACLEOD
The fringe is always the place to spot
the must-have essential theatrical
accessory. Last year it was the ukulele;
this year it was the hand-held torch.
Belt Up used torches to great effect in
The Trial, while Red Shift and Stan’s
Café offered variations on the theme.
But the award goes to the bewitching
Power Plant at the Royal Botanic
Hilarious choice
Did the right person win the Edinburgh
Comedy award? guardian.co.uk/stage
Garden, for the use of light on a
massive
i scalel : son ett lumière
l iè radical-
di l
ised for the live art crowd.
The Bring Me Sunshine award
Shows that pay tribute to – or cash in
on – the popularity of the entertainers
of yesteryear are as old as the jokes
they usually entail. Pythonesque by
Roy Smiles, which told the Monty
Python story “in the style of” the
troupe’s comedy, was a typical
example. The difference this year was
that one of these cash-ins hit paydirt.
Bob Golding’s one-man show about
Eric Morecambe, scripted by Tim
Whitnall, was a tour de force, enjoying
a shower of critics’ stars and bringing
daily sunshine to large audiences.
Elsewhere in town, Frisky and Man-
nish’s Noel Coward routine – in which
Lily Allen’s LDN was given a Mad Dogs
and Englishmen makeover – confirmed
the vogue for vintage entertainment.
The Home from Home award
When it comes to Edinburgh venues, es,
smaller is almost always better. The e
Pleasance turned 25, and deserved
to celebrate – although it was a pity
y planet. Kim Noble, for freaking comedy
they moved Baby Grand without
telling the audience. However, the
energy is now in independent
venues and found spaces. The
Edinburgh Medical School and
McEwan Hall came into their own for
Must: the Inside Story and Love
Letters. Kursk sat beautifully in the
e surprised. Bette Bourne, for being
Drill Hall, and Greg McLaren used his
caravan for More Than Words. The
Traverse programme was strong, and nd
the most cheering development was as
Glasgow’s Arches doing brilliant work
ork
at the old Aurora Nova venue, St
Stephens. But the runaway winner is
Forest Fringe, the free venue that has
reinvented the Edinburgh experience
Ricky for audiences and artists alike. Half
of Edinburgh didn’t want to be
Gervais
anywhere else.
came a
cropper The Airwaves award
Britain’s broadcasters stepped out of
with a one- the studio and on to the stage. Radio 1’s
Scott Mills appeared in a musical
nighter that
about, er, himself. 5Live’s Richard
frayed Bacon performed his first ever standup
set in the Udderbelly, and broadcast it
patience
live on his late-night show. The One
Show’s Hardeep Singh Kohli, ex-Big
Breakfast host Denise van Outen, and
the man who lent his name to Duncan
Dares, Peter Duncan, all sought to
prove that they work just as well in
three dimensions. The trouble was that
if you reached for the remote control,
you reached in vain.
The Going Beyond the Call of
Duty award
To be shared between the following:
Andrew Scott, for the bleakest, bravest
performance of the fringe in Sea Wall.
perfo
Dancing Brick and Lucy Foster, for
Danc
making us laugh and trying to save the
maki
plan
audiences out with his multimedia
audi
suicide note Kim Noble Will Die.
suici
Inspector Sands, for turning anxiety
Insp
into an art-form in If That’s All There
Is. Circa,
Ci for making circus so beautiful.
Hans Teeuwen, for surprising even
those
thos of us who expected to be
surp
himself in A Life in Three Acts. Action
hims
Hero,
Hero for cutting myth down to size in
A Western
W . The countless standups
who
wh felt obliged to apologise to the
Guardian
Gu every time they cracked a
suspect
sus gag (bless!). And Peggy Shaw
excavating
exc herself in Must. It’s been
an exceptionally
e brilliant year •
The Guardian 31.08.09 13
 ArtsComment
Germaine Greer The critics loved to mock her – but in
my eyes, Hildegard Behrens was no less than sublime


