Liverpool are hoping that they can jump to the head of the queue to sign Ajax defender Jan Vertongehn who is being strongly linked with a January exit from the Dutch club.
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World Road Race Champion and Tour de France Green Jersey winner Mark Cavendish has confirmed he will make a rare appearance on the track as he takes part in Revolution on Saturday November 19 at Manchester’s National Cycling Centre.
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Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen is attracting interest from a number of European clubs with Tottenham the latest side to scout the Belgium international.
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  Acting chief executive Martyn Thomas is stepping down from all his positions at the Rugby Football Union on 16th December, after a meeting of the management board.
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*As the RFU prepare for their meeting on Wednesday with the possible future of acting chief executive Martyn Thomas on the agenda, former England manager Geoff Cooke has called for Thomas’s exit from the role.
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*In a case of ‘too many reviews not enough respondents’, England’s Rugby Players’ Union has said that players will refuse to co-operate with a review being conducted by former England prop Fran Cotton at the behest of acting RFU chief exec Martyn Thomas, claiming they will only take part in research conducted by the Professional...
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Liverpool have been alerted to Bayern Munich striker Ivica Olic, who has voiced his dissatisfaction at being left on the sidelines. The Croatian, who had been linked with a surprise move to Liverpool over the summer has re-emerged as a target, after revealing to Goal.
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Wales international Gareth Thomas has announced his immediate retirement from rugby just four days before he was due to play for Wales rugby league against England in the Four Nations.
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Arsenal have confirmed that star defender Thomas Vermaelen has put pen to paper on a new contract that will secure his long-term future at the club.
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*Despite suggestions from within the game that Woodward, the current Elite Performance Director at the BOA and Deputy Chef de Mission for Team GB, could be used in a consultancy basis with England until the Games are over, it seems that neither Thomas or Moynihan believe this will happen.
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*Martin Johnson has not been given an ultimatum of seven days to a fortnight by the RFU to either commit to a selection process or walk away from his job as England team manager, according to the acting RFU CEO Martyn Thomas, who appears to have produced an abrupt u-turn from comments made earlier in...
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England manager Martin Johnson has been given two weeks to decide if he wants to keep his England job, but he may not be given the option. The deadline was issued as the RFU launched an investigation into the allegations of player misconduct during what proved to be an ill-fated World Cup campaign.
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According to Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas, team mate Mark Cavendish’s World Championship win may well have set the seal on his move to Team Sky. On Sunday, Cavendish became the first Briton for almost half a century to wear the coveted rainbow jersey after riding to victory in Copenhagen.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is hoping that defender Thomas Vermaelen holds the key to the Gunners winning the race to sign Ajax centre-back Jan Vertonghen. The Belgium international has long been linked with a move to Arsenal where  his former Ajax colleague and good friend Vermaelen has become the clubs most valued defender.
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As he celebrated becoming the first British road race world champion for 46 years in Copenhagen yesterday, Mark Cavendish was looking ahead to the 2012 Olympics.
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Nick Easter’s continued participation in the World Cup is still in the balance and will be decided after Saturday’s game against Romania, as he continues to sit it out with a back injury.
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*For Mark Cavendish, this week’s Road World Championships will be a great rehearsal for London 2012, according to British cycling legend Chris Boardman.
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Rabobank’s Lars Boom came one step closer to the IG Markets Gold Jersey by taking victory in Wells yesterday at the end of the Somerset stage of The Tour of Britain.     Boom emerged from the final corner ahead of his breakaway companions to take the win, ahead of Alexandre Pichot and Leopold Koenig.
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Stars of cycling take to the roads of Somerset on Friday, in the sixth stage of the Tour of Britain, one of the toughest events in the cyclists’ calendar.
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Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen is facing up to six-weeks on the sidelines, his  father has revealed.   The Belgian secretly underwent achilles surgery following an injury sustained during the Gunners UEFA Champions League qualifier against Udinese.
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