My major goal for my team at this World Cup is for them to be competitive and we have shown we are in this "rst match Ireland cricket captain Trent Johnston in buoyant form after watching his side lose out to South Africa, number one in the world, by only 35 runs

The idea is we will have bigger, faster, stronger athletes. The guys will be able to run faster and run quicker for longer and that gives us some major positives All Black coach Graham Henry as his side finish up their three month conditioning programme, during which they played no competitive rugby

I have never behaved in this fashion before and I will never do it again. I am very sorry and ashamed Valencia's David Navarro.

Apparently very sorry and ashamed for breaking Nicolas Burdisso's nose with a haymaker as everything went postal against Inter Milan Sooner or later I will pose naked to end all this discussion of my obesity ACMilan striker Ronaldo, sick of being called fat, issues a chilling threat to the world

He is the last person who should be talking about referees. His football club have been involved with so many things with referees over the last few years. It seems to me when anything goes against Chelsea or they don't get their own way, someone has a go at the referee. It is an incredible club. Maybe he should button his lip Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson tells Chelsea counterpart Jose Mourinho to keep quiet Managers should have the right to have an opinion - they just have to be right More from Ferguson.

From now on, everyone should run their opinions by him first It has been great but we said all along that March 12 was the thing.

The Swedish season starts on April 1 and it doesn't give them much time to get a replacement striker. I am very proud to have been part of this team but unfortunately I will be going home Henrik Larsson insists there is no chance of his staying at Manchester United I don't feel integrated into English life at all. The only reason I am here is for football because my family don't really like the life here. We cannot speak English, we don't know the culture and we are scared of appearing rude. My two children are in nursery and I didn't realise we should take a cake for the rest of the class on their birthday. In China, we don't do things like that Manchester City defender Sun Jihai reveals how he finds living in England difficult