Hildegard Behrens is dead –
only two years older than
I am, and felled by an
aneurysm in Japan, far
from her Vienna woods.
She is the reason I gave up
going to performances of the Ring. I don’t want anyone
else’s Brünnhilde to blur my memory of her doing it with the
Vienna State Opera in April 1996. In her obituaries over the
last fortnight, there has been a great deal said about her
intelligence, her insight, her occasionally dodgy vocal quality
– all of it true, but somehow missing the mark. She was
sublime. What that means is that she was occasionally ridic-
ulous. Her Tosca was ridiculous – on video, that is. You can’t
– sorry, couldn’t – get what Behrens was doing if you weren’t
seeing her live in an opera house, and sometimes not even
then. It was partly a matter of the scale of her performance,
which you’re not going to get if you’re poking a video camera
down her throat. You’re not going to get it at the Met either,
because the Met is just too vast. I don’t know what premoni-
tion sent me to Vienna that spring, but I am so glad I scraped
together enough money for a good hotel and the occasional
sachertorte mit schlag. Hildegard Behrens changed forever
my understanding of the art of singing opera.
I had always been a stickler for perfect intonation, floating
tone slicing its way through the orchestral texture by force White-hot before. I learned then that pretty is enjoyable – but sublime
of sheer purity, even in the most dramatic of operas. I intensity . . . exists on another level, beyond comfort, somewhere at the
thought Joan Sutherland had it pretty right, as she shaped Behrens, edge of the world.
ineffable ornaments like a craftsman cutting diamonds, each who died earlier Behrens had sung Brünnhilde to James Morris’s Wotan
grace note perfectly in tune. You mightn’t have been able to this month, as many times before, notably when she made her debut in the
distinguish Sutherland’s words in any language, but you Brünnhilde in role at the Met in 1990. Runnicles’s unsentimental insistence
never misunderstood the emotional colour of what she Siegfried at the on strict tempo suited her much better than had James
sang. She could add plangency that was heartbreaking, Metropolitan Levine’s traditional schmalz and schwärmerei. On Runnicles’s
without straying from the middle of the note. Behrens Opera firm orchestral armature, she erected a performance so
was the opposite, a kamikaze pilot of a singer. Hers was an shattering that, in act three of Die Walküre, even Morris
unadorned scream of a voice. As it rocketed through the was moved to a point where his voice turned gruff. From
winding and unwinding, leaping and bounding orchestral my seat in the third row, I could see him struggling with the
motifs, it was electrifying. Sometimes it burned up on lump in his throat.
re-entry; sometimes it crashed in a succession of hoarse After the performance, the word went out that Behrens
gasps. At times like those, Behrens was ridiculed and even was exhausted and terrified of singing in Götterdämmerung.
humiliated in the music press. By the time I went to see The friends I was with went back to London, but I hung on,
her perform in Vienna, she was losing her nerve. What hoping against hope that she would put herself through it
was worse, because of the way she used her voice, it had again. After a Siegfried in which Brünnhilde was sung by a
begun to shred. soprano who is now singing all over the place, but whose
I found myself in the middle of the third row for all four fussy performance served to demonstrate how unutterably
operas. Donald Runnicles was conducting The Ring at the superior Behrens was, I ran up and down the opera house
Vienna State Opera for the first time. When Behrens came asking the attendants if they thought Behrens would sing in
on stage as Brünnhilde, I was momentarily aware that she Götterdämmerung. They said: “This is her opera house. We
PHOTOGRAPH JOHAN ELBERS/TIME & LIFE/GETTY

