Sport

ENGLAND’S opening Euro 2012 game against France has taught fans what cheroot­-smoking philosophers have been going on about all these years.

FOOTBALLER Joey Barton has confessed to stealing his philosophising tough guy persona from the lead character in the 1989 movie Road House.

THE 158th Varsity Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge ended in a shootout which killed nine participants and 18 spectators.

A 38-YEAR-OLD car salesman is the bookies' choice for Champion Drinker at the Cheltenham Festival.

LIVERPOOL has once again made the League Cup Final look like the end of a damaging relationship.

CARETAKER England manager Stuart Pearce has picked a squad containing an unexpected variety of rubbish.  

FRANK Warren is to charge home audiences £12 for all future boxing interviews.

CHELSEA manager Andre Villas-Boas has remained defiantly upbeat despite having his office moved into a modular building several miles from Stamford Bridge.

MYSTICAL striker Carlos Tevez has made a miraculous return to Manchester City claiming to be a more powerful incarnation of his former self.

BRITAIN'S Olympians say they are training as hard as they can, within reason.