Cricketer Majid Haq explains why he was forced to drop out of the Scotland squad to face Ireland in Belfast this week

Nobody in Europe likes England. England - who invented the sport - has never had any impact on world football. England at no time has had the love and support of Europe.

For Europe, England is an irritant CONCACAF president Jack Warner on why he won't be supporting England's bid for the 2018 World Cup I'm not here to work on my farmer's tan Tiger Woods aims high ahead of the PGA championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa We were atrocious, they deserved to win by a mile and if that re"ects on me then I'm a poor manager. . . I'll probably lose my job and I'd have no qualms about that Shamrock Rovers manager Pat Scully reckons there's something wrong with his management style as his side crashed out of the FAI Cup to Bohemians The Ryder Cup was a pussycat compared to Carnoustie. The amount of activity going on inside the ropes was extraordinary. It was ridiculous, out of order. . . I mean there was even a BBC buggy going straight up the middle of the fairway Paul McGinley hits out at the R&A for allowing the final holes of the recent British Open to turn into "a zoo" I told her I had a match but she wasn't having any of that. She said it was a friendly and I had to help her Alex Ferguson's wife prevented him from attending Manchester United's midweek friendlies because they were moving house and there was real work to be done When you have two very competitive people in a team, probably the two most competitive people around, and who both want to win, it puts the team under pressure. It's just extremely hard for everyone to play fair and make it easy Life in Formula 1 can be the pits as Lewis Hamilton reveals he and McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso are just too highly strung to get along If I was to declare an interest in this job the Tartan Army would string me up Scotland boss Alex McLeish admits he was too scared to even consider a recent approach from a Premier League club Maybe it would be better not to celebrate like that Manchester United assistant manager Carlos Queiroz warns new signing Nani off his backflipping antics