was small and physically unimpressive, and rather too vain will take care of her. She will sing.” And she did.
about the honey-blonde curls – her own – that bounced over She was so There is no chance that I will see a Brünnhilde so utterly
her shoulders. What I wasn’t prepared for was the white- destroyed, so uncompromisingly tragic ever again. I would
hot intensity of her concentration. She struck a pose at the
far inside have thought it impossible to show such a depth of
beginning of each musical phrase, and then, keeping her the music devastation and helplessness in music, but Behrens did it.
body utterly motionless, launched her voice. There was How she did it – whether by her utter absorption, her rapt
no fiddling with her spear. No butch posturing. She was so
far inside the music that if her costume had fallen off, she
would not have reacted.
The opera house surrounded her singing as a frame
surrounds a picture; as each motif was completed, it hung in
the mind as if it had been drawn in light. Then she changed
that if her
costume
had fallen
off, she
understood how a prepos-
terous musical drama, with
absurdly affected DIY verse
for a libretto, could be

earnestness or her lack of self-consciousness – I shall never
know. Never to have seen her do it would be never to have

her position, and the process began again. As phrase built

wouldn’t transmuted into the
on phrase, I felt as if I had never heard that familiar music have reacted highest of high art.

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 Ask Hadley
She can ease your fashion pain
What should I wear on the
plinth? I’ll be doing the
crossword and having a cup of
tea, and will certainly not be
wearing a cute animal costume.
But colour? And accessories?
It’s a worry.
Ann, Glasgow
Ann, I’m not going to lie to you.
Some questions with a practical
context bring joy to my heart
– what to wear on University
Challenge, say – because I highly
approve of the context itself.
This, however, does not. I am
dismayed by this Trafalgar Square
plinth malarkey. Have we now
fallen so low in terms of artistic
skills that we can’t even shove
a wheel up there? Even just an
uncarved hunk of stone? No,
apparently all we can offer up is
a selection of, um, people. I am
not denigrating you, Ann, I am
merely denigrating the idea. And
to those of you saying, “Why
don’t you come up with an idea,
you smartarse?” How about this?
I’ll come up with three:
1. A big statue of a pigeon – this
is my favourite. A giant stone
pigeon. Awesomeness to the
power of a million.
2. A statue of a man looking up
– get it? Just as you’re looking up
PHOTOGRAPH JON CARTWRIGHT/GETTY
at the statue, the statue is looking
up at the sky. That postmodern
enough for ya, Gormley?
3. A pigeon looking up –
sorry, I really can’t get past the
pigeon idea.
But fine, I appreciate that noth-
ing I say here is going to make the
slightest difference and, more
importantly, this is not what you
came here for today. You’re going
Garry Trudeau
Doonesbury
The pigeon look: a hot new trend
coming to a plinth near you soon?
on the plinth and I’m just going to
have to deal.
So I like your idea, just playing
it cool. But I do think you need to
splash on some red (or is the verb
now “pop”?), just so your friends
can see you from down below. A
hat, perhaps, would not go amiss,
both for sun protection and for
attention grabbing. Although that
could be a nightmare when the
wind blows.
OK, Ann, look, I’m going to
level with you here. I’m trying
to be professional and do what
you ask me but I just cannot. I
understand your hesitation about
wearing a “cute animal costume”
but have I mentioned my pigeon
idea to you? I have? Well, I think
you should take it to its logical,
compromising conclusion. I
mean, a pigeon isn’t an animal.
It’s not even cute. And you
dressed as a pigeon would just
look a-m-a-z-i-n-g on the plinth.
Fashion is all about context,
with your outfit working with or
playing against your personality
and the environment you’re in.
And now with everyone becom-
ing so steadfastly interested in
using materials that work with
the environment, this feels even
more important. We all know that
Trafalgar Square belongs to the
pigeons. Thus, it seems only right
to reference them in your outfit,
no? And the fact that this is a very
un-you thing to do emphasises
the specialness of your plinth day.
Go Pigeon!
I’ve spotted half a dozen grown
men walking round with their
trouser legs rolled up, a la
George Michael on Top of
the Pops in the days of Club
Tropicana. Isn’t it taking the 80s
revival a step too far?
Poppy, Islington, London
Oh Poppy, Poppy, Poppy. Perhaps
you are shielded from the usual
manoeuvres of popular fashion
up in Islington so I shall explain.
You are saying, in a very deco-
rous way, that you have noticed
straight men dressing in a de-
cidedly camp way and you are
attempting to explain this to
yourself as being part of the “80s
revival”. One has nothing to do
with t’other. The fact of the mat-
ter is, where the gay gentlemen
go, style-wise, the straights shall
follow – but about 20 years later. I
am not quite sure why this is. Per-
haps the straights are just slower
learners. Perhaps they think 20
years is the time period it will
take for the style to lose its camp
associations (bless their inno-
cence). If you are finding all this
hard to compute, think of David
Beckham as their beagle down
the mine of camp style, plumb-
ing the depths and encountering
all manner of treasure – leather
waistcoats here, jeans burdened
with metallic chains there – way
sooner than the lesser mortals.
And so the Wham! look now
comes to the men of Islington,
about, I’d say, four years after it
came to straight men everywhere
else (seriously, have you never
seen a photo of Peter Andre?).
Don’t fight it Poppy, don’t even
question it – just let the poor
loves have their fun. They have
so little else in their lives •
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Hadley,The Guardian, Kings Place,
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8
Easy. Fill the grid so that each
row, column and 3x3 box
contains the numbers 1-9.
4 2 7
9

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Solution to no 1,342
11 12
2
3
4
7
5
9
8
6
3
2
1
5
6
8
9
4
7
1
9 6 8
6 1 8 4 9 7 3 5 2
13 14 9
5
7
8
3
6
2
1
4
1
9
3
7
6
5
4
2
8
5
7
2
3
8
1
6
4
9
9 4 2
15 16 17
4
1
8
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5
9
6
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5
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7
8
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1
9
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6
1
9
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7
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8
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6 3
18 19 20 Solution to no 1,023
2 4
1 3
2 5
1 3
1 3 5
6 9 3 8
9
7
8 9 3
21 2 1 9 4 2 5 1 3

22
6 5
3 1
8
3

9
1 4
3 2
1
2
1 8
7 2 9

3 9 2 4
7
8
9 3 5 4
23
6

9 8
7 9 8
7
6
9
8 3

3
1
7 9
1 3 4

9 8 7
1 2
9
8 6 9 7 5
7
4
4 8 1
24 2 7
3 7 9
1 5
1 4
5 8
7 9
5 3
5 8
7 9
9 8
6
7
8
9
6 3 2
Across 7 Where the weekend starts? Kakuro no 1,024
(6) Medium. Fill the grid so
1 Walk as though in danger of 16 3 18 17 23 24 13
falling (7) 12 Russian elected parliament that each run of squares
(4) 7 16 10 adds up to the total in
8 One more of the same (7) 4 23
14 Contest of speed (4) the box above or to the
9 Give — here (7)
15 Grovel — fawn (6) 17 17 23 left. Use only numbers
10 Connected by blood or 1-9, and never use a
marriage (7) 16 Edible shellfish (6) 3 27
17 Crowd closely together (6) number more than once
11 Feature supplementing 3 6 20 per run (a number may
standard model (3-2) 19 Fish by dragging bag-net 24 17 reoccur in the same row,
along sea bed (5)
13 A-OK (5-4) 15 14 13 in a separate run).
20 Renal (anag) (5)
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24 Level in hierarchy (7) U N E A R T H L Y P C
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E D U O T O U R
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Down E X P A N S I O N W A
T M S S D A E F 27 13 9
1 Colour from cuttlefish ink (5) Futoshiki 153
2 Correct (5) E A S L E E K R T 12 14 15
3 < 4 2 51
3 Carbon dioxide, for example S O L A C E N I M U B S 7 23 16 ∧ ∧
(10,3) T A A T O M 25 22 17 1 5 4 > 3 > 2
4 Minor road in heavy use as A U B U R N S T R T A A ∨
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